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Huh, I wonder what games I could just have sent from the States and save money. EDIT: Hey, this doesn't apply to Blu-Rays, does it?

Awesome, Groucho, you taught me a new and excellent English word! I will buy you an imaginary pint.

I almost always play games on Normal. I chose Hardcore for Far Cry 2, and I'm happy that I did, but that's a very rare exception.

I'll probably buy this so I can play the co-op with my brother. I like the visuals a lot.

It kind of doesn't matter. If a game isn't worth your time, I don't see why it's important to note the exact degree.

I wonder what they'll do story wise. For me one big part of Far Cry 2's charm was the fact that it's an adaptation of Heart of Darkness and I've read a whole bunch of Conrad novels in the past year and a half. I guess they could try to do Lord Jim in the same vein ;D They'll probably come up with something of their own though.

Ugh, what I've heard about the PS3 port is really depressing.

Huh, I'd say it pretended to be something else for a good 70% of the film or so, until they ran out of ideas.

I haven't read every post in this thread, so I'm probably re-iterating stuff someone else said better. This is mostly in reply to OssK about games not being able to talk to you and also the driving metaphor. And, surprise, I'm using Far Cry 2 as an example, and for the sake of the example I'm going to smooth out some of its problems. Far Cry 2 places you in a war-torn African state. It shows you the effects of the war everywhere, interrupting beautiful landscapes with burned husks of cars and dead bodies. Here, already, the game is talking to you -- it's telling you things about war. The game places you in the body of a mercenary. The game could place you in the body of a soldier in some western country's military that comes in and saves the whole damn country, like many games do, but it doesn't do that. You have no chance to be the good guy, and you cannot avoid doing questionable things. You have a degree of choice: you can choose whose missions you do, and you can choose to subvert those missions to help your friends, but you cannot choose to only do good. There's very little good you can do. This is also the game talking to you. Games talk to you by immersing you in a world of the authors' choosing for an extended period of time, by giving you choice and then limiting it. A game that would have let you just join the 'good' side of the conflict and then blow the evil nazi side away would be saying something completely different (not much of any value). It's the kind of talk that is very easy to shut out by blowing something up, but no different from cinema or literature in that tons of people fail to properly 'read' them too. There will always be people who fail to look past the surface layer of any work of art.

Yup. People must want their Black Friday deals BAD. Or Saturday.

If some American feels like buying that four pack within the next 20 minutes, I'll pay for two of them!

I could get two of the L4D2 pack, but I guess there's only an hour left?

I bought Paper Mario for Wii after hearing about it for ages and couldn't bear it. Nothing there for me.

Oh yes.

Sure, there's some games in there, but it's pretty pitiful compared to 360's offerings. Is it all about contractual stuff? I would think it wouldn't be impossible to make PS3 versions of most of the games you can buy online for the 360. Regarding my new PS3, I just plugged in my old Logitech Dual Action PS2 clone gamepad and it works perfectly, apart from the Sixaxis, rumble and analog triggers obviously. This is excellent. Can I plug in a 360 pad (with an adapter cable) and expect it to work?

These guys are gonna be doing the Deus Ex 3 cinematics. Yup. It's gonna be awesome.

You know, I kind of agree. Yeah, why have two doors on the place (except one of them is bolted on the inside too, so it's not inconsistent). On the other hand, jesus, how long does it takes go circle around one damn building? Just keep your eyes open.

NOT BUYING THIS If you read back, on one of the pages of this thread, there's a spreadsheet. A damned Excel spreadsheet. No!

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How can you play a non-Far Cry 2-game after Far Cry 2?/I]

I was going to have some breakfast but my bread had gone moldy.

I miss the pastels of SMB3. Somehow that game managed to look really lovely despite the hardware's limitation. These new games look garish to me

Far Cry 2.

Oh, that's spectacular.

Wait, LA?