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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.

It's weird, but when I read American Gods I totally pictured Moon as American Indian. It's been a long while, so I'm probably wrong. I thought he was like some mix of Scandinavian and Cherokee.

I already gave you the link above. See https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/tyranny Feel free to vote. Ah, I missed it earlier. I added a vote. Do you think it gets enough exposure there? It looks like it is doing alright, 70 votes so far. It will need a good deal more to get attention though.

So...did you start the petition yet?

Madmartigan! Madmartigan!

The thing with Bonds is you can greatly diminish the power aspect and he is still one of the greatest. He was a great fielder, runner, he hit for average, he had the best eye for the strike zone, etc.

McGwire (and Sosa) are still marginal HoFer's if we discount PED's. Bonds and Clemens are absurdly qualified.

I've always had issues with AA. My sister bounced around in it for years, and I always felt it was a terribly ineffective program.

As I mentioned, your best bet as a consumer is to get a petition going and send it off to Paradox. They will take notice if you have 5-10 thousand signatures on it.