News Roundup 13/10/09 – Jade Empire 2 maybe?
by Cosmo on Oct.14, 2009, under Gaming News
We may see a Jade Empire 2 yet, Borderlands promises 87 bajilion guns, Dragon Age Origins Character Creator up, Left 4 Dead 2 Acheivements and last campaigns revealed.
Jade Empire 2 a possibility
So says Bioware. Sure they have a huge amount of projects on their hands, Dragon Age/ME2/SW:ToR and all.. but it’s nice that we get a very resounding “maybe”. Jade Empire was a favorite among fans, both for it’s setting and for it’s great blend of action and RPG elements. By the looks of things we’ll get a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ by Q2-Q3 next year.
Borderlands trailer says 87 bajilion guns
They keep advertising and pushing on that.. but to be honest, they are just randomly generated items via a loot table. Diablo 2 had a couple trilion items too if you take into account how many could be uniquely generated. Anyhows, that little quirk aside, the game looks fun, it sounds like it has its own particular brand of humor and to top it off, it has 4 player co-op. It’s going to be fun.
Dragon Age Origins Character Creator now up
I tried it out, and i personally expected a bit more. It’s really just a character creator. You do get to see most of the skills in the game and the talents, and settle into what you want to do with it.. but i have two major grudges with it. One, you can’t modify your body, or bodytype, you can’t make a slim character or a fat character, but you can totally customize the face. Unless you make a hefy face, it will look odd on the bulky body. That my main quip with it, the other one relates to the origin stories. They’ve put a TON of pressure on it, and you don’t even get a little video, like the origin trailers they showed a while back, to really get a vibe of what you’re choosing. Sure, the text tells you what you’re going to start off with, but the videos really did get the idea home and differentiated between the origin stories. Overall, could have done more. Also, no neon/electric-blue hair.
Left 4 Dead 2 Achievements online
I’ll highlight the more WTF ones. “Use a bile bomb on a Tank.” “Revive 10 dead Survivors with the defibrillator.” “Deploy an ammo upgrade and have your team use it.”. I’ll let you guys figure out what the hell is up with those. I’ve got my own little theories.
And also, last 2 Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns leaked
Dead Center features a mall, finally, after asking for one for ages and the fan maps dident quite get it right, and Hard Rain mixes it up in a factory. What are our Survivors doing there? No ideea, but it does make for an interesting location. Left 4 Dead 2 is coming out in about a month from now, so we have a bit of time before we go on and start chopping off zombie limbs and griefing random pubers.

