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Oh god, I didn't bother reading the comments. Never do with popular blogs, it's a waste of precious seconds. I don't think the piece itself was that unfair, though the headline doesn't help. People were passing the link around on twitter with "Hey, don't be a Gaeta hater"

io9 put up a good piece on Gaeta and what effects his actions might have.

I spent most of the weekend finally getting into this, it's glorious. I basically just managed to get to level 12 and struggle over the hump where it gets much easier to make money, keep weapons maintained, and have lots of ammo. Traders have so few bottle caps that it took me a little while to work out how to rinse them: Pick up everything you can, pay them to fix the stuff you'll keep, then offload all the crap to get your bottlecaps back. Repair all the raider armour you pick up yourself, to maximise money-to-weight. Oh, and use buffout to get those extra 30lbs or so back with you, you can make more from one 30lb load than it takes to cure a buffout addiction. Combat with VATS is a bit strange; as long as the enemy are few enough or weak enough, it means nothing beats a kamikaze run with your best gun to get in a few close range headshots. It feels too easy; Yao Guai were the only challenge I was finding and the animal friend perk just put paid to it (the flying robots with flamers and Talon company mercs in groups can be pretty tough at the moment too). The only I also can't believe how much they've packed into the wasteland too. Going around discovering new locations is a real pleasure. It's like the opposite of Far Cry 2 (and much friendlier than that or STALKER). The inventory system has been designed to not get in the way of fun too much. I started a session with a single side mission (last mission of the watseland survival guide) in view, and got so sidetracked by exploring new locations and the other missions coming up from them that I didn't get around to the survival guide until about ten hours later. I haven't done many story missions at all. I was really impressed that by finding someone from a later story mission before doing the galaxy radio one, it automatically completed that one and gave me a later one. They're not perfect, but the mission structure, AI, and dialogue trees seem pretty robust (I watched the wedding at Rivet City, she held a carving knife in one hand throughout and they played through the wedding vows without the groom there).

I almost turned that off twice in the first ten minutes, then it got...kind of mesmerising.

"This game will play games with you" - IGN.com "This game will play with your miiiiiiiiiind" - IGN.com

I like that you can auto-wall jump in the right places with two stripes of green paint facing each other

"You'll be like WAAAAAAAAAAAGRH!" - IGN.com "You'll be like WAAAAAAAAAAAGRH except you'll be speechless at the same time" - IGN.com

This looks excellent, thanks Kroms.

Heh, like it. Spent a few hours with one of my mates trying to find the funniest ways to off Nico in this. One of the best, apart from jumping out of helicopers and ricocheting of skyscrapers, is the second to last that fatty did, but positioned and timed to hit the headlights of oncoming traffic

"So awesome it will make you kick babies in the face" - IGN.com

I'm consistently astonished at how genuinely epic the dramas Eve can create are.

Yeah, I slashed a few people in our last session, trying to get that close was good fun.

Please please please someone sticky this thread.

I think you might be looking for The Dancing Thumb -- Who saw ?All the friends I have who are into action films said "That was fucking stupid I hated it". All the friends I have who are not into action films agreed with me that it was fucking hilarious. One also told me they do strange things with projectors in the background during some parts of the film (I didn't notice). The sequel comes out next month in April, with pretty much the best strapline ever: He was dead... but he got better

That thing should totally have an affirmative puzzle piece token merchandising tie-in with Braid. The CD could kick in whenever you've been stuck on one puzzle for too long, and scream "HOORAY FOR YOU" every time you solve one. Instead of telling an ambiguous story about science and romantic love, the puzzle pieces could instead build up into a life-affirming and fluffy work of self help and validated feelings.

Am I the only person who kind of likes Press Start screens, even though I understand exactly how useless and unnecessary they are? They can do a nice job of setting the tone for a session while I'm in the kitchen making tea, then settling into the sofa That doesn't need "press start", but as a convention it makes me a little nostalgic for all the console gaming I've done going back to the NES. That said, I *really* like the way Braid handled it, by silhouetting the character and just having the title dissolve when you move.

You raise my hopes... and you dash them.

I agree on You Have To Burn The Rope Chris, and was quite surprised to see it in the IGF nominations. A bunch of people wanted me to show it at the Eurogamer Expo, and every time it was mentioned started throwing words like "Genius!" around. It's witty, but it's a five minute diversion, not a masterpiece.

As well as sounding like something from a Monty Python sketch, "Undeclared aubergine" has a very pleasing cadence.

Sorry I couldn't be there, I had a date. It was merely okay, and in retrospect I'd rather have been playing GTA IV

That advert for the CD of cheering... oh god. That's so funny I almost cried

More. Comics writers have a tendency to go to Hollywood and never come back.

I used to enjoy Milk and Cheese a lot "I have a gland problem" "Well stop eating so many goddamn glands then!" "I have an eating disorder!" "Sure, you're eating disorder, dat order, EVERYBODY'S ORDER!" "It's not fair of you to bully overweight people" "It's nothing personal. We just spun the wheel and it came up as your turn today. Look! Now we're doing over a blind guy! Does that make you feel better?" Where on earth did my Milk and Cheese comics go? Had no idea he worked on Yo Gabba Gabba, or kids TV at all. That's ace.

Anyone interested in this thread might want to read A Lego Clockwork Orange. It's not as funny as it first sounds, and if you're squeamish you might want to skip it.

He's definitely not that, but he did develop a taste for more extreme humour.