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People like lisa pea who follow Boing Boing obsessively have probably already seen this, but...

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Old 07-31-2010, 04:48 AM
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I'd have gotten SC2 but when I heard they'd taken out the LAN play function I canceled my pre-order.
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Old 08-05-2010, 03:59 PM
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Don't play Halo. Don't have an Xbox. But, love this commercial anyway:

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Ymir's blood must have made this one.
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I've been playing Sacred II - Fallen Angel for a couple weeks but I don't know why.

I bought Lara Croft - Guardian of Light yesterday and it's a lot more fun.
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Old 08-31-2010, 07:59 PM
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I'm replaying Dragon Age: Origins. Jesus fuck, this game is easy, even on Nightmare, when you have some DLC, and the awesome items that come with it. I'm not even running with a mage in my party, and I'm tearing through just about everything with no difficulty. My one weakness is groups with more than one caster, since I don't have a readily available way to disable multiple enemies at range.
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Old 09-25-2010, 12:00 AM
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Mass Effect 2 just came out with a new DLC package (Lair of the Shadow Broker), and I think it's the biggest one yet. Fucking download was over a gig and a half. Looking forward to playing this.
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Trying to decide if I should pick up Civ V or Starcraft II... Wishing I had money for both...
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You should get Civ V and then tell me whether it's worth getting.
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You should get Civ V so I can live vicariously through you.
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If I had to choose, I'd probably do Civ V.

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* Blizzard's Real ID crap apparently makes SC II much less friendly to online play than it used to be.
* Speaking of which, no LAN play anymore.
* Civ V can be gotten through Steam, which at least mitigates the DRM crap to a merely obnoxious threat to steal your game if they ever get sick of letting you have it, without the rootkits and such.
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I love roller coasters, but, unfortunately, I can no longer ride them. In the last 10 years I've seem to have developed chronic motion sickness when on thrill rides. Even more unfortunate is the motion sickness I get when playing 1st person shooters. I cannot play them without breaking out in a sweat and usually suffer serious dizziness. Obviously, this limits the types of games I can play.

Outside of the typical Match 3, Card, and Hidden Object games I play, the last really fun game was Machinarium. I would love to find another game that was similar to it. I played Alchemia, but found it to be just so-so. Any suggestions?
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Mass Effect 2 just came out with a new DLC package (Lair of the Shadow Broker), and I think it's the biggest one yet. Fucking download was over a gig and a half. Looking forward to playing this.
It's awesome. Fucking awesome. Best DLC yet. No, really. By far.
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Old 10-04-2010, 02:35 PM
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I had time to play one game of Civ V before my vacation. It has a couple of pretty glaring problems (diplomacy is weirdly opaque, especially after how transparent it was in Civ IV, and the AI doesn't always seem to have a firm grasp on the new combat mechanics), but is composed of like 90% pure win.

Having played both, I'd do Civ V over Starcraft 2, but I guess it really depends on whether or not the particular itch you want scratched is TBS or RTS. They're both highly polished entries in their particular genres.
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You should get Civ V so I can live vicariously through you.
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Old PC doesn't meet specs. Poor student shouldn't spend limited funds on upgrading.

Could probably stretch to replace the malfunctioning DVD drive so I can at least play some Civ IV in compensation.
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We've been playing ModNation Racers in the evenings.

I'm looking forward to Little Big Planet 2 coming out next year.
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Old 10-15-2010, 07:26 PM
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I haven't actually played anything in the last three weeks or so, but I read that the demo for The Force Unleashed 2 was pretty cool, so I turned on my 360 in the hopes of trying it out last night.

The :sadcheer: : RROD

The :cheer: : It's still under warranty! Shipping it out this afternoon for repairs.
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For Halloween I found a copy of at gamestop for like three bucks. It's p. sweet. Your team mates have to have trust in you or they try to kill you, or the may be things themselves.
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Fallout 3: New Vegas has appeared at our house for PS3.
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Ours too. :nod:

I'm only an hour into it, but I'm digging it so far. More of what I loved in Fallout 3.
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I was unaware that the game could be played in one-hour increments. Maybe our game has a bug, because I am pretty sure that it has not been played in less than three hour increments. EVER.

I just watch, btw, I am too impatient to play. And say, "Look over there, I see some caps."
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Enjoying New Vegas as well.

Some problems though, not sure if it is just the xbox version or if my xbox is having issues but the game crashes and/or hard locks the console quite often. Three times this morning in fact.

ETA: Problematic item found when the XBox went tits up the next time I powered it on.
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I am playing Ghost Master again.
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