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Yea!

From GameSpot and Washington Post respectively. A laud I was not expecting: From IGN's Beyond!

I feel as if I may have seen this here in Florida, but maybe one of the clips he used with a voter was used for another ad, too.

Don't see GI or IGN yet, but IGN gave it a 9 and Game Informer gave it a 9.5. I haven't been able to read much, but considering the praise from GI and IGN and the, "Good but has issues," from Gamespot, I'm looking forward to diving into them and seeing what their criticisms and praise were.

Yeah, but what was frustrating was that there were some people who spammed threads with gifs to slow down people's internet or genuinely were really bitter trolls and the mods were so slow to react. There wasn't a report function that I remember for the longest time (if ever when I posted there), so you had to go to a moderation thread to report something.

I think you're right. You just didn't know unless you did that, and it was hard as hell to report anyone harassing people. With how boards are now, it's surprising that I posted on so many boards in the 2000s where you had to censor curse words or else you'd be banned. Anyone remember when one of the (Sparky?) posted a thread on the Vesti titled "Fuck!" with no content in the OP? Then someone made a ytmnd with the Price Is Right losing horn.

Also, if the side quests are as good as we're hearing, that would be a stark turnaround from Second Son's drone/camera/spray paint side missions with only one (Cole's Legacy) that had a story. I dug the district-by-district concept to weaken DUP control, but it needed more meat elsewhere. Though that Paper Trail one was pretty cool; I just wish it were strictly inside the game.

Some of the best-reviewed PS4 games this year: Past Sucker Punch games: It's pretty tough for even a great new IP to crack 90 nowadays, I feel. I've kept from looking at much, so I've no idea where it'll fall, but regardless of score, I hope the stuff I'm looking forward to the most (the exploration and using the wind/animals to find secrets) is engrossing.

It's easy to say, "Why do the Fireflies pay more attention to the bottle?" Because making games is hard. AI is the most difficult thing you could do in a game with the sheer number of things multiple AI characters are reacting to. It was only this century IIRC that a computer beat a world champion chess player, and that's a 64x64 grid with huge limits on what each piece can do. When you have multiple AI characters reacting in real-time in a stealth/action hybrid where you can run in any direction and use different weapons that'll do different things and affect either one enemy or a group of enemies, you've given the AI an infinite amount of things to do and react to that are significantly more complicated than a 64x64 board. The fact that you can run out of ammo in that game, try to take a shot, and the AI will acknowledge you've run out of bullets and come at you, was pretty damned great. The fact that your AI companion would attack them but say something to the affect like, "Hey asshole!" to acknowledge that she's doing it as a surprise attack, was a big deal. While I get your criticisms, I really don't get why you always ask for nearly impossible tasks in the AI department all the time, especially when the AI is much better than 10 to 20 years before the first game released. You have to accept that AI isn't there yet. You think the people who program it don't know about this and wish the AI could be far more complex? It's not a reasonable criticism. 50 years from now, let's see where game AI is and maybe we can complain about it. All that aside, bottle distractions can apply to many situations in the game; the final battle is still fantastic.

If I'm reading correctly, it begins today.

He's mowed plenty of people down and survived a long enough time that it's not goofy whatsoever; it's expected. They didn't even think these two were still alive, and they surely couldn't have expected Joel to do what he did to that extent. We've seen the incompetence of powerful organizations in reality, but when it comes to games and movies, why is the expectation that the enemies must foresee everything the protagonist is going to do? It's not like they didn't have guards; the room before the ward was brimming with soldiers. I'd have thought they were safe in there, too. From a gameplay perspective, it was excellent and one of the best fights in the game, easily. Exactly what I thought about it. You have this whole sandbox to utilize, and the best way to defeat it is to have some proficiency with all your weapons and not be afraid to explore the place, however eerie it is. It's tense when you don't have listen mode, either.

This is the last big game from Sony on the PS4. Man, it's been a long road, but we're nearly to next-gen. Kind of weird to think about how long it's been, at least for me: Sucker Punch developed the first big post-launch game (inFAMOUS: Second Son) and gets the final one pre-PS5 launch.

I loved the final gameplay section of 1.

I phucking love pho

Just a joke to make it seem like you're seeing the word 'fuck' for the first time

I've been saying this for ages; it's no surprise saying "fuck" gets people's attention easily.

Okay, just saw the mega-threads. I'll say it again since nobody listens: mega-threads are too muchand mostly suck monkey balls. I only post mega-threads because it came a "thing." They're hard to keep track of, and not all of them are interesting on their own. You don't know if a new story was posted or if more info on an existing story is being posted. Post shit in its own thread and fuck any requirement for reading every mega-thread, especially uninteresting ones like "Tripe Countertripe." Thank you, that is all

Which every thread? Did the story not just happen?

The story's from today?

Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum

Careful about South Carolina. Trump was up by only 2 - 4 the few times it was polled in 2016. He was up once by 15 in September, and he won by around 14. It's hard to know what happened, though, in the sense that we don't have a ton of polling to see if it changed dramatically in the last two weeks of 2016 or if the polling in South Carolina was just mostly bad. It's made harder since there was no polling there in October/November.