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Taking MK seriously is quite the fallacy in it's own right. The game always has strived to be over the top both with sexuality and gore, exploiting the taboo of the given generation. Even in the story, there's a certain preposterousness to it all, but that doesn't stop it from telling it, in the best possible way. There's always been that underlying humor and sarcasm to MK and it's still here now (ala, nobody can survive an X-Ray move). I don't think they want to make MK a fully serious game, ever, they just want to explain the lore without the distraction of the gameplay. And who knows, like most have said, they have accomplished this better than any fighting game has before. I'm not really sure about this comment, considering this is the one of the smoothest fighting games in recent memory that I've played. I've played Tekken 6 and Soul Caliber 4 and this definitely stacks up above it in terms of responsiveness. I'm not really sure about your combo comments either; if anything, there's a lot less chaining of combos in this MK then stuff from the UMK3 era+. I'm not really a fan of MK, or rather, wasn't until this game, so i'm not speaking out of fanboy-ism or nostalgia here.

As I don't want to spoil anything (that's how much I love this) I don't want to read anything you said, even if you aren't spoiling anything. That being said, this is the best Mortal Kombat game since the earlier days, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 days. It's truly amazing. They did everything right, especially considering it's a reboot more or less. Tell the story of the first 2-3 games and pack it into one modern fighting game with classic/retro characteristics. I haven't truly enjoyed fighting games since 1996-ish until this game along.

Hey guys, remember those thousands of hours over thousands of people we made you work? Well here's the reward! Idle in indie games for a barely-early release of Portal 2!

Well, one of the mid-findings "4/19/2011_7AM=4/15/2011_9AM" has pretty much been confirmed now: http://www.aperturescience.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/ Early Portal 2 release.

I've been furiously following the ARG since the inception of valvearg.info. This thing keeps getting crazier and crazier. I have a hard time believing that this was all planned - I'm pretty sure they are just going with the flow at this point and coming up with crazier and more obtuse things. The lego thing is definitely crazy, but the glyph and cypher thing is beyond crazy (which was only solved recently, but was the first part of the ARG really): http://valvearg.com/wiki/Glyph http://valvearg.com/w/images/9/99/Glyph-squares-colors.jpg http://valvearg.com/w/images/a/a8/Collab.jpg

The best part about the original to me was the atmosphere... not even so much the gameplay which was mediocre I found (although some of the puzzles were fun). So the thing I am hoping for is more of that atmosphere and surreal feeling.

I just took a look through that wiki ARG site... dear God. Valve is really going all out for this one. They are even dragging the indie devs into this now. There's just so much... stuff.

From what I can see, you can see if the user is online/offline, what they are doing, what their favourite game is, and a beyond meaningless 18-character status message. Let's wait until May (next update) and hope for some more.

Looks like everybody got Shadow Wars . I just picked up cheapest game: Bust-A-Move Universe because I wasn't really sold on any of the launch games, plus I just wanted to replace my broken DSLite.

Haha, Face Raiders is pretty surreal, especially since the first pic I took had my eyes closed. 3093 - 7071 - 6188

When listening to Canon Fodder from PAX East... to my surprise, I heard a familar voice in the audience commentary portion of the talk. ukId91PKn5A Unfortunately the video glitches out for like 3 minutes, and all we hear is that familiar voice I would actually take out... I would actually take out... I would actually take out... I would actually take out... I would actually take out... I would actually take out... I would actually take out... I would actually take out... It's kind of crazy and surreal. I think he picked Deus Ex though, not sure what he would take out.

This seems like the weirdest thing ever. Hey, guys! Remember that mediocre shooter we did awhile ago... you know the one that took like 10 years too long to come out? Surprise! We are making a sequel for some reason? I mean, there's so much story to build off of from the first game. Native Americans in space! Ya, but how are we going to market it? Live action handy-cam footage! WHAT!

I'm in a bit of a dilemma, hopefully this will be a good discussion. I need games to play with my girlfriend that are co-op, story-based video games. What I mean by that is, games that support a linear/branching storyline that enables 2 people to play-through (so in that sense, no online multiplayer/mmos). We have already went through Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Halo 3 and we are currently playing Borderlands. We have a Wii, an Xbox 360 and gaming PCs. She tends to enjoy shooters and RPGs. We are looking forward to Portal 2, and I think we are getting Halo ODST/Reach. Any other ideas?

RPGs that have co-op? That's kind of neat, I might check that out as we both love RPGs, or at least have a background in them as kids. We recently beat Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game on medium difficulty. It was great, in fact, it's probably a favourite game now. I just love the old-school vibe, with all the new-school improvements. It's really fluid. It gets a bit harder later on, but with a bit of light-grinding, you will soon be epic enough to destroy anything.

Day one perch? SUDA 51. Hopefully the tongue-in-cheek isn't lost on people...

I'm terrible, but I joined as well.

Anything that I don't need immersion in. Controversially enough, I can't listen to music or podcasts during Minecraft. I feel the music adds to much to the game, the random quietness, and abrupt ambient music fading in... it ads too much atmosphere for me to drown it out. Starcraft 2 has really good music in it, but again, it's one of those things that lose its purpose after awhile, especially playing multi-player... it's just not needed. So, Starcraft for me is definitely podcast territory, but only non-competitive ranked games. I focus so much on those I wouldn't even remember the podcast. So I guess what I am saying is MMOs are the only ones that I could listen to podcasts successfully in. This is only based on looking back and thinking about which games I have played music or podcasts with, games like: Ultima Online, Silkroad Online, Gunbound, Wonderking, Mabinogi.

Hmm, I think you're right. Splash some bloom and saturation shaders on there and you got yourself a deal!

I don't think it will be too much of an issue, provided the host has a good enough resources. We have seen 32-64 player co-op before in games like Half-Life (Sven Co-op) and Half-Life 2 (Garry's Mod, Synergy, Obsidian Conflict, etc.) and those aren't even first-party, working with pre-existing netcode with no native co-op support. There will be frame-rate issues, but no more than rendering 100 Beheaded Rocketeers and other massive hordes this game will send your way. Also for the fact that this game looks insanely graphically intense.

Finally a game that can rape me through a ghost hole. I think this will sadly be successful, just from all the people buying it for parody purposes and videos to upload for hilarity on YouTube.

Sorry, you are right. I think I got confused.

Wow... it's been forever since I added to this. Got a whole truck-load of games to dump here. Penumbra: Overture (PC) - I'll be honest, I cheated, but in my opinion it wasn't a full out cheat, I just needed a hint. There's a puzzle that involves Other than that, I really enjoyed the whole thing. There was a couple scares as you would expect, but nothing crazy. I really enjoy this style of puzzle game where it becomes more of a FPS with physics. 8 hour completion for this one. Tetris Attack (SNES) - Have been playing this a ton at my house lately. This game is great for versus and friends. I managed to beat versus single-player, but I'm still at 5-2 in the stage clear mode. Super Meat Boy (PC) - A fast, frantic and fun experience (IGN?). But it also has it's way with you on the last levels. It gets pretty insane... but I think it was at the point where it was the perfect amount of challenging yet, with a hint of controller throwing frustration. You need to play this with a gamepad... there's no other way. 42% complete (I don't think I hate my life enough to complete it fully). 1900 deaths. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (PC) - I think my opinion deserves a whole thread about my thoughts on this one, which is why I won't go too deep into it. Also, for the fact, I never beat the original (SACRILEGE!) I had to use a lot of hints on this one. I would give a puzzle like a half an hour, and out of frustration, use a hint and feel guilty. I don't think a game should do that, heh. Maybe the comedy and dialog was throwing me off a bit - I was trying to solve things too literally, looking back. I will also add that the comedy and writing on this game was brilliant, but I am sure most of you know that. I think LucasArts did a great job on the voices and graphics. I loved how you could still see some pixels underneath their "coat of paint". I found myself pressing that retro key a lot. Halo: Reach (XBOX360) - More Halo. There was some aliens and you killed them, with new guns sometimes. There was also some new aliens sometimes. Sarcasm aside, I think this is the pinnacle of Halo polish to date. This is a great package they have created to move people over from Halo 3. Everything seems to be an improvement - no reason at all to go back to Halo 3. Beat on co-op campaign with GF. Toy Story 3 - The title and subject matter is very deceptive. This was a great game that I played through with my GF. It wasn't challenging really, but it was still fun. Even funner, was the sandbox mode which had us hooked for hours and hours. It's just so frantic and rewarding, in any given minute you could unlock like 3 missions, complete a mission, get gold star notifications, get 2 achievements - it was a blast. Monday Night Combat (PC) - I have some mixed feelings on this one. I don't think it could ever keep my interest long enough. I beat all the single-player challenges (well the ones that weren't never-ending that is). It's still a fun game that I will continue to pick-up from week to week. I love the level 3 Sniper grapple kick - more so, I love how it makes people fly off the map. Osmos (PC) - Yes, I did finally manage to beat it - after spending 6+ hours on the last stage, only for the game to throw out bonus stages after beating the game. Overall it was enjoyable and soothing. If you take out that level that killed me, it would of been a great game, I just don't understand the challenge ramp. Mortal Kombat: Deception (Xbox) - Recently beat the arcade mode. I poped this in because I had good memories of the Puzzle Kombat mode that I used to play with friends. It's still pretty fun. Not sure if I want to complete this, it sure is fun unlocking all the grave stones though. Power Rangers: Ninja Storm (GBA) - I really shouldn't even post this. It was a mediocre side-scrolling beat em' up that actually had potential, then it was ruined. Meh, beat within 2 hours on a road trip. Bust-A-Move '99 (PS) - This is a GREAT version of Bust-A-Move with tons of gameplay modes and the like. Again, this is getting popular in my house for versus. I played through the single-player game with ease. Looking to try out more modes.

I've been hearing about this for awhile and so I finally downloaded it the other night. I didn't play around too much with it, but it's very Steam-y so that's good, I guess? It seemed to download and launch Dear Esther nicely, so that's good as well. Good. But overall, it just makes me wish this was somehow IN Steam.

If this was the Windows 95 era, that would so be my windows start-up sound! Wait, Windows still supports this feature? Goldblum for ever!

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