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You got promoted then?

I'd say that of the various funding drives from all the other Sierra alumni, this one seems the most mature at the point of KS launch. The product itself is probably easily at the most advanced stage at this point compared to the others, and the sparse tiers aside, the logistics of the campaign is up there with the better ones. And given that fairly concrete news about this project being actively pursued as back as February, that's probably to be expected. Recent projects have certainly taken some steps back away from the high-cost physical goods excesses of previous projects. In this case they might have gone a bit too far stripping it down, resulting in losing some potential of the mid-range meat 'n' potatoes pledges, but the rationale is sound, particularly in light of the Double Fine problems. Ultimately it's a project of a fair bit more complexity than say, SpaceVenture or Larry, while at the same time probably not a meaningfully more attractive money draw - which would probably necessitate a lower percentage 'bleed' of funds into reward fulfilment.

Well, once you get the full set....

It added four separate entries to my library: Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes (New Steam Version), Opposing Fronts, and Tales of Valor. Confusing to say the least.

Cheers, will do, but I'll need to pick up a second copy to gift to my sister to try MP with, so I'm curious anyway.

Just when my wallet was starting to recover (that's a blatant lie). Well, I can't not support a Sierra alum, and I did love the bejesus out of Police Quest. Sonny Bonds Maxwell Jones reporting for duty. I fear that the $30 entry point to get the game will turn away many would-be supporters. Aware of the concerns over the relatively steep entry price, they've introduced a lower $19 tier now (limited amount). The $30 tier has been turned into a bonus edition of sorts. Good move I think.

Checking before I go ahead with it, there's no hidden gotcha here is there? Just regular pricing stupidity? $4.98 : Company of Heroes Complete Pack - Includes 3 items: Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor $7.49 : Company of Heroes: Gold - Includes 2 items: Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

Don't think I've ever managed that, even in attempts to play again within the last few years.

I guess all the predictions before the base game was even released, that the game would only get good enough to stand on its own after the second expansion, is very much true then. I bought both the base game pretty much on launch, and likewise Gods and Kings. Yet I only have a couple hours logged under the former, and none at all after the latter. I ought to be more sensible about these things, but I can't be. Only decision now is whether to buy digital or import a hard copy. EDIT: I think this is my worst grammar-ed post ever. But I can't fix it satisfactorily so I'll just add this.

Myst is just too cold, but the latter-day Zork games showed me that the format can still inject a bit more fun into the sub-genre, despite my heavy preference against first-person adventure.

Cutest chick ever:

The power from Dishonored I'd most like to see in Skyrim is, er, climbing things.

Alan, oh my hat !!! You do crack the occasional joke, nice one It better have a Nissan Leaf charging station inside, and of course the car itself to ride into battle.

I would love to bits a Sims variant where your subjects are fully autonomous and independent of the player. Kind of like an AI-driven ant farm, you'd be able to affect the environment and see how they react to your scheming, but their minds would be completely their own (aside from whatever is set during character creation).

I won't. Then people on Steam would see me purchasing a Bioware game. What would that do to my reputation? It'll only be on Origin. And honestly, who has any friends on Origin?

If it means ME is put to bed, there's really no where to go but up. ....at least, that's what I told myself the last time.

They should do a reprint of the original hint book, would make a cool collectible given its mythical status. Still waiting for my Shadowrun Returns email. Then there's inXile still taunting me about all the Wasteland T-shirts I won't be getting, booo.

Yeah, I thought Steelport was a pretty dull, grey place, like what I'd imagine a generic American city to look like (I've never been to the US). Need a total conversion of SR3 to take place in Sleeping Dogs' version of Hong Kong. So far it's the only open-world city-roaming game city that I enjoyed just tooling around in, but the game itself was just a bit too oppressive for me, it needed a bit more levity.

I played Skyrim with default textures - with a 1GB 5850 pushing 25x14 res at the time, high-res textures would have been suicide - and had no particular issue with them, but then I'm sort of used to lower standards and haven't really played many other graphically intensive games. I've since upgraded to a 3GB frame buffer, which would handle the high-res textures easily ....but really have no desire to go back to the game. Maybe if I could get all the DLC for under $10 I might try, but there's no real draw at the moment, and as far as I can see, despite the vaunted moddability of the game, there's basically no real user-generated content that's more than a trivial distraction (the seemingly infinite number of Mary Sue custom companion NPCs don't count). New Vegas I pretty much played unmodded, so not much I can say there, except to get aviator shades to hide behind.

I thought about buying it, before being told on the product page that I already have it. Don't even remotely remember buying it, but it's apparently been there well over a year.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaah. No. Now that the timeframe for that has passed, he will be suggesting people watch Sharknado for the true prophecy of the future.

Dammit, I should have quoted for posterity. (I also had to look up who Keith David was *hides*)

Wow, Keith David is playing all those characters?

Ice, it's being broken.

In hindsight I would not have even fought that dragon, activating the whole dragon plot just adds annoying distractions everywhere while you try to play the fun parts of the game.