That's a cool idea. They might do this when the PvP patch ships. Going outside what PvP is and doing more would be great, solidify the game and all.

Few RTS games are made, your right. Kinda wonder why, Starcraft 2 sold well... But that's a Bilzz game so...

I love the graphics in the stuff they have released so far. Plus it smacks of Unreal in that you can blow up planets and other awesome stuff that is less realistic and just plain fun to do.

This could be interesting. I won't believe anything until I see it. I think Steam on Linux and all of Gabe's Windows 8 comments could suggest a Steam Box, but people do all kinds of R&D that never amount to anything. This may fall into that category.

I think they are steadily headed the direction of some kind of console or something similar. The Linux client and porting games is a first step.

I don't think it will go the way of the Jaguar though. Well, hope it doesn't I guess. The box serves an actual need in the market. Its not just another console, its another console that can built and run in such as way as to make it very compelling for users. In fact, I think Apple and Valve are better suited to provide a next gen killer console that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo as they are to entrenched in a certain model that kind of sucks for users.

This is awesome news.

How long is it? I picked it up in the Steam sale but haven't touched it yet.

The one complaint I have (which amounts to very little since I haven't actually played it) is that it doesn't seem like a Max Payne game. that could be all in how they were advertising it though.

Crazy ass crap is always fun. I just don't want them to lose the noir.

Sounds awesome, ill snag it on a Steam sale. This one got lost in the Diablo 3 shuffle for me but many ribbed D3 players for being able to play it because it was a proper single player game with offline mode(the servers were not able to handle the d3 players at the time).

Heard great things.

How are the guns? Is there much variety there?

I really wish Blizzard had emulate Borderlands for the multiplayer. True offline single player, easy drop in multiplayer. If the servers are down, you get no multiplayer or auction house but you can still play.

That said keeping it online is a good form of drm, which was probably one of the major factors, and it keeps the core off the pc to prevent hacking and exploits, which is definitely a good thing.

But yeah, the servers close to launch were laughable.

They said it was a multiplayer game that wasn't about the DRM. In theory I can accept that. In practice though, like I don't know it has all the trapping of it and even if you wanted to go back to a Diablo 3 1.0 world, there is not chance you could as its all server side.

Sort of waffle on how I think about that. Wherein the game is fine, it does feel so much like DRM I am not sure there is a real difference.

Looks like they just blew past the goal so good on them! Beyond that, which is awesome... The game looks epic. The art style reminds me a smidge of Team Fortress 2 in its solid colors and cartoony vibe. I dug the voice acting and music, if they can pull off 80% of what they want this game will be really fun.

I hadn't really considered before that the whole RTS genere is fairly underserved right now. Quite true. I still mostly just play Rise of Nations & Age of Mythology with my friends on LAN occasionally. Newest RTS I obtained was SC2.

Moar!

Wat? Sweet. Will pick this up when it ships for sure!

Good stuff. I have a few legendaries and like the post says, they just felt like bit better rare. Affixing certain abilities sounds awesome too, the Angel / Demon summon seems fun.

I really hope to get that fire chains demon summoning two-hander when I get my barb up to 60. That looks so damn cool.

One thing they didn't mention is the drop rate. I could have sworn I saw that the drop rate was increasing for Legendaries, but I could be wrong. I *hope* it increases, otherwise these new awesome items are going to be selling for hundreds of millions on the auction house.

I hope it increases to, because I doubt ill have enough gold to pay for them, like you said.

No, I haven't. Looks interesting though.

What was the coolest part about it? Kind of wonder if Little Big Planet borrowed from its name?

Thanks for the info!

You gotta love Goodwill finds. That's a particularly good one!

I have it as well. Tried my hand at it a few times. It's pretty hard. Let me know how you fairs and if you have any hints.

I believe I have Total Annihilation on GoG and should try it out as I have heard awesome things about it.

Really? Cool. I got it for like $10 with a few other games once so I have it and will check that out.