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New series from JJ Abrams with Karl Urban: Seems sort of like AlienNation only with androids.

It is really quite smart of them to do this in a LOL/DOTA style of character selection. Allows them to tap into the market of people who will pay anything to be their favorite marvel character as well as 'gotta catch em all' types who want to collect every possible character and costume. Has a...

I will say that it has been some time since I've played a game where I was kept on the verge of a heart attack while fighting against bosses. So much of the boss fights end up being only barely controlled chaos and, in a way, that is a bit more like what a melee should be rather than a simple...

Executives at Warner Brothers have to be pissing their pants. DC Comics has been part of a major media conglomerate for over 30 years and the best they've managed is admittedly kickass animated series and Smallville/Arrow. Disney buys Marvel and within a few years has a dominant multi-picture...

Surely someone at BBC America's shop just got hella-fired. Trying to stay clear of accidental spoiler is gonna be hard, may have to enter a coma for a week.

The art style is very good in my estimation. It certainly feels high fantasy D&D to me and they make a point to include D&D staples like mimics and beholders etc. My only complaint, and it is minor, with respect to the art and setting is that they overuse pirates. You fight orcs in one...

This is why Recovery is your friend. Clerics have to have it in order for people to live, but it is valuable for everyone. With Recovery and some set bonuses you can cast encounter problems almost one after the other and dailies refresh like mad.

Damn but I do love me some Neil Gaiman. He gave Matt Smith a lot to work with and boy did he.

They seem to be focusing each of these initial episodes on a character and building them up individually. Could be nice if all this eventually pays off down the road, otherwise it is wasted time. The big revelation from last weeks episode:

The reviewers have been quite down on this, but then again the reviewers hated Moulin Rouge as well. I will say that that Fergie song is insanely catchy.

You don't. Thankfully Healing Word is the only heal that you have which requires targeting a party member and it is pretty damn useless after the first few levels (this may change however). Virtually all of your healing is done by Divinity powered Forgemaster's Flame on an enemy which heals...

Yeah Im pretty sure that encounter literally has a misplaced decimal point. It has been that way since the very first beta weekend though, so I have to guess that it is wrapped up in some monster content update they are amassing. To Pyros' point : many of the fights involve a truly chaotic...

The dungeon boss difficulty is all over the map. I think this is due, in part, to the encounter design team working in a vacuum compared to the class design folk. Let's say you make a boss and decide to really make it melee unfriendly and encourage high movement and spreading out. In most...

What the 7 day reward is good for isnt the enchants but the wards. The level 60 weapon and armor enchants are made by combining shards you get off boss mobs into the final enchant just like normal... except for armor enchants the success chance is 1% soooo you pretty much have to use a no-faill...

Cloak Tower is the end dungeon for the first zone, when you get sent back to Sgt Nox he should send you on a couple of things in town dealing with the Linkletter family and then on to the next zone after you finish all that. I never really ran out of content, if anything by the end I was one...

Some perks are one character per account or tied to the account (the Astral Diamonds as a whole are to the account and can be claimed in various chunks by different characters) others are for each character. Notably each character gets the purple Companion and mount. Mounts otherwise cost...

These are not stunning revelations

At 60 now with my Cleric, have to do guild groups (joined some random-invite folx who seem quite decent) or sit in the queue for a LONG time. Having the bonus chest at the end means that it is really only worthwhile to do organized runs during Dungeon Delve events, which is actually kinda nice...

It occurs to me that Drow are pretty much just furries with a spider fetish.

Before DC Comics decided to go full retard and reboot the universe badly a couple years back they had a pretty nifty long arc called New Krypton that basically dealt with Kryptonian society after the Kandor citizens get unbottled and take up residence on a manufactured 'new krypton' that shares...

Down again or still? So far all their problems seem more networking related than server load, although it was pretty clear they had done some throttling and redistribution of instance server capacity to try and manage the tidal wave. I got into a couple of Skirmishes earlier where the bosses...

Apparently Hellbugs from Defiance have now invaded Rift. Hellbug Rifts are popping up and people can earn a hellbug as a mount.

The Legacy weapon gets you through to the level where the first dungeon queues unlock (15? 16?) so you can speed through that largely solo content and get to a point where you have a companion, queueable daily dungeons, daily quests etc. The wolf comes as a companion on all your characters...

Fighters are 'Defenders' in D&D and so while the Great Weapon Fighter is not as pure a tank as a Guardian Fighter, they are still capable of performing that role. GWF are a hybrid DPS/Tank primarily intended to be an off-tank in a 5 man group.

All CC is damage friendly from what I can tell. If something is frozen or levitated or whatever then feel free to beat on it, not only is it not gonna fight back but it will probably take additional damage from you as you gain Combat Advantage etc. I take back what I said earlier about it...

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The game gets noticeably more difficult in the late 20s and by the 40s it really requires that people play their roles... unfortunately the early part of the game that resembles 6 year olds playing soccer does nothing to teach them their roles. With competant people the dungeons are a...

Okay 'Michael' is awesome.

Something has to be wrong then. When I first launched the game back in alpha I have a vague recollection of what you are describing as the game refused to accept my resolution settings + was streaming client so it was using only the crappiest textures possible. Did a level 38 dungeon this AM...

Well I can say that this past weekend during the founder head start the game was smoooooth as glass and running perfectly except for a fuckup with the Daily quest resets yesterday. I find the game to be really quite attractive and the art style to have a very western high fantasy aesthetic...

Correct. The game is intended to be only one server like Champions and STO are, but they divided into three for the launch to try and control the massive hit on the servers caused by launch. After things settle down they will all merge, this is why guild names have to be unique across all...

I have to agree that all of this is leading up to some big mind fuck, and it has to be a particularly big one because we are already accustomed to them with Rose and the Doctor Donna etc. I have a suspicion that the 50th Anniversary special is going to feature three doctors: 10, 11, and 12...

This episode was written by Rockne S Obannon and Michael Taylor... both of which are capable of doing AMAZING quality work... what the fuck??

Here's the thing : You can do a lot of things with money but you cant just go to a webpage or an auction house and plunk down your Visa card for the best gear in the game. Money gets you: Better companions, better mounts, fancy clothes, tradeskill materials, respec vouchers and such...

Cryptic has experience with STO and Champions though so they must have some baseline success model anticipated with the pricing. Fanbois on the forums insist that additional classes and paragon paths will be free, which I scratch my head at. Worth noting that you can sell your Astral...

Right now they essentially have one of each basic archetype plus one joke. Healer : Devoted Cleric Tank : Guardian Fighter DPS: Trickster Rogue CC / AE dps: Control Wizard Joke: Great Weapon Fighter Technically GWF is supposed to be a striking tank but in reality it seems to do less...

I think this game may break the record for collapse of an MMO title. Between the hacks and the lack of content the place is a complete wasteland. Suits the atmosphere of the genre but not the concept of a multiplayer game. You'd be excused for thinking that you are just on a poorly chosen...

This was Rift's biggest failing and something that should be carefully examined by other designers as part of the post mortem. The principle of near infinite diversity simply did not pan out because it boiled down to play the win spec or fail. God help you if you wanted to play a mage and...

I could understand wanting to avoid releasing in the U.S. today if there was a major release they were avoiding to have maximum impact... but there isn't. They could have had this weekend and the entire first half of may completely to themselves. As it is they got two weeks until they collide...

I am still a bit confused by the decision to release this wide internationally more than a week before releasing in North America. I suppose it was done to try and offset piracy with the belief that the American Consumer would rather wait and see it in glorious digitally projected splendor, but...