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Ps you can also talk to Triss later about the statue

What Gwardinen said. However, in the third game I do feel that the choices are more about picking sides or that not picking a side often feels off. And some of the choices seem to be pretty black and white (or good vs evil) more than the shades of grey that the previous ones had. And this also means Geralt can feel more evil than ever before.

Holy shit, I've put 160 hours into this game already! (some of that is reloading after the game crashes, but since it loads relatively quickly, it's not such a big part) I just completed The Isle of Mists and what follows in Kaer Morhen, and it seems like no matter what you do before that quest, you end up at level 30 (or so?). A friend of mine did almost none of the side content and ended up 30, I did almost all of it, and ended up 30. I'm not sure I like this distribution. The main quest is biased to giving way more exp than anything else. In fact, I would love it if this wasn't an RPG at all. Geralt is supposed to be one of the best witchers and swordmen in the world, so why does he get so easily beat up at the beginning? (I have to admit that the feeling of progression does feel good, though, despite the ludo-narrative mismatch.) If it wasn't an RPG it might be a different game, but it could still work. Like, Metroidvania kind of progression could concievably work at a really wide scale open world game, right? But holy fuck, what an amazing game it is. The writing is unusually good for a game with this scale. Besides a few things that started to annoy me at hour 100 and a few bloopers here and there, and a few corners of the world that didn't get proper lighting (e.g. Kaer Morhen surroundings), it's really amazing. I almost haven't used fast travel so my game is probably going relatively very slowly due to that, but it's really enjoyable just to travel the world. I wish the boats would go even faster, though. A sea journey from island to island is usually something I don't look forward to just because it goes too slowly, especially if I force myself to check out a question mark. Those smugglers sure put their caches in weird places.

I loved the time trials more than the main game, I think. But yeah, if they don't force you to be locked with enemies and fight then I wouldn't mind the guns that much.

I guess not everyone hated it, but I remember a lot of complaints here about the QTE-ness or how the simplified free-running ruined it or something along those lines. I kind of liked it, although unlike with Sands of Time I haven't had any wish to go back and play it again.

Ok, back to the question on the previous page, I think Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is pretty similar to ICO. Also the newer Prince of Persia that everyone hated, but I'm not so sure about the other ones (the one where they wen't all I BLEED DARK FANTASY kind of sucked).

All this talk about not wanting guns is great and I agree, but didn't last year's trailers pretty much confirm lots of guns and shooting in the new game.

I also loved it while it was showing, especially in the beginning. I would totally buy a Blu-Ray with the pilot and then the rest of the series condensed (if that's possible) into 5 or so episodes.

Playing as K9 would be interesting.

Windows 7 ate nine (source: Apple cider)

I didn't like that shot either, nor the guitar.

Looks awesome, like the best bits of Amnesia mixed with Thief and put into a cool sci-fi setting.

Dead Man is my favorite movie ever! Became a big Jarmusch fan after seeing that. His earlier stuff is awesome: Down by Law, Stranger than Paradise, Mystery Train.

I'm also running Windows 7 now and I plan to upgrade both my work and home computers.

Me wants! Although I haven't played Enemy Within yet.

It's amazing how well the game actually seems to tie everything together: everything is still consistent with the first Witcher game, the world and the characters still look somewhat of the same style, even if it's now from a slightly different perspective and level of detail. And then the way it introduces characters and things from the books so seamlessly, it makes one think that they had the whole trilogy planned out even when they were working on the first game. It just all fits too well. But on the other hand it's hard to believe that they had it exactly scoped like that, putting Geralts story in The Witcher 1 and 2 just at the right time so he could get his memory back when the whole world known from the books is opening up to him. [edit] I guess what makes the consistency kind of astonishing to me is just how differently each game works, while still maintaining this very high coherence. But they must have just been doing each game with what was available and in reach technology and budget wise.

Damn... now I want to see it. How is it possible though that it was bombing and finally turned out one of the best movies ever created?

What I read, but I'm not sure if it's true, is that they used CGI to put in the moving lips later. Or maybe they still had SOME lines that were there originally, just even way less than we see in the final movie?

As for games, anything from Deirdra Kiai aka Squinky.

From Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff) I also liked Old Joy, but Night Moves felt boring. Would like to see her older stuff as well (River of Grass).

Anyone else run into crashes that happen soon after loading on PC? (including loading an area after fast travel, or ). I'm getting lots of those so my strategy is to not cause loading when I can avoid it e.g. not die

I also saw it in Atmos yesterday. They had turned down the dialogue channel a lot compared to the other two times I saw it (in normal 3D, no Atmos). I was also either sitting in a bad place (second row, too far to the side in a relatively small room (is there a more specific word for the room where people are seated in cinemas?) or my glasses were defective, or both, but the 3D was way broken (seeing double often). It was an awful experience compared to the perfection that was going on in the screen in the other cinema. I also felt the Atmos sound didn't add much, but at least they hadn't turned the volume way high this time, like they do with most films. I'm starting to really dislike this particular cinema... although they are the only one with IMAX here. Also why the fuck not show Mad Max in IMAX? I would really like to see Mad Max in 2D as well, but maybe I'll have to wait for the Blu-Ray because all cinemas in Tallinn are showing it in 3D only.

I would like to say first person, as many of my favourite games are first person: Thief, Far Cry 2, Deus Ex, Half Life 2, Stalker, Amnesia, Miasmata etc. But then there are awesome third person games I've loved as much: Outcast, The Witcher, GTA Vice City, Red Dead Redemption, FlatOut, most RPGs and adventure games. I kind of have a special interest in first-person games lately, but I wouldn't say that I would prefer most games to be in that perspective.

So I've been playing since it got dark (my projector room has a small window that doesn't have thick curtains and it's getting close to the longest days of the year). One problem: I keep dying in random surprise-fights (at the blood and broken bones level) and the game keeps crashing when I reload. Luckily it is real quick to boot, though. It takes getting used to to handle surprises, and some are legitimately too deadly for my current level. But I'm getting the hang of it. Fighting seems quite similar to Witcher 2, but somehow improved. The game world and the quests are amazing so far. It's one of the best open world games ever, I think, from what little I've played (just met the Bloody Baron). It seems to do so many things right. I'm sure as the game progresses my opinion on this could change, but I kind of like the way it nudges you towards an authored path through the story by giving certain suggested levels to quests. I always seem to be lagging a level behind, though. I just got to the point where I got a boat and realized that I have now several quests of the same level available. I deviated a bit from where the dialogue had been nudging me towards and went to see the Baron instead. The No Man's Land part of the world reminds me of Far Cry 2 by having waterways next to roads and bandit camps on the latter. It also somehow reminds me of Red Dead Redemption, with Geralt being a rough equivalent of John Marston. It seems like this game has everything, and yet it doesn't feel like a random mishmash of stuff as it's all very coherent.

I'm still very skeptical about any kind of real AI happening any time soon. The only AI so far is specialized in some specific area defined by humans, and humans have figured out the maths of how to make the AI for that specific area. Of course it will all get more and more powerful, probably beyond what we are imagining now, and it will do more and more clever things and understand us better. We'll probably have translator devices from any language to any language, that work flawlessly with real time voice translation, alternate reality, etc. and we'll have flawless self-driving cars and F1 drivers will be replaced by AI, but we'll not have AI that actually thinks for itself.