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Been trying to get my hands on Sam and Max.

I never felt like audience factored into it. It seems to be a sardonic criticism of people using words to mean things they don't. I guess reading between the lines could produce some ideas about who or why, but that's not seeming to work out all that well, is it?

I'd love to play Cryostasis, but the original made my computer chug. That computer has since died. Little chance of playing another at the moment.

I finished Alien: Isolation. Overall it's a pretty good game. On the downside, I don't foresee replaying it in the future. I also started up Fable III which I got back in a Games with Gold promotion. I like that, it's a lot like Fable II which I know lots of people hated. It does have it's tedious elements in making friends with people. And it's paced bizarrely at the beginning where you don't get the quests that give you a decent amount of seals until after you already need a bunch and try making friends with freaking everyone.

4/10 Does that mean my post is better or worse than the Phantom Menace?

I hate scores. But I think my reasoning is a bit different.

I liked 2 and Brotherhood.

*ducks* They're going to have ducks in the next AC game? Well crap, I might have to violate my rule against yearly franchises.

Ciri's dead, Jim.

Lucasarts is all I've wanted from GOG for a while. Still haven't played Monkey Island 3 or quite a few of the other classics.

Old thread. I don't think you understand what sexism is. Sexism is, for example, the fact every female humanoid in the first Witcher game who the developers bothered to give a name was either (1) somebody the player-surrogate could have sex with, (2) represented by the "hunchbacked old crone" character model, or (3) the madam of a brothel. There were many women around in the gameworld, going about their business, utterly unconcerned by Geralt or his affairs who would hardly talk with him. I wouldn't call that particularly sexist. Geralts life being saved by a woman repeatedly, his role as her tool in the battle she wages against Salamandra, his manipulation by her and his fragmentary rememberance of Yennefer. Triss was a far more effective character than Geralt, not to mention young Adda, whom was orchestrating a coup d'etat in a sexist medieval world. I mean it's not like the game had us slaughtering masses of women again and again, like most games do with men, thoughtlessly having us slaughter thousands in graphic detail. As gaming has done since its inception. Still I wouldn't play at being a professional victim based on this, the developers aren't intentionally demeaning men or being sexist, they're just making good, fun games. Edit: Oh sorry sexism is prejudice, stereotyping or discrimination, such as evidenced against men since the dawn of gaming. 2nd Edit: In point of fact I think one could argue both in the games and the books that though set in a sexist medieval world, the strong, independent, motivated and clever women of the Witchers world clearly demonstrate how ridiculous that sexism is. Characters such as Triss, Yennnefer, Philippa Eilhart and others serve as a subtle play against the mores of the world. Obviously this is not the clumsy, blatant preaching and moralising that many people prefer, but as a nuanced jab at the worlds status quo I find it quite nice and rather effective. After all Ciri is far more important to multiple worlds than Geralt.

Well past the limit. New thread up.

Alien: Isolation Did I mention this game keeps going and going? Anyway, I bet I'm near the end. Have most of the upgrades, including the torch and access scanner. Any time now...

DA2 I recall awarded XP when combat ended, all in a bunch. DAO was probably the same, but DA2 was flashier with how they handled it, so I remember it more clearly.

They've made it pretty clear that you're the boss.

Yourself. The main character is called the Inquisitor, not an Inquisitor.

Don't worry, I'm holding steady! Grumbling here to myself about agency. In between spouts of incoherent ramblings an onlooker would just be able to make out the names "Gault," "Merideth," and "Starkid."

:'( I want to play it soo bad.

Alien: Isolation just keeps going and going, doesn't it? I was positive I was at the end, then I realized I don't even have the final device upgrade. Also #@%@# those androids in protective suits. They're worse than the bleeding alien! At least there's only ever one of him and he's easy to get rid of. At one point, those androids are even immune to pipe bombs!

I've played FEAR 2 quite a number of times. And I do like it. But the only thing it has over FEAR 1 appears to be texture res and polycount. Graphically, it lost the dust, damage, and compression wave effects of FEAR that greatly contributed to the chaos of firefights. It's not set up as well for the ambushes where you round a corner into slowmo, toss a grenade to the left, blow up two guys, flying kick another guy in the back, then turn around and headshot the last as he finally catches sight of you. There's no gameplay improvements over FEAR 1. And the level design changed from sprawling office and warehous spaces into straight corridors broken up by arenas. The arenas are nice and where most of the action occurs, but they lost side passages, roaming, and ambushes.

You're dead to me, Gorgon. DEAD! I will fight you.

FEAR fanboy chiming in, FEAR 2 isn't bad. FEAR 3 on the other hand... The main thing FEAR 2 has going against it is the levels aren't as open and interesting. There's not as many cool opportunity to ambush the enemies as a result, which was the best part about FEAR 1.

I wouldn't call that irony. In fact, I fully expect it to be the game's intended business strategy.

Some people hold their opinions with enough vigor and certainty that other opinions seem wrong. And other times, people are defensive because other people have dismissed theirs, so they return the favor. It's impossible for me to fault people who think kindly of DA2 because I did the same at first. I had complaints, Sister Petrice had me screaming "OH COME ON" very early, but it wasn't really until the final act that I fully digested things. Working for Merideth and realizing the same complaints I had about Petrice were still in action. That the little complaints I was willing to overlook were actually very large things that came to dominate. If I'd been able to overlook that a bit more, maybe I'd also say it was decent. Or if I'd found something elsewhere in it that I appreciated enough.

Can't we all just get along? Old thread. Any interesting developments, or are we all just here for the drama of bickering at one another? I haven't kept up with subculture discussion in some time.