Wow went up 2 spots to #5
Sorry Ail... still love ya tho lol
You'll catch back up.. Starting college next month and When Madden 10 comes out i'll be workin on the leaderboard on that

I dunno, I still have a lot of time to spend on Sacred 2 and that time will bring few trophies ( I'm already at 56%) and I will be gone 2 weeks at the end of July, traveling...

And Starcraft 2 is going to destroy any plan of massive trophy gathering at the end of the year.( I got like 8 plats in 8 weeks December/January last year).

Many of my Wow guildies are planning to play this online and I'm thinking I might actually for once learn to play a RTS in MP ( although I have no hopes of beating some of them, one of them was among the top 10 US Starcraft players..).

I think I will be lucky If I manage to hang in the top 10...( games like Bayonetta and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 are going to be plat targets too and they are very bad investments in term of trophies/time lol).

hey Ail, is sacred 2 any good?

I've been some what interested but the reviews that have come out have been mediocre and that some what put me off.

Yeah with college comin up, Madden 10 comin out(most of my time will be spent online in tournaments), and for Modern Warfare 2 comin in November, trophies will be the last on my mind... I play to put plenty of days into MW2(I'm currently on 29 days on Cod4) and i want to be high in the leaderboard. I'm in the 6,000s in wins with 14,000 wins and i'll prolly have 15,000 by the weekend

It's a diablo 2 clone...

Camera is not as good as in Diablo 2 and 3D world sometime gets in the way ( hills or forest bloquing your way).

It's lacking stuff like runes/runewords that really kicked ass in D2 and I prefered the way uniques and sets were in D2 ( here the gear has level so as you level you find better versions of the same unique or set item)

And you can't really do boss runs for gear like I used to in D2.

However the skills/combat stuff is a lot deeper than D2 and the world is a lot bigger too. My first 2 playthroughs in Bronze and Silver mode I mainly did a few side quests and sticked to the main quest and this time in Gold difficulty I am exploring and I have already found like 7 sideboss I had no clue existed and from what I read on the web there's like a dozen more for me to find.). And there's 2 higher difficulty after gold...

One thing that kinda bugs me is that due to the world being so much bigger, you feel less swarmed by mobs than you were sometime in D2 because you have more space to move to...( you don't run into 10 mobs every 2 steps like you did on some D2 levels)

90% of the action is outdoor, there's no real dungeons( a few caves and such but nothing worth being called a dungeon).

All in all I would rate Diablo 2 higher but I'm dying for D3 so it will have to do in between...

It's nice to be able to play a D2 like game on the couch too (  the drawback is fights are not as epic as on PC as you have less control, you can't really teleport around dodging bosses like you could in D2, it takes too much time to select your port target with a controller).

It does make me understand why Blizzard said they had no plan to port D3 to console. You really have to take some choices away from players when they only have a controller and no mouse and it removes some of the difficulty of the game..( you can simulate mouse targeting for stuff like ports or area of effect spell targeting but it takes so much longer than with a mouse). Having controllers only makes fights a little less fun than D2 imo//

The positive thing is really the complexity of the skill system, there's a lot more to your char than planning what skill you will raise at what level ( you have skills and combat arts and raising the level of combat arts raise their cooldown which you can offset through skills or buffs, so it's always about finding a balance on how hard you want to hit and how often you want those hard hits to be available).

There isn't really a spec set in stone for each class, the way it kinda was in D2 ( there wasn't many ways to do a fireball/frozen orb sorceress ). Here between the 10 skills you choose ( and most class really only have like 5-6 that are required to be good) and the combat arts stuff you have a lot of freedom...

Yay, I am in the league, jumpin in at 149th place :P
Good to be here :)

Congrats welcome.. Lookin forward to seeing you higher up

Yeah, maybe you'll see me higher, but not high up :P I don't think I will ever plat any game :P

Dont think that... Just always tell urself ur gonna plat a game... I thought that too when i first joined in Feb. I got my first plat with Dead Space. Now i have 13 more... Just be patient with games. Try Uncharted. Its a really fun game and easy plat if you keep trying

its really lame to see someone with only 1 platinium in top 50. Some people are in top 50 just becuse they have more trophy games which means they have more easy bronze tropies which is giving them higher score