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Same here. I was internally screaming "For the love of Gods, at least quickly click on all the different races before you commit to one!"

Nice. I watched as far as character creation, then as soon as the game proper began I turned it off immediately. I definitely liked what I saw out of character creation, though. That's interesting, you also don't want to ruin the surprise....but it was hard to stop watching? Yes, it was indeed hard to stop watching. You're probably right, but I'm taking no chances. I don't want anything at all spoiled for me, not even minor details at the very beginning of the game. I want to see everything for the very first time when I play it once it's fully released.

Nice. I watched as far as character creation, then as soon as the game proper began I turned it off immediately. I definitely liked what I saw out of character creation, though.

Pretty cool. Most of those "custom builds" are just old DOS games running in DOSbox (same as they do on Windows), which you could always run on Linux in DOSbox, but at least now it's all "out of the box" install and play, rather than configuring DOSbox yourself. Curiously, The Witcher 2 is not among the initial rollout of Linux games on GOG despite the fact that there's a Linux version available on Steam. I imagine they're probably waiting for the kinks to get ironed out by the company that did the OpenGL wrapper for it (there was a nasty memory leak among other issues back when I played it a month or two ago) before they unveil it on GOG.

Project Cars screenies:

The sweetest irony of this thread is that it likely brought as much, if not more, ridicule on the OP than the original lightsaber argument, and rightly so. Self-congratulatory threads deserve every last bit of ridicule the get.

Playing Final Fantasy VIII has reminded me just how insanely needlessly confounded storylines are in a lot of Japanese games. This isn't just confined to some of the Final Fantasy games, either, a lot of Japanese games deliver their stories in a very cryptic and confusing way, and then there's Kojima who has been engaged with himself in a battle of oneupmanship to create the most ridiculously contrived convoluted storyline imaginable. I wonder if it's a lost in translation thing or a cultural difference that causes the Japanese games that make it west to be so bafflingly needlessly confounded? Somebody needs to tell Japanese game designers that telling a story in a relatively straightforward, easy to digest, manner isn't necessarily a bad thing.

That whole Areal Kickstarter has been fascinating to follow. It's sad on one hand, since the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is so near and dear to my heart and it pains me to see its name used for such an underhanded scam. On the other hand, this has been such a bizarre trainwreck that it's endlessly comical and entertaining. The "Putin letter" was the icing on the cake. That was just... wow.

Well, there's the upcoming Raven's Cry, that pirate RPG from the folks that made the ****ty Two Worlds games, assuming that's still happening (I haven't heard a peep about that game in the longest time). Edit: Ninja'd

I do too.

New Mighty No. 9 gameplay trailer:

With Deadfall Adventures finished, I decided to fire up Final Fantasy VIII. The game is a weird mishmash of updated higher res models and original 1999 graphics. I could, of course, just turn the updated models off and play with all original models and textures, but I strangely enjoy the jarring, bizarre mixture of horrifically low res textures and updated models (which still look terrible, just less terrible). I'm also still playing Mario Kart 8 and Monster Hunter 3 in spurts on and off.

Obsidian Entertainment Lovable Loser - Got dumped by the cool girl while you were both in high school. Tends to stumble over his own feet. Has taken the fall for other's mistakes in the past. Doesn't have a lot of money and winds up taking odd jobs to make ends meet. But he's fun to hang around with because he tells the best stories.

I like this for two reasons: 1) Christopher Walken is my favorite actor ever, on account of him being awesome. 2) I'm a proponent of the Oxford Comma. Show of hands, who here is Pro-Oxford Comma and who is Anti-Oxford Comma?

I finished Deadfall Adventures. I thoroughly enjoyed the game. What it lacked in production values it made up for with solid gunplay and great pacing. The game does a terrific job of mixing up combat, exploration, and puzzle solving, so you never fall into a rut of doing one thing for too long. As the game began, and had the great mix of puzzles and combat, I feared it would start ditching the puzzles and get very combat heavy in the latter stages, because so many previous games have fallen into that rut. For whatever reason, a shockingly (and sadly) high percentage of games that split their focus on combat and exploration and/or puzzles, fall into a rut of a linear grind of battle after battle after battle after battle in the finishing stages of the game. I don't know if it's the developers running out of inspiration, running out of time and throwing together a bunch of filler battles to finish up the game quickly, or some weird notion that finishing with a metric ****ton of combat somehow makes for an exciting finish. Luckily, Deadfall Adventures avoids this rut and remains 50/50 puzzle & exploration/combat throughout with the elements wonderfully mixed together and spaced out, right down to the very end. There are 11 levels in the game. It took me a little over 17 hours to finish, but that's with taking time to find all the treasures, including going back to previous levels a few times to find treasures I missed. On that front, I was wrong about there not being treasures in the last level, there are. The reason I thought that was because getting all the treasures through the first 10 levels allows you to get every skill upgrade in the game (treasures are essentially skill points in Deadfall Adventures), making the treasures in the final level useless to me, though someone who missed some treasures along the way would find them useful. Someone just trying to get through the game and not caring about finding treasures could probably beat the game in 12 hours or so, I estimate. In conclusion, I liked Deadfall Adventures a lot. The game got pretty lackluster reviews so I wasn't expecting much, but what I got was nearly 20 hours of thoroughly enjoyable adventure goodness. Had I bought the game at full price(I didn't), I would still be satisfied, though I'm not sure I would recommend it to everybody at that price. At the 75% off price point I scooped it up at (10 buckaroos), I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone and everyone who's down for a FPS/adventure/puzzle game hybrid and can look past cliche story and hilariously bad voice acting and dialogue. I give the game 4 chest bumps out of Predator handshake.

I've reached the final level in Deadfall Adventures, though I'm going to go back to the penultimate level to get one treasure I missed. I know where it is though I haven't figured out how to reach it and I got to a point where I couldn't go back any more, and because of the checkpoint save system and lack of manual saves *sigh* I couldn't just reload a previous save. Luckily, I won't have to replay the whole level. It's relatively early in the level and once I figure out how to get to the treasure then reach a checkpoint, I can just stop there then go back to the last level and I'll have the treasure, which will make all of them, as there are no treasures to find in the last level of the game, to the best of my knowledge, and I've gotten all the treasures in each of the previous levels.

Mayan ruins

I think he responded with appropriate force And here I have been capturing the spiders and taking them outside unharmed. I guess I have been doing it wrong the whole time.

Rumors or not, The Cavs absolutely should deal Wiggins if that's what it takes to get Love. Even if Wiggins achieves his full potential, it will take several years for him to get there. LeBron is 29, he'll turn 30 before this year is over. Most basketball players' primes go from about 25 or 26 to about 31, maybe 32, if they manage to stay healthy. There are obviously exceptions and LeBron is a freak of nature, but even so, you can't reasonably expect his prime to extend past 34. Kobe extended his prime beyond how long most mere mortals could, but we all saw how his body has broken down the last couple years. I don't think LeBron wants to wait 3 or 4 years for Wiggins to mature to start winning championships again, he wants to win right now. Could the Cavs win this year with Wiggins and without Love? Sure, but they wouldn't be favorites. With Love they become one of the favorites, if not THE favorite, for the title next season.

Some Risen 3 screenies:

Dang, that's inspirational. /wipes away tear

I'm not down for anything rapey happening to Leliana either. However, I am down for her getting her bowels slashed open and her guts spilling out. You know, tasteful and classy like.

Aw yeah, a horribly scarred villain, and he's Russian on top of that. Double movie cliche bonus! Woohoo, a mine cart section! This just keeps getting better! I love the scoped Kar98k so much. It's not even fair when I get my hands on that rifle.

Ran into my first QTE in Deadfall Adventures. And just after I had sung the game's praises for not having any. Figures. At least it was an easy QTE and it's not an insta-fail one. Still, though. *sigh*

This doesn't below in a funny things thread. This belongs in a sad, sad, no, God no. Why? Why would you do this? thread.