TheMightyEthan

Oh, I see what you mean, confused me with the bit about pointing them toward each other. Still though, if that's a common issue then it makes more sense to me why people are bothered by the offset sticks, it's just not an issue I've ever experienced.

Oooh, Brotherhood was my favorite Assassin's Creed so far.

So "out" is toward your body and "in" is toward your index finger? I find I have much finer control when my hands are more open and my thumbs are pointing toward each other. Symmetrical sticks also lend themselves to accuracy better - if I push them together, the left stick is right and the right stick is left. If I move them both left or right, one points toward the other and the other copies it. If I did that on the 360, I'd have the left stick down-right and the right stick up-left, or both in either diagonal configuration. That's probably why they had to put raised bumps on the tops - to give you some sense of orientation. I didn't mean your thumb is more precise in the "in" position, I meant that you can make a more precise movement in an out-to-in motion than you can in an in-to-out motion. As for the offset affecting accuracy of moving the sticks, I just don't have that problem, I can move my thumbs independently of each other without issue (if that's the problem most people have with offset sticks though suddenly it the complaint makes a lot more sense). Sounds like a "rub your stomach, pat your head" kind of problem.

Journey. Enjoyed it though. Played through the whole thing with some random dude.

Might want to make sure that they'll ship the steelbook right away, then. I know Amazon.ca doesn't ship pre-order bonuses in advance. When I pre-ordered mine, I went to ebgames.ca because Amazon.ca didn't mention the steelbook. They now do but they also specify that they'll only ship on release day. So if it's the same for Amazon.com, then you'll probably lose your steelbook if you cancel the PS3 pre-order. They don't ship it right away, but depending on the PC release date I might get the PS3 version. So I know I'll lose it if I cancel, but it's better than nothing (there are no stores in my area that have the preorder deal).

Whoever does your birth certificate chooses (so either your parents or your mom alone usually). *Edit* - At least in the US.

I'm guessing because his parents weren't married. WaS: aside from what dean said, the reason it doesn't give you war assets is because Cerberus has it, and you aren't exactly buddies with them. *Edit* - Also, as I said on Twitter, supposedly you could get the best ending in a NG+ without multi, because war assets would carry over, but I started a NG+ and none of my assets did carry over, so it looks to me like Bioware just lied. *Edit 2* - Just looked it up, apparently it is theoretically possible to get the required effective strength for the best ending without multiplayer, but you have to have almost every single war asset, including the ones that are determined by your actions in previous games.

I also preordered AC3 on Amazon to secure a metal case (PS3 since promo doesn't apply to PC), though depending on what they announce regarding PC release date I'll probably cancel my order. Also this:

lol, all the same stuff dean hated Though I agree with the opinion that if you didn't play the DLC (or side-quests, for that matter) it should just act like it didn't happen rather than "you did this."

Alright, so what I should probably do is buy recruit packs until I have a decent store of consumables, then start buying Spectre packs.

So in multiplayer should I be buying Veteran packs or saving up for Spectre packs?

lol, it's okay, I didn't explain it very well.

Wow, you completely did not get what I was saying. *Edit* - As I said, I agree with you that it's stupid that multi has an effect on singleplayer. And I don't think you don't get an opinion, I was expressing the view that many devs/publishers seem to take.

I completely agree that it's stupid that the multiplayer has such a major effect on the singleplayer (edit: or any effect at all), I'm just saying if you're not buying their game why should they care what you think?

To be fair, as a renter you're not really their customer.

There's a secret ending that's specific to NG+, that's separate from the normal "best" ending.

So apparently War Readiness from multiplayer decays 2% every 12 hours, so if you get it up to 100% it will take 12.5 days for it to decay back to 50%. However, AFAIK multiplayer characters that you promote to being War Assets stay as war assets forever.

Soldier.

Everything I hear about Halo 4 makes me less interested in it. They're trying to make it like CoD it seems. If I wanted to play CoD I would play CoD. People play Halo because they like Halo, and it has a very different feel from CoD.

Please tell me that's in-store promotional material for US stores, and EU ones. Otherwise that's completely retarded.

I was only talking about button placement because madbass said the controller is considered to be the most ergonomic in terms of button placement. I know the point of the prototype is the way it tugs on your thumbs.

Yeah, I thought it was pretty awesome. I have a few complaints, but they're fairly minor to the overall experience. Definitely felt like they improved every game system over ME2.

Ending videos from Youtube so you can watch the ones you didn't pick (even the titles are spoilers so I'm just sticking the whole thing in spoiler tags):

Also beat Mass Effect 3. Took me 37 hours. But I did every side quest I found and I also read every single codex entry.