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None of them improve over the rooftop jumping of 2 and Brotherhood, let's put it that way. While also seeing the rest of the game fail to be as good.

Assassin's Creed II is fantastic. And Brotherhood is a great sequel to it. And that's the entirety of my ability to recommend that franchise.

Hit a game breaking bug in Memoria. So I've stopped playing it until someone e-mails me a new savegame.

Enough to warrant a 400€ pricetag. Why would you expect a crossgen game to be a system seller? It's like judging the PS3 on Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

Finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut. The game has lost much of its initial charm with time. It's still good, but it's not a game I can see replaying for a third time, not even for New Game+. On to Memoria.

I didn't like it, but I don't hate it, I don't see it as if it's some lazy cash-in. They definitely made a fair effort, but as a big fan of the book, I can't help but wish they'd done much better.

Saw Ender's Game. Needed to be more than one movie, really. Lots of violations of show, don't tell, with tons of narration from Ender on what's going on. Half of the narration seems redundant with things on-screen and the other half seems like it only exists to make up for the parts they don't have time to show. And the speed of the movie really ends up hurting the characterization, you don't have time to see why he becomes the way he is, and you don't even see enough of him to know that any of it's growth and change.

The only particularly good action scene in either of Singer's X-Men movies was with Nightcrawler. Storm-Toad, Mystique-Wolverine, Woverine-Lady Deathstrike were like watching B-movies to me. First Class I see as the best film of any of them. It's the one with real characterizations and growth, and it's not just a vehicle for Wolverine to slash at stuff. Really looking forward to all the Marvel movie's planned. Winter Soldier has me surprised that they're going to go with the Captain America being willing to rebel route. Though I think the "Winter Soldier" part is not going to give it much time to develop. In the comics, Captain America's particular "rebellions" tended to coincide with a political message. And while it would definitely be topical in the current climate, it seems too much of politics for Marvel films. Still, I expect Winter Soldier to put the entire thing on the backburner anyway. I don't see both of them developing and the action where he fights a dude, then has personal drama, will win out.

The concern I got out of the video was the cutscene-gameplay ratio. The earlier video showed a much longer gameplay segment, so that's good. Sadly, I don't think we've seen much in the choice department, though I know we've heard about choosing sides in the war.

Every report I've seen so far from people in the Alpha say that it was not a good game.

You just solidified its place on my Wishlist now. Wonder what it'll hit at Christmas.

Never could get into Eschalon. Do you ever end up with a party or is it always just one guy running around?

I HATE YOU GOG So I'm playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut again. Kind of getting behind because I'm scripting my Shadowrun Returns campaign. As for GOG, I'm already building up a lineup for once I'm done with it. Halloween sale reminded me that I need to play I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, which reminded me to look at Memoria. And I still have Metro: Last Light that I already started. So I have the next four games planned out...

Nothing is ever final until the Game of the Year Edition is released. I'll give the name until the official announcement, however.

I don't think they'll diagnose you by running blood tests, if that's what you're wondering. If it's a persistent issue, then that's the part that matters. And that's what they'll look for. I'm not going to give you the precise criteria from my DSM, but if it's something that is occurring to you regularly and for long stretches of time, that's something they should try to help you with. I think it's a smart idea to work out - sounds like it could be a natural drop in testosterone? That pretty much feels like loosing one's "edge". Ok, so this might be crazy, but I did have a vasectomy last year. Coincidence? Diagnosing over an internet forum is... ill-advised to put it gently. Somebody who can spend some real time with you trying to figure out how long problems have been going on, when they started, and has access to your medical history is really the place to start. It could be middle age hitting you. It could be the vasectomy. It could be winter. There's a lot of things to consider. The big thing is less finding out the individual event that caused it and more figuring out how to adjust for it. If these are becoming problematic for you, then I do recommend seeing a professional. Doesn't even need to be a psychiatrist. Your regular physician can be a good first step.

It was a game struggling for a reason to be beyond EA wanting to keep trying at microtransaction C&Cs. At one point it was Generals 2! From Bioware! With Bioware's strong narrative focus. That somehow translates into all of the world's diplomats die in a single explosion, leaving only the military Generals to rule the world. That's some serious drama right there. Some time later, either because they wisely realized how utterly dumb that story idea was, or because the Bioware branding became less appealing, they dropped all three. But the idea of a F2P RTS never skipped a beat. I don't like free-to-play to begin with. So you can guess that the idea never got anything beyond contempt from me.

Still going through Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut. I'm almost at the part where Missing Link and Tong's Rescue are integrated. Really want to see how that's done. The boss fights aren't as big a change as I'd hoped, but about what I expected. It's just larger arenas with hackables and turrets.

Grabbed a bottle of Brandy today. I figure it must be good, it's the only alcohol I know of that people name their child after. Well, also Budweiser. Maybe not as special a club as I initially thought. I like it.

How similar are we going to talk here? There's definitely a level of discrimination based on audience that's in various parts of the game enthusiast community. And I can certainly imagine someone saying something negative on me for really enjoying the Viva Pinata titles, I've never seen it put in effect in personal discussion. I'm inclined to think you're just observing the phenomenon that quality of discussion is adversely affected by the size of the group. But maybe that's just my wish to defend my gender. People in larger groups with more anonymity are more comfortable grouping into us vs them and describing the 'other' with some slanderous label. With the larger male population of video game discussion being a bit of a sample bias in itself. But I say this having not seen any particularly active discussion fora for plays. So I speak from ignorance.

I can't recall anyone have similar exchanges outside of Oby and the chan.

I just found a workaround for the abysmal Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut Perf. It's like a bad joke. Leave Chrome up when I launch the game. What the heck did they do to this engine?

Just bought a bottle of Jameson's, Johnny Walker Red Label, and Disaronno. Found out there's a ****tail of the former two and had that last night, not bad. I think I'm finally able to discriminate between Irish Whiskey and Tennessee Sour Mash. It's taken me long enough.

There's supposed to be some fixes on the Steam discussion forums. There's two registry edits to make, one of which is particular to Nvidia cards. Makes it sound like it's not the DRM. I kind of recall the old DX:HR having the same problem. But I definitely don't remember it being this bad. I have every setting on the absolute lowest and I still get dips to what must be 5 frames per second. I've not played a game this generation with performance this poor.

Voice recognition for games is okay at best. It's a neat little gimmick that I've never seen anyone care about for more than the 5 minutes it takes for yelling FOS-RO-DOH in the living room to get old. Moving your body is kind of neat if you're really into those party game sports/kinect packs, like the Wii also has. Just so you can laugh at each other flailing like idiots. For a significant contribution to core gaming? I could write out to you my opinion on that in considerable length, but it would use up the world's surplus of the word "no."

This may be a more accurate, albeit complex explanation. http://imgur.com/xXuNC