Gorth

Did you not read that Gorth hasn't had any of the games and still gets the spam emails? Look, I don't want to get into a fifty page spam war over this, but your personal experiences are useful in informing your views, but really don't reflect on a larger reality as a whole. I have different accounts for different things. I have a shared email account with my wife that gets household related things but also gets spam. I have a personal email account that is virtually spam free. I get spam emails regarding World of Warcraft and Diablo 3 on both accounts, even though the shared account has never had a Blizzard game associated with it at all. Moreover, TN, I've already said that I don't blame Blizzard for the spam emails and the hackers. On the other hand, since these guys seem pretty dogged and determined to spam me regarding Blizzard games, it's still part of a larger discussion as far as I'm concerned. So, you have all Blizzard games and have never had a spam email regarding them. Good for you. Blaming someone else for spam emails when he hasn't shared any information about them with others? Not good. After all, how did Gorth share information about accounts he's never had? At any rate, I've had Blizzard account for two games for many years and, while I get spam emails regarding them, I have never had my accounts hacked in all that time. I must not be sharing particularly vital information. Just because you don't have a Blizzard account doesn't mean that spammers can't spam your e-mail. I'm assuming that like all other spam this too is sent en masse to whatever e-mails they can find hoping to hit something. It's like buckshot. I've been sent spam from fake Amazon, fake eBay, fake Origin, fake XBoxLive and I have never used nor signed up for these services (I don't even own an XBox). I've had several non-existent accounts threatened with closure over 'misuse'. It means you've likely shared your e-mail on something unsavory or public. Simple as that. I've changed e-mails since, stopped using it anywhere public, and now I'm barely ever getting spam. Ultimately, your own responsibility. Also, thanks for explaining to me about personal experiences not always conforming to everyone else. A whole new world has opened up to me. Oh get off your high horse. If you had bothered reading what he was referring to, you would have known that it was exactly the point instead of getting all huffy about it. Thanks for implying that I share my work email with unsavory elements, I'm sure our corporate clients will love that classification. Guess what, sometimes people get access to your email due to circumstances beyond your control.

I think Borderlands 2 is one of those games where the enjoyment correlates to the quality of the people you can find to game with I had a look at War of the Roses, Chivalry Medieval Warfare and Viking Battle for Asgard, but they all seem to be multiplayer/coop (no single player campaigns) which means they are of little interest to me

...and Annah (and her gorgeous tail ) allows you to change to thief class once learned I usually get some fighter levels first and persuade Porphyron (or whatever he is called, the pacifist follower of Erit-Agge) to help gain proficiency in weapons, like daggers which also benefits me as a mage.

A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners... Apparantly there was a civil war before the civil war

You didn't buy that instawin shield in the store at the Promenade? Reflects beholder rays back to sender. Equip somebody like Viconia with beefed up magic resistance (if you have it) and that shield and watch those beholders go down without you breaking a sweat. The magic resistance is just because I don't remember if those elder ones casts spells besides rays. It's been a while.

Things that removes protection (magical and physical) and lowers resistance and saving throws are your friends Sometimes it's worth reading the log window to see what protections a mage (or a dragon) raises.

I'll have to check my collection old publications. I have the original Rogue Trader (where you also rolled for what units could get and what equipment your randomly generated units got). I bought some second hand rule books later, which were anthologies (or whatever that word is in English) of White Dwarf articles. Never got around to read them and don't remember if it was Eldar or Orks (me always having played Imperial Guard in 40k) Yeah, in Epic 40K, I can sing loud and bawdy songs about things blowing up in my face. Mad Boyz levelling entire suburbs with the ground, Weirdboyz blowing kiloton sized craters in my army... good times

It was part of the fun in Jagged Alliance 2. Companions that couldn't stand each other, but sometimes would have around if you had a third party in your team they liked more than they hated the other one etc. Of course, with two score companions with personalities, you could always find a replacement.

Agreed. My elite chaos marine strike team misses on every shot. The Ork Waaaagh! bearing down upon me hits with every single shot, one-shotting my Great Unclean One with a lascannon to add insult to injury... My worst single handful of dice roll was with my Epic Ork army, firing a Pulsa Rokkit battery. Five 1's and a 2. Landed smack in the middle of my own deployment zone in the first turn Edit to add for the uninitiated: You decide on the number of dice you want to roll for the rocket salvos flight distance.

No worries. The computer and console is for most things game related, games, developers, publishers, distributors etc. This section is usually for bickering about politics, religion, why cats are cooler pets than dogs, generally anything not related to games

You are too late... Please say there are evil deer with human hands who will break our legs and lick us for the vital sugar in our bodies. I'm seeing herds of feral unicorns... stalking their prey through the dark and dense forests... corralling their prey into a dead end and then impaling them with their horns in a glorious bloodbath of frenzied butchery, so they can feast on the bodies of their prey afterwards, crunching bones, sucking out marrow, tearing at muscle and sinew with their fangs... Maybe I just got too much imagination Unicorns already suggested

Actually, I think this thread belongs in the general gaming section Anyway, not sure what the exact trigger is, but short of playing around with Shadowkeeper (or similar that lets you play around with global variables), I'm not sure there is a way to prevent Edwin(a) from being fed up with you doing nothing about his "condition". It's been too long since I had a look at what under the hood though, so I hope somebody else can help you out with exactly what switch to flick so to speak.

How about divine intervention? You get struck by a lightning bolt every time you veer too far away from your current active quest

Real men don't save their games, they just put their PC's in hibernate mode between gaming sessions I've never played a game in 'ironman' mode *), but I do have a habit of not saving mid-combat in games like the old x-coms and ja2. If things turn sour or a gamble doesn't pay off, it sucks to be me and I replay the encounter from the beginning. I would like such things to be *my* choice though, because I agree that a developers fun may be a players nightmare. Now where is the switch that disables Mini Games and QTE's? Edit: *) Except old roguelikes that deleted your one and only save after loading it, but it wasn't known as 'ironman', it was just the way it was.

For me it depends on the quality of your journal. I seriously hated flipping back and forth through the pages in BG1, trying to find a paragraph somewhere which would remind of a particular task. BG2 did a better job of it because you could "filter" out things that were information for flavour and get a summary of tasks you had accepted (voluntarily or not) and access the information in a non tedious manner. Good riddance to the GPS markers though.

Fair point. Maybe people should have warning stickers on their monitor not to click email links I.e. if Blizzard really wanted you to change your info, I would assumed they simply told you to go to your account page rather than provide a clickable link. If they actually do send links (and play into the hands of scammers by getting people used to it), they (Blizzard) deserve public spanking. Edit to add quote because some people are fast posters and snatched my place in the queue...

A friend of mine had a Vic-20 and (Radar) Rat Race way back. Those were good times. He had a game called Jetpac (or something similar) too. It was just awesome

Nonsense. Anyone who has played a game of Warhammer knows that there is a God of Dice. And he *hates* me Edit: As for the Eurogamer story. Not sure it says anything everybody didn't already know/suspect? Interesting reading none the less.

Sorry, but I just sent a handful of spam reports to spamcop with Chinese swindlers sending me emails about misuse of my Diablo III account. No, I've never seen Diablo III, I've never even played Diablo II, so it was a dead giveaway that it was scam mails. I wonder what interest Chinese scammers would have in stealing account info. Is Blizzard storing more information on their servers than they should?

Seconded. Was trying to decide if I'd just push through with Warlock or get Fallen Enchantress. I'll probably grab FE this weekend. Seconded++ Having put in 100+ hours in Warlock, it sounds like a game I might like

So you played the PC version of Arkham City? I played the 360 version, and I actually thought the combat was fun. I also thought it was pretty intuitive, the button combos working well with the controller layout and such. Yeah, never owned a console in my life

I always thought of a Paladin as a rules lawyer that was a stickler for following some specific code of conduct particular to his knightly order. Sort of an embodiment of said code. Monks struck me more as the reflecting type that observe and learn through observing and thinking (or meditation) and learn to master their own minds and bodies through exercise and discipline. Being good at martial arts is just a bonus from such mastery. Edit: Being a Warhammer fan, a flagellant will always remind me of raving lunatics running around with bloodied naked torsos, whipping themselves while screaming "Repent!" and "We are all doomed!"

Around the campfire (figure of speech), I like my companions independent right down to and including the point where they try to slit my throat in my sleep if I did something they didn't approve of. Just leaving the party is getting off too easily. Heck, they could come back later with "friends of their own" and try to throw me over the edge of a cliff In combat, I the player (not my character) likes to stay in control and issue orders. What I would love to see is companions sometimes "rebel" against my instructions if it's anathema to their personality. If I tell a berserk fighter to retreat, he may ignore my command, if I tell a coward to attack, he may decide to stay put etc. (a bit like leadership tests in Warhammer) The old IE games had it in limited form with "effects" like fear or rage, but I would like to see companion psychology and preferences play a larger role. Same thing goes for their equipment preferences.

VMBL too for that matter. Lots of interesting art work was made for that game.

They invented these things called DVDs recently, they're pretty good. I'm going to be disappointed if it doesn't fill up a dual layer BD Room for a lot of developer commentary, soundtracks etc. on one of those.