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Meanwhile in the peaceful city of Lungfishopolis... Oh no, it's the dreaded Goggalor! Goggalor vs. Coachamera!

9 years old and still looks fantastic... outside of the jarringly low res cutscenes, that is.

High five, baby! We have Kamil Stoch and his golds to cheer us up. It definitely helps to have the best ski jumper in the world on your team.

To the best of my knowledge, you make a new character from scratch for Dragonfall.

Final Fantasy VI needs to be added to that list. It's the best jRPG ever made.

I'd be just as happy if another Tolkien-esque game of any variety never gets made ever again. The thing is though, Tolkien-eqsue doesn't just mean elves and orcs. World of Warcraft has elves and orcs and it's not even remotely like Tolkien's work. There are suprisingly few good cRPGs in the same style and level of quality as Tolkien. I understand, and I stand by my statement. High fantasy, in general, is far and away the most played out setting in RPGs, and video games in general. There are so many other great settings that have barely, if at all, been explored. Let's make some games in those settings and give high fantasy a rest for a good long while.

I'd be just as happy if another Tolkien-esque game of any variety never gets made ever again.

Biathlon is the bomb diggity. The element of having to target shoot after skiing for 10 kilometers and with your heart rate going off the charts is such a fantastic dynamic. Too bad Poland doesn't have a top level biathlete right now. We (I'm a 'Murican citizen and live in 'Murica, but I'm still Polish by birth, blood, and heart) have one of the very best cross country skiers on the planet, Justyna Kowalczyk, but she doesn't do the shooty shooty.

Excessive grinding should be punished. Those that engage in it deserve any pain that it brings. It's not so much that The Last Remnant punishes grinding as much as the leveling and scaling system is quite cryptic and poorly explained in the game. Grinding can actually be somewhat beneficial, but only if you understand the system well (good luck with that, there are some 5000+ word wikis I can point you to) and grind with specific goals in mind.

I'm assuming that the members of the Russian biathlon team that won the gold are going to have statues built of them and will never have to pay for anything ever again. It's been a great Olympics for my mother land of Poland: 6 medals, 4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze. That was pretty much best case scenario heading into these games.

The game I've played that handled QTEs the best I've ever seen is The Last Remnant. You never know when they're going to happen, the timing on them can be wildly different, from hit the button within a split second, to wait a couple seconds to hit the button, they never do the crappy mash the button as fast as you can variety, and the mechanic serves only as a means to get a counter on some blocks, or to get an extra critical effect on some attacks. If you fail the QTE, you just don't get the bonus effect, the game moves on.

Mashing a button as fast as you can until you develop a blister fits no game I've ever played, nor does it qualify as gameplay under any definition my brain can come up with. The timing type QTEs can be fine, or even of value, when used sparingly, and either in optional mini-games, or as a way of determining whether you get bonus or not, not as a live or die mechanic.

Yeah, that level is pretty rough. The platforming itself in the game is subpar, but the game way more than makes up for it with an overabundance of charm, personality, humor, and level variety. Quite possibly the best level variety I've ever seen in a platformer, it's like playing a completely different game in each different level. Plus, it includes the single greatest level ever made, The Milkman Conspiracy. It's been so long since I've played the game that I'm starting over from the beginning.

Psychonauts, one of the best damn games ever made. It's been several years since I've played it, and I am happy to say the graphics hold up quite nicely.

Just once in a RPG I'd like to see a character jump in the water to swim wearing plate, make it a few yards while struggling mightily, then sink like a stone and die.

I haven't watched a second of basketball since the Olympics started. Who broke LeBron's nose?

Yay, swimming (I'm already imagining how bad the swimming animation will be ) Yay, voodoo is coming back (hopefully they make it more useful but still as much fun as in R2) So we're swapping our nameless hero for presumably another nameless hero. No modding tools.

Woot! Activated my Steam key, now just have to wait a few days. Hopefully the Berlin campaign is a bit less linear and gives you more options for going through areas in alternate ways besides one or two vents for drones and one or two terminals you can use decking to open doors or disable security.

I'm hoping they stick with the pirate motif, but if this picture is anything to go by, then it looks like we may be going back to a more medieval-ish theme I didn't mind the pirate theme. What I didn't like were the smallish islands and that meant less fun exploration. Agreed, one or two much larger islands would have been much better. With that said, Piranha Bytes managed to cram an amazingly high amount of stuff to find and do into each of those little islands.

Gotta love Google Translate: I'm hoping they stick with the pirate motif, but if this picture is anything to go by, then it looks like we may be going back to a more medieval-ish theme

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How is this blasphemous? JUST TELLING It LIKE IT IS! Hear, hear.

Any Star Trek game with playable Borg and no Seven of Nine sexy time is just blatantly leaving money on the table.

Are there any Star Trek games out there that let you play as a Ferengi? That would potentially be highly entertaining.

Riker would definitely be the choice for protagonist if BioWare or CDPR were to make a Star Trek game. Number one hooked up more often than even Kirk.