Twig

I love Christmas it's like my favorite time of the year! Major cheese alert. I'm not being sarcastic though. It is.

Christmas is for people who like Christmas.

I hate this book, but that is probably because I was forced to read it and analyze it chapter by chapter instead of choosing it and reading it at my own pace. So, in that, I think I'm looking forward to this? Maybe. It's not a very interesting setting to me.

"(since the middle of October)" What.

Jake! I actually have played The Fool's Errand! Well, I played it collaboratively with a couple friends, about a year ago. That game is pretty neat. I don't really have anything meaningful to say. Just wanted to express that you're not alone, I guess?

Hey if anyone has done a nonlethal, full stealth run... why do I have a mysterious hostile kill in

In other news... there WILL be a Christmas mode in Dota 2. And it'll come with a snow-covered map! YES. YES. SNOW. rad http://www.cyborgmatt.com/2012/11/dota-2-14th-november/#winter-update

I was unaware we had the propensity to disagree!

People like you are among the worst teammates. You can easily mute an annoying individual, so there's no reason to mute the kind of person who legitimately wants to communicate.

I've never heard of it, and I'm not surprised!

I want my money back!!!

The combat was great until I realized that anything other than warrior was a cakewalk on the hardest difficulty. If the enemy AI existed to make me actually have to work to be awesome, it might've been a good game, but it didn't. It was just way too easy. That's not to say I didn't like the good parts of the game, but the bad parts dragged it down into shittown. I would totally have bought Amalur 2, if it had come out, though! It's a lot like Assassin's Creed. Clearly flawed, but lots of potential. U:

I actually had one person tell me straight up, "I don't have speakers," which I thought was kind of the greatest thing.

My response is usually "sorry I can't see the screen I don't know what's happening".

Yeah I've not played Doom 3, but I've only ever heard really good things about it.

Pretty accurate portrayal of some of the people I've run into!

Kingdoms of Amalur?! You people are full of surprises. If there's any game that becomes boring and repetitive in a too-short amount of time... it's Amalur.

Scripted or not, it's still rad!

I would include myself in your group, although with the caveat that, although it was a draw, it also wasn't hugely important to why I liked the game. The story was entirely secondary to the gameplay and the presentation.

Well, as long as I'm not the only one who thinks so!

That says quite a bit about the current state of id! Shame, 'cause I love John Carmack. (But then, who doesn't?)

Terrible?! It's hard, takes some getting used to, but I can't believe anyone would think it's outright terrible. Then again, maybe it's just been too long since I played it. It has been almost a year and a half since it came out for PC.

Yeah! I've noticed I can hear my friends way better now than I used to. But... my friends could ALWAYS hear me fine. It was random people who couldn't hear me, and I suspect it's just because they were assholes and had their sound too low. U:

It's because neither the shooty mcshootin' nor the drivy mcdrivin' was good. They were both half-assed and boring and ugly and boring and ugh. The most fun in the game is driving around the little RC car bombs. The shooting sections were dull, uninspired bullshit that offered no legitimate challenge (taking more damage because the difficulty is set to "hard" doesn't count). The level design was horrendously straightforward and offered little-to-no variation - not to mention the constant revisiting of levels for stupid missions. Too, the structured driving sections were all literally the same few things over and over again with slight variations in track layout that ultimately had no real effect on the effort or method of winning. And that's just the structured driving sections, like the races and rallies! Driving around the overworld was just a chore. It's like it was trying to be Borderlands, but for serious and without the pinatas of loot every five seconds. Instead of removing what was wrong with Borderlands... they kept ONLY the bad stuff, and added MORE bad stuff. Rage was such a huge disappointment. I honestly don't know why I let myself get excited enough to buy it as I did. Oh well, at least the environments were really goddamned pretty, despite being deserts and shit.

(people have mentioned fez)