HH

i'm gonna go with the contender that's the least impressive stylistically - GTA V - it has a lot less to work with, being stuck with a realistic modern day setting, but manages to look freaking incredible.

so when I hit *save and finish* on my list i get a message saying my list is empty. and it won't save. what am I doing wrong?

EDIT: nevermind, i figured it out.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/hh/lists/goty-2013/87502

@scampbell: throw your pawn into the drink, or the brine or whatever they call it.

yeah too many players leave the default faces on their pawns too, i'm just never gonna pick a dude with the default face. finding good pawns can be hard, but once you get an experienced, well-geared, and slick looking pawn you can just hang on to them. i haven't touched the game in a while, but the party i had by the end was pretty awesome, knew most of the weaknesses of most of the enemies and it didn't even matter that it became too easy, it was just good to watch them in action.

i solo'd through a chunk of the early game, and at that point the crafting and inventory became a lot more relevant, but even then, sure, the level of detail is a bit much.

@mikkaq: actually i rip all my flacs from my cd's or vinyls, so there's no reason to use a computer if i can play those cd's and vinyls directly, right? i just use the iPod for walking around, i never hook it up to the amp.

i have a hi-fi set-up - a marantz amp, monitor audio speakers, a pro-ject turntable, and a marantz cd player, and i use the hell out of it.

i'm fussy enough about music that I won't play things off my computer because of the noise of it in the background, and I went completely back to cd's and records a few years ago, and ditched all that mp3 business, except for the iPod and even then i use flacs - with good headphones it's easy to spot the difference.

i prefer to play games through the system too, because having those sound effects bounce off your body is a whole different experience from hearing them through tv speakers or headphones, but the mixing in games tends to be very gunshot / impact heavy and it can be a bit much for other people in the house to put up with - three hour sessions of me laying waste to things - so i only get to do it every now and again.

but yeah, most days i will turn off all devices and put on an album and just listen, i mainly collect moody metal and moody film scores, real nerd fare, but my friends have got all that sociable music covered, and not much of it is interesting enough to me for focused listening.

I wouldn't say I'm overly fussed about production, I appreciate when it's done well, but at the same time I can listen to garage band recordings, I just like sounds taking their full shape in the room, which mp3's and computer speakers don't allow for.

yep

i don't even know what the stories of my favorite games are.

if it's not me against the game, then it's just me against the dialogue, and that is way more likely to lead to broken controllers.

i love Mass Effect but dear god if i came face to face with commander Shepard i could only laugh every time something painfully obvious, horribly patronizing, or stupidly simple came out of his mouth, which is constantly.

i think Ellie knew he didn't mean it, it was a bridge Joel had to cross, and Ellie had to be understanding about it, and forgive the statement, because it was clearly disguising the truth - the very opposite of what he said. Men!