Donk

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    First gaming device I bought would have been a joystick (and an interface component) for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, I was probably 7-8. The next would probably been my 386 20hmz PC I got for "school". It had a turbo button on it. Still gaming, still buying... still trying to see how deep this rabbit hole goes.

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    Just finished Alpha Protocol, almost started another playthrough, but this fresh Mass Effect 3 install won't play itself...

    Alpha Protocol gives you some important choices to make, a lot of them actually. Even though the missions are flawed (AI, level design, animations, graphics and some glitches) I really liked their structure. They were frequent and short. Sometimes they would even just involve a few conversation choices rather than a shootout based on of how you aligned yourself with the factions and characters.

    You can pick it up for cheap, I'd recommend giving it a go, it's an interesting game.

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    Looked like some pretty awesome level design there, with the rotating level.

    I just got to that level, was rather impressive... good game so far.

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    You mean Subversion. It looked really cool but apparently it just wasn't fun to play at all and that's why it was canceled.

    Disappointing they couldn't make Subversion fun, looked so good. Not too excited about Prison Architect but will check it out. Very interesting developer.

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    Are you doing the extra stuff? I just went through one extra dungeon once and thought it was a waste of time, also I didn't stop to grind at all in FF I and grinded only a bit in FF II.

    I got lost often and plenty, resulting in lots of involuntary grinding, for FFI I stumbled into a dungeon that had weird puzzles and really tough monsters and I thought I was closing in on the end. The boss there just absolutely destroyed me, every time, I did try but wound up checking GameFAQs to see what was up and turns out it was extra content probably meant for after you've finished the game. I've mostly stayed away from extra content otherwise. FFI on the iOS is the first JRPG I ever finished, finished FF2 also and am going through FF3 now also on iOS. Very interesting games, I have a lot of catching up to do.

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    Just finished Assassins Creed 2, what a great game. So much to do, so many ways to do it, top notch animations and graphics and designs, I enjoyed climbing throughout the entire game, upgrading the villa seems to release some endorphins and when you get good at all the things Ezio does you just feel like a king in the cities being all bad ass.

    I think I'll take a break from the Animus though before continuing on to Brotherhood. Just put in Enslaved, about an hour in and so far so good. Looks nice.

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    While listening to the most recent PC Gamer UK podcast, I heard about an older game called Masq*. The guys described it as an "interactive comic" and that's pretty apt.

    I it too, caught my interest with the branching paths and also because you're not saving the universe. I think the Thumbs covered this in an episode, why do you always have to be the chosen one? Why is not just about trying to get a job or something. Have there been any big titles lately that have more of a personal storyline rather than a save the world. Catherine?

    I'm playing FF3 on iOS now and there are 4 chosen ones and I control all of them.

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    I've never played any Nintendo games, would a 3DS be a good place to start?

    Well there was this one time when I was 14 I played some Mario game on a friends Nintendo... it said "Out of time Luigi" on the first level... they had never even seen that happen.

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    Finished Morrowind last night. They sure made games different 10 years ago, no waypoints, tutorials, on screen hints, checkpoints or quest markers, just text... lots of text. Going through just the main quest takes a while, (50+ hours on my Steam, with a bit of mage guild sidequests) and it was rather monotonous with all the travelling.

    Looking at the game start now was weird too, a long scripted segment with unique voice overs and content. After that it's 50 hours of running around with the same canned NPC barks until the end when there are a few lines from the end boss and a short cut scene.

    Still an amazing game, so much content and so many ways to approach it. As a mage wizard guy there were some interesting solutions to some of the quests. Like a big fight in the Vivec arena against a boss, since he was melee only I just levitated out of reach and just wore him down. Felt a little like cheating, don't know if that was intended for or not, felt like that for a a lot of fights really. Enemies would be confused by pathfinding and geometry. Those round half and half dungeon doors did more to save Vvardenfell than I did I think.

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    Having never had any Nintendo hardware I can't say really whether I'd like the games but I'm interested at least in them.

    As for the Vita I'd be happy with getting access to a giant backlog of PSP, PS1 and PS2 games, not necessarily looking for the HD console experience. Maybe I should just get a PSP.

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    Never had a handheld which is not cool. I've been drinking the Sony marketing Koolaid for Vita, sweet hardware and display at a decent price point but these poor sales figures have me concerned so I'm back to considering a 3DS. Getting a 3DS would also be my first ever Nintendo hardware which would be cool. Help me Thumbs.

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    In an attempt to not buy Skyrim ($$$ and huge backlog) I started up Morrowind, had made a few attempts back in the day but never followed through (40 hours in now!)

    Getting to Balmora to talk to Caius for the first time I noticed he never has a shirt on and he made a sniffle noise with his nose and there were lots of illegal drugs under his bed and empty bottles all over his tiny one bedroom place and he made the hot chick whistle at my female character. He seemed like a huge douche.

    His bed:

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    edit: added image.