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    Zero Punctuation: Risen 3: Titan Lords - Pirate ArrrrRPG

    Probably in 2025 when 0 ad have finished its alpha phase and moved into beta. Lord knows the AAA publishers despise the genre for some reason. Don't worry, Risen 3 mostly continues that tradition. The only difference is I couldn't beat the final boss at first because I'm not very good, but...
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    Hacker Made $1,000 A Day from Stolen League of Legends Accounts

    Don't you know? It's stating unbiased information. Like finding Call of Duty in the room of a school shooter is just stating unbiased information.
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    Why Skyrim sucked for me and how i could have enjoyed it more.

    If there's one thing I really hate, it's people who think the longbow was a wonder weapon because the English won the battles of Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt. I'm not in this discussion to win and I'm willing to concede longbows might have advantages, but that requires a battle mentioned...
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    Why Skyrim sucked for me and how i could have enjoyed it more.

    Yeah, I'm just pointing out that TES Dwarves are one the least cliche races in modern fantasy.
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    Why Skyrim sucked for me and how i could have enjoyed it more.

    While the TES Orcs aren't terribly far from cliche (though they don't fit perfectly in either of the two main orc cliches, Warhammer/Tolkien Chaotic Hordes and Warcraft Noble Savages), to claim that TES dwarves are cliche is flat out wrong. Cliche Dwarves: Short, greedy, drunks, master...
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    Why Skyrim sucked for me and how i could have enjoyed it more.

    I didn't think I jumped into the middle of argument. I've read this thread since the beginning. With that clarified, does SajuukKhar judge Bethesda too highly? Yes, they are not the second coming of Christ and I prefer the time I do spend with the Witcher series to the time I spent with TES...
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    Why Skyrim sucked for me and how i could have enjoyed it more.

    SajuukKhar, try to read up on this study: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/. Now try to imagine how your discussion with someone who for some reason hates Bethesda (presumably because Fallout 3 wasn't very good and he holds a grudge against the...
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    Study: Two-Thirds of Men Prefer Electric Shock to Being Alone With Thoughts

    I hope that the results are drastically skewed by the small sample size. Still, as someone can spend (and have spent) several hours doing nothing but thinking, the results are a little bit frightening. Even taking the small sample size into account.
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    Stronghold HD- Cracks in the Wall

    As a long-time fan of the Stronghold series and owner of every (non-browser based) game in it, I would actually say that "Stronghold 2 was never finished and Stronghold 3 was never started" seems like an apt description. The original game is the classic that introduced the best gameplay in the...
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    38 Studios Auction Raises Just $320,000

    Is there any news about who bought the Rise series? I'm hoping for a sequel, no matter how unlikely it may be.
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    Jimquisition: Copyright War

    There's only one correct response to this: Jim Sterling mentioned that Pewdiepie is getting exclusives from some companies who block everyone else, while the only video I know of which was specifically targeted by a person rather than through automated bots, was TotalBiscuit's review of Garry's...
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    Rise of Nations: Tactics Discovered On 38 Studios Servers

    Yeah, I really the economic and city building aspect compared to other RTS (the comparison to a RT Civ is quite apt), but I really would have liked if the units weren't just rock, paper and scissors in different skins.
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    Rise of Nations: Tactics Discovered On 38 Studios Servers

    Which strategy fan doesn't? It seems like the entire Historical RTS genre has been discarded. I can't remember any new games in the genre being released for a very long time. No RoN, no AoE, no EE, no Cossacks, and both Dawn of the Modern World and Rise and Fall never got sequels. And while the...
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    Gamers who are' terrible at games'

    It's possible if you treat games more like digital playgrounds than competetive sports. I know I'm not the only one who have fond memories of building extensive cities in AoK:TC and still remembers all the cheats from 12 years ago, despite never finding out if I can take on a normal or higher AI...
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    Feed Dump: Spaghetti Warehouse Warehouse

    Not really for Earl and Marshall. Earl has been a title of Nobility since the saxon invasion (spelled Eorl prior to the Norman invasion) and a given name since the 19th century. I don't know when Marshall became a given name (didn't even know it was one until this thread), but as a title...