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...I... think it might be some sort of 'OMG there's a "black" Wargen? Maybe?

my main WOW character is a black wargen....
edited because I'm sleepy.

I do horde in WOW, Got an orc warrior and a Tauren Paladin.

Probably going to hit the humies as well, either priest or hunter.

WOW.....is kinda always cheaty, you get people with massive amounts of weapons and armor at low level.

For some odd reason i'm playing starcraft a bunch in the first time in a long, long time. I am playing comp stomp games with 1vs1 against a zerg very hard AI with me as protoss. I've been getting owned and it's surprisingly harder than i last remember. I keep destroying enemy hatcheries, lairs and hives to prevent enemy resources from coming in but those fungal growths stick my guys in place so i can't run away sometimes after a raid. Perhaps i'm committing too many dudes to a raid?

So i'm not sure what i should do and maybe i should throw out some high templar for plenty of psionic storms. Usually though that's not the really big deal. That said dealing with the main zerg offensive is usually tricky esp. if you want to expand as well when your resources get low.

I may also start sniping overlords with phoenixes. I hear destroying the zerg supply is a great way to defeat them and has worked.

Not sure what to think of the new protoss units if anything. I'm not sure i need the tempests if void rays do similar but are way dumber. I dunno what the hell the oracle really does but i think it's similar to a scout of some kind. Mothership core has a couple interesting abilities but with its super slow speed i'll have to stick near my other bases to use it well.

So finally got a nice couple hours of ArchAge in today- still not gotten my third specialization, but I've finally started equipping what I want (I think I'm going to attempt shortspear and shield, considering I specced second into Defense (Occult for the first- not sure about the third, though... We'll have to see about that).

Got my first mount- a horse (and the whole 'here, magically raise this foal into adulthood! thing is hilarious) and I think I'm seeing just how deep and thought out the whole game is going to be- I mean, I thought the crafting system in Guild Wars was impressive, but the sheer variety of materials, crafting stations, merchants and specialties is staggering- and that's just crafting! That's not even counting for things like the possibility of getting equipment through trade, resource gathering, shipping... I think, if it gets enough of a playerbase and the company re-jiggers the resource system (maybe- are there proper Mines for things like stone and metals? Places that don't really run out of resources to gather, or have such a large reserve they can be used for a long while?) they could go for a legitimate player-determined economy, right down to things like taxation and such.


Honestly, that's one of the things I'd love to see in a fantasy MMO- a system where people can create their own town without any NPCs, so that players have to work as guards, merchants, quest-givers, etc.

Just decided to do a runthrough of Material cubed after the yogscast got me interested.....

should either be fun, or horrid.

 Doctadeth wrote:

WOW.....is kinda always cheaty, you get people with massive amounts of weapons and armor at low level.

Heirlooms?

Anvildude wrote:
So finally got a nice couple hours of ArchAge in today- still not gotten my third specialization, but I've finally started equipping what I want (I think I'm going to attempt shortspear and shield, considering I specced second into Defense (Occult for the first- not sure about the third, though... We'll have to see about that).

Got my first mount- a horse (and the whole 'here, magically raise this foal into adulthood! thing is hilarious) and I think I'm seeing just how deep and thought out the whole game is going to be- I mean, I thought the crafting system in Guild Wars was impressive, but the sheer variety of materials, crafting stations, merchants and specialties is staggering- and that's just crafting! That's not even counting for things like the possibility of getting equipment through trade, resource gathering, shipping... I think, if it gets enough of a playerbase and the company re-jiggers the resource system (maybe- are there proper Mines for things like stone and metals? Places that don't really run out of resources to gather, or have such a large reserve they can be used for a long while?) they could go for a legitimate player-determined economy, right down to things like taxation and such.


Honestly, that's one of the things I'd love to see in a fantasy MMO- a system where people can create their own town without any NPCs, so that players have to work as guards, merchants, quest-givers, etc.

there is taxation for when you own land, if you are in any of the lower lands you pay with tax certs which you can craft using labor or buy off the auction house. Up north were the castles are the taxes are paid in gold to the guild leader who owns the castle. So everyone in that zone pays to him and he gets to set the tax rate (up to a max of 50%).

There really aren't any resources that can be completely depleted in an area, everything will respawn at some rate. What I really like is they actually take climate into account. With fishing you can fish anywhere and eventually catch all the fish types but based on your climate some will be much more frequent. When planting and growing crops each tree and crop has a preferred climate for optimal growth, plant in a different climate and your harvest and grow times start to lengthen.

The original Mount & Blade is currently free on GOG.com , so I'm going to play that in a moment. Let's see how it goes!

^So it has been said that Warband is just a direct upgrade compared to that correct? I guess I'll spare myself the DL if that's the case.


Seriously considering reinstalling Neverwinter Nights but I'm not sure if I can handle Aribeth and her waterdhavian creatures again... I do somewhat enjoy the prospect of both a.) D&D, and b.) not micromanaging an entire party for a change... however.


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Plus rogues get to set traps in that game. Wonder if they have enough wizard or cleric spells to make either of those classes fun, I can't remember... I know sometimes they really botch it with spell selection/interaction and casters kind of get boring.

Yep, Warband is a flat out upgrade, same general setting, but better in almost every way.

Wow, so my hard drive was getting kind of low on space so I thought I'd clear out some games I'm not playing atm... Clearing out local steam files, blizzard stuff, and a couple of loose bits (ESO beta 20somethin gigs cripes!) banked me 320ish gigs. Crisis averted!


I think the expansions for NWN (and the fact that I apparently own the diamond version via GoG ''can has all the things-D&D edition'' sale) have talked me into installing that and giving it another go sometime soon.

Currently working my way through the entire "Wing Commander" saga from the original right the way through. Then I'll start again on "X-Wing" now GOG are able to supply a version of the 1993 one with the better music.

I got Avernum 4, 5, and 6 on sale. Old school style games. Hopefully they'll be ok. I liked the Geneforge series, so.

Bouncing between Civ V, and Civ: BE now

 Melissia wrote:
Yep, Warband is a flat out upgrade, same general setting, but better in almost every way.

Unless you want to play M&B: Star Wars.

Played some starcraft 2: heart of the swarm yesterday and managed to beat the enemy very hard ai zerg player i had so much trouble with before. Turns out focusing down their other buildings that allow unit types hurts a lot. I guess that's a given but i wasn't aware how hard it hurts zerg.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Still hauling my way through Dungeon siege

Are you talking about the first one? My wife wanted to play it again but it's unplayable on her laptop due to terrible graphic errors :(

I played to the area where you get Kroduk on a Windows 7 64bit PC without any notable issues.

But we're lucky to have a old XP computer so that's what I've been playing on primarily.

Is it worth spending $40 to get Dungeon Siege II? I can get it on Steam for $8 but that means no Mods, no Multiplayer, and no Expansion

How would the Steam version mean no mods? I haven't played a game yet on it that changed the folder structure or whatever so that would happen. GoG should surely have both of those games at some point in the future if you're willing to wait. Personally I found the second one to be a bit of a chore though. Good at the start, but it really wore on. Ah that, and that bloody ghost quest which if you didn't find every ghost in sequence you couldn't talk to the next one (que having to run back through all the previous areas to find the things).

Dont see why you couldnt mod the steam version.

Personally I wasn't that impressed with D S 2 its a compitent hack and slash game thats good enough but I wouldnt pay $40 for it. More than worth the $8 that steam wants though.

I am playing Dragon Age 2 atm. Never been that impressed with the game but want to do it before the 3rd game is out.

Playing some Minecraft while saving up for a free copy of the Witcher 2

I just bought Chrono Cross from the PSN. I have no idea why. I didn't exactly like the game the first time around. Why did I do that?

squidhills wrote:
I just bought Chrono Cross from the PSN. I have no idea why. I didn't exactly like the game the first time around. Why did I do that?

Because it was shiny!

Played some more starcraft 2. After a lot of losing and wanting to smash my head against a wall i figured out 4 robotics facilities and some robotics bays destroys terran. For whatever reason the very hard terran A.I. had next to no air units and only really had medivacs and ravens. I trampled over him with a ton of collossus and a good amount of immortals. I didn't really need anything else. I started making some stalkers too for anti-air support but didn't really need it. Funny thing is it wouldn't take a lot to stop me. I had poor anti air if any and i left my base mostly defenseless after i destroyed his big army. He just kept going after my army which was destroying all of his bases.

It was fun and immortal with colossus works great.

Took me a few minutes to get used to the controls again, but I'm having a blast navigating my sturdy little gnome bard through the original story for Neverwinter Nights.

I know there are two expansions and several bonus modules included with Diamond, but I never did finish the original story so I thought I'd give it a shot.

The prestige classes are going to help. Gnome is already winning, picking bard just for style points. But when he fully realizes the red dragon disciple class and becomes a winged firebreathing half-ish red dragon with over 20 strength (which is hilarious on a gnome!) and comes into his own slaughtering things in melee... oooh yeah I might just have to spec him into exotic weapons and heavy armor because why shouldn't he also be wearing full plate and chopping things up with a katana Spell failure chance? There's a metamagic (and casting before combat) for that!

I am trying to get a good Galactic Civilizations II game going but I have been having a tough time starting off.

well, now I know what I'm going to use as a resource the next time I'm writing an insane character.
I'M THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN!

 thenoobbomb wrote:
saving up for a free copy of the Witcher 2

...eh?

 Sigvatr wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
saving up for a free copy of the Witcher 2

...eh?

You can collect "stamps" on GOG.com, 1 every day. Once you have seven, you can get the Witcher 2 for free!

Valkyria Chronicles

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