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Keep in mind the story mode is long. It took me maybe 5 hours to beat.

There's a distinction between expecting good writing and expecting competent writing. It's not the camp I'm complaining about. The camp is fine. The camp is the fact that ninjas are fighting Shaolin monks for the sake of something called Earthrealm. And a time traveling lightning god is trying to prevent Armageddon. The bad is that characters are re-introduced into old scenarios with no reason for them to be there. And that I keep having to fight Baraka. WHY

No choice at all. The story mode is divided into chapters where you play as a particular character. Usually a good guy, except for a few instances of playing a bad guy who considers changing teams.

Yes, I'm paying attention to the plot. There's an entire mode dedicated to it. Plot holes aren't done on purpose. That's absurd. It's just lazy writing.

Mortal Kombat The Story mode is a great inclusion. The writing is awful. The premise of the plot of this game is that Raiden from Armageddon sends a message back to Raiden of Mortal Kombat 1. So Raiden tries to figure out the cryptic message and changes things from the original MK timeline. The two problems with the writing are: 1) It's Mortal Kombat, yet nobody is killing anyone. Two guys die by the end of the second tournament (Mortal Kombat 2). If someone had just been smart enough to kill Baraka or Sheeva instead of conveniently forgetting they're around, I could have been saved a lot of pointless fights. 2) Not all of the timeline changes are justified or make sense. Some, like the Smoke/Sub-Zero change, are specifically lampshaded. But apparently Reptile was a regular participant in the first tournament instead of a special combatant. I can accept that. But why are Cyrax, Sector, and Baraka present at all?

Everyone? I... I didn't know!

It's about the figure. Things like that are often the biggest attraction of collector's editions.

I call Atlas.

I hope that's a bannable offense.

My copy won't arrive until Friday. I'm hoping some guys around here will still be interested in co-op.

For everyone. The hardware treadmill is stupid.

About time!

I don't think Doom 3's Ultra High setting is considered the default.

Been playing nothing. 18 hour power outage.

But if I don't use Tutu, then I can't play a Wild Mage!

That's not how it works. It works similar to other distributed computing systems like folding@home. The number of users speeds up the process. It is not a total = progress system, but a total = rate system.

I guess I'll be playing Amnesia tonight instead of TF2.

SQUEEEE http://www.aperturescience.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/ But yeah, not playing anything right now. Instead am watching Babylon 5.

After all, lots of people like to play boring popamole shooter. For a moment I read this as Popemobile shooter. I suddenly had images of driving around in a funny car while firing guns.

I did like the spells. Speaking to the dead? Teleporting to wherever? It'd be nice to see those again. Utility magic is increasingly underrepresented. I think Morrowind was the last game I played with any. And the best it got was Mark, Recall, and Levitation.

What about those monsters that broke your weapons when you attacked them? I had no clue what was going on for a while.

Oh man, have you heard about Time Cube?

Recommending X here.

It makes the shooting simply not fun. Leaves you feeling that anything below a high level of skill is completely worthless. Most abilities that improve with points don't do so by making them unable to hit the broad side of a barn, why do it with shooting then?

Garrus needs to just grow up. Taking him all herpaderp grimdark would just be absurd.