Diogo Ribeiro

That might be more true than you think... She practices karate. And by practice I mean she's a 10th Dan. Aka, black belt :ph34r:

She's infinitely replayable

Homosexuality is a genetical means of birth control, like a natural contraceptive genetically developed over the years and manifested over several species. This here bottle of bourbon told me so.

Well, one is more game mechanic oriented, the other one not really. I'm looking at it trough the perspective that what happens directly ingame takes quite a different direction than what happens in story segments. The former is meant to suspend our belief for long stretches of gameplay conventions, the later is a more serious aspect nearing on realism (or simply placed in a context outside of usual gaming conventions) and in that case it tends to break down. Taking bullets and healing one self instantaneously with painkillers is farfetched, but the prospect of having the character miraculously survive trough ordeals when these situations are not ruled by game conventions at all seems more incredulous. Still, it's a fun ride. Only my girlfriend :ph34r:

For some reason, I could never get into the story of Payne 2. Max Payne will remain a good and well told story to me, as well as a good game. But the sequel just seems to try and surpass it and largely fail. Gameplay wise there's little to keep me interested, with the exception of one or two levels (the construction site where you team up with and control Mona is a blast, for instance). The addition of a more complex physics system is nice but rarely lifts up, or matters much. The game also felt smaller. And the story is just FUBAR. Vinnie alive? Vlad a villain? He was too much of an endearing and somewhat quirky character in the prequel, definietely not villain material as far as I'm concerned. Mona letting down her guard? And how many times does Max come close to dying? It creates some tension in the first game, but seeing him escape death over and over just feels forced. He's a badass, we get the point already. Stop pumping him full of lead and breaking his ribs, for god's sake.

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As if ratings were meaningful in this case. Going from Mature to Adult Only means zilch in the greater picture. They wanted a scapegoat, something to ease off the pressure from "concerned" parental associations and sensationalist media - they got one. Guess what? Grand Theft Auto will keep selling, idiots. The more prohobitions it has, the more it will be desired by gamers of most all ages. You're just promoting the game. Even for cases where gamers below the ratings' age don't acquire it legally, they'll still be able to warez them. Morons. I like this post by a guy called Jay over at that article's comment section:

Nice video, but little to no substance as expected.

So, if we were to block Vivec's access to the remaining parts of the city, he would go on a starving frenzy and start robbing food out of everyone then being attacked by guards.

Strangely enough, that dark teal considerably slows down my access to this thread.

NPCs will move around and kick cats.

Natural Born Lover - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Naturally

lolz.

Bluegrayblacktealred.

These bombings will only stop when their targets are dead. I speak, of course, of JK Rowling.

What will LieBigMan say now?

On the chance this gets locked for being off-topic: On the chance it doesn't get locked for being off-topic: Fionavar rules.

Quite the subtle bukkake reference there. In any case, good luck with your book. So you'll get published. How did you manage it?

Lighthouse - Joe Henry - Tiny Voices

GameFAQs reviews are made by costumers who often follow the same standards as these so-called gaming journalists, ie, perfect or near-perfect scores for games which often just float on average of above average scores.

Sleeping Talking to Myself Flipping the Bird to the World

Some time ago I tried purchasing a copy of Planescape: Torment - the single package, not the dual garbage - from Amazon.com. They wouldn't mail it here. And Torment isn't the only one game they wouldn't mail, either.

Just do it when nobody is looking.

Role-Player's disinterest for Resident Evil confirmed, and entering crunch time.