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Verdict on Receiver 4 YAYS out of 5. Only game I've played where I died because I paniced and dropped my magazine during a reload. Dropped it twice. You get your mixed moments of feeling awesome with panicing and fumbling like a fool. Then there are moments where you're completely out of ammo so you're scouting for rounds and to see if you can afford to try sprinting through a room. So it has a nice survival element in that. I would love to see these mechanics as part of a larger game context. Something that's not combat focused, so the combat gets to stand out more with tension. Or a more content-full roguelike with multiple guns and better area design. Receiver has some... lighting problems.

Receiver released today. This was thrown together as part of some 7 day FPS challenge. The mechanics seem very cool. I already bought it to show there's an audience for this kind of thing. Is it any actual fun? I'll report on that to the What are you playing now? thread later today.

I saw season 1. It turned out I recorded these two episodes today and they're running in the background while I do other stuff. I thought season 1 was terribly boring. Alien invasion series where they almost never fight aliens. They spent more time fighting each other. Then the few times they fought the aliens, they won with silly stuff. I think I have a hard time suspending my disbelief about an alien invasion that conquers earth, but has trouble finding a group of people who hang out in broad daylight. Nor is there any real indication of a broader plot to the series or objective.

Thief Walking speed is painful. Strafing speeds are reasonable. I could walk sideways around the map faster than I can walk forwards.

Might be good. My only fear is that history has instances of a studio making a terrific game, becoming a hot property, then the publisher forcing them to rush out their next project to cash-in. Hopefully, Eidos/Square Enix aren't going to do that, but there's no assurance. Not to say that's necessarily common. But I'm going to be prepared for it.

That's the bad thing about being so high level. None of you will rent my pawn.

To make 3D and extend Duke's appearance in it. Test screenings claimed he didn't get enough time.

I've heard that few games make a profit. But I've never been quite clear on whether that was the game industry equivalent of hollywood accounting or not.

I just beat Dragon's Dogma. Didn't do the secret boss or get the best equipment. On checking my total play time, it lists 82 hours. I think I got enough in anyway. Time to move on to a different game, mayhaps.

It's hard to analyze things like that. It could have been anything. Maybe the producer was obsessed with found footage at the time. Maybe the director had an idea for a found footage film and it ended up morphing into something completely different, but he didn't have time to completely revise it. Found footage really only seems to work in horror films. In Chronicle it was just bizarre. Because the footage isn't "found" it's just cam footage. They lose entire cameras with footage in them, but that never stops us from seeing it.

I've decided that David is one of my new favorite characters in fiction.

Saw Prometheus at midnight. And I'm exhausted today. I really liked it. It wasn't the second coming I'd hope for, but it was still good. Two things I really want to say about the movie.

http://www.humblebundle.com/ Latest Humble Bundle just added Braid, Lone Survivor, and Super Meat Boy. Lone Survivor is probably the only one of those that's new to Humble Bundle. Braid practically ends up on every other one. That's what I was waiting for, anyway. Lone Survivor and Superbrothers are the only games I don't have, but this it seems like a good deal for me now.

It looks like HTML tags that aren't supported. Most of that garbage is just code for signs. it's br and p tags.

Stop insulting a movie I want to be the second coming! If I come out of that theatre with a dose of reality instead of my blissful delusions, I'll be very sad.

I still see Science-Fantasy as a bit of heresy. But at least it doesn't get its own signage. Teen supernatural romance is just an oddly specific genre to dedicate space to.

It's really disturbing that "teen supernatural romance" has become so popular I actually saw a dedicated section at Barnes & Noble.

Old thread. How is the quality of the show in season 2? I've about halfway through the season 1 Blu-Ray. I see a few people complaining here and there, but don't know if it's anything genuine.

Starting a new thread, this one is past limit. New thread.

It started off promising. I was having Ghost Trick hopes. But then it became just like Heavy Rain and I lost interest.

Try not to take too many cues in general. Find your own voice. I mean, I'd love to write like Pratchett, but it's just not right.

You might get time to catch up. I'm dog sitting this week so I won't be playing it.

So did Jew get cut, renamed, or just not present for the demo?

I'm in Dragon's Dogma's postgame. Imagine you're playing your typical fantasy RPG. The roads and wilderness are filled with goblins, wolves, and zombies. Now imagine you beat the bad guy at the end.