Tensei

I think he said he likes to play Miss Fortune. I tried her earlier and thought she was kinda boring.

The game does feel a lot slower (in terms of movement speed) and more forgiving because compared to HoN all the spells do less damage but also cost less mana. And the towers are almost a guaranteed safezone until quite late in the game because of the huge amount of damage they put out.

jesus christ this hero looks broken Longest attack range in the game, 3 agi gain per level and massive range on both of his primary nukes, 5 second silence (i.e. a built-in hellflower) for 100 mana.

Poor job on New Vegas? That game was actually better than Fallout 3 in a lot of ways. Fallout 3 was plagued with bland writing and typical phoned in Bethesda voice acting. singlehandedly trumps every character in Fallout 3.Also NWN 2: Mask of the Betrayer is one of the finest RPGs since Baldur's Gate 2.

What does that even mean? How is Chrono Trigger considered a classic, but not Metroid or Donkey Kong Country?

DKCR salvaged the franchise after mediocre games like DK64, Donkey Konga, etc. Perhaps a bit more subjective, but the Metroid Prime trilogy was at least on par with Super Metroid and definitely did show that a team 'from a different nation' can handle a Japanese franchise. And it's not exactly like Japan did an amazing job when they got the series back. Define 'subpar' games.

Yeah it has certainly never happened that another company taking over a videogame franchise improved upon it *cough*retrostudios*cough*

Except buggy doesn't equal bad. There are plenty of great games that are very sloppy or unpolished (Metro 2033, Deadly Premonition, Witcher 1). Yes, it kinda sucks, but of all the things that can be wrong with a game I'll take bugs over pretty much anything else.

>Playing games on PS3 that have a PC release. Oh and I never had any gamebreaking bugs or glitches on PC with NV.

He wasn't talking about New Game+ but about games where you're forced to make choices that 'lock off' some of the other content in the game; for example Act 2 in Witcher 2 is completely different depending on the choices you make in Act 1 (Not just dialogue but actually a completely different base town with different quests)

This guy is completely insane, but also really good at playing Devourer. The tablet play at 8:35ish blows my mind.

Does it happen when you start new projects and try to load those as well? Maybe it's one particular plugin or maybe there are too many plugins or something.

I can't speak for Dungeon Siege 3 because I've only played through the demo. However, I'd like to contest you on those other 2 games. Alpha Protocol was one of the best RPG experiences in a long time for me. The reason for this wasn't a spectacular combat system or outstanding graphics or anything like that (as you mentioned, it was lackluster in those aspects), but because it used an interesting and original setting for an RPG, it had great character writing (Steven Heck), and a plot that was interesting to follow through with a good amount of twists thrown in. More importantly though, it had so many branching plotlines that it could be an entirely different game based on your dialogue choices. Games like Mass Effect and The Witcher have touched upon this kind of stuff but Alpha Protocol really takes it to the extreme, with characters commenting on your demeanor and referencing stuff you might have said way earlier, possibly using it against you. Fallout 3 was kind of buggy as well but luckily my experiences with New Vegas were pretty good aside from the occasional enemy clipping through the ground. And again, I MUCH preferred the setting, plot and characters to Fallout 3. I wouldn't say it was lackluster contentwise because the world actually felt quite fleshed out to me. So yeah, that's why I'd like Obsidian to do it; because they'd have a good story, setting and characters. I also think the fact that it would be a 2D game would mitigate some of the sloppiness Obsidian is known for.

Not to rag on you or anything but I really don't get this mentality. Yes, it is one of the most celebrated JRPGs ever, but people have been complaining for years now that Squeenix is basically just sitting on the franchise and not doing anything with it other than the DS port, while C&Ding any fan projects. Now that rumors start seeping through that we might get some kind of follow-up at last, people are suddenly very sceptical. I'd rather have a game with a slight possibility that it might not be as amazing as the original than no game at all, y'know. And again, IF it really is being done by Obsidian, it really couldn't be in much better hands than that nowadays.

This would honestly be the best direction for the franchise and I'd be really stoked for the game if it turned out to be true. Obsidian is currently one of my favorite dev studios (together with Valve). I'm also really interested in seeing how a Western company attempting a JRPG would turn out. Going by games like New Vegas and Alpha Protocol, Obsidian generally has amazing character/plot writing, but can be a bit sloppy with technical/gameplay aspects (i.e. their games tend to be buggy). I think if they did a 2D game this wouldn't be too much of a problem. So yeah, at the moment, they might just be the best company for the job.

Aluna is really cool too though, I find myself playing INT heroes almost exclusively lately.

Well by that logic you could also say that Pollywog Priest has two non-ultimate stuns. And yeah lategame you do usually end up as food but that counts for a lot of heroes if you play them as full-on support/ward bitch. Myrmidon does have the waveform and the ultimate going for him, so at least he gets some more survivability than a hero like Glacius.

From the looks of it, everybody will get 2000 silver coins as well as a refund of their gold coins to compensate for the downtime/rollback. Now I can finally buy the Flamboyant Announcer and a lot of other useless shit. Also Bardic, how can you forget about Myrmidon in your list? Probably the best supporter/ward bitch aside from maybe Andromeda at the moment. I think he's the only hero with two non-ultimate stuns.

It's up again, and as compensation they temporarily unlocked all the store items for all players.

Oh, yeah, you're right. Apparently it can't get disjointed by TPing.

Speaking of the ult. Apparently it can steal the TP "Buff" which results in this

Really not liking the ult though. It's way too situational and basically ends up as a deadweight skill (or a mediocre single-target silence) if you're not facing heroes like slither, hellbringer or jereziah or something. The most common debuff that you would want to swap away (Stun) makes it impossible for you to cast the spell, and supposedly it doesn't work on Predator's stone skin either.

Yeah, it was a given that it wouldn't live up to the hype but this game just feels several years old on a technical level, the voice acting is phoned in (I mean, Jon St. John sounded more into it in the ), most of the humor and oneliners just fall flat and the game as a whole just feels really unpolished.The point isn't that it doesn't live up to the hype, but it also doesn't live up to the expectations of a good game.

I read a really accurate comparison today: Imagine a sequel to Portal that has its plot based around finding the the cake, with a companion cube that stays with you for the entire game, and a soundtrack consisting of nothing but autotuned Jonathan Coulton songs, with all the interesting puzzles and dark humor removed. That is what DNF is to DN3D. Throughout the entire game I couldn't shake the feeling that the devs focused much more on the meme status of the main character, and less on the actual gameplay that made DN3D succesful in the first place. A lot of the sections just feel like disjointed, inferior copies of popular FPS games, with the general flow of the game feeling more like Half-Life, Halo-esque vehicle sections/regenerating health, and Call of Duty-like turret sections. There are some neat set pieces like the Duke Burger level, and the Ghost Town shootout (which actually FELT like DN3D), but other than that, so many of the levels are just plain terrible (especially the Hive).

New Hero Spotlight This guy looks pretty fun to play.