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Yeah, I understand that it's a gameplay function (weapon degradation) but real life weapons can fire thousands of rounds of ammunition before being affected by wear and tear.. It's a bit annoying that weapons are so often being portrayed in games as fragile and undependable. They're not.

Hmm.. I'm not so fond of the cover systems that seems to be the in-thing to do in every game right now. It disturbs me when I try to move close to something and my character is sucked up against it and sticks to it like glue when all I wanted was walk past it. Are gamers really too unskilled to actually take cover behind stuff (you know, just crouch and hide!) that they need for the game to artificially glue them to every surface? But there's one thing I like about the cover system: a button that makes my character peek up from behind the cover. It's so annoying when (in some third person games) you have your sights on the enemy, but your character sits and fires retardedly at the edge inch of a table because your sights and your character aren't perfectly synced. Or when you have to manoeuvre your character pixel by pixel until he decides he can shoot above that last inch of said table..

I never understood why this bothered people, I mean, it's annoying I guess but do you really notice it when you're playing? A long time ago, in my youth, my parents fridge broke down. Slowly. It started by making this weird, loud whirring sound in the middle of the night. After a while, it just stopped working. A friend of mine bought an Xbox 360 recently. He invited me over to play Call of Duty: World at War in co-op a couple of weekends ago. When I got there and we started playing, I heard that loud, whirring noise again so I asked him if his fridge was broken. He said, "No, why?". It was his Xbox 360. I honestly thought it was broken when I heard that sound! So YES, I was definitely bothered by it. And surprised! I had heard the horror tales about the sound level of the Xbox 360 on the net before, but I thought it was mostly fanboi war exaggerations..

This level of ignorance is actually nauseating. February can't be over soon enough. Good ****ing riddance!

I only have four games with my borrowed Playstation 3, but I must say it's an impressive piece of machinery. Dead silent, flashy and cool. Not so fond of all the waiting though. The entire experience of Playstation 3 feels unresponsive. Going into the store takes ten seconds. Starting a Blu-Ray takes 20 seconds. Starting a game takes 30 seconds (or longer, if you have some patch that needs to be downloaded first). Nothing seems instantaneous. But I must admit it looks slick with my 42" 1080p TV, my Logitech Dinovo Edge keyboard and the Playstation 3 working together in my living room.. Bluetooth is great.

And as usual you're playing a game that isn't even released yet in Sweden. How is that possible, I wonder. It torrents, I mean torments my mind.

I wonder if they'll even put Brian Fargo on that list?

I thought the Timesplitters series was pretty funny too. Oh, and I played Maniac Mansion and Zak McCracken on my Commodore 64! Beat that. By the way, I guess noone remembers this other than me, but the original Zork was actually pretty funny too. Actually, come to think of it, a lot of those old text adventures had some pretty good humour in them. The Pawn, Guild of Thieves, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, etc.

Noone has even bothered to mention Leisure Suit Larry, the game that taught me everything I know about sexuality

You talk too much. Drink, perkele.

Yeah, I'm watching the Caps - Flyers game right now. Ovechkin just scored number 44.

I've stopped going there altogether. No point, the same besserwissers repeating the same old crap over and over. Almost like here! It's sad, but the only thing that brings me excitement in hockey nowadays is Ovechkin. And he's not even on my team.

I'm playing Battlefield: Bad Company on the PS3 right now and if you don't think that ENDLESSLY REGENERATING HEALTHPACKS is making the game too easy, then I don't know what would do it for you. L1+R1, shoot shoot shoot, L1+R1 and so on. You're NEVER close to dying, unless you insta-die in an explosion. Regenerating health is not optimal, but after reading about VATS (and thinking it sounded like crap) and then actually playing with it (and realizing that it works), I'm trying not to pre-judge this decision. I'm hoping they'll make it work.

Eurogamer seems very interested in this game: Video: http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/exlcusive-...inferno-trailer Hands-on: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/dantes-i...nds-on-hands-on I don't know, I like the setting but that video did nothing for me and the text wasn't very reassuring either. Still, if it's a God of War, I'm interested.

I don't know why, but I imagine Alpha Protocol to be something like Hitman: Blood Money. That is, a central hub with lots of relatively small independent worlds that you get access to on a mission basis. I would definitely prefer if they were able to build a coherent world but I'm perfectly satisfied if they can pull off a Hitman: Blood Money system as well. By the way, that level in Hitman: Blood Money where you're trying to assassinate someone in a town where there's a festival going on and you're forced to move through massive crowds of people: pure genius.

It was a great game. Thought it was pretty funny how they started off by booing him, then came that video tribute and everyone was giving him a standing ovation until he started to cry, then they went back to booing him whenever he touched the puck. I must admit, the fans were much classier than I thought they would be.

Wouldn't it be cool if Shepard died from an alien STD he picked up from that blue girl? I mean, they know we all did her anyhow.

Guess which game I'm watching tonight?! I hope they don't boo him. I mean, look at this team WITHOUT him. They've missed the playoffs the last couple of years with him, but at least they were always in contention up until the very last games. Now they're not even close.

Well, I kind of realized yesterday why Ubisoft Montreal made the decision to make the entire country constantly angry at you: without the constant threat of every civilian in a Fiat trying to ram you off the road, I breezed through the remainder of the game and finished it last night. I didn't understand the ending though. I'm going to have to read up on it. Very confusing. Edit: OK, after looking around a little it seems everyone is as confused as me. And no matter what choices you've made earlier in the game, everyone gets the same ending. A really bad ending. Oh well.

In HD on Gametrailers: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/45798.html

I've continued my semi-abandoned Far Cry 2 session recently. I figured that it's much more fun if I use a cheat between missions! I go to town to get a mission, which usually involves me having to travel all the way across the African savannah to kill some random dude. After getting the mission objectives, I turn on unlimited health and drive away in my car. I blast my way QUICKLY through the ever spawning clone enemies (and absurdly aggressive civilians) until I reach my destination, where I turn off the cheat and solve the mission the usual way (with sneaking and a silent pistol until I get caught). But that's really a clue as to how much the Ubisoft team screwed up the between-mission gameplay: when using a cheat actually improves the game! WHY OH WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO RESPAWN SO GODDAMN QUICKLY?? Even a small thing such as being able to take a wrong turn without having to fight the same checkpoint twice in under a minute would be such a gigantic improvement! The game keeps track of a number of stats. I checked it and noticed that I've solved 69% of the game, all the while firing 25000 rounds of ammunition! 25000! It's because I keep going back and forth while I explore the savannah and the constant respawning forces me to fight endlessly. And I usually use the Dragunov sniper rifle, meaning that it's one shot, one kill. Horrible, I've probably killed the population of a small town by now.

I played ArmA when it came out and I would not recommend it. It wasn't so much the bugginess, it was the ability of the enemy soldiers that irked me. I remember crawling through knee-high grass in the middle of the night for 30 minutes to reach my destination, only to get shot by a common soldier from one kilometer away. And he was shooting from his hip! It was extremely annoying. I stopped playing it when I reached a mission that involved me taking control of a squad where I had to make sure a couple of cars survived an attack by soldiers armed with RPG's.. I could never manage that and gave up.

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I still don't get why people get upset about this. I don't think it's any weirder than Tim Schafer turning a roadie into a rock god that battles demons in Br

Just be glad it wasn't a canary bird or you probably would have killed it.