melkathi

A small break from the graphically advanced games: Jump Run! Seriously?

Fantastic argument you have there "I could say, but since you wont be able to guess what I would say if I said it, I don't need to say it and will just say that I know something you don't" But maybe there is a reason you don't want to name them? Maybe its something too embarassing to post... *wanders off to search the internet* Didn't find a good candidate. My search-fu failed me because of the language barrier. There seem to be some strange japanese PC only publishers you could be refering to? But I'll bite: Exclusive PC publishers... NCSoft, Paradox, Kalypso, PerfectWorld. I take it Bohemia Interactive is too small? Meridian4 has 89 titles in their catalogue on PC and 5 on mobile. Focus Home Interactive has mostly PC games with only a few that allow for console also getting a consol version. 1C Company has eight upcomming PC titles and one of them will also be released to XBOX360. Does PopCap release on console? But you are basically only interested in AAA titles, so many PC exclusives don't count. Does the Total War series count as AAA even though its not MMOs?

Playing some Defiance. But kinda annoyed at the computer trying to remind em to do PVP and group stuff in big, bold orange letters... during cut-scenes... Other than that working on some achievements in Anno 2070. Started Sleeping Dogs, but the gameplay isn't for me really.

Nowadays the game would be praised for its claustrophobic atmosphere

That brings back memories...

Its the second game I pledged that is comming out. But the first rpg I pledged.

Yeah. That's how I felt. Well they went from base builder RTS to squad control, like a 40k game is supposed to be like. Understandable change imo. It's understandable to make a game like that. What is not 100% understandable is why take a franchise and change it's nature. DoW had had three expansions at that time, creating a very clear image of what DoW was. Then with DoW2 they changed that drastically, to an extent where people who loved the original ran the danger of not just liking it best, but actually hating it. And what a 40k game truly is supposed to be like is turn based, on a tabletop with painted miniatures

Yeah. That's how I felt.

Is that some kind of euphemism? As direct and blunt as it is, I don't think Saints Row 3 is realy into euphemisms. Unless it is to tease Pierce Finlly finished everything in the Saintsbook...

Squad based I prefered Chaos Gate. Didn't really like DoW2. Found it extremly boring. Much prefered the original DoW.

I actually enjoyed that game, and was my primary introduction to the Warhammer 40k universe haha. It was one of the better games in the 40k universe. Chaos Gate was the best in my opinion. I wouldn't mind playing either again. Just can't get Chaos Gate to run on Win 7 :/

Will that be similar to Final Liberation then?

But that's hardly something you should make broad generalizations over.. The majority of my male friends and acquaintances play PC games and the the rest play consoles. I think I know maybe 10-20 guys that don't own either. So based on my observations the marked must be absolutely booming I'm still wating for the reply "Almost no one I know in real life has sex anymore"

Character creator in CO gives a lot more options than the CoH one did. Both game could be called ugly. Most MMOs are. GW2 is pretty, but the options are limited and the writing so corny its not even funny anymore.

It's a purple elf in randomly thrown together power armour Then I remembered that purple elves aren't all that strange since Warcraft 3... But speaking of purple: Circus: My greatest failure in teh character creator. The tuxedo was optimized for the male model. And while it was unlocked for use on female characters, it clipped badly unless you made your character appear like a pre-teen or a silicon bimbo. The pre-teen felt more wrong, so I had to choose bimbo even though the character was supposed to be all athletic and stuff. battle of the jesters: And BattleBunny, who took a wrong turn at Albuquerque posing after a fight: putting his trust in financial institutions

Anyways.... I warned in another thread that it would be comming. Champions Online screenshots (may be a few and may be more than one post) My first character: Runner up for ugliest, worst dressed, wierdest character with the biggest shoes, Little Helper: Supporting quality products: filling in for Santa: hanging out with friends at the carnival: in disguise: Amunet, healer extraordinair and Power Pigeon:

I remember playing the beta and thinking "God this is boring. Am I going to get paid to play this?"

wait, Starcraft 2 is turn-based now? I take it that with enough lag it can give that impression

Yeah, I can respect that. I couldn't really care less about superheroes myself either. I'm just there for the costume creator When I remember I'll put up some screenshots of my characters in the proper thread.

It's free, so...

I see the changing taste thing. Of course we change. But for me personally I think that while my tastes have changed, Between Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm they probably haven't changed all that much. Then again, I never thought that the original Starcraft had any worthwhile story to begin with

The Diablo clone I spend the most time on, far more than on Diablo itself was Sacred. That was nearly matched by my time spend in Sacred 2, where work tore me away for a while and I had a hard time to get back in. I enjoyed Torchlight and Torchlight 2. Enough to make a second character in Torchlight 2, something I never could do in Diablo. So to each their own I quite liked Wings of Liberty as I saw it more as world building for something to be done with the franchise in the future and less as a story to care about. HoS, even though I went in prepared to liek it, having as said liked WoL, I thing was a pile of... I doubt I'll even bother with the 'toss after that.

I doubt the game "bombed" but at the same time those impressive numbers they are showing don't really tell us anything. Just throwing one "statistic" at people, without giving the whole set of data is useless. All we know now is that over fourteen million battlenet accounts have had a copy of D3 tied to them. Every number they show other than that comes without context - no idea how the whole population is spread among the quarters, no outliers etc. Hell, Steam achievements show more than that At least there you can tell exactly how far how many customers progressed in a game. And then you get 90% getting through the tutorial, 80% gettign through chapter 1and only 60% making it half way through any given game (my numbers totaly made up), while games with launchers have inflated "time spend" counters as what is counted is how long the launcher has been on, which people keep running to patch or maybe forget to turn off after playing. So, good for them (blizzard) with the sales.To the rest of their posing: *shrug*

I'll ask around if you want (and if I remember). Though if you truly want to not look like anyone around you, your only real option is Champions Online (now that City of Heroes went the way of the dodo).

My condolences as well. You know, for what its worth, we'll be here, our silly selves, trying to cheer you up.