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I played on a EU server for awhile, and I didn't have any lag at all.

I write the date December 2nd, 2011. So 12/2/11 makes perfect sense to me.

We really know very little about this yet, I'm really thinking it will be a direct download game for the Xbox Arcade/PSN Home. That would mean a smaller team, short dev. cycle, and possible episodic content. As I mentioned, it worked well enough for the Penny Arcade game, which was also an adventure/RPG. It will also allow it to stay closer to current events, as Trulez mentioned. Although there are plenty of current events with a longer shelf life. edit: Or maybe not, apparently there is already an XBLA game coming out. Ah well, it's all speculation at this point. edit 2: I'm imagining a Willy Beamish type game at this point. I have no idea why.

I'm putting the breaks on playing it for the next two weeks. Early Access will probably start on Friday the 16th, and I don't want to get attached to anything that will be wiped. I want to save it for release day.

I can see it taking on a Penny Arcade style of play as well. I didn't think a webcomic could be a decent game, but they managed it. So I'll just wait and see. As for the people that are indignant about South Park in general, that is soooo 10 years ago.

To be fair, woman are very forgiving if you get them enough gifts.

It sounds like they skip things, like you taking the collar off and then doing companion quests. All in all, that's probably after about 100 hours of gameplay with that companion. It's also pretty clear at some point the Mr. Sith flirted heavily to turn that relationship into a romance, which they seem to have left out. You also have to curry favor points with the companion to even get to that kind of point, so I doubt Mr. Sith was a total douche all the time to her.

Huh, I'm not really sure what to say. I'm pretty skeptical, although I never thought a South Park movie would really work, and that turned out great. My biggest concern is South Park seems pretty over the hill. I'm at a loss.

Everything alright at home Volo? The personal attacks seem out of character for you, particularly one so off the topic. You can talk about it with us if you need to, you are among friends.

It used to be a much smaller deal, but now that we are dropping a huge amount on childcare and struggling to get out from an underwater property, we are both a lot more cautious about every purchase. The carefree days of dinners out and weekends playing games are long past As for what I'm playing, I'm having trouble staying motivated about Skyrim. I really am just bidding time for TOR to be released, I don't want to spend anymore time testing it.

When your finances are tied closely together, it is important to have a good dialogue with your partner about purchases. It keeps the relationship healthy. I don't run every $10 purchase on Steam by my wife, but dropping $60 is something I talk to her about. She does the same when she wants a manicure.

Yeah, I made very little headway in crafting. It seems pretty complicated.

Yes, some people play an MMO for about 300 hours and then proclaim it is garbage Raithe gave a great summary. There was an option in an earlier beta to match all armor color to your chestpiece. They didn't have it enable in the latest build, I have no idea why. I'm hoping it will be back for release. They have done a good job of keeping the armor somewhat coordinated, rather than the fashion nightmares you get in many other MMO's.

I suspected as much. Your courageous sacrifice means I shan't watch it . After I got over my disappointment that they didn't focus on the fairly hilarious other bridesmaids, I thought it was a decent romcom between that Target lady and the guy from the IT Crowd. Did you stay long enough for the conversation on bleaching? That was pretty funny.

I love the lore objects. I'll probably wander around doing them all at release.

I'm tempted to play it. I was really too young when it came out and never grasped the gameplay.

Fallout 3 didn't really have a billion sidequests like Skyrim. I think that might actually be better for me.

I'm pretty sure I've clicked on people and gotten little responses out of them. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't think they are all ghosts. I know they have little conversations with each other that you can overhear. I remember enjoying a drill sergeant laying into a group of imperial troops on Dromund Kaas as well. Also, the voice work is remarkable for me. Aside from an annoying person here and there (just like real life!) I've found everyone engaging. Some of the Imperial snark is just fantastic and has me grinning like crazy. I can understand the concerns with not having a real impact storywise. It's a very tough situation for an MMO. I've been happy with the phasing though, and while the world around me doesn't alter dramatically with my actions, the reactions and conversations with NPC's do respond well to my reputation.

Wait, you can replay dialogue? How? I think Holocrons might have been disabled, there were some issues with them in a previous build. There is a really easy to find one on Korriban, that was the only one I ever found.

So I'm curious what those of you non-MMOers think of the game so far? I knew I'd love it because I enjoy MMO's, but I wonder how it stacks up as a story driven RPG experience. It seemed to be pretty solid to me, I could see playing it for a month or two just for the storylines and then quitting.

Love is a fickle master young padawan.

You can earn those points you get for sleeping with the Twilek right back by confessing to your master about it, so obviously it's not too dark

Those are some pretty harsh statements about Tigranes.

If you make it past chapter 4, you can tell me in a few short words how it ends (I gave up on it a short ways into that) Edit: Installed it and tried it for 5 minutes last night. Between steamworks, GFWL DRM and limited activations I'm fairly happy not to have paid any money for this game (it came free with my EVGA card). It plays like a watered down Tombraider, even if the textures are a bit higher resolution WoW, that's really the opposite I've heard from anyone about the Batman games. Granted I prefer to play those types of games with a controller on a console.

I didn't give them to the soldiers either. The way it was stated was you were just going to get a guy sleeping at his post out of trouble. Compare that to a woman in the refugee camp trying to help the sick, and it's hard to make the soldier choice, really. It seems clear that the Republic has a pretty large inventory of this stuff, and it's just bureaucratic tape that is keeping it out of the hands of the refugees. That anti-government stuff may not sit well with Cant, but it's just a video game folks. The big thing is there are just tons of these choices, and making a few DS ones isn't going to turn you into the Emperor. I found my Jedi toeing the line quite a bit, flirting with the ladies but still trying to do the right thing.