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Fun fact noted and... enjoyed? FDS: obviously they do the same thing. Most of the oddity here was how radically different our Google searches were. I always wonder how much search results are geographically skewed. EDIT: also my first encounter with this problem was literally last week when I said to my gf "I'm gonna buy some suspenders!" and she said "what? haha, this i'd like to see," and I replied with "what?" and she said "i didn't know you were into that sort of thing, you sure you want suspenders?" mockingly and i said "what?" and it continued until she humiliated me by saying I want braces and that suspenders are what girls wear.

Have GOH and I just stumbled upon another point of contention in the status threads? He Google searches for "suspenders" and gets the elastic straps which hold up a man's legwear. I Google search for "suspenders" and get women's underwear support, eg this. Yeah... oggle away. Over here we call men's trouser supports "braces". A very confusing moment for everyone involved. Although I just tried a Google Image search instead of just a regular search, and I do indeed get braces instead of womens' suspenders. EDIT: also uptalking is incredibly annoying. And, now living in Glasgow, almost everyone does it. But the Glaswegian accent is so great that it's not too bothersome anyway.

I misread your post as: And all my hopes soared. Then I read the article and said "wut?" Then I read your post again and my hopes and dreams crashed into the ground like the green glass chandlier in Another World.

I'd wholeheartedly agree with that analysis if Tomb Raider: The First hadn't been totally cross platform and cross gen. I can't imagine an IP going sole platform exclusive after it's been well established. And the sales weren't bad at all, were they?

Thanks for the tip. It's always the same. I don't see why it's such a contentious comparison to draw? NGE (as far as I know) invented the "humanity under seige from unbelievably tough alien entities which nobody understands and nobody knows where they came from" opening plot gambit. Attack on Titan is exactly the same initial plotline, but with the twist that it's a middle-ages fantasy universe and rather than organic mech-types, the invaders are freaky giant humans (still basically mechs). And Sidonia is the same again but set fully in space instead of mid-future Earth, with aliens who are pretty dang close to NGE's Angels. So really my point is that it's ripping off NGE, and this by proxy makes it similar to Attack on Titan. Also I really recommend NGE. I'm not a big anime buff, neither are any of my friends, but everybody I've shown it to appreciates the achievement of it. It's melancholic but not self-obsessed, it's really thematic but not absurd or obscure (read: it's very intelligent). Still has stupid comic relief bits though, which typify anime.

Watched the first couple of episodes of Knights of Sidonia. It's like nothing's happened in the genre since Neon Genesis. Fucking boring. Badly paced narrative. Stupid anime stereotype characters. More mysterious giant monsters who are basically impossible to kill and appear out of nowhere after (sigh) hundreds of years. Basically Titans/ Angels/ whathaveyou with added tentacle. Decent sci-fi backdrop. Utterly gorgeous art, though. The animation is super low framerate, but it's forgivable cos it looks so damn good. That's literally the only good thing going for it from my point of view.

That is bloody brilliant. And yeah sounds well worth the moolah- guess i'll lay down the bread for my first ever kickstarter purchase!

Re [redacted], you mentioned a card-counting mechanic with the rock/paper/scissors encounter cards. Do people get a limited or set amount of those for the entire game? No idea why i'm asking you and not just looking it up myself. iPhone blues? I guess. Game sounds brilliant either way. What were their earlier projects?

Murdered: Soul Suspect. Fucking refreshing. You don't fire a gun once. You don't take cover once. You barely even dispatch enemies (though when you do, it's stupid as hell). Most of it is just some really nice investigation mechanics with a really strong, if slightly underdeveloped, story. Final twist which totally made up for fairly dull filler and some terrible extras. You can tell they could have done with £1 million more or an extra year or so. But it's still really, really good. I hate the rough critical reception it got. It's such a solid, solid game.

Me and the other half just started getting into Diablo II. Been years since I played it. She's really liking it, though looking this far back it's a little one-dimensional. Money permitting, I'm thinking of hitting up Diablo III on PS4 later this month. Oh wise folks of PXoD: how does Diablo Game: The Third measure up to the seminal second installment? I couldn't get a straight answer out of anyone at DIablo 3's release, due to the technical horrors and server-side hatred and whatnot.

Meant to reply to this but my phone deleted it. Try this when you're on Week 12... Big part of what actually stopped me playing the multiplayer altogether. Possibly the only reason actually. Those stupid "fail this one task and ALL YOUR PROGRESS IS GONE" just sucks so much.

The game deffo wasnt trying to be Uncharted. The comparisons were made by multiple randoms i saw online. I think they jumped to that based on the colour scheme and swashbuckley adventure vibe , not that it's even that particularly. I just didnt think it was that great. Especially the combat.

Yeahhh this was my favourite tactic too, when you were in close quarters. The Shock thing you're referring to is the Warlock's melee blast ability, I think? That's what I used i think. One thing which Destiny definitely nailed is the minimap. I.e. the 360 degree motion sensor kinda thing. Halo had a similar idea towards the end right? Really effectively done in Destiny. Perfect as a balanced MP mechanic.

Ooft, those are good and grisly. Look totally pre-rendered. Amazing. I'm waiting until I can sell off Watch_Dogs or some hardware until I get hold of it. It'll probably drop in price pretty rapidly anyway. I've completed it twice on Survivor and loved it. My fave game mode and imho the best way to play the game. I'm super duper keen for Grounded mode. Super duper keen. The game becomes so much more intense and heart pumping when the stakes are so much higher. (I decided to save Grounded mode for Remastered, but maybe I'll just dip right in...)

And people wonder why I fight so hard against the people that believe language should just be whatever is the popular meaning of something Except... That's not a belief. That's literally a fact. Words only mean what a group of people commonly use them as. It's not as reductive or challenging an idea as it sounds. It's logic. But obviously certain semantic changes make a lot less sense than other ones and will lead to more confusion than other ones. And when "group" refers to a whole country, when speakers of the same language come from many huge countries, more problems arise. Like a few hundred years ago you'd probably be flipping out about how the commoners had turned the word "sophisticated" from meaning "wrong, disconnected" into meaning "high brow, discriminating." Swings and roundabouts. Now, nobody bats an eyelid. A hundred years from now, nobody will bat an eyelid at what Figuratively or Literally mean. Signifiers change, signs and signified remain the same, yadda yadda. Also, Flying Gerbil, I love that GB/UK/British Isles venn-ey diagram. Really bothers me when people say "I don't believe in an independent Scotland, I mean, why would you want to leave Britain?" And I'm like "if we got independence we would still be part of Britain you dang idiot".

Generally, Joker's portrayed as really deadly hand-to-hand, but not because he's a trained specialist like Bats or because he's determined. He's lethal just because he's utterly ruthless, cunning and extremely experienced. Is that another one of those animated Batman movies which are apparently really good? I really want to see Guardians of the Galaxy now! But Dawn of the Planet Of The Apes is top of my list, and it's more likely to leave cinemas soon.

It's well known, but me and a buddy been playing through Dead Space 3. It's a fucking brilliant space adventure with decent writing. Yes the horror is all but gone- which is why it got such a bad rap- but we knew this was going to happen after Resi 5/6 and the way DeSpa 2 was going. I also agree with Hots on Spider-man: Web Of Shadows. It's just fucking great. So fun. Iffy around the edges, but so worth it for the great mechanics. The boss battles are genuinely thrilling for the most part and you do proper superhero stuff in them. Like against the Green Goblin, dodging his shots on the side of a skyscraper, chasing him up it, leaping off the top and diving down to follow him in between tall tenements, weaving around his minions and nailing him... Superfast and really precise if you get skilled enough at it. Also i heard tons of stuff about how great Enslaved was and how underrated it was, then i played it and... It's kinda good i guess. It's just really solid. Combat's not amazing. Story's okay, bit iffy at the end. I heard all sorts of Uncharted-rival chat and it so doesn't measure up.

Man I gotta watch that. Good horror flicks are so hard to come by. Well, not counting pulp/ video nasties, which are their own brand of fun. Last decent horror I saw was... Dark Skies I think it's called? Real pity. Great, fantastic, ingenious idea... Pretty flawed execution. @Hottie: Cabin In The Woods is one of my favourites. In my experience it's a really easy sell, because you just say "oh it's a horror movie. And there are hot teenagers." For most people I know, that sells it. Then I absolutely relish the next hour and half watching everything they ever knew be destroyed and inverted.

(No idea what's happening with that box. Can't delete it.) Now that you mention it, I do remember Halo on Legendary being really something else. I only did Halo 3 on Legendary (the whole thing... by myself), so I can't say for the other games. Destiny's combat does get a bit scrappy, but most of the time I found it really engaging and was surprised by the AI, doing nice flanky and tactical things. And yes, re floatiness I'm mainly referring to jumping, but also how oversmooth movement is. In Halo, you push forward on the stick and MaChief might as well have a speeder-style force field for legs. I remember Halo 2 was the worst, there was no tactile or realistic sense to player movement. Just like your floating about on a horizontal plane. Then there was the jumps which are so slow and high and last 5 seconds for no reason and it makes no sense and it always felt terrible and immersion breaking. I prefer Destiny's slightly more thumpy feet movement and shakey gun movement and faster jumps (though I was gliding a lot as Warlock so maybe I didn't notice the slow jumps because I was gliding the whole time.) Yeah well I can't really disagree with that at all. It seems pretty reductive to remove the option. Maybe it's just easier for Bungie to do it this way. I.e. they don't have another game mode to make matchmaking code for. A side effect might be that while only 1/20 randomer games will lead to good teamwork and communication, friends-only is almost 100% safe bet for a good, co-operative experience.

For all the pretty nice Halo stuff they removed, I actually preferred Destiny for all the horrible Halo stuff they fixed. The movement's far less floaty, adding character progression is a gamechanger, giving it Borderlands style RPG elements is a game changer (somehow fixes all of Halo's repetitive, dull encounters imho), fighting the aliens is so much more crisp an responsive but still feels sandboxey. Little things like crouchslide and cleaner sprinting have made mobility way nicer. I found most of Halo's singleplayer levels really tedious and repetitive. Destiny's felt far more compelling to me, maybe because the missions are more bitesized and the sense of progression possibilities is phenomenal. I think how amazing it looks on PS4 might have added something, Hottie xD Id like to get it day 1 but frankly i'd rather purchase Sniper Elite 3 to support the devs. Im loving that game and I'm worried subpar critical reception has damaged it. @Ethan: i think that's a great move. Apparently Raids can last upwards of four hours... Imagine that with a team of silent, uncooperative, rubbish randoms. I'm happy to PXOD UNITE

Unless you're on NG+, you def can't shiv-defend. By "100% stealth" I mostly meant is it possible to kill all the enemies in the area without being spotted. Which is what I managed to do in a surprisingly large amount of the game's encounters, including Infected encounters.

In addition to what Strange said, imho you're not really playing Uncharted 2, 3 or TLoU unless you're playing them on Hard/ Crushing/ Survivor. Trying to survive in these games once you're spotted on those difficulties is genuinely one of the greatest thrills I've ever had playing vidjagames. In some of Uncharted 2's fights on Crushing you have to keep moving every two or three seconds or you'll get pressed into suppression and killed quickly. It takes genuine skill and Indiana Jones style chutzpah to win the fights, and they're different every time, some of them like little sandboxes.

Yeah I think the combat in TLoU is fantastic. It's realistic: you'll win almost any scenario 1 on 1, with good timing (perfect timing against Clickers). Any more than one opponent and your chances are miniscule, unless you bring in equalizers (e.g. face meet thrown bottle.) I think combat is something Naughty Dog have always done well, but in all of their games (except TLoU) combat is more a supporting mechanic than a main mechanic, and because of that it gets drudged and diluted with all the other mechanics. Like Uncharted 3 actually had the best hand to hand of any ND games in many ways- but they funked the level/ encounter design and balancing so badly that it's basically never an option. @Strangelove- the first proper encounter with the Infected (in the office building) is notoriously iffy from a balancing perspective. Narratively it's kinda clever- you literally fall right in the deep end of what these encounters are like- but from a game design perspective it's a bit of a mis-step. A lot of people get hung up on that fight. It's so brutal and (as far as I can tell) impossible to 100% stealth. Has anyone managed to totally stealth the first Clicker encounter?