TheMightyEthan

Gah, rtard.

This always happens for me too. For the most part I just like girls better than guys, even putting aside sexuality, so when given a character creator I make girls more often than not (though in games with high replayability I usually end up doing at least one run as each sex). Then for the same reason I like the girl NPCs more than the guys, and because IRL I'm a straight male I find them more attractive so they're the ones I flirt with. So I end up playing lesbians a large amount of the time not because "HOT! LESBIANS!" but for much more low key reasons.

Actually the fact that it can't be done casually is a big part of why I don't think many people would pirate it and still buy it at launch. If it were on a PC game, sure, but on 360 getting it to a state where you can play pirated games is already a fairly big commitment to piracy, so I'm betting most of those people just pirate all the games they get. If 360 piracy were as easy as PC piracy I'd agree with you, because then there'd be a whole bunch of people like me who ordinarily buy all their games but would pirate this just so they could have it NOW. Also, from what I've read the risk of getting banned from XBL for pirating games is actually really low as long as you keep your flashed firmware up to date.

If it does it was too subtle for me to pick up on.

Yeah, well, that's what happens when you ditch the lead writer and then completely change the basic premise of the series that you've been building for two games. *Edit* - And that's probably enough said on that topic. Don't want to restart the whole ME3 argument.

It ties in to a little side event in ME1 that I thought was cool. That's most of why I like it. But yeah, it's pretty weak overall.

I've been thinking about it (because of the Halo 4 leak) and I don't think I have a problem with pirating something when it leaks before launch PROVIDED you buy it at launch. I don't have a modded 360 or a dual-layer DVD burner so I couldn't play Halo 4 now even if I downloaded it, but assuming I could I don't think it would be morally problematic for me to download it now as long as I don't cancel my preorder for it. I've already ordered it, Microsoft is getting their money at the same time either way, so they wouldn't be hurt by me pirating the leaked version. Now, I realize that assuming people won't cancel their preorders is assuming an ideal world, and that in practice a large percentage of people who pirate the leaked version would not still buy the game at launch, I'm just thinking about the morality of the situation.

I'd pretty much agree with Hottie. Definitely get Lair of the Shadow Broker, and I would also recommend Arrival, though mostly for the plot setup for 3. In ME2 you can play after the end of the main story, so for Arrival I'd wait to decide until after you beat the game, and then if you want to see the story development buy it then. I think LotSB is also best played after the end of the main story. I think Kasumi and Zaeed are both worth getting, but they're definitely lower-priority than Arrival and LotSB. Same goes for Overlord and Firewalker. Firewalker is probably the weakest DLC overall, but the end of it is kinda interesting.

I think Independence Day is actually a pretty good example of what you're talking about. Sure they didn't make it hokey visually, but at its core it's still a movie about flying saucers invading and using their giant death rays to destroy cities.

I think it depends very much on each game. Overall I would like to see more representation of demographics outside of straight white males, but that doesn't mean that every single game has to give you the option to play as something else. To say that Dishonored doesn't let you play how you want because you can't play as a girl is ridiculous. If it had been advertised as having complete character customization then they might have a point, but it wasn't.

I was the top player on Raptr for a little while right after I finished, but now I've been bumped down to Dedicated. All this discussion has convinced me to start another run. I'm going to do a high-chaos one this time, and actually I didn't quite do no-kills last time, but I'm pretty sure I kept my kill count in single-digits. *Edit* - I just checked an not counting the prison level I killed fewer than 5 people. Got the cheevo for it.

I totally agree that the clam plant things could go.

Sinister. Throughout most of it I was thinking it was just okay, but then the end really saved it. The end was almost perfect, but then it went on a little too long and lost some of it's effectiveness. Still good though.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that for the most part the people who say Call of Duty is bad because it never changes probably aren't the same people who like Halo. Because you're right, gameplay-wise it is basically the same as the first one was, but considering I can still go back and play and enjoy the first one, which I can't do with a lot of other games from the same time that I liked just as much, I don't personally think that's a bad thing. Make sure to keep anything about the campaign in spoiler tags.

I do wish there had been more missions like the party where you were infiltrating in plain sight rather than hiding in the shadows all the time. I find that kind of stuff very cool.

That was pretty good. I couldn't help but read it in Yahtzee's voice. However, I will say this: I am not willing to give up on is. Yes, Coldplay is touring. The noun "Coldplay" is singular, it's a band. If you wanted to say "the members of Coldplay are touring" for some reason then yes, that's plural. Coldplay is an entity distinct from its constituent members, as are companies and governments and sports teams and whatever else, and so when talking about the entity you use singular verbs. It's funny to me that he was willing to concede "in back of" (though I'm sure it was largely tongue-in-cheek) since even as an American I cringe when I hear that. It just sounds so uneducated, like something a 5 year old would say.

"Overseas" is often used as a non-literal term for "outside the US".

Yeah, pretty sure my phone should be able to run that at 1080p. Kidding... mostly...

Yeah, it could be a measure but it can't be the measure. I mean, a society with gender equality but that still enslaved people based on race couldn't be said to be all that progressive overall.

I can't use a DS3 for any precise aiming no matter what I do to the settings, the sticks are just too loose and the deadzone is too big. *Edit* - The exception to that was KZ2 using the SIXAXIS functionality for fine aiming on the sniper rifle. That was absolutely fantastic, way better than any other controller aiming I've ever used, and I wish other shooters would do that. Vita games seem to often do something similar and I love it.

Dishonored. Took me 13 hours on a semi-no-kill run. Definitely going to play it again though.

You guys are really making this game tempting, though I can't bring myself to buy it this soon after launch since I missed out on the preorder incentives. I'll wait for a price drop...

I just beat the game. 13 hours on a semi-no-kill run (I tried to avoid killing people, and think I killed may 6 or 7 throughout the whole game, and most of those were in the first level). I tried to be as stealthy as I could but I didn't reload every time I raised an alarm or anything, though I did reload if I got into a situation that I couldn't escape from without killing a bunch of dudes. I really liked it, and I'm actually not disappointed by the length. I'm probably going to go back and do a more violent run (I didn't even kill the main targets in this one. But yeah, I played on PC but the style I played I could easily have done on a controller because any time I got into a situation that required precise aiming I had completely fucked up and was going to reload anyway.

There's a reason the phrase "fever dreams" is a thing.

Okay, there's one, but you have to admit that the prime consideration was more likely getting that specific date than the day of the week.