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Sadly , the gamers of this gen find that boring. They only care about co-op /MP no matter if the game have a weak plot/story. Ex. L4D games. I rather 100 times buy a RPG with a good story than a game focused in co-op /MP with weak story. This is not a new phenomenon. Wolfenstein 3D wasn't played for the story. Doom and Quake had their online success. Counter-Strike. That's the continuation of an old trend.

If something ending in dinosaurs isn't atheism, I don't want to be an atheist anymore.

There goes my idealism. In other news. The Cat and the Coup is on Steam. It's a docugame about the CIA backed coup de'tat against the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. Also, it's free.

Gave it another shake last night. Played as Anjali. The witch boss was much easier this time. But I don't know if I'm stumbling over the controls or if I'm just not used to them enough yet. I keep trying to do some fast switching with the character only to accidentally block or use an ability in the wrong form. I like to start in caster, summon, drop the fire ability, switch to melee and pound enemies that are close, then switch back to caster. But I'd end up blocking when I meant to change. And when I wanted to heal, I'd accidentally change forms instead. I guess the control isn't intuitive to me yet. I hope that it changes with more time spent.

Alice? Correct. The first one, actually. Which I have to launch from within the second one even though it runs its own program. You can still play those games outside of the Origin client though, right? Correct, sir. Origin's kind of flaky, so unless you want the web browser, it's probably the better bet. It seems to automatically hook into Origin if Origin is running, but if it isn't, it runs without. The habit of Origin to randomly decide to crash on startup of a game (or maybe Alice's habit of crashing when hooking into Origin) makes this a good function.

Alice? Correct. The first one, actually. Which I have to launch from within the second one even though it runs its own program.

I believe that policy was rescinded. It was in effect when I purchased Northern Strike, but I can now re-download it from Origin. I kind of like Origin. Their in-game interface works a lot better than Steam's. But their store and game pages have ridiculous load times.

I'd invest all my skill points in chewing bubblegum.

It was inevitable that EA would create their own Digital Distribution channel, and then cut of the leeches who have been making money head over heels with their titles. Maybe we actually see some competition in prices if you can buy Battlefield cheaper from Origin than Call of Duty from Steam. The only, and a rather big, negative from this move is we the customers have to split our game collections into smaller fractions across multiple outlets. The only way you'll see competition is if you can buy Battlefield cheaper from Origin than Battlefield from Steam. Battlefield and Call of Duty are not interchangeable. Even if they were, it won't extend any further than just military shooters. There's no competition to be had with it.

I'm playing as an apparently insane little girl running around with a kitchen knife.

Steam users are reporting that Crysis 2 has been taken off of Steam I personally expect to be able to redownload and receive updates, but I'll try registering my key with Origin just to be safe.

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$10,000 in Tale Does Stuff, LLC, would go a long way.

Is the demo still not publicly available? I think I have a code for the club, but I don't want to have to register with that site.

I've got an original disc, too. Never installed (by me). When guys were clearing offices at Ensemble, they set up a table for whatever they wanted to just give away. I nabbed Alice and Fade to Black.

I honestly believe he tried. He gave lots of concessions. And that fact is probably the strongest criticism of him on the left. I can't blame that failure on him. If I were to vote based on the need to build bridges, I'd just hope for a different Democrat. It's clear the Republicans will have no part in it.

I wish Ron Paul had a more serious chance. He's the only Republic candidate I believe is actually for small government. I'm not a free market personal, personally, but I can recognize the value of the ideal. So I can get past that for voting. But I can't get past this need the Republican party has for trying to regulate the american family. That's about as big brother as I can imagine. The first Republican that is willing to go against his party and state that he favors gay marriage, while also having a genuine chance of winning, I'd vote for him. But I fear that's an inherent contradiction.

Resistance 2 lost a lot of the 1940s feel. Resistance 1 literally felt like World War 2 against aliens. Resistance 2 spends more time inside alien bases and secret military facilities. I think the change from Europe to America is responsible for large parts of that. Then there's the talking Hale, which really takes me out of him. Petty complaint. Non-petty complaint is that it was too dark. Way too many areas that are pitch black just because they can be. And how Resistance 1 kept putting you with infantry assaults. Where Resistance 2 keeps pairing you up with invincible commandos who are worthless.

Alice is gonna rock. Especially since I have the game pre-ordered. YEEAAAAHHH. PSM gave it a poor review too. I set mine to download from Origin earlier. So it's too late for me to back out. I just hope that my opinion will be higher than theirs.

I loved Resistance 1, I did not care for Resistance 2.

My subjective experience here conflicts with my objectivity. I've never touched the stuff, but my best friend for the first part of my life was a heavy user. And he has left me with no respectable image of those who do use it. The problem here is that I grew up, as a child, around people who were also children who used it. So them turning out bad might not be the entirety of the problem. If they'd been drinking heavily at 12, they'd probably be in the same situations. But it's left a long standing bias. My objectivity promotes legalization and regulation. But my bias is against the whole thing.

My copy is about two weeks away. I can never get Amazon's release day shipping anymore.

I'd love to vote for McCain. If he can get detached from the corpse that is Palin. And if he'll just bleeding stop flipping over to the extreme end of the GOP every time someone accuses him of not towing the line enough. Be who you are, man! But I simply can't trust him. He seems too willing to fall to peer pressure on any subject that's not torture related.

Finished Runaway 3. Much better than 2. Glad they returned to what was successful in the first game.

Tried out the El Shaddai demo. Tycho was right. That thing is insane.