That is hilarious. In retrospect, I kind of wish my Shepard had had some slightly more outlandish delusions (like for example, thinking she was Queen). Instead, I just got to imagine her quietly freaking out and struggling to stay composed when she ran into people that she had personally seen die in the previous game.

Agreed on the stage with the shipping containers, that one stood out to me as well. Actually that whole level was pretty great, in the sense of infuriatingly difficult. There were several stages there (and on other levels) where you start out fully exposed and have about 1/2 second to plan before starting to kill—…

Y'know, I was pretty used to being killed hundreds of times on the first game— it was really one of the first really fast-paced action games I'd taken on after a years-long hiatus from video games, so it was like my education in action games, and a hard one. That meant that I usually just found my one path through a…

Wow, I didn't catch that— I just went to the car because I as a player was certainly sympathetic to her refusal, and then my character just didn't give a fuck anyway, so whatever, "have it your way" as he says. Pretty cool touch though, as you say.

I do remember having a few other problems with the game, notably the absolutely interminable loading times (60 seconds and up, very often), but obviously this one sticks out just a bit in my mind.

Yeah, in this case I was close enough that there were literally two button-presses left in the game (after the Saren fight), so I just watched a YouTube video with the final couple of choices— for which I would have also chosen differently than the default choices, sigh— and then went back to nursing my bitter anger…

I guess it must be "Alex" because at some point in Act 3 (I played/advanced a lot last night) there is a scene where a cop is looking for Ash at "his" last known address…

Yeah it's true, I found the duo machine gun (EDIT: not "duo chainsaw") ability to be useless as well. More specifically, I don't see where the opportunity would come up— I try to never have guys closing in on me from two directions at once.

Neat! I'll keep that in mind!

Wh—- WHAT? Oh man I won the lottery! Or, alternatively… whatever, I'm not really that into firsties anyway. But it did show up with him before me when I was looking at it.

I played the free beta thing and I had the impression that in some parallel universe, the game could have been pretty great… but that wizard came from the moon.

That's awesome— so Hotline Miami 2 is going to be your chill, laid-back, less demanding game when you're worn out from Dark Souls 2. I own the first one but didn't get much past the Taurus Demon (?), so I have barely dipped my toes in the water.

Regarding your disastrous experience with Ori and the Blind Forest, the only story I can think of is one that I've told here before: When my digital-only PS3 copy of the original Mass Effect turned out to have an absolutely unavoidable, 100% consistently game-crashing glitch of some kind about 1/3 of the way through…

Ah ha ha, you are truly the master. I thought I was actually going to get the first post on this thread. Good times.

Forget the backlog, Hotline Miami 2 is out.

What was the actual point of that, though? Anyone? Like, why a random Scottish/Dutch accent for only first two-thirds of the video? Am I missing a joke here? (I'm missing a joke here, aren't I.)

I moved to Montreal 10 years ago and, as a casual fan of pro sports but a big fan of LIVE pro sports, I've never had anyone to go to a hockey game with because my wife isn't into it. Now, my kids are old enough and eager to check out a Canadiens match… but lo and behold, the tickets in reasonable locations start at…

My kids (8 and 6) love it even though they understand there's only maybe 1 strip in 7 where they can understand more than about half the dialogue without extensive explanation. That drawing style is just so attractive and obviously "fun" even if you don't get what the hell Calvin is speechifying about this time.

I read an interesting book called American Nations (by Colin Woodward) that points out that state lines are not really the relevant geographical groupings when we're talking about this kind of cultural issue. Rather, there are different cultural "nations" that partially correspond to state divisions, but not…

They truly are looking like some fools, with their pants on the ground… (wipes away single tear)