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You need to rectify that young grasshopper Why? Haven't you realized that the Hoonding trademark is to be unimpressed by everything? Oh, and to only write one line zingers.

Actually, sounds like the concensus is that Affleck's Batman is the best thing about this movie. Kind of sad for the guy if this just tanks. He always got too much credit for Daredevil being terrible, and now he could be front and center as the DC movies go into a tailspin.

It's like they keep trying to push the emo goth dark envelope with these films. Makes me miss Val Kilmer as Batman. I think Deadpool has ruined all superhero flicks from here on out.

You are dead to me.

If we learn anything from Cuba, it should be that cutting off contact and imposing economic sanctions does very little to sway an opposing government. The isolation and lack of progress for the last 25 years (fall of USSR) really only hurts the common people. If we learn anything from China, it's that the power of Capitalism and the almighty dollar is a great way to convince a government to allow a private sector to develop. China's middle class is growing, and with it is the pressure on the government to step back further.

I agree with you on that completely, but that is hardly how most people are approaching this.

I spend a lot of time modeling clothes in The Division and letting my 8-year old daughter choose the best look. She has a good eye for post-apocalyptic fashion.

It may appear like that but this is a very complicated situation and we need to consider the views of countries directly impacted by the arrival of thousands of refugees the thing is though that, like in the Paris attacks, the perpetrators may prove to be locals and not jihadists that came in among the refugees. Uh, one of the shooters at the Bataclan theatre was registered as a refugee in august 2015. Yeah, one. The vast majority of these attackers do not need to wait in line with the refugees. They have the resources to get around that.

Yeah I mean it should be easy for an incredibly large, ethnically and culturally diverse population, to unite against extremism.

This is a pretty clear objective. Terrorists aren't on the side of Muslim immigrants.

I could handle Spanish pretty easily, and I can count to 9 in Japanese thanks to a weird childhood mnemonic device. But my exposure to French is pretty much limited to croissants.

Yeah, I'm not going to learn french just so I can get the joke.

Huh, I gotta say the story and atmosphere is the reason I'm playing Division, not the loot. Investigating echoes, moving through contamination zones, helping out people in need, saving the green guys from the hoodie guys, listening to cell phones...etc. I feel like I'm playing a different game, I guess. I actually feel bad gunning down the thugs though. The flamethrower guys, now those I feel good about. Particularly when I hit their tanks and they explode. Of course, I watched the little Amazon Prime movie ahead of time, and those guys are pretty big jerks.

There is more than enough content to justify the price at this point. It is fine to wait and buy it, but it's a bit of a catch-22 because if everyone did that then the game would be DOA and there wouldn't be any new content worth picking it up later for. Also it is pretty fun to be at the ground floor with everyone else. Everyone is kind of figuring out the game together, it's easy to find groups for low level stuff, etc.

My motto when it comes to grinding out levels is Don't Do It! This is an MMO at its core. You can grind and be done with it in a month, reach an end game that really isn't fully complete, and be done with it. Or you can take your time and enjoy the ride to the top. It always takes about a year for these games to really develop a solid end game.

I'd guess Obsidian has three projects in various stages of development. That seems to be what they are comfortable with based on their history.

Heh, I'm just happy when i see blues at level 10. I made my first foray into the Dark Zone, seems to be a lot of crates I can't open. I got up to Dark Zone level 6 pretty quick though, so it seems to move fast.

I didn't get it either.

Yes, that is a well known fact. Otherwise I'm sure they would have tried making a sequel to it by now. Would they though? I love the game, but they are running a business. It didn't sell well, it isn't even really a cult hit. If they really wanted to give it another go, they could probably easily lease or buy it from Sega. But I don't see the profit in it.

Just as an aside, Obsidian does not have the rights to Alpha Protocol either.

I am almost positive we had a thread about this awhile back, where we discussed the same video.

How come everyone is so sure the IP will belong to Paradox? It's a safe assumption, given where the forums are, who is pushing the announcements, etc. Obsidian does not have a long history of owning or leasing IP's, they typically are brought in by a publisher to develop a project and they are paid for that. Less risk and less reward.

I dropped Destiny quickly as well. The Division is way better. I am hooked.

This may be an addition that happened after the beta, but there are a lot of people around, both in the streets and in buildings. I love it when I catch a glimpse of someone in a window. One time I saw a mother holding her baby and it fairly shocked me. I find myself stumbling upon all sorts of interesting scenes in the streets; people fighting over supplies, hoodlums looting and threatening innocents, and plenty in need of help. For my money, they've done a great job of making the world around me seem alive and active. So maybe they've improved it, or maybe I've just had more luck in what I've stumbled across. It's a big world.

You also have no obligation to go into the Dark Zone. The game is pretty fantastic strictly as a PvE RPG. I'll give it a try eventually, but so far I've been exploring on my own, done coop for a couple missions, and enjoyed it tremendously.