The Glade 4.0

No barbarians with menacing glares, giant axes battlescarred adorning their battlescarred backs as if they had just coming from battle approaching you and saying "LOL!"

No mages who look they are wizened beyond their years and have fought many a dragon with the power of their intellect suddenly bursting out with, "U NUB! LRN 2 PLAY!"

No lithe rogues, shady looking and looking ready to cut your purse or slit your throat yelling at the top of their lungs, "chuck Norris doesn't push himself up... he pushes the earth down!"


And people wonder why I prefer to lose myself in these single player games.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

numbuk... but how can you not miss playing a fantasy game with ~4.3 million Drizzt or Raistlin respelling attmpts; or a rogue named *anything involving stabbing and eyes* ?

Or the people telling you that you need to have Kingslayer to do a nonheroic Forge of Souls?

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

You guys are both dead on. Was wondering why I was loving playing "The Witcher" so much since I recently quit WoW.

Now I know where the extra bit of joy is coming from.

(also, I think I will be revisiting oblivion +mods once I'm done with witcher. Really enjoyed roaming in oblivion, but as soon as I started to do the main questline it started to suck. Was that a common experience?)

Any more you can relate about "The Witcher?" I'll need something to keep me busy during my summer break.

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The Dude abides.

Bad *** game, older though (one of the last things Rivermist got me) and more along the lines of Dragon Age but darker. Too short imho though.

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The Witcher is a fantastic game. Very dark, but there is some good humor in there too. The end was kind of a shock, to be honest. I can't wait until the Witcher 2 comes out next month.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

http://store.steampowered.com/app/20900/
19 bucks on Steam right now. I've found a couple good mods for it to make it nice and pretty on the newer systems:

Hi-Res Game Textures
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-witcher-texturen-mod

Hi-Res Character/Monster Textures
http://www.moddb.com/mods/witchercharactermodels

As for more about the game, I'm really enjoying it. I've only ever played the Enhanced Director's Edition, I hear the voice over work in the original was not very good, it's been entirely re-recorded. As for the actual game, the storyline is original and interesting, the combat is pretty good (I'm only about 15 hours or so in), the crafting and stat system is enjoyable. I really like the morality in the game, unlike most other RPG's (that have a good or bad choice), this one seems to just give you a choice, and you deal with the outcome. Lots more shades of gray.

Also, poker dice is a fun way to make money.

I guess if you compare it to a 100+ hr RPG it might be a bit short, but when most games are coming in at 10 hours I'm at 15 and just got to the first major city. (Plus the enhanced edition has another 5+ hours of additional missions they added after the main quest.)

It took me roughly 35-40 hours to finish. But I ran around a lot sleeping with hookers and getting drunk.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

+1

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I think he means in the game, Hop.

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The Dude abides.

Oh... -1

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I'm going to have to pick up a copy of this for my new in-the-office video game to pass the time while I'm listening in on absurd conference calls and have run out of productive things to do.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Skyrim certainly looks to be a very pretty game. I may have to give it a shot.

As far as Oblivion goes, I've tried to play it twice now, and each time, I got bored or fed up with the leveling system, and abandoned it. I know we had a "Recommended Mods" thread on one of the previous versions of the Glade. Anyone care to pitch in on something like that here? I really, really hated the leveling system, and I know there are mods that fix that, but not sure which ones are the best to get. I'd like to try it again, because it seemed interesting, but I would need a few tweaks in order to finish it this time.

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"I Live, I Love, I Slay, and I Am Content."
- Conan the Barbarian

IIRC Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul was the popular mod to fix the leveling system? Its been year by now though, so I could be wrong or something better could have arisen.

http://www.oxm.co.uk/27712/elder-scroll ... -xbox-360/

Cool preview of the game.

Some cool things the article talks about:

- All places you explore, including caves, are done by hand. No more deva-vu corridors.

- Combat has been reworked completely. Your swings actually feel like they are solidly connecting with your opponents weapons, armor, and flesh.

- One mouse button will be for your left hand, the other for your right hand. So you can block and attack at the same time. You can have a sword in one hand while dishing out pain with a spell. Or you can load up the same spell in both hands and unleash a mega Hadouken powerful version of the spell.

- The game is HUGE.

- Leveling up will be more fun and make more sense. No more hopping everywhere to increase a stat.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

I love Oblivion, but the problem is every time I get the urge to play it, I start out by downloading a bunch of mods. After a couple hours of research on new mods and which ones I want to install, I have to get everything together and working and by that time (if I even get to that point) the urge has gone. Then it comes back a year later but all those old mods are outdated and theres a bunch of new ones to look into. If I just had it set up the way I like it and could just click an icon and play... I'd probably be playing right now.

I find this symptom with a lot of PC games, especially older ones. I spend a lot more time modding and updating and changing than I do actually playing. Might be one reason I'm more apt to head for the console first these days.

This is the reason behind one of the rules I go by when looking for PC games: If it is only playable with mods, I am not interested.

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Grenade 3 Sports Drink. It's fire in the hole.. Your hole!

Wow. If the game can live up to half the claims made in that article, it will be amazing.

I beat Oblivion completely modless. I don't really see the problem. Sure, it has idiosyncracies but every game has them.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Collector's Edition revealed.

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2011/08/0 ... announced/

I refused to pay 150 bucks for Star Wars: TOR collector's edition. But the second I saw the price of this CE (same price, 150 bucks), I accepted it without hesitation. Maybe because I've dropped 200 dollars at a time for Hulk statues in the past. Maybe because that dragon statue looks badass. Or maybe because I am more excited for this game than Star Wars. I don't know.

But it will be mine. Oh yes. It will be mine.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Does it include the map??

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I would assume. Oblivion included maps even with the standard editions. Now, if it is a cloth map, then I want it all the more.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

I'll definitely defer to the superior, erm, "wisdom" of the Internets before venturing to buy this game for console. My typin' bawks isn't nearly as powerful as me eksbawks. I recall trying in vain to enjoy Oblivion on console, only to eventually realize that the PC version offered endless hours of fun with the proper mods. Granted, a game should never require mods to work properly, but it was still fun in the end. A similar thing happened with Sacred 2. The console version was fun (funish, in Oblivion's case), but the PC version had so much more available to it.

Honestly, methinks Oblivion's downfall was that its leveling system seemed like it would feel more at home in a multiplayer/cooperative game, and both of those words are something that send both Bethesda and its less enjoyable fanboys off to their sheds to rummage around for pitchforks.

Skyrim, though. That does look tasty, and I will grab hold of it should it prove either workable on my laptop or not-crap on console. Random encounters with pissed-off ogre-throwing dragons? I'll take that.