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Same here dude, I was both surprised and disappointed when I saw he'd donated to their campaign. Damn those Republicunts.

But being the Big Daddy didn't have any discernable truncating effect on a lot of things you did. I'm interested in this game now, was very sceptical, but if they sort out some of the gripes I had with BioShock I'll be very happy. I'm looking at you, Gaynor. This game better be one Hot fucking Scoop.

I think Jake's up to something. Need to check the demo out though. It must have been great fun working with this license, no?

I played it when the most recent Beta came out, and although it captures the look and feel quite well, it's just not a very fun game overall. Give me an N64 any day.

Oh, and if you want more Portal then get the map pack of the levels from Portal 2D re-imagined using the full game.

Because penis.

Small but perfectly formed. I'll reiterate, don't fuck with it.

Dude, this post nearly made me cry. Holy shit :\

Cryostasis came out very recently, it's a first person survival horror set in the Arctic, looks pretty interesting and didn't review too badly. Cold Fear has also always seems intriguing to me, but I've heard mixed things about it. Both are for PC, Cold Fear is on Steam I think, but Cryostasis bizarrely isn't up for download anywhere yet, the only option appears to be boxed copies.

A lot of sick jokes are, well, fucking hilarious. I felt a little bad cracking all those Maddie McCann ones, but hey, we got some great laughs.

Portal is fucking awesome. It's almost perfect, they should leave it alone.

I'm passing on Resident Evil 5 so I can buy this next Friday, good to hear it's awesome.

It's always been so much better than the English language version with crap lyrics.

"... then fuck you while you sleep" - IGN.com

It seems to be going the other way. Anyway, I'm protective of ten scores because they're meant to be the games, the ones you get every few years that does something fucking amazing. They're the ones you see in a magazine, the ones with the gold star on them, you sit up and take notice. Now it's lost that sheen, that aura that stops you in your tracks, partly because of the cycles of hype from which we expect it to get a ten, and if it doesn't, there's obviously something wrong with the writer. As much as I know they're arbitrary, horrible, nasty and the big boogeyman, I love scores and scoring. Always have, can't help myself. I know I came across like a bit of a wank up there, but there's not much I can do when I get so annoyed about something. I actually feel like the medium is more hollow now because perfect scores are so... by the by.

I know you don't like scoring games, and that you really like Crysis. It's just personal really, but I do think it got a bit of a free ride from some, especially specialist PC outlets who were sick of no big exclusives. Shame assholes pirated the hell out of it and Crytek are now going to do console games too. At least Free Radical are safe. Anyway, this shit bugs me hugely. Another example of something that, although I've not played it, was possibly underscored for doing new stuff, was Far Cry 2. Halo 3 is another one that got a free ride. Halo Wars is another one. God dammit.

I keep telling everyone on the internet almost this exactly. It's the scoring I think. As Remo pointed out in the podcast, Eurogamer bashed Killzone 2 quite a bit in the review, but still gave it a 9/10. I think Resident Evil 5 is getting similar treatment, standing at an 85-ish average right now, and getting 9s just because it's Resident Evil. 10/10 has also lost its meaning. I honestly think that only games that push the medium forward in some way are worth them. Yes Killzone was very polished and a little above average mechanically, but it was, what, a 7, yet scores 9-10 across the board. There should be no more than one 10/10 a year realistically, and I'm not saying that if you give one a ten then you shouldn't give another deserving game the same score when their release dates are quite close, but God-fucking-dammit at least hand them out when they're deserved. There also appears to be a bit of a bent against innovation, with Mirror's Edge and Banjo-Kazooie, two of my favourite games of last year, getting a hard time from some critics. Gears of War 2 was just a polished version of the (not incredibly impressive) original and it was plastered with tens all over the place. I'm now writing for Thunderbolt, so hopefully I can bring in some slightly harsher scoring as far as this goes. As for Crysis, I would say it was about a 6. It looked great and the physics were cool to play around with, but I didn't find it anything near compelling as a shooter. The press were just like OMGZ LOOKADAT TENZ! Even World at War got a ten from something. That's bloody scandalous. I could vent about this all day, but at least I know I'm not the only one. [Never typed so "angrily" in all my life!]

Rolling around clutching my side laughing. Holy fucking shit that is incredible.

I was thinking an animu Squidward Tentacles.

Up to page three it's awesome, then I revived it for some reason and there came a flood of posts, ultimately destroying it.

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Thanks for the game again Dan, Paul (?) and Nick I think

I like a lot of accents in the UK. Still, I win. Gold medal. Top of the leaderboard. Na-na-na-naa-na. Sorry if I came across like a complete cunt

Thanks for making me part with my cash for the third week in the last four. World of Goo, 75% off. Makes me sick, I hope Steam kills itself, it's too tempting and awesome

Not only did this game remind me of exactly why I despise Imperialism, but fuck me it plays well. I saw myself become a horrible, selfish destroyer of all things good very quickly. I'm doing The Road To Independence first, and I gave up sieging towns in favour of simply amassing a huge army and destroying the settlers. I feel filthy. Yeah, awesome game.