I support this topic. New games are boring as hell. I have only bought a couple new games in the last year or two. Everything's too serious. It's all about making main characters that are all broody and emotional, what a bunch of garbage. I'll take an idiotic (but lovable) bear and a psychotic bird over any new characters.
Banjo Tooie is amazing! I loved it just as much as the original. Even the newer Banjo game is amazing simply because they put HAVING FUN before being cool or fancy graphics or any of that crap. I laughed like crazy when Bottles died.
Yup, Hitman. Did he seriously get banned? What did he do that finally got him perma-banned?
I banned him on the grounds that he was bat shit crazy. It's in the Terms of Use somewhere.
That's a overly polite way of putting it. That guy needed mental therapy.
He was hilarious in the PC forum. He would give people advice on what to get for PCs and if you disagreed with him in any way he would throw a million benchmark graphs at you telling you how wrong you were. The funny thing was half the time not only were the benchmarks highly irrelevant (He never actually read one graph he posted), but some of them would actually argue against whatever delusional thing Hitman was claiming. I remember one time he was trying to prove how bad current (at the time) ATI cards were by posting benchmarks that were a few years old and compared older sets of Nvidia and ATI cards, and then when it was pointed out he just got mad. Same with Intel, he was obsessed with them but never learned the model names of the AMD processors so when he bitched about how bad they were he would pull up benchmarks to compare i7s to ancient AMD Phenoms and Athlons (Not Phenom II, which was what was newer at the time, the multiple year old precursor to it. It would be like comparing a Pentium 3 to a Core 2 Duo).Then there was his whole insane thing about how his 40" 720P television made a better monitor than any actual PC monitor on the market. He actually believed it was objectively better and would shout down anyone who said otherwise. Then there was his crazy obsession with Crysis benchmarks (Again, he posted a whoooole bunch of benchmarks for no reason). Man he was nuts.
Total Biscuit has posted on GB before, in the SC2 section. I personally like him. His style of casting isn't my thing (He caters to newer and lower league SC2 players, not higher league players) but he has a great personality and runs amazing events, like the Shoutcraft Invitational and the $1000 professional monobattle tournament he ran this weekend.
So I keep hearing that this game is not a sandbox, which doesn't really help me with a decision to buy. Can anyone tell me if I'll enjoy it based on the fact that I enjoyed LA Noire (similar in that it also was not really a sandbox)?
Yes, it's similar if I'm understanding what's you're saying. Like LA Noire, it has a whole city but there's no real exploration of it outside of missions. It's a linear adventure game that just happens to be set in an open world. If you like that type of setting it's quite fun. I personally really enjoyed it, but I also really liked the original Mafia a whole bunch.
Lots of games on Steam that I also own on Xbox (Assassin's Creed, AC2, GTA4, San Andreas, Oblivion). A lot of the time it's the GOTY version though, like I rebought Borderlands with all the DLC for $7.50, or Oblivion, which I got all the DLC for since I didn't have any of it. I also have a couple copies of SC2 for the multiplayer, one main account and an offracing account.
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