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    A Glimpse at League of Legends' Champions

    Strategy Game Mecho Wars Goes Online

    Creat Declares Mushroom Wars On PSN

    Command & Conquer 4 Goes To Junktown

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    Image of That mop mutant from NES. That mop mutant from NES.
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at League of Legends' Champions
    Yea, I bit on the pre order awhile back and messed around with it for a few days during beta. I've applied the preorder/retail code but have yet to play a single game. Too lazy to even fire up the .exe.

    Has it drastically changed?
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    Xagest promoted this comment Edited by That mop mutant from NES. at 11/03/09 12:38 PM That mop mutant from NES. was starred That mop mutant from NES. was unstarred
    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/03/09

    @That mop mutant from NES.: Depending on when you preordered, there's a handful of new champions release, a couple of new items, and a new 3v3 map. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of ebobwright ebobwright
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at League of Legends' Champions
    This is a great game if you like to have four strangers yell obscenities at you for not instinctively knowing how to play like they did when they first started...
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    11/03/09

    @ebobwright: Look through the practice games. The more... civilized members of the community occasionally hold games for rookies to help people get started. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of harPOONedwhALE03 harPOONedwhALE03
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at League of Legends' Champions
    Yeah that's what I want... A "Free-to-play, highly addicting PC game", recipe for disaster...if you ask me #leagueoflegends
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    11/03/09

    @harPOONedwhALE03:
    Only if you have a job, a wife, and kids #leagueoflegends
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    Image of latecustomer latecustomer
    11/03/09

    @harPOONedwhALE03: "Oh, it's free-to-play. Buuut... if you want THIS doo-hickey, it'll only cost you five bucks. Oh, that whatchamacallit? That's another 3."

    Okay, snarkiness aside, I loved and played a lot of DotA. The "official" All-Stars version was very well executed and provided hours of fun. I'm sure that League of Legends will be no different. Still, I'm staying clear of this game to make sure I don't fall into the micro transaction and time sink trap. Thankfully, Modern Warfare 2 will help... by... um... taking up my time... damn! #leagueoflegends
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    Xagest promoted this comment latecustomer was starred latecustomer was unstarred
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    11/03/09

    @latecustomer:
    The cash shop is by no way required. The Riot guys have been pretty adamant with their "We don't sell power" mantra, and there are a lot of senior members in the community that will hold them to that. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of magnakaiser magnakaiser
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at League of Legends' Champions
    Is the pricing/grinding format to actually unlock all the content still all crazy like it looked from the start? That was my big deterrent from this game, I don't like the idea of a game like this where someone is inherently statistically better than me because they have more stuff.

    The fact all the heroes aren't unlocked without paying/grinding also really bugged me from what I read... But this may have changed, so I'm curious. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/03/09

    @magnakaiser:
    They're reworking the shop right now. I can assure you the prices will be much more reasonable when the shop comes backs.

    During open beta, the prices were set high to test that the shop functioned properly (people would be more upset if you set the price low, then raised it than if you set high and lowered it). #leagueoflegends
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    Image of digital0verdose.spam digital0verdose.spam
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at League of Legends' Champions
    It's an Ok game but sufferes from the same elitest attitude that DotA (Defense of the Ancients) has encouraged.
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    SpishackCola has the CHORTLES! promoted this comment digital0verdose.spam was starred digital0verdose.spam was unstarred
    Image of SpishackCola has the CHORTLES! SpishackCola has the CHORTLES!
    11/03/09

    @digital0verdose.spam:
    It wasn't too bad at first, but now that it's open beta/release the floodgates of elitist river have opened. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/03/09

    @digital0verdose.spam:
    Believe me, a lot of us are trying to work on that, but it's hard when dealing with internet people. My suggestion is to visit us in the IRC channel and make some friends so you don't have to do PUG play. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of Brian Crecente Brian Crecente
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at League of Legends' Champions
    No, it's free to play, but they're selling a limited edition copy. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of NeöStarr NeöStarr
    11/03/09

    @Brian Crecente: Do you know what's so limited about it? Any goodies in the box? #leagueoflegends
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    SpishackCola has the CHORTLES! promoted this comment NeöStarr was starred NeöStarr was unstarred
    Image of SpishackCola has the CHORTLES! SpishackCola has the CHORTLES!
    11/03/09

    @NeöStarr:
    1 or 2 champion skins, some item mall cash, and one or two more things. I'm sure they have a link to it on the LoL website. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/03/09

    @NeöStarr:
    [signup.leagueoflegends.com]

    Limited Edition Annie Skin (with bondage teddy bear)
    10 dollars in the cash shop
    4 runes for the rune book (basically equipment)
    Automatically unlock 20 of the champions (so you don't have to earn the points to unlock them) #leagueoflegends
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    Image of Antonio Javier Antonio Javier
    11/03/09

    @Xagest: I was just at Target the other day and theirs included a LE Kayle skin. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/03/09

    @Antonio Javier: Ah, right, I forgot that the retail box is different from their online box. #leagueoflegends
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    Image of puffa469 puffa469
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Glimpse at League of Legends' Champions
    It's free to play but it just went on sale?

    So the game cost money, but there is no monthly subscription required to play it? #leagueoflegends
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    Xagest promoted this comment puffa469 was starred puffa469 was unstarred
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    11/03/09

    @puffa469:
    The game doesn't cost anything, and there is no monthly subscription.

    The price is for the collector's pack, which gives you a bunch of goodies for the game.
    [signup.leagueoflegends.com] #leagueoflegends
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    Image of Malfunktion v2 Malfunktion v2
    11/03/09

    In reply to Strategy Game Mecho Wars Goes Online
    This game's units look like they were drawn by Dr. Suess on LSD. That and the choice of Toejam & Earl colors really put me off from playing it for too long. Good attempt, but it's no comparison to AW in my opinion. #mechowars
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    Image of emag emag
    11/03/09

    In reply to Strategy Game Mecho Wars Goes Online
    I really wanted to like Mecho Wars, given I enjoy the Advance Wars titles, but the art and storyline/dialog are really, really off-putting. Still for $0.99, I'm not out much. #mechowars
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    Image of ceptri ceptri
    11/03/09

    @emag: Totally agree. The game was really not fun to play for some reason. And I am a huge advance wars fan. #mechowars
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    Image of gordiehowe5 gordiehowe5
    10/14/09

    In reply to Creat Declares Mushroom Wars On PSN
    Looks like they did everything they could to rip off PixelJunk Monsters' style while changing up enough with the gameplay to not be a complete rip-off.
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    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    10/14/09

    In reply to Creat Declares Mushroom Wars On PSN
    This game looks like shiitake.
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    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    10/14/09

    @Yossarian: Is this PS3 only, or can you play it on the Playstation Portabello?
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    Image of Slagathorian Slagathorian
    10/14/09

    @Yossarian: The Morel of the story is yes, but where does this question stem from?
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    Image of haran_elessar haran_elessar
    10/14/09

    @Yossarian: PS3 only but it'd be cool if at least all digital PSP games were compatible with the PS3.
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    Yossarian promoted this comment haran_elessar was starred haran_elessar was unstarred
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    10/14/09

    @haran_elessar: Did you lose your funny-bone in a freak hamster wheel accident as a child?
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    Image of Narsil Narsil
    10/14/09

    @Slagathorian: Keep your caps on, everyone. I don't think this will culture much interest.

    I appreciate you all being such fun guys, though.
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    Image of mariospants mariospants
    10/14/09

    @Narsil: the game looks like it will be a lot of fungi, but I'm not sure I can spore the time or that it's worth all of the truffel.
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    Image of TheMightyEthan TheMightyEthan
    10/14/09

    In reply to Creat Declares Mushroom Wars On PSN
    Is it sad that a small PSN game has just added to my desire for a PS3? We've got Heavy Rain, The Last Guardian, Infamous, and now Mushroom Wars? Oh well, a fun game is a fun game.
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    dd528 promoted this comment TheMightyEthan was starred TheMightyEthan was unstarred
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    10/14/09

    @TheMightyEthan: PixelJunk: Monsters is still the best thing I've played on my PS3, so no, not really.
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    Image of Omnimon Omnimon
    10/14/09

    @dd528: Can you please explain to me the draw of tower defense games? Is there something buried deeper in there that I'm just not taking the time to get to?

    PJ:M is the only one that I've played for any amount of time (all of ~5 hours, maybe), and it just seems like you attempt a strategy at the 'waves', and pretty quickly you learn what to do with each type of enemy. Then you have to execute more quickly as the levels go on. Then you have weapon interaction and placement of said weapons to round out your strategy, including weapon destruction to gain resources and create other weapons more applicable to the upcoming wave, or to your strategy.

    In other words, a lot of trial and error, because it eventually just comes down to execution and being able to execute one of what might be a couple of strategies within X amount of time.

    Did I get it? Is that what all tower defense games are? If that's the case, I'm guessing I need to take my ass back to the stone age and play platformers and fighting games. :(
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    Image of Losstarot Losstarot
    10/14/09

    In reply to Creat Declares Mushroom Wars On PSN
    The Tactician mushroom holding the sign that says "That way" makes me laugh :D
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    Curse lily promoted this comment Losstarot was starred Losstarot was unstarred
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    10/14/09

    @Losstarot: yep, him and the strategian made me laugh as well ^_^
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    Image of searanox searanox
    10/13/09

    In reply to Command & Conquer 4 Goes To Junktown
    It's called Junktown because they're stealing the name from Fallout.

    [fallout.wikia.com]

    Really, Fallout 1 and 2 should be compulsory playing for every single person in existence.
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    10/13/09

    @searanox: and their mothers! Ha!

    (promoted)
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/13/09

    In reply to Command & Conquer 4 Goes To Junktown
    if they can improve on the mistakes of C&C 3 where no matter what faction the player was using the objectives were always the same i'll be interested. nothing is more annoying than having a NOD mission with objectives like 'launch a full scale frontal assault on a GDI base with a 25 mins.' hint to game devs: make sure your mission objectives sync with the game lore for each faction please.
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