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Finally sat down with the Halo Reach campaign again last night on Heroic and went from mission 1 (lost my save game somehow) all the way to the first space mission

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and the corvette mission right afterwards. Elites using the powerups like armor lock just simply isn't fair on heroic.

Playing Crysis Warhead. I prefer Crysis...

Castlevania: lords of shadow. pretty fun so far, good pacing and variation. just hoping it lasts (which is usually not the case for these kind of games).

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just finished red dead redemption (finally) and i must say i think its quite overrated !

Sigh . Well, I tried. At least it sold a few copies.

I haven't played RDR but those videos of cougar people and donkey ladies and flying people flapping their arms makes it certainly look like the price of admission to me. I'd get a copy but then F:NV is about to come out...

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Sigh . Well, I tried. At least it sold a few copies.

Haha, don't worry about it, Warby is usually like this. Unless there's Japanese school girls with cat ears in it then he won't like it

Still my GOTY anyway, although it's getting massive resistance from Civ V, in my opinion the best Civ to date.

I like Civ 5 but there are a lot of things still completely impenetrable, despite everyone saying it's so streamlined and how information given to the player is optimized. One of my cities was starving and seemingly randomly turning on and off random tiles that had no food production would increase or decrease my food production. I eventually figured out that working production tiles costs food. That seems like something a tooltip somewhere should've told me, and maybe that happened and I missed it, but it was a big hangup for me.

Also whenever I get stuck spawned super close to an AI, who due to the close quarters will mass an army and declare war on me within 20 turns, forcing me to choose between keeping up tech and wonder-wise with the other competitors or matching his military buildup to avoid a quick death.

Is this your first civ game? It's been like that since civ 1. The tile symbols are wysiwyg. And why would you assume that a mine or whatever produces food?

I played Civ 4 and it has a lot of the same annoying stuff but I guess the time + how much Civ 5 has been praised for streamlining and cleaning up obscure stuff that the sore spots just stick out to me more, I guess.

I didn't say production spots produce food. You use more food having a mine being used by a city than if that citizen is instead fishing or gathering spices or something. My overall food usage was higher while using production tiles than without, and to save a starving city by trial and error I found moving some production guys to income tiles lessened the food burden of the city.

Been playing a shit load of....Puzzle Quest 2. Got a free steam key from the devs and I must say I'm enjoying it a little too much I only played the first on the iPod and really really loved it. The second is more of the same in game mechanics but when it's that good I can't blame them. More spells, more gameplay modes besides the fights, it's an all around gem.

Just finished Bioshock, I love the end

i just played through rainbow six vegas 1+2 in coop ! the game is fun but kleins textures really take a beating in splitscreen coop they are only loaded at like the lowest mip level D:

this shit is more lowres than doom1 !

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i just played through rainbow six vegas 1+2 in coop ! the game is fun but kleins textures really take a beating in splitscreen coop they are only loaded at like the lowest mip level D: this shit is more lowres than doom1 !

I was browsing ubi's 3d objects bank for Rainbow Six Vegas assets the other day and it was quite easy to spot klein's textures.

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Replaying Dragon Age. It's a nice break from the endless shooters.

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Replaying Dragon Age. It's a nice break from the endless shooters.

Speaking of needing a break from shooters, just got around to finishing Halo Reach so I loaded up Alan Wake from my "stack of games to play" and while I get what Remedy was trying to do, it just didn't float my boat. I suppose I should give it more time since I really liked Heavy Rain and my colleague said "if you like Heavy Rain you should like Alan Wake."

Anyway, I'll give MoH a go since EA was kind enough to sport me a copy Otherwise I need some more time with RDR and...what's this? God of War III ye be not thy finished? Thoust hast not even 10 hours to finish? [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif]

Back to Borderlands for the new DLC. Good stuff yet again. 82 hours I've spent on this game over the past year. Damn.

I've been on a PSN demo streak lately, trying Mini Ninjas (which I thought as simple as the design was, the game really was doing what it was going for rather well), DeathSpank, Earthworm Jim, NBA 2K11 and Lego Harry Potter. Still got Mafia II to go through.

As for entire games, God of War III has been absolutely magnificent. I'm done with Hades now so I'll be looking forward to finishing this game this week

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Back to Borderlands for the new DLC. Good stuff yet again. 82 hours I've spent on this game over the past year. Damn.

Same here, new content is very welcome!

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I've been on a PSN demo streak lately, trying Mini Ninjas (which I thought as simple as the design was, the game really was doing what it was going for rather well), DeathSpank, Earthworm Jim, NBA 2K11 and Lego Harry Potter. Still got Mafia II to go through.As for entire games, God of War III has been absolutely magnificent. I'm done with Hades now so I'll be looking forward to finishing this game this week

Mini Ninjas is awesome, if only it was polished a bit more...

Spent the weekend playing the new Prince of Persia on 360, really great stuff!