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Torchlight's roots spring from pen and paper rpgs, where a character's stats and equipment will give him a percentage chance to avoid attacks, and that's clear from the "Arcane Statistics" in Torchlight. This displays your character's  damage reduction from incoming attacks, chance to automatically block attacks with a shield (if equiped), and a chance to automatically dodge attacks, although in this case the attack will hit your character and deal no damage.

"Bastion" is more of an action game, with rpg elements, since you will have to manually move "The Kid" to avoid attacks as well as manually use your shield to block attacks. Thankfully, you have a dodge button to quickly avoid enemy attacks, since "The Kid's" default running speed is fairly slow."

And for your oogling pleasure, here's the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzVg6UdMkvM

The gameplay looks similar to Capcom's Dungeons & Dragons arcade games. Hell, most the same character options are here (Fighter, Dwarf, Elf, etc). "

One of the first times I had a time constraint with a game was with Xenogears for PS1. I didn't have a Playstation myself (why didn't I buy one???), so I would play at a friends place on Saturdays nights (after D&D in the afternoon) while he watches anime. From 11pm until 3am once a week, that's all the time I had to enjoy an finsh Square's epic (took 74 hrs). 

Sure, it took months on end to finish a game, but I did enjoy that part of my gaming life. Aside from Xenogears, there was Final Fantasy: Tactics, Front Mission 3 that I also finished. Never did get around to completing FF7, got addicted to drawing spells in FF8 and quit, and he loaned out FF9 and never got it back.

Today, I stick to PC games, and I'm enjoying the time I'm putting in Mount & Blade: Warband. I just have a hour or two a few days a week for it, and at my age, I'm ok with that.

When I start dating again, I'm going miss gaming."

It's not so much that you can't communicate about gaming to non-gamers, but it's difficult to talk about any in-depth topic with an audience that hasn't experienced it. Other examples are describing runners high to couch potatoes or why people love "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" to someone who is straight-edge.&nbs;"