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Witcher, finally. Suitably awesome; should've been longer.

Okay, this one looks novel. No Man's Sky is next-gen EVE? Looks a little like it.

And telltale's also making GoT

They severely overestimate how much people care about Donkey Kong records.

And they just unveiled Tell Tale Games is making a Borderlands game. Huh.

The VGX has started streaming now, with some preshow stuff on Thief. For some reason, Spike isn't airing their own awards show, but they have a stream on their website.

No, although on the livestream smokejumper did say something along the lines of, "we're going to have water, it's just not finished yet".

Agreed on going 1 or 101; for the love of God, don't drive to LA through the San Joaquin Valley (can't even remember what fucking highway that is), it's a *slightly* quicker drive, but you'll want to blow your brains out an hour into it.

Speaking of EQ2, it's odd that sarnaks didn't make the cut as a large race, given that the fae made it on the small race poll. They were taller than iksars, at least.

To sum up the video, they said nights won't be pitch black (which we already knew), but mob populations and behavior will differ based on the day-night cycle. There will be places where night will be more dangerous than day (or vice versa), but it'll largely be the case that content will simply...

My jaw used to do something akin to this. Every now and then, something would just sort of slip out of place on the right hinge, and would cause it to click when I opened my mouth, or would even slide far enough out of place to lock my jaw shut entirely. Was a massive jimmy rustler. Doesn't...

Oh yeah, I like the spear for them; it fits well with the whole primitive hunter vibe that BLs give off. The flail/shield, on the other hand, has me scratching my head a bit. But, we'll see how it works out, I guess.

Hey, what do ya know, something useful onreddit Largely another article on Landmark, with some basic EQN info tossed in, but there's a few new tidbits. Sounds like, at least for EQNL, the bulk of the monetization will come from skimming off of the Player Studio stuff; hopefully that carries...

Indeed. Having spent the last couple months with nothing but SOE's "marketing," it's easy to forget that there's a game with legitimate potential behind the pointless roundtable questions.

Eh. The grand absurdity of the roundtable has been that they've been asking for feedback on things that they've already settled internally. Actually asking for opinions at a point in which said opinions could be taken into account during development is a nice change of pace. We'll see if...

Hey, what do you know, when they actually show the game, it looks pretty decent. Wish we could've gotten a proper look at the footage that was playing in the background of the Georgeson interview, with the actual gameplay going on, though. Hopefully those dates they released are in fact them...

Just got back from seeing it, and I'm basically going to echo everyone else, so I'll keep it brief: It's good; better than Thor 1, maybe even one of the better Marvel movies, period. Good action. Cap cameo was awesome. Loki stole the show. See it. See it now.

"Hate" is a strong word, but yeah, my two major complaints were that it felt like they weren't able to mesh the story and the history together in a sufficiently organic manner, and it felt a little like the game was suffering from feature bloat, with too many game features which didn't hang...

Well played, Fedor.

It'd still be better than Omeed +one random dev staring ackwardly at a camera, pretending to explain gameplay features to one another.

They also mention that instantaneous travel would exist, but be extremely limited (hopefully things like wizard spires and druid rings, but not much else). All in all, sounds pretty much like what I want out of a travel system, so I'm satisfied in that regard.

Well, at least they're showing gameplay in the dev diaries now. Progress!! They might even be ready to have videos that are mostly gameplay by the time EQNL goes to beta. Oh yeah, and am I the only one who thinks they need to slow the run speed down a bit, based on that video? He looked...

Left-leaning Independent for me. I suppose I rationally ought to just register 'Democrat' and be done with it, but I've never been much for joining clubs.

Yeah, shorten the snout, shrink the pauldrons, and it'll look fine. And since dark elves also got brought up here: make it so they all have the weird dragon-eyes from the concept art, and make it nearly impossible for them to have that vaguely pleasant look on their face (dark elves should...

The latest roundtable is at least a little interesting, asking how much an effect night should have (largely in a mob population Kithicor-sort-of-way). Shockingly, even Butler's in favor of it having an effect; I went into that link expecting to see yet another "denial of service" out of him.

Landmark questions? Here's a couple, just the top of my head: Will you be able to create persistent underground structures in EQNL? Are characters in EQNL human-only, or will other races be available? Have they figured out how to make water work in a voxel environment yet? Can we...

Since this thread got bumped, might as well mention they did a small update at theofficial sitea while ago, with some screens, concept art, and the broad strokes of the narrative. MnB2 is going to be a prequel, doing a "fall of the Roman Empire" analog in terms of the story, although it looks...

Latest roundtable video So, evidently these types of polls might actually affect development, with high-polling races getting precedence over the lower-polling ones. However, it sounds like their plans are to eventually have all/most of the playable races from previous EQs show up in EQN.

There's a new video producer's letter up. Not going to bother posting it; it's not worth the effort. This upcoming month, they're going to talk (and they said 'talk,' not 'show') about the building tools for EQNL, there'll be a new lore ebook, and they're having a livestream to talk about the...

I'm still messing around with GW2; the way the game's set up really appeals to the explorer and obsessive completionist in me.

I don't mind that there'll be no hard restrictions for race/class combos, but I do wish/hope that there will be soft restrictions.

New dev diary: -EQNL will have a fast travel system, where you use crafted tokens to access the 'ley line network' -there will be a variety of biomes, each with its own types of resources which will create different looking items. That's about it; no gameplay, and extended exposure to...

Oh well, at least it's a more interesting subject than friends lists. Not significantly so, but still.

Putting aside the over-long description of what a friends list is, the more worrying part was them closing on the "what else should we make account-wide?" note. The idea of faction standing and class unlocks being account-wide profoundly irks me; for one thing, account-wide faction standing...

The substance of what he was talking about with regards to darkness was fine, but it was a stupid way of phrasing it. He then used it again on the fast travel roundtable poll, which is frankly where I found it more worrying.

Yep; he's the lead lore guy for EQN. Here's the odd thing about Smokejumper: going by the individual dev responses to the roundtable stuff, he's the one who seems to be on our side; he's the one who wants consequences, and for it all to feel like a cohesive world. Butler's the one whose...

Dev diary for EQNL. No gameplay, and only a couple new facts, but enjoy.

Looks like a Skyrim devoted solely to magic users, but without the extra polish and depth that ought to come with a focus on one gameplay style.

Yeah, Moorguard posted on the official site saying they decided to shuffle up the release schedule of the lore pieces, said they wanted to flesh out the elf-dragon war part of the timeline more before moving on to a new time period.

Newlore ebookis up, for those interested. I'm starting to get a heavy Riftwar vibe with regards to the origins of the various races. It's sounding like many of the races are immigrants from other worlds, that have portaled over to Norrath at some point in the past. We had heard something...