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Even more obvious hint (if you can even call it that anymore) is quoting half a sentence from University of Oulu doctoral dissertation on intellectual disability. For all intents and purposes: Half-Life 3 confirmed. Someone update the wiki.

I don't even understand what the locust's part in that is. The forum seems to embed videos automatically when you use the shortened urls (youtu.be link on the share tab) but not when you use the normal urls.

Welcome! Probably a brief meeting, but nevertheless: Kingdom Hearts II

This is the first time I feel like Spelunky was being kind of a dick. And it was all going so well too. Losing the scepter was totally my fault, but man that death was brutal.

I haven't read the entire thread, but have you considered adding an objective comments section for each review? It would have to be either monitored or completely fake, e.g. so that only Thumbs contributors can actually post comments while anyone else gets a "comment under objective review" message when he/she tries to post. Something like Commenter 1: This is the first comment. Commenter 2: This was a review of Gone Home. The review was objective. It described the gameplay mechanics of Gone Home. The review contained spoilers, but the fact that Sam [...] was not revealed. The review had one spelling error. Commenter 2: This review has x words. This would probably make the joke more obvious, though.

Big Baby prototype?

I enjoyed both of the episodes, although I was hoping for a bigger mystery (as in an episode long case) for the second one. Looking forward to the final episode and to waiting for the fourth series.

I have developed a weird love-hate relationship with Assassin's Creed. I have completed every "main" game in the series starting from AC2. Even though I always end up being more or less disappointed by the end of the story, I still find myself being excited for the next game (though less so with AC3). I think the main reason I keep playing these games despite all the annoying stuff is that traversing and exploring the stunning and exotic locations feels so fantastic. However, the annoying stuff gets more and more annoying with each installment. The main annoyance from the gameplay perspective is that AC doesn't work well as a stealth game. The darts and the foliage make the stealth missions a bit less frustrating this time around, but tailing and eavesdropping mission a simply painful. It is very hard to know if the enemy will see you should you step out of the haystack, and practically impossible to recover from being spotted. Many of the stealth missions also have extremely poor check-pointing, which effectively discourages any sort experimentation. There are various smaller annoyances, such as the final collectibles being locked until the very end of the game (for example, the Mayan armor in Black Flag can be crafted halfway through the second to last chapter) making that extra effort of yours almost completely pointless. Story-wise, I find it very hard to care about the story and characters at all - even in the non-Space-God bits. In Black Flag, the Templars vs. Assassins storyline felt more forced than ever before. In my opinion, the beginning of the story of Assassin's Creed 2 was excellent and nothing in the series has come close to that since, mainly due to the pasted on Templar bullshit.

I'm counting on people not remembering that this was my Christmas avatar the next holiday season. Edit: Wait, what?

I actually thought this was some bizarre and complicated form of forum spam or something, since practically all the posts (on this as well as on other forums, it seems) are about identifying some random songs and since (apparently) none of the answers in the other thread felt suspicious to him. Now I don't know what is going on. Anyway, sorry.. That is not a Leonard Cohen remix.

What happens when Tom Francis creates an alleged Tom Francis site?

Sure thing!

Unfortunately, no. All the copies were gone before I even heard about its existence. Haven't been able to locate a digital version either.

Interesting! It was titled "(Tower of) Candy Shop" on the Nordic limited edition vinyl release.

50 Cent - Candy Shop (Leonard Cohen Remix)

As I said in the other thread: Awesome work Tycho! Definitely keep the scores there. They are the best part of the whole thing. As for "what is this game about" content, I mainly use GameTrailers' reviews to find that out. Their story-gameplay-presentation segmentation and nearly button-by-button level of breakdown of gameplay mechanics make for dull and often ridiculous reviews but usually give you a fairly good idea of how the game actually plays.

Hahaha.. Amazing! Good work TychoCelchuuu! Will there be an OGOTY feature?

Slightly off-topic but the search function of these forums is horrible.

I have a Kindle Paperwhite for novels and Nexus 7 for... well, I just really wanted a tablet. I would probably never read a novel on an LCD but I have read several comic books on my tablet and it has been very enjoyable. Even if the comics were black-and-white, I would still use Nexus 7 for them because zooming to panel in Kindle feels so unresponsive. Physical versions would of course be preferable but I usually can't be arsed to order them.

The Last Guardian and Beyond Good & Evil 2 will finally come out. I think I said the exact same thing last year and didn't believe it then either.

I know that I should be frightened to death by these things, but a robot that sits in a vehicle and steers it with its hands puts a smile on my face the same way the keyboard punching secretary robot in Wall-E does. Way to think inside the box!

What is it with songs about American presidents trying to send civilians into space? Also, remember when you promised to post [a thing] on the blog? Well, you never did. Please, upload the donkey balloon picture somewhere. Thanks! (You didn't actually promise to share it this time but I think you mentioned it - or some other donkey picture - in one of the previous casts.)

Does the starting price factor in this in any way?