Johnny

@ Brainhurtboy: I want that poster so much. As for my recent purchases: I already had The Stars, Like Dust, but I wanted to get a group shot with the whole "series" as it is.

While sometimes having multiple actions to one button can be annoying (Hello Bulletstorm!) I felt it worked well in Mass Effect 2.

YES! It bothers me to no end when someone feels like they have to entertain us with their "latest hit." Sometimes it feels like I'm playing online with the dude who plays guitar on campus, whether to attract women or to share his talent. As far as I'm concerned this is an inherent design flaw with making games with open voice chat. If it wasn't this it'd be something else, like some guy shouting racial slurs. This was supposed to read a bit more tounge in cheek than it actually ended up doing, and I'm pretty sure that's the reason behind the one -rep I got on it. It was not supposed to be offensive towards people who actually liked MW2. Everything about PC-ignorant console gamers. Usually it's stuff like "I can aim as fast on a pad as you can on M/KB." And along those lines, I'd like to clarify that I'm not defending pc gamers getting all up in the face of console gamers for no reason, but it's equally annoying the other way around. That'd be fine, except you can be honest without being a dick about it. You make it seem like you're not even trying.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219 Jesus.

I can't believe I forgot this: Fanboy arguments about number scores. Taking number scores seriously. Referencing to number scores. Casually glancing at number scores. This. Everything about PC-ignorant console gamers. Usually it's stuff like "I can aim as fast on a pad as you can on M/KB."

It's dumb. It's gory. It's over-the-top. It's unrealistic. It's also the point. As far as I'm concerned, stuff like this can be incredibly cathartic at times.

This is some of the worst fucking bullshit I've ever read about in the gaming industry. What the hell, seriously?

Oh jeez that list is long. The usage of "casual" and "hardcore" The constant entitlement ("How DARE they change what I liked about the franchise!?") (Heh. I'm kinda guilty of this regarding Super Smash Bros. Brawl.) Blaming consoles. Blaming console gamers. Blaming pirates. Blaming elitism. Just finger-pointing in general, really. Genre wars. Franchise wars. People who buy day-one DLC while whining about it. People who buy CODBLOPS while whining about it. People that choose to whine instead of voting with their wallets in general. Also, everyone who bought Modern Warfare 2. Seriously, fuck that shit. Taking reviews like gospel. Taking anything GameTrailers says at face value. Giving Michael Pachter any kind of attention (including me mentioning him in this post) Claiming Brawl is anything less than the spawn of the devil. Blaming other players for huge design flaws in multiplayer games. So much more.

I had a custom Shepard, but thought default FemHawke looked really good, so I just stuck with that.

It's not free if I have to pay for another game to get it.

Precisely. In any case, I'm currently installing Dragon Age 2. We'll see how the DA2 implementation of their system will work out.

Capitalist pig. The moment we can supply a luxury at no measurable expense or effort of our own, refusing someone else that luxury becomes entirely nonsensical. Are you still trying to use wi-fi sharing as an analogy for software piracy? Because it really doesn't work. Piracy is much more of a complex question. Sharing my connection, assuming as before no chance of damage to my system or trouble with the law because of it, costs me nothing. To me, then, it doesn't matter what use someone has for my service. If it costs me nothing I should provide it no matter how big or small need someone has for it. No, sorry, nobody on this side of the question are arguing that he's owed anything. That's just made up and/or assumed by the anti-pirates. You can't attack that because we aren't trying to argue it. Assumptions like this is honestly quite offensive. Our philosophy, as much as pirates as a group can be said to have one, is more revolved around sharing what we can with each others, not because we're owed it, but because, quite literally, sharing is caring. This is an analogy... for a flawed analogy... for software piracy. But also, you've already established that we aren't discussing life and death issues, making this a bad analogy for a flawed analogy. And even if it wasn't, it's an insulting, generalizing assumption about me and pirates in general. The more I read and try to make sense of it, the more insulting, disappointing and depressing it becomes. I wonder now if you have any interest at all in listening to what pirates are saying, or if you're just here to reassure yourself that you're on the "right" side. Sure, you can always refuse to share a luxury that would cost you nothing to share. But maybe you shouldn't. EDIT I'm done with this thread for a while. There's no point arguing with people who are too busy projecting and assuming to listen. Over and out.

I think most games should be MUCH shorter than they currently are. I'd rather have played only about half the levels of bulletstorm, to use a recent example, because half of them felt like padding.

To me, this sounds incredibly petty. If it weren't for the whole "someone having access to my wireless network with my computers on" and "the law considers what anyone does on my network my responsibility" things, I'd share my 100mbit up/down connection on an open wireless. Because I have more bandwidth than I can use. If I can help someone without it hurting me, I'm not gonna let some incredibly outdated work ethic get in the way. Humanity is stronger and better when it cooperates, not when it goes "no you can't have because you haven't EARNED it."

I put a Pokémon in the chamber and I pull the fucking trigger. #winning

I'm trying to keep up as many pokémon as possible. It honestly makes it harder because you can't fall back on your 10 levels higher than anything else main and just blow shit up.

What are you basing this off exactly? It wouldn't be the first time your companions in a BioWare game have been wrong on something.

Personally I think it would be really cool to take Mirror's Edge in a more open-ended direction. I'd love to just run around and explore a city in that engine. Not that I think it will happen. Edit @Thursday Next: Well there was the part of my post where I said that if they couldn't make the shooting more fun they should just remove it. I'm honestly not sure combat is something Mirror's Edge needs at all, but if it's there I'd rather it be fun.

In-game it looks like a flowery flying pink brain. And psybeam? Fuck psybeam. It's the only pokémon I've found that can put stuff to sleep this early, making it deadly even against psychic-immune opponents.

Stay away from Redemption. Anything you've heard about Vampire is about Bloodlines. Redemption is completely different. Additionally, regarding Mass Effect, I find that a key part of enjoying the moral choices in there was to completely disregard wether it was a renegade/paragon choice and just go with your guts.

This is all miles better than anything I could ever hope to do. I have an extremely insecure hand for pen motions for some reason. I can just barely make my own name look readable. Isn't Gimp pretty much Photoshop for poor- I mean people who do not want to spend all their money on some stupid image editing program?

He's irish, he doesn't really need a reason to be at the pub.

The only thing I've been looking up is where I can catch certain pokémons, and how the evolutions look. Would be a pain to start focusing on some pokémons that I then hate the later versions of.

@Thursday Next: My idea of improving the shooting isn't exactly to make it more prominent. The problem with it as it is in Mirror's Edge 1 isn't that it's optional, but that it's incredibly boring when you start shooting people. The game slows down and momentarily becomes a really bad shooter. To me, and to everyone I've talked to about it, the game was much more fun with the restriction of not shooting. If it's the case that a gameplay element that most players would instinctively make use of makes the game boring, then you need to either change it or remove it. To be perfectly honest, as it is now it really DOESN'T feel like a last resort to me. You're not really punished for using the guns in any way. There's no trade-off apart from it being boring as all hell. And it's not like most gamers recognize this and put the restraint of not shooting on themselves instinctively either. Hell, I probably wouldn't have thought of it if I didn't hear of the achievement for it before-hand. Additionally, the idea that Faith should be carrying throwing knives with the express purpose of killing people with them feels very off to me. The first game didn't exactly portray the runners as cold-blooded killers.