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It's not obnoxious when you are a skilled player. The insane micro makes the game. 

Henry, Heimerdinger is an awesome champion.

Henry Plainview wrote: Heh, people QQ about him all the time on the forums, that's why I wanted to try him. Building turrets and pissing people off sounds great. Alas, my computer... Austin, have you bought runes yet? I finally looked around for some things about it and let me recommend you (and Marco too, really) get armor and magic penetration marks, flat armor seals, flat magic resist (you can do scaling with those if you want), and health or move speed quints in tier one or tier 3. Have the armor and magic pen on page one and page two and there are your AD and AP rune pages. I wish someone had told me that, I have a mishmash of random crap :(

Today, I tried the TERA open beta. In the end, TERA's combat is a lot like Phantasy Star Online, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, it's a bit slower (bad thing) and lacks the loot, being a Korean MMO with silly crafting systems and junk. It is also Korean MMO in a lot of other ways. The grind isn't so hot (probably put in 5 hours, got to all of level 13). Female characters... well, let's just say I made the ill-fated decision to roll a human female with a giant sword, and she now runs around in Daisy-Dukes and half-exposed double-Ds. *sigh* The game looks pretty good, with a vibrant color palette and some pretty pleasant views. Unfortunately, as soon as you get past the starting island, there's nobody to be found, and the large world really comes back to bite itself in the ass. Oh look, giant city! Too bad I've seen all of 3 people wanderings its streets. The "story" bits are also pretty goddamn awful, with a terrible script narrated by a guy who sounds like Bailey from the Mass Effect series.

Given that TERA is a buy-and-sub game, I think this one is a big fat "PASS".

Currently downloading Diablo 3 beta. Will remark on it tomorrow.


Edited by Gamemako - April 20 2012 at 23:29

Not me. I'm not expecting it to be any good.

I didn't think Diablo 2 was very good, to be honest. Blizzard's games are so grindy and boring. And that really is a terrible thing to say!

Textbook wrote: Not me. I'm not expecting it to be any good.

That's basically what I meant.  I didn't really enjoy Diablo 2 all that much.  Too hack 'n' slash for my liking.

And yes, StarCraft is Blizzard's last great game.  I've not played StarCraft 2 though.


Edited by VanderGraafKommandöh - April 22 2012 at 09:35

PSO2?

I have no idea what that is.

Gamemako wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: Gamemako, have you ever played League of Legends? We need a PA 5 man team to overcome the drooling morons of that community. And it is free to play! Although, as Jerry Holkins once said about F2P games, it is "free to play" in the same sense that a nightcrawler on a hook is "free to bite". No, I haven't. It's a sort of MMORTS, isn't it? I'm not just that fond of competitive games in the first place, let alone competitive RTS games. Appreciate the offer and all, but it's just not my cup of tea.

PSO was Dreamcast action-RPG circa 2000. You could actually play it entirely offline should you choose to do so.