Mamoulian War

TBH I Think, best would suit them acquisition from THQ Nordic. European publisher should understand european developer the most. And also I think, Hitman like games would complememt THQ Nordic's portfolio.

Well at least, Square is selling them and the new owner might make new games. Unlike EA, which just assimilates everything in their way and burns all of their IPs.

Probably another vertical slice. The real game will be looking at least two grades worse :-P

Pfft, we're not barbarians! We allow them to age to their teens first...

In eastern europe, we power them with hamsters in wheels!

http://www.gameology.ir/en/?pid=read&id=9 Interview with Patrice Desilets (Creator of Assassin Creed). Among other things, speaking why he left them in 2010. TL;DR: He was fed up with "political lying" of Ubi and his gf wanted him leave, because he was not happy there

I have finished the climb to the max ranks in Project CARS and won the LMP1 championship against AI opponents on level 70, in less than 10 seasons (took me 6 seasons), starting with 125cc Kart championship. Two out of three historical goals achieved. Need to do some unlocks for special invitational races and win three more LMP1 Championships for two more Golden Trophies.

Not "soon" anymore. It was released there 10 hours ago as well.

Actually this really tempts me to create fig account and do Slacker Backing for PoEII and Pledge for this game at the same time. The promise of GOG version is really luring me and my money :'(

I would not consider that as a bad thing.

Ars Technica is teaming up with GOG. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/ars-and-gog-two-great-tastes-that-go-great-together/ As a start, if you have Ars account, and don't have Witcher 1, you can get your copy. In the next weeks and months, more goodies will be going our way )

Well I think we both can agree, that CoD will nnever offer anything similar to that experience :-P

Well it has a pause button, but no manual saves during race. But in real life, the team at 24 hours race event consists of 4 people, each of them driving for aproximately 6 hours. Therefore racing game, where you have to drive whole 24 hours is IMO less realistic than a game, which allows you to have AI team mates. And that's on of few things which I like about PCARS more than on GT6 *shrugs*. Still GT6 beats PCARS in Single Player, and in Lobby Management in MP races. What I like more about PCARS is the weather management, which sucked a lot in GT6 :-/

Actually the codriver AI is not as bad as opponent AI. This is the biggest issue for me. And it is hard to race in 24hour race in real-time without codriver (be it AI or real person :-P ) The opponent AI is in this game simply terrible :-/

I was finally able to advance to LMP1 championships in Project CARS career. The game brings to me very mixed feelings. In one way, I love driving in the game, on the other hand, the AI and bugs, which were not squashed until now can make my blood boil. Especially if you are in middle of real time 24 hours race with your AI co driver, and after 14 hours, your car explodes after hitting invisible wall. Or the car with your AI driver just get stuck in PitStop after 2 hours of racing :-/ I am not even starting to speak about how bad programmed the AI is... Gran Turismo 5 and 6 might be little bit more arcadey at the moment, but I had much less issues racing against AI.

That's why I like to watch his show. He goes overboard a lot, sometimes more than is comfortable for me, but as you said. He talks about issues in the industry, that very few other "magazines" have guts to talk about. And the thing, that he was one of the few people (along with Total Buscuit) invited to Valve, after they killed off Greenlight shovelware, says that the big players are listening to him as well...

EDIT: Nevermind. I need to read more posts before I start with my posting.

And introductory sales of Saints Row 4 (4.99 EUR where I live) and other Deep Silver games

Finished Tales of Xillia 2 with True Ending. It took me over 60 hours to reach the end credits. Unfortunatelly I was unable to defeat the final boss on Hardest Difficulty as all others, so I had to lower it for this last fight. What I really like about japanese games and movies is, that they know how to make proper sad endings, which you still enjoy, because they make sense in the way how the story unfolds. Actually ToX 2 had no happy story ending at all :-D If you want to see happy end, you have to go deeply into post-game and finish a lot of optional content. I still have to pay off 14.5 million of Gald out of my debt to see again the obligated spa ending (another typical japanese thing, which I like about their games :-D) The game is currently 88% complete, and I am still missing two most time consuming trophies. The hardest bossfight in coliseum and reaching lvl 250 with all characters. Also there is lot of hidden stuff in the game. I am currently using two english and two japaneses guides to see all the stuff, and I Have still missed some stuff. If a player wants to see all content and fill up all the item/monster/skit encyclopedias, he has to play the game at least three times. My completionist OCD will be really itching after I get the Platinum in this game, but I have currently such a big backlog, that I probably will have to be satisfied with 99.5% of the content explored, and just go and jump right into Tales of Berseria or Platinum run of Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory.

I've always been meaning to go back and play Final Fantasy XII, since Akitoshi Kawazu is a mad genius and even his bad games have something worthwhile to experience in them. I've also liked the stuff that Yasumi Matsuno did with the Ivalice games. You have your chance this year with FFXII Zodiac Job getting remaster. I have absolutely loathed FFXII when played for the first time, but I somehow fell in love with the game during second playthrough. Sometime one look is really not enough. For me, no touch will always be anything made by EA and Ubisoft. And currently on my never touch list is also FFVII Remake. From what I have read and see so far, well it will be hell lot of disapointment. They turned the third best FF game into hack and slash game, where you will be controling only one character... *puke emote* Oh and whenever I see a game being advertised as open world game, it is very likely that it ends up on my No Touch List as well.

And again Tales of Xillia 2. I have reached the "Bad Ending". Took me almost 66 hours and with it, I have got the Chromatus Control trophy, for not using the transformation skill after Chapter 13. Only 3 more Trophies to go, 2 of them are for different endings and one to get to maximum level, and then I'll have another Japanese Platinum One of the endings, which I still miss are to beat special Colosseum boss you need to fulfill some hard to do prerequisites for this fight to happen. I was able to meet them in my first playthrough, but I was unable to beat the superboss

Well no one said otherwise :-P

No One Lives Forever

Hard Reset for me was the game with most similarities, but narrower corridors and robots. For me 10 out of 10 on happy mayhem scale :-P

Yes, playing a bad game is hurtful. If your game crashes in middle of the mission, where you are unable to save/autosave, most people experience different feelings from rage to stress, and as we all know, these feelings might cause serious harm to the human organism. The exposure to stress even shortens people's lives in the long run... *shrugs*