TheMightyEthan

When I try to launch Steam and my connection's not working it asks me if I want to run in offline mode...

Current value of my Steam account: $1224.08. What I've actually spent, not counting gifts: $448.64 (counting retail purchases) What I've spent counting gifts: $489.11 I feel like I should count gifts I've bought since the total value is counting gifts I've received. Either way though, I've spent much less than half the current value, which makes me happy.

I think for the DLC that's like that you can import your Warden from the main game, so if you beat the main game, then import into the stand-alone DLCs, then import into Awakening you can get a continuous playthrough.

I guess what I should say is that any "explanation" derived from that trailer is pure speculation, because there's no context for anything shown, it's just a series of 2 second clips. Because yeah, I did pick up on those two things you mentioned, but I also wasn't sure if I was reading too much into it.

I just skimmed this thread, so I apologize if someone else already said this, but one question that keeps getting asked is "What can better hardware do besides better graphics?" We talked about that in the Xbox 720 thread. The answer is, we don't know what better hardware can do besides better graphics because until the better hardware is there for devs to play with no one is investing the resources in figuring out what they can do with it. It used to be that you could look at PC games to get an idea of what console games could do in the future, but that's no longer the case because almost every major release, the ones where they might really be pushing the tech available, is multiplat now and therefore limited by what the consoles can do.

I watched that trailer, and honestly it just looked like a bunch of clips I've already seen in other trailers, and it explained nothing.

I was guilty of getting enough enchanted armor to make myself 120% invisible... The game got boring after that.

It's been too long since I've played them for me to defend my opinion to any kind of depth. I can say that I didn't find Vice City boring or flat, and as far as the character goes GTA III had the silent protagonist, and it's hard to get much more boring or flat than that. As for San Andreas I didn't like a lot of the new mechanics they introduced (especially the motherfucking gang territories...) One thing I liked a lot about Vice City was the process of becoming a real estate mogul.

It is, though I was never able to really get into it. For $5 though I'd say it's worth a shot (not sure what they're charging in your moon currency).

4) sounds completely fucking awesome. I was skeptical initially, but Bioware is doing a good job of soothing my fears about the multiplayer. Also, I'm adding a poll about which system people are getting this game for so we can have some idea of where our multiplayer partners might come from (even though it's still 6 months away...)

Yeah, I'm definitely glad consoles have been dragging down the technical requirements of games; it means I don't have to upgrade my PC as often. The way I've rolled over the last two console generations, and I think it's worked out well, is that when the generation first launches I get one of the consoles and play my multiplats on there for a while. Then, about halfway through the console's lifecycle, when the PCs capable of playing the same games have dropped in price, I upgrade my PC and switch to primarily playing games on it.

lol, I like that it costs 20 cents more to buy the Dead Space Pack than it does to buy Dead Space 1 & 2 separately. *Edit* - Are they doing daily deals, or should I just go ahead and buy Dead Space 2 right now? I was holding off cause I knew Steam would have a Halloween sale.

To be fair, I've never seen a disposal that requires any of those steps (beyond flipping the switch to "on"). People always say you have to turn the water on but it will run without the water, it just makes a terrible grinding noise while it does so. But yeah, any kid whose arms are long enough to reach the switch while they have their hand in the disposal is old enough to know better. However, two kids working together...

I liked GTA IV a lot, but Vice City is definitely the pinnacle of the series so far, for all the reasons you just said.

Yeah, I've never heard of anyone getting hurt by one, and even a google search only yielded a couple of results. I hate putting food in the trash. We don't fill up the trash bags fast enough, so it ends up stinking like crazy before the bag is full, so we have to take out a half-full bag and end up using more of them.

@P4: Yeah, I know how the sensor bar works, but just because it can be fooled doesn't mean it's not about absolute position. I know it would be possible for them to use only the M+, but I would hope they at least use the sensor bar a little to tell where the TV is. Otherwise it's easy to get off for stuff like aiming arrows or whatever, because the Wii doesn't know whether I'm pointing at the center of the TV or way off to the right. My TV has a motion remote that only uses the gyroscopes and has no absolute reference to the position of the TV, and while the motion tracking works surprisingly well it easily gets to where the cursor isn't pointing anywhere near where the actual remote is pointing because it has no absolute frame of reference.

It has to use the sensor bar to some extent, or else it would have no way of knowing where the TV is in relation to the player. That sounds like it'll make Rocky Ryan happy.

Yeah, I fucking loved Lair of the Shadow broker. As for Arrival, you're right: it's really intended (according to the devs) to be played after completing the Suicide Mission, but once you've installed it you can do it at any point. It changes very slightly based on whether you do it before or after the Suicide Mission, but it's not the kind of change that matters at all, it's just to avoid discontinuities.

Yeah, it bugs the crap out of me that DLC never drops in price. I bought the Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition because even though I already had the regular edition it was cheaper than buying the DLC... then I never actually played it and like a year later sold it for $130, so score.

Yeah, I don't like to be the center of attention.

Twilight Princess, finally. I mean, I've beat it before, but this playthrough took forever because I kept getting interrupted by wedding stuff.

On sale on Amazon.

So that kid got a code, but redeemed it on the wrong account, and they gave him a new one? wtf? They should have been like "sorry, pay more attention to what you're doing next time" *Edit* - "Yes sir, that's correct, I bought 53 copies on Xbox and 84 on PS3, and none of them had codes in them..."