EuroGamer Expo

[russta]

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Silinde, Disdain and I went to the EuroGamer Expo this Friday just gone. I tweeted thoughts on what we played throughout the day but I felt it could use some fleshing out here.

Dark SoulsAs previously mentioned here many times, Demon's Souls is one of my favourite games ever. I'll go into why I doubt I can ever claim it as my top in my Xenoblade

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[cobbi]

Couple things on GW2:

- The comparison to Rift's er, rifts, is a valid one, but I should point out a couple key differences: Rifts are random thingys stapled onto an existing traditional quest system that have very specific rewards for certain tiers of participation. GW2 events are the equivalent of the questing system, always unique to the specific area you encounter them in, and reward consistently between them: varying amounts of karma, gold and exp. Where the specific rewards come into play are, when you get a certain area into a more peaceful setting (not taken over by hostiles, etc.) various NPCs become karma merchants, letting you spend that currency accumulated from events to buy cool things themed to the area. Acquire a cache of weapons from the battleground, you can buy 'em; assist a shaman, and you can get a shamanic charm, etc. So they're constantly happening all over the world, and ideally won't grow dull since there's chains of them that are usually in a different state when you roll back through the area again. And you

[russta]

I'll have to see how the dynamic quests play out myself I think. I'd imagine they'll be fine and different from Rift's because the game itself is trying not to be WoW, exactly what Rift WAS trying to be.

That's a pretty interesting insight on the dodge keybind. Before we discovered the double tap dodge we all actually agreed that binding it to a mouse button would be optimal. I actually tried to but it was blocked in the demo.

I can't wait for Dark Souls. You decided what you're going to play yet? I'm leaning toward Deprived. I can't help but wonder just how much it will matter this time around. I do know I'm glad that they allow you to choose what special item you start with this time though. No more Royal if you feel like playing a caster because they happen to start with the refresh ring.

[celeras]

I fully expect to be disappointed with Skyrim. Everytime I watch that hands-on dragon fight they did, I just look at the combat with raised eyebrow. Both the melee and auto-lightning attacks failed to impress, was kind of hoping for a 'next step' after Oblivion.

GW2 is gonna be great, and obviously can't wait for Dark Souls. Did you get to play BF3 or Firefly 3? Or is that not your thing.

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(Disdain here)

Didn't see Firefly there, and the queues for BF3 were crazy long. I was in the BF3 alpha though and it's certainly a massive leap from BFBC2, in a really good way.

To be honest, the biggest problem is the fact that it's tied to Origin - if it was Steam, you might very well be looking at it finally giving a Call of Duty game a run for it's money.

[russta]

Skyrim definitely doesn't seem like a next step after Oblivion, just more of the same. It's a shame but I can deal with that if they get rid of a lot of the annoyances I had with Oblivion. I can't see it taking my GOTY award given the competition, that's for sure. Hell, I'll be surprised if I find it better than Witcher 2.

As Nick said, the queue for BF3 were insane for a game I only have a passing interest in that's all but been killed off by Origin.

[celeras]

Witcher 2 was awesome, don't think it'll be better than that either.

And Origin thing doesn't even bother me in the slightest, but then again I don't use Steam either unless I'm forced to (Half-life, TF2, etc). I consider stuff like that bloatware, so I have to run it fine.. otherwise I won't. I know people that use it 24/7 though, so I wouldn't be surprised to find out people got attached to their friends list or something. Just don't forget Valve did the same thing as EA with forced-acceptance when they launched Steam :)