jayc4life

Crisps, yeah occasionally, on the rare event I have them on a sandwich (I find they're great along with ham or corned beef), but that's gonna happen anyway, butter or not. Anything else, the only debris left over is your typical crumbs.

I don't take butter on my bread either. At least, not on dry sandwiches anyway. On toast? Yeah, I'd take it. Dunno what way you hold your sandwiches that you think the innards will fall out of them if there's no butter on them, though.

Going back through my Raptr account, the games I've beaten were: Gone Home The Stanley parable (I think? I've seen a few endings over the 2 hours I've plaeyd, screw it I'm calling it done) Grand Theft Auto V Batman: Arkham Asylum Sleeping Dogs Gunpoint Saints Row IV Grand Theft Auto IV (Replayed on PC, had finished it on PS3 before) Telltale's The Walking Dead Eversion Bastion (About damn time) Magicka (a few DLC stuff that I didn't play the first time, while farming for Steam Trading Cards) That's a lot more than I thought I did. Whoa.

/thread But seriously... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id16jH2Mlas and to round off the top 5... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axwhxNb8OAc Gonna go into a bit about why I like 3 or so of either these particular tracks or these games and why I enjoyed them for the main article.

I think my top 3's going to come down to Saints Row IV, Gone Home, and Gunpoint, in that order. No room for GTA V - surprisingly one of the only "big" 2013 games I've actually finished. Saints Row IV is just balls-to-the-wall fun, and I'd be hard pressed to fins a game where it's just fun to unleash utter chaos with no reprimand whatsoever just for the hell of it, not just in 2013, but ever. Yes, this also includes Just Cause 2. It's just FUN. Gone Home done a fantastic job of being a text adventure without the text. It just feels right to explore this creepy house that neither you or your character have ever been in, all by yourself, and it's nearly haunting at times, making the whole experience all the more memorable. Gunpoint's story was baffling to get a hold of at times, but the mechanics of the hacking puzzles, combined with having to manipulate the guards to be in the right places at the right times, just felt fantastic. My sole regret about the game is that the level editor suite isn't tied to Steam Workshop for easy sharing, and it's an easy feature to miss entirely.

Chronixal netted me Final Fantasy VIII so I can replay it for a 4th (5th, maybe even?) time. Cheers dude!

The Witness is a timed-exclusive on PS4, it'll eventually come out on other formats. I've still not made up my mind on new consoles yet. If I'm going to get one at all, it'll be late next year when the catalog of games and services expands a bit more (sup Gaikai?), but until then, my PC and PS3 will still serve me well. Just bought a 3DS on Black Friday too so I've no shortage of sources for entertainment. Pokemon's probably the only first-party title that I particularly care about from Nintendo, so while that'll never get a "main" game in the series on Wii U, the only compelling reason to buy one for me would be Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, which I can already just get on my 3DS now, as well as the not-sure-if-announced-yet Monster Hunter 4 localisation.

Nintendo Netowrk ID : jayc4life Though since apparently you can't add people by NNID on a 3DS, just Friend Code, that is: 2122-6973-7724 I've taken the liberty of adding a few of you already, so if you just got a random request out of nowhere, yep, that's probably me.

Shoutout to the guy on Wonder Trade who gave me a freshly-hatched level 1 Marill with Aqua Jet and Superpower.

You have Liverpool FC polos in your wishlist. I don't know if I should make fun of your taste in soccer teams or fashion. Not a big fan of wearing jerseys any more. At least polos look a bit more acceptable when wearing them in day-to-day life. That, and polyester and I don't see eye-to-eye any more.

Steam ID/Wishlist/Country (in case of regional restrictions) jayc4life | Steam wishlist | GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA (but seriously, Ireland) General criteria - Would prefer singleplayer games, definitely. Multiplayer, I don't mind, but not a big focus for me. What are your favorite genres? Quite fond of 3rd-person adventures, strategy games, or indie/arcade games. What are your favorite games? Football Manager (yeah, I know), Civ V, Europa Universalis, XCOM Enemy Unknown, Saints Row 4, GTA V, Guild Wars 2 Are you looking for any non-Steam gifts? Amazon wishlist-a-go-go!

It was always going to be like that with Kuchera in charge. He's always been all high-and-mighty on Twitter, no surprise it bled over into his journalistic work. Can't wait till PA hold a Kickstarter with a $1 goal to bring it back in a few months.

I just got a 3DS on Black Friday so might have to grab the demo off the eShop and see how it is.

I'm in also.

COD 4 - Turned a series around after COD 1 and 2 on consoles was nothing special (great on PC though), and COD3 was quite meh. Start of a series that chained world-record launches all the way until GTA V broke the combo. Time'll tell if Ghosts reclaims the crown (I bet it won't). GTA IV - Had this chat with Ethan and Gregg on Twitter, it's the game that made famous the "heap universal praise on a game before deciding it's shit 6 months later just because you played it to death and now you're bored" mentality. Quite a few big games this year got roasted by that, and I'd say there's plenty more where that came from. If that level of apathy doesn't really define a generation, I don't know what does. XCOM Enemy Unknown - A turn-based action strategy game on consoles that WORKS?!?!?! STOP THE PRESSES! Fantastic return for a once-iconic franchise, and glad to see it well received, both on consoles and PC. Shows there's plenty of places for core strategy games on consoles, and that they're not just PC endeavors.

Eurogamer gave it a 4/10 this morning. Honestly, I can't blame them, it's been problem after problem after problem between getting logged into the actual game itself, the lack of local saving to supplement the cloud save, cities getting lost into the ether, and the pathfinding issues as well. I'm hoping to have something that hopefully resembles a review up of it sooner rather than later (since I'm away most of April), and honestly, games like this makes me glad we have a no-number-score policy, because while the game itself is fun (when you know, you can actually get playing it), I'd be very conflicted as to how I'd grade it. Right now though, I'd avoid at any and all cost.

I never played much of 4 either. Around the time I first bought it, my PC at the time couldn't play it smoothly enough to be enjoyable, so I left it. Went back to it a bit on Thursday to get back in the swing of things before the new game came out, and thought it was alright. 2000 I remember being very good, I had it on the PS1, but my favourite was always 3000. I think it was the in-game music that made it stand out more to me. That being said, I played it for a good 6 hours last night, was able to hop onto EU West 3 after 1 18-minute wait period. Was completely uninterrupted after that, no server disconnect popups, nothing. Got straight on earlier too just around lunchtime with no wait at all. It's more Sims-like, in that you can see what people want and need in their little thought bubbles, or speech bubbles asking you to prioritise different things, but other than that, I actually kinda love the feel of it, despite the smaller city sizes.

While my post did come across that way, I'm not pointing the blame directly at EA (they have enough hatred aimed at them this week to last a million lifetimes). FIFA's in the unfortunate position of being the reason that there are so many Xbox account hackings. It, of course, would be preventable if Microsoft had better authentication over how people are able to both add MS Points to their account, as well as how they spend them. All I'm saying is, the more popular and competitive of a game it is, the more likely it is to attract and bring out the absolute worst in the people who play them. I know it's rather apples to oranges, but if Call of Duty c.~2 years ago had microtransactions for something or other that would give them an obvious competitive edge on multiplayer (like a 3rd perk slot or something), I'm sure that would attract all sorts of scum and villainy too.

FIFA's microtransactions for Ultimate Team are great. It's like the equivalent of buying into a digital trading card game of sorts, and it's really awesome that they've ported the same mode and dynamic into both Madden and NHL too. However, the fact that these games are so ridiculously popular, paired with how easy it is to buy stuff without 2-step authentication makes these games - FIFA especially because of the colossal international market - prime target for account hackers wanting to skim money from people's accounts, buy a ton of these online trading cards, send them to themselves and bail. (old story, I know, but it still happens to this day, so it's still relevant)

From what I remember of the Assassin's Creed 3 previews and stuff, they were absolutely certain that, DLC aside, Assassin's Creed 3 was going to be an open-and-shut story, with no follow-up to Connor's story, so the new setting doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me, is Ubisoft being fashionable late onto the pirate fad. Guess they had a good naval combat system and figured, hey, why waste it?

It's taken this long to try to get out, if this doesn't have PS3/Vita Cross-Buy heads will roll.

Not necessarily a game deal, but if you've played any select PC Zombie FPS title to Dedicated or higher on Raptr, you'll be eligible for a free copy of Dead island's Game Of The Year Edition. Giveaway of Steam keys starts in 2 days. http://raptr.com/rewards/dead-island-pc Games in question are: Arma II Operation Arrowhead (PC) (DayZ, basically) Battlefield 3 (PC) (dunno what that has to do with zombies, but it's there) Black Ops II (PC) Borderlands 2 (PC) Dead Rising 2 (PC) Left 4 Dead (PC) Left 4 Dead 2 (PC) The Walking Dead (PC)

I'm looking forward to picking one up some time in 2015. At that point, it'll be a full calendar year out in Europe, have a decent selection of games, might finally have backwards-compatibility sorted and more importantly, be at an affordable price where I can justify buying it just for all my SPORTZ GAEMS needs and a handful of exclusives. I'm OK waiting because I just built my gaming PC last July and I'm super-confident that this setup should be able to handle most of the initial wave of PS4 multi-platform games like Watch Dogs (fuck you underscore!) with relative ease. I'm really interested in the live streaming/remote-handover feature though. That's pretty ace sounding.

Another Closed Beta scheduled for February 16th, for anyone interested. Guessing they weren't happy that the overwhelming demand bollocksed up their servers the first time, meaning a lot of people didn't actually get to play the game. It's actually a good thing they're going for a Round 2, because all hell'd break loose if nobody could play on Day 1 à la Diablo 3. That's a damage control job nobody would want.

Not gonna complain about them taking extra time. That is of course, if the PC gets a simultaneous launch.