I’ll be glad to have a few weeks off new games I’m dying to own. Lego Dimensions took a big chunk out of my wallet ($200 with the extra kits I bought) but that will last me a long time, so it was a good buy. My next anticipated game is Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, because I’ve always loved the series, even the first…

If you wait a bit longer, Lego is launching a non-game Doctor Who series of kits soon. I don’t know a date, but haven’t exactly been scrounging for the information. I wonder if it’ll be around November when the game set launches.

This will be my first foray into the toy-game genre. My kids (5 and 7) are getting old enough that I’m going to start easing them into a few video games (outside of the learning and Kinect stuff they do now) and this is a great expandable game for what I want.

Yeah... the Yes/No system has always been “if you like this sort of thing...”

I’m seeing it at $110 CAD at EBGames.ca, BestBuy.ca and Amazon.ca

“The best way to ensure that the campaigns have balanced scenarios with good A.I. is to gather play testing data from online players in head to head matches, and then polish the game with that feedback”

It’s the reason I avoid the entire sub-genre, sadly. I would LOVE a sandbox game where you work together to survive in a PvE environment, even if it had a bit of controlled PK. The constant trolling PK attitude that prevails in games like these keeps me away, though.

It’s funny you mention Auto Rifles. My only primary weapon above blue quality on all three of my characters is the Dr. Nope auto rifle. I try to use it in PvP and just get massacred no matter the situation. I’m typically not great at PvP, but those 1:18 K/D ratios against level 32s in maxed gear just sucks hard.

I’m having trouble finding information about the end-game PvE content these days. I’m sick to death of repeating the same 5 vanilla Strikes (now 6, since the PS exclusivity wore off) over and over and over as the only end-game content.

Did BBC News produce this? I must have missed something.

I’ve noticed when I start talking about keeping violence, gore, sex, etc. from my kids, a lot of non-parents jump up to say “I played GTA when I was 10 and I haven’t murdered anyone.”

Sorry I misunderstood. Your original reply was a bit vague, I wasn’t sure if you were referring to my bit on parody or libel.

Yes, a light swat on the butt of a 2-year-old in the middle of a tantrum = beating the shit out of him.

But it’s a competitive sport, so that makes it okay, right? Honestly, the whole MMA thing flips my stomach; I abhor violence and have never hit anyone in anger, barring the couple times I have swatted my kids’ butts when they were young and being VERY bad. That was for discipline, though, not anger.

“Owners of the copyrighted works will only be able to sue if the parody conveys a discriminatory message.

Is the PvE endgame changed much? Did they just add 2 more Strikes and a Raid and call it a day? Story is great, but after three times through it (once per character) it’s not like I’m jonesing to repeat Story missions at higher difficulties for a little XP and a chance at a blue item.

Parodies are legal by definition. Making up a “true story” about a third party is libel/slander.

Agreed. I bought it day one figuring it would have this amazing PvE content and sustainable endgame material.

It’s not just about rebuilding things, we need content. They keep wasting all their time on Story missions which you play through once, while slowly trickling out 1-2 Strikes which is the majority of what I would be playing if I wasn’t bored to tears of playing the same 5 Strikes (Xbox, no DLC) over and over. I’m not…

I think they just added the first PS exclusive to Xbox. I reinstalled recently to check out 2.0 and did a Mars Strike that felt semi-familiar, but different. You go into the same starting area, but the open paths were different.