alexl86

I don't think there are many games that handle the protagonist in quite the same way that the Witcher does, where it's very clearly a defined character where the player is given some agency in the moral choices. I guess Shepard in Mass Effect is similar in that respect, except the contrast is much sharper in Mass Effect, more black and white.

I really like Dragon Age: Origins because I was able to make a morally ambiguous character who often did reprehensible things in service of a greater good, and not be punished for not being pure good or evil, except that I ended up burning a lot of bridges with the party.

Mega Man 3 is the best in the series, followed by 2. I think 3 has better levels, more interesting boss fights (even if their names are stupid; "hard" man).

1 is my least favorite, with its obsession with jump puzzles and extreme varying difficulty on bosses.

4 is okay. It's the first game with the charging Mega Buster, but it's very by the numbers.

5 tries to do some interesting things. It has the gravity level where you run on the ceiling, the outer space level which actually screws with gravity, and that boat sequence. My problem with 5 is its difficulty, or rather lack of difficulty. It's by far the easiest game in the series.

6 is good, even if the bosses look progressively more ridiculous. This game suffers the most from the series saturating, even though it tried to do a few new things.

9 is really good. It has great levels and bosses, and gooses nostalgia in the best way possible. 10 is harder, with more ridiculous bosses and I don't like it as much overall.

Metal Man. Easy stage, easy boss, best weapon in any Mega Man game.

While Air Man is obviously 100% not the right boss to start with, he is still the least wrong, and therefore should be taken second. I can't abide by all this Flash Man nonsense.

Yes, though I haven't used it since spring. I sometimes buy disc games with steam codes because they are cheaper, and I have a few dozen older games on disc I doubt will get a rerelease.

Ehhh. I hate to say it, but I haven't really played the game. It's been inside my PS4 for three months now and I've launched it once. And don't take that to mean that my PS4 is seldom used, I play Hitman on it nearly every week. I bought it near launch and played a little, but it hasn't held my interest and I love the genre. It's probably the game purchase I'm least satisfied with this year.

I guess I'm saying I don't think it's worth it. The game definitely feels okay to play, but when compared to IV, it feels a little off. It's more fully featured now than at launch, but that isn't really saying much as it was pretty barebones then.

Write is how fast it'll install something, while read is how fast it'll access something that's already installed. For most people, read will be more important, as programs will load faster. In general, an SSD will be so much faster than an ordinary HDD that it any SSD will be an upgrade.

That being said, the SSD is restricted by the SATA format, to 6 GB/S for SATA-III. An m2 SSD, installed in a PCI slot will be even faster.

Edit: The m2 drive is also prohibitively expensive.

As someone who follows American politics, but never set foot in thee country, I'll say I'm not shocked. Hillary isn't a weak debater and would most certainly make a good administrator, but we see time after time in American politics that it's really about who you'd like to have a beer with. Reagan over Carter, Clinton over Bush, Bush over Gore, Obama over McCain. Hillary is many things, but she's not the fun candidate.

I remember her campaign from 2008, where she disintegrated half-way through, and thought then that she had too much political baggage. I will say that FBI director Comey probably cost her the election by bringing up the e-mails again a week before the election when there was no reason to, since there was no new conclusion derived from it. I also think it was smart to keep Trump away from twitter, as another twitter controversy would probably have cost him the election.

To be honest, I'm not sure if Bernie would've won. He would have much stronger rhetoric, but I think his age would work against him. To be honest, the strongest female politician in the U.S. right now is Elizabeth Warren, and she's not afraid to go in hard against the Republicans.

I just bought a 4K monitor for $900, and a GTX 1080 for $600, both fairly stupid. I guess my follow up, if I didn't have to think about the money, would be two additional monitors for surround, another GTX 1080 for SLI and run a triple monitor setup in 3x4K... probably at 5 FPS since not even 1080s in SLI can handle the glory of 11520x2160 resolution, or 6480x3840 if I turned them vertically, at least not at Ultra settings.

Well, I think the Sean Connery films hold up on the whole, but they are products of their time. There are some elements of them that would definitely be frowned upon today. Let's just say that not all his flings are consensual, or the film makers were not particularly sensitive towards cultural differences.

Most of Roger Moore's movies range from okay to unbearable in my opinion. He had the longest run and I think the general consensus is that he started out okay and got progressively worse. I think The Spy Who Loved Me is the epitome of Roger Moore's James Bond; it's campy and has it's share of flaws, but still an okay Bond film.

Dalton, for all the grit, never quite had the charm to play Bond (at least not at the time). I view his films as more boilerplate action movies than true James Bond films. The living daylights is a decent film, but I didn't really care for License to Kill.

Pierce Brosnan doesn't lack for charms, but he's not very believable as a tough guy, and I think his movies start going downhill after a solid debut in GoldenEye. In fact, his last movie, Die Another Day, is the worst Bond movie of them all, in my opinion.

Daniel Craig is batting 500 with his tenure, two very good and two bad ones. See Casino Royale and Skyfall, and skip the rest. Take this assessment with a pinch of salt (and indeed all the assessments in this thread) as I have several relatives who thought Spectre was his best film and I've read plenty of scathing reviews of Skyfall.

Finally, George Lazenby was put into what would otherwise have been a very good Bond film. My problem with the movie is that I never for a second believed he was Bond, but the movie that surrounds him would've been a good Sean Connery movie. It actually gives a lot of backstory (which I think is unnecessary for Bond) and features the perennial Bond villain, Blofeld, like most of the 60's Bond films.

I think neither Overwatch nor the Witness will be found in the top four. I think Hitman (my personal #1) will be on the list, but towards the bottom. I think Titanfall can clinch a spot in the top 3 and DOOM is the biggest contender for #1 in my view. Forza, No Man's Sky and Battlefield are certainly good games, but I doubt they'll make the list. I expect to see a good mix of indie games on the list, and maybe CIV VI?

I'm hopeful for Dishonored 2 and FFXV. I think Paper Mario is in the conversation for most disappointing game.