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[John Galt]

[uebermann]

[gla22]

In high school me and my brother played WoW and we shared the same character. I have no idea how one person could have the time to play that game full time.

[Spider]

I take back what I said about Hearthstone. Game is pay to win, and I'm too cheap to pay for virtual cards. Had a nice long insomnia fueled Hearthstone session last night, and its to the point where if you don't have a deck full of epic and legendary cards you aren't even in the running. Got slammed.

All kinds of fun at lower levels though, where everyone is playing with the same level cards.

[fstarcstar]

[John Galt]

i hate you steam.

and i love you.

i picked up space engineers. and it's f**k amazing. it's still in alpha but they are adding stuff constantly.

think minecraft, think space asteroids. but it's not constrained by blocks. sure, you use blocks to make your mining vessels, but they have angles and the asteroids are not blocky at all. you create things en masse through conveyor systems connecting refinerys and assemblers (3D printers). you can playwith gravity generators to make things work, use rotors and wheels, and fire guns and missle launchers. the single player is a bit sparse right now after like 100hrs -- there's convoys to go raid or something, or you can just build your asteroid mining base and ships galore -- but i think multiplayer it could be amazing

[The Comrade]

john do you run a map/server/what the f**k ever? i'll gladly crash shit into other shit with you.

[John Galt]

when i created my world, which is being run locally, i set it so steam friends can join. i would love to set up a server for this, just keep things going all the time. i set it up with default except i made refining 3x faster. everything else is set to 'realistic', but uranium doesn't take as god awful long. i picked the 'asteroids' start, with the beat up ship to begin with, the ship that actually is pretty perfect to start with (except for its lack of energy). building stuff still does take a while -- i hope they make robot welders. this game has so much possibilities

[uebermann]

I played Wildstar over the weekend. I'm not sure how its supposedly to be vastly different than any other MMO out there. I ran around, did quests, leveled, got new gear from quests, did some crafting, etc etc. It was pretty much exactly like every other mmo. No real skill involved, just button mashing. Its not that it wasn't fun, but it just wasn't different. Felt like I was just playing WoW again honestly.

It was a very polished game and I ran into very few bugs but it just didn't make me think "Wow! This game is amazing!" Others in chat were talking about subbing for it (as it is sub based) and how they hope people role-play. Um, this game was extremely goofy. Don't get me wrong, I liked that, but this is not an MMO that you RP in. It was not a typical fantasy MMO that was serious (with a few small, subtle jokes in the quests). The game was flat out silly. Purposefully.

At this point, I just think people are desperate for something different. I have a hard time seeing Wildstar surviving as a sub based game. They'll probably end up going f2p just like SWTOR.

I've spent a bit of time in EQ Landmark but honestly crafting just isn't my thing. I did do a bit of building but it was just your basic messing around, learning the tools and such. Its fun building stuff but its still pretty buggy. Lots of texture bleeding and client crashes.

Got Watch_Dogs for free with my GTX 770 I just bought so I may give it a try since its free and all.

Otherwise was playing EQ1 a bit, mostly just messin around. Updated GW2 last night and played it again. It was entertaining at least.

[Saz]

Game of the Year easily