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Xtal I went back and read your review (again). What was that about bad jokes? 
Did the image captions get cropped?
One thing I absolutely agree with you on was the pacing: there was no unnecessary busy work to bog things down which I really appreciated. And the dichotomy between the sterile detention facility and the noir sensibilities of Azriel's portion was very effective. I think I liked Azriel's part the most - they got the tone just right. I was a bit more annoyed with the combat than you, but only a bit (I set it to easy).
I did enjoy the denouement, where all of the relationships between the different plot threads were revealed (being intentionally vague here). I think it's the director that I had problems with: he was supposed to be ominous but I just found him grating. Also the one protagonist's final soliloquy just sounded hokey. Anyway, I sound way more harsh than I mean to be. It is a worthy entry in the classic adventure game ouevre.
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Ack, yes the image captions did kind of get borkified. I don't even really remember the bad jokes; there was some vague Radiohead reference and some other lame one. Ah well. 🙂
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Ah yes: the rain drops.
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I've started Alpha Protocol, but so far I am disappointed in it. I don't usually have problems with this type of game but this one is very confusing in how things work and the the computer hacking minigame is horrible. Even with points into it, it is still very annoying. I wish I had a bag full of emp grenades to bypass all of them. I got through the gate of the airport in Saudi Arabia but don't see how to get to my goal. Guess I'll start the mission over and go another way. Everyone was right, stealth doesn't work that well.
Well, I got through the first mission. Sloppy, and if I wasn't playing on easy, I'd be dead so many times. I did buy another emp grenade but it doesn't show up anywhere.
Edit...I've played three missions and the game is a lot more fun now, especially since I figured out how gadgets work.
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Splice (iOS) neat little gene splicing puzzler and the free episode of Walking Dead (360)... I could see myself buying the rest of the episodes...
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i just started playing The Cat Lady...
funky cool graphics and great voice acting... a moody emotional sort of horror adventure.
looks like a winner!
http://www.thecatlady.co.uk/
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Hey Senne!
The Cat Lady looks pretty cool. I'll grab the demo tonight.
On a whim I downloaded Persona 3 from the Playstation Store on Saturday. It's one of those games that I've always felt like I was supposed to play, but never got around to it, instead supplementing my knowledge by reading other people's words and watching videos. That was a disservice to myself. I spent the whole weekend playing. I'm obsessed! Juggling high school and world-saving has never been so engrossing.
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I've purchased unwritten tales, but have yet to play it. Pretty much the story of my gaming life. I stockpile games then play them 2-3 years later. 
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I finished Alpha Protocol and had a good time playing it. It felt a bit like Splinter Cell. The stealth worked fairly well as I maxed out all the upgrades in that line as well as pistols. Maybe I'll play a bit of the real Splinter Cell now, Chaos Theory.
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I finished Deus Ex Human Revolution quite a while ago and enjoyed it. I am starting The Witcher. Yea I know. Years after everyone else. But that is me. I still have Skyrim which I play at bit now and then and will finish one day but I am not in a rush. It is nice to have it as a retreat. kay
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I finished Stalker: Clear Sky. I was concerned that it would be too much familiar territory from the first game, but there really wasn't a lot that I remembered. It wasn't nearly as scary as the other two Stalker games. Before that, I played Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory for the second time. I hardly remembered any of it. There was one building and that was about it.
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Now I'm playing King's Bounty Legend. I bought the game many months ago and tried to get into it a couple times but had never played a game of that sort and was lost on how it works. This time I figured it out and have been having a great time with it. I haven't had so much fun in a long time. I have nearly completed the first island as a warrior. I'm off to restock my troops again. 
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Pokey, if you really enjoy King's Bounty, there are a lot of games in that "style" to keep you entertained. Heroes of Might & Magic, in particular, have always been fun; some older games like Silent Storm (and, if you want to go way back, Shining Force) are also awesome.
I just finished Alan Wake for a project I'm doing here. With that done I'm headed to the Walking Dead on PC and my newly downloaded copy of Psychonauts for PS3.
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Steerpike, I've had HOMM III for many years but never played it. Now I am very interested in it. There are more recent King's Bounty games I'll be checking out as well as the older games you mentioned.
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Steerpike have you never played Psychonauts, or just never finished it? My copy is for the original Xbox. Like most people, I thoroughly enjoyed some parts and found others thoroughly annoying. Worth playing though.
I'm playing through Killzone 2. Got my copy from a trading site. It's actually pretty good. Super easy on "normal" difficulty. Feels like "Gears of Helghast in the First Person."
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I finished DX:HR last week! Finally!
I went with the Taggart ending after many many minutes deliberating. I couldn't stamp science and technology out (Darrow), but at the same time couldn't let it run rampant (Sarif). Blowing the whole place up wasn't really a good option for me because... well, I'm not convinced everyone who knew anything about the whole incident was just on Panchea. Someone was likely to put a spin on it all even if I couldn't.
I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't get any follow up on all the characters afterwards. What happened to Megan, Malick, Pritchard, Sarif etc.?
Great game, a bit too long for me though because it ran out of tricks by the halfway point. And I never did use the beastly laser weapon I picked up or the heavy assault rifle that I'd stockpiled a ton of ammo for... Ah, the plight of the hoarding pack rat. I did the same in Resident Evil 4, the same in Dead Space, Bulletstorm, Vanquish... one day I will expend every cell, shell, missile and cartridge on my enemies just as the game ends. As for the bosses, I made short work of them after the first one because I was packing some real firepower solely to deal with them. I thought they were quite fun purely because I didn't have to pussy foot around them. They were like a release valve after spending tens of hours creeping about avoiding conflict. The game was rewarding me left, right and centre for being non-lethal yet it was giving me all these awesome tools of destruction but no real need to use them. I was itching to fire them all.
I suppose that only further reinforces the ending I got where Jensen says how he resisted abusing the power he wielded. Hmm, that's quite clever actually.
Next up, after consulting Meho on Steam, Hotline Miami and Sine Mora.
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Botch: never finished. This is the third time I've bought it - twice for PC and once now for PS3. Back when I played the first time, I got as far as the Milkman Conspiracy before getting distracted. It's funny, at the time I always felt the game was clearly made for a controller; now that I'm playing on the PS3 I find that the controller latency is very frustrating. It doesn't seem to be polling the buttons very often, so it commonly ignores presses. Still, I will soldier on!
Congrats on finishing DX, Gregg. I think I went with that ending as well. Like you say, the conclusion seemed a bit abrupt, with no closure for most of the characters. But aside from that (and the bosses), I can't complain. It's a great game.
Meho's advice is wise. You can't go wrong listening to that guy.
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I don't remember having a latency problem with the Xbox version. Perhaps it's specific to the PS3 port? Or wireless perhaps.
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Has anyone else's interest been piqued by a game on the front page of Steam right now called Kentucky Colossal Cave Something Or Other.
It looks ... potentially good. But there is only one episode out of five released currently, so I am certainly not going to purchase a "season pass" without having any experience with it. As a side note, season passes irritate me.
Re: KZ2, I can't say I enjoyed it more than I did Gears of War, but I think it has a better vision than any of the Gears games. Its devotion to the "heavy" controls is something I grew to quite enjoy about it. Aside from that it was quite ordinary, except of course for its exceptional graphical prowess.
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