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In addition to Uncharted 4, I am more interested in this exclusive single-player open-world Western-style RPG that has a unique and interesting setting: P.S. This trailer actually shows gameplay, instead of that Xbox title that is really just a CGI trailer.

Another sci-fi shooter? Seriously? As if Xbox does not already have enough shooters. If Halo and Gears of War were not enough to convince people to buy an Xbox, I doubt another shooter with a similar sci-fi setting would change anything. And you bought an Xbox One based on a CGI trailer?

I'm surprised Ellen Pao has not been mentioned. This is really about her.

I received XCOM: Enemy Unknown for free on Steam. Then I played it for a few hours. I liked it so much that I immediately bought the expansion XCOM: Enemy Within and all the DLC, and restarted the game. So I have never really played XCOM: Enemy Unknown without the expansion. I know Enemy Unknown has a lot of bugs, but Enemy Within fixed most of them.

The EU does have very significantly stronger consumer protection and privacy laws than the US. That is a common sense for everyone except delusional Republicans-in-denial who detest "European socialism" and believe "the US is number-one" in everything.

In the cases of Diablo 3 and Sim City, the customers did not have any recourse after they had purchased the games, i.e., they could not refund the games; it was a "already got your money - gotcha!" situation. Video games have always been non-refundable. Which has emboldened game publishers and developers to release broken, bug-ridden products - because they knew customers did not have a recourse once they had gotten the customers' money. Steam Refund is a whole new ball game. Now, if a game is broken and full of bugs and glitches, customers will be able to take action and retaliate. Getting a refund is easy and just a few mouse click away. Steam Refund transfers the power from publishers/developers to consumers. It will discourage publishers/developers from putting out a product before it is ready, from released a bug-ridden product. GamersGate and Green Man Gaming are already following Steam's lead and starts to offer refunds for some games. Gamers will soon start to demand the same from GOG and other digital outlets. Publishers and developers will soon learn and realize that, if they put out a broken game, they will be penalized financially. Allegedly Warner Bros had known for months that Batman: Arkham Knight was a mess and should not have been released, but the publisher went ahead and released the game anyway. Unfortunately for WB, they made a calculative mistake - they forgot to factor in the newly introduced Steam Refund. It is not the first time WB had released a broken product, but in the past they had never had to deal with refunds from unsatisfied and ticked-off customers. People have been conducting informal polll and found out that over 80 percent of Steam sales have been refunded. That must have been a financial hit for WB. That kind of mass refund could have bankrupted a smaller publisher or developer. Which is why WB was forced to suspend the sales of Arkham Knight. Now WB has learned their lesson. I think a few more publishers/developers will have to learn the same lesson before the industry will catch on and realize, "oh crap, the market has changed. Now we have to consider that customers will be able to refund." I just hope Obsidian will not have to learn this lesson the hard way.

I am aware that Tomb Raider reboot is a copycat of the highly-acclaimed Uncharted series. However, I have never owned a PS3 or PS4, so I have pretty much missed out the Uncharted series. I have thought about getting a Playstation for Uncharted games and The Last of Us, but all the other Playstation exclusives have very limited appeal to me. I have too many games on Steam to keep me preoccupied. However, I have watched videos of Uncharted games on YouTube. Before Tomb Raider was rebooted, PC gaming had a big problem: it did not have anything that remotely resembled Uncharted. So the PC gaming was basically missing an entire genre. The Tomb Raider reboot copies from Uncharted, but it essentially fills a void in the PC gaming. Tomb Raider reboot is still not as good as the Uncharted series, but at least now PC has something that is similar. So, like it or not, the Tomb Raider reboot series basically is a one-of-a-kind in the world of PC gaming.

I have not played Dragon Age: Inquisition, and I do not plan to - it is highly unlikely I will ever play another BioWare game again. However, I have watched videos of the game on YouTube. The game has so much social justice political correctness that it feels like a sanitized bad joke. I know Canadians are a bunch of overly politically correct social justice lemmings, but Dragon Age: Inquisition feels... too much.

The Witcher 3 is actually Ciri's story, not entirely Gerald's.

If you want to whine about "but they are completely different and you can't compare them," then please move on to another thread. Now that both games have been out for awhile and if you have played both, which one do you think is the better game? The better RPG? Why?

No remake for X-COM for Terror from the Deep, (as expected, as Firaxis' XCOM producer Jake Solomon had said in numerous interviews that he loved the first original X-COM but disliked/hated Terror from the Deep.) Firaxis' XCOM 2 takes place in an Earth in which the alien invaders have won and taken over, and XCOM has turned into a guerrilla resistance force. P.S. The comm central icon (on the top right corner) is animated instead of a still picture.

Three points I want to make: 1. Personally, I prefer Fallout 3 over the 2013's Tomb Raider reboot. In fact, XCOM: Enemy Within and the 2013's Tomb Raider are my two top favorite games from the past two or three years; (and both are getting a sequel!) 2. However, I was very disappointed by what I saw in the two videos. Everything in them seems like a rehash of the 2013 reboot. The gameplay does not seem to offer anything new or different from the last game. 3. Microsoft's attempt to use Rise of the Tomb Raider as a "timed" exclusive - as the Xbox's answer to the phenomenal Uncharted series on Playstation - is very a bad business move. Microsoft does not seem to get the point of having "exclusives", (which is why Xbox One has been hammered by PS4 in sales since launch.) The point of having exclusives is to sell console by making sure people can't play those exclusive on anywhere else, ever. No one would buy a console for any, ahem, "timed" exclusive. I certainly won't. Especially when people know ahead of time that the so-called "exclusive" will be of a limited "timed" and then be available on their preferred platform later, (i.e., the PC in my case.) I will be playing this one on the PC. I do not own an Xbox One and do not play to buy one. I will never buy another Xbox again - Xbox has permanently lost me as a customer after my extremely negative experience with the quality and customer service of Xbox 360. I currently do not own a PS4. However, I plan to buy one later for Naughty Dog exclusives. That is whole point of having exclusives: Uncharted series and The Last of Us are real, true, definitive, real exclusives, not some "timed" BS. You can't play Uncharted and The Last of Us on any other platform. I can't play the the PC. I can't play the on any other platform. If I want to play them, so I will have to do son the Playstation. The same cannot be said for Rise of the Tomb Raider on the Xbox. Seriously, Microsoft needs to up its exclusive game, and I am not talking about "timed" exclusives, or "console" exclusive, (meaning it is also on the PC,) or exclusive "DLC" for multiplat titles. Those are BS, not exclusives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1LyqLebhE More YouTube video links: Sexy Mexican Weatherwoman Yanet Garcia Is Blowing Up The Internet - COMPILATION Insanely Hot Weather Girl From Mexico - Yanet Garcia - June 2015

Just this last two weeks: Pope Francis affirmed climate change, defined it a religious moral issues, and blamed capitalist greed for creating the climate crisis. Donald Trump enters the president race and becomes a Republican candidate. There go the GOP primaries. The Confederate flag is being taken down from all the government buildings in the Southern states. The Civil War is finally over. All Confederate merchandizes are being removed from Amazon, eBay, Apple, Google, Wal-mart, all over the country and in every store, on the Internet and off. A woman will replace Andrew Jackson and be on the $20 note, the most common paper bill - and in the lead is Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave, abolitionist and "conductor" on the so-called Underground Railroad that helped slaves escape to freedom during the 1850s. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) reaffirmed Affordable Health Care, for the second time. The US Supreme Court legalized gay marriage for all 50 states. Abstinence spokeswoman Bristol Palin is pregnant, again, and not married, still, and the baby has a different father from the second one. Did I miss anything? Oh man, it's been a really, really rough couple of weeks for those poor conservatives.

Biggest surprise for me... oh wait, the US has fifty states? Oh yeah, yeah, fifty state.

"Better" meaning more exciting. It is an action RPG. It has vehicular combat, which Fallout lacks. Players can build/upgrade/savage for vehicles and Max. And thank goodness Max now has an Australian accent.

What's percentage of sales are actually "Early Access"? Personally, I have never paid for and played - and will never pay for and play - an early access of anything. I take a principle stand against the "Early Access" ripoff. Companies used to pay people to test their software and betas. Now the companies come up with an euphemism for their works-in-progress, "Early Access", and make idiots pay for unfinished products and provide free labors to test the betas.

Then they should not be in the business.

Yes, now gamers can strike back if a game is released in broken state. Apparently Batman: Arkham Knight has become the first casualty of the new Steam Refund policy - the game has apparently set a new record (the first one) for getting refunded on Steam. Let it serve as a lesson for all publishers and developers for their future releases.

I am familiar with H-1B visa. Based on what I read in the article, Disney has blatantly abused H-1B visa and violated the terms for H-1B visa, (so are many American companies; a lot of Silicon Valley and tech companies actually abuse H-1B.) Companies can hire people on H-1B only if they have been unable to find any American who has the suitable skills to do the jobs. H-1B is NOT for companies to import cheap foreign workers to replace Americans so those companies can save labor costs. H-1B is meant for "specialty occupations", which are difficult to find people with suitable skills to fill. Companies that petitions for prospective H-1B employees must prove that they have tried, unsuccessfully, to find suitable Americans who can do the jobs. That is the main stipulation of H-1B visa. In addition, a company that petitions to hire a H-1B worker must show to the USCIS (formerly the INS) that they will pay the foreign worker a wage level that is comparable or equivalent to what an American worker with similar skills in similar job earns. That means the company cannot use H-1B as a route to hire a cheaper foreign worker as the replacement for an American worker. That is another basic stipulation of the H-1B visa. I know H-1B. So I know Disney or the Indian outsourcing firm must have violated the terms of H-1B to bring in those foreign workers. Disney or the Indian outsourcing firm must have lied on the petitions to bring in those people. (I believe the Indian outsourcing company is one of those shady "body shops" - ask me if you want to know what that is.) I am surprised that the USCIS has not intervened and pulled all those H-1B's.

Walking Dead is coming soon. Tomb Raider is already there (the "good old" ones anyway). GOG is too slow in getting new titles. I already own both seasons of The Walking Dead on Steam. I am not going to buy them again on GOG. I am also unwilling to switch platform and buy the third or future seasons from GOG. I prefer keeping everything - i.e., all seasons and installments from the same series - on the same platform, i.e., Steam. (I have not bought any of the Game of Thrones episodes, so I'll buy those on GOG later.) I hated the old the Tomb Raider games. I played and hated the first and original Tomb Raider back in 1997 or 1998, but I hated it so I did not complete it. Since then I have occasionally checked out the other Tomb Raider games on YouTube, but they all seemed uninspiring. The 2013 Tomb Raider remake is really the first one from the series I enjoyed. It is a pity that GOG does not have it. I also hated the old XCOM games from the 1990s. I tried the original, also in 1998 or so, and hated it. On the other hand, I have registered over 1,000 hours of play time for XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within on Steam. After playing and loving the XCOM remake, I went back and tried the old XCOM games again... still hated it. It is a pity that GOG also does not have XCOM. I hated the old Tomb Raider and the old XCOM games. Yet, both the 2013 Tomb Raider and XCOM remake (Enemy Within in particular) are among my top ten favorite games of all time. I have been playing hundreds of video games since the early 1980s. (Until very recently, I had thought I loved RPG... until I realized, none of my top ten games is a RPG. I've enjoyed them, but I have never really really loved or worshiped one.) I used to prefer buying games from GOG because GOG games are DRM free; but last year I realized, "wait a min... GOG never has any of the really good games I like. So why did I kept telling people that GOG is better than Steam?" Ultimately, it really comes down to the games that I play and I love. And so far, all of the very best games I've played in recent years have been on Steam and not on GOG. Let see. I'm gonna try again.

Finally installed and tried GOG Galaxy. Oh man, it sucks. It does not even allow users to change the install drive. I installed on my "G:" drive ("G" for Games), and Galaxy still installed games on my system drive. Messed up my system mojo. Dumbass app.

Pillars of Eternity? Oh yeah... that's an Obsidian game I haven't bought/played. Not in the mood for any more traditional fantasy RPG at the moment.

A couple of women I knew would not shut up about equal pay. I emailed the videos to them. Never heard from them again.