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The B&B Corp. was gross. As bad as what I saw in GZ was, none of it was sexualized. Not that that's a whole lot better.

Eesh. I didn't dig into the audio logs so I didn't come across any of that. Paz is definitely treated badly. The surgery scene was brutal and there was one log that I thought could be interpreted as a rape (hence my warning above) but nothing as graphic as you described. I'll see if it is actually there. Not saying it isn't there, just that I didn't see it, and I'm certainly not defending it. I like Metal Gear when it's silly and dumb.

If you're pickin' up what GZ's puttin' down and 100% it, there's probably 10 hours of content. This isn't the MGS2 tanker demo.

It's $20 on PSN for PS3. It probably should be $15, but I'm a Metal Gear apologist. As for performance, I never noticed any problems but, like I said before, I'm calibrated for Dark Souls right now.

"Completed" might be a stretch since the game tells me that I'm 8% of way through the content, but I've beaten the title mission of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and really enjoyed it. However, I've been playing Dark Souls for the last few months which has given me an immense tolerance for games not explaining themselves properly, so I'd imagine a normal person might find it pretty frustrating and off-putting to have to go through the crazy terrible manuals on screen (which I'm pretty sure are literally the PDFs they'd print for the physical copy) to figure out how the game systems work.

Ground Zeroes is really good you guys. It's still written by Kojima, so it has that crazy town speachifying MGS is (in)famous for (which I love) so fair warning. It also gets really fucking dark, so nonironic trigger warnings. Honestly, MGS's silly anime style doesn't really fit the grim content; musings on love blooming on the battlefield this ain't. But. It plays fucking incredibly. Once you grok the CQC (no mean feat with the piss poor manual) and get into the pace it wants you to play at (slowly), it feels amazing. It strikes a balance between making you feel powerful and vulnerable better than any MGS to this point. Assassin's Creed should feel this way. It looks incredible as well, though my expectations for how games should look on a console have been calibrated by 100 hours of Dark Souls over the last few months so YMMV. IMHO, it makes me wonder why we need new hardware. $20 is the right amount to pay for this. There's a lot of game but not a lot of narrative. I don't think you'll need to play this for Phantom Pain to make sense.

>.> <.< I've had 5.

You are on the right path. You'll soon ***harvest*** jolly cooperation. Is there something beyond the Shaded Ruins where the mopey scorpion guy is? There's a locked door down in the basalisk hole but every other path seems to be a dead end.

Balder Side Sword gives you better range and a thrust attack with good scaling.

I can't wait to find 15 mobs scattered around the world about to guillotine various nobles and then get prompted to make a moral choice on whether to give them the chop or not.

Valve is pretty open about how they determine MMR and it's a lot more nuanced than KDR. The biggest problem is that the system takes a dozen dozen games to figure you out. And then, once it does figure you out, it has to find other people at your level, most of whom probably don't have their own MMR properly calibrated. And then, if you're in the upper percentile, it has to pull in people well below your skill level to fill the game out (or vice versa if you're in the lower). And then, you have to sync up with total strangers to play one of the most demanding team games around. Even if Valve's match making is mechanically perfect, it's a crap shoot if that game ends up being fun, a totally subjective judgement; Brad Muir getting bummed that his teammates won't end a game because they're having fun chatting and farming for example. It's such a hard problem to solve. I wonder if creating some kind of intramural team building system to help people find and develope a regular crew would do more to increase the average level of enjoyment people have. Edit: I would also love to see a creep momentum tutorial. Something as simple as a zone that moves up and down the lane which gives you points when creeps are killed inside it would be perfect.

Phases of games, and the identifying of such, is a topic on a recent episode of the GeekNights podcast. Ironically, these guys despise LoMas with the fury of several suns. Relevant bit starts at 20min.

The problem is that none of these questions have hard and fast answers. They all require a dozen considerations. The truest answers to your questions end up sounding like cryptic kung fu master quips: You attack Roshan when you can. You lane until the laning phase is over. You jungle if jungling is the best thing to do. It all comes down to game sense. Your mechanics can be great, but bad game sense will lead you to overextend or not notice that the enemy is Rosh-ing. You really can't teach game sense. Even worse, once you have it, or even a little bit of it, it is impossible to remember what its like to not have it, and watching people with less sense than you do things that are so "obviously" stupid short circuits your empathy chips (unless you're Brad Muir). I have monstrous Dota Dunning-Krugers, to the point where I constantly second guess my every action, but I'm still able to see people even worse than me doing "dumb" things.

for my money, the zones that tell a story are the best. So far, the Forest of Fallen Giants has been the best. No-Man's Warf and bits of Lost Bastille haven't been bad.

Go to every place and talk to everyone until they repeat themselves. Then, do it again once you've done... things. Failure to do so is user error. /s

@ Snow. At any point, did you get into a coffin? Have you actually seen your boobs recently...?

SD is fun...

And look at a wiki as you won't find it in a billion years otherwise. In terms of quality, it has the best boss fights in the game.

I feel like The Simpsons has had as much of an impact on my everyday speech as William Shakespeare. It isn't so much making jokes and references, as creating words and turns of phrase that you've forgotten didn't exist before.

Maybe this is regional or generational. To me, this make you sound like you're a crazy person. Simpsons is so deeply engrained in everyone I know that we'll quote or reference it without even realizing anymore.

Tall sizes plz.

1. Cancel Amazon preorder 2. Buy on psn Bingo bango dark souls 2

I think a good ending leaves you wanting more, while a great ending adds the assurance that there can't be any more. A good denouement shows you why the situation that lead to the events that made the story possible has passed. Either because the characters have grown or died (or both), the environment has changed (Sauron is defeated, summer vacation is over, the bottle is empty), or all of the above. I also like it when the characters are experiencing that same sense of an ending and melancholy as I am. At least those are common theme amoung narratives that I end up revisiting.

Or Half-Life 3.

I love the content, but I could get better sound quality by plugging my $30 headset into my cat I mean... I couldn't... but it's pretty bad.