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Yeah, a throwback to Luke's and Han's antics on the Death Star while trying to save Leia. Maybe that's what annoyed me. I seem to have trouble dealing with the remakey nature of the film. =(

The entire escape sequence for instance. I can already see the "Fin and Poe dicking around in space" comedy-spinoff. And yes, maybe I'm a bit too cynical and jaded and exaggerate that out of proportion, but there *were* comedy elements to Finn's character in the beginning of the film that annoyed me to no end.

It's different from ToEE insofar as you only control one character and the combat is a bit more like in Fallout (the original Fallout, that is). Oh, yeah, there are feats that give you access to a bunch of tactical features that my character has no access to because he's killing things with mentally projected fireballs and neuroshocks instead of weapons, so no idea how those are. In the beginning you're given quests from one of the head honchos in the starting area, and that's pretty much it. I spent most of my time so far wandering the tunnels and killing... rats, trying to catch fish and other critters. That nobody really wants to buy because old-school traders not only have a limited credit supply but also a list of things they want to buy. Found a real nice but useless piece of armor worth a fortune? Yeah, too bad for you if noboy's buying armors right now. Oh, well, maybe the guy that does has nothing you want and not enough cash. Heh.

I already spent a couple hours wandering around caves and tunnels. So far it's been fun, but a few things are bugging me, or dare I say: A few things are a *bit* too old school. Especially the part where there are multiple currencies with weird exchange rates and the fact that the barter window doesn't give you a price in numbers but instead a slider showing how good (or bad) the deal is. The exploration part is a bit hamstrung by the fact that the game very clearly tells you where you are not yet supposed to be. In the form of impossible skill checks at that level or enemies that kill you in a single round, but maybe that'll change. It certainly didn't help that I had no real idea what I was doing when I made my character. Oh, and lest anyone else falls for this trap, if you want to use psi abilities then keep in mind activating them will cost you a point of constitution.

edit: I hope Fin stops being the silly black guy comic relief character in any subsequent films. While I applaud JJ for not abusing the Droids for that or creating a new Jar Jar Binks using the token black guy for some stereotypical black guy antics in the first half of the film felt a bit off.

I don't think it is unreasonable to say that the movie is too much of a conservative remake for its own good. Maybe the next one will stand on its own and pass from being good to being great.

I wonder who came up with the names in the prequels and in TFA. Supreme Leader Snoke, I'm officially calling you Lord Sudoku from now on.

Open at your peril: Still, in spite of all that, much better than the prequels were, but that is not saying much...

Gods of Egypt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJBnK2wNQSo This, Star Trek Arcade Wars and Independence Day 2... 2016 sure looks promising for fans of... terrible movies.

I've just finished Serious Sam: The First Encounter. The series was one of the things I bought from GOG while it was on sale recently, among with Tomb Raider. Serious Sam was a blast but in the end it really got repetitive. Karnak and Luxor felt like this massive drag where everything is just the same. Still, it was nice to go on a classic shoot rampage. Now installing the first Tomb Raider. I never played any of them because they came out while I was in my rebellious youth phase and they were popular (blargh!) AND featured a woman protagonist with ridiculous boobs that all the stereotypical nerds worshipped, which I though was pathetic and confirming all the negative prejudice us nerds faced. Well, I'm no longer that rebellious but I still think the conventions with Lara Croft lookalikes and 15 year olds flipping out over pixel boobs are ridiculous and a blight, but I'm willing to give the game a chance now.

For me the biggest flaw of Satellite Reign, aside from the respawning enemies and self-repairing environment on releoad, was the difficutly curve. In a way it was like Commandos, you play the first few missions until you realize how limited enemy responses to your actions really are and then you just start to blast through everything. By the time I was halfway through the second sector I didn't even bother with hacking cameras or turning off lights any more. Equipment mini-spoiler:

No, it never was any issue at all, but it has been 17 years and expectations shifted. These days people whine about being able to sell equipment from NPCs they pick up because it gives a few hundred credits that you otherwise would not have. Back during the IE games some classes were more useless than rangers and paladins were at PoE's launch and everyone was more or less okay with it. *shrug*

This has the potential to be worse than the Wolverine spin-off movies. Quite an achievement.

I found the races with Delphi much more annoying. Bad controls and a horrible case of rubber band AI, no thanks.

Ah, to finally find kindred souls who also liked Master of Orion 3. I've put hundreds of hours into that game, but I can see why people would hate it (especially those who just wanted a reskinned Master of Orion 2, because MoO3 is different in EVERY aspect). It took me a long while to find out what the hell was going on and why my planets didn't do anything but build infantry and stupid troop ships.

The best times I had with the Gree event were in a group with two other operatives and an assassin. We'd wait in stealth and would burst down unsuspecting targets for transgressions like having stupid names or glowing brightly. Ah, the wonderful taste of screams and flames. Dropping out of stealth behind a group and shooting into another and then use the stealth cooldown was pretty fun as well. More than once two groups who patiently waited ended up killing each other. Especially when coordinated with someone else.

Something about him got under my skin. Coulson totally crushed it this episode, though. I see what you did there

Well, not that Bioware cold balance for crap if their life depended on it but 1 vs. 1 balance can't possibly be a healthy goal for any MMO. Look where 2 on 2 bracket has lead WoW.

Anchors in the Drift really was an awful campaign, there was nothing after the initial pitch - so little that even investors stayed away (well at least per the few messages left on fig). Combined with 5th Cell wanting donations to create a monetized pay2win RPG and, well, I'd say it was good that the campaign bombed the way it did. Although I've got to hand it to them, it takes some balls to go crowdfunding for a p2w game, and the lifetime tier where you would never have to pay anything was at a measly 500$. I still hope the game comes out even without the funding, the ideas sure were interesting. On the topic of Psychonauts 2, well, even with Schafer's terrible track record I pledged for the limited early brain bird tier. Sure it's a bunch more expensive than the usual Kickstarter basic tiers but eh, subtracting the retail cost of the original Psychonauts it's still just 20€, which is something I can live with losing in case Double Fine fails. Although I suspect that with involvement from investors he might just be a tad more careful. Time will tell, assuming the campaign manages to actually raise the 3.3m.

I bought all those bundles when they were released, regardless of already owning almost all of the games already. I'm kinda paying GOG for their work and the fact that I don't need to fiddle with fan-made patches and ScummVM out of pure lazyness (except for Privateer 2, they should really include the deinterlacer mod in their normal setup, the videos are unwatchable without it) - the same reason why I stopped putting my computers together myself. That, uh, and my tendency to not having any idea where my really old CDs (and disks) are. Probably somewhere in the basement. Heh.

Yeah, the showrunners really hate romance. For that reason alone I'm expecting Hunter or Bobby to die in any episode they show up in. :?

I'm noticing a worrying trend, whenever there is a big sale on GOG it reads "OWNED" on most of the listed items, so I tried a mystery game and got A Golden Wake, a newer point and click adventure with old-school charm. I never really get lucky with those. Out of all the MYSTARY games I got the only really good one was Chroincles of Riddick. On the brigt side I got myself Shadow Warrior for 3€.

This is liek the moofie thread and not... well, I'm guessing it's still a TV show. Binge watched it over the weekend. I haven't read the short story/book so I don't really know how good the adaptation is but the show is awesome even if some of the plotlines while ultimately necessary were a little too drawn out (e.g. Juliana's parents, Ed's grandfather and Childan & the Kasuoras, although that might be an awesome name for a band). The casting was a little weird some some of the character design could really use some work. It can't be good when you're sitting in front of your TV wanting Inspector Kido and John Smith to win because dammit they're done (and played) so well while on the other side we got Frank and Juliana who just might be two seperate Skylers. Is it just me but does Rufus Sewell look an awful lot like a fusion between JE and Jean Claude van Damme?

I liked IWD2 a great deal when it came out, in spite of the terrible ruleset and point buy character generation. It has some of the most interesting areas of the IE games and you'll find a few things in there that no other IE game, not counting PS:T, tried. Although the result is a bit of a mixed bag. All in all it has more interesting battles than the first IWD and much improved pacing, but it is also, out of the box, the hardest of all the IE games and it is definitely too long for its own good. The story is pretty meh, but servicable enough the first time around. It's definitely worth playing considering that you can get it for almost free these days when it is on sale.