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Does Monte want a hug?

The thing I dislike about them is I'm kind of getting into a purist phase. These things are rarely tested or balanced. And sometimes their visuals aren't up to quality. Like the Weathered 10mm, which is the only gun you can expect to have early on that's very effective against small radscorpions. It's better than every weapon you'll find until you probably hit Vegas. And the armor is better than you'll find until on the way to Novac. But the weapon doesn't handle weapon mods properly (it's probably not supposed to handle them at all) and causes visual bugs. Or the special merchant in Neverwinter Nights 2 that offered, among other high end equipment at a discount, a permanent haste item. Mass Effect 2 stuff from Steam wasn't bad, I guess. I never used any of it, except the Inferno armor for one level. I like how Red Dead Redemption did it. It was slightly overpowered, I'll grant, but it still required conditions to unlock, same as the rest. Helps that it was just so cool looking.

I think approval systems are great, but DA screwed it up with really stupid gift system. You could just flood them with stupid stuff and suddenly they love you. Good point, I forgot about that element of the system as they had it.

I can't disagree. But I can't look at companions just showing up for the adventuring whenever they feel like as a good thing. You do that at a tabletop RPG, they might stop reserving beer and chips for you. And I hate when it happens in strategy games. So as a combination of the two, RPGs and strategy, I can't like it. Whereas the approval system I thought was clearly an element of this that I did kind of like. It illustrated the companions as having their own sets of values, while allowing you to interact with that in a choice/consequence fashion.

You sound like mkreku is having problems with his girlfriend. Yeah, this is more important.

Thirsty.

Why? The Obsidianites don't really strike me as the "Day one!11!!" crowd... I'll have it day one. If you want me to hit you, all you have to do is ask.

I'm calling bullshot.

I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. After New Vegas, I think I'm going to start avoiding pre-orders specifically to not get these.

I started playing it, liking it, but not loving it. I quit and am deciding to restart now that I find out there's vague stuff you have to do to get a specific ending. Terrific.

I recommend every single Discworld book. I haven't read them all, but of the 10 I have read I've not found one I couldn't specifically recommend. And way too many books on my to-read list that I shouldn't come near this thread again. I've got Lord of the Rings trilo, Mistborn trilo, 6 more discworld books, the first two Game of Thrones, Neuromancer, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-Five, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel, and.... I'll just stop there and say there's a reason I forbid myself entering a Half Price Books. All unread just staring at me every moment I sit at this computer. But trying to get through A Game of Thrones. I'll alternate it with a rereading of the first books of Wheel of Time.

The Problem With Sex As A Video Game Goal While I never really identified sex as the goal as a problem, I see the reasoning behind considering it one. And also thought that Red Dead Redemption's "romance" was done well. And a commenter mentioned The Darkness. Another good one.

Yes another reason the game should have had a blind old lady.

I'm kind of curious as to how I, as a citizen of a democracy, can go about voting against the kidnapping of German citizens.

Laugh all you want. But when she's president, the humor will be replaced by terror.

And.....? And what? Does that require extra specification in Texas? We do everything bigger here.

I like to holster because it feels odd treking the area with my gun pointing at people. It's just proper gun safety! I now feel like complaining that the controls aren't different enough from the console. I have to hold down a button for a completely different function? But that's getting old hat.

Hold R.

The PC manual is the same as the console manuals, with some keys swapped around.

So, all of the good, none of the bad?

And.....?

You could just give me the Wii.

That would make sense if the manual was made for HTML. But the manuals are made for printing. The PDF manuals are copies of the source file they printed and tossed in the packaging. It's right inane to create a new manual off a new template just to shoehorn it into HTML. I made my share of crappy geocities sites back in the day. And I used notepad, dag nabbit. Unlike you lazy kids these days.