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I should have done the same. Finished it last night. Must re-do with evil as a goal, but we'll see how long my interest lasts.

Not on it's own, no. But compared to the average FPS...yes. Particularly the engineerng sections. (it's been years, my memory may be exaggerating a bit, who knows)

They kinda use a spoke system where a lot of the 'levels' are a central area with a bunch of sub sections you have to visit, passing through the centre again each time. There's not a huge amount of backtracking beyond that....each major area is isolated by circumstance. And of course nowhere near the ridiculously complex navigation of System Shock 2.

Started and finished Bioshock 2. I think I liked it more than the first, but I'm having trouble figuring out why.

Not yet, but I will be.

I used regular frags for a while, but I'm liking semtex more. Haven't used the claymores yet, nor the C4. Rifles with holo sights and grenade launchers in all cases except one with an ACOG scope/thumper secondary for Wasteland. I like the rewards system in that you occasionally get a new title or whatnot for doing something completely random, but after playing this far it's getting rare....and I'm not getting anything for some truly ridiculous flukes I'm pulling off (like shooting down two Harriers with a single Stinger, or destroying a UAV with a handgun.) I'm also not good enough to consistently get killstreaks above 3-4, so I mostly stick with Care Package, UAV, and Predator Missile. Much as I' love to get AC-130, Pave Low, and tactical Nuke in there, I'll never get to use them.

The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks It's the only 'graphic novel' I've owned.

I'm up to about 48 and just swapped the SCAR in each of my loadouts to an M16.

Odd but effective choices of music, and some really good cinematography (mixed with some pointless BS). It has been described as the most unneccessarily dramatic video ever, and the compared to Michael Bay + Top Gear turned up to 11.

Yeah, I'm not there yet. I've stuck with the SCAR as my primary most of the way through, working with M16 now. Secondaries are SPAS, akimbo .44s, Stinger, Thumper.

SPAS-12 is where it's at. Not in terms of combat effectiveness, but in terms of fun. Same deal with the .44 Magnum. By most accounts, a terrible gun. But so classy.

I've been really impressed with it. Not normally my genre, but I'd heard great things and finally bought it when it was $2 on steam. It's excellent.

Psychonauts

Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball Terrible. Even Vinnie Jones couldn't salvage this one.

Never worked with subtitles, so I'll have to take your word for it. As for Nero - it came free with my old dual-core 64-bit compatible Opteron processor as a way of showing off, being one of the first major apps that could use that capability. It has like 50 components and only the useless ones worked. Works fine on a single-core XP system, but that's my parents and all they need is Nero Express for raw data. Every lighter-weight version of Nero I've used at work has been atrocious, so no surprises there.

I use VSO ConvertXtoDVD which is an entirely legitimate copy (ahem) and imgBurn which is free. I have Nero Ultimate but it crashed the crap out of my old computer and I've yet to try it on the new one.

Prototype and Saint's Row 2

From Dusk Till Dawn, again. And realised that Tom Savini has been involved in just about every hilariously campy movie since dawn of the dead in 1978. He'll also be in Machete this year which promises to be ridiculous.

"Holidays where people exchange thoughtful objects (or those which sport a pronounced turkey component) get a pass, but "enforced revelry" as a general concept is one I abhor. I have an especial loathing for chronofetishism. My prediction for 2010 is that we'll spend the entire Goddamn thing spitting blood and teeth into the sink. Happy New Year." -Jerry Holkins (AKA Tycho Brahe)

MW2 multiplayer and some Left 4 Dead 2

Mass Effect was decent but I wouldn't play it twice. Started and finished Modern Warfare 2.

There are a number of malware cleaners out there that may help, but if you search for some of the symptoms and process names you may find a pecifically targeted fix. They don't always work, but it's worth a shot. The best tool ever is HijackThis, which is free and currently owned by Trend Micro....but it's extremely dangerous in the hands of most people. Scans with this thing turn up a ton of results, most of which are totally legitimate. In my experience, removing everything HijackThis finds tends to cripple or destroy operating systems outright.

It has a lot of problems, certainly, including bugs out the wazoo. Obviously I haven't played every survival FPS, but I don't know of anything better at any rate. AI was a bit odd, praticularly after a quick-load. Armour repair I didn't care about really. The game just had a sort of attitude to it that it wasn't really trying to let you win...it seemed indifferent to your victories or defeats, which really added to the experience. the inventory system was about as close to a realistic load as I've seen in anything, and the whole world was twisted, eeried, and mildly unsettling without being openly supernatural for the most part. I also have a soft spot for games/movies/etc that don't generally tie everything up with a neat disney bow and everyone goes home happy. As for threats, that's just the thing...combat is fairly easy if you're cautious and have some tactical sense (taking in to account the largely idiotic AI) but you can't just stagger in to a room and start blasting away HALO-style. Armour doesn't deflect hundreds of bullets, it doesn't regenerate, and if you do screw up you're generally dead in ten seconds. I also played the Clear Sky prologue/expansion dealie...more linear, repairable armour, etc. Didn't have the same feel. At any rate, I liked them both :angry:

By no means Youtube, but I am obsessed with Joshua Herron's HD promo videos for Formula D racing. They are magnificent. http://www.vimeo.com/4127007 This is Long Beach, but Las Vegas and Irwindale are also worth the watch (well, they all are, really...)

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl (again) By far one of the best games ever, despite or even partly because of it's peculiarities compared to most domestic titles. Absolutely the best in terms of survival FPS.