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I'd say Epic Mickey is a pretty awesome concept, actually. The artistic design and edgy treatment of a rather simple kid's character is very cool. Unfortunately it is made for the Wii, which no one plays, and it apparently has some major control issues. If it was on the PC I'd buy it day one.

Yeah, but even though gmail is huge now, Yahoo mail still has the edge in terms of numbers. I see Facebook being a similar case. Of course I did switch from yahoo to gmail in the last year, so I guess I'm an example of the eventuality of google winning.

Yep, that's a typical BBQ here.

Robin Hood was an excellent little gem, kind of like Commandos mixed with The Lost Vikings.

i think you need to carry at least 1 weapon, even if you plan on sneaking past every enemy in the game. the reason you need at least 1 weapon: boss fights are unavoidable. I use my pistol for mines as well. I'm sure there are plenty of uses for weapons that don't involve creating holes in people.

Yes, I was surprised that the second battery didn't recharge, I almost felt like I wasted a praxis point on that. Thankfully the praxis points haven't been too hard to come by, although there are a lot of tough choices to make in how you spend them. So far my best investment has been the jumping one, followed by the double takedown and the various points I've put into hacking. I'm also starting to get much better at the hacking game. It's a decent minigame.

You know, the greater jihad is that is that of one's personal struggle to keep faith. The crazy levels for oby/LoF are higher than normal the last couple days.

I hate you. Seriously, I really hope I get into some form of beta for the game, even if it's just a stress test.

I like the takedown mechanic. You have to be more strategic than just sneaking around knocking everyone out quickly. Sometimes I'll knock a guy out, drag him away, recharge and then knock another guy out. Also the two person knockout aug is cool. Plus you have stun guns and tranq rifles, not to mention that Pep gun that blows folks back. The only person I've killed was the boss, and I turned a turret on which killed some folks. I also somehow killed a banger with a tranq gun, I'm not sure how that happened. Maybe I hit his eyeball.

Huh, I have an Intel/ATI setup, it's running as smooth as butter. Just finished the boss fight, which was a bit unfun. But the rest of the game has been a total blast. I would say it is just as good as the original.

Yeah, unfortunately his only real success has been internationally. The two wars, while still moving at a snails pace, haven't gotten worse. He has had much better interactions with foreign powers than the previous administration. The revolutions that have forced changes in the Middle East and Africa can also be spun as a positive for him. But none of that really matters, because the economy is effed up, and he hasn't been seen as handling it well at all. He can't bridge the two parties, and his approval ratings are in the dumps. He's going to need a miracle, or a Republican party that gives their ticket to a moron. The latter is unfortunately very likely.

I just read a great story about how the rebels are now going through all the expensive stuff from the Ghadaffi family had. Apparently some folks drove off with a BMW, Audi, and a Lamborghini one of the sons owned. I imagine that will stick out a bit rolling through Libyan neighborhoods.

That worries me more than some earthquake.

I prefer to get all my PC games at Best Buy anyways, since they haven't shoved them into a dirty corner in the back of their stores like Gamestop.

Load times for levels and stuff are fine, I have no idea why it take soooo long to load a saved game. I'm a bit anal about not raising any alarms, so it's quite inconvenient. Everything else is fantastic though. Don't dawdle to the first mission, by the way

I agree Age of Conan looks gorgeous. I've got a pretty nice rig, but I am having some performance issues with it. Still, when it runs smoothly it makes me feel like I stepped into Robert E. Howard's book. I broke down and bought the Rise of the Godslayer expansion because I wanted to see the new city. I know WAR was trying to capture the tabletop game ascetic, which is a bit cartoony to begin with. But it didn't help that the game just seemed unfinished, like they never got to polish it correctly. It's a bad start when you cut a ton of professions and starter cities a month before release.

Wussy east coaster, 5.8 isn't even worth getting out of bed in California.

Yep, scaling isn't bad per se, but it was atrociously implemented in Oblivion.

I turned 33 today. It's pretty impossible to celebrate much right now, given the school year just started up. My wife bought me Deus Ex, so I'm hoping to squeeze a couple hours in for that this week. Still, kind of an odd age. My wife says she will wait until I'm 35 to trade me in for a younger model.

I think he's talking more about critical success. ME2 managed to implement some pretty big changes from the original without incurring a big backlash from critics or fans. The same cannot be said about the move from DA1 to DA2.

Rift is fantastic, I played it for quite a few months and logged a lot of hours. It is definitely a WoW-type MMO, but it does so extremely well. I thought I remember you not digging WoW though, so it might be for you. WAR Online was actually a decent game, but it relies heavily on having a good population and having a good network of friends. I played at release, but if the servers are really ghost towns now, I don't imagine it will be much fun. It did a couple cool things, but it seemed like it got stretched too thin. It's funny, Rift took all the decent things about WAR and fixed them.

It's pretty, but don't install the game itself.

It has to sell well too. Hopefully it will.

After a couple tweeks I got Age of Conan up and running. I forgot how much better the combat is than most MMO's. I was getting tired of Rift, so this will scratch a nice itch for awhile.

Let's meet in there sometime! I'll send you a message when I get to it (in a week or two after exams ) Sounds good. I'm pretty sure I can play on the EU servers.