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I'm going to go out on a limb here, I realize this is a wild theory, never before seen in gaming, but I'm guessing Dana will be a love interest and will die at some point during the game. Also, a hacking mini-game. Wonderful, everybody loves those. Snarky comments aside, I do like me some open world shooters, so hopefully this turns out good.

Maybe I'm reading too much into that Mafia 3 trailer, but from the last line "Now you've seen what I'm willing to do for my family, what would you do for yours?" it seems like you might not be playing a preset character but instead you will make your own character (potentially a black woman with a fro, which would be awesome) and recruit your own gang family.

Yeah, that was some insane Rubick play, just ridiculous mid-battle spell steals. The only other players I can only think of playing Rubick at that level are Kuroky and Lil.

A wild Sniper appears!

I've seen, 2nd game in group stages vs Fnatic Yeah, but that was one game, not an entire series, and that was sorta a pocket strat that just caught them off guard. Here they got straight up outplayed for an entire series (the second game especially), no tricks. Still, that Fnatic game was pretty shocking.

Holy ****ing **** at

Oh good, Lara gets to murder 600 or 700 more people.

Dunno if it will ever be finished, but it was already being made:

Homefront: The Revolution Gamescom trailer: It's nice to see that North Koreans have replaced Russians and joined Nazis as the de facto evildoers in vidya games. Thanks, Glorious Leader Kim Jong-Un. Anyway, I'm glad this game is still happening after being pried from Crytek's near-bankrupt hands a while back.

We Happy Few Gamescom trailer:

@Darkpriest - My biggest surprise of day 1 was

The PC version of the game that reportedly caused the Konami/Kojima divorce is now coming out on the same day as the console versions, Sep 1.

So, do I call you Caitlyn now?

Did Youtube get an upgrade when I wasn't looking? Their player looks different and now my LPs play in glorious 1440p 60. I record and upload my LPs in 1440p 60, since that's what I play at, but they only showed up at a max of 1080p 60 before (I could get 1440p but only if I uploaded a 30 FPS video). Anyway, nice to see Youtube getting with the times. I wonder if it works at 4K 60 now too? I don't have a monitor with that resolution to find out.

Sorry

Come on Meshugger, are you accusing Saint Anita of being a fraud and a hypocrite? Dude, we've been through this. She's a woman, you can't ever question a woman. If you do question a woman you're sexist. It's science.

Day 1 of the TI5 main event was pretty great, even with the big delay for technical difficulties (get your **** together, GabeN). I didn't see every match because the last couple were on during the middle of the night on the east coast. The highlight of the day for me was the NaVi/VG match with NaVi coming so close to winning, VG barely holding on until their greedy lineup came on line fully, then the crazy finish with a double team wipe in NaVi's base as VG went straight for throne and VG buying back everyone they could and marching straight down mid and NaVi desperately trying to kill them while they took down their ancient. That was an intense match and, as a bonus, we got to see Luna for, I think, the first time in this TI. Sadly, no Dendi Pudge this year.

I can't wait for the TI5 main event, the group stage was pretty awesome. There were like 7 or 8 Techies matches, most were the standard Tusk/Techies combo, but there was 1 with the far less common (and overall not as strong) but hilariously awesome Tiny/Techies Hand Grenade combo.

Mostly Shadow of Mordor, it's such a great game. It's a hallmark of a great game when it creates really great emergent stories, and the Nemesis System works wonderfully for that purpose. Also, with how the Uruks move dynamically around the world it can set up some situations where missions suddenly become exponentially more difficult than they would have been under different circumstances. For example, I was doing a mission where I needed to confront and kill an Uruk captain. Seemed like a simple enough mission, I even sniped all 5 of his bodyguards with elf-shot before hopping down from my perch to confront him. Easy peasy lemon squeezy, right? Well, it turns out he had a horn he used to alert nearby Uruks and summon them and it turns out there were 3 other captains nearby at the time, so suddenly a 1 on 1 fight became a 1 on 15, including 4 captains. Oops. What followed was a tense 15 minute battle/cat and mouse game as I systematically whittled down the numbers while trying my best to not get surrounded and overwhelmed, until the numbers got to a point that I could manage a straight up fight. It was fantastic.

Fargo is a salesman, first and foremost. In fairness, in his position you kind of have to be if you want to be at all successful. His "us against the evil corporations" sales pitches are quite eyeroll inducing, but they must work on a good chunk of people, since he's managed to get a good bit of money by using them. I don't particularly care how silly and hypocritical his sales pitches are, so long as his company delivers me games I want to play. So far it has.

Thanks, I had forgotten that was a separate download. With the game being a whopping 47 GB, I figured that was included, but it's another 4 GB on top of that. The game looks plenty pretty even without the Ultra textures, but they definitely make a difference when you're up close to walls and such.

It's a cool feature, but I'm glad they have an option to turn it off. I kept triggering it by accident during combat, so I just turned it off. I'd much rather have uninterrupted gameplay rather than cool screenies. To each his own....I think Monolith's in-house gfx engine has come a long way since FEAR I think the graphics are great, I just wish they had mapped it to something else than the left thumbstick press. IMHO nothing should be mapped to left thumbstick press in a character action game ever because the likelihood of triggering it accidentally is so high.