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Elaborate on this. Also, I'd suggest actually playing through the game on Easy first so you can unlock all the skills and get a feel for how they work. I started a new game on Normal and the combat seems much more easier once you understand how it works. Doesn't change the fact that it hurts like hell when you mess up, though. Guy goes "So tell me what happened". Now I'm used to Witcher not bothering too much on the whole click em each in order, and in fact I'm more used to it having a go at me by pissing off dwarfs if I do just mindlessly click em. So when the guy asks "What happened" I didn't realise or have any indication that you're meant to play through the options in order. So I started with "Then the Dragon arrived" Instead of "in the morning.." Also fuck having to meditate to take potions. tbh if I was to pick between the plodding n slow start of Witcher versus the harsh n brutal start of Witcher 2, well there's a reason I make a habit of going for RPGs instead of action games. (I did like that quests popped up as you explored)

So I went on, finally got past the Dragon bit. Didn't realise that the options you picked when talking to the guy in the dungeon determined whether you got the Tutorial first or not :/

This one is pretty good. I'm liking it. They're kinda scary. Didn't realise it was a two-parter. btw anyone noticed that there hasn't been a single inkling of an older monster yet. He said we wouldn't, then last season got the Daleks for an episode (and a bit of Cybermen n everything else for the finale) but up to now he seems to be sticking to his promise this series.

So my houseamte has caught on to Witcher 2, so he's now gonna try n get through the first one. After a small tech hiccup (DVD drive unplugged from MoBo) he got it installed, and I pointed out he'd need it patching. http://www.en.thewitcher.com/the-witcher/1/ Holy hell the patch site has improved massively. I remember when I went on last bits of it was still in Polish.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/20/mundaneminecraft.html?dlvrit=36761 I liked the motorway.

So mine are: Mystery bag: Final Fantasy HD collection announced Grand Theft Auto V announced Timesplitters 4 announced. Mass Effect 3 for February 2012 Kinect for $100 Skype for Xbox Super Smash Brothers for Project Cafe launch. Kevin Butler at Sony Conference again Playstation Vita I'll add a few more later.

Can't be arsed to boot up the film but something sparked me in the mood so I'm plumbing youtube for parts of the soundtrack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW3AZaIX0bA duuuunnnn dunnnnn dunnnnn dunnnnnnnnnn

Yeah Apple have a 30% profit policy, so at least $200 can be shaved off that $599. Also a slight oh-shit moment. Just realised I'm thinking the wrong price. Sorry guys I was meant to put it down as $250. As in to launch at the same price as the 3DS. Feel free to change your choice if that changes anything. Just noticed that people didn't seem weirded out by the price of any 3DS comparison and did a check on Gamestop. (it sells for £200 AKA $300 over here)

$300 for either. I'd guess the non-3G since that's most likely to be the lowest.

Well the reason I put in the stipulation of to the month (which gives you decent 1/12 odds) was so that didn't just have lists of "announced game with no date to come out next year" or similar.

How L.A. Noire Rebuilt 1940s Los Angeles Using Vintage Extreme Aerial Photography

I have a guy on Twitter who has a Steam key for this and looking for someone who will give it a good home. As in someone who wants brink but can't/won't afford it, not just someone who'll go "ooh shiny free game" play for 10 minutes n leave it at that. PM me if interested and I'll see about hooking you up.

Yeah I wasn't expecting a "I've beat LA. Noire" until like next week at least.

Ah crap sorry. I tried making it clear but I guess there's some leeway. The predictions from my pool is one that can replace one of your other 10. You can only make 10 predictions. Either 10 all your own, or 9 your own and 1 from my pool. As for the rest, yeah I guess "game doesn't show" is fine. There's a decent chance it will though. Modern Warfare 3 release confirmed for November. :/ I guess that's fine too. Kings and Castles gets uncancelled. - afaik, and my houseamate has been following this very closely, it's not cancelled, just on hold while they work on AoE:Online. This might be a decent one to swap out. The rest are cool though.

Yeah I'd heard. It's up to people if they believe them though It has been over a year. (also in searching for the date they got picked up by Activision turns out there's some recent news on their rumoured MMO.)

It's rule number 4, can't predict things that are already confirmed. What you can do, as suggested, is predict it's name (current rumours are "Feel" and "Stream"), what games will be announced for it, how much it is priced at, etc.

This one got the most votes so I'm gonna set this one up first. E3 Betting will take a bit more work since I need to come up with the various bets and guestimate odds. So the rules are: Make 10 Predictions each. No more, no less. Post more than 10 and the first ten will be counted, post less and they'll be counted as "losing" predictions. You have until 3rd June to post and edit your predictions* You cannot predict something that is already confirmed (I'll be checking) Do not be overly generic e.g in the vein of "3DS games announced" or something. Scoring is as follows: It costs nothing to "enter" Correct prediction will net you TAY$30 Incorrect prediction will lose you TAY$5 An incorrect prediction is something that is either completely wrong, or just doesn't happen You can pick one from my pre-selected pool of predictions to net a possible TAY$300 but with a potential loss of TAY$60 You don't have to pick from the pool, but hey TAY$300 is TAY$300 Suggestions for to predict: Release date of an announced game. To the month. Features, name and games of "Project Cafe" Games to be announced Conference guest appearances (Beatles, James Cameron, Kevin Butler, it's a mixed bag) Surprise announcements: aka "everyone gets a free xbox!" NGP name, price, and release Price Drops (to within $10 either way) etc Deans Mystery Prediction Pool NGP announced to cost $250 Xbox 360 Successor is announced HL2: Episode 3 is properly announced FFXIII: Versus is dated for first half of 2012** OnLive/Gaikia support for console(s). Bungies Activision game announced Revamp of XBL, MP to go free Gears of War/Halo gets Kinect support 3DS Main Pokemon title announced Final Fantasy HD Collection (FFX-XII) To make this all the more worthwhile I will be looking into adding a bunch of stuff to the itemstore. Remember: This is all for FUN! This is the exhibitor list, should help guide you: http://www.e3expo.co...exhibitor-list/ These are the games coming: http://uk.games.ign..../1086456p1.html *This is to give me time to check up on what people have posted and so things don't start to become too obvious as time gets closer. **It goes against my stipulation, but tbh I don't want to be too specific n screw you guys out of TAY$60

I guess this is become more the "next gen" thread (maybe worth a rename n move to GGC?)

I just have a bunch on an RSS feed. I can supply you with the subscription file* if you want to have a peek at em. I used to update theTAY news feed, but I haven't as of late, doing other things instead. There's Reddit, which is a bit cleaner than 4Chan if you want your news that way. And to toot my own horn there's PXOD, but we're like only just getting off the ground proper and not exactly for your main gaming stories, but we've got our own niche. It's written for by a bunch of guys from here n around n about. Then there's this place which tends to aggregate from around the net on specific games. *there's a proper name, OXML I think. You can open it in Google Reader or any desktop based reader.

See that I have control over. I can change the colour scheme if I was so inclined, take a bit of work though.

Search bar is unfortunately stuck in place.