My pulls have not been the greatest so far; faux-5* Eirika is my flagship mon. Her trick of pulling her target one step backwards after an attack can properly wreck a turtled-up defense.

Holy crap. That is not a bad set of pulls, unbalanced or no.

Oh goodness yes. More than Oblivion's by a mile. I loved the direction Skyrim took their DLC.

Bowling With Young Children really is one of the best games, although the more roguelike modes can test the hardware some.

I'm still going to wait for people to tell me they actually like it on its own terms before I try dipping my toes in that water.

Gaming things to discuss! I quite like this column, and these threads; I've been working out what I'm going to say here all week.

I say what I think here instead of just making every comment some variation on "huge fan of your work," but for the record, I'm a huge fan of your work. Congratulations on a successful column, congratulations on being able to end it on your terms (a rarity, I expect) and I wish you great success going forward.

I hear they signed a contract with some of those wonderful E! Network personalities to add 10% more zing.

A friend of mine's mom was deeply into this book when it came out, and frankly, it all sounded dunderheaded enough that I assumed the author put the name in there as a placeholder or inside joke and then left it there.

I have never once mistaken any of these people for one another, and I'm baffled that anyone has. They look and behave completely differently from one another.

"DJ Cat is still learning how to use his new human arms. Adorable!"

I could have stood to have three times as much of this. Even her asides suggest large, interesting stories I want to hear.

Well, I mean, all I'm saying is that if you know someone with a pickup, it would really help.

Aww, I liked that scene. It wasn't a classic "action shootout," it was the plot resolving itself in a flurry of incomprehensible violence. It wasn't supposed to be a power-fantasy moment, it was a brutal trap being sprung to horrifying effect.

I really enjoy this series, but that line about jumped out and poked me in the eyeballs, too. He's not as consistent as some, I'll grant, but I can't get to "hack" at all.

Agreed on both points. I will almost certainly also pay them some money because I like the game, and I also like the paralogue and extra quests for exactly why you said: it gives the game depth on the character side. Just one perfect team won't help with the axe/sword/lance mastery challenges, to take an obvious…

Thanks again to you and @michaelnicchetta:disqus for your thoughts! Much appreciated.

Sooo…Vampires then? I'm pleased that there doesn't seem to be a "vanilla" TWarhammer side, but I'm also slightly stumped by that fact.

Thank you and @michaelnicchetta:disqus for replying! I'll probably restart as the orcs (…for the voices, because I'm mature dang it) and come back to the dwarves when I have a better handle on the game in general.

Or Afghanistanimation! You can tell the difference if the butler tells the monkey to stay true to the ways of the Taliban.