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Length definitely plays a part in the bang:buck perception. However, I consider replayability as a big part of that equation. Infamous (and its sequel) pretty much demand to be played through twice and it's not a short game. I played through Resi 4 several times and the Uncharted games, I could beat in a single sitting but thoroughly enjoyed each time. I don't mind if BF/MoH/CoD have a short single player campaign as I consider them to be story based tutorials for the multiplayer game. It's somewhere to get a feel for the controls and learn how the gadgets work before taking to the battlefield proper. Similarly, Little Big Planet's single player campaign is more of an interactive tutorial than anything. Oh, it's also worth noting that not all multiplayer interactions are a bunch of brosefs trying to validate themselves with high scores. I find that generalisation somewhat insulting. GT5 online sessions are a great deal of good clean fun and you will often find people apologising for running you off the road, not giving enough space in a corner for an overtake or tapping you from behind when they out brake themselves. It's just good manners. Many online games are civilised affairs, even in BFBC2, I have a regular squad we hook up, play a few rounds, generally do fairly well but we have the most fun when we get pushed right to the end rather than when we steam roll over the opposition. I've definitely had more fun playing with others than in single player campaigns, just as I've had more fun watching films with friends than on my own. I get a different kind of enjoyment playing games on my own, I still like it, but on a more personal / emotional level.

Finished Limbo and inFamous 2 (ebil playthrough) last night.

Maybe it was the bullet that was ringing???

Will not be able to watch this due to the fact that I consider this character to be a second world war propaganda throw-back that has aged woefully. You might as well say that Uncle Sam's hat is made of adamantium, have him hurl it at people Oddjob style and make a movie of it. The shield actually serves to make him look like more of a pussy than the non-supers around him. The GI's are running around with flack jackets at best, charging towards gun wielding baddies while Cap is prancing around with an impenetrable shield acting like he's some sort of badass. EDIT: ^^In my opinion.^^

Bwuahahaha. Has anyone pulled them up on it?

inFamous. Blast shards. 350 of the fecking things and no way to easily track them all down. I mean, they could have had them tagged on the map permanently when you manually sensed them so that if you're in a mission and can't stop to dick about getting shards you can just tag them and get them later. They could at least have made them detectable based on the mini-map radius rather than a sphere so that I could sail around at altitude and pick them off rather than having to cock-hole about at street level clicking the R3 button. I've got about 100 left to find. Collectibles should never total more than 100. Shard sense in inFamous 2 was a god send. I'd probably pay £1 for that power as an inFamous 1 DLC item.

Quite. That said... sex, with your shoes on? Let's go with making out. It's more PG-13.

Only if one of them is a dwarf, otherwise there would have to be knee prints, not foot prints.

I picked that up the other day too. Nice little 2D platformer that makes me think of Mario Galaxy. Also been playing "Gravity Wars" basically it's Worms in Space. Both on Android.

Holy toledo! That's pretty pricey. Looks rather swish though...

Hehe. Seriously though, this looks pants. Why not just have human boxers boxing? Why must we have crappy CG robots?

While we're on a roll with the last gen discussion. I think the "first to market" thing was vital for Xbox 360. PlayStation had such a massive following at the time that had PS3 got there first Xbox would have been very under-subscribed. Anecdotally, a lot of PS fans I know got an Xbox because they "couldn't wait" for the PS3, then when the PS3 dropped, Xbox had already established a community, it's a lot harder to leave friends (IRL or otherwise) than it is to leave a box, so they stayed with Live and the community there (though gradually most have migrated to PS3).

Didn't realise you were in Sweden. This is true though. My CD's have all the music I like on them.

Question is, are Nintendo the first to market with a new generation, or last to market with the current gen? I think it's the latter as they're pitching at the PS3/360 crowd.

You really need to check out mflow. They've got a lot of what's on your list including 3 of 2 dan le sac albums...

The issue with that is so much of it is going to be repetition, filler, or just boring. Very few games are fun to platinum outside of the need for completeness Like I say, it's just a bench mark. Some of it, like complete on easy / medium / hard has no bearing on content, just as collect all the (effing) blast shards on inFamous is pointless from a content perspective (though you could argue that it ensures that you've visited every corner of the world. With, for example Heavy Rain, it's a good way of knowing that you've seen everything there is to see.

Please decipher this sentence. To be entirely truthful, the image above is commenter Trjn Rabbit's claim to fame. However, by association or some other mention or what have you, the blog site Press X or Die is happy to bask in its brief reflected glory.

That's not really what most people in the UK would consider a roundabout. That's more of a gyratory system. "Roundabouts" would normally replace a traffic light junction and occupy the footprint of a small house, rather than being a couple of blocks wide. Something like this: For the ultimate in roundabout technology I present to you the "Magic" roundabout in Hemel Hempstead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead).

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Got this, so I can huddle. It's cheap as, but it's not like I'm doing science with it.

The Android Market App has been updated. It's pretty...different. Though, to be honest it could be a little better optimised as it can chug a little. If anyone wants it, I've got the apk.

I only point it out because squeaky Vanille was rather irritating. Serah spent most of the game being groomed by Snow in cutscenes or as a crystal, so didn't really have as much impact on me. Still, I'm hoping for a good game based on the fact that X-2 had the besterest combat system ever.

Serah, not Vanille. The focus is on Lightning's sister Serah.

I've started using mflow. It's a sort of mash up of twitter and spotify. You can join up here: http://beta.mflow.com/signup?invitecode=ONJ36F

I wonder if he's upset because he was told that story by Crecente or someone else in confidence and Dean's publicised that Joel has broken that confidence? Either way, disappointed that Joel should choose to break contact when nothing in his email suggested it was in confidence. It wasn't a private email between private individuals, it was an email from someone in their capacity as a representative of Kotaku to someone in their capacity as a representative of the PXoD X-Talk/Kotakuites Steam Group. Sharing the message with the rest of that group should not only have been foreseen, but expected. If you want an email to be considered private and confidential, put it in the Subject line.