TheMightyEthan

Master Chief can flip over tanks with a gentle flick of the wrist.

I've been playing Defense Grid: The Awakening.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it was my favorite part of the game, but the Spirit of Arkham was definitely very cool.

Yet you contradict yourself. If you are not going to buy a game, yet you pirate it, it shows that you have enough interest in the title to bother playing it despite it's flaws. Besides, you dont pirate every single game that you are not interested in, do you? Way to take one sentence completely out of context, and then criticize it in a way that doesn't even apply.

That sounds completely fucking awesome.

It's very extremely good, at least on 360 with friends. I haven't gotten into the PC version as much cause I don't really care to play without a party of friends. It's like TF2 in that it's a class-based shooter, and it tries a little too hard to have TF2's sense of humor, but it's really a very different game. For one thing there's a tower-defense element to it. If you have a 360 I recommend downloading the trial, though you need gold to play online, and for all intents and purposes it's an online-only game.

I had a Sapphire Radeon before my current card (don't remember which specific Radeon though), and I was very happy with it.

I saw this thread had been added, then saw that my best friend was currently playing it, so I started downloading the demo. Will let you know what I think of it.

I thought Portal 2 was what you were referring to when you said mid-May. *Edit* - But it turns out Portal 2 is hitting mid-April.

I'll admit that I have pirated, and still to a lesser extent do pirate, but whether you believe me or not I actually do stick to the rule that I only pirate if I wouldn't buy it otherwise. Now, I know some people were criticizing earlier with questions of "well how do you know you'll never buy it, even if the price drops?" and the like, and I'll freely admit that I can't know that. What I do know though is that I do buy games that I have previously pirated if the price drops to a level that I feel the game was worth. I have several games, on Steam and physical copies, that I have bought but never played because I pirated them long ago and feel that they were worth some amount of money. I won't name specific games, but these are games that I bought once they dropped to a price I thought they were worth, even though I already had them for free and even though I had already finished with them and likely would never play them again.

I personally wasn't bothered by it either, and I haven't played the game, but I figure there's not really any harm in putting it in tags if it bothers somebody.

That is a really cool feature. Sounds basically like a built-in modchip.

Oh yeah, I say I'm familiar with I's because of my signature, but that's only cause it's the first letter of my name. The first letters of both my first and last name are perfectly legible in my signature, but the rest of the "letters" are just undifferentiated squiggles. Not even always the same number of squiggles.

It's nothing super-exciting, you can just watch it on Youtube. Unless you really want to play through it again, then by all means go ahead.

Yeah, I almost commented on the I. I is one letter I'm very familiar with, since I do sign my name in cursive and my first name starts with I.

So, my professor is writing on the white-board in cursive, and I've never really thought about it before, but it's a weird sensation: I can read the words just fine, but if I look at the individual letters they don't look like letters, they just look like meaningless squiggles. It's like if I could read Arabic without knowing the alphabet.

Looks like I'll be setting up a Japanese PSN account. It'll be a nice compliment to my European PSN account. Here's to hoping it supports English.

Yeah, they do an excellent job of making it so that in certain areas you feel like you're probably safe, but you never feel completely safe.

I assume though, costs notwithstanding, that you could get cable or satellite if you wanted.

Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Episode 1 Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Team Fortress 2 Portal Seems pretty Half-Life heavy to me. Plus, I think at the time Half-Life was the selling point of the game for most people, so it makes sense that you would emphasize it. The real box art for The Orange Box is just so bland. It just screams "lazy-ass repack of games we'd already released" (even though I know Portal was new and TF2 and the HL episodes hadn't been released on console before).

Multiplayer makes sense, I hadn't thought of that. And for some games I can see making your own soundtrack in single (I always do in racing/sports games, and I can def see doing it in a game like Bulletstorm), but for a game like Dead Space that's all about atmosphere I feel like changing the audio environment would ruin the experience. That's interesting to me. I don't mind silent characters, because I am the character (even if it's 3rd person), and I'm not a non-entity to myself. If anything, having a talking protagonist (when I don't get control over the dialog) makes it harder for me to get into the game, because then they're not me and I have a harder time empathizing (not a hard time, mind, I'm not a heartless monster, I can empathize with people just fine, but it's easier to empathize with myself). Plus if the protagonist talks it opens the door to him saying stupid things that break my immersion. That makes me think of a time in Dead Space 1 where Hammond is saying something about the Security Wing, but because of his accent it sounds like "Security Wang", which made me laugh and completely destroyed the tenseness that had been built up to that point. Dead Space's atmosphere is quite good though, so I quickly got back to being tense.

Dean are you sure that's the actual, official Okami boxart, and not a mockup someone else shopped?

Why can't you get a TV signal?

ITT: Dean admits to listening to girl music. I used to pirate TV and movies a lot, but I basically stopped with TV once I got cable and a DVR (only time I ever download shows now is when the DVR misses it for some reason), and I stopped with movies when I got Netflix streaming. I've never bought a TV series on disc, cause they're just too goddamned expensive, but even at the height of my piracy I still bought quite a few movies.