TheMightyEthan

IIRC, the u was never actually "dropped". For a long time spelling was never really standardized, and Merriam-Webster promulgated some proposed standardized spellings around the same time Oxford did. Americans adopted Webster's and the UK adopted Oxford's.

It's a z sound when we say it... UK pronunciation: ad-VER-tissmint US pronunciation: adver-TIZE-mint I believe I got the emphasis correct on the UK one... Also, short form UK = advert, US = ad.

I don't understand the appeal of hooking a PC up to a TV. 23 inch monitor that I sit 2.5 feet away from beats out a 50 inch TV that I sit 10-15 feet from. I even have my 360 and PS3 hooked up to a monitor instead of a TV, though that is partly so I'm not always hogging the TV. I do love how standardized 360 pad support has gotten for certain kinds of games though. For FPS or RTS give me a kb/m, but for games like Batman: Arkham Asylum or racing games I'll take a pad any day.

http://board.pressxordie.com/index.php?/topic/85-skin-suggestions/page__view__findpost__p__6214 There's the skin. That's your post, btw.

@Kenshi: Yeah, I realized that later, but at the time it looked like a spoiler. "In the final mission you do X."

This. Games I say I hate I haven't usually played to completion, but I have played them.

I picked PC, though if you'd asked me a month or two ago I would have said 360. People always say Sony has the best exclusives, and while I can acknowledge intellectually that that's probably true, I'm just not really interested in most of them. Now I've got a PC capable of playing new games again, and so I'm shifting back that direction.

Is there a way to change it so that images inside spoiler tags will auto resize? Also, I thought we already had a white and blue background picked out for January.

So, as you may have guessed, this is a thread for people to list what games they've beat in 2011. Please only list games you've never beat before this year, games you've beat before and then played again don't count. Also feel free to add thoughts on it. I'll start: 3D Dot Game Heroes. It was a lot of fun, more than I expected. Even though it was marketed as a parody, and it clearly is actually a parody, it's a surprisingly solid game on its own merits. I loved all the references to old games strewn throughout, and there was one at the end in particular that was my favorite (minor minor spoiler):

The season/series thing confused me when I was first exposed to it too. In American usage, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager are different series, each one consisting of multiple seasons.

Why was he unhappy?

All I expected out of Fable III was that it would basically be Fable II with a little bit of new stuff added. I was still let down. I mean, I enjoyed the game okay, but not as much as either of the first two.

A crime against language.

The gist of it appears to be that people have to do all kinds of crazy workarounds to even get the Steam version running at all.

Sounds pretty accurate to me...

I agree whole-heartedly. Whenever my fiancee asks what she should wear and I pick out some jeans and a t-shirt, she's like "But I want to look good." and I'm like "Yep, that's why I picked these..." *Edit* - I tried contacts once. Spent an hour and a half trying to get them into my eyes before being like "fuck it" and putting my glasses back on.

We all know the feeling. Why don't you come over here, have a seat, and introduce yourself?

No, what you need to do is find a game that will give a 1 G achievement, and get that one. Then you will have 9001, which is basically as good as it can be. *Edit* - Here's one that should be easy on DJ Hero: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/dj-hero/achievement/30199-New-Jack.html You'd have to be careful not to get any others though.

I am certainly frightened and confused by it. I've tried to play it before, but quit when I realize I don't know how to do anything. At all.

Whenever I say stuff like that my fiancee's always like "why do you always want a video game version? why not just play the real one?" The answer is: 1) I can't play the real version against a computer, and it's a PITA to try to get a bunch of people together to play certain games, like Risk. 2) It's easier to let the computer manage crap like card decks and dice rolls, so I get to focus on just playing.

There are plenty of games I like, it just doesn't seem like any of them are universally hated.

I thought the combat was fun too. Sure it's not as deep as other games, but it's enjoyable. And the fact that the game doesn't take itself seriously isn't a "bad" thing, it's just something that maybe you personally don't like. I love that it doesn't take itself seriously. That said, Fable III was a disappointment.

This. I love it too. I'm huge on turn-based strategy games though, of all kinds, from Civilization to Risk to Valkyria Chronicals to Advance Wars.

Burnout: Paradise Bioshock. I know, I know. The atmosphere is fucking fantastic, but the actually play just blows too hardcore.

Holy crap, that's a fantastic deal.