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I know, right? If you're going to use ratings, at least go with rotten tomatoes. Debating which Kurosawa movie is better is like trying to pick out the best piece in a box of chocolates or the best moment during Breaking Bad. I'll generally go for the circular piece filled with caramel and cite the moment Gus killed Victor with the box cutter, but if someone chooses the dark chocolate heart-shaped piece or Walt blowing up Tuco's room, I'm not going to lose my **** over it. The genius of Yojimbo is in how well paced, fun, and entertaining the movie is throughout. For me, it's a lot easier to digest than most of Kurosawa's work and delivers a devilishly wonderful and clever tale of misanthropy. Kurosawa certainly made deeper movies, like Rashomon, but Yojimbo is the one I find most entertaining. If sorophx prefers Kurosawa's fantastic adaptation of King Lear, that's good for him. /shrugs

I don't feel any rage because patience is a virtue that will always be rewarded. Right Gabe? GAAAYYYYYBE??????? Andy Sirkis confirmed for Half-Life 3!

LOL, methinks somebody needs to switch to decaf.

In case of emergency - wub wub wub wub wub

Or is it?

Jim Sterling of Destructoid weighs in on Saints Row 4 tl;dr - 9.5/10 Edit: Also, The Escapist and Joystiq have both given the game perfect scores. /rubs hads together.

Those are pretty good. Rockstar has always been good at making great political and advertising spoofs. The billboards and radio ads in the GTA games and the talk radio stations have always been funny and entertaining.

I could do a checklist of all the game's shortcomings, and there are many (linear story, lack of meaningful choices, lack of environmental audio, save system, etc.). None of them kept me from having a really fun time playing the game. I like it quite a bit.

RPS has weighed in too. tl;dr - John Walker really likes it.

I'll be playing it in about a week and I'll be sure to post my thoughts. What I like about the series is that Volition hasn't forgotten that this is a game first and foremost. Sometimes developers get too involved into trying to create something profound or artsy with the medium. When I fire up a game, I'm generally not looking for a moral treatise on the crumbling capitalist system, the evils of elitism, and the disappearance of the middle class, I just want to have some fun.

It still doesn't touch the Witcher 2 Xbox Trailer. That's the CGI Trailer Heavyweight Champion of the World.

First Lady Michelle Obama Will release a rap album Word up. Raise the roof, Michelle.

They sure do love them some braids. They look pretty good, I really like the male dwarf. The female dwarf (I'm assuming that's female #3) doesn't look very dwarven. As an aside, I'm getting a kick out of the in-depth discussion on spaceship design and aerodynamics. This is a video game we're talking about, and not even a simulation or even hard sci-fi, it's a space opera. Remember, this is the same medium where The President's daughter gets captured by robot ninjas.

I imagine that you get the opportunity to have some sexy time after this scene. It's a fantastic looking CGI trailer. It doesn't really tell us anything new, we already knew Geralt was a super badass, but it looks good. Then again, that could be indicative of choices you get to make in the game. Maybe the damsel in distress you save turns out to be a witch or a criminal, and one worthy of being hung?

You don't have to pick a side right away, you can play both sides for a while, eventually you will have to pick a side, though. Piranha Bytes' games always force you to pick a side eventually.

SR2 was supposed to be unable to enter atmosphere given its great size. This is why all the missions drop you off in a shuttle. Of course I don't think Illium is ever explained and Mass Effect 3 completely forgets. I'm more bothered by the forward facing window, putting the pilot in the most vulnerable combat position on the hsip, and Joker taking credit for automated systems. He brags about the accuracy of a faster than light jump in the first minutes of Mass Effect 1. Just what was he doing to give it such accuracy? Was he steering the ship at near instantaneous FTL, making up for .0000000000000000001 degree deviations that could send them light years off course? By feel? Is he a math whiz capable of calculating course corrections instantaneously? Just like when someone is blind or deaf and one of the other senses becomes hyper sensitive to compensate, being a space cripple means having hyper advanced navigation and math skills. That's why EDI is hot for his loins. She's turned on by how many decimal places of pi he can recite.

If the PC port is anything like the GTA IV port, you'll need a nVidia Titan just to run it on low settings.

Well, there was stock photograph mysterious accent alien, sexy engineered neo-human ass, completely not generic in any way shape or form space marine with faux hawk, token black companion, foul-mouthed psycho, neurotic alien, ...

You can actually tell Morrigan to pike off and she does. Though I don't know if she returns to offer the dark ritual or not. I think I knew that at some point, but it's been a long time. The first time I played the game, I kept everybody around for purely meta-gamey reasons. I didn't want to miss any potentially interesting content. If I ever do feel the urge to replay DAO, yeah, Morrigan is getting ditched, and Zevran is getting offed. I can do without that one dragon fight. PC Mage, Shale, Wynne, and whoever is most plot-relevant for the current quest. (If none, Sten.) Ugh, I hated Morrigan and Zevran so much, I guess I'm pro-space cripple and anti-meddling witch and anti-gay assassin (I can't type that in without laughing). Wynne is BY FAR my favorite companion in either DA game.

He makes teh jokez, isn't that important enough? Levity is the backbone of any successful military or paramilitary operation. Just look as the A-Team, which was practically a documentary. Also, Why y'all hatin' on space cripples? What did space cripples ever do to you?

Joker is one of the few characters I actually liked from ME. My take was that commanding officers in a Marines-type culture don't often get along too well with inferior officers who are disrespectful of the chain of command, who are clearly physically unfit for service, and who go by ridiculous self-applied nicknames, but who get special treatment because they can do fancy techy things well. (See, e.g., USMC's attitude toward the Navy; everybody in the military's attitude towards military pilots.) Not to mention the fact that his insubordination was clearly responsible for Shep getting spaced in the ME2 intro. He was so clearly written to get the player to like him, that I felt it was my duty to roleplay Shep more faithfully as a Marine, rather than as an avatar for a nerd playing an RPG. "Shep hates Joker" actually works reasonably well as a counter-narrative to the series. Yes, but if decades of action movie convention have taught me anything, it's that the renegade who doesn't follow the chain of command and marches to the beat of his own drummer is, without exception, the only man for the job. Movies don't lie, man, movies don't lie.

I just realized that in my previous comment Sony is George W. Bush. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, my subconscious is a mystery even to myself.

Joker is one of the few characters I actually liked from ME.

Microsoft is doing more flip-flopping than John Kerry in the election of 2004.

PC: Fraps. Console: oh well. (actually it can be done, just kind of a pita maybe) I know, but Fraps will mean a performance hit while the in-game recording in GRID 2 is convenient and doesn't impact performance at all. Unfortunately it only allows you to record 30 second snippets. It doesn't make any sense, since the game records the entire race, from multiple angles to boot, since you can switch the camera freely during replays, and Youtube allows much larger uploads than 30 seconds. [rant]Really, while the racing is good, which is the most important part, there is a lot about the game that's mind-numbing in how poorly it was designed. For example, if you Alt+Tab out of the game to get to the desktop it automatically drops into a 800x600 window and you have to go through the menus to put it back into your desired resolution and full screen. The vast majority of games out there just minimize when Alt+Tabbed out of and go right back into full screen. Also, speaking of the menus, the menu hell you have to go through to do ANYTHING is ridiculous. Games in the 90s didn't even have menu hell this bad. Literally anything you want to do, whether it be career mode, a quick race, changing settings, etc, is at least 4 menus deep.[/rant]