Steve_C

I've mostly got time to just lurk these forums these days, but i'm coming out of the woodwork for this one. Claude, I really hope the situation improves. When things can suddenly happen like that it's so scary and doesn't seem real. I can't possibly understand how this is for you. Be brave.

I'd recommend just using a simple sorting algorithm like bubble sort (google!) on the grades array. It's simple to implement.

Since the grades and names are mapped to each other by index, whenever you swap two elements in the grade array, add a tiny bit of code to swap the elements in the name array straight after using the same indexes.

Trailer gave me a terrible impression. It might be fun to play, but I don't care for the tone at all. Was that other guy supposed to be weird cyborg Vamp or what?

Oh man. Just had my awesome moment with this game. Well, one of many.

I had just finished a thieves guild mission, coming out of Bronze Water Cave. I had my inventory full and was in the mind to just get back to Whiterun, so I can sell and stash some of it in my house, paving the way more more looting. I left the cave which opened out on to a long lake, and then heard that familiar sound; it was a frost dragon, which I hadn't fought before. I started sneaking to avoid it immediately engaging me. I thought for a moment, but of course i'm gonna fight a dragon. So I start running closer to it and it notices me. It begins as standard. Me trying to hit it with arrows, just hoping that it would come down so I could use my sword. There's water so it won't land, or it will at least land somewhere far from me, so I start swimming across the lake as I see it toasting some things in the distance, which turned out to be a polar bear and some spiders.

I turned to my left though, looking further down the lake, and what do I see in the distance? The silhouette of another dragon, breathing down pain on some poor thing. I didn't know what to expect so I start running to it, hoping that a dragon on dragon fight would ensue so I can clean up after and get both their souls out of it. I don't want to frost dragon to hit me, so i'm not paying attention and just start running. Never look back. I make it closer to this black, scary looking dragon but it ignores me. I pulled out my bow and fired an arrow while it was busy. It hit. I believe my reaction was "Alduin?!" as the health bar popped up. Pretty awesome to see him in the world normally. He flew off and but I noticed him starting to just circle around.

I turned around, and there was a dragon on the ground, fighting some wolf. I run up to see him as 'Viinturuth'. A third dragon? Where did the frost dragon go? I didn't spend too long thinking and carried on fighting, he wasn't that tough. I would be able to handle him. I saw Alduin again, attacking something, but he would never attack me. An icy breath came over me from above. The frost dragon had returned to harrass me. This was unfair. They took it turns to fight me it seemed. Viinturuth flew off to attack from air, replacing the the frost dragon who was now in front of me. Occasionally they would both just be assaulting me from above, and it was hard to see with fire being constantly breathed in my face. It was a tough fight. My sword Chillrend had been good to me in dragon fights past, draining stamina that would often leave the dragon pretty helpless, but it wasn't effective against the ice-resistant frost dragon. I chipped away at health, healing my own with fast healing, but occasionally needing to swig a big potion when a joint attack would just fall short of killing me. I eventually killed the frost dragon, after which Viinturuth landed, who was relatively easy. Two dragon souls and Alduin was nowhere to be seen. He must have escaped during the fight.

Pretty incredible moment for me. Now there are two dragon skeletons right next to eachother. I have a save file just after coming out of the cave while I was sneaking. Not sure if I should keep it.

I got so much fun and hours out of San Andreas, and GTAIV was pretty boring for me in comparison. We don't know much about the game, but having colour, more open environments, and providing the tools for stupidity (planes/helis), makes me think that i'm gonna like it way much more than IV already.

Super excited. The only thing disappointing is knowing I won't have as much time as I did back during the San Andreas days to play it.

Played it on the DS a couple of years ago. Outside of some nice music here and there, I didn't find it to be anything that special.

I had an urge like that to go through some older games I missed out on/hadn't completed earlier this year.
 
Finally blasted through Secret of Mana, and then played FFVI for the first time. I was playing it... in a format where I could speed up the game time, which made grinding relatively easy. Checking my game time, i finished in under 60 hours, but really it might just have been 30/40 hours of real time. It's handy though; you can cut out the crap and get to the good stuff quicker.
 
I had got right near the end of FFV on PS1, but never got around to finishing it, so i'm thinking of playing it through in a similar way and finally seeing the ending.

That's a way bigger cut than expected.
I'll still be waiting for a redesign and a collection of great games though. It worked out well for me with the original DS.

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I quite agree with Ghost Trick. I played it a couple of months ago and it might be my favourite game of the year so far (though admittedly I haven't played too much 2011 stuff).
 
I've also got a copy of Enslaved waiting to be played. Very curious to see how it is.