@archipelagos

Totally agree with everything you say.

Part of it is also the fact as the gaming market matured, just like the movies- there are only so many good plot lines, and it gets harder to come out with something that is "WOW that's great".

Part of the problem is that most games now, are just make overs of an old game. Been a while since I have seen a new "genre" that interests me.

Now they come up with a new story slap some new graphics on it and voila' new game.

That being said, I do love Skyrim as much as playing Bards tale on my old C-64, which was a lot.

Only played the demo, but the game did look fantastic in 3D, and the actual game play was pretty good. Didn't buy it though because of reading how short the campaign was. Having a bigger game for the money might make me pull the trigger.

Read the books quite a few years ago, this could be very interesting. It would add an Alice in Wonderland feel to gaming. Could be great, could be a stinker, but free to play, doesn't cost anything to give it a try.

@Mr Hett

If the knifing is like the alpha, then it sucks. There is a cut scene when you knife some one. I am not much of a tagger so I only collected a few in the alpha, but it was way crappy compared to say BF2 or BF2142. Not very satisfying. Look for me Papaspud....every one gets my tags, I get to carried away with shooting, don't watch my back well.... :)

@Mr Hett

I ran the alpha on my old rig- Q9650 with 2-285gtx on 1980x1080 and it ran everything on high no problem. When I ran it in 3D my frame rates would drop to about 25- 28, but in non-3D I was running 45-50 comfortably. I personally think it ran better than BC2. Also the alpha was limited to 32 people, so that might make a difference.

Of course I don't get DX 11 graphics, but it looked pretty darn good.

Actually they are VERY deep, you should know your facts before you say something that makes you look ignorant.