Berserk

Yup, whoring out his license is nothing new to Georgie boy. Gotta say that some of my favourite are the new SW dolls that has the heads of the different characters from the old movies but the body of the old he-man dolls. Disturbingly homoerotic and funny.

It's Lucasarts! What the heck had you expected? In the Star Wars movies, the only limbs that are lost due to Lightsaber "accidents" are hands or arms, therefore only the arms get chopped off. All else is against canon " Or Lucasarts are a bunch of pussys that are too afraid of letting their precious license getting sullied by such messy things... Take your pick.

And this has to do with the topic, how? This is not a Blizzard game. In fact, I don't even consider Diablo to be a Blizzard game. It was a Condor game. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Cause it's easier to whine, bitch and moan about it not being a "proper" RPG when it's also labeled as a Blizzard game?

By the time you are expected to fight more than one orc at a time, you shouldn't have any problem. Of course, I killed the entire siege on the castle (though I did it one or two orcs at a time). I'm getting ready to go there now at level 24 with Beliar's Claw and some good armor from Raven's Elite. I bet I get raped. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Could you post a screenshot of the new armors you can get in Night of the Raven?

Even if it's not one of my faves, I don't think it's lame, either. I remember really liking the guy when I first met him. BTW, my own choice will probably be considered lame, too: I really liked the fall of Prince Arthas in Warcraft III. Seriously. Say what you like about the game itself, but there were no cop-outs with Arthas. *DETAILED SPOILERS AHEAD, IF YOU EVER PLAN TO PLAY WARCRAFT III!* He starts out a sort of Paladin super-hero, helping children and saving villagers from rampaging Orcs and bloodthirsty Undead. As the Human campaign progresses, he shows impatience....but crap, which epic hero isn't headstrong and defiant of the system? Then, the situation deteriorates. He gets to Strahnbrad and, seeing the townspeople infected and on the verge of becoming Undead, he orders the city burned and it's people slaughtered. His allies balk and abandon him....and I couldn't help but sympathize with him. Faced with a hard situation, he was taking the only option open to him, no matter how horrific it may have seemed. If you could prevent a plague from spreading and wiping out countless cities and towns by burning one city, wouldn't you? Uther and Jaina ran away from their responsibilites without the slightest attempt at an alternative solution, while Arthas hardened his heart and did what had to be done. So he goes to Northrend to hunt Mal'Ganis with my sympathies for him intact. When the King tries to recall his troops at Uther's request, he proceeds to burn the ships they arrived on to prevent his forces from abandoning the mission; harsh, but nowhere near as harsh as hiring mercenaries to help him, and then blaming those same mercenaries for the destruction of the ships when his men stumble across them. Arthas betrays his mercenaries and helps massacre them, all the while lying to his men and showing not the slightest sign of guilt. By this point, I get it entirely: Arthas is becoming a downright evil bastard. His murder of Muradin, and finally taking up Frostmourne, are only icing on the cake. I love this for several reasons: 1) Unlike most 'slides' into the Dark Side, this one was comprehensible. It happened, not because Arthas suddenly decided he wanted to 'be evil', but for the same reason it happens so often in the real world; a good cause pursued with increasingly ruthless and questionable tactics, all with the aim of a greater good emerging out of the momentary evil. By the end, as with so many self-righteous people, you could no longer tell where Arthas' petty bruised ego ended and the genuine desire to defend the Kingdom began; in the name of the latter, he seemed to really be desperately trying to soothe the former, even at the cost of his men's lives and his own soul. 2) The blame is never misplaced. Kerrigan in Starcraft was still good when Mengsk betrayed her; in effect, she became evil and never regretted it, but it wasn't really her fault. Whatever the magic sword may do to him at the end of the first campaign, everything here is Arthas' fault, brought on him by his own stubborn arrogance and stupidity. After so many other game betrayals in which everyone is at fault but the betrayer, it felt good to see a story which didn't flinch in assigning blame, and yet still won a measure of sympathy. 3) Once he fell, he never looked back. There was no Darth Vader 'oh no what have I become' moment for Arthas. Every time we see him after, he seems to be positively enthralled with his new role as a Death Knight and the destroyer of his own kingdom; in fact, the first we see of him as a Death Knight is his strolling into the throne room and almost gleefully running his father through. Redemption is a cliche almost as overdone as betrayal; I like it when a company takes a chance and let's a character actually enjoy his evil actions instead of waiting for someone to save them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed, it's pretty refreshing to see a fallen Hero who's not getting second thoughts but instead embracing what he has become and enjoying it.

I really wish that more games would tell you what happened to your companions after the end as ToB did. I've spent 50+ hours with those characters and usually end up wanting to know what happened to them. Even if they turn out to be of the sad kind.

Nowhere, and that's fine with me...

The character he portrays in this movie is one hell of a nasty and creepy guy. It's goning to be interesting to see how Wood tackles this one..

Elite/Privateer + Star Wars= Oh yes!

This movie looks sweet. It's going to be interesting to see how close they've gone with Millers excellent material.

Gothic is a good game, the controls might be a bit wonky but you get used to them faster than you might think. Hopefully Johnwood gets their thumbs out of their collective arses and releases the expansion disc outside of Germany.

Wow.... Talk about taking your sweet time. Hopefully this means that the translated expansion disc has a chance of getting released before Gothic III <_<

Seriously what you describe is the problem that all MMORPG:s have, not just WoW..

Considering that most of them probably has to play "pick up the soap in the shower room" for an eternity....

Throw in telepathy and you get a Hoojib. (Kudos to anyone remembering these cute buggers )

Magic doesn't really "age" you (besides the 0,7 year that each level ages you), what it does is adding glowing tattoes on your body which in the beginning might be mistaken for wrinkles before they start to glow. Your hair goes white as well but you don't get wrinkles or anything age related.

Well the problem is that I don't think they even released the first one in Europe as is the most usual outcome concerning most JRPG:s that doesn't have the words "final" and "fantasy" in their title.... Too bad since it sounded very monty python in some parts..

I don't think it'll stop there if I know the modding community

My money is on Bobo the chimp. I've seen an pissed off chimp in full action and I doubt most people would take one down one-on-one without some serious backup. When firearms are taken out of the equation we humans become very easy targets.

It's something from the old Star Wars comics when Marvel held the license. There was a dark force user who wielded a whip based on the same principles as a lightsaber. It's also the first time I read about Luke using dual lightsabers in order to be able to defeat her.

That explains alot. If you though kotor 2

Actually it's the other way around if I have understood it right. Open Palm is about doing the thing that benefits the majority which in this case equals killing the demon to prevent him from potentially harming or killing more villagers..

I'll have to see if they even bother to port it to the EU and if they do we'll probably get a non-optimized crappy version as usual. Maybe it's for the best since I'm starting to lose interest in JRPG:s...

Don't expect anything grand, the added area is about a third of the original which probably means 2-3 hours worth of playing time tops. What interests me is the prospect of mods for this game, since BBB couldn't deliver maybe the players can..