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I never finished S.T.A.L.K.E.R. because of horrid technical problems on Windows Vista. I also never finished Final Fantasy 12, but I wouldn't consider that a "good" game.

Bug 1: You can make a post with absolutely nothing in it. (Just hit "post reply" at the bottom of any page)

Bug 2: attempting to edit a post you just made sees it as you make two different posts. Thus bringing up the "Flood control" alet, not allowing you to make any edits.

[quote]DON'T - Do another San Andreas with hefty leanings on Gang Warfare.  Having to go around and claim territory was so annoying in GTA San Andreas.  Specially when I spent AGES re-claiming Los Santos only to have it all fall back into the hands of the previous gangs when you get ran outta town into the back woods.[/quote]
You never have to do Gang Wars until the very last mission in the game. And even then you only have to take over four territories.

Taking territories just made it safer, and you generated more money in front of your house. There was never an obligation to do any of it. And if you accidentally started one by killing four gang members, you could just leave. I really liked gang wars, and if they built on that system so you could make your own gang tags, gang cars, gang colors etc. That'd be a lot of fun. And if the AI didn't suck so much. That'd be a lot of fun, it'd still be optional of course. But it looks like Saints Row 2 is doing all this stuff first anyway.

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I don't understand everyone's complaints about "awww this game is just the same thing over and over again." Yeah? Well that "same thing" is awesome. And GTA is probably more varied than any other series out there right now. I don't see what the justification is to forgive Halo, Call of Duty, Diablo, Gears of War, and pretty much any game that's ever had a sequel, but GTA gets so much flak. I'm not trying to say that we should hate those franchises I just mentioned, but come on people having the same perfected gameplay in another game, does not sound like a bad thing to me. And what else can you do with the GTA formula? In the end you're always going to be shooting at people, and driving around cars. That's never going to change, and there's never going to be some innovation in any franchise that revolutionizes that type of gameplay.

As for what I think the next game should do, I really don't know. In one hand I REALLY want to see how Vice City looks with GTA4 style graphics, and all the things they could bring to that city to make it feel more Beachy, as opposed to "Liberty City with Hawaian Shirts." But in the other hand, I sort of want to see a new city. GTA4 made sense because they never offcially did "New York City" before. Technically gTA3 was supposed to be, but there's not a single landmark in that game to let you know. It could've been Boston, or Chicago, or any other North Eastern city. I think a foregin GTA with american music and dialouge could be interesting. Maybe do some hilarious joke on the radio poking fun at how American Content is seen around the world. That could work I guess.  Some cities I thought of:

Tokyo: Would require drifting.

London: Right-side lane driving would have to be the standard. It's BASED on London, not London itself, alright?

Amsterdam

Some German City

etc.

Half Life. Seems obvious. After all Counter Strike was originally a mod of Half Life, so that's pretty much "Half Life Multiplayer."

And my problem with Halo is that all the guns sucked. Up until halo 3 every weapon felt useless against enemies, and I never felt like I did any damage. They FINALLY fixed that, but Christ it took them seven years. Half Life is a much better series in general.

The problem I have is that these forums have no organization, it's just "OMG STUF!!1" everywhere. So there can never be one or two forums you visit because that's what you want to talk about, you just click "Recent" and then post in whatever. I personally really dislike it myself, and I don't think it's going to change anytime soon (Since this is basically just Comic Vine with certain words changed) but I've never been that big into super-active forums anyway, so what do I know.

I think fixing the personal profile stuff would be more important.

Bombers / Bomb Squad

OR WE COULD BE META AND CALL OURSELEVES "MAGGOTS" WOOO SLIPKNOT!!!!!!!!

I'm really interested in the open ended story telling. Like how there's a start point, and a goal to reach, but how you get there can be accomplished in dozens of ways. It sounds really cool.

I've been participating in the 1up Yours backlog and I've been kicking me some Psychonauts.

However I think the game is entirely unlikeable and awful, so I'm not having a good time with it. Other than that I've been playing some Company of Heroes.

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