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Okay will do. Thanks! I'm such a completionist anyway I doubt I'd resist starting up the first game. Hard? Do you know who I am? I eat video games for breakfast! (They really play havoc with my bowels)

Just got the HD pack through the post (rental) shall i bother with the first game? I've got a bit of a backlog from the Christmas sales. Is the first game worth my time. I've heard it's only 4hours long and the story doesn't really go anywhere, can I just skip it?

People are saying up to 20 hours :/ http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/942657-/60556562 I quit it after maybe 6 hours. I really didn't enjoy it. In a post apocalyptic world where you constantly fear for your life. sleeping with one eye open, being attacked daily by pirates and mutants... Why is everyone you meet so nice? That's what pissed me off about the game, all the npc's are complete bullshit. No one even swears. If ever a game needed swears its this game. The writing should have been a lot darker, serious more adult. tone wise, if you're making a post apocalyptic shooter you're making either borderlands or metro 2033. Pick a side. Not this washy washy piss floating in the middle The world is kill or be killed, everyone you meet must practically be a serial killer. You'd think that would take its toll on a persons character

I do question why channel 4 news went along to the movie press junket If they want to have a serious discussion about violence in cinema invite him on to newsnight

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I know what to get tychocelchuuu for his birthday JonColes parents

this is like dream wedding material! It could only be better if I was actual marrying technoviking himself And instead of saying his vows, he just stands ands points at my face

Don't you remember? Ep3 came out in 2009, the g man hypnotises you during the credits so you forget you ever played it

New Images of Half-life 2: Episode 4 / Return to Ravenholm http://www.valvetime.net/threads/new-images-of-half-life-2-episode-4-return-to-ravenholm.243033/ Are you glad they didn't milk the franchise?

I'm going to make my fiancé walk down the aisle to that music

Lol buuuuurrrrrn Identity colon I'm not very good at this

Yeah, it's like they've perfected the art of the teased teaser trailer tease. Announce (tease) one week before the trailer with some art, and let people know exactly when the trailer is going to drop (I think this is key) then drip feed little bits of art throughout the week. Then release a decent trailer! Profit. How often have we had an ambiguous tease for something that actually turns out to be shit

I actually mentioned to a couple of relatively non gamer friends at work that I was playing '"Binary domain". And they just laughed in my face. Quick tip: if your game title causes spontaneous laughter and ridicule. Change said title.

Nope I gave up after screaming 'good job' at my tele for 5 minutes. Girlfriend thought I had lost the plot. I didn't know if it was me or the fact that my Xbox headset is so old the sponge mouth guard is starting to sprout fungi Shooting robots is actually just as satisfying and shooting GoW's locusts. Probably even more so than shooting generic soldier men in COD and the like I must be near the end of the game. I'm gonna go play It now... Alas I can't, inlaws coming round in 20mins for dins dins. Balls.

The trailer had a secret message, ooooooooooo i LOVE secrets!!! but i can never keep them

Anyone read Altered Carbon, that trailer is exactly how i pictured that world http://www.infinityp...teredcarbon.htm I read somewhere recently that The Witcher 3 is a lot further along in production then people thought, and that it would be released before Cyberpunk...so, um, there's that

They should call it simply 'gash'

Some bed time reading http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/1/10/3853198/ken-levine-bioshock-infinite-vgas

In anticipation of me becoming a future steambox owner i thought i'd try and login to my steam account that i haven't used in about 7 years, lots of pissing around with recovering passwords and stuff but i finally got in. (I should really delete steam off my work computer now...) Thats weird that you can't change your account name, ho hum Amazingly no one had claimed my username in all this time http://steamcommunity.com/id/mington

Monkey island movie? Was that 'You Don't Mess with the Zohan' then?

So then, whats your GOTY. To be honest looking back over the year i haven't really played anything that's blown my mind. I've had a lot of fun with xcom and dishonoured... I think mine would be The Witcher 2 on xbox360...does that count

Heeeeeeeeeeey sex lady

Shamelessly stolen from gaf, but all of you should check out his Oculus rift demo (skip to about the 20min mark) In 2-3 years time will I be sat playing a steam box with a VR helmet on? Hmm the chances are quite likely. Dis is da nu shit. Imagine the walking dead was made for VR (obviously changed to a first person game). Imagine how more immersive and impactful the emotional moments of the game would be. Sitting next to Clem on that train, looking out at the moving scenery and turning your head to look at her. thats exciting. I've gone all molyneux

(i should really be pitching this to EA or Activision, but here goes) I started thinking recently about the current state of video game difficulty, and how big budget titles are way behind the curve AAA developers are so scared they'll upset or turn off the casual gamer that we end up with games like Far Cry 3 that are dumbed down and awash with pop-up hints and on screen prompts. But then we have on the over side of the scale games like 'Dark Souls' which are unapologetically hard, but everyone laps it up. My personal preference is that i want to experience a game the way the creator intended it to be played, which includes the games difficulty. I don't want a creator to sacrifice their intent through fears of losing a casual gamer and vicariously their word of mouth marketing of the game. Example: New Devil May Cry will teach casuals the "magic" of pro gaming, entry bar "is very low" Nobody was holding our hands when we played our very first games 20 years ago, and actually nothing has changed... Peoples first venture in to gaming these days tends to be through mobile or browser based games, games where there is no difficulty setting BUT there is quite often the option to pay to skip a level or make the game easier. I remember reading an article a year or two ago (i can't find it now) about how Angry Birds makes more money from the 'Might Eagle level skip' in app purchase then they do from people buying the game The current business model these days for casual games tends to be you pay to make the game easier, and the casual gamer has grown to except it and embraced it. Why not implement this into big budget console games? Remove the Easy difficulty option and add a similar paid to skip feature. After you've died 3 times at the same check point a message would pop up: Would you like to purchase '10mins of GOD MODE' for $1? Yes/No A simple one click purchase that will enable Infinite health for the next 10 minutes of game play, so people can skip through the section they're finding difficult. This would be a very simple method to boost a game developers revenue. And why stop there. Day one DLC for Bioshock Infinite Infinite Ammo Mode $1.99 Infinite Magic Mode $1.99 Infinite Health Mode $2.99 Make these early access purchases to unlockables/modes that became available upon completing the game. The vocal minority hardcore gamer wont have a problem with it as it wont effect them, so no internet shit storm. These are just an optional paid extra to cheat. And here's the kicker, I believe the type of people who would play through a game with 'Infinite ammo or health' turned on are the type of people who would happily pay for it. Make finely tuned interactive experiences, and if people can't handle the difficulty, let them pay for easy mode