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Mr Right posted:I got burned twice by the save function in Bioshock. I lost an hour of play twice and just gave up. Maybe I should update this... I still haven't continued on with Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II. I can't work out why I don't want to play it any more since I was having a blast with it. I had to stop playing Borderlands because my brother kept disconnecting when a loading screen appeared which was fun for neither of us. What is less fun is playing Borderlands alone. I did manage to get 106% on Super Meat Boy so that's the game completed. I still occasionally play some user created content but they are generally terrible. There are positives though. Since this post I have beaten Pokémon Blue, And Yet It Moves, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Braid, Chains, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (I know you can't really beat the game, so I classed top of the local leaderboards as "beat" which only took me two tries) and Patrician IV: Steam Special Edition which was grindy but made my day disappear so fast.
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The summer sale was so awful. I bought three huge packs. Went from 15 to 100 games and now all I want to do is play WoW. I suppose I'll get started on collection today or tomorrow.
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Jul 15, 2011 17:51
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I just beat Batman: Arkham Asylum! Time for The Half-Life series!
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Jul 15, 2011 23:10
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Well, I can finally cross Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of Earth off my list. On the whole, it was pretty good - more shooter than horror, but it still had a nice Cthulhuish feel and I certainly enjoyed it. It is, however, brought down by some nasty bugs on Win7; there's one level that is literally impossible to complete and another that becomes rife with instadeath physics glitches. Now I just need to figure out what to play next.
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Jul 16, 2011 01:25
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That's Mirror's Edge finished. Alright game on the whole, but there's some things that seriously need sorting out if they're going to make a sequel. A concerted go at SpaceChem next I think. I'll either come out of it twenty times smarter or with a brain that's completely burnt out.
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Jul 16, 2011 02:16
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Aaaand, that knocks both Ben There, Dan That! and its sequel Time Gentlemen, Please! off the list. On the whole, I think Eversion was the better game - at least it didn't spend half its time going LOOK AT ME I AM A DEAD GENRE ISN'T IT HILARIOUS AND EDGY AND META THAT I WOULD MAKE A GAME IN THIS GENRE PS GAMES WERE BETTER BACK THEN EVEN THOUGH THEY WEREN'T ... not that I am bitter. Still haven't worked up the state of mind to try out Splinter Cell. Maybe this weekend.
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Jul 16, 2011 09:13
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I think taking up Penumbra: Overture was a bad idea. It took me upwards of an hour to get through what I'm sure was 10-15 minutes of content, because I'm a jittery scaredy-cat 
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Jul 16, 2011 15:11
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Morter posted:I think taking up Penumbra: Overture was a bad idea. It took me upwards of an hour to get through what I'm sure was 10-15 minutes of content, because I'm a jittery scaredy-cat  I'm going to have to pick up Penumbra at some point.
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Jul 16, 2011 15:41
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Beat Batman: Arkham Asylum today. I think I'll try and knock out the last two episodes of Season 1 of Sam and Max next.
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Jul 16, 2011 21:03
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homeless snail posted:I'm playing Amnesia, first hour or so was fun but really mild, ooh spooky noises, I'm real scared. Then I got to the cellar and the invisible water monsters Man, I think I was the only person who interpreted that sequence as ankle sharks, which definitely is less scary. I also broke the AI on it by accident once because I was going to quit for the night and decided to run up and give it hugs - it took off half my health and then had no idea what to do. We both just stood there kind of embarrassed. Hooray for monster hugs! Couldn't reproduce this later on, though, so it might have been a bug. I got mine later, though: (warning: I don't think you've reached this yet, but it's not far from where you are) It's one thing to feel reasonably confident about how to not get murdered by the things - stay out of the water - but then you put in a sequence where the only way to proceed is to spend a lot of time in the water holding still? Amnesia did a fabulous job of covering all the bases of Making You Uncomfortable.
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Jul 16, 2011 23:52
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Alright, Shadowgrounds done! I almost want to get Shadowgrounds Survivor out of the way, while I still have this overhead/isometric shooter mentality in my head.
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Jul 17, 2011 00:34
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How many chapters is Shadowgrounds? I think I got to 4 or 5 when I started playing it from the Humble Frozenbyte bundle. VVVVVVVV Yeah, I got the soundtracks from the bundle and actually really liked the Shadowgrounds soundtracks too. Since it seems reasonably short, maybe I'll pick that up again to get it out of the log. Tortolia fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Jul 17, 2011 |
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11 levels (The same amount of load slots it has...it only saves at the beginning of each level  ).It was surprisingly not bad, and the music was nice. Which makes me wonder why I stopped playing SG:Survivor, since I put it down right after the 3rd or 4th level. Welp, only one way to find out  *installs* Edit: This song in particular tickled me the right way. It reminds me of those actiony techno-rock songs of the 90s-2000s action games. 
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Jul 17, 2011 00:38
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209 games, around 50 completed and 8 more which I won't try anymore. Currently hacking away at Borderlands which is great fun, Majesty 2 and its expansions when I don't have friends online and Quantum of Solace which is sort of fun but suffers from some very aggravating design decisions. Also Hydrophobia, but it seems to have a sound bug which makes the drat thing unplayable.
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Jul 17, 2011 03:33
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Finished the first Portal a little while ago, with a little help from a friend for the last 1/3 of the game or so. Lots of fun, but a couple of questions: 1) Did people seriously pay full-price for this when it was first released? I mean, it's a lot of fun and very cool, but I beat it in between 3 to 4 hours, which doesn't seem worth full price to me (I got it during Steam's sale). 2) What's the obsession with the weighted companion cube? Before playing the game, I seem to remember it being brought up in various "sad moments in gaming" threads, and was expecting it to be some huge part of the game. Instead you use various blank cubes to help "solve" various puzzles (and by solve I mean to weigh down buttons) and then for *one* level you're given one with hearts on it, and the evil computer taunts you for treating it as though it was a real companion, and then has you destroy it. I don't think you were actually supposed to feel anything for it, it's just more of the evil computer's worthless taunts. And yet we have this:  It's not like it actually *does* anything in the game.
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Jul 17, 2011 09:23
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The game wasn't full price, it was released as part of the Orange Box.
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Jul 17, 2011 10:02
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Eh! Frank posted:Finished the first Portal a little while ago, with a little help from a friend for the last 1/3 of the game or so. Lots of fun, but a couple of questions: 1: It originally came in the Orange Box; the best full-price gaming deal ever: - Half Life 2 - Half Life 2: Episode 1 - Half Life 2: Episode 2 - Portal - Team Fortress 2 Later on they made it separate if you wanted, hell they even gave it away for free months back to anybody that wanted it. (for portal 2 hype mostly) 2: Nerds and hype, look at the tons of Mass Effect 2 smiley's.
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Jul 17, 2011 10:12
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Eh! Frank posted:Finished the first Portal a little while ago, with a little help from a friend for the last 1/3 of the game or so. Lots of fun, but a couple of questions: It's more of a look into how less "capable" test subjects broke down mentally and found refuge in this box that seems to be so helpful.
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Jul 17, 2011 11:17
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Finished off Trine. I love how the final "boss" is an entire level with an rear end in a top hat created obstacles instead of an actual enemy. I wish the wizard got a spiked ball creating spell or something offensive to balance out his utility abilities. Moving onto Shank which I'm excited for after a Planet Terror/Death Proof/Hobo With a Shotgun marathon.
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Jul 17, 2011 13:21
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Cross Duke Nukem 3D: War of Attrition off the list; I haven't played every level in it, but I've played all the 3DR episodes and one randomly generated campaign. It's actually lots of fun; does a good job of letting you feel that you're playing with forces more powerful than any mortal should handle. At the same time, the enemies ramp up quickly enough that the game never becomes easy. At the final level I had four bosses (and three Dukebots) following me around like loyal puppies as I spewed micro-nuclear rockets and implosion vortices everywhere, and it was still brutally hard. I have to say, though, while it claims that it's meant to be played in random levels mode, I think the 3DR levels work a lot better, between the fact that you get to carry over weapons and the generally superior level design. Next up: Fallout: New Vegas. This may take a while.
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Eh! Frank posted:2) What's the obsession with the weighted companion cube? Before playing the game, I seem to remember it being brought up in various "sad moments in gaming" threads, and was expecting it to be some huge part of the game. Instead you use various blank cubes to help "solve" various puzzles (and by solve I mean to weigh down buttons) and then for *one* level you're given one with hearts on it, and the evil computer taunts you for treating it as though it was a real companion, and then has you destroy it. I don't think you were actually supposed to feel anything for it, it's just more of the evil computer's worthless taunts. And yet we have this: The developer's commentary goes a little bit into why they did it this way - but the short form is "those aren't just taunts, they're ways to nudge players who got stuck in various ways." The final sequence was to correct players who did end up feeling for it - and let's be honest, it's a more useful companion than most escort mission NPCs. Then combine that with the fact that if you delay in the last step - the bit the cube is famous for - GLaDOS starts quoting justifications at you straight out of the Milgram experiment and you get something that resonates pretty ominously for a lot of players. Even people who haven't read about that experiment have probably been exposed to enough to catch the "banality of evil" vibe. That gets even stronger when later on GLaDOS will berate you for obeying her in a epic rant halfway through the final boss fight: "There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend the companion cube. Of course, he couldn't come because you MURDERED HIM." It's definitely either "had an effect" or "didn't" - and the dev commentary implies to me at least that yeah, it wasn't supposed to have an effect, it was supposed to be some clues and a jokey frame - but it really, really, really got under a lot of players' skins and into their heads. The best joke is that given the reaction and guilt some players had over the sequence - again, probably because of the Milgram echoes - this means that it's managed to be more successful at freighting the player's actions with moral weight than the vast majority of explicit moral choice systems. Massive nerd-lectures aside, I've been making little progress on my Steam backlog, because I got the Might and Magic 6-back off of GOG a while back. It's not backlogged because I explicitly got them just to own them, and then Might and Magic 1 managed to hook me for a week and a half. It's doing something right and I don't know what it is. Everyday Shooter continues to kick my rear end, though, so I think it's high time I finally started in on Splinter Cell. ETA: Played through the tutorial and the first real mission in Splinter Cell, and holy cow. Maybe it's that it's 2011 and they started work on this in 2000, but the drat thing plays like anti-American agitprop. It opens with quoting the UN's Four Freedoms and then adds a Robocop style "fifth freedom" that boils down to "the freedom to do whatever we want to whoever we want because  FREEDOM " and then 15 minutes into the first real mission you get a message from mission control saying "actually, change to the rules of engagement: go ahead and kill all the cops you want to, we can totally blackmail them into silence." Bit of a  moment, that.Ah well. It promises a reasonable amount of sneaking around, ambushing dudes, and doing improbable navigation, and these are all things I like. ManxomeBromide fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jul 18, 2011 |
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ManxomeBromide posted:Massive nerd-lectures aside, I've been making little progress on my Steam backlog, because I got the Might and Magic 6-back off of GOG a while back. It's not backlogged because I explicitly got them just to own them, and then Might and Magic 1 managed to hook me for a week and a half. It's doing something right and I don't know what it is. Spirit of adventure, something I find sadly missing in a lot of contemporary RPGs. I guess I understand the need for flashing waypoints and guidance arrows but I really miss when a game gave you some basic goal and you had to fill in the blanks. This was Morrowind's greatest strength for me. Instead of auto-travel and flashing markers or "let me update your map" people would give you actual in-world directions to reach places. "The steampunk dungeon, yeah I know where that is. Take the south exit and follow the road to the second giant mushroom then take the magma path about two miles uphill until you reach the forbidden fortress dungeon." Then Oblivion came out and no one gave you the time of day.
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Guys! Guys! I'm actually pretty proud of myself, I finished a game! When I got my new computer, I bought Bioshock during a Steam sale a couple of days after I hooked it up. When was that? During a steam sale in December 2009 The game has been installed on my computer ever since. I played through it for a few hours but got stuck and never went back to it. Well, the past week I decided to just start the game fresh, and I was able to power through it! I finished it tonight! Of course this is only one game off a VERY long list. But, it's the little victories, right?
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Jul 18, 2011 08:00
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Horse Pro posted:Guys! Guys! I'm actually pretty proud of myself, I finished a game! Dude, you stuck through Bioshock. Well done! I booted it once and found it was another lovely ~console port~ where the mouse sensitivity couldn't go low enough to be playable and reinstalled SS2 out of disgust.  Edit: In other news, I don't think I'm going to bother beating Space Rangers II. It's a great game and I've enjoyed the hell out of it but there's just way too much to plow through and it's starting to get a bit repetitive. I'll give it a few more days and then I'm moving on to... Space Force.
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Jul 18, 2011 08:12
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Borderlands is mostly done. I say mostly because I just got to Crawmerax the Invincible and got one shotted. All the DLC is done otherwise but, I want his head mounted on my bathroom wall. I'm surprised I've gotten this far actually. I've played with 4 other groups and they all spectacularly failed. I'm going to tackle either Shadowgrounds or Alien Breed 2 Assault next. Would anyone would like to co-op either game with me?
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Horse Pro posted:Guys! Guys! I'm actually pretty proud of myself, I finished a game! At least the summer sale is done. I had a little streak going just before the sale. I finished something like 5 old games and 2-3 indie ones. Then the sale came and I bought more games than I just finished.  On a different note, I've seen your avatar a couple of times on the forums and I'd like to know where is it taken from?
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Woozy posted:Dude, you stuck through Bioshock. Well done! I booted it once and found it was another lovely ~console port~ where the mouse sensitivity couldn't go low enough to be playable and reinstalled SS2 out of disgust. The game becomes exponentially easier at a rapid rate because the in-game technology increases so quickly. You end up reaching a point where the universe finally catches up to the dominators and battles are won without you. You can either scrounge the battlefields in safety or take on the jerks yourself single handily to steal their stuff with max cargo hold.
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My name is Athenry, and I'm a Steam Addict. I've got a fair bit of stuff that my current computer can't handle, but I need to make a dent in this stuff before Battlefield 3 comes out  My backlog is as follows (and not all of it is on Steam) Starcraft 2(working on this right now) Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition (this is next, I'm 75% of the way through it) Bionic Commando Rearmed Borderlands Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Dragon Age: Origins & Awakenings F.E.A.R & expansions F.E.A.R 2 & DLC Fallout: New Vegas & DLC Freedom Force Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich Heroes of Might and Magic V Jamestown (doesn't run )Just Cause 2! Magicka Mass Effect Mass Effect 2 Max Payne Max Payne 2 Metro 2033 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Psychonauts Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter (I might play the classic version of these since I've got them) Super Meat Boy The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Trine Some of that will have to wait on my new computer, but I'm switching my subscription over to this thread.
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Jul 18, 2011 15:42
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64 stages of 4 Elements later, it's completed. 49 completed, 150 to go.
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al-azad posted:Finished off Trine. I love how the final "boss" is an entire level with an rear end in a top hat created obstacles instead of an actual enemy. I wish the wizard got a spiked ball creating spell or something offensive to balance out his utility abilities. Actually, he can crush most enemies with boxes/planks if they fall from high enough (or if you do it multiple times with telekinesis). It's clunky but doable in a pinch.
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Well bad news for my backlog. My desktop crashed, and the HDD that had all of my games, and game saves on it, is completely ruined. So that means not only will I not be able to make a dent in my backlog for at least a month/month and a half when I'm able to afford a new computer, all of my progress in all of my PC games that didn't have cloud support (most of them) is now gone. The good news is I was running a computer that was only passable 2 years ago as far as graphics and processor go, and I will have about $1000 to spend on the new one. So I will be running a 6 core processor, a new 3tb HDD, 16gb of ram, and 2 video cards, so I will be much more motivated to actually play my PC games, as they won't have frame rates that look like a loving slide show when I turn the graphics quality up above "low" anymore.
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TheJoker138 posted:Well bad news for my backlog. My desktop crashed, and the HDD that had all of my games, and game saves on it, is completely ruined. So that means not only will I not be able to make a dent in my backlog for at least a month/month and a half when I'm able to afford a new computer, all of my progress in all of my PC games that didn't have cloud support (most of them) is now gone. The good news is I was running a computer that was only passable 2 years ago as far as graphics and processor go, and I will have about $1000 to spend on the new one. So I will be running a 6 core processor, a new 3tb HDD, 16gb of ram, and 2 video cards, so I will be much more motivated to actually play my PC games, as they won't have frame rates that look like a loving slide show when I turn the graphics quality up above "low" anymore. Ugh, grats on the upcoming PC, but starting games over sucks. Another thing I've found that really slows down progress on the ol' backlog are rediscoveries of online games like L4D2 and TF2 after not playing them for a while. Suddenly you've put 10 hours into a game you can't really finish and that is time that could have gotten you well into something else.
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KungfooMF posted:Ugh, grats on the upcoming PC, but starting games over sucks. One of the games I have to start over is...is...Duke Nukem Forever...So that one may go on the back burner for another 10 years or so...Also Mafia 2, which I was enjoying but the driving was already getting tedious and I'm really not looking forward to having to do all of again. I may just start with a different batch of games than I was playing.
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KungfooMF posted:Ugh, grats on the upcoming PC, but starting games over sucks. I've been doing this a lot lately with TF2 since some buddies of mine set up a server. Similarly I've started new games in unfinishable games like Darkest Hour, Europa Universalis 3 and Empire: Total War. Fortune Cookie has told me to play Shadowgrounds, I made it to the alien ship but it got hard so I stopped playing, I guess I'll see about finishing it.
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Hemish posted:On a different note, I've seen your avatar a couple of times on the forums and I'd like to know where is it taken from? It's taken from a cover for Adam Warren's Dirty Pair: http://i.imgur.com/PAl6g.jpg (linked for large) The technology ramping up quickly is absolutely true. I was throwing down hallway traps of electric tripwires, then spending only one pistol bullet to aggro a Big Daddy, who would stupidly run through them and die. It was actually really satisfying. And the final battle honestly had a "that's it?" feel to it. Next is to finish something I'm a little embarrassed I haven't: Half Life 2 and the Episodes.
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TheJoker138 posted:Well bad news for my backlog. My desktop crashed, and the HDD that had all of my games, and game saves on it, is completely ruined. So that means not only will I not be able to make a dent in my backlog for at least a month/month and a half when I'm able to afford a new computer, all of my progress in all of my PC games that didn't have cloud support (most of them) is now gone. The good news is I was running a computer that was only passable 2 years ago as far as graphics and processor go, and I will have about $1000 to spend on the new one. So I will be running a 6 core processor, a new 3tb HDD, 16gb of ram, and 2 video cards, so I will be much more motivated to actually play my PC games, as they won't have frame rates that look like a loving slide show when I turn the graphics quality up above "low" anymore. That's terrible and all, but it'd be even more terrible to get a new computer and waste money on things you're unlikely to make use out of. Unless you have software which you are fluent in that makes use of that extra power, you won't need 16gb of RAM. Neither would you need 2 video cards unless you are doing a multi-monitor game setup or 3D. Even a 6 core processor you're unlikely to make any use out of for games. For content, I'm going through my games quite well. I am already on Sam and Max Episode 4 and enjoying nearly every bit of it. I've also been working on the DLC for New Vegas slowly, got Dead Money done but haven't finished Honest Hearts yet.
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Horse Pro posted:It's taken from a cover for Adam Warren's Dirty Pair: He did a lot of covers for Playstation Magazine (once unofficial, now official). I think he also drew the Valkyrie Wilde mock ups which made national news as the first nude video game. That was hilarious.
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I finished all of Back to the Future; loved it. And I just finished all of what was available for Caster. Fun game, but sucks that not all missions are out. Now, I'll try to finish up on Torchlight and work on Borderlands: GOTY 
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KingCute posted:I finished all of Back to the Future; loved it. Just did the same thing minutes ago. Controls were clunky as hell, but goddamn if it wasn't brilliant all throughout. I've huge smile in my face right now. Best title I got in the summer sale without question.
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