TheMightyEthan

It didn't do much to advance the in-the-past story, but I feel like it advanced the modern-day story a lot. And even though it was totally a cash in, it was a very well done cash in so I don't mind.

You are completely insane.

Updated my post to include some relevant info. Also, your comment about reading in the car made me realize that the feeling in my head I got while playing is very similar to the feeling I get when I read a book in the car, though it was significantly less intense than the book-in-car would give me, and as I said it only lasted a short time.

Okay, so I just played Mirror's Edge all the way through in one sitting with the dot turned off, and did not get sick. On two occasions I got a slightly odd feeling in my head that felt like maybe the beginning of motion sickness, but it was never very intense at all and always went away quickly. I don't know whether I'm representative of most people or not, but there's my anecdotal evidence. *Edit* - For reference I was playing on a 23.5-inch 1080p monitor that I was sitting approximately 2-feet away from (I scooted in closer than normal so it would fill more of my view and hopefully increase the likelihood that I would get sick).

I've also been trying to make more of an effort to wait for prices to drop (on the new version, I don't buy used unless the game is several years old), but something like L.A. Noire I'm willing to pay the day-one premium.

lol, I knew that the English used to use it that way, but I figured you had moved on in terms as well.

Yeah, apparently this is a US v. UK thing, cause over here people always use "infant" to mean "baby". Dictionary.com's first definition is "a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she can walk". Once they can walk they're not an infant anymore, they're a toddler, just like StaySICK said. Unless you're talking about usage in law in which case "infant" is used to mean anyone under the age of majority, but that's pretty archaic and modern stuff would use the word "minor" instead.

I know it's been said, but I'm going to reiterate: Navi. Or perhaps enemy NPCs in Mass Effect 1. Individually they're not annoying, but collectively... ENEMY IS EVERYWHERE! YOU MUST DIE! ENEMY IS EVERYWHERE! YOU MUST DIE! YOU MUST DIE!

As I was telling Dean on Steam, I think this is the direction that FPS's need to go with their campaigns, but then of course they need to charge less too. I actually think the length of the campaign worked really well, it didn't overstay its welcome like I think other FPS games *cough*Blops*cough* tend to. In Homefront everything you're doing has an immediate, obvious purpose and is directly related to your overall mission, unlike CoD where must of what you're doing is largely unrelated to whatever is really going on. It didn't seem like there was any filler in the campaign (though the last mission did feel tacked-on), and I liked that alot. However, it needed to be $25-30 instead of $50-60.

lol, well I don't know what the hell "subjunctive" means (though I have heard it before), but I do know that "if I were" is the correct usage.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I have like 4 save files in Mass Effect 1 that I started, got about 1-1.5 hours in, decided I really fucking hated my Shepard, and started over. I've always imported a Shep in starting ME2 though, so I never had that problem in that game.

Oh my god, "if I was" annoys the shit out of me. It's "were" you illiterate twit! (This is not directed at hottie, but rather at a hypothetical person using "if I was".)

Good article. It asks a question about Mass Effect 2 that I have also always wondered about, but figured out this last time I played it: The article asks why the release for the escape pod is outside the pod, in the ship you would normally want to be escaping, thus requiring Shepard to stay behind while he saves Joker. It's a good question. The last time I played it, though, I noticed that the reason Shepard didn't get in the pod was not so he could hit the button, it was that an explosion blew him away from the pod door, then the Collector cannon fired, cutting him off from access to the pod. Joker was refusing to leave without him, so Shepard hit the release inside the ship. So it wasn't that it HAD to be launched from outside, just that it could be.

Maybe "most everyone" is just an American thing, cause I've heard it enough that I'd never even considered that it didn't make sense. It's not a mistake, I'm sure the writer very much intended to write it that way. It probably evolved in speech with almost everyone becoming 'most everyone becoming most everyone. Also, that was a good video Hotty. I especially like the analogy of language to clothes.

Everyone I've ever heard say that word (except my friend who told me about Deus Ex when we were 12) has said it "day-us", but the dictionary says it can also be "dee-us". Either way "deuce" is incorrect. While it's somewhat subjective due to being latin, there's still an accepted pronunciation just like any other word

Do my people in The Sims count? I dunno, it's hard to think of someone I'm like because like Johnny said most game characters do extraordinary things. As for who I'd like to be like, probably Shepard. I want to fly around in space.

No, a guilty pleasure is something you like but are a little ashamed of/feel bad about liking.

Yeah, I didn't mean so much that we're getting charged more as that I thought he was saying it was $7.50, which excited me.

I took it less as "hiding" what I play and more about what I don't advertise playing.

They're both $10

Viva Pinata and Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise. I'm hesitant to admit to them because at first glance they look like shitty little kid games, but among people who've actually played them they're pretty well regarded games. Also The Sims series, like Johnny said.

lol, use currency symbols, you got me excited there for a second.

Mass Effect. Again. I'm working on getting all my characters through and ready for ME3. I've decided for the last three though I'm just going to do the main stuff and ignore the sidequests (I've already got 3 characters that I've done absolutely everything with in both games). Trying to get this done before the Arrival DLC comes out on the 29th.

"Passengers in some stations are being asked to take the stairs instead of the escalator." Can't you just turn off the escalator, thus turning it in to stairs?