Amentep

I like CoC, I think its a good system (never played it, only read the rules). Since you have the D20 version, you could probably find a D20 victorian period set (or look at the D20 OGL modern rules) and cobble together what you need to represent all the pieces you want.

Well, I think it illustrates why you don't necessarily want an accountant making creative decisions, what he's saying isn't wrong (from his perspective) although, as always, I don't think he's looking at the damage to the brand his money making ideas would create.

I thought the animations in the Gamescom footage I saw was "servicable". I could probably play the game with graphics like that and be okay. But with months til the release, I imagine that as the beta winds its way through there will be more work done on all fronts to polish and debug the game.

I don't know how it'll turn out, but Wild (from Michael Ancel (Beyond Good And Evil, Rayman)) looks interesting - http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/08/12/introducing-ps4-exclusive-wild/ (sorry if its linked already, a search didn't turn anything up)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2014/08/13/dark-tidings-bioware-announces-shadow-realms-at-gamescom/ Yeah, that's me not interested anymore. I don't want to play any game where I'm forced to play with another player.

I doubt it will allow you to access the keep if you don't have the game tied to the account with which you will access the Dragon Keep. I was under the impression that someone who - legitimately - bought only DAI (and never played the otherse) would still be able to use the Keep to create a file of their choices if they wanted to. Might have been a misunderstanding on my part though.

I need to see Party Down at some point. Looks like the major cast is all there except Tina Majorino (who, IIRC, is in TNT's LEGENDS crime-drama series so probably wasn't available).

Or those who pirate, though I guess they will figure out how to crack the keep too. Well this Keep application will probably generate a file somehow, so who knows. An interesting idea, even if it seems more stick than carrot to make it popular RE: Piracy - it might affect people who pirate DAI, but my understanding since you're manually creating the saved data state(?) I'm not sure it'd matter if you pirated DAO/DA2 as I'm not entirely sure its necessary to upload anything. RE: file creation - I imagine there will be a file - whether you can, say, download it to PC, put it on a flash drive then upload it to your game I don't know about; the stuff that I've seen so far implies you need use the Origin ID that you are using to play DA:I with on the Keep so that the information is ported. This sounds to me like the Keep is going to interact with your DAI game through the interwebs to me.

I'm underwhelmed. It's still early but if this is indeed a co-op then I'm not interested. It depends on the type of co-op. I'm out of anything that involved an constant, easy internet connection.

I'm probably not the market for the card game (although I liked Culdcept, the only console card game thingy I've ever played), but I hope its good and finds its audience (and, of course, that something that maybe more to my interest is forthcoming).

Which - if it works as I understand it does - is a huge "screw you" to people who don't play their games with internet connections. Mind you I guess that's kind of expected in today's gaming environment.

I dunno, I'll need to see more. As an action RPG fan, that footage doesn't win me over or repulse me.

It's a year and a half old, but... I remember that quote now that I read it, as I thought at the time I'd want to see what PoE was like before buying written sourcebooks. BUT...maybe this is what its all about.

I'd be happy if they just got the quote right - IIRC it is supposed to be properly translated "And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

AFAIK they can't use the D20 system rules as its prohibited in the Open Gaming License; so the game would have to have its own rule system (presuming that they couldn't also license the D20 rules independent of the Pathfinder setting but that seems like a lot of rules...)

Fatale is very good.

Since I've started Sacred 3, I've also fired up Sacred 2 which I've been playing off-and-on for some time. Now I need to remember what my Dryad was doing (or start over, but that might be a nightmare).

I don't believe Risen was part of the original post question. Right now unless I get around to Risen 2 and it blows my socks off or if there are great reviews, right now I have no plans of getting Risen 3.

WL2 DAI PoE Assuming that they stick to the release dates I think they'll have. Mind you I'm certainly playing a lot more than those three games this fall. And if WL2, DAI and PoE landed on my doorstep tomorrow - besides being confused over how they were delivered months before release in some cases and also, in fact, when I got a doorstep - I'd be playing PoE.

Get a wall size flat screen tv and you can have ads on your wall now.

Maybe SAVAGE WORLDS, mixing the REALMS OF CTHULHU rules (from Reality Blurs) with Pinnacle's own RIPPERS line? I've not played the Savage World stuff (do like Deadlands in earlier versions, just have picked up the SW version) but know some fans who swear by it, and I think that may be the easiest way to approximate what you want (Call of Cthulhu would require some adjustments to fit in the Victorian lit characters, I think)

I've been going through the Cadfael ITV series w/ Derek Jacobi

I'm not going to watch an hour long video of a game I'm currently playing so can't address whatever points are made there, but anyone expecting SACRED 3 to be anything like SACRED or SACRED 2 wasn't paying any attention to the bankruptcy of Ascaron, purchase of the IP by Deep Silver and the development of the game by Keen.

So you would say that you are ok with mediocrity and banality in video games? Its perfectly possible to enjoy a game despite nitpickable areas. But then, in the end, what I care about is whether the story and the gameplay are strong enough together to propel me through the game. But then I also watch stuff like PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN for fun, so the ability for something to make logical sense and to be entertaining are never something I consider to be intrinsically linked, anyhow. I understand most people can't seem to watch this stuff without the MS3K people talking over the movies, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised to find game players who decide that they've got to be the video game equivalent to MS3K either.

So I've been playing Sacred 3. Divorcing myself from the expectations of the series (ie Diablo 2-esque ability tree combat in an open world and a weird sense of humor) the game is so far kind of fun. I can see logically why they've done certain things (the level design and general look feel an awful lot like Diablo III) and they still try to send you all over Ancaria (only this time, in discrete missions with some side missions instead of the open world with rampaging hordes...walking around). The sense of humor seems a little too broad though, whereas the humor in Sacred 1 and 2 seemed very...unique (or perhaps just German? ). There are still skill trees and some degree of character planning (but the system allows you to change on the fly by "unbuying" skill trees and development paths - presumably to make it easier to partner online). I'd have preferred an Ascaron Sacred 3 (and indeed I'm looking forward to Unbended from some of the former Ascaron team) but so far, for what it is its not a bad action RPG title.