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I hear you brother. I'm not twitchy, smart or competitive enough for MP RTS versus humans. I love Company of Heroes, I've got a friends list as long as your arm for skirmish V CPU. But people? I get my arse kicked every time. So, yeah, the SP vanilla campaign for a RTS is crucial for me. Games like CoH deliver on that front, I've played the core allied campaigns two or three times and not got bored of them and love online but, as I say, not against the waves of pro / smurf ninjas. I'm twitchy and smart enough. I'm just not competitive. I HATE having to play seriously. The more players I can hide behind to **** around while still kicking butt, the better. I can take breathers every now and then instead of win/loss being entirely on me. Too stressful.

Am I the only guy who loves RTS games, but hates playing them multiplayer? I even like Skirmish, but hate people. Which is sad because I helped develop an RTS. I was actually considered good at it, despite the fact that the balance team could tear me a new hole.

I don't know if you're talking to me, but I've played it. I just find a lot of the missions way too long and boring. It even has a defense mission. I hate those.

Huzzah. Hope it's not just you. I know the Ultramarines get fluff love, but now they're at Primarch level ? I was about to say 'The Emperor Provides', but it is an action game There is so much fluff to love, yet they chose the poster guys (again). Is the entire gaming world filled with munchkins with inferiority issues?!? Hey Relic, how about a nice roleplaying game some day? There is that Fire Warrior game.

Aren't they preventing people from playing it before midnight?

Be careful you two, that idea's almost enough to turn "unreliable narrator" into massive hype. Because Leland was very nice and I'd get excited for any game that considered following that.

Very interesting.

I'm undecided. I'm thinking either a James Bond Recruit AP run or Starcraft. I really want to replay AP, but I might buy Starcraft 2 this week and I remember absolutely nothing about Starcraft 1. Maybe I'll just extract the cinematics like I did with Diablo and the older C&C games.

The entire idea of the narrator taking liberties with character power being a factor in how easy or difficult battles is comes across to me as way too narratively deep for a Bioware game. Of course, if I saw it come from anyone else I'd simply say it was silly. Deep and silly.

And the Emo'est In my day that was called Punk.

:D We obviously have a different concept of "not being in a hurry". Hey, Amazon.com free shipping could take up to a week. If they even have it in stock! Not a hurry to me says "I'll buy it when I see it, but I won't hunt for it." Your not a hurry sounds more like no intent. I plan on seeing reviews first, of course.

That's good to hear.

I'm not in a hurry to get Starcraft 2. I actually didn't like the first. I'll see if Wal-Mart has it tomorrow. If not, I'll place an Amazon.com order and wait for the free shipping.

I really haven't commented on this anywhere. It's like I've been ignoring it. Which is odd, since I'm practically a DA:O fanboy. DA:O is the only reason I started caring about Bioware again. After hating Neverwinter Nights, being completely unispired by Jade Empire, and resoundly meh'ing at Mass Effect, the only reason I gave it a shot was because of my Claudia Black fanboyism. (Is fanboyism even a word? If not, must petition Websters.) And I loved it. Played it 2 and 1/2 times in a row without touching anything else. Unheard of by me. And it was my enjoyment of that which made me give them a chance on ME2. Which I enjoyed enough to also played 2 times through without touching anything else. But I still loved DA:O more. But I don't know what to make of it. If the overall direction leans to be like ME2, then I could still like it. If the story is more solid than DA:O, I could like it more. But the differences don't have me excited. I think the main reason I enjoyed it was the old-school RTS hybrid combat where I would pause, issue orders, unpause, and repeat, giving me that tactical feeling that no game that's not obviously a strategy game gives anymore. If 2 lacks that, I could still like it, but I'm not going to be excited for it. I can't explain it, but the change in direction for the sequel seems to be killing my interest in DLC of the original. Must ponder on this.

I was probably going to pass on New Vegas due to general Fallout 3 related disinterest. But Alpha Protocol changed my mind. Is it October yet?

Just beat Alpha Protocol. Sorry for doubting Obsidian. It has a few rough spots, (one defense scenario comes to mind) but otherwise it might be the best game I played this year.

Tips: (Also known as things you can figure out in 5 minutes of offline practice, so why don't you know them at level 5?) There is a yellow triangle on your map. That is your destination. Reloading discards unused ammo in the magazine. The sentry is not your primary weapon, stop carrying it around and trying to set it down at every opportunity.

Rented to completion Singularity, rather enjoyed it. Played some Ultimate Alliance 2 since they re-released the DLC I missed. Am downloading Alien Swarm, a free game from Valve for those who are unaware. If I remember, I'll render an opinion later. Tried out the Deathspank demo, the humor is nice, but I see the game getting repetitive before I would get too far into it. Tomorrow or the next day, I'm looking to play Cryostasis and maybe replay all the Dragon Age DLC I missed. Maybe some Mass Effect 2 DLC. I'm getting a new power supply tomorrow, so I should be able to play them for the first time in months without my computer powering down after 5 minutes. Mass Effect 2 is the last new game I completed prior to my power supply going wonkers. With Dragon Age: Awakenings being the last game I completed in spite of it.

Isn't it awesome? I'm not a one forum man, baby. You can't hold me down.

I come back and this is what I find? :'(

Yeah, I was able to continue downloading the movies I rented, but it won't let me watch them until it corrects my date.

How is a date/time glitch that lasts for probably a day worse than your motherboard warping and requiring repair?

I wonder why more bad games can't get this much trolling.

How is it? Only on the second case. With the first case following the tradition of being part-tutorial. It's coming across well so far.

Beat Heavy Rain today. I can recommend. And am alternating between a newly arrived DVD copy of Planescape Torment and Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.