LadyCrimson

I think looking for too much logic/consistency in a movie like Dredd is a futile exercise.

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It's not a story spoiler ... just an easter egg based on a viral 'net video from a while back. If you don't know the reference it probably won't be as funny. You can search YT for "double rainbow" and the original video will be first in the results (the "double rainbow song" vid is hilarious too).

Tonight was the 1st time I encountered the double-rainbow claptrap easter egg in BL2...I was laughing so hard. Went on YouTube looking for it and it's even better when Handsome Jack voices it. ... ( Handsome Jack is first, Claptrap is at 1:25 )

For some reason this makes me think of Piers Anthony's "Source of Magic" (Xanth series) where Bink and his party travel through some hallucinogenic region of madness..too much magic dust in the air or something.

Forget the two hobbits at the beginning and go to about the one minute mark. You haven't lived until you see Boromir doing the Brady Bunch Kids dance.

@Calax - all reasonable things. I guess for me it's just like how some get tired of "medieval fantasy" RPG's. It's nice to have something different once in a while, even if the difference is mostly visual world. I was looking at Steam's bestsellers "action" category earlier and it was military after military game. lol.

Dredd. Mixed feelings. One hand, better than that first one. On other hand, it had no "it's so bad it's funny" aspect. So I was mostly unmoved. Someone above said it was well crafted, and I'll give it that. The 2nd half was also better than the first half. But something about the closed-in, one-spot scenario didn't work for me in this instance. Still...watchable fare. P.S. I kept thinking... "Die Hard: Die Dredder."

Isn't it possible FO4 would be made using the same "new" Gamebryo engine as Skyrim? I'd consider that fairly likely. I think the Three Dog voice actor recently stated (this month) there might be more of his chr. which would indicate the wait for FO4 won't be 5 more years or something. My old fart 1st gen i7 rig built a few years ago could/can still run Skyrim max (and pretty much anything else I've tossed at it) with no issues so I'm having a hard time imagining any high-end rig built today having trouble with a game that (might be) out in 2-3 years.

I was thinking more along the lines of ... why can't I be shooting a dragon or mutated slugworm with my sniper instead of some stereotyped commie insurgent or whatever. Or why can't I be on a planet made of sanddunes, or 80% water, with both human spacefarers and oddball aliens, instead of some dull jungle or real-world location. It's not the "military combat" I mind (kinda goes with guns and shooting) but the setting it's put into. eg, I want more escapism/variety in the shooter, not army reality.

I love this kind of stuff...even if it's only one guy doing all the parts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lckZhkQEss

Chosen One. Basic skeletons. I mean, it's still kinda funny when one jumps out of a barrel or a closet (get it? haha) or something, but if I never see another one in the dark corridors of a fantasy game I won't be sad.

Feeling a little sad and lonely ... then a cat came and put a paw on my face and gave me a head-butt, and I suddenly felt a little better. They always know.

Why are so many FPS shooters military oriented? By that I mean the look/setting, the army looking clothes, uniforms, jeeps. I don't mind military archetype characters (in fact I quite like them), but the semi-realistic military setting is so boring, outside of a strategy game. And zombies are no better.

I felt the same way about Gimp, ages past when I tried it. I wish Paint Shop Pro was still making new versions, altho Corel was sorta ruining it anyway. But for the cheaper image/graphic editor, it was a decent product back then, imo. For photo editing/RAW converting I just use the Canon software, since I only do minor photo tweaking, none of the fancy digital stuff. I tried Photoshop once a long time ago, I don't remember what version...hubby had it from work once. But I generally felt the things it could do that PSP couldn't weren't things I needed. But if it was cheaper ($300 say), I'd certainly buy a copy. Just can't justify buying it at their current prices for the very occasional reasons I'd want to use it. Edit: I guess Corel is still putting PSP out, actually...for some reason I thought they had eliminated it and were just putting out a simpler photo-editing package ... but I don't like what I'm seeing.

It's nice to know some of the amusing little glitches are universal.

Yeah...I'd agree. The class skills don't develop very well until lvl 15 or higher, making the gameplay feel very much the same early on. The one least affected by that, perhaps, is the Commando, since his turret is useful even at the start.

I think if there's a next Obsidian Kickstarter, one of the tier rewards should be 4 tins full of those cookies.

I wish Wilhelm would stop dropping his stuff 30 miles away from his "corpse" (meaning one often can't reach/get to them). In fact, I think Borderlands series needs to tighten up the drop pattern altogether. There's no need to make them go flying in a huge radial pattern that starts from half a mile in the air and drops down like a shower of meteors. Sigh.

I personally have two main things that affect how I choose/who I keep in story/chr-rpg's: 1 - Do they have any quests or behaviors that interfere with how I personally like to play the game (if they do, they're gone) 2 - Do I like their personality/story (this includes voice acting/battle-cries, if any) or at the least, do not excessively annoy me In regards to #1, if I find out that having companion A in my party means I can't have companion B, and I always prefer B, I will choose B. Or if having companion C means I can't join a Faction I want, out goes C. For me, it's not about stats/skills or combat usefulness so much as it is about what choices/consequences there are to having a particular companion. To be clear, I don't mind that I have to make choices. But these choices will often dictate which companions I end up using 9 times out of 10, even on replays.

I personally loved Xan, he made me laugh. I can see why some people don't like some companions because of "weak stats" but that, to me, is part of the game. Most of the time such companions do have their uses, just not the obviously powerful type a lot of people want. Yet to remove the seemingly weaker as an option seems kind of cheesy, simply because ... should all companions then have awesome combat stats and skills? Kind of defeats the purpose of having to plan/make choices, seems like. In terms of personality stuff, that's just subjective and it'd be pretty darn silly to task a developer to make a companion that "no one" would dislike their personality (to the point of not wanting to use them just because of it I mean). There have been plenty of "powerful" and very useful companions in rpg's that I refused to use because the voice acting annoyed me to no end or because I didn't like their side-quest lines or what have you. It happens - it's gaming. No big deal, imo.

1 - does it work on Win7 2 - are any of those files only the Photoshop editor, or is the 'Photoshop CS2" going to install the whole "suite" of programs? Do I/would I want all those all other programs? ....I still use PaintShopPro9 and it's fine for most editing stuff.

I used to have 9 cats for my 24/7 entertainment.

Busy procrastinating. Lots of things to do this week but all my brain wants to do right now is shut off, which isn't helping.