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What exactly are you trying to write about though? Video games in general? What about them?

But can it run Crysis? No, really, it's a great game if it can.

Hm... I didn't know Spec Ops: The Line was part of the Spec Ops series. I only played of demo of Spec Ops: The Line on Steam. I have Spec Ops on the PlayStation. It's crap. To me, I'd say GTA. I mean, it started out as something not interesting at all in my opinion, went to three, Vice City, and San Andreas. They had a lot of superb qualities, but it was at times frustrating to play with its lack of checkpointing, and some bad control mechanics. GTA 4 even had some of those designs choices, at least the checkpointing. In five, it started getting better (though, on the 360, it was disappointing due to Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3 having a simple mechanic of switching over the shoulder when it comes to aiming the weapon), and then it became one of my favorite open world games to actually play when the 'remaster' came out. Now, this is from a personal point of view, because we all know GTA has been huge since three, but for me, when it comes to a franchise finding the right foot in terms of how to make it the funnest it could be, it was the remaster of five that did it. It was the one that reached its potential, though not the one that got the franchise an audience.

@katpottz: You can auto-pause in both Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition, but in two, it's never needed, and in Inquisition, it's only needed when you fight some dragons. In Dragon Age: Origins, it does come in handy on more than a few occasion. I tried playing KOTOR a few times, but just couldn't get into it despite it having a lot of great qualities. The last time was mainly because--and this may seem like a shallow reason--you have to mod the PC version to some extent to get the best experience visually from what I remember. I love Dragon Age though. Another game, that may not have what you want, but to some extent feels like the combat from KOTOR, is the first Witcher game. It feels similar aside from the pausing, and the party.

@teoball: I assumed they were making it still, but I haven't seen any updates. I liked their Facebook page, and three times have asked about the console version since I finished Dreamfall. It seems they update the Twitter more, which I don't use. Oh well, thanks. That's great to see. Yeah, I love Dreamfall. I like The Longest Journey a lot too, but gameplay wise it's harder to get into to me just in terms of puzzle stuff, and made me resort to a walkthrough way more than I wanted to.

I am not one of them, so please don't spoil anything; I'm just wondering what you all thought. Were you a fan of the previous two games, and how did this stacked up if so? I have been waiting for the console versions, or heck, just news about it... I beat the first two at the beginning of last year, and since then, I have wanted to play Chapters, but I'm afraid it'd just be a waste of money since I doubt my PC could run it. I hope they're still planning on putting it out on consoles.

@haruko: Basically, (and no where here am I defending the ending, I'm just explaining) what happens is that Osment's character and Teddy are in the underwater vehicle for 2000 years. Now, humans are gone (I'm guessing they died out from something) replaced by humanity's creation, the creation being the alien-looking creatures, which is a silicon-based race; basically a super computer collective. An evolution of a computer, or robot. The collective of them download David's (Osment's characters) memory of his mom, and take a lock of hair to create a clone which can only last a day, which I assume is because of accelerated aging or something. I don't know if his character dies or not, it may seem like that through some of the writing if you take it as specific meaning, as well as the way it is presented, because if I remember correctly, it cuts to credits when he lies next to her, but it's possible that he doesn't die (they wouldn't have mentioned that he'll only get to experience it for one day if he was going to die, is how I see it), and he simply lies with his 'mom', cherishing the fact that he's finally being loved from the one he always loved. The A.I. gave him what he always wanted. Yes, it is similar to Pinocchio.

So, to sum it up. Those 'aliens' are advanced robots that humans created, that evolved over 2000 years, and Osment's character I don't feel actually 'inexplicably' died. I'm a huge fan of sci-fi, but A.I. isn't even close to a favorite of mine, but I don't really have many complaints, it's just that I didn't really enjoy it that much. That said, this is the first time, or maybe I'm just not remembering that people disliked the ending. I know there were people that didn't like the movie, and I found it strange, when there's nothing really wrong with it. That all said, I find the ending to be pretty clear on what it's saying; you just have to pay attention. The best thing I can say is that the voice actor that did Teddy, also does Wonkers in Dreamfall.

Probably Gone Girl, now that I think about it. The woman got away with it all, Ben Affleck's character stupidly got back with her, and a part where its Ben Affleck's character sitting in a restaurant with two (three?) others, almost felt like it was going for some light comedy, where the characters were totally fine with it all, laughing about it.

@haruko: You may know it, but those weren't aliens in the end, but yeah, they looked somewhat like the typical grey alien.

@sdoots: Yep, Dark Athena has better gameplay too than the original version. The disappointment with it though, which was a bigger issue to me originally, and I got over it to really think Dark Athena was great, is that they took music out from the original Xbox/PC release, and put in some new ones. The music in the game was still great, but not as good.