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@patrickklepek I think Demon/Dark Souls' "veterans" are often times just frustrated by how the game is talked about. So, though you don't owe anyone an apology, I think it's pretty clear you understand the game by what you said above and I wish you the best of luck in Dark Souls 2.

Also, tell Jeff to quit being a baby and play Dark Souls. Just tell him it's basically a fighting game but you need to be more patient with your counters and movement...it's like Divekick, tell him it's like a more methodical Divekick - I think he'll understand that.

So...does this mean there will be a Path of Exile video at some point? I still don't understand how no one there has looked at it.

Not only that, but a games streaming service is very different than having "always on" authentication. Games streaming is sending inputs to a server where the game is running and the video is sent back - you still have to be online all the time but now you also have a bunch of latency between you and the game. Always on is just a wrapper around the content you have installed locally - doesn't change the game in at all except that if you fail to authenticate (handshake with a server every so often) the wrapper restricts access to the game (though I don't recall the exact specifics for the X1, so that may not have applied to disc based games; just to cloud saves, achievements, and digital titles?).

Granted, this is an optional service and not the whole of the console but it is, to the player, a worse option for playing the game than just authentication.

I'm still hopeful that Microsoft rolls out an always on service that allows for actual game rentals (so I can play locally) and not this streaming games nonsense.

Puppygames Humble Bundle is also worth checking out. It just started and if they reach $150k they're releasing the source code for the games. Which is both awesome and insane.

@alecofthewest said:

Maybe you should look up the definition of sodomy because that's exactly what happened; also, the point was more that she was doing that in exchange for drugs. I originally wrote "raping her" which isn't legally correct but when the party exchanging sex for goods/services is incompetent, impaired, or otherwise "forced" into the decision it may as well be rape.

I'm honestly surprised it only happened once. After all, the introduction of Trevor shows him basically sodomizing a girl so she can have her drugs then threatening to rape her boyfriend - then killing him instead.

Trevor is the embodiment of every "anti-hero" in western cinema doing the absolute worst shit possible and somehow getting away with it. The torture sequence, considering so much of the other things Trevor does and says, is low hanging fruit. And if I recall correctly, GTA IV also had a torture sequence based on a scene from Boondock Saints (although I could be wrong about that, been a while); Red Dead Redemption also had some pretty fucked up stuff, especially violence against women.

Rockstar doesn't pull any punches with stuff like this and I think GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption, and GTA V are all the better for it.

To clarify my point on C, I don't see a world where Trevor and Michael continue to both live making sense. Trevor has every reason to want to kill Michael and vice verse. I think it's a "cop out" if one of those two, if not both, don't die/kill each other.

I didn't really factor in what Haines or Devin wanted. I made up my mind on wanting Trevor dead when he tried to let the Chinese kill Michael for him; and just before that he threatened to kill Franklin. I do regret not being able to kill Devin but I also saw the thing with Michael's family coming when they all got back together seemingly out of the blue; so I didn't really want to kill him any more or less than I already did.

More importantly, Trevor tried repeatedly during the final heist to undermine the confidence of the crew. You don't fuck with the job. Period.

A is the ending for people with a Mafia perspective (kill the loose cannon that threatens the business/family/etc.); B is the Gangsta ending (kill the snitch); C is the Catharsis ending - kill everyone except the playable characters (C could also stand for Completionist depending on your viewpoint).

I killed Trevor. I wanted to kill him the entire game - he was completely insane and a bigger threat to everyone else than most of the actual bad guys. The only thing I didn't like about the kill Trevor ending is that I couldn't just pull the trigger Renegade style as soon as Franklin drew his gun on Trevor.

C is a cop out and makes zero sense. C is only the "right" ending if you want to continue to earn certain achievements.

So Valve wants to be the living room Microsoft? With how shitty big picture mode can be they are off to a great start.

Maybe this will be ok?

But I am still very fucking worried.