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The Sunday Dwarf: April Fools and Other News

April 4, 2010 By

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This week has been relatively quite, apart from the shenanigans over at Blizzard in celebration of April Fool’s Day. I must admit being quite gullible I found myself genuinely confused at why Blizzard had decided to open an online matchmaking service.

Here are the highlights:

I’m sure there is more, but that is all I have time for today. It’s time to head off for Easter Celebrations!

Happy Easter!

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Poll Results: The Best 5 RPG PC Games

April 2, 2010 By

Yesterday my time and today US time our last poll (The Best RPG PC Game  Ever) ended. The poll asked you guys for what you thought was the best RPG game of all time.

It was an interesting battle with Oblivion leading up until the last couple of days. It was won by Dragon Age: Origins in the last hour which proves that this game has probably done two things:

  • Bring new gamers into the RPG genre
  • Really impressed the existing RPG fans with a damn good game

Here are your best 5 RPG PC games ever voted by you (full results):

    1. Dragon Age: Origins (15%, 13 Votes)
    2. Oblivion (13%, 11 Votes)
    3. World of Warcraft (12%, 10 Votes)
    4. Diablo II (9%, 8 Votes)
    5. Baldur’s Gate II (8%, 7 Votes)
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($17.48 including Baldur’s Gate and expansions on Amazon)

Next weeks poll:

What is your favourite platform for playing RPGs?

  • PC (88%, 21 Votes)
  • Playstation 3 (13%, 3 Votes)
  • Xbox 360 (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Wii (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 24

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The Witcher 2: Assassins Kings Officially Announced

March 24, 2010 By

Stop what you are doing! This is awesome!

CD Projeckt Red released an official statement today on their The Witcher site that a sequel to the game that sold over 1.5M copies world wide. Although I can’t find it on the website, Gamespot has claimed that the game will be gracing our shelves in early 2011.

Although the game engine is being built completely from scratch (and looks amazing I might add), The Witcher 2 storyline will be continuing directly on from The Witcher. With the change that everyone and everything looks a whole lot better. We should also be seeing smoother gameplay and better combat.

some ugly mugs beautifully rendered

From the horses mouth

“I am really glad that we can officially present what we’ve been working on for the past two-and-a-half years.” – said Adam Kiciński, CEO of CD Projekt RED studio. “We learned a lot during The Witcher’s development process, and we are using all of that knowledge to ensure the sequel is one of the best RPGs people have ever played. We’ve concentrated on improving the most successful parts of the Witcher, and I strongly believe that The Witcher 2 will be loved both by fans of the original and newcomers. We know that we aimed very high while producing The WItcher 1. Now we are aiming even higher with The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.”

The Witcher 2 promises to build upon the considerable success of The Witcher and we can all remember how much that was to play (read reviews). More updates are slowly being released onto thewitcher.com and I will keep you updated as more news is given.

Watch the trailer here

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Review

March 22, 2010 By

BFBC2Rating: 8.5/10

It’s  been out for around 3 weeks now and after much playing I feel that I can give this game a proper review. For simplicity I’ll refer to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as BFBC2. I’m not going to bore you with long paragraphs about gameplay and sound.

You can see from the video’s that it looks good. My PC (which is not state of the art) can run it on medium at 1920×1080 fine with no lag. Sound is fantastic. Nuff said. Let’s talk about the cool stuff.

Comparison to previous Battlefield games on PC

  • While the max server size is only 32 players, the maps are designed so that 32 still feels like 64.
  • Having scenery to hide behind that doesn’t disappear from a distance provides hundreds of sniping positions making the sniper an actually useful class.
  • While there are general unlocks for your player, class specific unlocks can only be realised by playing that specific class. This makes it a bit rough at the beginning until you get some better weapons and things like a Med Kit, Ammo Kit and Defibrillator Paddles, but it also serves to toughen you up for whats to come.
  • A new points system gives you points for just about any team action.

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Poll: The Best RPG PC Game Ever

March 21, 2010 By

I want your vote

Instead of just my own views I want to gather what the best RPG on PC of all time is according to you. I’ll leave this up for 2-3 weeks to get as many votes as possible.

If your favourite game is not in the list, simply write it in the comments below and I’ll add it. I’m really looking forward to seeing the results!

Only one vote per person so choose carefully.

EDIT: Poll will expire on the 31/03/10

What is the Best RPG PC Game of all time?

  • Dragon Age: Origins (15%, 13 Votes)
  • Oblivion (13%, 11 Votes)
  • World of Warcraft (12%, 10 Votes)
  • Diablo II (9%, 8 Votes)
  • Baldur's Gate II (8%, 7 Votes)
  • Fallout (7%, 6 Votes)
  • Fallout 2 (5%, 4 Votes)
  • Neverwinter Nights (5%, 4 Votes)
  • Morrowind (3%, 3 Votes)
  • Fallout 3 (3%, 3 Votes)
  • Gothic (3%, 3 Votes)
  • Deus Ex (3%, 3 Votes)
  • Baldur's Gate (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Gothic 3 (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Star Wars: KOTOR (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Mass Effect (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Final Fantasy VII (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Planescape: Tournament (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Diablo (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Ultima VII (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Bard's Tale (0%, 0 Votes)
  • The Witcher (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Wizardry 8 (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Icewind Dale (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Daggerfall (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Neverwinter Nights 2 (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Daggerfall 2 (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Ever Quest (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Guild Wars (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Star Wars: KOTOR II (3%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 86

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