The Role Playing Games Category


Sep 08 2009

Steam releases Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

The list of games on Steam just keeps growing and growing. It has been announced that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has been released on Steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/32370/

This is an older game, originally in November of 2003. The system requirements are kinda low by todays standards.

System Requirements:

o OS: Windows XP or Windows Vista
o Processor: Intel Pentium 3 1Ghz or AMD Athlon 1GHz
o Memory: 256 RAM
o Graphics: 32 MB with Hardware T&L
o DirectX®: Directx 9.0b or better
o Hard Drive: 3.5 GB
o Sound: Directx 9.0b compatible

With a meta critics score of 93/100, it might be worth picking up.  Especially if you have an older computer.

Steam is a content delivery program developed by Valve Software.  It allows gamers to buy all kinds of games over the internet, and then download.  The purchased games are kept in a games list under Steam.  Updates and patches are downloaded and installed automatically.  Steam also has a built in friends list so its easy to keep track of your buddies, what games they are playing, and what servers they are playing on.

Sep 08 2009

Warhammer Online turns 1 year old

Published by Kevin under Role Playing Games

Happy birthday Warhammer Online, (WAR) your 1 year old.  It seems like yesterday that you were released.

For those of you that have never seen Warhammer Online, here is a video that Fastas posted in the Role Playing Game Forum.

Warhammer Online was developed by Mythic Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. Published means that EA took care of getting the game to the stores. The game is classed as a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, also known as MMORPG.

WAR is a Realm versus Realm (RvR) game with two factions: Order and Destruction. RvR means that 2 human controlled armies are always at battle against each other.

Armies of Order:
Dwarfs
Empire
High elves

Armies of Destruction:
Greenskins (Orcs and Goblins)
Chaos
Dark Elves

Visit the Warhammer Online Forum.

Apr 03 2009

Black Orc leveling in warhammer online

Published by Kev under Role Playing Games

One of the members of the forum – Fastas – has posted a video for all of you Warhammer Online fans. The video starts out with a level 1 black orc. And then ventures to level 35, which is where the black orc is currently at.

Fastas would like some feed back and opinions on the video. So go on over to the forum and post your comments in the Black Orc leveling video thread.

Mar 15 2009

Favorite Role Playing Game

Published by Kev under Role Playing Games

If you had to pick a favorite role playing game, what would it be? Even if the game was made 10 years go, or yesterday, surely there is one RPG that really stands out.

Head on over to the favorite role playing game thread of the forums and voice your opinion.

Feb 26 2009

Warhammer online Tor Anroc and Black Fire Basin

Published by Kev under Role Playing Games

A Warhammer online video showing some realm vs realm play in Tor Anroc and Black Fire Basin.

Discuss this video in the Warhammer online rvr video thread.