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[quote name='RelentlessRolento']this is the wrong place to mention it but Braid will be 800 pts tomorrow.[/quote]

[quote name='RelentlessRolento']special offer... also discount on Ninja Gaiden 2 add-on, PGR4 add-on, and original Fable as the weeks go by.[/quote]

I liked Braid , but considering I still haven't beat/finished it , I kinda wished I would've waited for this deal.

For the rest , don't have NG2 , and don't need Fable. PGR4 is the only one that might end up looking into.
 
[quote name='FloodsAreUponUS']Fallout 3 is like every other Bethesda game.
Boring.[/quote]
My problem with Bethesda games is the same problem I have with most WRPGs, only far more pronounced - the lack of identity for the main character. I know that that's supposed to be an area that you fill in, but with The Elder Scrolls, it's just... it's not there. Revan? I felt a character. The Nameless One? There's a character there. The Vault Dweller? Okay, not as good as TNO, but still, by the end of it, you get a sense of his personality. fuck, mute ol' Gordon Freeman (not a WRPG character, I know, but fuck you you made me interrupt the flow of this sentence) has ten times the personality of generic Bethesda hero #19.

Same reason I can't play Icewind Dale, and I think that's my main problem with Neverwinter Nights. It's like I'm playing the unholy offspring of Jerry Jenkins and Stephenie Meyer. And with no real sense of who the fuck I am, I never get the feeling that I'm interacting with anyone else on a greater level than "slidey pie chart friendship minigame".
 
[quote name='The Crotch']My problem with Bethesda games is the same problem I have with most WRPGs, only far more pronounced - the lack of identity for the main character. I know that that's supposed to be an area that you fill in, but with The Elder Scrolls, it's just... it's not there. Revan? I felt a character. The Nameless One? There's a character there. The Vault Dweller? Okay, not as good as TNO, but still, by the end of it, you get a sense of his personality. fuck, mute ol' Gordon Freeman (not a WRPG character, I know, but fuck you you made me interrupt the flow of this sentence) has ten times the personality of generic Bethesda hero #19.

Same reason I can't play Icewind Dale, and I think that's my main problem with Neverwinter Nights. It's like I'm playing the unholy offspring of Jerry Jenkins and Stephenie Meyer. And with no real sense of who the fuck I am, I never get the feeling that I'm interacting with anyone else on a greater level than "slidey pie chart friendship minigame".[/QUOTE]

Wait, what? Since when did Gordon Freeman have a personality? He doesn't talk and the only time you even see the bastard is on the game's box.
 
[quote name='RelentlessRolento']I hate to say it but I passed up Fallout 3 CE for $35 today... I could shoot myself since i had no reason.[/QUOTE]

It's a pretty awesome game, you probably should have grabbed it.

Speaking of games you should grab...did you ever get around to buying Valkyria Chronicles?
 
[quote name='Chacrana']Wait, what? Since when did Gordon Freeman have a personality? He doesn't talk and the only time you even see the bastard is on the game's box.[/quote]

+1

Braid @ 800pts? Better, closer, warmer...
 
[quote name='Chacrana']Wait, what? Since when did Gordon Freeman have a personality?[/quote]
His interactions with and the responses of the other characters - the few strong, well developed characters of Half-Life 2 as opposed to the ten billion cookie-cutter creations you see in, say, Morrowind - give him more personality than any Bethesda lead I've ever seen.

EDIT: Though I'll admit that he was more-or-less a completely blank slate throughout all of the first game. Which makes for some pretty damn good machinima.
 
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[quote name='Chacrana']Wait, what? Since when did Gordon Freeman have a personality? He doesn't talk and the only time you even see the bastard is on the game's box.[/QUOTE]


He was the "one free man." I don't want to shock anyone, but his last name is actually buried in that one line everyone uses to refer to him.
 
[quote name='RelentlessRolento']man... too much shit to play all this week and through the next with Killzone 2 releasing... I love early year releases!... always have for some reason... it's my time for games to come out that I give a shit about:

2006
Dead Rising

2007
Hotel Dusk

2008
No More Heroes

2009
GTAIV TLAD
Noby Noby Boy
Killzone 2
Madworld
SFIV
.... so much more[/QUOTE]

Dead Rising came out during the summer.
 
[quote name='seanr1221']Dead Rising came out during the summer.[/QUOTE]

that was an excruciating wait for that game. iirc, SF2Turbo was the only other worthwhile game that summer.
 
End of Feb and March stuff:

Killzone2
MLB 09 The Show
Resident Evil 5
Raiden Fighters Aces
Pokemon Platinum

And maybe if I can find a deal on it, Final Fantasy CC: EoT.
 
I'm getting Killzone 2, Resident Evil 5, and I've been looking at Matt Hazard. If it turns out to be ok I'll give that a shot as well. Great humor with meh gameplay would be good enough for me.
 
i am buying....... killzone 2 since i have like $25 in reward zone pts lol.

after that... my next purchase will be white knight story, just gonna borrow RE5
 
[quote name='whoknows']I'm getting Killzone 2, Resident Evil 5, and I've been looking at Matt Hazard. If it turns out to be ok I'll give that a shot as well. Great humor with meh gameplay would be good enough for me.[/quote]


The humor seems so-so but the idea seems like it needs a chance. I have it on my que for gamefly.

I'm buying Killzone 2 then I gotta start saving money... been paying off too many bills over the past few weeks.
 
[quote name='whoknows']
Speaking of games you should grab...did you ever get around to buying Valkyria Chronicles?[/quote]


I want to, but I have too many things I need to pay off ever since i started getting paid finally. I have it on the top of my que for gamefly, so I know eventually I'll get to play it.
 
Probably the only March pickup for me will be RE5.

I think I'm gonna start another replay of RE4 soon to get ready for it. I want to finish off Xeno 3 first tho.
 
I'm probably just going to wait for RE5's PC release...

So looks like in the next few months, I'm getting Raiden Fighters Aces, GGXXACPlus, and the Riddick remake... and then nothing till like September.
 
[quote name='The Crotch']Same reason I can't play Icewind Dale, and I think that's my main problem with Neverwinter Nights. It's like I'm playing the unholy offspring of Jerry Jenkins and Stephenie Meyer.[/QUOTE]
Wait, what?
 
[quote name='Chacrana']I'm probably just going to wait for RE5's PC release...

So looks like in the next few months, I'm getting Raiden Fighters Aces, GGXXACPlus, and the Riddick remake... and then nothing till like September.[/quote]

Yeah, that Riddick remake is looking surprisingly better than I thought, and will probably be my next pick-up after RE5.

Never played more than the multiplayer demo to Lost Planet, but I wasn't too impressed by it. So the sequel doesn't really excite me.

Whens that Bionic Comando game coming? I thought it was Q1?
 
Hi Ben. Soultaker = guy with a big green ring that steals souls?

[quote name='pete5883']:applause: Dr. Kevermin.
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Isn't it Dr. Vermin?

Although I read his name as My Kevermin too :lol:
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Hi Ben. Soultaker = guy with a big green ring that steals souls?[/quote]

Yeah thats the one, and he works for that dude with the huge face.

It's also the Ep where Joel comes back to visit Mike and TV's Frank visits Castle Forrester.

Good Ep.
 
I can't resist Persona 4 any longer. :bomb:

[quote name='benjamouth']Yeah thats the one, and he works for that dude with the huge face.

It's also the Ep where Joel comes back to visit Mike and TV's Frank visits Castle Forrester.

Good Ep.[/quote]


Richard Z'dar?

Hehe, TVs Frank. I was watching the history on the 20th Anniversary set and man does he look bizarre. I thought it was a fat, old woman at first. Plus it doesn't help that his hair is snow white and his face is bright red.
 
[quote name='corrosivefrost']did you guys see MS is selling BRAID(s) for what it should've retailed for to start with? :whee:[/quote]

Giving it out for free?
 
[quote name='corrosivefrost']At least it's DotD today for like $26.[/quote]


I bought it. :oops:

[quote name='benjamouth']Thats the one

"He's a catchers mitt with a face." :lol:[/quote]


Yeah that guy is weird looking. I think he makes some appearances in other MST3k episodes as well.

[quote name='dallow']I'd re-buy Braid if I could only reverse time.[/quote]


I get it.
 
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