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[TD1]

Nah, if dragons made a habit of waking up for breakfast, then we'd soon recognise them as they come. As they'd wake up one by one, we might design specific anti-dragon equipment, and the dragons would eventually become extinct. It would also explain breeding rates: The dragons would only wake up two at a time very rarely. Assuming two might sleep together, it would make a higher breeding rate: One could "nudge" the other awake

[kaian-a-coel]

>draconic morning kiss
uuuuugh, thanks for the mental image.

[Neyvn]

I'd say as deranged as a dragon.

But, most of the time I'd assume it would slumber on its bed of gold for considerable lengths of time.

That'd be grand. Imagine a dragon who slept for the last, oh, three centuries? It would've fell asleep around 1714. At this time, virtually nothing has changed for three centuries, and it's barely different from a millenia before. Guns and cannons and more powerful monarchs, but not very different. Three centuries later, the dragon awakens in 2014, wants to raid the town that has been there for the last two millenias, find sprawling metropolis of glass and steel, and is greeted by fighter jets and helicopters. Imagine the shock.

There was a movie based on this idea, but it wasn't one Dragon, but every single fucker out there waking up at once...
Sure 1 Dragon wouldn't be all that difficult for a fleet of helicopters and jets to take down, but imagine over 300 living flamethrowers. Naturally they would win...
BUT, of course the movie sucked...

[Sordid]

Reign of Fire. Yeah, that wasn't such a great movie. It had its moments, though. The dragons were very nicely done. I have a feeling that's where most of the budget went.

[Sartain]

I think such a thing was in "Vampires: The Masquerade" (The first one, not Bloodlines).

Spoiler: Kind of spoilerish. (click to show/hide)

You get turned in the medieval period and later get staked, or put into a stupor. You eventually reawaken in the present. I don't know how much of a shock it presents to the player character as I haven't actually played the game.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The main character expresses his shock and awe and then promptly returns to killing ludicrous amounts of opponents, Diablo-style. If he had one of the artifact weapons, he'll likely even continue to use it instead of the not-so-useful modern guns.

[Rakonas]

Apparently the first of the challenge modes is out for a couple bucks, anyone tried it?

[Karkov]

The power, speed and endless trials or whatever?  I tried them earlier.  They're alright.  Basically they're just "IF IT MOVES, KILL IT" modes.  If they put out any others I haven't tried them yet.  Uninstalled the game trying to save space just to find out that you can play as the Black Hand via a downloadable on steam.

Razzle frazzle.

[Smitehappy]

For anyone looking for a bit more of a challenge you can disable a few things in the Game Options that add a bit more challenge. Namely removing Counter indicators, AI Awareness Icons, and enemy outlines. I'm hoping if I start a new game I'll die more than once and have a bit more fun with the Nemesis system.

[Cthulhu]

The power, speed and endless trials or whatever?  I tried them earlier.  They're alright.  Basically they're just "IF IT MOVES, KILL IT" modes.  If they put out any others I haven't tried them yet.  Uninstalled the game trying to save space just to find out that you can play as the Black Hand via a downloadable on steam.

Razzle frazzle.

It's just a skin, not a full DLC or anything.  With some extra runes. Looks reasonably sweet.

[Karkov]

I assumed but didn't know.  Oh well, probably not worth reinstalling for.

[Neonivek]

I think such a thing was in "Vampires: The Masquerade" (The first one, not Bloodlines).

Spoiler: Kind of spoilerish. (click to show/hide)

You get turned in the medieval period and later get staked, or put into a stupor. You eventually reawaken in the present. I don't know how much of a shock it presents to the player character as I haven't actually played the game.

Torpor... not Stupor

[Intrinsic]

Heard people saying that for full price the game is too short, it's on 40% steam sale atm so seems a good buy now? very tempted by it but also picked up several games to play over the sale ;p

[Rakonas]

Too short? I got some 20-30 hours on it just doing the story, that's above average for AAA games. I'd say get it so long as it's not similar to the other games you have on your backlog.

[dennislp3]

I didn't think it was too short...I found it well worth the money...which was a surprise considering how terrible most AAA games are these days

[Cthulhu]

Heard people saying that for full price the game is too short, it's on 40% steam sale atm so seems a good buy now? very tempted by it but also picked up several games to play over the sale ;p

40% is a pretty good deal for it.  It's not that short but it does get repetitive.