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That's true, she seems to have a sense of honor. Lord knows I wouldn't be that honorable in a life and death battle.

Any dragon fight where there are no missile weapons is always going to involve some questionable logic. I mean, by all accounts dragons are intelligent creatures, extremely intelligent in some cases, so why wouldn't the dragon just always stay in the air and breathe fire at you? Why would the dragon land and put itself in a position where it could possibly be harmed when it's 100% safe when in the air? Unless there is a cave or something for you to get into where the only way the dragon could reach you is by landing and walking, it makes no sense.

I've been getting completely shafted on bludgeoning weapon drops. I swear, I must get 20 guns to every bludgeoning weapon.

Well, I'm finally just about ready to go to California. I have a few loose ends to tie up first, but I don't think thy'll take very long. I'm eager to see a new, different location. I'm also really hoping to find a better bludgeoning weapon for by group leader. She's still using a freakin' crowbar for goodness sake, which would be great if she was Gordon Freeman, but she's not.

I never had any trouble fighting the dragon. I've played through the game 5 times, I think, possibly 6, and I've dies a total of once, maybe twice on the dragon fight. The Kayran fight is the one that always gives me the most trouble, even though once you learn what to do, it's really not hard. For whatever reason, I always screw up a bunch of times doing that fight. I don't think I've ever gotten past the Kayran in less than 3 tries. It's the reason I'll never attempt Insane Mode, because I know for a fact my game will end at the hands tentacles of the Kayran.

Of course, the fact that Gamasutra was the site where the whole Gamers are Dead thing should have been something I remembered, I didn;t since it;s a site I never visited anyway. My bad, thanks for the info.

Out of curiosity, can someone fill me in on Gamasutra? I'm going to make the leap in logic and assume they're one of the sites that aired the Gamers are Dead articles and are anti-GG, correct? I ask because it's not a site I ever visit. There are certain sites I used to visit, quite regularly in some cases, that I no longer visit at all, to the point that I won't even click on a link if it has that site's name in it (thanks to all this that post archived articles), but Gamasutra wasn't a site I really visited before, so nothing has changed in that regard. My view is this, I'm not in favor of silencing anybody by force. I don't condone the SJWs manipulating the message and trying to silence opposing viewpoints via threats and at the same time I don't condone any GG or NYS folks trying to manipulate the message and silence opposing viewpoints via threats. With that said, if sites lose sponsorships or even completely shut down because of dwindling viewership then that's just the market speaking, as far as I'm concerned, that's what you get for attacking and demonizing your core target audience (seriously, how in the world can attacking your core target audience be a good idea?). As long as a site losing business or shutting down is a result of dwindling viewership and not due to people messing with their servers, threatening them, or blocking their channels, then that's just capitalism in action as far as I'm concerned.

That would be absolutely tragic, if true. Someone going to prison for 10 years over this ****? Nah, no one deserves that. Somehow I doubt it's true though. Agreed completely on one account and partially on the other. I fully agree that I think this is fake. I partially agree that the supposed punishment does not fit the crime. I agree 10 years is excessive, but at the same time this doxxing **** has got to stop, regardless of which side it comes from. Doxxing is some seriously irresponsible **** and sooner or later it's going to lead to somewhere really dark. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that there are plenty of mentally unstable people out there, and eventually if this crap continues someone is going to use the information to physically track someone down, in person, use your imagination as to where this goes from there. I don't know the legal ramifications, but whoever did the doxxing should be tried as an accessory to the crime as far as I'm concerned if that happens. What I'm saying is that a message needs to be sent loud and clear that this doxxing **** is not okay, and if it takes someone getting put through the legal system ringer to do it, that's a better alternative to what could happen if it goes unchecked.

I dunno, Monte. Putin is doing his damnedest to keep Russians at or near the top of the villain food chain for years to come.

Total immersion my ass. We won't have total immersion until they put out these: I keed I keed. I'm excited about Oculus too, but I'm waiting at least 2 more iterations before I even consider getting in on it.

No reason to be faithful, Geralt's been cuckolded to hell and back by both Triss and Yennefer. To be completely honest, I'd kick both of them to the curb for Shani.

Oh sweet Jesus, are we going to have a Rant On thread for every single game? I'm fine with people discussing what they don't like about a game, but I'm envisioning a dark near future where the whole first page is flooded with these ****ing threads.

Dang. That's a start it up and go out for dinner or take a long bike ride type installation.

If that fails, there's always SOMA... Whenever that comes out. In a perfect world, someone would kick Frictional Games 50 million dollars to make a game, I'd love to see what they could do with a AAA budget.

New screenies, including the mythical Snow Geralt.

My version of Geralt only needs one sorceress in his life, a raven haired one who used to be a hunchback. I've been friend zoning Triss in my canon playthrough and generally (though not completely) avoiding one night stands.

I fully approve of completely random adorable cat drawings, be they integrated into line graphs or otherwise.

I'm curious whether SJWs are partially responsible for the zombie plague in video games. I wonder if some developers make the conscious decision to use zombies as the enemies you kill for worry of getting torn apart by the SJW horde when using human targets because the particular humans they chose to use as targets somehow are considered as social commentary.

That to me just sounds like some kind of excuse and justification for developers not having to be concerned with things like gender representation in games As far as I'm concerned developers shouldn't have to be concerned about gender (or sexual orientation for that matter) representation in video games unless the video game specifically tackles that issue. Unless the game specifically sets out to provide social commentary, the developer shouldn't have to go through a checklist and check off boxes to make sure everyone is represented in a good light and that they heaven forbid may have included something that could possibly be interpreted as insulting. Sometimes, you just want to make a game about robot ninjas kidnapping the president's daughter and don't want to worry about whether this reflects poorly on the female gender.

It's too early for me to compile a best of 2014 list because Bayonetta 2 isn't out yet and I haven't finished Wasteland 2 or played Divinity: Original Sin at all yet.

Never mind the game, how about Chris Conte's MAGNIFICENT beard. The game looks promising too.

NooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!!! On a serious note, take all the time you need. Just do me a favor, don't release it at the same time as The Witcher 3.

I'll be waiting with bated breath. To expand my thoughts on Borderlands 2. The biggest thing that irks me in is how bullet spongy the bosses and even some of the regular enemies are. Beyond that, the shooter mechanics are solid and I've found the weapons decent but unexciting. On the positive side, the game seems to have a pretty good sense of humor.

In addition to Wasteland 2, I started playing Borderlands 2. I'll be honest, I'm not getting what all the hoopla was about. It seems pretty mediocre to me. Maybe it gets better later?

After you finish with the spreadsheet, be a peach and whip up a power point presentation outlining your findings.