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Someone, anyone, please explain to me why golden gun textures are even a thing. Who actually wants these? Who thinks people want them? I had a golden texture for the proton pack in a Ghostbusters game. It is insane.

Saw John Carter. I really liked it. I would go to see a sequel.

It's like a snake eating off its own tail. I'm rather interested in seeing this play out.

I'm amazed at how many people like Walking Dead. I'm a big Telltale fan and I expected absolutely nothing from it. So glad they were able to pull it off.

Mitra always looks angry. That's how I tell them apart.

Underworld Awakening Meh. I'd watch a fifth movie, but I wouldn't pay to watch it. There was absolutely no character development to the film. If I just want Vampires and Werewolves fighting, I'd go watch the first one.

This sale hasn't been as exciting for me as previous ones. Haul so far is Saint's Row: The Third, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Max Payne 1 & 2, Walking Dead, and some DLC for Saint's Row. That's a humble haul for 6 days.

It got pulled off of all the digital download sites a while back. Then it got put back up with Hasbro listed as publisher instead of Atari. Steam kept it up for longer than most, but hasn't gotten it back up yet.

I really like how my Saint's character turned out.

I think the new THQ CEO is setting Saint's Row up to be the THQ flagship franchise. He encouraged them to turn the final DLC into a full-on Saint's Row 4 and claims to be giving them lots of resources to do it. Getting more people exposed to the third title is a good idea. It's a good game, I'm glad I picked it up on this sale. And grabbed the DLC today.

I seem to be really enjoying Saint's Row the Third. It pays off not jumping on every open world care stealing game to come along. They're fresh when I do grab one.

I like the atmosphere and tone of the game but the gameplay looks like it'd get old fast? A lot of people feel positively about them. Not me. For me it was precisely that, got old fast. The game never manages to grow beyond the first level and everything is more of the same.

I wish I was a gamer.

Started playing Saint's Row: The Third last night. Pretty fun game. I like the customization. It's not quite up to Just Cause 2 for destructive fun, however. But I like the atmosphere more. I'm hoping it has a good progression curve.

Is... that supposed to be a lot? Steam lists me as 320 games. And stops showing that I've played them at about 150. And I'm still eyeing to buy Geneforge and Walking Dead. I need an intervention.

Diagnosing network troubles at work today. Boss's computer works. Everyone else's does not. Try a spare cable to the router that does not go through the cieling and I can make any machine work. One desktop, all I have to do is change the network cable. Possible diagnosis: Possum

I just want to know how you got that tag at the front of the title. It's wizardry!

Beat Breath of Death VII. Felt more like a first project passed as parody than a more complex parody endeared by its source. But heck, I loved what they did for Rainslick 3, so I won't hold it against them.

Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia, Street Fighter II's animated movie was superb. Mortal Kombat is well regarded, though perhaps more of a cult hit. That's just my opinion. They all have pretty low RT scores. Top two RT scores are Final Fantasy: Spirits Within at 43% and Prince of Persia at 35%.

That may be the source of my confusion. Thanks for the correction.

I hear that it's closer to Sins of a Solar Empire. Being an RTS 4X.

New thread.

What are we up to now? Does anyone know? Previously on "What you did today." Talk of iphones and who may or may not be hipsters. I think Nepenthe's the hipster, though I'm not quite clear on the contexts. Yesterday, I appear to have played 11 hours of video games. Which, sadly, might not even be a record for me. Combined with grocery shopping and cleaning the bathroom, I'm really not sure how I had time for that.

Any game that that relies on player choice and exploration of various potential archetypes needs not be voiced, especially for the main character. Voiced is cool and all, but it takes way too much away to be worth it. I see as much choice and player definition in the character for Mass Effect and Dragon Age 2 as I saw in Binary Domain, it's just that Binary Domain is a heck of a lot shorter. They're almost like a Devil May Cry game, except you get to choose between Dante, Virgil, and Nero on a case by case basis. I love a good action/adventure and third-person shooter. I don't hold to some notion that RPGs are superior than these. But I do hold that they should have some differences. And being able to express more than just three archetypes that only differ in tone 90% of the time doesn't strike me as a valuable thing to set RPGs apart.