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Yay! Was so bummed when it didn't win community choice. I knew it would be back but I wanted to be playing it already! Oh and grabbed this last night right before going to bed. Was curious and figured it should be worth the 3$ if only because lol. Ended up costing me only around 60 cents, too. I keep forgetting that Steam wallet always gets selected by default and I had a little under 3$ in it from selling cards. Was planning on using that money to get some cards I was missing but oh well.

Mark of the Ninja is fantastic. Even at full price, it's worth every penny. Now if they'd just release the DLC already! I'm itching for another playthrough but I want to play it with the new style that adds non-lethal takedowns.

Went for it. Hopefully I won't regret it.

Does the Humble store just take a smaller cut than Steam does or no cut at all?

Think they already did http://www.reusgame.com/buy/ I'm still on the fence about this one. Looks cool but I kinda wish there was a demo. Gonna have to read about it a bit more or watch some gameplay.

Grabbed Poker Night 2 last night. I've been looking for a game I can play late at night when I want to game but not really have to worry about progress or how long I'll be playing. More often than not, I'll just end up not playing anything because starting a new level, mission or whatever seems like too much of a time investment when it's already 2 AM. I enjoyed the first one enough so this seemed like a good choice. As for Dust, my shopping list is mostly smaller indie games this year and it was near the top. Just played the first two hours and holy fuck it's amazing. Really glad I went for it.

Sleeping Dogs: Nightmare in North Point DLC. Eh, it's alright, I guess. Starts out pretty fun but the combat against the new enemies gets old real fast. By the time I made it to the end, I was thankful for it to be over. The story isn't that great either. Oh and the final boss fight is just a succession of three shitty fights you have to go through, twice. Might be worth a buck or two if you're aching for more Sleeping Dogs but otherwise I wouldn't really recommend it.

I can think of a few instances where I wanted to go back and replay an episode to do it differently. Then reading online I found out that no matter what choice you made the result was pretty much the same. Maybe some small details vary, but it's never anything major as far as I'm aware.

Ah, considering how little your choices actually mattered in the first season, if that's the case then I don't expect them to be more than side characters. Unless they're making season 2 less linear story-wise, I guess. That would be a nice improvement.

The Walking Dead: 400 Days. It's more of the same so I can't really complain. Some of the chapters were a bit short but it says a lot about the quality of the writing that they still managed to make me care about the characters. Anyone knows if these guys supposed to be random people or the actual cast of season 2?

Well, two days in and so far I've only spent 5 bucks. My budget is kinda limited this time so I'm being a bit more selective. I've also been debating getting Don't Starve since yesterday. I really want to give it a shot but I have no idea how much I'd actually enjoy it. I was really hoping for a better deal on that one. Around 5$ would've been that sweet spot where it would've been an instant buy. edit: Ended up going for it. Just played for about an hour and this game is fucking awesome. I don't know how long I'll keep playing because I can see myself eventually getting sick of going through the early "tech level" over and over again, but at least for now I'm having a blast with it. After Mark of the Ninja, this and the newly announced Incognita that looks to be right up my alley, Klei are quickly becoming my favorite indie studio.

Thief II: The Metal Age. Holy shit. I remembered liking it more than the first one (mostly because the first one insisted on putting undeads everywhere and that got old pretty fast) but man, this game just might be the greatest stealth game ever made. The gameplay is largely the same, which is pretty fucking good to begin with, but there are some seriously amazing missions in this one. They really went out of their way to make them as varied as possible without ever detracting from the game's core concept of pure stealth. Man, now I'm all nervous about the new one. :/ I don't except it to really be the same or anywhere near as "hardcore" stealth, but I really hope we at least get something comparable to what DXHR was to the original DX. Anyway, don't think I'll be playing Deadly Shadows right away. I kinda started losing steam in the last few hours of T2 so I think it's time to mix things up with something different.

Serious Sam 3: BFE. I played through 85-90% of the campaign when I first bought it (like... two holiday sales ago? so early 2012, I guess) but got stuck and stopped playing. So it's been sitting there unfinished for quite a while and was kinda bugging me. I'd been running a bunch of games the past few days, to get the steam card drops and sell them on the marketplace, and when I got to this one I figured I might as well play (I would usually just start the games, minimize them and do something else). Anyway, that last level was fucking INSANE. Once I got unstuck, it was pretty damn fun to play this again. Got kinda lucky, too. I guess I lost my saves at some point? Not sure how, but at least my campaign progress was saved to the cloud I guess, so I was able to pick up from the beginning of the level I was on. The game didn't register it as completed (didn't get the achievement for completing the campaign) but whatever. Fuck you, game. I beat you.

Del Toro is indeed fantastic but he can't be given all the credit here. He co-wrote this with another guy called Travis Beacham. I read the comic book prequel written by Beacham a couple days ago and, according to the foreword, he's the one that came up with the main idea and wrote the original treatment. Del Toro only came on board afterwards when he was meeting with Legendary about doing a movie with them.

I tend to get kinda stressed out in RTS games, so for me frantic might as well mean difficult. Anyway, beat Thief: The Dark Project. Well, technically Thief Gold, but that's a stupid name so whatever. Like I said in the currently playing thread, I initially just fired it up not really intending to finish it. I was bored and figured I'd do a mission or two and that would be that. But it just sucked me right back in pretty much instantly. It's been something like 10 years since I first played it and man, they just don't make games like this anymore. The graphics are blocky and dated as fuck and that kinda makes the later levels significantly less creepy than they used to be. But goddamn the gameplay is as tight as ever. It really puts most recent stealth games to shame, Mark of the Ninja being the rare exception. Overall, it was really nice to replay it and still feel like it's one of my top games ever. Definitely playing The Metal Age next.

So, this is a pretty damn badass theme.

Really? I thought most of Wings of Liberty was pretty easy but the last mission was a solid 30mins of "OH FUCK! OH FUCK! OH FUCK!!" Really couldn't let my guard down and I think some reloading had to be done.

This might have been posted in some other thread but I figure this is where it would be so I'm going to assume it wasn't posted.

Dark Skies. My friend invited me over to watch it last night. Didn't really feel like going but I was bored so I figured what the hell. Basically a cookie-cutter horror film only with Grays instead of [insert random monster here]. If you've seen the trailer, you can probably predict ever single story beat. I kinda wanna say it's shit but I tend to get some level of enjoyment out of these movies so it goes here. If you find uninspired horror films to be dumb fun, might want to give it a shot. Otherwise, don't bother.

Been playing Thief Gold the past few days. It's been like a decade since I first played it. I first booted it up out of boredom a couple days ago, not really intending to beat it or anything. But after the first two missions I was kind of blown away by how amazing it still is so I kept at it. So now I'm thinking of doing a Looking Glass marathon of sorts with this, Thief 2 and maybe System Shock 2 after. Hell, I might even finally get around to playing Deadly Shadows.

Shadow of the Colossus. I beat Ico when I first bought the HD collection but I couldn't get into SotC at the time, for some reason. I spent the first hour fighting with the controls and got kinda frustrated with it at first, but overall it's still as good as I remembered. A bit shorter, though. Only took me about 7h and there's a solid 30mins of that that was basically just me falling off the last fucking Colossus non-stop like a retard.

Ah, okay. Yeah, that's an annoying spot to be stuck in. All I can suggest is these videos http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXctaw5JGF4LcidFVdkQMV1tc2DfC8x3D The guy plays on Ironman Impossible and he's pretty good at explaining not only what he's doing and why but also where he goes wrong and what he should've done instead. They're also pretty funny. The only issue I have with them is he hasn't made any new ones in a while.

What difficulty are you guys playing on? The game is pretty easy on normal. It also has this weird reverse difficulty curve where the further into the campaign you make it, the easier it gets. Especially if you're not playing ironman mode and save scum. Classic is significantly more punishing if you're careless, though, but that's part of the fun.

An imdb entry is hardly ever official confirmation of anything. And that second article is 8 months old. If you've been following Justice League movie news, their "plans" seem to change and/or get scrapped every other month. So yeah, not really holding my breath on this one.

I'm assuming you mean post-launch? So, pretend to turn it off now to sell more units at launch, then turn it back on later? That would just be begging for some massive class-action lawsuit, no?