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It's a well known recipe. There must be hundreds of dramas with the same theme. They have had a lot of practice though, so it's pretty well refined. Circumstances beyond their control seperate the young lovers, years pass by and they meet again. Throw in a mortal disease or over controlling parents for variation.

You get the option 'playthrough mode' after beating the game. Adds new enemies and substitutes various baddies with beefier ones. Also randomly spawns enemies that are a few levels higher than you which is great equipment wise, your guns are no longer constantly decaying in relative level. You would really be better off starting your game from lv 35 or so with someone elses save/profile. Various builds are possible and the combat is actually challenging. All that time you spend being low level is a huge waste since both quests and gear will become obsolete very quickly and you don't get to use your skills, or at least not the ones you wanted.

You can't do 'stocky' dwarves with rubber masks, you wind up with Gimli from the first movie. The proportions look wrong. It's the same reason all the alien species on startrek looked stupid. Dwarves have a different body structure. I think they all conformed rather neatly to sub culture expectations of Dwarves. Warhammer, warcraft, whatever. They just weren't very good. Save maybe one or two. 'Stumpy', the orc general from the battle of Moria bothered me too. Sure so the first part of the book doesn't have a clear antagonist, but the movie didn't need one transplanted either.

I got the wrong one. Not having used one for ages I decided on an Xbox controller because it already came with USB. It's not good at anything. Playstation ones are suited for combos at least, with the four back buttons.

I dunno, was never a huge KOTOR fan.

I think it would have looked a lot better in traditional animation. You know line drawings with a high production value as opposed to computer animation and face masks. I love the book, but it's nothing without atmosphere. The dwarves look either like humans or like they were lost from the set of Snow White. They are supposed to look like Warhammer badasses.

Smart idea to just concentrate on that one encounter in the highrise.

Looks have always trumped gameplay, it's just so much easier to do. I would argue that games have become dumber since the rise of the console because those few seconds of initial exposure where many people decide if they are going to buy or not have come to mean much more than they should. If you compare with Risen, and I don't see why you could'nt, TW combat actually works, while RIsen combat may eventually work acceptably well after a few patches.

Doging came with a patch if I recall. Didn't work particularly well. Frantic button mashing was still you best bet.

My main problem is that you don't get to shoot at other players. I mean, it's a shooter. That's what you feel like doing, especially because coop is so easy most of the time.

I've just started chapter 8 and I've not seen anything so far that is bad about AC3 that isn't optional like those blasted feather missions. Fingers crossed it stays that way. Ubisoft really have to get off their formula and try to be more original. Maybe It's the way maps and landmarks work, climp a radio tower (Farcry) and get the Assassin's Creedtm pan and icons pop up on the map that tell you exactly what to do when you get there. There are never any surprises. Rinse and repeat 200 times. I was actually kinda interested in seeing how the expected twist in Farcry 3 was going to play out but I couldn't take anymore sameyness.

The real tragedy there is Assassins Creed 3 itself.

I'm thinking several titles haven't met their predicted sales and they are afraid to give them a heavy price reduction. STEAM have always been a bit too optimistic about just how long a title should maintain it's initial price.

Can't you load the autosave, or is there no load option at all. I vaugely remember having to do something out of the ordinary to get the saves to show up.

Yeah it's good. One big question though. Why is there no PVP arena. Other than that I'm finding it too easy both in coop mode and soloing. The arenas were the most fun I've had. I think there's just too many levels, it makes getting the difficulty right too hard. They should have 5 or 10 gun tiers instead of 60. You find one you like and 5 minuites later it's obsolete.

Borderlands 2. Really annoys me that there are a hundred levels for every gun you pick up. The joy of finding good rifle is much depreciated by knowing that it will be outdated in another level or two. Isn't Dead Island the same. lv 21 wrench. unequippable at lv 20.

Every time a school shooting happens gun sales go up because people are afraid the gov't is going to come take what they hadn't gotten around to buying yet. A thriving gun industry is the most important part of the lobbying effort. In a non related example aspestos remained legal 10 years after the link with cancer had been established. It still is, although it can only be sold to countries with no safty regulatons at all. If you have an industry behind you, if lots of jobs are at stake and if you spend the money you can wield an almost godlike influence over the legislature.

Should I go see The Hobbit or is it basically a children's movie. Harry potterish and boring like everyone says.

Let us commence with the traditional airing of grievances

I don't know why it says 'complaining about 30 C' in my post. I mean I must have written it, but I have no memory of it. Maybe because I've been awake for a day and a half now. Zero degrees = 32 Farenheit. It really is true what they say by the way, you definitely get dumber, more sluggish, as various chemical receptors in your brain lose potency. Glad there's no one at work except an equally lazy collegue.

Complaining about 30 degrees celcius. Wuss. Wuss. It's zero degrees now and I haven't even broken out my gloves.

I had an Ikea bed once. That was a mistake. It was like a sinking wobbly ship and I didn't even get to brag about how I broke it doing the deed. My rather portly aunt broke it just sitting on it which made her feel bad about herself.

Well whatever, they're toys. Hunting with a bolt action riftle, now that's skills.

Lets not have anything anime sized at all. That should solve the problem.

I'll just say this ; when the opportunity comes to call a truce, and it will in time, just remember that they don't have to love eachother, they just have to get along. That means both parties ready to start fresh 'for the greater good'. It's an argument most people can understand.