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That sounds great Gregg! For my part I like a good rant, especially one that goes into excruciating detail. 
I'll just add one other thing I liked - the character classes. Well, more specifically the class abilities. I thought they enhanced the tactical nature of the turn-based combat. The unit limit I didn't care so much for, but I really enjoyed the battles. For me, where they really stumbled was in the strategic portion.
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Ahhh! I'll not spoil anything but I think you'll get along with my piece just fine based on what you've said in your last few comments. I'll try and get it up soon, possibly this weekend seeing as it's a longer one for us Brits.
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Gregg, you must also write about Sacrifice. I command you.
Your Grim Fandango revisited-review was a public service which the internet was in retrospect lacking.
Guessing that you perhaps feel it doesn't stand the test of time (complete guess that is), these are some of the most enjoyable reviews. It kind of took 2010 glasses (or 2011, or whenever you wrote about Grim) to realize just how shoddy the game part of Grim Fandango was.
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I am eager to read this article, because we discussed it over email but I'd like even more of your thoughts! I am a great lover of Sacrifice - I asked it out on a date one time but it said no - yet, I think of all games ever, it's one where both sides of the argument are very strong. And it doesn't age well - I installed it after you emailed on the subject a while back, and it ran, but it didn't make things easy.
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I think a strongly worded negative article can be, well, kinda fun to read, even for a game I personally like. So I'm glad you weighed in on it! 
Just to add to the thread's topic, I want to take a moment to complain (boo hoo poor me) that there's too many good games that I want to play and am playing but have no time for.
In addition to Dragon's Crown multiplayer, I'm also taking on
DuckTales Remastered
Fire Emblem Awakening (which Steerpike got me but I still haven't finished yet, since I tend to pick it up and put it down depending on whether I have to travel or not)
Saints Row IV
Everlove
And since I intend to get Divekick and I have Papers Please and Hate Plus sitting on my backlog sorry IN MY LIBRARY any one of those could be my next review... ack....
You guys should also see the games I'm working on 
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I'm buried in games too, which is why I chose this week to start playing Dark Souls again.
With Rome 2 coming out in just a few days, I have to start and finish Tomb Raider, Papo and Yo, Hate Plus, The Bureau, and a couple of Kickstarter alphas by next Tuesday. It's rare that I get to exercise both my gaming incompetence and my degree in Roman History at the same time, but when the opportunity arises it often consumes a lot of my time. After that there's a mountain of stuff before the next consoles come out.
And I'm with AJ, I love a good negative article. The best work often comes from it!
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Do Papo & Yo first; it's quite a short game, and finishing even the shortest of games can sometimes open the floodgates of completion.
Also: Divekick ... I had heard much about it, the first of which being Amanda's report on it from a convention I forget the name of. What I didn't know was that it was an insta-kill fighting game. I've watched some videos on YouTube ... it might be both the most hilarious and ingenious fighting game there is. It's certainly an answer to the long history of complex fighting games which require combo mastery to be remotely competitive. Divekick throws all that out the window; it's just pure crazy.
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Lone Survivor is now on PSN. I'm getting more and more intrigued by that game, but if I pick it up it will probably be on Steam.
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I may have a spare Steam copy, Botch. Remind me when I get back next week and if I do, I'll give it to you.
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Thanks Steerpike I will!
Any opinions about the death of the Diablo III auction house? The baffling thing to me is how a developer who works on a game for...how many years?...couldn't see what was apparently obvious to so many. I haven't played the game so I can't honestly pile-on but I don't think I'm stating anything controversial.
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A friend of mine has invested heavily into the console version of Diablo 3 and says it works better without the auction house. Much, much better. Again, no surprise there, right.
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I am playing Hitman Absolution and about halfway through. Most of the missions have been in Chicago but I am currently doing some assassinations in a small South Dakota town. Looks like the old west with a train running through one end to keep me corralled. It's been fun, but I am not looking at my score. It has to be terrible. I am not a very efficient assassin. I try not to kill unless necessary. 
I even lost my silverballers for quite a while.
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Loved Diablo. Hated Diablo 2. Haven't found anything to scratch that itch since Diablo the First. I've watched footage of D3 and yet, I'm hesitant. I want to believe.
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I'm playing Uncharted 3. I know people have compared it unfavorably to the others, but I'm really enjoying it. And it is absolutely gorgeous. The part where you're standing on the edge of the ship graveyard and it's started to rain and the sun is going down - breathtaking. Reminds of the scene in the new Tomb Raider when you first reach the beach.
The variety of environments and the artistry involved throughout just amazes me. That and I feel like I'm living through a (good) Raiders movie.
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Finished Uncharted 3! Every bit as enjoyable as the first two.
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Wow, you breezed through that!
I know it was largely received as slightly less positive than Uncharted 2, but one of the head PlayStation editors on IGN (maybe Greg Miller? one of the few IGN people I like) famously endorses Uncharted 3 as the best one.
3 is the only one I have yet to play (I'm playing The Last of Us a third time (yeah, a third time) because I wanted to try to Survivor difficulty before I delete it off my hard drive. It's 27gb of my 120gb hard drive so that has prevented me from downloading UC3 to this point. P.S. TLoU Survivor difficulty is really goddamn challenging.) but of the other three I've played Uncharted 2 was pretty great at times, and I could see it being hard to top; but I'm fully open to it. While the train level was just jaw-dropping and a lot of the winter-y mountains stuff afterward was great too (minus those fucking "beasts") I really, really disliked the ending of the game.
Uncharted 2 kinda spoiler:
Shambala, while beautiful to look at, totally ruined the pacing for me, the enemies were so overpowered as to make the experience lousy, the final few "twists" about what the immortality-making crap was seemed rather blah at that point, and Lazarovich (sp?) was maybe one of the cheesiest villains ever. Especially if you compare him to, let's say the main antagonist from Raiders, which so many people compare the Uncharted series to - that nazi dude is twisted and menacing and frightening all in just the right amounts. Lazarovich is loud and shouty and kind of pathetic. The last two levels (or however many levels are in/around Shambala) pulled me right out of the experience. It wasn't just the supernatural aspect like I said; I'm fine with that (again, Raiders has that supernatural aspect and it lends quite well to the story - now Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, let's not go there!), it was how the gameplay changed almost entirely, as it so often does in last levels of games.
Most of what I've heard about "3" is that it is the biggest change of scenery from the other games, and after three jungle-y Uncharteds I'm okay with that.
I just need to clear off all these damn digital games ... we're not ready for that "All Digital Future" with our tiny hard drive sizes. 500gb as the standard size for gen 8 consoles is a joke. AA-AAA Games will start to be a minimum of 20gb and only get bigger.
The PS3 slim launched either late 2009 or early 2010, I got mine early 2010, 120gb hard drive was the standard model. Just three years later an exclusive, flagship game for that platform (that was very hard to get a physical copy of at launch) was over 1/6th (closer to a 4th when you consider "120gb" in reality equals closer to 105-110gb) of that hard drive size. We've gotta go bigger! 2TB minimum.
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Yeah, it was such great fun I blasted through it pretty quickly. And since Uncharted games are basically a linear path (that's not a complaint BTW) there's nothing to distract from doing just that.
I was going to write some words about which one I think is best, but I honestly don't know. They're all very good. I'm tempted now to go back to the others and compare. I pretty much agree with you about #2. That train level! I'm not sure they topped it in #3 but it's got some pretty wild moments nonetheless. I also agree about [redacted]. It was not my favorite part of the game. And in that vein, the final parts of #3 didn't try to veer from what was working just fine throughout. That was one of its strong suits for me.
I think another strength of #3 is that it didn't feel as though the developers were trying too hard. I didn't get the sense of "Oh crap #2 was so extreme, we gotta top it somehow!" They certainly didn't skimp on the excitement factor, but again it didn't feel forced. Maybe it's just been too long since I played the others but I don't think so.
I have the slim too, with the 120G drive. Yeah, it's murder. I just bought a 2TB USB drive that presumably one can hook up to the PS3. All that's required is a FAT32 partition. We'll see how it goes. I'll know in a couple days (Amazon Prime free 2-day shipping FTW!)
That right there is my biggest problem with the notion of all-digital distribution. I know that hard drive space is ridiculously cheap, but I don't see the people who should be talking about these things actually talking about them. I don't expect a console to have a 5TB drive, but I do expect console makers to be more vocal about expansion options. All it would take is to have simple support for external drives and to actually, you know, mention it once in a while.
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Here's your Lone Survivor reminder Steerpike. And yes, I'm completely shameless.
And here's a puppy: 
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And a good thing, too, I'd completely forgotten! Your check is in the mail.
By "check" I mean depressing zombie-infested sidescroller.
And thank you for the puppy! One of our more rarely-used emoticons, and a great heart-melter. Who can say no to a puppy?
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I finished the Last of Us a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I think the game parts were getting a bit long in the tooth towards the end but the ending was fantastic in my opinion. Very bold and daring.
I tried starting Saints Row: The Third again in a bid to stick with it but I've found myself flagging again.
I'm loving Guns of Icarus Online more and more these days. Natural Selection 2 is still great but I've not been playing that quite as much recently. Rayman Legends is... different to Origins in ways that I have reservations about but it's early doors so we'll see. I'm itching to play Miasmata and Sang Froid at the moment but I've got a glut of excellent games on my Nexus distracting me, namely Time Surfer, Kingdom Rush, Punch Quest and Slingshot Racing. In the last couple of weeks I've also started playing Guild Wars 2 again with Armand so yeah... till next time backlog...
By the way Botch, I haven't forgotten about the XCOM write-up, I just felt compelled to do the Sacrifice one first!
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