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Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (3 Viewers)

Yankee23Fan said:
Fallout 3 should be ariving today. I look forward to it based on comments here, although I do not have a 100% success ratio with comments here.

To be fair to the posters though, I doubt I am considered a gamer anyway.
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Personally I liked FO3 but I didn't love it.

 
If you've ever wondered if that story about the E.T. games buried in a landfill is true, you can stop wondering now.

If you've got even a passing interest in the history of videogames, you've very possibly heard the story of the Atari 2600 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial game, developed as a tie-in to the hit Steven Spielberg film in late 1982. Hoping to quickly cash in on the film's box-office success in time for the 1982 holiday season, Atari rushed the game's development process, limiting it to less than six weeks. The game -- which focused on the player collecting pieces of a telephone that E.T. could use to contact his home planet -- initially sold well on the strength of its movie tie-in marketing, but sales dropped off quickly when consumers realized that it was ... well, terrible. Thanks to a lack of storytelling depth, and problematic playability, the E.T. game was quickly declared a dud, and played a role in the larger decline of Atari as a company.

For three decades now, the story has been that Atari -- unable to sell all the E.T. cartridges it produced -- dumped thousands of copies of the game in a New Mexico landfill. Some believed the story to be absolutely true, while others were convinced it was little more than an urban legend. Now a film crew led by writer and producer Zak Penn (who's worked on everything from X2 to Alphas to The Avengers) -- working on an Atari documentary partially funded by Microsoft's XBox division -- has put all doubts to rest.

During a dig at New Mexico's Alamogordo landfill on Sunday, Penn (shown in the photo above holding an E.T. cartridge) and company confirmed that thousands of Atari cartridges -- including both E.T. and other games -- had been buried in the New Mexico desert more than three decades earlier.

"For anybody who doubted," Penn told a gathered crowd of fans, "there's a whole heck of a lot of games down there. We just saw them."

The Alamogordo landfill has been closed since 1986, but a few local residents have known the truth of the E.T. legend for decades, because they went digging there themselves when they were kids, in search of free videogames.

"We all heard what was going on," 43-year-old Armando Ortega said. "We came out one night in the complete darkness. They had just put a complete layer of concrete on it. It was still fresh....You could tell people had already been scavenging."

Ortega and his friends got somewhat crushed but still playable copies of E.T., Atari Baseball, Pac-Man and other Atari 2600 titles from the landfill. They gave the E.T. games away, though, because -- as Ortega put it -- the game "sucked."

So the truth is finally, definitively out on this long-gestating videogame legend. Atari really did dump leftover copies of its E.T. game out in the desert.
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TheAristocrat said:
Yankee23Fan said:
Game is here. Do gamers open the packaging with something sharp or use their teeth?
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I usually march the game around in both hands above my head like Moses bringing the Ten Commandments from the mountain. Then rip it open with my teeth.
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Do I have to speak Hebrew when i do that? I want to be a real gamer.Hang on. A pretty girl touched me today and it wasn't my mom sister or aunt. I can't be a true gamer can I?

 
Yankee23Fan said:
TheAristocrat said:
Yankee23Fan said:
Game is here. Do gamers open the packaging with something sharp or use their teeth?
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I usually march the game around in both hands above my head like Moses bringing the Ten Commandments from the mountain. Then rip it open with my teeth.
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Do I have to speak Hebrew when i do that? I want to be a real gamer.Hang on. A pretty girl touched me today and it wasn't my mom sister or aunt. I can't be a true gamer can I?
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I like to add a little Hebrew in now and then but it isn't required.

If you haven't washed the part of your body that was touched (and occasionally sniff it), then I think you can still be accepted in the gamer community. But I don't make those calls and haven't had a worry like that in weeks.

 
Corporation said:
Insein said:
johnjohn said:
NCCommish said:
Yankee23Fan said:
Fallout 3 should be ariving today. I look forward to it based on comments here, although I do not have a 100% success ratio with comments here.

To be fair to the posters though, I doubt I am considered a gamer anyway.
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You play games right? You're a gamer.
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doesn't work like that.
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Anybody hear that?
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Hear what?
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What ? I don't hear anything.
 
Ok so I got out of the vault. I probably didn't do a ton of things right and I feel like I should have explored more but oh well.

Get outside. I walled around back to some burned out barn and two melted face guys were there and thanked me for not killing them. Then kept exploring and got to the broken highway stood up to a few raiders but got killed.

Get reloaded back at the door of the vault. Crap. So I go the other way this time walk down to the little town and up the hill to the megonton bomb city.

And there I am. This is a very large world isn't it? What do I do now?

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Ok so I got out of the vault. I probably didn't do a ton of things right and I feel like I should have explored more but oh well.

Get outside. I walled around back to some burned out barn and two melted face guys were there and thanked me for not killing them. Then kept exploring and got to the broken highway stood up to a few raiders but got killed.

Get reloaded back at the door of the vault. Crap. So I go the other way this time walk down to the little town and up the hill to the megonton bomb city.

And there I am. This is a very large world isn't it? What do I do now?
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From my experience...get used to asking that question. A lot.

I'm not a fan of open world games and this is one of most open I've played. I gave up.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Ok so I got out of the vault. I probably didn't do a ton of things right and I feel like I should have explored more but oh well.

Get outside. I walled around back to some burned out barn and two melted face guys were there and thanked me for not killing them. Then kept exploring and got to the broken highway stood up to a few raiders but got killed.

Get reloaded back at the door of the vault. Crap. So I go the other way this time walk down to the little town and up the hill to the megonton bomb city.

And there I am. This is a very large world isn't it? What do I do now?
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Talk to people in Megaton.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Ok so I got out of the vault. I probably didn't do a ton of things right and I feel like I should have explored more but oh well.

Get outside. I walled around back to some burned out barn and two melted face guys were there and thanked me for not killing them. Then kept exploring and got to the broken highway stood up to a few raiders but got killed.

Get reloaded back at the door of the vault. Crap. So I go the other way this time walk down to the little town and up the hill to the megonton bomb city.

And there I am. This is a very large world isn't it? What do I do now?
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Ok you haven't gotten far. You may end up wanting to start over. I did. First what did you do with your specials? You know the little book where you got to set your Intelligence, Stamina, etc? Also what did you do on the skills end? You know medicine, science, small guns? There are certain levels you'd like in those things to get off to a fast start.

Also did the game come with all the DLCs? Reason I ask is the DLCs can add ten levels of leveling up depending on what you got.

 
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I honestly don't remember NC. I think I just added one point to the first 5 things and I think my special was learning or whatever led to getting more xp for stuff.

 
Cool so you got all the DLC which means you get more levels. How about I post some Youtube links for getting started? Big world, lots to know Youtube helps.

 
By the way if the people reading the thread would rather go FFA Fallout help then I am all for that as well. But I wouldn't want to bore anyone.

 
NCCommish said:
By the way if the people reading the thread would rather go FFA Fallout help then I am all for that as well. But I wouldn't want to bore anyone.
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Meh. Fallouts been out for 6 years at this point. If it was newer (like Dark Souls) I'd say start a thread but this belongs here now I feel.

 
I don't need or really want hand holding. I don't mind learning the game as I go and falling on my face while doing it. It's just that the entire world and engine is completely new to me. If this was a GTA game I know the general feel of the universe and what i need to do in very general terms. This I just have no idea.

I assume I should explore every sinlge area possible to pick up stuff. I get that there is some kind of karma rating to the game because I pooched the screw with the chick in the vault on that. So with that I get that the feel of my story might be different if I just kill everyone and everything instead of helping people if I can. In that I get the Red Dead Redemption feel to being a good guy or renegade. I'm comfortable with that and in general I will probably play as a nice guy as much as I can.

Is there stuff to pick up that I shouldn't waste my time with? I felt like I picked up like 50 coffee mugs in the vault. Unless there is some kind of sit down where I have to supply the fine china, I'm guessing those are relatively useless.

Do I leave certain areas before I finish stuff in that area - or can I leave? Like can I just leave Megaton and go explore around the city in front of it and come back or do I need to stay there.

I have the following DLC's built in - Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta. Do I need to go into a menu system to specifically do them or are they areas on the map I need to go to.

Oh, and on the map ------ where the hell is it? Every time I thought, hey I need a map, I tried to look for it in my menus and couldn't find it and felt rushed because it seemed like everything in the vault needed to happen quickly (I don't know if that is true or not but the music certainly made it feel that way). So I just followed the compass point thing on the bottom left of the screen.

I think those are my overall questions. For the most part. I probably would have more, but again I don't mind learning the hard way I just have no point of reference in this universe.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
I don't need or really want hand holding. I don't mind learning the game as I go and falling on my face while doing it. It's just that the entire world and engine is completely new to me. If this was a GTA game I know the general feel of the universe and what i need to do in very general terms. This I just have no idea.

I assume I should explore every sinlge area possible to pick up stuff. I get that there is some kind of karma rating to the game because I pooched the screw with the chick in the vault on that. So with that I get that the feel of my story might be different if I just kill everyone and everything instead of helping people if I can. In that I get the Red Dead Redemption feel to being a good guy or renegade. I'm comfortable with that and in general I will probably play as a nice guy as much as I can.

Is there stuff to pick up that I shouldn't waste my time with? I felt like I picked up like 50 coffee mugs in the vault. Unless there is some kind of sit down where I have to supply the fine china, I'm guessing those are relatively useless.

Do I leave certain areas before I finish stuff in that area - or can I leave? Like can I just leave Megaton and go explore around the city in front of it and come back or do I need to stay there.

I have the following DLC's built in - Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta. Do I need to go into a menu system to specifically do them or are they areas on the map I need to go to.

Oh, and on the map ------ where the hell is it? Every time I thought, hey I need a map, I tried to look for it in my menus and couldn't find it and felt rushed because it seemed like everything in the vault needed to happen quickly (I don't know if that is true or not but the music certainly made it feel that way). So I just followed the compass point thing on the bottom left of the screen.

I think those are my overall questions. For the most part. I probably would have more, but again I don't mind learning the hard way I just have no point of reference in this universe.
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Lots of useless stuff. Ammo, guns, parts, cigs, magazines, can all be kept. Anything with a good $/weight that can be sold is also good.

You are free to wander, just note that there are some areas that you'll last about 2 seconds in. :topcat:

Map is on the Pipboy. Get to the Pipboy and use the L1 and R1 buttons to cycle through maps, personal data, and inventory. There is a local map and a world map. Once you've been places you can use the world map to instatravel.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
I don't need or really want hand holding. I don't mind learning the game as I go and falling on my face while doing it. It's just that the entire world and engine is completely new to me. If this was a GTA game I know the general feel of the universe and what i need to do in very general terms. This I just have no idea.

I assume I should explore every sinlge area possible to pick up stuff. I get that there is some kind of karma rating to the game because I pooched the screw with the chick in the vault on that. So with that I get that the feel of my story might be different if I just kill everyone and everything instead of helping people if I can. In that I get the Red Dead Redemption feel to being a good guy or renegade. I'm comfortable with that and in general I will probably play as a nice guy as much as I can.

Is there stuff to pick up that I shouldn't waste my time with? I felt like I picked up like 50 coffee mugs in the vault. Unless there is some kind of sit down where I have to supply the fine china, I'm guessing those are relatively useless.

Do I leave certain areas before I finish stuff in that area - or can I leave? Like can I just leave Megaton and go explore around the city in front of it and come back or do I need to stay there.

I have the following DLC's built in - Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta. Do I need to go into a menu system to specifically do them or are they areas on the map I need to go to.

Oh, and on the map ------ where the hell is it? Every time I thought, hey I need a map, I tried to look for it in my menus and couldn't find it and felt rushed because it seemed like everything in the vault needed to happen quickly (I don't know if that is true or not but the music certainly made it feel that way). So I just followed the compass point thing on the bottom left of the screen.

I think those are my overall questions. For the most part. I probably would have more, but again I don't mind learning the hard way I just have no point of reference in this universe.
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Fair enough. I have to do a call but when I get done I can give you some answers on that if someone else doesn't first. I am just a huge fan of big open world RPGs and because of that I am very sensitive to how you start the game and little quirks that put you into a good place more quickly

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Ok so I got out of the vault. I probably didn't do a ton of things right and I feel like I should have explored more but oh well.

Get outside. I walled around back to some burned out barn and two melted face guys were there and thanked me for not killing them. Then kept exploring and got to the broken highway stood up to a few raiders but got killed.

Get reloaded back at the door of the vault. Crap. So I go the other way this time walk down to the little town and up the hill to the megonton bomb city.

And there I am. This is a very large world isn't it? What do I do now?
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listen to the words from the eyebot. or shoot it and practice VATS

 
Yankee23Fan said:
I don't need or really want hand holding. I don't mind learning the game as I go and falling on my face while doing it. It's just that the entire world and engine is completely new to me. If this was a GTA game I know the general feel of the universe and what i need to do in very general terms. This I just have no idea.

I assume I should explore every sinlge area possible to pick up stuff. I get that there is some kind of karma rating to the game because I pooched the screw with the chick in the vault on that. So with that I get that the feel of my story might be different if I just kill everyone and everything instead of helping people if I can. In that I get the Red Dead Redemption feel to being a good guy or renegade. I'm comfortable with that and in general I will probably play as a nice guy as much as I can.

Is there stuff to pick up that I shouldn't waste my time with? I felt like I picked up like 50 coffee mugs in the vault. Unless there is some kind of sit down where I have to supply the fine china, I'm guessing those are relatively useless.

Do I leave certain areas before I finish stuff in that area - or can I leave? Like can I just leave Megaton and go explore around the city in front of it and come back or do I need to stay there.

I have the following DLC's built in - Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta. Do I need to go into a menu system to specifically do them or are they areas on the map I need to go to.

Oh, and on the map ------ where the hell is it? Every time I thought, hey I need a map, I tried to look for it in my menus and couldn't find it and felt rushed because it seemed like everything in the vault needed to happen quickly (I don't know if that is true or not but the music certainly made it feel that way). So I just followed the compass point thing on the bottom left of the screen.

I think those are my overall questions. For the most part. I probably would have more, but again I don't mind learning the hard way I just have no point of reference in this universe.
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Basically you are the wanderer. So wander around and find cool places. You'll realize pretty quickly what is junk and what is useful. Anything thats relatively low weight and high value can be sold for caps. Anything exotic like nuka cola or pure water, you hang onto. Also, undamaged books. Later on youll meet someone who'll give you 100 caps per book you find. Other than that, the comic books and bobbleheads give you skills. So obviously grab all you find.

But the game is about being a survivor in a nuclear wasteland. See what you find and try not to get dead.

 
SlaX said:
Corporation said:
SlaX said:
Insein said:
Anybody hear that?
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Hear what?
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Darn you slax! I got the "1 new reply" added as I was typing and I thought "I bet Slax just typed what I did" :lmao:
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I sure did. I'm glad you weren't affected by the storms the last couple of days. We were forecasted to be hit, but when I woke this morning, the forecast moved east of us.
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Thanks! It was actually the closest miss we've had. A tornado touched down less than 3 miles from us. It was scary but we all came through ok.
 
Corporation said:
SlaX said:
Corporation said:
SlaX said:
Insein said:
Anybody hear that?
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Hear what?
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Darn you slax! I got the "1 new reply" added as I was typing and I thought "I bet Slax just typed what I did" :lmao:
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I sure did. I'm glad you weren't affected by the storms the last couple of days. We were forecasted to be hit, but when I woke this morning, the forecast moved east of us.
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Thanks! It was actually the closest miss we've had. A tornado touched down less than 3 miles from us. It was scary but we all came through ok.
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Mile and a half for me. First time I've gotten the family into the basement. Even closer than the F4 in 2011 (which was 4 miles or so away).

####### tornadoes.

 
Sand said:
Corporation said:
SlaX said:
Corporation said:
SlaX said:
Insein said:
Anybody hear that?
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Hear what?
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Darn you slax! I got the "1 new reply" added as I was typing and I thought "I bet Slax just typed what I did" :lmao:
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I sure did. I'm glad you weren't affected by the storms the last couple of days. We were forecasted to be hit, but when I woke this morning, the forecast moved east of us.
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Thanks! It was actually the closest miss we've had. A tornado touched down less than 3 miles from us. It was scary but we all came through ok.
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Mile and a half for me. First time I've gotten the family into the basement. Even closer than the F4 in 2011 (which was 4 miles or so away).

####### tornadoes.
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Yeah this was the first time we slept overnight in the basement, it was just too volatile to predict at that point.

 
The dig for the legendary Atari games in the New Mexico desert got me thinking about what my first introduction to home gaming was.

I am pretty sure my first game console was the Telstar Alpha. I found a video on youtube reviewing it :)

http://youtu.be/vLGT7GAq-Dw

What was your first home console you can remember?

 
NewlyRetired said:
The dig for the legendary Atari games in the New Mexico desert got me thinking about what my first introduction to home gaming was.

I am pretty sure my first game console was the Telstar Alpha. I found a video on youtube reviewing it :)

http://youtu.be/vLGT7GAq-Dw

What was your first home console you can remember?
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Apple IIe and every game was hacked.

ETA- Atari 2600 but EVERYBODY had that. I meant a real system.

 
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Yankee23Fan said:
I don't need or really want hand holding. I don't mind learning the game as I go and falling on my face while doing it. It's just that the entire world and engine is completely new to me. If this was a GTA game I know the general feel of the universe and what i need to do in very general terms. This I just have no idea.

I assume I should explore every sinlge area possible to pick up stuff. I get that there is some kind of karma rating to the game because I pooched the screw with the chick in the vault on that. So with that I get that the feel of my story might be different if I just kill everyone and everything instead of helping people if I can. In that I get the Red Dead Redemption feel to being a good guy or renegade. I'm comfortable with that and in general I will probably play as a nice guy as much as I can.

Is there stuff to pick up that I shouldn't waste my time with? I felt like I picked up like 50 coffee mugs in the vault. Unless there is some kind of sit down where I have to supply the fine china, I'm guessing those are relatively useless.

Do I leave certain areas before I finish stuff in that area - or can I leave? Like can I just leave Megaton and go explore around the city in front of it and come back or do I need to stay there.

I have the following DLC's built in - Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta. Do I need to go into a menu system to specifically do them or are they areas on the map I need to go to.

Oh, and on the map ------ where the hell is it? Every time I thought, hey I need a map, I tried to look for it in my menus and couldn't find it and felt rushed because it seemed like everything in the vault needed to happen quickly (I don't know if that is true or not but the music certainly made it feel that way). So I just followed the compass point thing on the bottom left of the screen.

I think those are my overall questions. For the most part. I probably would have more, but again I don't mind learning the hard way I just have no point of reference in this universe.
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Check the value:weight ratio on the items you are picking up. Some Misc items are useful, some are not. Know that there is a use for most everything in the game (if you choose to) but somethings never have worth except to sell.

Over 99% of the time you can go back to areas. Sometimes I'll be running around and finish about 80% of a quest but have to run to wherever I'm storing all my stuff to empty my pockets.

I'm on a PC and don't know the console buttons to push to get to your PipBoy, sorry. Your Pip will tell you everything you need to know about maps/quests/inventory/stats/achievements/whatever.

Have fun! This is a game I still pick up and play. If you find you enjoy it, New Vegas is a terrific follow-up to this game. I have a hard time rating one over the other.

 
Insein said:
NewlyRetired said:
The dig for the legendary Atari games in the New Mexico desert got me thinking about what my first introduction to home gaming was.

I am pretty sure my first game console was the Telstar Alpha. I found a video on youtube reviewing it :)

http://youtu.be/vLGT7GAq-Dw

What was your first home console you can remember?
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Intellivision. Classics like Nightstalker, Snafu and Fish Fish.
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Tron Deadly Discs Down?
 
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My fav's from Intellevision were:

B-17 Bomber……flack……flack…..lol

Baseball

Football

Sea Battle

Boxing

Basketball

Tron Deadly Discs

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
Andy Dufresne said:
TxBuckeye said:
Finally getting back on my PS3 today. Gave it up for Lent. Guess I got used to not using it, because today will be the day I finally get around to turning it back on. So the choices are:

Restart Infinite (20 minutes in)

Far Cry 3 (may have to start over because I totally forget the control scheme)

Metro: Last Light

Then again, need to be at Denny's in about two hours for my free grand slam, so it will only be a short session.
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I know it sounds like hyperbole or that I'm joking, but I'm not. Bioshock: Infinite is a definite waste of time.
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After playing Bioshock 1 & 2 I simply have no interest but I have heard good things about the endgame or near endgame story.
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Actually was able to dive right back in to FC3. I just read the online manual and got the hang of the controls pretty quick again. I guess not playing anything during that past two months meant my game control wires didn't get crossed in my addled brain.

 
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