Bill Z Bubba

Thanks for the recommendations, folks. I'll take a look on steam. I have tried out a few retro games but I think my addiction to eye candy is going to stop me dead in my tracks on a lot of potential fun.

Got any good indie single player RPGs?

I remember when I first loaded Wolfenstein 3D. I remember Doom, Wing Commander and spending days in and out playing Mechwarrior. I remember DOS and Glide and my voodoo video cards. I remember all of this through, I'm sure, rose-tinted glasses.

I remember when you had to go look for game patches and know what you were doing to get them installed.

The Mechwarrior MMO is about to come out and I'm sitting on a closed beta invite that I'll probably never use. The whole "pay to win/nickle and dime the users to death" model that the gaming industry is diving face first into rather disgusts me. I'm guessing that this is because I'm an old fogy pining away for days long gone.

I was disgusted by how empty/shallow Dragon Age 2 was compared to DA:O. I was disgusted by having to install the Origin service to play ME3 and I was disgusted at how pathetically the ending was written. I'm disgusted by NCSoft's handling of the CoH shutdown.

I've never been very good at tolerating what I consider to be ********. Hell, I left this game twice over the forced teaming/screw the soloists mindset I saw coming from the devs.

I can't shake the feeling that the bean counters have, again, won the war; that there won't be anymore games where the taint of greed doesn't overpower the happy smells of beautiful art, smooth animations and fun gameplay.

I wonder if I can find a working 486 anywhere...

And I never hit 50000...

Yup... that certainly adds more suck to all of this suckage, Starsman.

Gents, if player run servers were to happen, and no, I don't see that happening regardless of what the more optimistic are saying, they could use the beta code just as they would the live. Granted, I have no idea how such a thing would work in the first place, but I would expect anyone that *could* pull it off would use I-24.

Doooooooo eeeeeeeeeet.

Yea. Too bad it took so long to do something as simple as unlock fly and tport pools for Khels. But, yes, at least I saw it happen.

On beta, respeced my warshade into air superiority and the sorcery power pool. He's now as he should have been 7 years ago. A chaos mage.

Damn damn damn.

Beta store is up. Just bought 4 powersets.

I'd like to see the secondary claws only damage modification removed.

"I'm already a myth, Dave, so I'm no stranger to non-existence. Bring me back when you can so that we can kill more bad guys."

This thread makes me glad that I never purchased more than a month at a time. I even used up the lasts 120 points on my account for three chest pieces the other night.

I hope yall get your money back. I don't expect that you will.

I have nothing to confess. Devils are incapable of sin.

I'm easy. I just want a game filled with gore, nudity, comedy, flawless animations, a character builder as in depth as CoH's, power progression deeper than CoH's, an open world like Fallout 3/Skyrim and $20 expansion packs packed with content four times a year that allows me to take on hordes of enemies where their body parts pile up until I leave the area.

Is that really so much to ask?

Ya know what else? I'm gonna choice to make sure that I proofread anything else I post tonight because choicing otherwise sounds like a bad idea.

Catman, you're still talking about hate while we're talking about money. It's not hate that has caused me to walk away from Bioware games. It's not hate that will keep me away from NCSoft games. It's nothing more than me, as a consumer, choosing to put my entertainment dollars elsewhere.

To do otherwise is to reward companies that make bad decisions and that would be illogical.

A corporation, as you state, is a legal concept. It was a person or group of persons that choice to lay off everyone at Paragon and kill this game. I see no reason to continue supporting that person or those people financially.

Monday is a HELL of a lot better to hear than never, AW. Thank you very much for looking into it.

No forced teaming for character progression, the ability to buy everything from the store for inf, no minimum team size requirements... yea... it'd be nice.