Johnny

Not that I know of. The person below me despises emoticons.

Assuming I have time, I'm always up for some Killing Floor.

Yeah I do wish I could turn it down a notch. It's just as bad on every setting. I use Nano-vision a lot to combat it xD

The last book I read was Isaac Asimov's The Stars, Like Dust, which is the first part of his Empire trilogy. The next book I'll read is hopefully the sequel... If I can find it in English for a decent price in Sweden.

I've been playing the MP Demo a bit and while it's nowhere as unique or good as the first game's multiplayer, it has started to grow a bit on me. Certainly, it feels FAR more tactical than the later Call of Duty games it initially resembles. I've found myself positioning myself tactically, using the radar, friendly players' positions and sounds in the environments to determine when I should get the fuck out of there. Using the suit powers at the right moment is so utterly key. From what I can tell, the game's main problem right now is that it's having trouble actually showing what it does differently until after the point where it's lost most people. I sure as hell hated it at first, and it was just my stubborn way of giving the game roughly five more chances than it actually deserved that got me to the point where I understood the game enough to get into it.

Actually, I think two of the most largely complained-about points against DLC are brutally misguided: When DLC comes out and whether it was done when the game was released or not feels largely irrelevant to me. Shouldn't the main focus be on whether the DLC in question is worth it's price tag? I mean, I can understand being a little annoyed that they are trying to charge more for the "whole" game than normal, but you really do not need the DLC in the first place to enjoy the games (in most cases). In the end, I feel that "early" and "on-the-disk" DLC are scapegoats we point to whenever the DLC or the game itself is lacking in content or quality compared to it's asking price.

Meh, honestly, I don't feel the difference in visuals is at all worth paying for. Great for people who haven't played it though.

I mostly felt a bit disgusted by the guy speaking. He came across as a huge douche.

I'd say they actually made it worse with every iteration since CoD4. The framerate is less stable, the netcode is worse, etc.

God damn you Dean, you've already got me beat. The nerdiest thing I've done is probably Magic: The Gathering. The nerdiest thing I still do is probably my board games fandom. For example, I own the recent and excellent Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game by Fantasy Flight, which takes a whole evening to play. Please note that this is completely unrelated to the 2002 game "Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame". Summarized excellently by Robert Florence over at RockPaperShotgun

As far as I'm concerned about the only thing good about Call of Duty nowadays is the silky-smooth engine.

I've fallen asleep while marathon-playing Mass Effect 2. Probing uranu-zzzzzzz. Also that's not the weirdest thing I've fallen asleep doing.

I've sworn off collectible card games. The things Magic: The Gathering did to my wallet should be illegal.

Because Magicka was supposed to be multi-plat until the 360 version was scrapped. Just watched that trailer also. Fucking awesome.

Curiosity, mostly. "Maybe this one is different enough?"

I would like to note that my reply was written before RockyRan got back to Connor and only reflects my opinion on the post I actually quoted.

I find it humorous that people keep acting like one has to have actually paid for a game in order to try it out and offer criticism There are several ways of varying legality to get around that.

Because that post was too long to reply to it all without breaking it up: All the same, glad to see we're opening our posts by declaring everyone who dislikes the game wrong. 1. "It's one of the best games of this generation, people." This is opinion claimed as fact. 2. "Get over the fact that it's nothing like the N64 games already." You're assuming that all the criticism comes from it being different. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever; People have brought up other points as to why they didn't like it. Furthermore, people are (generally) pretty open to spin-offs as long as they feel that the spin-off in question is good. 3. "Shit, people didn't bitch this much when Mario Kart came out and it was nothing like Mario." Aside from the fact that most of us were kids back then and had completely different perspectives than we have now, see point 2. 4. "The original Banjo-Kazooie games weren't even all that great." While I was never myself a huge fan, clearly a lot of people were and they disagree. 5. "Maybe you guys weren't old enough to remember, but when the original BK came out people whined that it was a "Mario 64 ripoff", then whined that the second "was too big"." I could point out how ridiculus such criticism of BK would be, but I don't see the point of this argument in the first place. 6. "Long story short, there's a long line of bitching regarding the franchise, first because it was too similar and now because it's too different." See points 2, 3 and 5. 7. "Here's the deal: Nuts & Bolts is quite easily the one game that gives the series the closest it has to a unique identity, and it's all the better for it." Nuts & Bolts is indeed the closest the series has had to being unique. A lot of the criticism stems from people not feeling like this unique identity is any good in the first place. 8. "It's an unconventional game that isn't worried about pandering to the lowest common denominator, and it takes a quirky concept and runs with it." This is true and I wish more developers would just take cool concepts and run with them. 9. "Suffice to say that if the "vehicles handheld like crap", YOU did something wrong with designing it, or if the game was "repititive", YOU failed at experimentation." No, no, no and also no. If an overwhelming amount of players "did it wrong", then the designers gravely failed in communicating to it's audience how it was supposed to be played. Furthermore, in my and at least one other player's experience even the pre-existing vehicles handled poorly. 10. "The game isn't completely flawless, but it's NOT "crap"." See point 1. 11. "And the people who call this "crap" just because of the fact that it's not a carbon copy of the N64 games without analyzing or even fucking mentioning the gameplay speaks quite a bit of you all's incredible pettiness." I'd quite seriously say that your inability to consider the possibility that people disliked it for entirely different reasons speaks quite a bit of your own pettiness. 12. "Never before have I seen such hatred for a game that isn't even about the game. You people don't hate the game because of what's in it, you hate it because of what is NOT in it. I can't even begin to explain what's wrong with that kind of thinking." You're generalizing and belittling other people's opinions. Furthermore you're assuming that just because some people would have rather had another game in the vein of the classics, they would automatically dislike everything else regardless of quality. Can you please stop doing that? Are you fucking serious? Just because a game tries something new that's not a free pass out of criticism if it's audience feels it does it wrong. Implying that people who criticize Nuts and Bolts is at fault for Activision selling millions upon millions of anything with the Call of Duty name is both pointless and insulting. Implying that people who disagree with you are narrow-minded is even more insulting.

I find it funny when people assume shit. Oh wait, no I don't. I honestly didn't like Medal of Honor one bit, but that's maybe me just being sick to death of military shooters already.

I really don't think they are that rare, no. I still have my old PSX somewhere in a box. I have two PS2s (one of them hardmodded) so I really have no use for it.

This is where I spend the most ridiculus ammounts of time. The smaller of those monitors is about to be replaced by a nice (and goddamned expensive) LCD TV. After that my only remaining purchase for my media area is a nice pair of speakers. And this is my couch on the other side of the room. The purpouse of my upcoming TV purchase is to watch movies from pictured couch. Those drop-down blinds allow me to make the room very dark even during full sunlight.

Finished Bulletstorm. Fun game, too bad about the terrible PC port.

Any picture is better than the earlier picture. ANY PICTURE. As for beards, I've mentioned it before, but if I'd let my beard grow out it would result in some kind of spotty largely neckbeard monstrosity. It is terrible.

This was last night/morning. at like 6 am. If I look tired at all it's because I was roughly twice that tired.