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@GunslingerPanda said:

@Damolition said:

http://www.teamfortress.com/bloodbrothers

Well hot damn, this is turning out to be something quite big.

That is fucking fantastic.

Also, TF2 has lore!? What!?

TF2 has SO MUCH LORE.

Valve is up to it again, peppering their special brand of secretive information throughout TF2 and their website.

First, take a look at this video someone put together.

You guys remember the lore around the Halloween update?

Specifically, this censored last will and testament of Zephaniah Mann? It mentions Zephaniah's sons, Redmond and Blutarch. Yeah.

Now head on over to TeamFortress.com.

Those bloodstains on the left of the logo are new.

The top one brings you to the newly uncensored version of that two-year old document, revealing that there was a third son - Gray!

The second one brings you to a birth certificate of sorts, which you can see in the video above, noting that Redmond, Blutarch and Gray were triplets, and that Gray was abducted by someone or something simply known as Eagle!

What is going on?

Is there going to be a third, robotic team? Are there going to be giant class-shaped robots roaming the maps soon?

And why is Valve so awesome with this stuff?

Yeah, PSO2 is in server downtime until 10 PM Pacific. A PSO2 TNT isn't happening.

Maybe do Tribes: Ascend or Vindictus, since they're also F2P and are on Steam now. Vindictus is somewhat similar in structure to PSO2.

That looks really stupid.

So, perfect. Keep doing what you're doing.

100 percent great.

The sequel nobody expected.

. . .

Day one.

@popmasterruler said:

"Assassin's Creed is a series hugely influenced by stealth games, despite its action elements."

Oh Patrick,AC1 was the only game in the series with stealth.Everything since AC II has been action games,which is why the series hasn't been as good since AC II.

Really? Is that why such a large percentage of the missions want you to assassinate someone without being detected? Because it's NOT a stealth game?

So they've screwed this up in every way possible. Details have emerged, and it's a third person hotbar MMO like World of Warcraft.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=282253

Congratulations, guys. You've spent all this time on something nobody wants. People ACTUALLY want SKyrim over a bigger world with thousands of players wandering the landscape and having adventures. Essentially, JUST PUT THE ELDER SCROLLS GAMES ONLINE.

Instead, here's another WoW clone. AMAZING.

@phrosnite said:

When you are designing or programming something you should assume that the comsumer is stupid. That's a rule.

Remind me never to buy anything you make.

Treyarch gets a lot of hate for some reason. I gotta tell you though, as a Wii and then PC gamer, I like Treyarch a lot better than Infinity Ward, because Treyarch treated those platforms with a hell of a lot more respect than IW ever did.

I would argue that Japanese developers don't lag behind at all. The thing is, the Japanese market is not as focused on the HD consoles as the American market is. Handhelds are huge and the Xbox 360 is essentially on life support. Therefore, much of these companies focus on the PSP and DS (now Vita and 3DS), which western developers completely ignore.

There are tons of amazing Japanese games from this generation, but for folks over here, they don't count because none of their Xbox Live friends are playing them.

Of course, Nintendo is probably the most successful developer/publisher of the generation, and they're Japanese, but somehow they never seem to come up either.