HoonDing

Is it April again?

First AC is the best, platforming wise and combat wise. Later games just keep adding a few gimmicks and the combat turns more and more into Arkham Asylum the more you progress through the series. It also avoids the terrible conspiracy storyline until 99% into the game. Also, best protagonist without a horrible fake Italian accent.

Looks like Cookie monster.

I ate Special K this morning.

Needs more tentacles and Japanese school girls.

Finished Tomb Raider. I'm giving Crystal Dynamics the benefit of the doubt considering this was supposed to be an "origin story" and not going to call it Tomb Raider in name only yet. EDIT: my only regret is not having unlocked Explosive Arrows before having to wade through those 7,000 zombie samurai.

Axe murderer Lara is awesome

The new Tomb Raider would be a far better game if it didn't have Uncharted rip-off sequences and nonsensical combat sections where you keep mowing down Russians that spawn out of nowhere. The moments where the game focuses on a more stealthy approach are good. And then you jury rig a rifle into a grenade launcher. But ideally there wouldn't be any human enemies at all. Just have that Asian girl disappear suddenly and go look for her in the ruins.

Is E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy not sandbox?

Blowing things up is the solution to everything.

It would still mean the difference between end of all life and end of some life. A lot of smaller pieces of the asteroid would vaporize in the Earth's atmosphere.

That reminds me, I still need to see Iron Man 3.

It's like Left 4 Dead minus the zombies.

Immershun fail

Prosper's alt?

Got a couple of hours in the new Tomb Raider. The QTE and torture porn really isn't even remotely as bad as I previously expected, I only died a couple of times in the cutscene with the Russian rapist in the beginning of the game. Lara also isn't annoying and whiny at all, but pretty badass. TrissFX is pretty pants, though. It halves my framerate and her hair blows against the direction of the wind. Good job, AMD. Though otherwise this is likely the best looking game I've played. I can already tell I'm going to rank this above TR:Legend and put it on par with Underworld. At least Lara has no daddy & mommy issues this time around + no annoying sidekicks.

Funny how there's so much complaining about modern games turning into interactive movies when remembering all those terrible FMV games of the past. EDIT: I hated GK2, but at least Grace was pretty cute in it. And still better than GK3 overall.

Cheesiest FMV game of all time is Phantasmagoria. There was a scene where the poor female protagonist got her skull cut open.

Apocalyptica wannabees.

It's a cubicle hotel, commonly perused by salarymen working very late.

She looks like your avatar.

But I'm sure pre-EA BioWare was a beacon of proper working hours and non-"sweatshop" conditions, right? Fans don't care about employee working conditions in the slightest, all they care about is whether or not they like the game. Plenty of people here that enjoy games that are oblivious to the fact that they were made on an 80 hour work week for over a year with epic employee attrition after the fact when they realize it's not sustainable long term. Holy Smoke Alan, are you being serious about the 80 hour work week. That's 16 hours a day if you only work Monday- Friday? Imagine being born in modern Japan and being subjected to crunchtime your entire life.

Yeah, looks like Skyrim.

More like TrissFX.