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Enslaved: Odyssey to the west is decent from what I can remember. It's a retelling of Journey to the West, lots of ruined buildings and overgrown streets.
The Day Z mod for ARMA 2 is probobly going to be your best bet though. It has pretty much everything you're looking for.

I just remembered why Borderlands 1 left such a bitter taste in my mouth.

Game comes out and I was pretty excited due to all the previews and hype saying this is the greatest FPS since sliced bread 64. So I go and rent two copies of the game, get 3 friends, and hook up some xboxes for system link fun. I'm pretty sure the game said on the box splitscreen and system link supported, thoug I might've just read that on cooptimus or somewhere else.

Anyway long story short you can split screen up to two people, and you can system link... But you cant play split screen over system link, which meant that instead of having a cool 4 player coop game, we had two seperate 2 player games. And then the game was kinda dissapointing ontop of that.

I'll basically forgive any amount of bullshit with a game if it'll let me splitscreen/system link at this point. It'd be great if Borderlands 2 let you do this, though TBH I doubt it'll even have couch coop anymore.

Server building is very freebased, but griefing is a MASSIVE no-no. There are set blocks you may break in RP, and you must always steal using RP(though most chests are locked.)
You are certainly allowed to go hermit and travel as far as you'd like. However admins like to discourage this because it makes RPing harder for you.

In game, Characters and acting>real material gain, so you rarely will ever be robbed just for the sake of taking all your gold, and no character currently on the server is like that yet.

What do you mean by "you must steal using RP?"

This server will never work.  Needs more cleavage.

Like... On the demons? I thought she had enough for the three of them.

How does the server handle building? is it claim a plot of land style, where only you can edit blocks on your claim, or wild west build anywhere and hope you can defend/hide it? Is the map infinite? If so are you allowed to go be a hermit in the mountains and come to town when you need to trade?

That's true, and hopefully kickstarter will mean odd controllers will finally be able to take off, since as I understand it the reason they don't ever do well is lack of game support. Which is because big publishers don't want to take a risk on something niche. It's just hard being the first to test those waters I suppose.

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Does Nintendo still try to keep everything on their consoles G-rated?

Short answer: No.
Long answer: No, and I don't think they ever have.
Ultimate version: Madworld. No More Heroes. Turok. Shadowrun. Red Steel. Conker's Bad Fur Day. 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors. I could go on.

On topic...this looks interesting, though I question how well it will work. Even with a vibrating function built into the controller, it won't have the same impact of a real swordfight. Still, watching this.

Before the N64 Nintendo were really restrictive about what was allowed on their consoles, and weren't shy about requiring games to be edited so they were family friendly.

Also it says what controller they're thinking of using on the kickstarter page. The "Razer Hydra controller." Whatever that is.

Shadowrun was a Super Nintendo game. Despite not having blood, there were lots of guns and violence, with a bit of implied sexual content.

Anyway, a Razer Hydra is basically a Wiimote for PC. There was a promotion on Steam for it a while back, basically it allowed you to play Portal 2 with motion control.

Yes Shadowrun was on the Super Nintendo. That doesn't mean the well documented fact that Nintendo had an agenda to keep the western versions of their consoles G-rated didn't happen. It just means it wasn't 100 percent effective. Have a look at the super mature adult world of nintendo (It's a list of their old censorship policies)

Just googled that Razor thing. 100 quid ain't cheap for a controller for a single game. I do hope these guys succeed because they have a point about sword fighting being badly mishandled by the majority of games. I just don't know how many people are going to be willing to spend 100 + kickstarter donation for it. There's a compromise there somewhere between the two extremes of a plastic trigger and an expensive thing with limited uses, and it's called a mouse. It's not perfect, but it's honestly good enough. If they're absolutely dead set on super accurate recreation style gameplay then they have another problem... Without some serious force-feedback I can't imagine it being terribly satisfying trying to have a realistic swordfight. I know nearly nothing about swords, but I'm fairly certain the weight of it has a big impact on how you'd fight with it.

Could be good, and hopefully it will be, but it's got a lot of obstacles to overcome.

Just had my first decent go of 5V5 and is it just me or are mesmers fucking ridiculous? Constant healing, status effects, greatsword wielding, multiple persist-after-death copies of themselves bastards! (I'm just annoyed because they're so whippety and hard to kill)

I do think theives are seriously broken though. Just played with one who was impossible to kill. Every time he went down he seemed to have an ability that could put him into stealth, teleport him a fair distance, and was ready to use as soon as he reappeared. Even with my warriors frenzy skill (+100% attack speed) I couldn't finish him off. At one point there were three of us just solely trying to finish him off to no avail.

I'd also not seen any of the cash shop stuff before due to missing the last BWE, so had a play around with some of it. The transmutation stone is awesome. The minis would be awesome if you could make them fight, but I'm glad you can't because that'd be the end of all my money. Generally they seem like the exact sort of cash shop items I like: purely cosmetic and fun, but with enough effort put into them to make it worthwhile. The only one I don't like is the extra bank space one, and only because I don't know if you can get that ingame or not? If it's a cash shop only one then that sucks.

Other than that the game is running much smoother in PVE. WvW is allright untill you get 20+ players on the screen then it's a slideshow. Though that's probobly more a deficiency with my computer than anything else.