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I think I'm gonna go with Alpha Protocol today, as well... Been thinking about it for a while. I think you got your order right there. I enjoyed DXHR and la noire quite a bit, but la noire is more like a flawed gem than anything. + I had food poisoning at the time.

That said, sometimes you don't have the opportunity for a clean exit, but it's always something to strive for. I had a fairly epic thing go down at the last place, but in a smaller professional organization, it's always a bit different - references would be only given by a former immediate superior etc. Been doing my taxes, looks like I'll be getting quite a bit back this year. Kind of answers my question of "where did all that money go" from when I was working at the old place...

GTA V makes me all confoozled. Vice City remains the only GTA I've finished, yet I really really enjoyed L.A. Noire... I'm wondering if it'll be more of a "life simulator" like GTA IV was or more of a story focused one. Ok, I'm less wondering about it and more hoping for the latter...

I sense Dr. Walsingham could have a flourishing Harley street practice. Does his medical insurance cover such a prescription? Or is he going to have a large out of pocket expense? NHS! Meanwhile, Finnish drinking holiday rolling in. Hunkered up at home, wondering if the sudden interest in getting my survival gear sorted is related.

The Finnish version of the writeup for this surplus item: http://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/tsekkoslovakialainen-pvc-mantteli-epailyttava-tummanruskea/22682/ had me in stitches for 15 minutes last night, I haven't laughed that hard in years. I'll just share the base oddity of it with the rest of you... Anyone know where to get a good digital woodland gore tex parka? I need to replace mine.

Mmh, coupled with the fact that at some point, "news" became about asking a bunch of people on the street what they think about what happened, ffs. Edit: right, got beaten by the vampire dude. But exactly.

Could be worse, you might be a southpaw.

Ditto, haven't played much whole year, but hoping very much to get back in next week...

I think this is one of those cases where the truth is in the middle, obviously you are right regarding (most) modern games, but I think that a lot of those "good old games" weren't as brilliant as they are held to be. The change for worse, while probably there, isn't as dramatic as it's held to be. i think dragon age origins is a good example of the way nostalgia distorts things... it looks old-school if you squint and is (over)long, so people act like it was the last glimmer of hope for old-school RPGs, instead of a soulless patchwork of overlong sections and tedious gameplay that pushes zero boundaries.

It doesn't mean they are any better, just that everybody else is worse. Trust me, I've worked in a lot of pretty horrible places up until now. From coffee shops to fairly big professional expert organisations.

Squeenix, Capcom, Konami, etc. JRPG is a different genre, IMO, but I think Squeenix and DXHR might qualify for what I had in mind. Oh well, EA can go, then.

Or not, in which case it'll be just call of duty instead of call of duty or battlefield. The sad fact is that EA is the only major publisher that has any kind of RPG arm at the moment, and them going away wouldn't be an improvement in any way. It'd be the mid-90s again... Oh, right Bethesda. I actually did forget about them. Not my cup of tea.

EA does that now ? But even so, someone else will make them if people want them, I guess. Forgot the joke-indicating emoticon EA doesn't, but EA collapsing won't magically result in everybody else doing it, or even anybody else doing it, unlike what some people seem to think. Way to miss the point, guys!

"Yay, EA is going bankrupt so Zynga will suddenly start making RPGs with deep, complex narratives and a ton of C&C! Happy tidings!"

Yes, happily we were dressed and not applying massage oil to each other so we could still tell ourselves apart from the Swedish army.

Odds are that's not a bad thing given recent trends. I was about to say the same... I'm sure a lot of people would've paid extra to miss the boss fights in DXHR... Of course, now they've come out with the WiiU version, which does pretty much that (new boss fights, more in the missing link style - with missing link also rolled into the main game). In fact. as far as platform exclusives go, I've never had anything piss me off as much as this one does...

IIRC Freyberg royally ****ed up on Crete, to rather unpleasant results for said troops.

Actually, no, since it means the stove is running at maximum heat so there's an acute burn risk.

... Fifteen (larger than average) guys in a tent officially rated for 10 guys, with -26c outside...

See, the only times I've slept outdoors was during my military service... It ruined three things for me, one of which was camping. (The other two were pea soup and tea, but I've gotten over those so I might have to try camping one day, too) Also, was back with the somewhat absurd pandering case. The cop doing the interviewing is doing everything he can to make me break my lawyerly frown with the evidence. My jaw hurts and I was biting my lip so hard I almost drew blood, but I persevered andno inopportune laughter took place..,

Good point.

I can't help but chuckle at the blatantly obvious Dragonlance influence (Cataclysm = Doom of Valyria, the whole "sorta post apocalyptic fantasy"), which is just ignored for the more high-brow "inspired by Atlantis!" line.

I like it, its very difficult to dispute "lawyer logic " More like a nasty habit from having to dig holes into other people's logical or "logical", if you will, statements for a living. I think more people should just own up that whatever they are doing is, at the very least, amoral instead of creating these complex constructions for justifying it. But I know it's a useless hope, from the way people can't accept that liking games is a subjective situation as well, and spend a lot of time making these same constructs in a futile attempt to prove that their opinion is objective reality. No deception like self deception, I guess. That said, personally I think I've DL'd to replace lost discs, even if in my case it tends to refer to something from floppy disc days that I couldn't replace via steam/origin/app store if I wanted. Most of the games I've bought on cds I could get from one of those places for the price of a cup of coffee in central Helsinki. I try not to run around screaming about drm robbing me of my rights, though.

Yeah, my core issue with BG1 has always been that it attempts to combine (a somewhat) open world and non-scaling enemies with low level ad&d. Where your character basically doubles in power at every level... and then makes that progression rather slow. I like the way IWD shows that lessons were learned, but still..

It gets another D- from economics, as it doesn't run (even) the Nasdaq Composite in parallel