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Having your conquests as a collectible card ingame is crass, but making it an achievement is fine and classy I guess. My Witcher 2 playthrough ended up with a pretty high death toll, in that almost everyone who could die during the plot, did. But it's to the game's credit that it was not because I'd deliberately set out to play a homicidal maniac, but that because that's the way things naturally panned out, everyone I had a hand in killing deserved it. I'd be pleased if Wild Hunt turned out the same way. One of my favourite Oglaf quotes: "Good and evil are relative, but being a **** cannot be allowed." As for the whole Ciri thing, I think I've said it before but my objection to it is wholly an objection to playing anything but the singular player character in *any* RPG. I can't help but feel that it undermines the whole roleplaying thing when other characters, who you'd normally only know through their interactions with the player character, are suddenly an open book to you. Instead of having to guess at their feelings, their motives and their personality as a whole from how they behave towards you, it's just there, presented as plain fact while you play as them, and I think that really hurts the characterisation of that character.

Starwars is fine, he doesn't post often but is a valued member of the community. As for the Lucas creation - well, when I'm in a trollish mood, I'll dismiss Star Wars as a meaningless kids movie from the 70s. But in all seriousness it's not a property I've ever had any interest in, although I have to admit I've never actually sat down and watched any of the movies in their entirety. All the small fragments of it that I've unavoidably seen over the years probably add up to a full showing though, such is the media saturation around it, so it's not like I "don't know" it. Maybe it's because for whatever reason I never watched it as a kid - being an 80s baby, I'd be too young for the original release, and too old for easy media availability of the digital era - so by the time I could watch it freely anytime I wanted to, the impressionable period had passed. Or maybe it was because my first real exposure to Star Wars was the god-awful CD-ROM pioneering game, Rebel Assault.

Can't even get to page 2 because questions 3 and 4 are mandatory without there being a 'none of the above' option (though generally checkbox questions should be set optional by their nature, so a 'none' option isn't generally used).

I only have a dumbphone so I'm not in the target audience for the survey, but can fill it out anyway if you want me to - not sure data on the "Nokia Series 40" OS is something worth collecting though.

Well, aside from the FLACs (though technically you save a tiny bit of spin-up time of course), yeah. I guess I'm a little decadent in my ways, in that I no longer consider using SSDs for plain storage as a 'waste', given that it's my primary, and only, internal storage on my PC. But if you feel you're better off selling the drive, then actually considering the use cases makes sense.

You people made me pre-emptively drop the PoE difficulty to easy. I'm still spending most of my time on D:OS co-op though, and can say I much, much prefer PoE's XP system. D:OS has some terrible XP distribution that can swing wildly between alternate solutions (or just the simple matter of remembering to talk to someone after doing some tangential thing), leaving people alternately underlevelled or overlevelled for a particular chunk of content. That said, the munchkin's rule of thumb here is that taking the violent solution will generally result in at least *double* the XP the peaceful solution provides - though in some cases the actual optimal solution is to talk your way out of some fight, then immediately initiate the fight anyway.

You could just cut out the 1TB HDD out altogether by the sounds of it, though it'd be a tight fit, and just back up the lot onto the 3TB. Aside from the speed benefit, you'd cut down on noise a bit.

You say that now, but.... I probably have somewhere between 80-90% of my 1TB used.

I underestimate sometimes how much I can remember of games I played when I was probably around 5-6 years old. Winter Games, Alley Cat, Pitstop II, and they're all there.

Still missing key titles like MI3 and Full Throttle on any digital platform, while "lesser" lights like The Dig have been available on Steam for years. No rhyme or reason to it, but at least it's not something we can blame Disney for. An optimist might suggest the titles being held back are perhaps because of planned remasters, such being the case for Grim Fandango and the upcoming DoTT, but it's still hard to fathom and not a peep has been heard about them.

I remember that while doing the autopsy quest, I accidentally did the alternate way of discovering the mystery and found I was no longer required to play doctor. That quest was more than a little confusing, but I appreciate not just having the one way to get through 'correctly'.

For those who care about LucasArts Star Wars content, sure. For those only interested in their adventure games ....well at least it hasn't gotten worse.

Maybe have a fiddle with the RAM settings, maybe it's not using the right timings profile, or perhaps even giving it the wrong voltage. Select the most conservative XMP profile, or set them manually to what the sticks are specced at (9-9-9-24 @ 1.5V). Bumping up the voltage a little (I'd cap out at 1.65V) if it continues to be unstable.

I have a problem with Steam doing it regardless of the breakdown of numbers, because even if implemented competently, too much of the industry is already concentrated in the hands of one entity and this would just lock us in even more tightly. I'd be a lot more open to the Nexus implementing such a system, even if the agreement they sign with Bethesda was no different.

Given as you can get that far now, you can grab Memtest and run it against each of the 'new' sticks individually.

The only thing I remember disliking about the GameCube controller was the shoulder buttons having too much travel to be responsive for general use.

Sounds kinky. I hadn't played D:OS for over a year now, but my sister had recently finished playing Fantasy Life on 3DS and was asking for suggestions on what to play next. So now we've played the game just about every day for a week so far.

The question is whether the parasite can be genetically re-engineered to make people like me.

We could try to make a game in which we seduce terrorists in order to defeat them, but that would probably prompt even more 1500-word columns.

The worst are PC games that support a controller, but *only* the Xbox controller. I adore Monaco, but needing to use third-party emulation software to mimic a 360 controller ....ugh.

Far from backstabs being mechanically exploitative, more games need to have an assassination feature not necessarily tied to the combat system. When people talk about 'exploiting' multiple backstabs, I don't see the cheat as being that you can get off multiple backstabs, the cheat is that the target is somehow still alive after the first one. There's no need to do a damage calculation if you're attacking someone sound asleep, there are few worse gameplay experiences than shooting a sleeping guy, having him say something, slowly go through the waking-up animation, then proceed to fight you as if it was any other fight except that he starts with 80% hp. The poison apple was the only good thing in the entire design of Oblivion. Target eats it, target dies, no need for any more complexity than that.

Heatspreaders on RAM are largely decorative and serve no real purpose except at the very bleeding edge where the chips are pushed past their design limits, so that's not a concern. As for the problem itself, the only real thing I can add to the above is try resetting the BIOS, there may be a jumper pin on the board for this purpose, or use the ol' remove battery trick. Can't think of much else, unless you're getting some beeps from the board, which you can then Google for their meaning.

Star Wars in general needs to rest in peace.

When the CE was first announced as an exclusive for EB Games for $200AUD, it was a right ripoff (I imported my Witcher 2 CE from the UK), but now that the Aussie dollar has tanked quite a bit since that announcement, it's suddenly looking a lot more reasonable. No pre-order of course, but if there's still stock on release I might bite. Still not a big fan of the choice of Geralt wrestling gryphon sculpture though. Now if it Geralt wrestling Yennefer....

Struggled with the starting dungeon of MoTB for the same reason. I know, I know, don't need to tell me that it's a brilliant game I need to play, I know that, but I just don't have the desire to deal with the edge-cases of DnD mechanics at this point.