Purkake

It's still here, I just want you to finish the games, because they are awesome. This is for your own good.

Yeah, sometimes humanity still manages to surprise me in a non-negative way, even if it is by distributing pirated stuff.

I don't know, I'm just surprised that a system that has absolutely no business working, is actually doing that. Kind of like democracy in India...

You'd be surprised what people do for free stuff. The whole concept of random people banding together on the intrnet and actually helping each other out to get free stuff instead of trolling each other with malware and fakes is mind-boggling. Hmm, maybe someone should write a paper on human nature based on that...

Use a save editor, geez.

@Morgoth: That's true, but it won't be coming out for anything for a while. There's always Just Cause 2, which will probably be way more fun than AC2 anyway.

The point was that since he[Oner] has already played BG1, he should skip it and go finish BG2 and ToB.

They made a crazy-ass story that relied on a number of impossible or very implausible circumstances to pull it off. This is just straight-up bad writing and there's no excuse for that, especially with the budget that the game had. The gameplay was good, but I enjoyed the spec ops mode way more than the campaign.

It wouldn't stop me from buying BG&E2, but AC2? Bah! Also, Valve has been "spying" on your gameplay for years now, you can see the stats here(scroll down for individual game stats). It's actually pretty interesting to look at and probably an invaluable resource for smaller game developers, let alone Valve itself. It's anonymous and completely harmless. Not that this excuses Ubisoft's crappy DRM, which will probably just not work for ~2 weeks after the launch because of server overload and whatnot.

Being ulatranationalist shouldn't make a whole country that stupid. USA's only method of detecting an attack is a satellite network? It's just ridiculous, and not the intentional self-referencing kind.

In other news, so is Blizzard's Starcraft 2 beta.

Really? Russia attacking the US via air, undetected and winning(or at least getting to Washington) and because of a single suspected terrorist act? Just having an expanded special ops mode and multiplayer would have more than sufficed, adding that fever dream of a story just detracted from the whole experience. Sure if you put enough money into something, it will be at least somewhat coherent, but think of what they could have done. Even the cheapest B movies manage to have a followable plot, this seems to be the very definition to too many cooks spoiling the soup.

That's what I was trying to say. I'm not defending Heavy Rain's story or whatnot here, I'm just saying that instead of trying to figure out if it's a good game, judge it by it's story/presentation/etc.

What gets me is that they did the whole thing dead seriously. I guess it reflects the fanbase more than the developers, but in the end it's a giant negative feedback loop.

i actually liked the story in a kitsch way. it was like a mashup of michael bay-isms. if it was done with just a tinge of self awareness and some tongue-in-cheek humor, the story could have been genius.... as it was it was just silly, but it was silly enough to be funny and really, i think they were aware they jumped the shark from the moment "Wolverines!" popped up on screen... And if it didn't have the noob-tube the multiplayer would actually be balanced... As it was it was a bunch of ridiculously random(and "EPIC") set pieces tied together with what could only be called fan fiction, written by a horde of 13-year old Tom Clancy fans.

It's aimed at "you guys" which also includes you(since writing "you guys and gals" would be pretty weird, sorry). I'm not saying that you're saying that Heavy Rain isn't a game(holy sentence structure, Batman!), I'm saying that maybe you(that's all of you) shouldn't compare Heavy Rain to other games. Let it stand on it's own merits as an interesting, unique experience and then decide whether you like it or not.

Did you actually see the "story" from the latest one? They're certainly not good at that. I can see having a lame story with good gameplay, but that was downright distracting.

Can't a guy just block a few things out, geez. Plus, giant ticks are way more awesome.

There's a trope for everything

You have strange( and very specific) requests. Maybe there's a Giant Bomb concept page for games with rooms in them that try to kill the PC? EDIT: Surprisingly, there's a somewhat similar TV trope for that...

It time to let it go. If Aliens RPG was still alive, what do you think it'd want you to do? That's right, move on with your life.

And let's not forget the worst FMV game ever. (NSFW)

You don't have to, BG1 wasn't all that hot. Just do BG2 and ToB. *not an actual spoiler*

Nope it was directed at the heathen, whom you know as Oner. You lost your saves AND your rifle? Tough. Finish them! *cracks whip*

Ripper had Christopher Walken.