Pretty much, I wouldn't even say "half" Its more like watching a three part pilot for a twenty part miniseries, skimming through two random episodes in the middle then going straight for the ending. Its probably on par if not worse then the infamous CD2 of Xenogears. Sad part is, that otherwise the game was actually pretty damn good. I honestly didn't get why everyone hated it until I suddenly hit the end of the game.

Yes, it does. The hardest part will be around level 30 where you get paired with maxed out players but don't have the rune builds yet. Problem with mobas is that you can't just pick a champion and play. If you lock too early you'll get shouted at, if you don't build your champion accordingly you'll get shouted at,  If you fall behind you'll get shouted at, if you don't do the exact thing your class should be doing at any given point in the game, you guessed it, you'll get shouted at. Its not that the shouting is always unjustified, its the way its conveyed that's the problem. These games are based around surgeon like teamwork precision, so after 45 or so minutes of struggling tension tends to be high.

I wouldn't underestimate iOS, Android and the like. These things are starting to take on the role of the PC of the handheld world. So far its mostly games you can play on the jon but eventually we'll start to see more AAA releases for these things. Get on board early and you just might make it big.

I got into it a while back, got to level 30 but I was never really that great at it.


Sounds about right, mobas have a reputation for having some of the worst gaming communities you can find. Its usually a mix of trying to push the blame onto your team and general ego stroking. Sometimes someone actually does deserve it, but its usually blown way out of proportion. Not everyone is like that, but these games tend to bring out incredible rage out of people.

Could be worse, the dude could have been a Brony.

Taking a rest from playing Fear Effect, will probably beat it on the weekend if I have time though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TlSshPH2as
Only in Japan folks, only in Japan... I mean seriously, where else would they come up with a contraption like this.

You may as well just hide it until the update is ready. No point in having it up if its going to be mostly out of date.

That's the one thing it won't be. They have so much assets they can reuse from the previous games that this is pretty much a very safe and cheap way of making some extra cash. If anything good comes of this, it may be additional funding for shelved projects that aren't potentially terrible.

IV was great, and I didn't really get why it got so much heat...until I got through the lengthy opening and unlocked my ship, that's when game decided to wrap up with next to no events in between.

How could I forget about Fallout...Feel kind of silly now.

Sounds about right, BG is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Black Isle. Can't really recall anything else they made that wasn't D&D based (bar Lion Heart or whatever it was called, could still have been D&D under the hood though).

Wasn't Black Isle originally connected to Bioware? But yeah, if its BI in name only, then its a little too early to get excited. Still, potentially having Bioware quality products without the EA factor is a rather appealing perspective.

Square used to do that by making a new game and calling it Final Fantasy++. VIII was panned, and yet they didn't feel like blasting us with a bazillion direct sequels until they got one right. One of my personal big offenders in FFXIII was the battle system and its going to take a lot more than adding a few QTEs to make up for it. Until they change that particular element, I really don't care much for the series.

Man, prestige modes are the kings of extending a games lifespan with minimum effort. Start over and reach max level again to get this shiny sprite next to your name. Do it again to get a different, slightly bigger and shinier sprite!
Ah well, I know the update and D3 in general has a lot more going for it than portrait frames, but I do find it amusing.

Something just seems off about Dust. Going by the trailers, the game seems to be taking itself seriously, yet its filled with humanoid anime animal characters. Something about it seems creepy, as in "Furry fan service" creepy. No idea if the dude outsourced the graphics though, if he did it all himself then maybe it was just a matter of how much work it required to animate everything. Im pretty sure it was a lot easier to draw than human characters would have been.