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Cool, let me know what you think of D4. I have a couple of friends that are calling it game of the year. These people are insane but I will agree that it is pretty bonkers and fun. I've now played a bunch of it with both the Kinect and the controller and it is a good bit of Kinect implementation but is by no means necessary to enjoy the title.

"I just can't justify an Xbox One purchase for this alone, especially since it seems it's either off to the slowest of slow starts sales-wise," Are we talking about D4 or the Xbone? I hope that D4 is seeing some love, it would really suck if it isn't.

Played through the prologue and episode 1.My word. I think the interesting thing with this game, like Deadly Premonition, is that the more digging around you do in the innocuous areas the more fleshed out the weird story becomes. In ways it feels like actual detective work. The scrapbook collection is hilarious. The characters are off the hook in terms of strange - I don't want to spoil anything but the tall giant guy is just straight up odd in a fantastic way. Anyone needing a fix of the Riendeau New England accent should get this as the main character drawls his way through his lines. Overall it is a way simpler, more accessible Deadly premonition. This time he apes Source code and Memento.

So, I am introducing this game to friend of mine. He loves open worlds like Skyrim. Having re-read comments by Frenetic Pony and Benito, I am now worried that he isn't going to like it. The thing is, I found the exploration to be fantastic because the incentive wasn't the loot so much as the weird and wonderful fighting set pieces as well as the strange monsters that occasionally show up unexpectedly. Adding to this is the Dark Souls-like tension of knowing that the longer that you spend out in the world the more likely that nightfall will come and it becomes massively more stressful. That combination of excitement and dread is what makes this world and the exploration therein my favourite of pretty much any game. Will probably drop in and write about how it went. Edit: Changed 'not' to 'now'

Yeah - am thinking about purchasing it. I've had the original Defense Grid for free on X360 without playing it. Everyone I know loves this game.

Interesting piece by Mia Mckenzie. http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2014/09/im-really-emma-watsons-feminism-speech-u-n/ I agree with pretty much everything she is saying. My only problem is that I think that Watson's piece is a good Trojan Horse in that she is poiltely saying 'hey come join us, you are welcome' and anyone who argues against that message is only likely to expose themselves as a bigot.

Downloaded and waiting for the weekend. I want to try out both the Kinect and controller setups to see which is funnier/fun to play. I've been excited about this game for well over 2 years so I am glad that it is finally out.

Then you will enjoy Stick it to The Man - the gameplay never gets in the way of the story.

Already pre-ordered. Vanquish was brilliant and Shadows of the Damned was okay (confession: I have never played Resident Evil 4) Looks like it is going to be fun. Not sure if P.T. has broken me in terms of horror games. Couple of friends got to play around with the demo and they said it had a 'grainy screen display like Saw'. That isn't the best complement but, it could have been worse.

Proof! http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/17/Exposed-the-secret-mailing-list-of-the-gaming-journalism-elite Oh fuck, I hate myself. I have been meaning to post this on the 'life' thread or some where else like it. This whole nonsense has hit me really hard and I kind of keep lashing out on this forum, I apologise if this has come off as puerile but humour is my dirty way of dealing with it. Within days of the whole debacle, the false accusations, and all the other nonsense my twitter feed just filled up with crap so I left there. Then I started seeing truthers showing up on facebook about how gamersgate was this thing that was pure and great and how the SJW community had made it ugly. There were people (men and a few women) that seemed to support this cause and I honestly no longer have the strength to spend time debating with them. I am too old to go crusading and it pains me as a result. I want to embrace these fucking idiots and see if we can find some common ground but really it depresses me too much and I have the privilege of turning it all off. It sucks but I just can't see myself continuing to engage these idiots* *I may have been drinking but I pretty much stick by this - No more Twitter and an extremely limited facebook.

Oh sweet - Blaargh. That is some awfully boring character design. Anyway, I have nothing constructive to add to this conversation as I think that apart from the card game in FF VIII there is nothing good about this series.

Anyone who quotes Camille Paglia is worrying. I mean, given that Camille Paglia is responsible for some pretty hateful stuff: http://www.ldolphin.org/lesbian.html "Homosexuality is not 'normal.' On the contrary, it is a challenge to the norm; therein rests its eternally revolutionary character Queer theorists - that wizened crew of flimflamming free-loaders - have tried to take the post structuralist tack of claiming that there is no norm, since everything is relative and contingent. This is the kind of silly bind that word-obsessed people get into when they are deaf, dumb, and blind to the outside world. Nature exists, whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single, relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction. Penis fits vagina; no fancy linguistic game-playing can change that biologic fact."

Unfortunately, if this is Quebec, all those positions generally require being bilingual. Tegan, there are tons of testing jobs that pay crappily but give you skills that are in Montreal and Toronto. Being versed in English and French is not necessary. The reason I suggest these is because it is better than working in a convenience store and they can lead to bigger and better things. If you do happen to be in one of those areas and you are interested let me know as I can probably ask around with some people I used to know.

"Why did I not use an 'H' in 'Tycho' back then and since when did I think it was okay to not capitalise that C in the middle?"

Sean, apologies - I think I am guilty of said conflation - my original post was meant more as an olive branch similar to what Brett Douville: https://storify.com/brett_douville/extending-the-branch Also, worth a listen as it was interesting to hear people agree/disagree on the topic as well as force me to question my own bullshit (again): http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/pax-panel-we-ve-survived-the-internet-and-so-can-y/1600-993/

Hmmm, now I kind of want that board game. But hey - potential support for the Xbone or PS4 is good as I am more likely to play it that way.

Oh shit, when did they update it to say they are thinking about releasing it on Xbox One?

I second it - would be amusing on the podcast too.

Gormongous already answered, so yeah, don't feel bad about clicking on the site. Carry on enjoying 3MA and celebrate the fact that the opinions voiced by the Idle Thumbs guys - that you don't like or I imagine agree with - have helped run something that you like that they also like. I think it is pretty cool that you come from opposing fields in this conversation (unless it is just that you didn't like the tone rather than the content if so I apologise for presuming) but you share a love of an uber-nerdy Strategy discussion.

Yes. But not in the XXX sense. The film is meant to be a parody of Romantic Comedies by pulling apart cliches in the genre. The problem is - like parodies in video games - just because you point out that something is bad doesn't make it funny if you still funnel us down the same shitty experience. I really like the cast though and there are still a few laughs in there.

I loved it. I wrote my thoughts about it in the recently completed games list. Although I would agree that the process is overly simplified (and on revision I can see how some of the dialogue would have annoyed) but the platforming was a piece of cake and they introduce short cuts so that you can avoid redoing large sections. The art style and the dialogue carry it but it doesn't outstay its welcome and at 6 pounds - well worth it.

That article in the London Review of Books actually put me off ever reading anything she ever wrote given that the first 3 paragrpahs were good but the remainder is sensationalist crap, awfully, melodramatically written. I finished Wolf Hall 2 weeks ago, I hated it at first because I had the bitter taste of that LRB piece in my mouth with every sentence ringing with the same sense of bull shit. I calmed to it later and it ended up being fine. I still found the constant crying and emotional outbreaks a bit much, like I was reading The Tudors: Bold and the Beautiful edition. However, once you got past that there was a fair amount of entertainment there and Mantel weaves a good yarn. Just don't read that article first, it is terrible.

Finished 'Stick to the Man' a couple of days ago - loved it. The gameplay is pretty simple and there is nothing that can't be solved by going round the whole world and trying to apply everything you picked up in every situation. It doesn't really matter because the art style is charming and so is the story - although it falls into 'the clutzy man has awesome girlfriend' trope but that is a minor gripe because the team play with it a lot. It is out on PS4 and the Bone, I imagine it is out for the PC too, well worth the 6 pounds I paid for it.

No, given how determined I must have been at the time - I don't save any of my password details in my browser so I would have had to login to kickstarter and Amazon to get the credit card details in there. I feel I owe it to whatever drunken madness was going on in my head to stick by it.

That's the reason I posted that manifesto - it is massively misguided, gross and big-headed. It reads like 'fuck these people over, and if we get the chance actually try and challenge the establishment but that is totally a side project'