without too many dramas. 

I have no idea how other pads work. I never tried kb+m but I heard it was bad. Like... Dark Souls on kb+m bad :) But ymmv.

I've played it through twice, and it is not a short game! Really fun to play. Funnily enough, the first one is far superior to the second imo. They added a bunch of annoying and unnecessary crap to DS2 to turn it more into a diablo style loot grind/upgrade fest which really annoyed me. 

first one is worth playing. haven't played the second. I did a full review a while back: http://www.electricescape.com/etherealhell/index.php/game-reviews/2010-reviews/item/darksiders

8.5/10 if you quit the last 2 chapters as they're not worth playing. 

If you do pick it up on pc, you will need to force AA / AF in your graphics control panel for the game as it doesn't do either by default and there are no in game options for that stuff.

bad pc port :) 

thanks guys, I will give it a shot... haven't played a game in ages and I wanted to try something a little different from my usual tastes. 

It appears the English version is done and the whole thing is available in a director's cut edition. An incredibly well-done fan adventure, recommended to anyone who enjoys classic point&click adventures. Oh, and it's free, of course.

http://www.mckracken.net/cms/directorscut.html/?change_lang=1 

I'm not one to usually pay much attention to pre-rendered game trailers, but this one is really pretty classy, and so faithful to the Witcher universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiukIzzZD9E
Pretty excited about this game, hope I'm not dissapointed! 

yeah.... they've been pushing that game a _lot_ for months, but it really does look like it will be awesome.

I'm not as excited as I normally would be though, cause my PC is not even close to modern these days. :S 

Played an hour so far...

Not bad, I don't really get the story that much, mainly because I'm not really paying attention. Luckily it's not that important and it's still fun without needing to know any of what's happening.

Controls are fine. Using mouse and keyboard, had to disconnect my gamepad though as there was some weird bug where the camera was stuck looking down and you can't just switch control devices in the game. If you have a controller connected and the game detects it, it will just use it. You need to quit, unplug the device and reload. Pretty lame, but whatever, it works now.

At first I treated this like a button mashing game, but the larger enemies actually do require you to dodge out of the way and wait for the right time to attack. Interesting so far, don't know if that kind of thing will remain interesting for the whole game or not.

Also, you can buy new abilities and such but I already got some for free. There are a lot of abilities, so I haven't actually gotten any new ones yet... Still getting used to the 5 or 6? I have already.

Graphics are nice, it actually runs almost perfectly on my 4 year old hardware. 

I just love the Darksiders aesthetic and art direction. That chunky style just works for me. 

There is a big difference between hopeful and optimistic. I'm hopeful.

Revenant looks cool though. 

 

I think he is:
m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhahsPHBzrzENt1wELU2uRqRWh407wZ2 

 

From someone that was at the private showing there it sounds like Doom4 is going to be in the vein of Brutal Doom.

Maybe they will attempt the grand plan...see Valiant megawad thread. No I must not get my hopes up so high.

But hopeful is the word yes. My optimism is well dead vis-a-vis games from major studios

Now to wait till June 14th... 

I bet one beer there will be at least 3 animated takedown sequences if not more. 

 

I just noticed that in #8340 I posted the wrong URL.

Correct URL should be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3UpX1CMEMQ 

It's a cool teaser but man ... It's an 11 second video with literally 3 seconds of actual game footage. 

3 seconds of actual game

It's probably as far as they've got. 

In slow motion. 

But such an awesome sound ... needed to be 3 seconds. 

In my eagerness to see more of the upcoming new DOOM, I searched and found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hot1aQJTw8

It is said to be the teaser for the old in-development sequel to Doom3 (a reboot of Doom 1), before they scrapped it and decided to do another reboot of Doom 1.

The graphic is good, but the overall atmosphere is too Half-Life-2-ish, and not apocalyptic enough. 

I like it even less than when it was posted in the Doom 4 thread yesterday. 

Yeah, Call of Modern Doom looks terrible. I'm glad they rebooted.