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Denver, 10:15 PM
Thu Nov 26
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07:40 AM
League of Legends is a DotA spin off. Casual DotA players will probably enjoy it but more serious players will prefer Heroes of Newerth which is pretty much DotA 2.0. If you enjoy DotA and aren't 100% opposed to some things changing (ie losing some of the hero base, new heroes, some item changes but largely the items are exact ports, some changes in the skills of heroes ported over) then you'll enjoy HoN. It might be tough to get a beta invite but if you can track one down it'll be worth it. If not it's probably not that far from release now, they just added two more heroes making the total 59 heroes and it's predicted the game will launch with 60 heroes.
So about another month for the last hero then probably 2-3 more months of beta for balancing and tweaks.
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The first captured the spirit of the Warhammer 40k universe in all it's bloody, violent, glory; the second sort of turned it into these small-scale skirmishes... which just seems like it misses the point.
07:00 AM
Having said that, I'd love to see a 40k game featuring a comprehensive roster of armies and units and gameplay taken straight from the rulebook, rule for rule, stat for stat. That would be epic.
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And because I'm a sucker for it, I'd love the largest scale to include voice commands. Ordering a few squads to advance with a right click while speaking the command for a titan bombardment of the building or CP I'm advancing on would guarantee me buying a new PC to cope.
10:25 AM
In DOW2, the depiction of Space Marines (and therefore other races) is far more accurate. A single SM really can take on hordes of enemies and although it is a smaller scale, which is a bit of a shame, it enabled Relic to steer truer to the reference material.
05:08 PM
And the battles in 40k involve thousands, if not millions of soldiers in battles on a planetary scale - not small engagements.
For it to be "accurate", they'd never be able to add the Imperial Guard because their equivalent troops would fill the whole map.
02:56 AM
All the games i've downloaded off steam recently have run on full spec wonderfully.
I'm becoming a PC gamer I think, and a lot of people are coming over to that side just because of the myths that you have to upgrade every day for £1000000 are dispelling.
I have my PC for RTS, FPS and puzzle games, then my ps3 for others.
If I want to play a wii titles I can just visit my girlfriend and play at hers as mines still broken at the moment.
All together, I think I've got it pretty sweet this gen.
11/25/09
Also, I played Zuma for the first time last night and uh... good god that was one fun puzzle game.
There's a decent number of games missing from the list and well... some games that shouldn't be on the list like Wolfenstein.
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I guess it depends on what sites you frequent, but unless Kotaku is your only source for information in the world, that's not true at all.
Also, I heard the LoL community is completely impenetrable to anyone who wasn't already an ranking expert at DOTA. T/F?
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Oh, yeah, dang. Well, that's what you get when you put a pronoun and the noun to which it refers in separate paragraphs.
11/25/09
The single player is great however and that is the one and only reason to buy the game. Although you may want to wait until after Christmas for it to hit the bargain bin of $20 bucks.
11/25/09
DOWII
Empire: Total War
Dragon Age: Origins
Stay away from:
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
With no dedicated servers, multiplayer games have been on the deathbed since release, rumours suggest Codemasters are working on adding dedis back in. No freelook in vehicles killed it for me though. A military shooter that puts you in a neck brace when in the driving seat is not a good thing. Get Arma II instead. At this point it's just as buggy as OpFlash (better than it was but still buggy) and other than the lack of polish, it's a better game.
11/25/09
Game dropped off the top 40 played charts faster than a rock from space.
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Still working on my first play through and I haven't been disappointed yet.
Other than that, pretty slim pickings it seems.
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And as far as Google tells me, it's not even a cut and paste job. Well done, sir/ma'am.
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Including tau would totally make me overlook this and make me play this game.
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They took a great idea for the RTS game - focusing on combat and micromanagement - and spoiled it with certain game mechanics.
Certain game mechanics that make some units hard counters to other units. For those who don't know what that means, it means rock paper scissors.
I hope they overhaul the multiplayer in this expansion for soft counters over hard counters. That would mean certain units are effective against certain units, but superior micromanagement can even the odds for the player with the paper vs the one with the scissors.
09/29/09
Like I said though I'm not fully in-touch with how all the races work or their story so I may be wrong.
09/29/09
Space marines are also more efficient in tactics - while chaos is just that, chaos.
I'm sure the only thing chaos marines and space marines will have in common in this game will be the basic marine squad.
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