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HELLRAID! No release date as yet according to VGReleases.

Yea mods are wicked cool. I've been following Justin Matkowsky's Elder Scrolls Forge blog series here at Pixlbit and am amazed at what can be done. It's the main reason I'd like to put together a gaming PC.

World of Level Design was the top search hit on Google and it's a really cool site with tons of info on every aspect of design. I noticed that for each piece of needed software that comes at a cost, there's one that's free too. The free ones may not be the perfect solution, but it's good to know that you can just jump in without investing a lot of money at the start.

I was playing Oblivion last year and just wandered around in the forest and found so much variety in the landscape. There was downed trees, bushes and just a lot of detritus that you find in a real forest. I was really impressed with it. I guess they procedurally generated the landscape and then went around every inch of it tweaking it to make sure it all looked natural from any view point. 

In just reading about the software involved, it looks very involved. I was looking at textures in the real world all day yesterday thinking about how you would photo reference them and then appy it to drawn images in the computer. Neat stuff.

I ended up getting Pandora's Tower in that Operation Rainfall petition for it's Japanese art style and action gameplay. I didn't like the controls much and ended up trading it in. I wish I hadn't done that now.

I am going to have to check out that game.

I love fight sticks. I have a Hori one for my 360. I got it for old school arcade games on Game Room. I get the feel of the arcades with it.

That's what I'm doing for BaD, just winging it.

I don't think so. I'm holding out for a price drop on the Deluxe 32 GB console.