Torchlight is kind of a hack-n-slash.  In fact, that's exactly what it is.  Did you like the Diablo games, matneee?

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As it happens, Diablo is one of those things that completely passed me by. No particular reason - I just never got round to playing them. I'm sure I'll enjoy Torchlight - I just figured I may as well King's Bounty first instead, having paid for it and everything
Besides, it's to find a Turn-Based combat game for once...

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I just beat Modern Warfare 2 on Veteran and it was much easier than Modern Warfare 1. I beat it in 7 hours to so I was disappointed with the length. The ending was fun though.

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Dragon Age origins

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I just obliterated Bioshock, with the g'ood guy and bad guy endings. Now for achievements, no? That could possibly be draining, save for the handy-dandy 1up superguides.

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Everything in that general direction must die!
--Eddie Riggs

Dragon Age Origins, I have been utterly sucked into that realm and am not sure when I shall be out. 

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suzanne536 brute

Lately I've been pick & mixin, got Overlord2 didn't like it traded it in today. played Gears1 again done it on insane which was even better than Gears2 on insane

Downloaded all the Fallout3 DLCs liked the ones I've tried so far except the mothership zeta find it way too hard and too colourful doesn't really feel like Fallout stopped playing it because of that DLC I'll pick it up again only have one mission left on that spaceship.

Restarted Conan this time on hard mode, actually making progress and think I'll be able to do it this time On a second playthrough of BF: Bad company on hard mode.

Have yet to get the ballad of gay tony, maybe get it at christmas....

Looking at AC2 mostly, then afterwards dragon age. But most recently Pes10 doing become a legend trying to conquer every league, done english, italian, and netherlands so far in french league atm after that onwards to spain! Really love Pes10 improvement on last year.

Hermit

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So, Assassin's Creed 2 is amazing.  No more repetitiveness, faster parkour, the introduction of puzzles, and lots more assassinating.  It's eleven tons of fun and well worth my money!

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Assassin's Creed II

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slicing apart the infected in L4D2 with a fire axe

Well, after 20 hours in AC2, I've finally finished the story.  It was hella fun!  Time to spend another 6 or 7 on 100% completion.

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Dragon Age Origins and I am addicted.

CoD MW2 and L4D2

i also play a forum based nation sim that is pretty fun

http://s1.zetaboards.com/NetNations/index/

our irc is on coldfront at #netnations

paleobones:

Dragon Age Origins and I am addicted.

I agree, DAO is a very addictive game, as soon as I complete AC II, I will go back and play my next origin on Dragon Age.

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That's to know. I have a copy of DA waiting to be opened, as soon as I'm done with Demon's Souls. It'll probably be AC2 afterwards.

 

I love it when I can find games that keep me entertained longer than a week!

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squidproquo:

You are a murdering machine, sir.

Gradius1:

No more Jack threads.

Bring it!

meralonne:

That's to know. I have a copy of DA waiting to be opened, as soon as I'm done with Demon's Souls. It'll probably be AC2 afterwards.

 

I love it when I can find games that keep me entertained longer than a week!

That would be DAO,  you will be logging some hours on it, the graphics are not all that, however if you can see past that, and you like a story with some intense puzzle solving, tough combat and rpg, you will be really happy with it.

As for ACII, I intend to actually log some hours playing it this weekend, I really haven't had much of a chance because of work. so far though AC II has been killer as well.

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playing some KT and im addicted too.

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I was playing some modern warfare 2, chucking knives in people's guts... Then my xbox broke. So currently i have been playing Fable TLC again on the computer, all old school XD I was about to re-play fable 2 too...

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Been playing DAO. One late fee, baby! Let's roll'em in!(JK) I will confess, I expected to be able to play as the character from the trailers, and be able to speak. I mean, come on! Bioware did it before in Mass Effect. Why the hell do I care what grunts and snarls my character says when he/she fights? The only reason I would be pumped for a voice for the protagonist is if you could really hear his dialogue. Note: Lionhead could steal this idea. Must encourage. That, and it's rather difficult for an RPG. I went up to the Frosty Mountains to give a man something that sounded like a DRAFT document, and was ambushed by some powerful enemies. I high-tailed it back to Lothering immediately after I died and loaded twice.

Other than that, I just downloaded all the Developer Diaries for Assassin's Creed II, have yet to watch parts three through five. It's interesting to see someone pick up on the diaries idea from Lionhead. In fact, I encourage it to become a trend in the gaming industry. I am looking forward to the beautiful and gory acrobatics of that game. Very excited for Mass Effect 2, but still need to get Mass Effect 1, solely for Mass Effect 2's saved data reading.

My brother told me about Demon's Souls. Otherwise, I have not seen, heard, tasted, touched nor smelled it's existence or advertisement. I will check into this. From what he says and this Meralonne's opinion, it sounds like a game; I hope to be intruiged.

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LittleBigPlanet on the PSP.

Been scratching my head over this one. As far as I can tell, it should be impossible. This is LittleBigPlanet, on the PSP. Think about that for a second - it's LittleBigPlanet, on the PSP.

Not a game starring Sackboy on the PSP. Not an LBP themed platformer on the PSP. It's the whole shebang - all the gameplay, the level editor, stickers, costumes, all the community uploading/downloading, physics-based insanity, criminally inventive story levels, supercool music, fantastic art-design, bouncy fun. All on a handheld.

I've been pondering this. And I can only conclude that it's all powered by Witchcraft - Sony Cambridge should be applauded for their forward thinking use of black magic in the field of programing.

There are a few concessions. Multi-player went right out - apparently just having it there adds 30%+ to the processor overheads, and the psp simply couldn't cope. There are 2planes of depth rather than 3. The cutout tool only works on shaped painted using the grid tool (not as restrictive as it sounds once you figure out how to work with it), and the global level lighting seems to be gone.

But apart from that, it's all there - it's even improved on a few aspects, with slightly tighter controls and some simple but how-did-I-live-without-this-before tweaks to the editor. But the look, the feel, the physics, all the switches, levers,connectors, brains, mouths, camera-anglers and so on. All there. 30 completely new story levels BTW. They're great too - really feel stuff. It's, well, LittleBigPlanet, on a PSP.

Anyway, the fact that they've got this working on a PSP is frankly unbelievable. Easily the best handheld game ever made by a massive margin, and then some. Frankly, if I had to chose my game of the year at this point, it'd be really hard pushed to choose between Uncharted 2 and LBP-PSP. It's that . If you've not got a PS3 to play the original blu-ray, I'd go as far as to say that for the right people it's genuinely worth buying a PSP just for this.



EDIT - worth bearing in mind when reading this that I think that the original LBP is one of the 3 best games ever made. If you're one of those people who lacks the patience, imagination or whatever else to get to grips with making your own fun in games, you'll just be getting an (admittedly great) platfomer with potentially unlimited fan-made levels.

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Just a little question here for people who paid for Assassin Creed... Did you get the exclusive map pack in the normal unspecial edition of the game? Me and my brother are at odds ends about the exclusive pack, see he sent me down today to get the game with £40 for it, and I caught a glimpse at the White edition that had the statue and the Exclusive map pack, I paid the extra £15 so I could get the Model and map pack while he got the video game (which I'll play while he's at work for the week as I normally do). However as the map pack was inside the box of the game and not the packing box of the white edition my brother claims it has his saying that it probably come with every edition of the game so its rightfully his... I've shown him the list of things that are included in the normal and White editions of the game and the normal did not include the extra content while the white edition does... so it should be rightfully mine... he still claims that it isn't and that it's rightfully his.

I just need to know if any one got this content in the normal edition so I can show my brother your message and maybe that will prove whether the content is mine or his. I hope this is answered soon and not just ignored... I paid £15 for this I don't want skanking, I knew it's just a little map pack and it will be on Xbox live in a couple of weeks but it's the principle of the matter.

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"IrishMorn"
If Adon and Sagat step in....ah, what the hell, I'll get drunk and join in on that one.

I got one exclusive map for preordering it one day before it came out.  It was in the box, though, that's the weird thing.  Why would they ship two separate copies for preorders and in-stores?  I think you're right in that the exclusive map is in all copies, but I don't think it's the same as the Limited Edition map.

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Sovvolf:

Just a little question here for people who paid for Assassin Creed... Did you get the exclusive map pack in the normal unspecial edition of the game? Me and my brother are at odds ends about the exclusive pack, see he sent me down today to get the game with £40 for it, and I caught a glimpse at the White edition that had the statue and the Exclusive map pack, I paid the extra £15 so I could get the Model and map pack while he got the video game (which I'll play while he's at work for the week as I normally do). However as the map pack was inside the box of the game and not the packing box of the white edition my brother claims it has his saying that it probably come with every edition of the game so its rightfully his... I've shown him the list of things that are included in the normal and White editions of the game and the normal did not include the extra content while the white edition does... so it should be rightfully mine... he still claims that it isn't and that it's rightfully his. I just need to know if any one got this content in the normal edition so I can show my brother your message and maybe that will prove whether the content is mine or his. I hope this is answered soon and not just ignored... I paid £15 for this I don't want skanking, I knew it's just a little map pack and it will be on Xbox live in a couple of weeks but it's the principle of the matter.

If you paid the additional amount for the master assassin/ white edition, the maps belong to you, here in the U.S a pre-order from game stop of the normal edition came with one map, not two, I got the master Assassin's/ White edition as well, and it came with two maps  that were inside of my game package, not inside my box set,  the soundtrack extra content dvd was in my game packaging as well and it is exclusive to the Master Assassin edition/ white edition. you could allow him to have one of your maps, but they are yours.

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Played a little Assassin's Creed II in between LBP on the PSP. I wasn't going to buy it, becasue the first one was frankly shite. But after the reviews, I caved in and prepared for the worst and...

...Actually, it's not bad. Not brilliant, probably not even 'really ', but they've rectified the major shortcoming of the first one i.e - they've remembered to put a game in there this time. I'd say it's interesting rather than exciting, but there's a fair amount to do in there now with decent variety, and a cohesive story that leads you from section to section. It all makes a bit more sense now - whatever you're doing in the missions is tied up with a decent narrative progression that's enough to make you want to see what happens next.

Actually, the biggest problems with Assassin's Creed II are
1 - Batman : Arkham Asylum, which is basically the same sort of thing done about as as it's going to get. ACII is quite , Batman is superb.

and

2 - inFamous, who's free-running frankly goes to the toilet all over ACII. This is supposed to be a trademark feature of the AC series and it is, again, quite I suppose. Flows nicely, and it actually feels a little less like a driving game with height issues than the original. despite his tenancy to hurl himself directly away from blisteringly high walls with no hope of salvation. Now, I know Cole also does this from time to time in inFamous, but he's a double-hard electric *** who can get away with that sort of thing. Ezio in AC, on the other hand, is a bit of a feeble-minded idiot who sneaks in places, secretly shoves 9" of pointy tuscan steel between the ribs of the unsuspecting, then inexplicably suddenly starts ranting at the top of his voice about family, revenge, betrayal, and how he's just snuck in to shove 9" of pointy tuscan steel between someone's ribs. Then looks a bit shocked when the local constabulary notice him. Frankly, if he hurls himself into space halfway up an enormously tall tower and inadvertently invents the pizza, it's going to be seen as Darwinism at work.

But as an experiment I booted up inFamous for a quick spin round the city, and it felt exhilarating. Faster, smoother, better world design, more heart-in-mouth, Brown-trousers, just-made-it moments and so on.
So again, ACII is quite here. But inFamous is superb.


So yeah. Damning with faint praise, but ACII is quite . I'd even recommend it to people wanting a solid game to play over Christmas, because it's hugely improved over the bland, empty, repetitive original.
It's just that everything it does has been done better. Not necessarily massively so, but, well... play Batman first. You'll like batman.

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You know initially I felt the same way you did about Ezio, however his first assassination took place @ 17 years of age. as you play and grow as an assassin, you will notice growth and maturity in him as well. I personally have really enjoyed ACII with all the memory glitches ect. I don't want to spoil it for those who are yet to play it, but it get's better as you go along. kick A$$ game.

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