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It's not explicitly a 2 person game, but it works well enough as one. It's a pretty light beer and pretzels game. The deck construction (such as it is) make for some fun replayability. There's a fair amount of opportunity for cross faction synergy, so when you're new to it there's lots of "Oh...

I'm sure the moonbase is coming eventually (they've certainly teased it enough), but it looks like the next story DLC is going to be a Halloween themed one called Headhunter Pack:T.K. Baha's Bloody Harvest. Also, yes, Tiny Tina and Hammerlock start at 30. The other two start at 15.

At least one of the guild sites had a forum section for selling accounts. I can't recall which one at this point. And yes, that's people dropping money for the promise of someone sending the tier redemption code out when it gets sent. Insane, if you ask me.

Not going to be seeing much, if any PvE at all before launch, unfortunately. I think we still get some random boss fights to fiddle with at some point in beta, but PvE on the whole needs some work. I was talking a fair amount with the lead PvE dev at the dragonlord dinner, and he said that...

Hrm. My bad then, guess I must have double purchased it then because I bought both it and the season pass.

Season pass doesn't have the level boost. It just has the 4 story DLCs. Krieg, Gaige and UVHM mode (which includes the level cap boost) are all their own purchase. Oh, and the extra arena that came with the Gamespot pre-order and all the custom skins/heads are separate purchases also if we're...

I own both, but I haven't touched Dungeon Twister in years (not a commentary on the game itself, I just have a LOT of games in rotation). Dungeon Twister is interesting. It's a highly tactical game with very little luck. The ability to rotate the boards mid-game makes for some interesting...

I'm going to Gencon. Been meaning to go for a long time, and figured I might as well this year considering I backed at Dragonlord and got the dinner with the devs dealie as a stretch reward, plus I realized it's only a couple of hours away from where my sister moved, so I'm combining the two...

I hate to admit this, but I never actually finished Vesperia, though I did go through Tales of Graces multiple times to unlock true ending, etc. Not saying Graces is the better game, because it isn't, but I didn't find it to be the horrible drek lots of other people are saying it is. And in...

I believe at this point you'll just need to purchase heroes of a different race/class. You can replay pretty much anything, but I don't know of an account wide reset switch.

Multiplayer lets you select a group of level cap characters with decent level cap equipment. If all you care about is PvP, there's no reason not to jump right into it as soon as it gives you the option to (which is quite early). You'll be fighting against people with more tweaked teams and...

Some of their older dev diaries mentioned rogues as a potential 4th class that might be in by launch, but I stopped paying as much attention to the web site once I actually got into beta, so I'm not sure where that stands at the moment. This articleis from 2011, but it briefly mentions the...

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?board=105.0 That's straight to the Hex section of their forums. The admin has talked about locking them down eventually, but I believe they're still open to the public.

EQNext hasn't shown any of its cards yet, so any momentum stealing has been entirely due to people getting their hopes up. They've said "*mumble* sandbox *mumble*" and everyone has been desperately fantasizing about what that might mean. I'd be surprised if the EQNext reveal didn't end up...

There hasn't really been a lot new to talk about. F13 has a more active community for this, so I've been doing most of my blathering over there.

I sort of wish that you could just buy a version of that game without miniatures. Don't get me wrong, the miniatures are *amazing*, and I'm sure a bunch of people are grabbing the game just for those, but 150$ just for the base game is really pricey, scaling all the way up to 525$ for...

It's a gigantic mess. It's certainly not a Diablo-clone. Combat is way too slow paced for that. I think it fancies itself an open-world RPG, and maybe it is if you have the patience for it, but mostly it's just bad. Your camera is locked at an unfortunate 45 degree angle looking down on your...

Echoing what other people said, it looks like it's space-WoW with a more active combat system, and I enjoyed WoW for long enough that it's worth the box price. I don't actually expect it to have much longevity for me, but I expect the climb to level cap with a character or two will be fun. After...

Eeeeenh. Tough call. I backed it on kickstarter and have been playing casually. The patch today finally added deck construction, but it's still pretty clunky. It depends on what you're looking for. If this was something like a 15$ indie title and you didn't have to pay for new cards, I'd say...

They could at least give some reason for it, other than the obvious "well, swords and stuff are cool". The Dune universe had lasgun/shield interactions as a decent explanation for why melee combat still exists. Star Wars even handwaved it away with magic... err, I mean The Force. Star Trek sure...

Wildstar is even less scifi than Star Wars is. It's straight up space themed fantasy. Of the officially revealed classes thus far, only the spellslinger even uses physical projectile weapons primarily, and they've still got "spell" right in the name. At least it seems like the engineer and medic...

Heh, I was about to chime in saying "I thought Tales of Xilia was releasing in August?" and then I remembered that it just turned July. I've got ToX, Dragon's Crown and SMT IV all in pre-order form. I'll almost certainly grab Kingdom Hearts remix, Disgaea D2, The Witch and the Hundred...

Haven't played that one. The Luminous Arc games are about as bland as you can possibly make a TRPG. Not even entirely sure why I played the second one after finding the first so shrugworthy. Must have been desperate for a commute game at the time. Has anyone tried Arc Rise Fantasia? That...

Probably worth noting that NIS is just the publisher on this one, not the developer. That was the case on Hyperdimension Neptunia as well (and Trinity Universe, etc). The developer isImage Epoch, and they've mostly done a lot of forgettable portable RPGs. Any NIS developed games are must buys...

Well, we're getting Shin Megami Tensei IV also, aren't we? I'm pretty skeptical about this one. The reviews have been all over the map, though I've seen more bad ones than good ones. The development companies previous games I've played (the Luminous Arc games) were all pretty uninspired as...

Not to mention a campaign system in the expansion to give it more of a progressiony RPG feel. Sadly, this doesn't actually hit the table much around here. One of the main people I play games with doesn't like the stress of playing against brutal cooperatives, and while I can talk her into some...

Heh. I had to wait something like a year. I don't remember when beta signups went up, but I've been paying attention since they announced it in 2011. They really do seem to be very steadily sending out beta invites, though, and if nothing else, it shouldn't be all that long until official launch.

Haven't played The Resistance: Avalon (never been a huge fan of the Werewolf/Mafia style games), but if you like LoW and Tzolk'in, I expect you will *love* Terra Mystica. I have been playing that game like mad. Probably my favorite game to come out in years. Pure strategy (the game has a semi...

Yeah, I can't even imagine playing this with keyboard. Lots of fun with a controller though. And later on you can unlock blood equipment which has a lifedrain effect on it, and the lich class which raises max hp on kills, so there is some semi-reliable healing once you get going a bit.

Every MMO encounter with a "Don't stand in red stuff" mechanic (So, you know, practically every modern MMO encounter) says you're wrong. Unless you just always run out in the direction you happen to be facing already, turning certainly matters. The most obvious example (probably because it...

Agree with pretty much everything he says (Except I totally blew through most of it in one very long sitting, and only stopped because I didn't want to burn myself out before the game launches, but I tend towards obsessiveness) The free to play system is *incredibly* generous. You really...

Yeah, you're right. Maybe I need a new term. Whenever I say platformer, my brain immediately goes more to the mario brothers space, and that doesn't seem quite right either.

Yeah, it's a mess. I sympathize, because they're in a tough spot. They want to establish the brand for their fansite/youtube channel, but there's only so much they can talk about with a fraction of the cards spoiled thus far, so they ramble about things in a vacuum and tend to be overly...

I wouldn't call Borderlands an RPG, but it's definitely an FPS with strong RPG elements. That's an important distinction for me, because I like Borderlands 1/2, but really have no interest in most FPSes. The RPG elements make the game for me. Genre lines are blurring more and more as time...

Enh. Roguelikelike is a notoriously poorly defined term, especially with all of the modern interpretations and the pseudogenre becoming more and more prevalent in the indie developer space. Rogue Legacy definitely falls a bit further afield than many of them, and you're right, if you're using...

Yeah, I finally got in to the card hunter beta. It's a great game, especially if you played classic D&D. There's lots of nods all over the place. Would definitely recommend people check it out when it releases. The free to play is incredibly non-evil, but I think it's well worth tossing some...

And while we're talking about roguelikes, there was a kickstarter for one that seems to have some potential that recently (just barely) met its funding goal. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...rker-purpose-0 It's most similar to Binding of Isaac, so it's a zelda style roguelike. It...

Grabbed it on Steam today and have been playing quite a bit. I'll second Derpa's recommendation It's a metroidvania perspective roguelike with more progression than your average roguelike. Every death you start a new character as a descendant of your previous character, can spend any money...

To my mind as someone who predominantly PvEs, hard faction locks are one of the worst things attempted PvE/PvP hybridization has done to the genre. It adds nothing to the PvE experience, splits your usable community by server in half, significantly increases the work of quest designers (flat out...

You're aware of the difference between a developer and a publisher, right? NCSoft certainly isn't my favorite company ever, but they're not the developers of this game. Carbine are. As for the rest of the post, I don't even know where to begin... so I won't.