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Well, depends on how damaged it gets but £100 is definitely (the upper end of) impulse buy territory for my social circle. That's the cost of what? 3 new games?

True. But being cheaper makes it a disposable device.

There's even some evidence that stereoscopic 3D displays can be used in the treatment of lazy eyes in children. I get the "for kids" angle though since: - 2D display is cheaper and most kids I've seen using 3DS don't use 3D properly. - I'd imagine that a number of DS breakages come from kids trying to bend the screen back too far (the number of times I've seen my nephews and nieces open DS's in a way that makes me draw a sharp intake of breath...) a non-bendy device means that kids won't be breaking DS's at the hinges (I'm sure they'll find other ways). - Less moving parts would (I assume) make this cheaper to manufacture than a clamshell 3DS. So yeah, cheaper, more durable, this is essentially a 2nd 3DS so that the grownups can keep theirs pristine while the kids can play on the games.

I will be mostly playing BF4, but this will likely find it's way onto my PS4 on launch day as well.

Me.

Killzone really impressed me. I like that it is not too fast as I don't think I could cope with it. Also, Killzone games have always had a degree of heft to them.

Totally agree pacing was off. It's supposed to be about 6 months between getting his arse handed to him and returning I think. Felt more like a week.

To be fair, it was probably a good candidate for a two parter. Could have dumped Bruce in the gulag then come back six real months later, that way I would have actually noticed that some time was meant to have passed.

I never put sugar in my coffee, even the epic Turkish stuff. My grandad's a Turk (along with half that side of the family) and he thinks I'm mad. I just love that bitter, take your face off taste. Drunk with some really dark chocolate to accompany it and it's perfect.

That's the whole point of Blake's story arc. Everything he does as an officer of the law is a failure. He goes to interrogate Bane's henchmen and kills them both. He discovers that the plan to go underground is a trap, but too late. He fails to save Gordon. He fails to save his fellow officers. He fails to save the children. It's what drives him to become the Batman. Because as an officer of the law he is constrained in what he can do.

@FLD This was the link I was trying to share. No idea why it wouldn't post yesterday. https://twitter.com/XboxSupport2/status/369881821791518720

Nah, nothing official. But they've been increasingly dodging the question so people have started assuming. If it was a true exclusive, I would expect MS to leave no room for doubt and to be shouting it from the rooftops a bit more, to be honest. Like they did with Minecraft? Take this as you will, but I would be surprised to see Titan fall on a non-MS platform. EDIT: Is twitter-linking broken or something?

Marvo! Store on web is a bit flaky.

Did I miss an announcement re: Timed Exclusivity?

I thought that was what you wanted to do! As in "I want to own this without the PS Plus requirement." Or "I love this game so much I just want to give money to the devs." My bad. Is it not showing in your download list?

Can you not just wait till it is no longer a Plus perk, then buy it?

Kick Ass 2. Really enjoyed it. The same mix of violence and humour that seems to work so well. Mindy is class.

I agree in some limited games it could work, but it's not something you could drop in to just any game. I'm thinking of this more in terms of RPGs I guess. You tend to get a boss down to half health and then they get an upgrade so the fight gets more difficult. If it was the other way around, then it just wouldn't feel right.You could have a choice of chipping away with weak attacks and then going for the coup de grace. Or give yourself some breathing space by having a big opening and "weakening" the boss so you can finishing him off in a death by a thousand cuts fashion. I recognise it as a trope, but a trope is not bad by default. It only becomes a trope because it has appeal in the first place.

Online will have them. Might swing by Game.

Request declined! Hahahaha! See how I crush your deams???

Don't necessarily agree with all of these. The save thing assumes that you are already familiar with gaming short-hand. e.g. An icon in the corner of the screen that is spinning / flashing / etc. means a save is happening. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that someone less familiar with games (and PC's in general) would kill a boss think "that's done" and hit the button on the front of the PC. While it probably wouldn't kill the save, it's still safer to let the user know that saving is happening and not to do anything rash until it is done. Having the level of music in a cutscene (or even considering cutscene music separate to the rest of the cutscene audio) doesn't make sense to me. It's like asking that movies have an option to turn off the soundtrack. Enemies getting weaker as you fight them also doesn't work from a pure gameplay standpoint, unless of course you get weaker too. Like in Bushido Blade. Though IIRC some RTS did this. Where damaged units were less effective. Which gave strategic options of taking out enemies altogether to reduce number of attackers (and so enemy DPS) or the effectiveness of all attackers (also reducing enemy DPS).

Did you added me?

Still only one hour sessions. Need to maintain my "filthy casual" status.

What grip do you use? Do they impair the use of the rear touch pad? Personally don't have an issue with aching, but it is not the most comfortable thing to hold ever.

You can't even begin to fathom my confusion. At three hours to complete, three one hour sessions over three days is reasonable. 3 hours would be a fairly speedy run through as well. Routinely takes me 3 calendar days to play games like that.