From Dust looks amazing. I'm definitely going to pick it up this week, even just to watch the beautiful engine at work. And if there's a game attached to it, well, that's just the icing on the cake!

And wow, I had not heard of Overgrowth. Thanks for mentioning that. I always loved the Redwall books as a kid, so that one hits home. :D Preorderd.

Let it be known, you can solve every problem trough mods:

Visuals -> ENB series + New Vision

Gameplay -> Shifter mod.

And you'll have the best PC game ever made. Excuses of 'being outdated' become irrelevant for the ones that put a tiny bit of effort in molding the game.

Lucianu

Oh wow. I've loved Deus Ex for a long time, and I'll be the first to concede that it doesn't look great anymore and the AI still drives me nuts. I consider it a classic and worth $10 and a play-through... provided you can suspend your disbelief with mediocre graphics and some bad voice acting. I haven't tried the mods yet, but if they are halfway decent, then you will only have to put up with JC's voice. :)

I didn't know that there were mods for it before I found this thread. I will definitely check those out. Now you've got me all excited for it yet again, even above all of those Steam games I just bought! :D

Can you ever have too many games?

You may not be able to grind through all of them, but it's nice to know that stored away on your little hard drive, there are endless worlds to explore. I think that even just sitting and playing a random game for an hour or two can be incredibly satisfying.

(About 90 Steam games at the moment, plus ~15 from GoG, and another 50 or so on discs).

So far this year I've picked up DA2, Portal 2, and Shogun 2, and the only one that I've been a little disappointed with was Dragon Age 2.

The reason I felt this way was from a number of issues with the game, like how despite taking place over 10 years, the city hardly changes at all. I had hoped that the city would reflect the choices of the player: if the player helps a thieves guild, then there are more thieves around in the later parts of the game; or if the player helps the town guard the city gets "cleaned-up", and the quests shift to rescuing citizens; that kind of thing is utterly absent and I was disappointed.

The combat was fine, the dialog good but not great, but overall it just lacked that sense of atmosphere that made Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins so compelling. Idon't think it's a bad game, it's just it felt like a step back from DA:O or ME2.