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    Amalur developer's MMO "Project Copernicus" release date outed by governor

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      inkyspot
      The game they always wanted to make, I am not a mmo fan so I'll skip on this, but I [...]
      The game they always wanted to make, I am not a mmo fan so I'll skip on this, but I do wish them good luck. I am always routing for the underdog.
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    Kingdoms Of Amalur: The Legend of Dead Kel preview - Ten more hours in Amalur

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      doctornecrosis666
      Another 10 hours gameplay sounds good to me, I've spent seventy odd hours so far and have only just got [...]
      Another 10 hours gameplay sounds good to me, I've spent seventy odd hours so far and have only just got to the second island, its been a lot more fun than Dragon Age 2 and Fable 3!
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      Fuzunga Wow, if the DLC is so awesome this early on, I wonder what they'll put out later to top it.
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      patbateman17
      Still on the fence - this game looks like a ton of fun though, all the YouTube videos make it [...]
      Still on the fence - this game looks like a ton of fun though, all the YouTube videos make it look enjoyable plus obviously the sweet lootz. I'm just not so hot on the button-mashing combat. I got Castlevania:LoS but after a few hours with it the combat bored me so much. :-\
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    5 things Kingdoms of Amalur does better than Skyrim

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      fredrik-nilsson
      Aaaw for crying out loud, you're downright bashing Skyrim and saying it's a shitty game. Stop doing that, you're supposed [...]
      Aaaw for crying out loud, you're downright bashing Skyrim and saying it's a shitty game. Stop doing that, you're supposed to be professionals, not some freaking twelve year old fanboys. About the skillpoint system. In Skyrim, focusing mainly at combat skills in the beginning and getting a nice base for your character and then going with social/crafting skills later (level 20+) works out great. Why is everyone rushing so much? And second of all, it's kinda self explanatory. If you go social/crafting instead of combat first you're obviously gonna get raped in battle, makes sense doesn't it? Multiclassing in Skyrim works out great as well, if you make the right choices. Everyone seems to forget that there are 81 levels in Skyrim. Some people believe that they're basically done when they are level 30, and they have spread out their perks in different skilltrees, of course they'll be disappointed. I'm only level 45 on my latest playthrough, and even at that level I have a multiclass character. A Destruction/Conjuration mage with a Heavy armour and Two-Handed twist. I have a maxed out smithing level, and a maxed out enchanting level. AND, I play on Master difficulty. Just focusing one thing at a time is all you've gotta do. Since I have 4 pieces of equipment each enchanted with 25% less mana consumption for Destruction and Conjuration magic, I don't need to spend any perks in either of those trees that will decrease my mana consumtion. Simple, I have 10 extra perks I can put somewhere else. All of a sudden I want to switch to Archery? I smith 4 new pieces, and enchant them with a percentage of increased bow damage. Maybe I want a super sneaky character, able to assassinate people in their sleep? I need only to spend 2 - 4 perks in the sneak tree and enchant some armour and jewelry with sneaking and one handed skills. Easy. You think the combat in Skyrim is poor? Seriously? That's what's so awesome about it. It's realtime, and you get to aim by yourself. Meaning it requires some sort of skill not only from having to be able to use the right ability at the right time, maintaining a steady health/mana but also having to be able to aim your attacks. KOA looks just like any other hack and slash compared to the combat in Skyrim. The loot in Skyrim is also a lot better, no other game franchise has ever come close to how good it is in TES. Why? Because you can actually pick up what the enemy is using. If I see an NPC with an awesome looking armour, I want to be able to kill him and pick it up. In most games, can't do that, it'll be like you just killed someone who looks like Sauron and then when you come to loot him all you get is a leather shield. In Skyrim, that's never the case. About the UI, that's probably the only thing I can agree with you about. The UI for the PC version of Skyrim is garbage. Although, with the click of a button and some replacing of files you can change the UI to a PC optimised UI mod. Even without this mod, you can go on fighting for hours without ever needing to go into the UI. Ever heard of shortcuts? You can bind your 1-8 keys to any spell, weapon or armour you'd like. Really easy. In about a second I go from my fireball/lightning casting mode into a tanky melee warrior and I can just as easily go back. I'm just curious, to you who wrote the article, have you even played Skyrim at all? I mean, you don't have to be a huge Skyrim fanboy with 300+ hours of gameplay to know what I've just written, I have a merely 50 hours of gameplay on all my characters all together, and I've known this since the first 10. And another thing, Skyrim would be a lot easier to understand if you had ever played Morrowind and Oblivion. The Elder Scrolls is kind of a unique franchise which differs a lot from other RPG's.
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      caleb-ross
      All the Skyrim fan boys please leave..the combat is veryyy clunky and the framerate on Skyrim even on the console [...]
      All the Skyrim fan boys please leave..the combat is veryyy clunky and the framerate on Skyrim even on the console is TERRIBLE. It's boring, it's repetitive and it comes nowhere near the excitement you get out of KOAR:Reckoning.
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      ahmet-ozturk
      I used to love Skyrim, but then I took a generic arrow in knee. Also I played Fallout 3 and [...]
      I used to love Skyrim, but then I took a generic arrow in knee. Also I played Fallout 3 and Oblivion all the way, so its quite confusing when skyrim beaber fever boys start talking about "generic" in terms of kingdoms of amalur. What's generic is a company able to make the same glitchy game 3 times over with different graphics and top sales each time is generic. For gods sake they even carry over the same npc quests and the famous glitches that Bethesda is known for.
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    SSX and Amalur's Online Passes: EA/38 Studios defend controversial tactic

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      christian-shaffer
      Just so everyone is aware, this is an article about a Season Pass, not the used games industry. Just putting [...]
      Just so everyone is aware, this is an article about a Season Pass, not the used games industry. Just putting that out there. Having said that, I don't have a problem paying for a season pass as long as it's worth it. If I am paying $50 for a season pass, you damn well better be putting something new out EVERY month. As for used games and saying that you should have to pay full price for a game; that's just plain asinine. Like I said, I have know problem paying for games that I think are worth it, but a lot of the time, I am able to afford those games by selling my old ones. If I wasn't able to sell those used games, do you know how many of the greats I would miss out on? You can say that it's stupid reasoning, but not everyone can just simply afford every new game that comes out, even after saving up there money. In the past 6 months, I have purchased Forza 4, Batman: Arkham City, Borderlands, Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, Sonic Generations, NBA 2k12, Dead Space 2, and even the COD Elite. I bought every single one of these games at new price and I was able to afford it by selling my old ones. If I had not been able to do this, I would have probably gotten one or two of these games. Publishers need to either lower the prices of their games or console prices need to be lowered. Getting rid of used games and continuing with the current prices is just asking for a huge profit loss.
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      OohWiiUILookJustLikeBuddyHolly
      Derp All I want to do is pay less and get everything! How dare these people create an incentive to [...]
      Derp All I want to do is pay less and get everything! How dare these people create an incentive to actually purchase their games! Really people, they aren't withholding significant portions of the game. When they start taking out 50% of the game, then you have a right to complain but until then if you want every last thing in these games you better start saving.. This coming from a jobless 17 year old.
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      Darkhawk
      This, unfortunately, is probably the best we can hope for going forwards. I gave the NBA Jam: On Fire Edition [...]
      This, unfortunately, is probably the best we can hope for going forwards. I gave the NBA Jam: On Fire Edition DLC (pay to purchase Jambucks, iOS style) a lot of grief, but at least if the content is accessible via grinding, it's not so bad. "diligent play will allow all events and gear to be unlocked via Explore points, which can still be earned without a Pass." The trickier parts are when they actually remove content from Used Games, i.e. the significant Catwoman portions of Arkham City.
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    Kingdoms of Amalur trailer shows off a world worth saving

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      Nephilim
      The architecture is very Tolkien-esque (The buildings are designed along and around the natural environments and terrain, complimenting them). It [...]
      The architecture is very Tolkien-esque (The buildings are designed along and around the natural environments and terrain, complimenting them). It does look much more unique and fresh than any other fantasy games, but the thing that will get me into this game will be the story -- if the story is average then I won't bother with the game.
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      Spybreak8
      Been watching this for a while and the art style is one of the things that got me interested in [...]
      Been watching this for a while and the art style is one of the things that got me interested in the first place. It's like what Fable wished it could be. There's also a bit of World of Warcraft expiration here as well. The demo reminded me of Fable/Darksiders/DragonAge/Guild Wars.
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      garnsr
      I thought the game was going to be more like Elder Scrolls, but the demo seemed a lot like Fable [...]
      I thought the game was going to be more like Elder Scrolls, but the demo seemed a lot like Fable to me. Not bad, necessarily, but I'm not sure the character art style is quite what I hoped for. I did enjoy the first two Fables, and this seems decent, and I don't know what else I'll have to play after I finish Skyrim, so I may check it out, but probably not preorder.
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    Mass Effect 3 demo drops in on February 14

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      Darkhawk QUERY: Will this demo require XBLA Gold? I can't download the Amalur demo for that reason.
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      soren7550
      My guess is yes. But I have heard that a week after a demo is released, silver users can download [...]
      My guess is yes. But I have heard that a week after a demo is released, silver users can download demos as well. And hey, the demo is being released on my birthday! Awesome!
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      RipgutReaper
      Isn't there an Xbox game that allows you to give voice commands using your headset? I believe they were Tom [...]
      Isn't there an Xbox game that allows you to give voice commands using your headset? I believe they were Tom Clancy games. How does Kinect make ME3 so much better when we should be able to do this with our headsets at no extra cost?
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    Download the Mass Effect 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur demos, get exclusive content in both

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      xlyesterdaylx looks dope. So I have to play the kingdom of amalur demo to get the items in ME3.
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      jackthemenace
      Well, it's more than likely that I'll buy both of these at some point or another, so I'd love to [...]
      Well, it's more than likely that I'll buy both of these at some point or another, so I'd love to have the DLC, but it's a great way of ensuring people DO try the demos to the other games. PLus, it means I DEFINITELY try the Amalur demo, so I get exclusive content in Mass Effect 3 purely for finding out whether I'll want to pay for Amalur or not. Win/Win.
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      Acerlux
      I had paid zero attention to Kingdoms of Amalur until now, but EA has cleverly assured that I'll play the [...]
      I had paid zero attention to Kingdoms of Amalur until now, but EA has cleverly assured that I'll play the demo now. Well played EA. Well played indeed.
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    Kingdoms of Amalur demo hitting Xbox Live next week

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      robinkurosaki
      wow, no offense to people that think it looks good. but i think it looks pretty average, it looks like [...]
      wow, no offense to people that think it looks good. but i think it looks pretty average, it looks like its going for WoW graphics, which is never a good thing and id love to know what eas thinking getting it released when everyone is still of course playing skyrim. it may well be a good game, but i think it will be the dungeon siege of last year, and that didnt even have rpg competition when it came out
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      winner2
      Personally, I'm thinking this will beat skyrim out for me. The flak cometh! And how the HELL am I supposed [...]
      Personally, I'm thinking this will beat skyrim out for me. The flak cometh! And how the HELL am I supposed to type upside down numbers ?
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      TheMasterJeef
      I second that. Im at level 38 in Skyrim and its become a bit Fus Ro Meh for me. Considering [...]
      I second that. Im at level 38 in Skyrim and its become a bit Fus Ro Meh for me. Considering I wasn't even going to buy Skyrim, thats still pretty good going. Anyway, I have been hyped for Kingdoms of Amalur since the first trailer. Im just hoping there will be a bit of depth to combat, and that stealth isn't just an afterthought. I guess the demo should answer at least one of those.
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