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Listening to someone rage about Obama being re-elected for 24 minutes is really worth a listen? Or are the title and description false advertising?

I think the shaky gunplay works for the game. Makes it, uh, more tense. Kinda like everyone says about Resident Evil? But here I think it works better because it's not outright annoying. That said, it's ridiculously easy to actually hit where you're supposed to hit. There's very rarely a moment where I feel really rushed for time during a gun-shootin' scene, and you don't even have to aim directly at a zombie head. Just in the general area. U:

Yeah, I basically backed it for the tech alone. I'm really hoping they'll release the tools to the public. Seems like they're interested in doing so, but not fully. Understandable, I suppose, but I think the more tech-savvy could do some really cool things with a complete toolset.

OH MAN I REMEMBER DINK SMALLWOOD! ...Sorry, that's really all I had to say. EDIT: I found more: Actually, I'd like a revisit to the idea of Dink Smallwood. There were a ton of user-created quests using the Dink engine. I mean, most of them were trash, but... these days, with the greater ease in sharing user-created content, whoa. U:

Yeah! Devin Townsend! I love that guy.

Yeah the tech is really impressive. I am a fan. CAUSTICS. That physics.

His complaints lie entirely within the context of closed vs open platforms, as far as I'm aware.

Listening as I respond! RE: DOTA 2 GAME MODES I really hated Diretide at first, but I've since grown to love it. I sincerely hope Valve takes this game mode, rips it out of the context of "Diretide", builds a new map for it, and throws it into the game proper. I sort of disagree with regards to only some lords being viable. I've randomed in every single game I've played - a couple dozen at least - and the only two lords I felt suffered were Chen and Enchantress. They sort of depend on jungling a bit before they kick ass, and you don't really have the time to do that in this mode. However, even there, I sort of second-guess my own reaction. I am not good at those lords even in the regular game mode, so it's hard for me to judge! Different lords have different strengths compared to regular Dota, for sure, but I don't think it's fair to say that only a small selection of the pool is valid. My one real complaint about Diretide is that when you're getting stomped... there's really no way to come back. There actually is a point in Diretide where you literally cannot possibly come back and win, because beating candy out of the enemy bucket is a factor of time. But the game mode is so short that whatever who cares! I'm so goddamn sick of killing Roshan at the end, though... RE: HOTLINE MIAMI I really loved the game. I think it's utterly fantastic in both presentation and gameplay. As far as story goes, I find it interesting enough, but I can certainly understand why someone would just not give a shit about it. It's not very deep, for sure. I didn't dislike the "real" ending like a lot of people seem to, but I suspect it was just a way to formally leave the story open to further development, and not really supposed to be meaningful. The story is absolutely secondary to presentation/gameplay, but there are some super, super neat touches going on, like the evolution of your apartment as you progress through the story. I wish people wouldn't keep latching onto the absurd violence as the defining factor of the game, though. I think it's part of it, but it's not the key. Well, that just makes me sound like one of those "GAMEPLAY IS ALL THAT MATTERS" assholes. Nevermind. I'm the worst. U: EDIT: Holy moly I fixed a run-on that was eighty miles long!

Yeah, I getcha.

Yeah, me neither. I was just using it as an example to emphasize my point, which is that Gabe goes where the people are. Which I only made to counter the premise that an obviously fake article presented. Video games.

Original attitude: fuck the PS3! Nothing positive whatsoever to say about it. New attitude: yay PS3! Congratulating Sony for being super open and awesome and open. The reasons are unrelated, but it is a complete reversal of attitude. Surely you can see that...

I've skimmed through that Kickstarter on multiple occasions, and... it's just too dark. I hate it.

To be fair, Syllabear is at least inherently good - he's just hard to play. Alchemist was inherently bad. Although I did reasonably well multiple times as him pre-buff. Post-buff... I haven't played him, yet, but I've seen him perform well above and beyond his previous potential.

No don't! In a move that surprised me not at all, America voted for Obama.

He also said some extreme things about PS3 and that's since been completely flipped on its head. Gabe is a man who voices his opinions, but I think he a) goes where there's money and goes where people want games.

Look at the rest of the site. It's all jokes. It'd never happen, because Valve is a fan of putting their games in as many hands as possible - else console versions wouldn't exist. In fact, console versions run directly counter to everything Fake Gabe says in that article. But, Thrik is maybe correct in that they'll use it to push Linux in some fashion.

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Alch is no longer considered one of the worst heroes in the game. Well, he might be, but last patch buffed him big. I consider him to be much, much better than before. Still, not an easy first hero.

Recently got a new phone (Galaxy S3, if anyone has an Android phone and wasn't aware this game is available), and remembered this thread existed, so grabbed the game. It's really fun! Simple, but fun. I am a fan.

Watched that yesterday. So goofy, so fun.

HATE 'EM

I think the Assassin's Creed series would benefit from not being a connected storyline. They'd have a lot more freedom to just create some really interesting environments without having to justify it. But I mean to be FAIR... they do a pretty good job of making interesting games, despite that. I really like Assassin's Creed. U:

Listen. Maybe he was just a little misguided. ? ?

BigJKO? I love these.

MAYBE. Maybe I didn't give it a fair shot. I'm always willing to give something a second chance!