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  1. Szlia

    Dark Souls 2

    This serie is very unique and can only be compared to previous From Software games (King's Field, Shadow Tower), so I think it's worth trying to see if you enjoy it or not. Considering the game is no longer full price, I doubt you will not get your money's worth of entertainment even if you...
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    How would you re-socialize MMOs?

    Isn't 'scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' a basic tenet of socialization?
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    Homeland

    Guys who owe Carrie a favor. I think that's about all we know at this point.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    People who never played Flower on PS3 should consider getting the PS4 version. A very elegant little game that I often replayed because it is very relaxing. Soothing almost. As far as I am concerned, I'll wait until early 2014 for The Witness.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Judging solely as a commercial, I would say the idea is a good one, but the execution lacks confidence: why have a voice over that explains what is shown?
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    Banished

    Why is it called Banished?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    How do you propose to show a 4k screenshot on a HD screen without it being a detail?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    My assumption is that it is to avoid being identified through writing habits such as turn of phrases or typos. A bit paranoiac, but if the guy is a Microsoft employee his leaks would be cause for termination with a side dish of getting sued, so paranoia is in order.
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    Commuting to and from work

    I spent 3 hours a day commuting for a while, but 2h30 was spent on trains. Sleeping, reading, playing or watching TV series on my PSP made it bearable. I still would not do it again though.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    You mean by scorching! PS: immolation always implies sacrifice and not always by fire.
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    Red Baron Remake on Kickstarter

    Flight sims are such a niche market that is now dominated by crazy labors of love that I suspect the only flightsticks you can find nowadays are great and expensive.
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    Soccer 2013-2014

    Juventus' Vidal shooting in the grass so hard that he thought he was fouled was the highlight of my evening!
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    *PS3 and PS4 ONLY* Rerolled Chat & Gaming Group + Twitch Streams

    What games do you have in mind when you write this?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    If you play a single game, I am sorry but you are not a gamer. Would you call cinephile or even movie goer someone who would only see James Bond movies and have no interest whatsoever for any other film? Not that many games have such an audience though. Historically, it was the case for...
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    Girlfriend wants to move in, how much should she pay?

    It seems to me a lot of people are not realizing that a rent is more than a cheaper mortgage without equity. A person paying a rent gains a number of rights he would not have by paying a mortgage and a person receiving a rent has a number of responsibilities toward his tenant that he would not...
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    The Stanley Parable (Steam)

    I think you are confusing a review with a buyer's guide.
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    Red Baron Remake on Kickstarter

    *livejournal* I am glad they are remaking this and that you posted about it, because it allowed me to realize that the game I played with my cousin on his 286 (?) was not Red Baron (as I always thought), but most likely Sopwith. */livejournal*
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    The Stanley Parable (Steam)

    Watching a let's play is a really silly idea though since the whole point is the confrontation between narration and interactivity. Better just play the old mod for free.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I see that japanese poll and the only conclusion I reach is: 'a good chunk of japanese people don't like to talk about their sex life with pollsters.' Anyway... Yakitori!
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    Homeland

    One of the best part of the first season was seeing Brody's family trying to recreate bonds with their estranged dad/husband. So I was a bit bothered when Dana threw all of that away as being lies (remembering amazing bonding moments as when he confesses to her that he converted to islam), but...
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    The Stanley Parable (Steam)

    I played the old mod earlier this year. I found the idea amusing, but ultimately underwhelming in its execution (and I don't mean on a technical level). The voice actor *is* really good and that's pretty funny considering the dev' e-mailed the script to an actor he found online to see if the guy...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I somehow missed that one. It's a PS3 and PS4 game though (making it less of a system pusher) and it was not playable at TGS (not too good of a sign, even with a delayed japanese launch). That being said, since they have just been tweaking a formula for ... 6(?) games now, they should be able to...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    About the PS4 launching later in Japan: I am not sure the japanese gamers are that annoyed considering it would launch with precious little japanese games on it. We have trouble getting excited by a launch spearheaded by Killzone, so imagine how it would have been for them!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I love the Kevin Butler commercials, but I think the whole faux-cheap comedy approach works better to energize an established product than to launch a new one. Core message + originality + sense of awe is a better mix for launch, and this commercial and the previous one with the monologue are...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The only thing that prevents me from agreeing with Utnayan on this one is that Microsoft will most certainly adapt the shipments to the pre-orders to be sure to be able to announce 'OMG! Xbone sold out everywhere in 24 hours! OMG!' even if it means selling three units. That being said, PS4...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It's not too late to make another 180.
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    Girlfriend wants to move in, how much should she pay?

    Still no word from Kramer
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    Electronic Dance Music

    I am feeling facetious so I'll add this: 1978... it's made through electronic manipulation and you can dance on it so it should fill the bill! (It's also one of the many masterpieces of a timeless album)
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    Electronic Dance Music

    Oldie? Let me post some oldies. 1994 1992 1991 1991 1988 1987
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    Homeland

    You could feel during the episode it was based on something real. It's even closer to reality than one could expect: check that picture of a guy weight lifting in the tower (we saw a similar bench in the episode) with a mosque in the background. In the FSR a few weeks back someone posted...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It's one thing for the PS4 to check the header file of a PS3 BluRay game disk to allow you to play the downloaded PS4 version of the same title and it's another completely to run the code that is on said PS3 disk.
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    Homeland

    For me, it was one of the best episode of the show, but also totally different than what we got in the previous two seasons. Homeland always has been a very dynamic show with zero pussyfooting. Suddenly this season is very static and deals with the consequences of the previous two seasons...
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    Gravity (2013)

    Well...
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    Which MMO *DO* you actually play now?

    None now nor in any foreseeable future.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I was under the impression that the UK always has been a very poor territory for Nintendo. My guess would be that the success of 8 bit computers in this market never allowed Nintendo to really set foot there.
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    The last paragraph of that article about the quantum computer helping find an algorithm for Google Glasse's wink detection make the whole project sound like the department of Up Ass Smoke Blowing.
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    Girlfriend wants to move in, how much should she pay?

    Where is Kramer? I wonder how it ended even if the possibility of a lethal conclusion is much lower than with Thorne's story.
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    Homeland

    Less bipolar disorder and more jazz/trumpet would be nice.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That's marvelous and all, but that's still only one game a year in the past decade with 8 being FPS (holy variety Batman), one being an RTS (unplayable on gamepad) and one being a top down shooter that could actually be played well with a gamepad... but was a freeware. In the same time frame...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    A huge part of the appeal of consoles for both consumers and publishers is the length of these cycles.