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Hurlshot you probably won't believe me but that's exactly why I've never bought this game before, I'm battling with the fact that there will never be another game set in the world with all the lore and characters. It shouldn't effect me but for some reason it does Honestly, most of Amalur is forgetably boring fantasy with some fake nice dark elves forced into it because Salvatore. Personally I really enjoyed the fae parts of the game - the House of Ballads storyline, the Maid of Windermere and the Widdow npcs. To a lesser extend the House of Sorrows story. A friend tells me that these ideas were all stolen (and most of the game story is heavily inspired ... the bad guys are called Tuatha after all) but he hasn't actually played the game The interaction of immortal creatures forever living in the same cycle works well with the player character's situation. If the game had concentrated more on the Crystal War that is the main plot and had tried less to fill the world with other stuff to simulate the open world experience, I think the story would have greatly benefitted and perhaps the game as a whole.

That's the one. I found targeting very bad. I can get a better running around shooting stuff experience playing Borderlands, Defiance or APB to name just a few.

And some people would say that you just summed up everything that is wrong with the gaming industry: You look at a game, and before playing it, wonder who will patch it, as you are by now expecting a certain amount of bugs in any and every product.

I prefered the pirate one. The titan one seemed a bit tedious to me at times. Also, the disenchant mini-game is worse than hacking in Alpha Protocol.

Tried about half an hour of Firefall and uninstalled.

Holy threadomancy Batman!

Will be interesting to see how that works out.

Pretty good odds I'd say.

And yet, I'm glad Spec ops exists because having the criticism of modern shooters manifest in a game will likely have more of an effect than any forum post, single game journalist editorial, Tasteful Understated Nerdrage, Jimquisition, petition, etc. will. I will not say Spec Ops presented its point 100% perfectly, and I'll have my avatar's reaction when somebody argues "But Spec ops' gameplay is designed to be boring!", but god damn did I feel like I needed a cigarette when that game ended, and I hope your preconception of the game isn't heavily influenced by the opinions of a forum where everything, except some really obscure/old RPGs that even only very few fans of the very genre have played, will get tons of snarky **** I think your view of this forum is a bit biased. The amount of praise given to some mainstream games amazes me on here. If you want truly snarky, you should go to some indy game forums I didn't think I'd say this but I miss Drowsy...

Well, it turned out to be Crusader

To be honest, in my opinion of course, Spec Ops the line's story (as far as I have gotten) is superior to Mass Effect's and does no more shoving down the throat of political ideals than that (garbage) does

Just got this wierd mail from Squeenix: http://uman.eu.square-enix.com/tracker.php?doc=COLLEAN&code=751261&lang=en&page=email&id=VIDEO Seems to be their version of Greenlight.

Though I found it refreshing that (at least so far) the game is not rehashing the old nazi enemies that games seem to be so fond of since the old Wolfenstein. Or islamic terrorists. Or evil russians. Seems you can't go wrong with evil russians... Seems that a certain part of the entertainment industry in the US finds it difficult to portray bad guys as anything but foreigners. So everytime a movie or game breaks that partial taboo, I am delighted

You beat me to it. was going to post that as well

I reduced difficulty to the lowest setting, just so I can check out the story. It has a bit of a Apocalypse Now vibe going at places, and that is the only reason I play it when I do.

I had thought about adding that.

I love Runner running in the Septerra Core video Own list: Absolute favourite intro cinematic: Anarchy Online "My father taught me to use a gun. Sometimes, late at night, I wonder if I'll ever be able to put it down." Runner Up: Omikron: Nomad Soul "Are you sad and lonely? As if life is just not worth living anymore? Drink Quanta Cola!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-SM8VobyEw Other videos: Auto Assault Movie Trailer: Tablua Rasa Intro: Alien Nations: Blaze & Blade: Honorary Mention: Dune 2:

Reminds me of school. During recess a friend asked whether I couldn't quickly wiz up an adventure. "Oh, ok. Do you have dice?" "No. You?" "No... eh, just grab that eraser there and roll that."

Arkash: Legacy. I am struggling with fights, failing 5 or 6 times at one encounter. I can't remember when last I played a game that did this My main problem with the game so far is that, so far, all maps have been completly linear. Sure, at some point you take two steps to the right or left to open a chest, but you never get to explore the levels - just move from point A to point B.

I keep dying in Arklash: Legacy... Not sure if that is good or bad.

Something I forgot about Arklash: Legacy is the recycling system. Loot you no longer need you do not throw away or sell (at least not so far), instead you ctrl right click it into the recycler. Based on the item's power, the recycler starts to fill up. When you completly fill it, it creates a legendary item of the same type as the last item that was recycled.

Heh, yeah. Ranged weapons for everyone is highly recommended unless you enjoy resting/loading after every squirrel and leprecon. My own third try of finishing the game stopped about a month ago, I guess it's just not meant to be. You kill squirrels!?!?!? May your party be eternally stuck reloading!

I have been playing some Arklash: Legacy I haven't gotten very far yet. It is a party based game. Isometric view and active pause combat. You start with 4 characters, which is also the mx active party size. More characters can be found later during the game (got one so far). Each character has 4 abilities (2 at level 1, gaining 1 at 2 and one at 3). From level 4 onward, characters gain skill points with which they can upgrade those abilities. Each ability splits into two paths. Every character has a strength and weakness that makes them play slightly differently from the rest. Thus you have a fighter who uses her own health to fuel her abilities and who heals herself whenever she lands a killing blow. You have a healer who does not regenerate mana on her own, but has to drain health from a friendly target to replenish her mana. They tried to make combat interactive. You knock down enemies to interrupt spells from being cast. The heal of that starting healer is a wave attack that heals the first person it hits - regardless of friend or foe - forcing you to reposition during fights. They have also tried to add tricky boss fights. For example the boss' flunkies cast a healing ritual ever so often to heal him back to full HP. While normally that would mean you'd take them out first, the boss has a healing aura that makes killing them impossible. The solution is clever positioning: each of the flunkies sends a healing ray at the boss. If your party stands in the way of that, it can poach the healing effect. It took me a while to figure out and to then get the positioning right. Still, it gives me some hope for later boss fights in the game. Voice acting is ok, not helped by the occasional delay in playing the responses. When the party leader shouts a cheesy "one for all all for one" style rallying cry, it does sound off, when it takes the rest a second to respond. There are some typos in the text. Enough to be noticeable. I can't say much about the story yet. Your party are all Wheel Swords, mercenaries of the Goldmongers Guild. The Goldmongers are the bankers and loansharks of Arklash, and have been lending money to everyone. When payment is due, they send their Wheel Swords to collect. Of course during the latest mission of your team, things take a nasty turn. And that's all I have to say for now.

What is the opposit of deadly force? Undeadly force of course!