if you chose poorly you are missing out.

exactly. same with oblivion. they are both meant to be played on PC. its all about the addons and mods. i don't know why they bothered to release them on consoles.

You'd think before spending $50-80 on a game people would be aware of the pedigree of what they are buying.

Sure, if they don't mind a poor man's version. But since they do not give a fuck, it's their decision to live with.

I rarely play games anymore but I sat down for some Left 4 Dead with old friends last night and really got into it.

I'm literally crying watching this: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/15/behold-a...march-in-motion. Unreal

The 360 is the flimsiest console I ever owned. Burned through 3 of them so far. 1 perma-died and I bought a new one. 2nd one was repaired and died like a year ago. 3rd recently died.

Fuck this console.

I'm going to start playing Fallout again, but I'm debating on being a good guy or a bad guy. I always feel bad when I randomly kill people in that game, but on GTA it's okay to do that.

New gear, lands and friends;

Complete Vamp set


Ice Dwarf Kingdom


Lady Sinn & Thin Lizzy (Buffi not pictured)


Lady Sinn, Buffi & Thin Lizzy ( terrible lag when we were posing :/ )

Complete Silverspring Set last night, btw. Plus Yuri & Redeye cards. Tonight we are going to bully the bears and maybe raid the Dwarf King's keep w/ some lvl 50s walking us through for the later Clops runs. Might join The Avengers guild.





^ Taken as we were exiting BG, so I had the set from Teresa beforehand.

Ran some instances & elites with a few groups earlier today. Also joined a neat guild. "Greed before need" is our charter.

These guys hired me to kill a boss for them.



I ran with these 30-40s as their healer. One guy needed crystals.



Shared quest with some bros to finish a really hard fucking quest.



^ As you can see, we are all 25+ level and still need a 46 to help us. And we almost died beating him. Motherfucking boss does 5k per hit and becomes invincible at times. Took everything we had. By the end my mana was nill because I was trying to keep everyone alive. Mixed in with DPS-ing for 1.2k per.

damo - that game looks very similar to WoW. compare/contrast the two pls.

Its like WoW but free. To make money, the developers sell items for real money that save you time from grinding.

For instance, I can spend 2 days farming Iron Ore to turn into a weapon. But the Cash Shop sells the weapon already made for $5US.

I don't have to buy the weapon and can just spend the time mining the right components. But by offering time savers at relatively low cost, the developers actually make more money than WoW per account. Because people are willing to keep buying stuff @ $5/per to save time. Over time, it adds up.

Micro-transactions are a good fiance system. It lets freeloaders play for free. However, those who don't mind spending an extra $5 occasionally can keep pace without a huge time investment (my WoW & Age of Conan turnoffs). But the quests rewards do let you keep pace. They simply require friends to complete.

Another way of looking at it is as "choose your own subscription". Pay according to what enhances your enjoyment.

I've only jumped on in the last 3 weeks. Playing casually. Its not too addictive. Since I jumped servers (didn't like my first toons) and amassed a friends list it's def. become more fun. At first I was just doing quests lazily. Once I got with a few groups, we were running through dungeons, cracking jokes and killing everything in sight. It became more and more fun. I was able to go up in levels quicker and thus able to get into more groups for higher & higher leveled quests and rewards. Really fun.

To date I have only spent $4US, about 30 hrs of gameplay and have kept pace w/ my mates.

Also by having friends, you can reduce the grind even further.

For example, the process of creating potions is time consuming. But my mate is an expert alchemist in the game.

In order to stay an expert he has to keep making potions. He sells the good stuff for 5k gold in the auction house and kicks back the stuff he doesn't need to his mates (me!). Because he is so high level his potions are insane for lower level players.

I, in turn, can use, sell or hand those potions down. We are all helped in the process. Lady Sin gave me tons of items last night (+1 level for me in 20 minutes), a bro named Maximus killed a boss for me in exchange for 14 extra runes I had about (another +1 level) and another mate gave me 16 (!!) fusion stones to level my weapon and sell for $4k a piece!

3 levels in 1 1/2 hrs of play while garnering allies at the price of a few jokes and in game items.

Having a blast.

Yes. There is a gold (in game currency) for diamonds (purchased w/ real $) trading system, both ways. 1 Diamond ($5 = 100 diamonds) for +50k gold and vice versa. As well as item auctioning for both gold and diamonds, diamond loans, ruby loans, gold farming, material farming, material for gold/diamond/rubies, mercenary outfits (kill for GP/Dia/Rub), toon selling, GP/Dia/Rub for crafting ability (Say I don't want to craft, I can pay someone who can craft) and all the usual stuff.

But the game was designed to work with these ancillary player markets. Not against as in subscription MMOs. Because they have no need to keep you paying monthly, just per item should you choose.

2D classic side scrolling multiplayer Mario Bros. for the Wii available holidays 2009.

Just watched the E3 segment. Plus a sequel to Mario Galaxy, plus a new Metroid game. Looks to be a good year for Wii owners.

Been loving the shit outta Infamous for Sonys box for a week now (ftr: it totally pays to have a gf who works in a rental store). It has a strong Crackdown vibe which i can totally dig. I think im gonna buy this one since the replay value seems high--there are a ton of side missions to complete and collectables to find to prevent it from getting stale. But the best part of the game is easily the movement. I just unlocked the electrical hover ability, which chained with the powerline grind, makes cruising the city via rooftops a blast. All open world games should have such freedom of movement, Niko and Spiderman be damned.

The new Wolverine game is great.

Raiden Fighters Aces: I must have some sort of death wish to play this game as much as I do

I fucking love this kind of shmup. I'm terrible at them, but I love them.