Really?

Im finding it bloody terrible. SO SAMEY. I suppose it wasn't bad back in the day, but I expect more from my big dumb shooters now.

Also, Im searching for ways to make it more challenging, even on the hardest mode. Ive considered not using SlowMo, or a shotgun.

Edit: Originally, it was supposed to be a much cooler squad based shooter. Some of the Delta Force extras were originally going to be other FEAR operatives who were going to spend more time with you, in particular the bomb disposal guy. There were old screenshots of him in a FEAR uniform, killing clones with you.

Also, the useless medical officier chick was originally going to be a sniper. Her costume even still has the leather pads on the elbows, which are useless now as she doesn't ever lay down with a gun. Or carry a gun.

I'm starting to get to the end of A2 and I don't want it to end.

This happens to me, I stop playing games when I'm at that 99% because I don't want them to be over. Never mind the fact that once I stop playing them it's also over!

Final Fantasy IV on the DS.   

Playing BulletWitch.  I already beat it, but it's one of those retarded games where the "replay value" is in that, during the first run-through, you don't score enough points to unlock all of the abilities, so you have to play the same five boring ass levels over and over and over, getting ganked by unfair 1-hit-kill enemies over and over again to earn 150 unlock points...

...when every skill costs like 300 points.

I'm hoping you ravished your wife before uninstalling.  Post-coitus software removal is a recommended Best Practice.  And not just for strap-ons and condoms!

The demo of Eschalon: Book I.

It's an ultra old-school RPG throwback that comes highly recommended from Tycho Brahe, who's essentially my idol.

Looks like it'll be fun. Hope the demo is big.

And by "fun", I apparently meant "pretty boring".

Maybe Ive been spoiled by Avernum 3 as to what I should expect from a shitty, no-graphics grid-based RPGs, but if Im going to be repeatedly clicking on bloodsipper bats and "noximanders" for hours on end, then you damn well better wrap it up in an emotionally rich and involving experience.

Aquanox 2: Revelation.

I loved the original "Archimedean Dynasty" by Bluebyte, but while the graphics are better in Aquanox 2 (of course), some other features are lacking a bit (story, character development, immersion). Among them, most importantly, are the controls. I'm not sure that I'll get used to them sufficiently quickly to start enjoying the underwater fights before I'll break the joystick in frustration.

Sacred + Underworld expansion.

I love this game. Especially considering I keep learning something new about the stuff you can do every time I make another attempt through it.

Wait, so I can insert amulets and rings and combat runes and skeleton heads into the slots in swords/armor? That is so much more awesome than those lousy three upgrades the smiths offer. I was wondering why you kept giving me so many odd items I didn't know what to do with. And not only that, but the upgrades can be un-installed and swapped out with better things when I find them? Dude, that is *excellent*. If I'd known that earlier, I wouldn't have been walking around with lousy, pathetic upgrades.

Poisoned fire swords of doom, here we come!

Also, this game is f*cking LONG. Don't get me wrong, it's awesome, but, holy crap, it's long. So many side-quests. It's like an friggin' isometric Morrowind.


Edit: I will be throughly unhappy if, come September, I can't run the se/prequel on my little notebook. [I'm already kinda irked I can't play Oblivion, or any of the Lego Starwars/Indiana jones games]

Speaking of Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones, has anybody seen the trailer for the new Lego: Batman? Awesome, I say.