Orc male checking in: I look completely different and I love it. Probably because the original Orc Male models looked like hot garbage for years and I couldn't close my goddamn mouth and my pupils weren't part of my eyes and oh god it was so ugly.

I should really get around to playing some of these games besides the first one. I played (and mostly enjoyed) the first one for PC and then for whatever reason the games entirely slipped down the cracks for me and I've just been passingly observing them from this point out, and man y'all: From the POV of someone…

S'funny, I had almost exactly the same experience. I very, very rarely 100% games, though I generally do complete them once I'm committed, as opposed to walk off most of the way through which a lot of people my age (early 30s) seem to do.

Nailed it.

"We've heard our female employees," he said. "And my daughter tools me out about it. She saw a World of Warcraft cinematic of the Dragon Aspects, and my daughter was like, 'Why are they all in swimsuits?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I don't know anymore.'"

Not gonna lie, was still holding out for "Shadow of the Empire", but eh maybe the Empire Remnant doesn't play into this one too much since they're moving away from the Expanded Universe anywOH GOD I AM SUCH A FUCKING NERD

You might be onto something. My character's been around so long now and gone through so much stuff (ten years of one game's content adds up, even if you play sporadically) that he's kinda locked in as the "Main Character" of the game for me at this point. He's sort of built up a story around himself and, curiously, a…

I'm one of those insane people who has no alts whatsoever, just a lone Shaman Orc I rolled back when the game came out and who I've stuck with ever since. My level 90 boost sits there, and I'm not even sure I'm ever going to use it (even though I like the idea that I have the option?)

Yes to this; also thanks for padding this a bit by making the clarification about how not all serious-face shooters are bad and games shouldn't take themselves seriously ever because, essentially, "lol videogames". I've read a few other articles on the internet that basically say what you said here but in a much more…

This makes me think they probably found something *worse*. Usually if something's causing a serious customer service issue and it's a simple fix, they'll roll out a new patch ASAP. If they dug into it and found something either really hard to fix or really not good, they're going to sit on it a bit more.

The Sonic ones are quite easy to come by with a google search; there's quite a few others floating around as well. I don't have the links offhand but they're easy enough to find if you dig a bit.

There's actually a whole subculture on the internet based around tracking down all the Nick Arcade ROMs. They had to be polished enough to show off on TV, so there's often a bunch of quick bandaid-fix type modifications to the UI and whatnot, but they're still basically front-facing versions of games that were still…

I cannot get over how weird this is. It's like when I found out the Japanese Ninja Turtles had a giant mech, or when Japanese Spider-Man was an alien from the planet Spider. Japanese Marvel Heroes are Digimon.

(I'm totally okay with this existing, mind. In fact it's kind of awesome. Just unspeakably weird to my…

Hey Jason, get Stephen to hire me? I'll work weekends.

Good point.

RIGHT? Dude, Under-Karazhan looked amazing. It pains me that that was just abandoned.

I'm not sure I'm answering this thread correctly but to touch on some of the stuff people below said (also the formatting on this is going to be pure shit and I apologize):

DukeGrimm: "It's not a scap goat when they release content that was certainly not done in all of 1-2 months since the game was released. It's…

Thank you for the kind words!

Yeah that's always the fun counter-argument: "You know if this wasn't on disc, you'd have to download it, right? Would you rather download 15GB of stuff when it's all done, or have some empty maps included on the disc and cut that down to 5GB?" It's a no-win situation sometimes.

See, that's the trap you fall into, though: You're radically simplifying how games are built. They didn't divert resources into the DLC "away" from the main game, that's not how it works. Development isn't a linear path. You don't work on every aspect of the main game simultaneously and you don't do it in order.

Here's…