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Finished Spec Ops: The Line yesterday. While rough in times and me being horrible annoyed of the cover mechanics sometimes, I think it is a pretty good shooter. For me personally, the best since Singularity.

How is that even possible? It usually only takes a couple of hours to realize a game stinks, if that. If you spent 50 hours in a game, then it must have done something right. I played Oblivion around 60 hours until I noticed what a junk product it was. :> Got blinded from the graphics and big world when the game was released.

But what if you play it for 50 hours and then realize that it's a big pile of shait you never want to touch again? Then you paid a lot money for that.

Guess the game is too hard for nowadays players. They could at least have done something with the graphics. It looks pretty horrible, imo.

The last three images are actually pretty good. For what they are.

Started playing Spec Ops: The Line now too. I am in chapter 10+ something and it is a pretty good game. Feels a bit rough in times, but other than that... yeah, it seems quite good.

So true.

This is hardly prosper quality level.

Ah, now I realize what game this is. Saw this screenshot and thought the map is very unbelievable: Is there more of this stuff in the game?

I don't really believe in that. For each class you just *had* to spend your points in a similar way, even if you don't min-max. Did anyone seriously made a wizard with lots of strength? Sure, you will have some minor stat difference from player to player, but overal everyone is doing it similar at some point. Removing the attribute-system from D2 made D3 better, imo. I am not missing it at all and I totally don't mind that someone can copy my character skill setup without having to re-grind a character up to maximum level first (which was damn boring too, in my opinion).

I like Nicolas Cage and most of the movies he is in.

Watched the old Judge Dredd movie again a few days ago. It is... well... let's say it isn't worse than other action movies of that time. The story is a big cliche and the end is super cheesy, but other than that, I thought it was pretty watchable. Also watched the Wicker Man with Nicolas Cage yesterday. I thought the movie was good, but the end is just so damn lame. Also I think the german version is cut, because the torture wasn't shown. What a shait.

This may sound like dumbing down, but I actually like the new stat system a lot more. Beside, everyone was spending their attribute points in D1/2 always the same way anyway, so the change in D3 isn't a big loss.

I am never tagging weapon skills in the beginning. You get them high fast enough and they aren't really that important. My skills of choice are speech, science and repair. Then I am spending at least 5 skillpoints per levelup on one or two of them and the remaining points are going into lockpicking or my weapon skill of choice.

Yeah, but the singleplayer became a bit tiring to the end. I was happy when I finished it, because you are pretty much only doing the same over and over again.

Do you mean Lonesome Road? I think this is the only DLC where I would suggest a level of 28 or higher. Honest Hearts can be done easily on level 5, Dead Money on level 10 and Old World Blues on level 15+. That's how I did them the last time I played FNV and it was working quite good (but then again, I find Honest Hearts a lot more interesting with Brush Gun and Anti-Materiel Rifle wielding White Legs. Somehow fits the setting quite good).

This looks extremely good:

What's that nekked Oblivion chick doing in yer fire?

I liked the old Judge Dredd movie. Should re-watch it again some day.

They said that 400k dollar + 200k dollar shipping are gone already just for the pledge rewards. That's a quite high number and should make people understand, why i. e. Dead State isn't going for a lot physical rewards. Also Double Fine get's their project working titles from bar tours (the bar names), heh.

In fact, there really is a minigame you can play on your "hunter mate" pda. But no "gut your kill" minigame. And yeah, you don't have to spend hours with waiting for something. You usually walk around, listen to sounds / trails, track the animal for a while and then try to hit it. People say that theHunter is the best hunting simulation currently available. I personally can't judge that, as I never really played any.

I played a bit theHunter again yesterday. It feels a bit like ArmA2 without third person... You walk through forests, try to spot stuff to kill and then you try to kill it. Though, the spotting is actually kind of easy, compared to finding the animal when it is running off with a bleeding wound. I'd say, I need around 10 minutes to take my first shot and then I'll spend 20 minutes with trying to find the wounded. Well, it still is kind of fun, for a while.

Yeah, I watched all movies recently, because I wanted to prepare for Prometheus. When I had seen Alien 3 the first time, I found it damn boring too, but my perception of it changed over the years. Especially after Alien 4, I think that 3 is a good ending.

I've watched Alien 4 again two days ago. I totally forgot how bad this movie was. It is like a mashup of Alien 1 to 3, with additional sillyness. They shouldn't have done this movie, imo. Alien 1 - 3, that's the deal, everything after that is crap.

I just finished the Dark Tower yesterday. It was pretty nice, though the books had quite a few boring moments, mainly because King apparently likes to babble around a lot, then he switches to a different character and babbles about the same situation again. It was still worth it, but in times... I thought he could reduce that a bit. No wonder most of the books got 1000+ pages. Reading The Old Man and the Sea from Ernest Hemingway now.