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Ever wanted to play a game simulating the exciting world of a dystopian immigration paper official? Well now you too can get in on the joys of defending our Glorious State from the legions of foreign cretins yearning to tear down our frozen and starving wonderland from within! Honestly, it's a fun little game I just learned about where you're a border guard checking papers for inconsistencies and determining who may enter and who gets dragged away by the drunk guy with a rifle. In beta. A version of it is playable here and a more complete one that has dialogue and a lot more stuff to check for and a starving family at home to provide for downloadable here.

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Anyone else remember the age of don't tell anyone any sort of personal info about yourself on the internet? Where the hell has that gone? Today we give out at least an email address as a requirment to sign-up for almost anything. Social sites like Facebook, Google +, and the Google owned Youtube, that millions of people use, are pushing hard for people to step away from the online pseudonyms that we've all been living behind and use our real identities. We're all being tracked to a degree as a basic necessity of using the internet (We all have an IP address) but this is a step up. Not to sound tinfoil, but eventually, the governments of the world could get tired of the internet Wild West and start cracking down. Hell, I wouldn't put it past organizations like the people behind SOPA to push for stricter identity verification regulation on the internet as a matter of preventing piracy ("you wouldn't steal that song/game/movie if people knew it was REALLY you and not bob438 would you?") What do you guys think? How much longer are we going to be Max Bun and Anon instead of Bill and Steve? What's that going to mean?

Am I going crazy or do signatures seem to be back?

Haven't played it, but I was really looking forward to it from that first ancient Gameinformer reveal. THAT game would have been truly great. Sad it didn't live up to it. Good review and nice screencaps.

Oh, and EA and Bioware, this was an example of how to pull off a "lots of speculations" ending.

Well the incredibly similar gameplay elements are part of it, plus marketing. They probably would have called it some slightly more fitting name that ends in shock if not for how much marketing weight the name Bioshock carries. On a different note, what guns did you use the most? I settled into a Hand Cannon and the shotgun after they first give you the revolver. My favorite vigors were possession, "not-incinerate," "Not-electrobolt," and Undertow. Return to sender was kinda OP, the drill upgrade from Bioshock 2 did that a lot better being a permenant upgrade attatched to a melee weapon that only works based on a rapidly consuming resource. On the subject of upgrades, why'd they not have anything cosmetic to the weapons this time? Made me sad not to see my gun grow into a crazy steampunk deathmachine.

Time to talk about Infinite. I'm not done yet, only just past where and this is my opinion so far: Pretty damn good. Maybe the combat has taken a few steps backward (2 gun rule, a bunch of weapons feel pointless [burstgun, heater, and some others], weaker enemies, and a lot of flat open space which feel like "killing zones" instead of fighting inside of a city, vigors all having an alternate fire but a bunch of them just have a trap instead of something unique that complements the primary fire) but the new stuff is really cool. At first I hated skylines but once the environments pull back the training wheels and actually start incorporating them they become an awesome dynamic game-changer for combat that incorporates the often ignored aspect of verticality (anyone else remember Gaben's old commentary line about how hard it is to get players to look up?) and actually makes it feel like a floating city in the sky. Elizibeth's powers are fun, but their biggest impact is really felt in the story and once they started getting used was where I stopped feeling like this was a weaker game than Bioshock 2 and really felt a rush of "OK, this is Bioshock." I imagine I'll have more to say once I actually finish the game since the ending is apparently so mind blowing... Other comments: Undertow is awesome, why couldn't the other vigors have been as well made? Why does Elizabeth rob my money when reviving me? and anyone else occasionally shoot a vending machine because they went with a design of giving it a human torso so in the dark/around a corner it looks like a "splicer?" Oh, and firemen and handymen are cool and unique, why are crows just Houdini splicers, the most annoying kind of splicer? And money and scavenging seems mostly worthless compared the before since the game runs off of 2 gun rule with no alternate ammo types or crafting. It's like if every random item in the first two games were just the twinkies and chips. Gear is cool but feels like a step backward from tonics, and I miss research (the 2nd game version anyway, Bioshock 1 research was iffy enough that I don't blame Irrational for not trying it again) and I miss hacking, every door is either lockpickable or indestructible. One last thing, lack of manual saves is stupid for a game like this. I hit "restart checkpoint " and it threw me back 2 hours ago because of a bug. I got lucky that the main menu had kept my checkpoint saved correctly. EDIT: OK, I beat it. Overall though, Ken Levine's claims of "this ending is unlike anything else in any game ever" falls short, but what ending in the world could have lived up to that? For my tastes 2 still reigns supreme, but 1 and Infinite are still just around the corner in the hall of classics.

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A game sequel to Inception where you play a special operations dream assault team who must enter the mind of a mentally disturbed person and murder the personifications of his psychosis which manifest as a quirky team of terrorists. You Have to Burn the Rope

from the huge red text I was expecting it to be a huge reveal like how Batman is secretly Bruce Wayne and the sled is named Rosebud. Really dodged a bullet there.

I've spent the last few hours playing Bioshock infinite. I'm nowhere near completing the thing, but so far I have the creeping suspicion that I enjoy Bioshock 2 more, at the very least for not using a 2 weapon rule. And why does every vigor have a trap as alternate fire?

I'll echo a lot of these. My outrage at the first time I got the ending of Mass Effect three was probably the longest amount of time I've spent actually yelling at my TV. It was like 3 hours worth of talking it over with a friend who'd also recently finished. The end of Red Dead and the strength of the characters leading up to it was so impactful that I refused to play the post-ending (I did see the credits) Finishing grenade hell on the Heart of the Reich level (seriously, I counted out like 9000+ grenades and named this one particular Nazi who would spawn on a dime if I stopped looking at him,Ted) and just making it to the very first checkpoint at the foot of the staircase on veteran on the Downfall level that came next in CoD: WaW were epic moments. Among my friends we still refer to that first checkpoint moment as "Checkpoint reached!"

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Next year World War I will have taken place 100 years ago.

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I meant it compared to Activision at the time, EA was looking a bit better by comparison.

Anyone else reminded of this

A few years ago EA was "the good guy" in the industry, they were pretty friendly with Valve and a lot of other companies back then (even publishing the port of the Orange Box.) I'm sad about THQ going under but I saw it coming for a while. Any news on what this is doing to Metro Last Light?

Whatever it was, it kept me from logging in at all, using chrome and getting a similar message as bullseye's pic. I didn't even try another browser. Glad it's been fixed apparently.

Considering that I've been through about 9 times or so, yeah I'd say so. (I still want this setting to become the new star wars even if Bioware has gone down the tube)

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