Too early to judge the actual game yet based on what's been said so far, but this would be GPGs first title with a somewhat interesting visual design. Dungeon Siege, SupCom and, apparently, Space Siege are almost pinnacles of bland and generic art direction, IMO.

i played an insane amount of hours of DOTA up until WoW was released.

Sweet! I still play DotA fairly often, and it'd be nice to see something along the same lines done by a proper development team.

Wow, looks cool!

He's kind of forced his name out there hasn't he? I really didn't like Dungeon Siege. I did like the game design of Supreme Commander but not so much the story or art or game itself. I don't feel like he's a legitimate 'big name' in games, more like a guy who's trying too hard to be famous, and not hard enough to make good games.

OMG that's awesome! I couldn't stop laughing and the sad thing is that damn tune is stuck in my head.

Looks kind of interesting.

I guess I'm in that minority that actually really liked Dungeon Siege I & II.

I've been playing DS2 and the Broken World expansion pretty heavily over the last couple weeks. I actually like that it doesn't require all that much continuous attention. I like moving my party forward a few yards and being able to sit back and relax while watching all the pretty particle effects as the AI manages the slaughter of the latest group of monsters. For me, much of the enjoyment in the game comes from tweaking and retweaking my characters' skills, spells and inventory to slaughter monsters ever more efficiently and with minimal involvement on my part. In the mid-game, where I'm at now (level 50-60, Veteran difficulty level) there's a lot of interesting little bits of decision-making with character builds and deploying special powers during the tougher battles. The Broken World expansion enhances some of the subtle synergies among the different character classes and spell effects.

It's not everything I want it to be. It's not perfect. It doesn't have Diablo's weirdly genious game systems balance. But DS2 can be a really diverting low-stress, low-pressure gaming experience.

I'm interested in learning more about Space Siege, but from what I've read, they're taking the game play in bit of a different direction from Dungeon Siege.

I never played DOTA. I will say that the heroes were the part of WC3 multiplayer that I hated the most, as I had to expand my base while babysitting the heroes to make sure they leveled up by killing random creeps around the map. It sounds like this disposes of the whole base thing though, so I'm simply back to neutral on the idea.

Whoo! Stardock taking another stab at an online service! Not only does Steam need good competition, but their dedication to customer service and no-DRM is always a winning policy with me.

All these online services actually getting good is just draining my money. Draining!

I don't like the sound of that. Sounds like SP is an afterthought.

Yeah, I have to say this comes as a shock considering Chris Taylor all but called the majority of PC gamers theives and that the platform is dying because tons of people play games on it, just no one buys them. To see him now go to a DRM free system is quite a surprise. I had planned to actively avoid Demigod but this makes me interested in it again.

Damn - I must be searching wrong - tried to find this thread about the Stardock thing.

I wish Stardock's digital distribution bothered to keep up with retail prices.

They still want to charge me $45 for a digital download of Sins of a Solar Empire, a game that most retailers has discounted down to $30-$40.

I've generally been pleased with how Steam has kept up with reducing game prices (BioShock is $30 now, for example). I'm disappointed to find myself having to buy a boxed copy of Sins to get the game at the going rate.

Armed, just go to totalgaming.stardock.com. That's the main page for their games service.

You say that like it's a bad thing. It's what any smart business person would do.