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If I got rid of the wrapping, I always have at least one old receipt or subway ticket in my pockets. I spit it into that and throw in the trash or keep it in my pocket until I find one.

I like it, I don't like it, I love it, I don't even know. I'm certainly glad I played it.

David Cage's narcissistic comments about how he is the sole saviour of video game storytelling are obviously terrible, but he seems to be an okay director. There are some awesome performances in this game. I was already on board the Ellen Page train, but holy shit man. Seeing her act her ass off through the different stages of Jodie's life is just my jam. I was a little confused about Willem Defoe's casting. I don't think I've ever seen him play a sympathetic or soft character. After seeing the ending, it makes a little more sense to me.

The standouts for me were Homeless and almost everything with child Jodie. The birthday party also left a huge impression on me.

Oh yeah! The most important thing about this game: So many good hugs! When mopey child Jodie nagged her mom just to get a hug my heart broke so good. And I squeezed Mr. Bunny Gruff so tight. I'm glad she kept him all the way to the end.

People claiming that this is clickbait or that McShea is trolling are giving him too much credit. Everything I have seen of him suggests that he's just dumb. Plain old dumb. I'm not sure why he's allowed to write for Gamespot.

Yeah ok, but in the fake screenshot the game gives her the option to pee, leading me to believe that she hasn't gone yet. If you made her pee then stand back up for the button prompts to reappear then poop, there still wouldn't be a reason to have pee, poop and combo there at the same time.

I don't know if i'll miss Tim Curry's great/terrible overpronounciation or not. What is the meaning of caaabriit saaans corrr? What can you tell about sint jaauuuuuuuns eeeeeve? I love that game.

Combo? Isn't that a little redundant? When you poop it's impossible to not pee, right?

@tobbrobb:

It's optional and it defaults to black and white. You can probably get a more realistic look out of the game by not cranking it all the way up like I did in that screenshot but I'm with you. That black and white adds a lot of personality and atmosphere. I have seen some comments on the Steam forums of people hoping the developers won't water their vision down further by responding to stuff like this. Apparently they are going to implement easier ways for the player to find his bearings.

@abendlaender: Hey, I'm six weeks late. That's okay, right? Betrayer is on sale this week with one third off and I bought it because someone on the Steam forums was shouting the magic words "dark souls dark souls!" I had to wade through a lot of garbage to find any useful information on there.

I only played two hours of it but I'm really liking it so far. The game tosses you into its world without much explanation. You get a map that isn't showing your location and a compass at the top of the screen that I think you can disable in the menu. The first area is a just a linear path with some very light tutorializing and story set-up but after that it becomes a little more open. It's not that hard to find your way but it's still nice not to constantly get hit over the head with a mission marker.

The combat is mostly ranged weapons focused. There's a button for a quick melee attack but I'm yet to kill an enemy with it. So far it's been all bows and tomahawks for me. There are guns but they take ages to reload and make a lot of noise which is important because you're going to be sneaking a lot. Your character is very fragile. It takes maybe three or four arrows to kill you and I died every time an enemy got close. You lose all your money when you die but you can do a corpse run to recover it and that's the most dark soulsian it's been so far. I haven't found a good use for the money other than buying better weapons.

I interacted with two other characters. Most of the story is conveyed through letters and diary entries. After solving a "puzzle" I saw a dark, ghostly silhouette and I stopped playing right there.

The developers responded to the color criticism by putting a saturation slider in the menu. Now you can make it look like this:

I think the black and white looks spectacular. Important objects and enemies have a red glow.

@mb: I'm playing on hard and controller is fine. The shooting is Halo style with click stick to zoom but I rarely use it. I turned off the auto-aim for both guns and sword. It pulls the reticle to the center of the enemy every time you hit right trigger and it messes up my headshots. Swordplay is good. I always slice in the direction I intend to. Can't say the same thing for Magic though. You need to doubletap the stick in any direction and then pull one of the triggers to get out your spells. This would probably be much more reliable on a keyboard.

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Guys, I just found two rabbits doing it and... well, don't disturb them. Good thing I had my dildobat out.