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The two expansions for Guild Wards 2. Wanted to support a ("free") game I play at the moment and it was on a 50% sale

Trying out Guild Wars 2 at the moment. Still early days (got a necromancer to level 11), but at least it's tonnes of more fun than WoW

I don't think they have enough beer in England at the moment if that were to happen...

Speaking of Steam... summer sale started and I bought more games than i can remember from top of my head (used the little phone app). 15+ games at least at between 50% and 80% off.

Bought Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice I only just started on it and... it's bloody creepy. Not often a game makes me feel that way.

The original Tomb Raider is still a top notch game on PC. Sure, the graphics aged poorly, but the game itself, the sense of exploration and discovery, the controls, the ambience, the music etc. are great. The game could use a faithful remake (not the pile of garbage that claimed to be a remake)

X-Com3: Apocalypse has aged "decently". For me the only game to give Jagged Alliance 2 (which also carry its years "graciously") a serious run for its money and beat it in some areas (the use of terrain, especially destructible terrain as a tactical factor)

Wonder what government system it would have, I guess we'd probably stick with the US system and end up with the US portion dominating the rest of the country. One good thing, you can send all the wannabe soldier cops down to Mexico to fight the cartels I'm sure the US would love to see Queen Elizabeth on their coins and bank notes

@rjshae football is serious business... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/feb/21/theknowledge.sport

So... England won and Germany lost their first game. Guard Dog, do you have room for a guest for a while at your place??? Just until after the apocalypse

Just curious now... SATA M2 or PCI M2? There is a significant difference (little to no difference between SSD and SATA M2 SSD) I do know my old 5400 RPM laptop drive feels slow like molasses by comparison to any of the above

"Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't." - Nazeem Or as we liked to call it, "feel like playing a game, set the game to load, watch your favorite movie, then go and play your favorite game..." Some clever developers started using the loading time by first loading a mini game or music piece that would play while the game was loading from the tape... colloquially known as load games and load music. Heck, the loader music from Comic Bakery probably ended up being way more famous back then than the game (nobody remembers the game) http://youtu.be/Pa6sFNXyOPQ

World Cups haven't been the same since South Africa... I miss Paul the Psychic Octopus The tentacled prophet stole the show.

Ooh... Tzeentch may be very disappointed in you... or not. Depends on the bigger plans

No Borderlands 3... E3 is dead to me >_

Start of old thread End of old thread So, what do you want to share with facebook, google and every other online spy and monitoring service out there?

...and the inevitable happened. Moved to spoiler friendly section

Kinds of games: Games featuring exploration... Tomb Raider (the original, not the awful remake) and Baldurs Gate may not seem to have much in common, but they did. They offered excellent "exploration" experiences and the sense of discovering new and unknown areas. Same with Elite, Lords of Midnight etc. Games featuring turn based tactical combat games... Master of Orion 2, Space Rangers 2, X-Com 3: Apocalypse and Jagged Alliance 2 springs to mind. All were great fun and I kept replaying them over and over and over (etc.) Games featuring good simulations... Yeah, I grew up with Microprose, SSG, SSI and their likes. C64 strategy games, Commodore Amiga flight sims (and submarine sims, looking at you Silent Service!), Populous (god sims too!) etc. I probably forgot something...

Doing the wrong things wrong is just a bloody waste of time. Doing the wrong things right is... shooting yourself in the foot. Doing the right things wrong, gives you an A for affort but is still missing the point. Doing the right things right is where it's at. Question of my own, how much do you value intent behind peoples actions. Can you enjoy a gesture if not done in good faith?

Last time that happened to me, I found a new job... boredom kills your spirit. As for the Death Star, I wonder who insurer was?... I think they actually covered that weakness in one of the movies, wasn't it Rogue One? The guy who designed the whole thing deliberately left he weakness there and went out of his way to hide it from his masters and overlords so it could be exploited later. Cue disposable Bothans. Maybe they were Catholics? Now I want to watch Monty Pythons "The Meaning of Life" again...

My memory may be playing tricks on me, but I think the "main" quest had bits and pieces of it voiced? Like the Baldurs Gate games? Maybe it's only in my mind. But yeah, reading the mission texts mostly.

There should be re-education camps where people were forced to play this until they learned to love it. Up there with 'Elite' and 'Lords of Midnight' in pure genius. Sadly the kind of games that just seems impossible to recapture the "magic" of. Same thing with Master of Orion 2 imho.

The downside of a long gaming history... too many to chose from, as any "era" (or decade) would have it's top 3. New/Modern RPG's my top 3 would be Fallout 2 Planescape: Torment Baldurs Gate 2: Shadows of Amn They were great games and are still fairly recent. Earlier games (1980's and early 90's on the c64 and Amiga) still impressed me more in some ways, but they may not be something people would agree are "RPG" by todays standards. Edit to add some examples: Ultima IV Rogue Lords of Midnight (still my all time favourite game, any genre, hands down, even beating Elite)

Not sure how long each of my two toons took, a grand total of 3 hours to get a human warrior to 5 and a blood elf mage to 7. Bear in mind, I had to learn the mini map, the vendor locations (which all seem to follow a pattern), watching cinematics, getting a feel for how much opposition I could handle without getting myself killed and listening to all the dialogue from the quest givers (since I've never seen them before) etc. etc. Also spend (wasted) some time trying to change the quick bars, but gave up eventually.

I joined the dark side and gave WoW a try. The starter pack is free after all. Through perseverance, I made it to level 7 before I gave ip. I was bored mindless and regretted the 30+ gb download. At least it didn't cost me any money edit: still, it's better than Black Desert Online which I tried when they had a free weekend. Spend triple the time on the character designer than I did in-game, only making it to level 2 before uninstalling.