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Hey eko/Cern, are those the first posts of 2016 ? Must admit i stopped checking so regularly !

I might take a look at overwatch, sounds interesting if it can be a casual quick blast. Let us know what you think of Battleborn also eko once you've played it a while, although sounds like you're already sold to me ! I never played borderlands, its one of those games I keep thinking I'll pick up in a steam sale but frankly I have too many of those littering my hard drive already!!!

I had a look at the Overwatch open beta. I found it fun and frustrating in roughly equal measure

On the fun side it looks wonderful, plays well, heroes are varied and most of them are really enjoyable to play with some great moves. The maps are all well thought out and suit the objectives (when players bother with them, not really happening in beta). Loot box cosmetics are a nice incentive system. It's all very polished, as you'd expect from a Blizz game. I love the fact that it's a FPS I can play without motion sickness (thanks to the good FOV and smooth graphics).

On the frustrating side, TTK is insanely fast and there's just too many cheesy one/two-shot moves in the game. I get that there's counters to most of the cheesy moves, but if your team lacks them then it means hero switching on respawn. Whilst this is an intended mechanic to counter team balance problems, it essentially makes gameplay glorified rock, paper, scissors (same old, same old). Perhaps it'll improve as players learn the game, but in noob PUG play the turret heroes are totally OP, I'm already tired of seeing "Play Of the Match <insert random name here> as Bastion".

It's nice to be able to dive into quick game when you just want 30 mins of mayhem. But overall gameplay is rather shallow and seems aimed at the attention deficient, so I'm not sure how much legs it has (for me) and if it's worth the asking price. If it were under ?20 I'd likely take a punt, but perhaps not at full price.

I suspect I'd enjoy Battleborn more (love the Borderlands games) but there's no trial of this available currently and given my potential for motion sickness it's too much risk at the ?39 asking price. Perhaps Steam will run a free weekend soon.

So, you guys still playing WoW?

I think DAoC was different, instead of a gear grind you had a RP grind granted but when fighting players, the bar is set higher.  Not only do you have to play well like when raiding a hard boss but you have to outplay them, or have the right combo of classes or abilities used correctly to win.

I haven't played a mmorpg for an age, kinda miss them tbh.  Dunno if I'll go back though.

Hey eko

Post us a bit of a review when you've played Mordheim for a week or two, have been wondering about it but didn't commit to buying (i got fallout instead as I found a 20% off code so couldn't resist!!). I see it has actually been released now, when I last checked it was early access and I had an eye on it. I liked warhammer a fair bit when I was a kid but never played this TT game so it's a little new to me. I LOVED Valkyria Chronicles so you've made me even more interested !

Go reroll a brand new Chua alt !!! You know you want to

Nope, not really looked at Mordheim at all but will have a little ganders now you've mentioned it, regards Elder Scrolls a friend of mine has it and has played quite a bit, I have looked at it over his shoulder and it looks very good but watching someone for 20 minutes and playing it for 20 hours are different.  It feels a bit DAoC and a bit WoW Battlegrounds in places, some dungeons are instance like WoW others are open like DAoC was, his pc is powerful so it looks fantastic and the customization is endless, so no cookie cutter classes or specs; at least he tells me this.  But what he showed me of customisation of your character it really is significant.

I have been sucked fully into Hearthsone currently so playing that on and off almost daily, been at it for a year now, very fun game.