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I'm generally not keen on enemies not being affected by the environment / other enemies area of effect damage. If you are going to throw ranged, aoe and close quarters damage at me, then that needs to affect all characters. Not just me. By the same token, I'm fine with my grenades blowing me up. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander after all. I'm ok with close range physical attacks not damaging anything other than the target though. Even if the animation looks like it ought to hurt everyone.

Yup. Personally, the ARG elements are what turn this from a really minor "Follow the waypoint -> Do the thing -> Hear the audio clip" bit of content to something much more innovative and fun. It expands the universe and gives back story in a way that would have been impossible to do in game and the ARG puzzles are challenging in a different way to the usual "throw bigger, badder mobs at you" scale that games normally rely on.

Yeah they did: http://uk.ign.com/wikis/infamous-second-son/Infamous_Paper_Trail_Part_5_Full_Walkthrough (obviously this will spoil the fun of solving the DLC ARG puzzles if you read it. e.g. "Guest • 2 days ago exactly I know the feeling I finaly got passed the safe I am stuck on this part as well.Come on suckerpunch this is stupid we are not hackers we do not understand computer language we are gamers.Also the thing is I want to give up and try again later on but that means I have to redo the safe cracking again the file in the safe should log in to your profile and always be the same for that person" In other news, I *hate* with a passion that only a nazi can understand *anyone* who voices a complaint in the above form. "We are not hackers", "we do not understand computer language". You are not me, you are not elected to speak for "us", therefore you don't get to say "we" when you mean "I"... Gaaaaagh!

Yup. Whether it's numbers or symbols makes no difference, since in this case, numbers are symbols. In fact, everything is just symbols really. It's just that we don't have ready translations for things like phi and the dollar sign. But that's going off into a very different topic. I love how many people struggled with the Unix file structure "hacking" "puzzle". I'm over thirty, that's not a hacking or a puzzle, that's how we used to use computers! Damned whipper-snappers. Just one more to go now. Roll on Friday! (Hope they announce more DLC, I want MOAR POWAHS!

My first PS4 platinum. Yay! Anyone else loving the Papertrail DLC? I'm really enjoying the ARG element of it.

On my "Good" playthrough. Started by clearing out the districts before doing any missions on the first island so I am fully sharded up. Having just unlocked and upgraded Neon on expert, yeah, this is going to be a breeeeeeeeeeeeeze.

Exactly, I was hoping that tapping left/right on the d-pad would allow me to hot swap powers. Alas no.

SloNooooooooooo! My first playthrough is evil. Sounds like I chose wisely for an expert/good run. But yeah, all my gripes from the first one, especially re: finding shards are fixed. I like the way the upgrade tree works. It would have been nice if the other jacket designs reflected your karma the way the main jacket does, but that's just window dressing. My only other gripe is that I would like to be able to switch powers on the fly. I like traversing with Neon but going vertical with smoke is much easier. It would be great if you could neon to a vent, smoke dash through it etc etc without having to stop and drain all the time.

I am loving this game. Soooooo much fun. Such a power trip. Can't wait to get home and play some more.

Yup. Really. Though I don't get to play in such long stints these days. In any event, my phone charger is by my bed so it would be no great shakes if I had to plug it in. Aaaaaanyway. It just doesn't bother me, and the use of light e.g. glowing red when Infamous uber power is ready (or is it a Karma thing?), or changing colour to match the spray paint you are about to tag, entertain me enough to put up with minor inconveniences like charging it every day.

Yeah, but I don't think I've had a situation yet where I've started playing on full charge and had it die on me. (I also have two controllers so I could in theory swap if this became an issue). I guess it is testament to how little there is to moan about that DS4 light is the big moan that I keep hearing.

It's not a big enough deal for me to understand the amount of bleating that goes on about it.

I definitely like the idea of being able to see my hands (or whatever they will look like).

So you want to play last-gen games with VR forced in instead of new experiences that would properly utilize the tech? Yup. That was probably an exhaustive list of all the games ever that Cowboy will ever want to play in VR ever. It is in no way a short list indicative of the type of games that he thinks would be good in VR. I however want to play Wrath of Monagen in VR. It doesn't exist yet because I just made it up but it's gonna utilise the tech so hard!

I could be wrong but I think he just needs to dry hump them or something.

Charging powers up makes sense to me, what with energy being finite and all. It also adds a degree of strategy to how you play, kiting enemies to areas with numerous power sources or having to be conservative where power is scarce. From what I could tell he's more Peter Pitrelli than Sylar. I don't think he'll be poking around in people's skulls for powers. First PS4 game I've been really excited about. Can't wait for it to come out.

You're welcome! Hohoho etc.

Lol. The only issue is that I am a bozo. Got my giftor and giftee mixed up. Not sure that is an issue that anyone here can help with.

Cannot wait for this! FTL is so addictive.

Much thanks to *Mr Goh* for Gone Home! Really love my experimental gameses. Now all I need is time to play it! Merry Christmas all of you. Sorry I haven't been around much, but I've been utterly mental with work. Being a grown up sucks...

In there like swimwear.

If you read the article, supposedly it sounds it in such a way that it sets up vortices inside that prevent the carbonation from leaving solution. I'll believe it when I see it.

Spin the bottle of champagne while hosing it with cold water. This way you can have refreshing cold champagne EVERYWHERE! Also, where does the cold (<4 degree C) water come from? I also hate when they make claims like 35sec "This technology is now trademarked V-Tex" that doesn't mean fuck all other than that no one else can use the term "V-Tex" in association with drinks cooling technology and around 1:15 "Envirocool Ltd... who own the intellectual property." Both statements are clearly attempts to suggest that they have the patent, however, they have not mentioned anything about patents which makes me very suspicious as to who actually owns the technology.