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I've been told about it too, but I've been strong in staying away. Same with Borderlands (very different type of game but seemingly same level of addictiveness), I've stayed strong and stayed away. I don't want to get hooked on video game heroin.

I jumped all the way across the lake

Damn, that's some seriously over the top awesomeness. A viking babe with an uzi riding a dinosaur? Yes, please. Edit: This brings up the question: Why aren't there more movies with viking babes with uzis riding on dinosaurs?

"This area is bigger than all of Dragon Age 2" So, not very big. This looks to be the same area they showed some months ago, though it may well be a new video and the area may have been altered/iterated upon/polished.

So in Dragon's Dogma grinding the same enemy again and again and again is fun. I'll take your word for it.

So you're not talking about grinding the same enemy again and again and again?

It's quite likely we'll see at least one of those, hopefully in round 2 so we get a full 7 game series.

While I've never played Dragon's Dogma, so I can't speak from experience, the idea of grinding the same boss(?) over and over and over again sounds boring as hell. Granted people do this all the time in loot em ups when farming for rare items and trying to complete a set, but I could never stomach doing that.

To me "mature" means no sugar coating and no censorship. It doesn't mean blood simply for the sake of blood, or swearing simply for the sake of swearing, or boobs simply for the sake of boobs. But it does mean not cutting out or hiding or censoring blood, swearing, or sexual content out if it fits the content of the story. For example, if the story calls for you to find the victim of a grisly rape & murder then you find a naked, bloody body. The story doesn't sugar coat what happened, nor does it beat around the bush. You are presented with the full grisly scene (whether graphically or via text or voice over).

The store page is back up. Looks like GabeN managed to fight off the zombie horde.

They freed the zombies and the zombies killed the server.

A charitable donation has been made in your name to The Human Fund. Money for people.

Thunder smoked the Knicks by 29 at the Garden today. The Thunder winning isn't at all a surprise, though the margin of victory might be. Westbrook had a triple double and both Durant and Ibaka has highly efficient scoring nights. The continued development of the Thunder's bench (they actually have a better +/- than the starters on average) has allowed Durant, Westbrook, and Ibaka to play far less minutes, which is great for resting their legs for later in the regular season and the playoffs.

I bet Boone would look good in a pair of ass-tight khaki short shorts.

I'm just really disappointed they didn't design the game around motion/Kinect controls. Opportunity missed, inXile. Where is your innovation?

Finished How the Saints Saved Christmas last night. As with most Saints Row DLCs, it was really short and really fun. Back to The Last Remnant for me.

Merry Christmas! Don't overdo it on the Nog.

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx3Bz6cIPiw Shop smart. Shop S-Mart!

Still haven't bought anything. I'm tempted by the flash sale for Final Fantasy VIII (33% off), but my backlog is too large, I wouldn't play a game that large for many months anyway, might as well wait for a future sale where I might get it 50% or even 75% off. I mean, I'm not going to start up another jRPG while I'm playing The Last Remnant, and I likely have somewhere in the neighborhood of 80-100 hours left in that game, knowing the length of a typical Squeenix jRPG and knowing my own playing style (take it slow, explore absolutely everything, talk to everybody, read all the lore). Really just waiting for Cognition or Drakensang 1 at 75% off. I've been good about not getting roped into something else by GabeN Claus.

Weird thing: I love GRID, despite it being pretty frustrating at times. Weirdly, I hate GRID 2, despite it being more or less the same game with some refinements and minor changes. GRID is a game that's sort of halfway between an arcadey racer and a racing sim. GRID 2 seemed to move the needle a bit more toward the arcadey side of things.

What do you mean, African or European swallow?

Maybe he's just intimidated by Boone. Maybe Boone challenges his manhood. I'm not here to judge.

Well, I'm stuffed from delicious Christmas Eve feasting, I'm several cups of Egg Nog (with a little somethin' somethin' in it), two glasses of wine, a glass of rum, and a beer deep (plus I got another beer open and about to be consumed), and I'm about to get down on some How the Saints Saved Christmas. Feliz Navidad, bitches!

Hence why I call it Torture Porn Raider.