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Well being a Diablo knock off is more about being hack and slash. It's about being a top down action rpg with heavily randomized dungeons. It's not necesarilly a bad thing though, I mean Diablo was succesful for a reason. Regarding Titan Quest, there may be some disconnect between people who played the expansion and people who did not. I did not play the expansion and my thoughts were also that it was pretty shallow compared to Diablo. But I've heard that the expansion is a whole diff

Yeah I think in the long run, removing the stranglehold that the physical retailers have over the PC game industry will be one of the best things that ever happened to PC gaming. It will take some time to get there, but we are seeing more and more major developers having digital download options.

Hmm I actually love the perks and leveling system myself. I think people just like RPG elements in things, and it keeps things fresh a little longer when you have new things to look forward to and when you feel like you actually being rewarded for your success. I'm pretty sure they are the wave of the future for the genre. But I can understand how an old school hard core FPS gamer might not like them. Just understand that most people aren't old school hard core gamers.

[quote who="IcemanUnlimited" reply="25" id="2822918"]In my opinion Black Ops was just brought out to suck dry the wallets of MW1 and MW2 fanboys.. Nothing against those games, but the fanboys make me homicidal. [/quote] Are you saying that a sequel was designed to make money from the people who liked the previous games? Who would have thought.

The version of it that I played was so buggy as to make the game almost unplayable. But it was too bad because there was clearly an extremely solid game behind all the horrible bugs. Always meant to try out a later version of it.

Had a chance to play with it for awhile and it's a very addicting game. In some ways it's more like a puzzle game pretending to be a RPG then a roguelike game, but it's still quite fun. It's incredibly simple but constantly has new stuff that you unlock and get to play with which keeps up the replay value.

My understanding is that to experienced players, SC2 plays very differently then SC1, there is much more focus on micromanaging your units and much less focus on micromanaging your economy and productions buildings. I don't understand what exactly causes this but apparently the difference is dramatic. Being a less experienced player the differences are less obvious to me. Although I can say that as someone who is horrible and managing individual peons and economy, I play much better i

Interesting, although there are plenty of nonstripped down roguelike games with graphics already available for free download. But sometimes there is something to be said for simplicity, and if it's free it can't hurt to try it. I'll give it a look sometime.

I think it's kind of a downward spiral in terms of new game creativity. PC games lose market share, which causes stores to dedicate less space to pc game titles. Less space for titles means only the big blockbusters can get wide exposure. This makes it hard for the non mainstream titles to sell. Which of course can hurt sales even more and cause shelf space to go down even more. The good news is that there is plenty of PC game creativity from independent developers, and the rise of di

[quote who="Tridus" reply="69" id="2814244"] They're not a big deal. The problem isn't with the users, it's with reviewers. With the rare exception, an AAA game will get a review between 7-10. Always. The other numbers might as well not exist. For something like Fallout: NV, 7 is considered a failing score by Bethesda. [/quote] hehe it might be worthwhile to go back and reread the discussion between me and Nesrie regarding what I meant by "a big deal".

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="66" id="2813926"] Well I originally said I didn't think the 1 star or bottom scores were such a big deal because there are inflated high scores that counter them. You then said it was a big deal which I took to mean you were making a judgment because you said it was a big deal. In any event, I made an assumption which appears to have been incorrect. That last bit is certainly true which is unfortunate. I mean a "C" score to me for a game

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="64" id="2813891"] I mean it's not that I don't share your concern. I just think that the people that rate games artificially high are of equal concern as the ones that rate them very low. For some reason fanbois tend to get a pass when haters don't, and really, we could do without either of them in the score board. While I rate games I like fairly high, I don't typically give them max points or stars or whatever and often point out negatives for eve

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="62" id="2813881"] No, I don't think that's the case. If a game is hitting around 5-6 because its less than average, and you have a bunch of fans throw in 10s and then you have people throwing in 0's... its almost the same. You also have to keep in mind for the sites that have stars, you can't actually give zero stars but you can give max stars. [/quote] Well note that I specifically said that a game getting a 5 was the only case when th

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="60" id="2813839"] I don't know why all these 0's or 1 stars are such a big deal. You have a polar group doing the opposite thing at the same time, spamming perfect scores wherever they go because they like a game, love a company, or just love the idea and think that one day, some time in the horizon a poor game will become good so they give it 10s now. [/quote] They are a big deal because they are much further away from the average scor

Khardis does indirectly raise the good point that one big reason why user review scores will always be lower is because of the 0s. A reviewer who hates a game won't give it a 0. He will give it a 50 or maybe even a 30 if he thinks it's truly awful. But they will almost always give it some points. A user on the other hand will happily give it a 0 if they think it's a bad game, or sometimes just because they hate one feature. This will cause user scores to be significantly lower on average.

There's a demo available for it, that's probably the best way to decide. It wasn't quite my type of game, but there are certainly people who like it.

Well back when I first started playing PC games there also weren't really web forums to post on and complain about things. If I wanted to talk about Master of Magic there was no web based messageboard for that, I pretty much had to use user groups. If I wanted to complain to everyone about a game even older then that, I would have had to write a letter to a game magazine and hope they published it. Today though everyone is online and everyone with a complaint can really easily voice i

[quote who="mentalinstra" reply="10" id="2811901"]I guess I just never got the memo about when we started taking things so seriously and expecting perfection out of anything that's released. Bugs were something that existed in games, you found them, they were there, and they generally stayed there. It didn't stop people from playing the games they enjoy or supporting the companies behind them. [/quote] I guess this might be easier to discuss with examples. If we are talking about

Generally speaking it's less games that are buggy that bother me (and I think the gaming community in general), and more games that are unfinished and rushed out the door in a state where all the game components don't really work together well, or sometimes where there are even things in the manual (and yes we had manuals back in the day) that were not actually in the game because they never got around to adding them. We definitely saw that back in the day too, and it was just as big

Hmm....I liked Fallout 3 for a little while, but after awhile I felt like I was spending too much in time in endless slogs through buildings, killing the same super mutants over and over in a combat system that seemed to try to be both turn based and real time and failed at both. Maybe that's kind of related to the whole "cave" thing that OP was talking about, certainly a lot of the pointless combat slogs did take place during side quests. I also objected to the fact that I almost never found

Based on his decriptions, he sounds a bit like a combination of the Amazon and Assassin from Diablo 2.

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="22" id="2811018"] Actually, you would be mistaken. I believe, if I recall correctly, Zehdon is very vehement against Steam. I am not. I use Steam myself. I would be a part of the 30 million Valve reported, though I still question their decisions and the idea of exclusivity on the system, I use it fairly frequently myself. I don't recall him claiming "most" gamers believe one thing or another even if he has been honest about his own opinion and

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="18" id="2810439"] The point is, you are stating your opinion as fact, but there is no way for you to know that. You have no idea what the majority of gamers think, not even a clue. This isn't about sales or Steam's success, this is about you trying to speak for the majority of gamers which you cannot do. I ask for proof, and you have none. [/quote] Fair enough. I will retract my statement and instead say that outside of internet message

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="13" id="2810417"] Okay you realize the majority of gamers still don't use Steam right, even though it is the largest DD of traditional games? If you have stats to prove otherwise, that the majority of gamers don't have this issue, please feel free to share them. 30 million, by the way, is not the majority of people playing electronic games on this globe or even the estimated 63% of the US population the plays video games. [/quote]</p

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="11" id="2810407"] Quoting mentalinstra, reply 8 ...I guess the actual game doesn't matter, its the silly little program running in the background that's really important. Should we blindly accept a forming monoply without question? What requirements and checks need to be placed on you before you're not willing to use whatever it is in order to avoid those requirements? Where do you draw the line? Some&nbsp