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I suspect it's because fewer people pre-ordered than they were hoping for. I've heard loads of people say they've been given a voucher but nobody saying that they've bought it yet.

Pre-ordered. Graphics aren't usually a selling point for me but this looks so good.

Storm of Zehir already did this. Those moments were fun but probably not worth the time that went into them.

I misspoke, sorry, I've never handled a real gun and even before you mentioned it I did assume there were differences to really doing it and doing it a game. That said, with the 3d glasses, when you look down a scope or iron sight the visual feedback you get makes it look much more substantial that just looking at a flat monitor, you get more of a sense of being in the game and it's hard to properly describe but it's definitely a cool experience.

I think iron sights are one of those subtle things that you don't really notice until they're missing, but no probably not worth making a fuss over, there are plenty of good shooters without iron sights. When I started playing in Nvidia 3d though, iron sights and scopes went from being a minor graphical effect to being a pretty big deal. The sights are one the things that really pop out of the screen so in games like Battlefield 3 and Metro when you look down a sight it really seems like you're looking down a tube and the rest of you vision rather than just being black has that sense of being blocked out by depth and it feels much more like a real action and a real thing than it did before 3d.

Apparently Blacklist didn't sell as well as Ubisoft had predicted so there probably will be changes next time. I think Blacklist is the most enjoyable of the series though, even if it's not the same genre as SC of old (which were all excellent).

What was M about DA2? I don't remember anything that really stood out except perhaps for the serial killer plot-line.

Going by the quote and machine fetish it sort of looks like it's taking some inspiration from "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream".

I wish that they'd allowed for some really cool mechanical things to be done with Mars surface missions or flooding ships or bad weather or space ships/stations that get battle damage and start to vent atmosphere, lose power and/or gravity or suck things out through holes in the hull and other things like that. I totally get that that would take a huge amount of time and effort but it would have been nice.

It definitely doesn't take place after the original story, it's a bit like a Civ expansion in that it just makes the core game larger and more varied. I suppose there's a chance it could extend the original story beyond the original ending though?

When we start to have machines slack off for us you know the planet is doomed.

The impression I get from the articles is that aside from the alien missions which carry on as normal, you get a similar set of randomly generated and story missions against Exalt running parallel.That's no guarantee that the Exalt stuff will take long to beat but it sound like the point was to extend the campaign significantly.

Seriously, this pretty much looks like a brand new game. Throw in some harpoons and a cruise ship and we have a full sequel. I did read something about those effing jellyfish making a comeback. There's also supposed to be like 40 new maps, although I imagine some of that will be divvied up between the special missions and the multiplayer as well, but it;s not hard to imagine a ship of some kind being one of them.

http://youtu.be/OTiH3xZRBRU

Enemy Within to introduce new faction

I've been playing Duke Nukem Forever and it's DLC campaign It's much more fun than people ever gave it credit for, it's a good throwback to 90's shooters and has some fun weapons and creative encounters.

The Brock Samson?

Would it be worth trying to organize an Obsidian BG:EE campaign at some point? We could possibly have players switch in/out depending on the nights they're available, a bit like dead members being replaced on the "Let's Plays".

No word on the multiplayer matchmaking being fixed yet?

That was awesome