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Yes. They said if they DID announce anything it won't be until 2015. Meanwhile, the Wii U is almost here, and the new XBOX will be revealed very soon. Sony's done. Their sales have been pathetic.
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Announcement that I'm going to try to get Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption working on my x64 Win7 machine. If I don't make it back, tell them I died for gaming!
Talking Backwards
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ME3 demo will be out on Feb 14th. This is kind of strange since they are doing a cross promotional deal with Reckoning--where you get free in game items if you played the ME3 demo and vice vera--which comes out Feb 7th.
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The Amalur demo has been out since Tuesday. If you download it on the PC, make sure to get the Steam version. If you get it from Origin, you'll have countless random login issues.
The demo is far too short to get a really good idea what the final product will look like (it has a 45 min countdown timer that pauses when talking to people or when looking through the inventory that starts after the tutorial). But for anyone who's played pretty much any of the big named RPGs or MMORPGs, this game won't fool you at all--it blatantly takes everything from everywhere else, most notably WoW, Fable, DA2 and Diablo. I can't say it wasn't fun though, which is what matters the most and I already know exactly how I will be building my character come launch (Finesse/Sorcery).
The combat is not anywhere near as good in practice as they hyped it up to be either. It's not bad, but the floaty animation and pauses for special attacks or charge up attacks make it feel very jerky in a start/stop kind of way that's nothing like DMC/GoW or Bayonetta which a bunch of insane people are comparing it to. It basically feels like Fable that tried to get out of it's childish combat and closer to DA2 combat with some of the stun and juggle mechanics of God of War. The enemy AI however is completely MIA (it doesn't have to be "smart", but when only 1-2 enemies out of 6-8 attack you while the rest watch...). The developers said that the demo was based on a three month old build, so who knows.
The demo is far too short to get a really good idea what the final product will look like (it has a 45 min countdown timer that pauses when talking to people or when looking through the inventory that starts after the tutorial). But for anyone who's played pretty much any of the big named RPGs or MMORPGs, this game won't fool you at all--it blatantly takes everything from everywhere else, most notably WoW, Fable, DA2 and Diablo. I can't say it wasn't fun though, which is what matters the most and I already know exactly how I will be building my character come launch (Finesse/Sorcery).
The combat is not anywhere near as good in practice as they hyped it up to be either. It's not bad, but the floaty animation and pauses for special attacks or charge up attacks make it feel very jerky in a start/stop kind of way that's nothing like DMC/GoW or Bayonetta which a bunch of insane people are comparing it to. It basically feels like Fable that tried to get out of it's childish combat and closer to DA2 combat with some of the stun and juggle mechanics of God of War. The enemy AI however is completely MIA (it doesn't have to be "smart", but when only 1-2 enemies out of 6-8 attack you while the rest watch...). The developers said that the demo was based on a three month old build, so who knows.
WhiteBeastofWotan
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Let me say this now to anyone planning on playing the ME3 demo:
There will be no spoilers in this thread. If you say anything other than "holy shit this is fun," I am going to come to your place of residence, duct tape you to a chair, castrate you, and force feed you your own genitalia.
There will be no spoilers in this thread. If you say anything other than "holy shit this is fun," I am going to come to your place of residence, duct tape you to a chair, castrate you, and force feed you your own genitalia.
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I would not even be playing the damn demo if not for the fact that I'll be buying Reckoning and want the "free lewts". It would be nice if the demo was nothing more than one of the multiplayer maps but with Shepard. I never paid attention to the demos for the first two games, so I have no idea what they were like.
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...and I will be right behind Max. You really don't want to know what I have planned.
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Well, it wore off a bit but it's mainly due to the fact that SWTOR came out and I've been addicted to that lately. Holy shit, the sith side is so much more awesome than the jedi.
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Still playing it, but I work and socialize so much I don't have much time for gaming.
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yeah i would be playing skyrim but tor is just taking up all my gaming time. i'm trying to complete my class quest before school starts on monday. i'm a level 49 so basically i hope to finish up my class quest, do a bunch of fun endgame content and be all content so during school i don't feel as compelled to play etc. by the time i come back to skyrim the modding tools will be out/patches updated so i look forward to coming back to some amazing mods and an optimized game, with dlc hopefully to follow.
i won't be playing the mass effect demo since with that kind of game a demo really doesn't help or do anything, and it would just make me get wayyyy too pumped. however i wish they were releasing a demo for Syndicate instead, that's one game that i'm eagerly anticipating but isn't getting enough press. It has a good development team behind it, is based off an awesome series, seems promising as fuck, has the perfect art style/game style/culture for what i dig (i fucking love cyberpunk stuff) and overall just seems like its going to kick fucking ass. the only press its getting is stuff like australia banning it because you surgically invade peoples head to steal corporate secrets (oh noez we can show violence, swearing and sex on tv but if you do something completely fanciful it's too brutal for us so we'll ban it from sale to all people in order to protect children who can get it anyway if they want).
i'm especially pumped since i just got done reading The Stars My Destination (which is a fucking awesome book) which got me all pumped for a game about corporate warfare.
i won't be playing the mass effect demo since with that kind of game a demo really doesn't help or do anything, and it would just make me get wayyyy too pumped. however i wish they were releasing a demo for Syndicate instead, that's one game that i'm eagerly anticipating but isn't getting enough press. It has a good development team behind it, is based off an awesome series, seems promising as fuck, has the perfect art style/game style/culture for what i dig (i fucking love cyberpunk stuff) and overall just seems like its going to kick fucking ass. the only press its getting is stuff like australia banning it because you surgically invade peoples head to steal corporate secrets (oh noez we can show violence, swearing and sex on tv but if you do something completely fanciful it's too brutal for us so we'll ban it from sale to all people in order to protect children who can get it anyway if they want).
i'm especially pumped since i just got done reading The Stars My Destination (which is a fucking awesome book) which got me all pumped for a game about corporate warfare.
Karmic
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I've been chugging through it slowly and I'm sure I have a bit to be done, been waiting with the main quests and just doing millions of tiny ones. As a result I have a whole shitload of the map already explored. I'm thinking I'll be done right in time for the Creation Kit to be released and if I do play a second playthrough I'll put in a bunch of mods 
thirding the ME3 stuff. I'll sodomize you with Acie.
thirding the ME3 stuff. I'll sodomize you with Acie.
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Dead Winter
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