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That quest seems to be one of those certain people are angry about on the forum due to "Terribly out-dated references" I simply agree with Katarina: "He better have a lightning scar on his forehead"

Not a picture of a game per se, but Hassat Hunter asked me to name a RPG game that released without bugs. And I wanted to say "Any game before the internet made us lazy / rush releases" Then I remembered this:

Playing van Helsing 2. Now that they finally found the problem Fun game so far! Haven't gotten far. Still in the first big battle, giving commands to the troops, doing side quests, solving problems the traditional borgovan way (at least that is what Katarina calls it: Blowing up a bridge - the solution for every problem in Borgova)

What he wants to do though is to input audio from two sources at the same time. Have one audio input the background music, which he'll basically be streaming to the whole gaming group, while normal speech will be inputed separatly. Haven't tried doing anything like that before...

Have fun!

Skylanders hanging out on a shelf in a break during the action. Didn't move the various stuff, as I wanted to show their usual hangout as is

More like Drowsy Lama

It is indeed I prefer Skylanders as it is an original setting and thus doesn't need to manage expectations of characters and tie into movies. I have too few gaming friends myself now. Something to do with getting older perhaps. But we played some Arena matches with my nephew when he came around. He agrees with me: it would have been awesome if we had this when we were 8 or so.

It appears to be uncompressed audio files. Of the 48 GB size of Titanfall, 35 are "completely uncompressed audio." For Van Helsing 2 it is the "Terrain" folder which comes in at 15GB.

I only bought Spyro's Adventure recently for the PC (I never knew they ahd released it on the PC!). As the old game is pretty much discontinued, they are clearing warehouse space and it went really cheap. So I play it a bit to keep in touch with what is out there for kids today. Something that seems to pay off - after my book presentation the comment I got was that kids accept me as "one of their own". Best compliment ever. You grown-ups can keep being grown-up for yourseves. I want nothing to do with it. Humanoid, I don't know how good Skylanders is on the Wii. The fun about the other platforms is that you have this USB device - the portal of power - on which you place figurines that are then recognized by the game and are your ingame character. You can swap figurines at any time and change character. You can place two of them on the portal and play co-op. And they are cross-platform compatible. So if your best friend has an xbox while you have a playstation, that doesn't stop you from taking your fire skylander over to their place after school to open those fire elemental gates for them. Progress of a character is saved on the figurine. And as long as a version of a character exists in the game, figurines of that character from other skylander games work for it as well. So even though Giants didn't make it onto the PC, I bought a Giants version of Stealth Elf and use her on my PC version of Spyro's Adventure. It is a kids' game though. Very easy for old gamers like us. But it is an amazing kids' game. The whole figurine idea was brilliant.

I am showing a lot of self restraint not buying more skylander characters

It is a Neocore game... I like the games Neocore makes. King Arthur was absolutely amazing (even if combat was unbalanced like feth). I hadn't liked a strategy game as much as that in a long time. I don't deny though that a LOT of people couldn't get past the tutorial battle because it crashed the game. King Arthur II was a lot of fun. A bit more linear than the first, but still had most of what made the first game great. Especially the Dead Legion prologue campaign was superb... and a bug ridden mess that most people couldn't complete until two patches in because a main quest was broken. And of course the main game crashed for certain people Van Helsing 1 was unexpectedly fun. The story wasn't special, but somehow they made a simple story work just fine. And the voice acting wasn't special, but Katarina still is a very charming character even without being voiced by Claudia Black. And even their Crusader games made for a fun playthrough. So I pre-ordered knowing what I'd get: a game that is bound to have troubles and a far too large install size (seriously, compression must not be in their programmers' vocabulary). But I suspect that being able to tell Steam "Look we have fans who pre-order our games!" is important for these smaller dev teams, just as it is important for someone like Bioware to be able to show EA. And I kinda want them to keep making games.

Installed it last week and tried it for a couple of hours to see what the fuss is about. Not too bad. Not that awesome either.

And Van Helsing II stopped working again. Re-verify installation. restart steam yada yada to get it to work again. Bug ridden mess at the moment it seems. Good game if it decides to run. Forum full of people complaining about crashes. So keep away until they patch it. They gave a Steam achievement and extra goodies for NOT pre-ordering on Steam. The concept is boggling... Especially considering that on their own site they are stil selling Steam keys.

Verifyed game cache. Plays fine now. Didn't play long yet. First impressions: Gameplay so far is pretty much the same as the previous game. As that was working just fine, I am happy with it. Lady Katarina is just as loveable as in the last game. Getting all three classes to choose from is nice - I had played the first game before the dlc came out. Import of old characters is probably going to get fixed tomorrow. Played through the tutorial intro. Then was faced with a choice of two ways of how to proceed: accept the help from a stranger or proceed on my own? Katarina is very clear what she would do, but in the first game we saw how good her advice was Couldn't decide so taking a break to write this I like choices. Seeing a choice this early on in the game is nice.

On another note: Intro retells the story through the photographs on the map - the loadscreen of the previous game. Nice touch. The game picks up right after the final battle of the first game: And you find a mysterious stranger with trust issues:

Stealth Elf heading into the Carnivorous Catacombs: Where she encounters undead (big surprise!) That need to be killed with fire. So Flameslinger comes to help They find loot that would interest Trigger Happy Dinorang gets lost in a maze: In the end Hex, being kinda a local, finds the way out

Not playing Van Helsing II. First I couldn't import my previous character. Then, when I tried to start from scratch, the game crashes after the intro. Yay

And the old Age of Wonders and Divinity games are the current weekly humble bundle.

Democracy 3 50% off on steam Dawn of War franchise sale 50% off on steam And just for Drudanae they are also selling the Witcher 2 at 80% off again

That's how it was in the first Wolf3D many many moons ago

A random collection of stuff to counter Indira's Wolfensteiness:

If you are starting to post Wolfenstein screenshots, I better start playing cute stuff again to balance things out

In World of Warcraft for example, Blizzard used pretty unimpressive parts to make a pleasing whole. They care about graphics, they do not care to have the ingame graphics be cutting edge - they seem to rather prefer everyone to be able to play the game. Or at least back then. I have no clue how D3 is graphic wise (or any other wise) as it does not interest me. Back on topic of SpaceCiv. I didn't have much hope and what I had I lost when I read the sentence "f you look back at Alpha Centauri and how it’s a companion to Civ 2, or is it Civ 3? It’s a very good companion to those games but I think what we brought to the table with this game is what we’ve learned in the decade since we made that." It seems they had no understanding of what exactly made Alpha Centauri the game it was and the game that attracted such a dedicated following. Seems Firaxis is going to devolve into that: making "remakes" of old successes without understanding what those games were. SpaceCiv and Alpha Centauri, XCOM and XCOM (you can enjoy it and even I may play it again, but it is a completly different game from what the franchise was). They see the story, but do not grasp the game.

NumLock and CapsLock say that if you have issues with their brother, you better be prepated to have issues with them as well - you mess with one of them, you mess with the whole LockGang.