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ESO Beta Test 2: Electric Boogaloo invites are going out for this weekend.

I'm onto Shadow Warrior now. Which surprisingly does not suck. Especially at first. Swinging the katana is a real joy, very responsive, and the game is pretty graphics wise. There are humor and references but also a semi interesting story underlying it.

Some parts get slightly monotonous as there are mostly wave battle of many of the same mobs, and various greater mobs. But they give you new weapons and useful powers along the way to mix it up.

I've got about 16 hours in and suspect I am about 3/4 of the way done. But I think that will be just about right if I finish between now and 20 hours for the pacing of this type of game.

I started playing Neverwinter (also playable through Steam) this past weekend, and I'm enjoying the sh*t out of it so far. The graphics aren't fantastic, it's light on actual D&D elements, and apparently there's some glaring pay-to-win issues at the level cap, but the game has several things to recommend it. All content is F2P, it's solo-friendly, the combat and skill restrictions are more Diablo 3 than WoW, the main storylines are interesting (and voice acted!), the game introduces each gameplay element fairly well, most areas and dungeons are at least partially instanced, and the user-created content can be pretty neat (or filled with bugs).

The tradeskill process is also pretty unique. Raw materials can also be found while questing or dungeon crawling, so you don't have to ride around the countryside searching for material nodes or slaughtering wildlife. And instead of churning out 10 Copper Swords to advance to the next set of recipes, you have a certain number of slots (determined by character level, tradeskill level, etc.), and you assign tasks to each slot that take a certain time (10-20 minutes, with "overnight" tasks as well) to gain materials, make items, and gain experience. Therefore, you can level up your tradeskills while you're doing other things.

Overall, a fun experience that I would recommend to those that like both MMOs and dungeon crawlers, but dislike having 10 action bars full of various skills that make it impossible to find anything.

Edited, Jan 9th 2014 6:26pm by Demea

Yup it was fun to play, I got a solid month or so out of it and did not drop a dime. I quit after leveling up though as per usual for me these days.

Edited, Jan 9th 2014 5:20pm by Shojindo

Figure I'll go ahead and give the ESO beta another shot, since it's not like I have much else going on...

You should make some polls and let the people choose which game you'll play from your library for each letter.

I picked up the Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection for PS3. I had played through the first two MGS games previously, and this was just an awesome deal since you get so many games for so little money. Though, I should have just bought it used. MGS isn't an HD update, so I'm better off playing it on a PSX emulator.

I just wanted the ability to make you play terrible games that you bought because they were like 50¢.

Cool idea! Instead of playing any of my backlog this weekend after I finished Shadow Warrior I just indulged in many many more hours of Dark Souls. I'm in NG++ now almost to another plus. I have SL163 40 str 40 dex 40 vit 40 end and like 28ish Int and Faith...

I'm not really sure why I keep playing. My goal is 40 INT and 40 Faith as well with more attunment slots. But I mostly go back to my tried and true favorite weapons and equipment when anything gets rough on bosses. I have like pretty much everything in the game and multiple +15 and +5 chaos weapons. It's just a comfortable world for me to farm around and play in. /shrug

Bait the wyvern down with an arrow shot. When he lands run past him and use the bonfire in the room behind where he perches. Open the gate, waltz into the parish and no more poison rat under the bridge runs for you.

Also the big dude in the parish is not too bad. Be patient let him do his big slow attack and then circle around and stab at him. Also there is a bonfire to the right of there down that walkway with the stone arches. Andre can upgrade your weapons and is a very useful guy throughout the game. Oh and behind that big guy in the parish is a fire keeper soul. take the elavator in the parish on the left back down to the firelink shrine and use it to buff you estus flask to +1 the firekeeper is right down the stairs underneath the bonefire and she can hook you up. You can get it to +7 eventually.

Feel free to PM me or ask here for any other tips if you get stuck I have a pretty good feel for the game after 400 hours lol.

I jumped on the free trial of Torchlight II this weekend. I was enjoying myself - simple controls, lots of monsters, cheery hero - In fact I think she was skipping. I was just getting to the good stuff though, with a bit of difficulty when the free time ended.

Edited, Jan 13th 2014 3:47pm by Elinda

That's how it starts. Next thing you know, you're waiting in line at Gamestop at midnight in -12 degree weather waiting for the newest Halo or some such.

So far, my win of the season was buying Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, an entertaining corridor style shooter set in the Old West with attractive cel shaded graphics, excellent voice acting, an entertaining story and fun gun play. It's not perfect -- I'm not a fan of the duel mechanic and people who hate how "consoles ruined games" will grind their teeth at the two-weapon limit but the good far outweighs the bad and I'm glad I dropped the five or six bucks on it.

The dog of the season was Remember Me, a dreary 3rd person action game marred by a plodding pace, clunky combat and terrible boss fights. The memory-changing mechanics aren't particularly fun and it's amazing how a game with this much hand-holding can still take so long to accomplish anything. The best I can say for it is that the graphics aren't bad and, if you set it to French language with English subtitles, you can pretend you're in some foreign futurist art film. That novelty only takes you so far, though.