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My theory (and deepest wish) is that this is related to far cry 3 because its a complete reskin of the entire island and tons of new content. Instead of building a new open world, they replaced the temples and bunkers with scifi bases or crashed spaceships or whatever, reskinned/filtered everything into this virtual 1980s VHS stuff, replaced tapirs with dinosaurs and dragons, made a bunch of stupid new weapons and a bunch of stupid new story. All I can think about is reliving the experience of getting jumped by a tiger in the jungle only it's a fucking dinosaur. Fighting dragons in an open world like skyrim, but with functional ranged combat, and sweet laser guns. If its less than $40, that shit will awards, or at least it should.

@klei: No way you guessed that ENDING SPOILERS:

Maybe you got one of those points but that would hardly ruin the experience. That shit was nuts.

Back on topic, I wish the melee combat scaled better, the second half of the game its nearly useless unless the enemy is severely weakened. I died many times just trying to smash some faces in, but I'd have to sit there whacking them for way longer than I estimated and end up getting beat. I think theres some gear that ups melee damage but there's other pieces that are way more awesome so I'd never equip it. I commend them for not taking the melee = instadeath approach that many games take today, but I wish it would've stayed more relevant as the enemy health increased.

The base mechanics and weapons were a bit bland but I thought all vigors, skylines, tears, and some fairly interesting gear layered on top gave me more than enough to keep it interesting over the course of the game. I was constantly picking up and dropping weapons (the fact you could never just pick the one you want from a list probably benefits the game), and I even found some magic pants that made every weapon I dropped turn into a floating mini turret (AWESOME).

My personal favorite thing about the combat is that the ram vigor and upgrades + shotgun/heater = first person Vanguard from mass effect, where charging an enemy does a ton of damage and recharges shields. It was kickin rad in mass effect and with the much more multi-dimensional design level design in Infinite its even better.

So is the office that Booker keeps getting sent back to supposed to imply that he has died (or at least failed) and the game is continued in the next loop? It happens when you die during gameplay and Elizabeth is not around, you reenter the game through the door and it happens several times during the events of the game, usually after something somewhat traumatic. The twins and old Elizabeth suggest that Booker has failed many many times before, so I guess the question is whether we as the player are spanning multiple parallel multiverses (or whatever) over the course of the game or are we playing as a consistant Booker who is "the one" who is finally able to break the cycle?

It was a fantastic game, but I'm disappointed by the apparent lack of new game plus (1999 mode is just a difficulty adjustment right?). Seems like they could've dont something really cool with a new game + that could somehow incorporate the idea of this infinite loop, work it into the fiction. If nothing else I'd like to carry over all the vigors/gear so I can continue to unlock new stuff.

My account got hacked sometime last night. The only computer I've played from is at my work, which is behind a couple firewalls and all the antivirus and malware software I have says the computer is clean. I'm almost certain that I didn't get phished, at least not for my battle.net account, which has a unique password and was newly created two weeks ago. I really don't think that someone hacked or phished my email, and out off all the passwords and credit card numbers and whatever else valuable info I'm sure is buried in there, they chose to hack my diablo account and take maybe 200,000 gold's worth of items.

I won't say im sure that it's on Blizzard's end, but I try to take my online security seriously, and I have a hard time believing that I somehow gave away the password in the last couple weeks...

What makes it worse is that I contacted blizzard to notify them and have my account get rolled back and I got a reply saying "You didn't get hacked so we didn't do anything". ummm...

I suppose I'll get the authenticator app once my account (hopefully) gets restored, but first time I've heard about such a thing is when I search the forums AFTER I've been hacked and lots of people saying OF COURSE I should have had an authenticator. If its that important, they should make a bigger deal out of using it during the install or the first login or something.