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Hmm, I've heard of YS, always thought it was console exclusive for some reason. Really hate the aesthetics of it, but might give the actual gameplay a chance if there's a demo. Probably should've mentioned in the OP I'm really averse to this style of console RPG. Probably because I grew up with a PC and never got to play these kind of games.

Severance I've played through twice, really great game. Can't get it to run normally on windows 7 for some reason, runs at turbospeed. My barbarian ends up doing a bizarre unending nuclear kazachok. Anyone know of a fix?

I've tried Din's Curse, I assume Depths of Peril is similar? Din's curse was fun but very basic, so I didn't play too much of it.

I played Torchlight once, vanilla, and I'm pretty sure I was sleep-playing by the end of it. I'm really excited about Torchlight 2 because it has coop and I got a buddy who loves this style of games, and that automatically makes even the dumbest games fun to play. Damn thing's not out for at least a month, though.

I might try Overlord, but I've heard it's really light on the rpg and action side and it's more about controlling your minions and evil kingdom? I'm pretty sure Overlord 2 won't run, because Xbox360 ports usually don't run well. Doesn't stop me trying them, but so far my greatest accomplishment is beating Prototype on two different laptops, with a respective average fps of 16 and 20 frames per second, so I'm not really proud of that.

I tried Gothic 2 a long time ago but it was hard as balls, so I gave up. Might have to try that again since I keep hearing good things about it, and from what I experienced it was a great game. Kind of weird controls, though.

Honestly I'm starting to suspect my own rotten mood is preventing me from enjoying anything at all right now

But please, if anyone else has a suggestion post it! Other people might benefit, and once I give it a night's sleep I'll go over the suggestions again! Also I really appreciate your efforts and will remember all of you fondly :]

Played all of them, Snelg But yeah, all in all, those are the kind of games I want another of.

Thinking of maybe replaying Rune, or possibly the new(ish) Bard's Tale.

I really just want Enclave 2, is that so much to ask?

Isn't E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy a dystopian game? Bear in mind I have never played it, and it's purported to be... rather impenetrable as a whole, but it might be what you desire.

Also Hard Reset is a cyberpunk FPS which might also fit the bill... you know, if it's a somewhat broad bill.

Did someone say "Oh god where is Graven to explain in great detail with his unfathomable Dominion knowledge what the new patch means for Dominion!"?

I honestly played very few twitch games, 3 or 4, and I can't be truly unbiased yet. The changes are meant to make him a better straight-up AD carry in SR, but fights in SR and Dom differ wildly - first off, there are no full-on teamfights in Dominion, not fighting is often the better chance, unless you can guarantee an unfair fight, letting the enemies escape is not a bad thing, since the fights are for territory control, no wards and so on.

What this means is, I counted Old Twitch as the best Dominion carry, because he was a great provider of information - Oracles is avoidable and there are no pink wards, so it's easy to spot the enemy team and hover around them without being detected. Information is the most important thing in LoL, but even more in Dominion, since there are no wards and no ways to know exactly where the enemies are apart from a few champion abilities.

This also allowed Twitch to pick and choose his fights to a great extent, not to mention making him a great tool for helping and controling bot, focusing on the point of attacking and positioning, negating the enemy carries/squishies because he could afford to stay in stealth for as long as he wanted.

New twitch's stealth is 8 second at most. This is less than rank 1 ambush before. What this means is Twitch can no longer afford to stay in the jungle stealthed and just pick off stragglers, or scout for his team. His is now "tactical stealth", also known as "awww, isn't it cute ^_^" or "omg what is this overpowered bs" depending on the champion who has it.

Let's explore that for a second.

- Wukong. Has dash. Leaves clone, allows for juking abilities and unstealthed jukes in brush.
- Talon. Has dash, silence and slow.
- Vayne. Has short-range dash, has cc.
- Akali. Has dash, incredible burst.
- Teemo. Has mushrooms and a blind.
- Shaco. Haha.

Now Twitch is the only ranged character apart from Vayne and Teemo who has access to stealth. He also has a slow, too, which is now targetted. The problem is all the other tactical stealth characters can use their stealth as a last-ditch escape effort. You're Vayne and you're being chased in the jungle? Pop that ult and juke around the next corner! You're Talon and there's several nasty peoples incoming? Pop that ult and wing it! You're Shaco? Haha.

Twitch uses his as an engage, and to escape from battles if given the chance (i.e. unattacked), but never for an instant "oh god help me right now" button. He couldn't before, true, but it was a much better engage ability simply due to the duration. Now it's used more as a very short-time initiation and steroid.

Neotwitch is in all honesty a better AD carry than Old Twitch. I haven't run the numbers, but he does more damage, stacks poison easier, and his expunge now scales with AD, not to mention actually has an ult now.

What he isn't is the best Dominion carry. I have yet to play a few more games with him, but he fills a much more traditional AD carry role now, instead of old scout/assassin/carry Twitch, which by default places him behind the Vayne/Kog'maw AD carry union.

What's that? Noone said what I assumed at start? Oh...ehm...oh.

edit : Oh yeah, Xin's ballistic missile build seems incredibly OP now since I literally haven't seen a Xin feed post-15 minutes, and I literally haven't seen an Eve do anything but feed. Take that for what you will!

Bought Xin. Before his rework hit the shelves, without even trying it out on the PBE. Because I am a loose cannon. Trip report to follow.

edit : Literally first game :

In my time you just let your dwarven ally take the aggro and you could hopefully CC or bash him ineffectually from the side till he drops dead of boredom.

Since I just passed my bachellor's state exams, I'm planning on spending a week doing nothing but playing roguelikes. People are saying Reavers are really good now, anyone have any feedback on this?

I really liked parts of the first one - the whole being god thing, the physical manipulation of objects, the hidden quests, but the creature always annoyed me and I tended to neglect it. Possibly because I was what, 13 when it came out? Me and some friends of mine were really into it, got together to play and stuff. Man I had forgotten how much joy we had playing that thing.

I can't stress how much I disliked the creature management, though.

Then later on I played the second and all I saw was a glorified town building game, so I promptly stopped playing it.

I still like to occasionally install the first one and mess around with the first three levels, though! There's some odd serenity in planting trees in your village and pelting distant enemy villages with pebbles you don't seem to get in games nowadays.

More Zyra quotes from Morello

"Originally Posted by Tippick:
In my mind, when you used the term comboing Morello, Brand appeared. I remember you guys were excited that he can mix his different moves and make different outcomes via passive. Is that the same intention here, but more drastically?

Edit: Drastically = more than just the passive influences the other skills.
End post.

It's a bigger interaction than that. Roku, who likes the "chess game" aspects of Orianna is really into Zyra."

"Originally Posted by Jeanesse
Her Q summons a targetable object like a bud or a young plant, and then casting her other abilities upon that static object impact an AOE effect.

/wild guess
End post.

Not on the money, but closest guess."