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    Microsoft: We Lost Our Way With Recent Halo Games

    Personally, this is another blow to my hopes for the future Halo games. Not because I think Halo 4 will be bad, but because I had hoped for more games like ODST and Reach; games set in the Halo universe, but not centred around Master Chief. I honestly expected 343 industries to release a game or...
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    Duke Nukem Forever the top-selling game in the UK.

    If it stays on top next week when OoT 3D is released, fair enough, but as some people have said, DNF is a legend among gamers. People will buy it simply because it's actually been released.
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    The Second Escapist Community?s Top 100 Games [Voting Closed]

    Fallout 3 The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit GTA4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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    297: Pills Here!

    Personally I wouldn't mind so much that pills heal all wounds regardless of how severe they are, so long as the game told me so from the beginning. Simply introduce the pills, have a character explain to me that in this game world, science has advanced to produce pills to heal wounds, repair and...
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    XBL Indie Dev Clones Minecraft With FortressCraft

    If this is Minecraft with a twist, fair enough, but that trailer makes it look exactly like Minecraft. In fact, I tried a HD texture pack for Minecraft, and it looked exactly like the graphics in that trailer. Although, having seen videos of Infiniminer, it looks very similar to Minecraft as...
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    Solutions in games that made you feel really stupid

    Recently played the trial for Limbo. There's a part where you come up to a box next to a pool of water. I figured you must have to ride the box over the water. About an hour later I gave up trying, so sure I was simply not balancing properly or something. My friend then told me I was supposed to...
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    So I just finished New vegas...(may contain spoilers)

    This contains quite a few spoilers, but that's a risk you took when you entered this thread. I helped the NCR throughout and the ending really struck a chord with me. I helped the BoS as well and so the ending told me of how together they took over New Vegas, harassing people for technology...
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    Poll: Horde or Alliance?

    For the Horde! Started as Horde due to friends getting me in to it and they were Horde. I've also always seen Alliance as too traditional fantasy for me. I prefer the grittier, sometimes darker side the Horde brings. Like killing Gamon, just cos you can. And I have a soft spot for the...
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    Things you want to see in Fallout: New Vegas

    -A vehicle/mount/nitro boosts/even just a sprint function. -A faction reputation system that actually matters. -Side activities, like fun jobs. Maybe there's a good market for pimping in New Vegas? -More humour! Black comedy preferably to match the mood. -Let me kill the kids. If I can't...
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    Fuck Stealth, I'm going Rambo! moments....

    All the time in Batman: AA. There were so many moments when the enemies all had guns, so I had to spend 15 minutes waiting for the perfect time to swoop in and out, and ended up thinking "fuck it" and took em all on at once. Almost always ended badly, but when it didn't, it felt sooo good...
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    Poll: How good are you at shooters? And what shooter games do you play mostly these days?

    I'm not a natural to fps', but when I practice I generally become really good. I used to be a force to be reckoned with on Halo, but moved on to MW2 since all my friends were. Got good at it, got bored of it, went back to Halo.
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    Zero Punctuation: Awards for 2009

    I was disappointed he didn't have a category for best sequel. Granted "best sequel" may be an oxymoron for Yahtzee, but it would have been interesting to see if he had a genuine favourite.
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    Your most dishonorable gaming moment

    Halo 3. Big team CTF Valhalla. 5 people on the other team left, so it was 3 vs 8. My team, including me, were extremely confident of victory, so I rode around on a Mongoose for lulz. Everyone was messing with them, not taking the flag just to get kills. Sure enough one of them sneaks over to our...
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    To Present and Past WoW Players

    Played it once because my mates play it. Ignored the story because it was crap, hated the grind, hated the fact that the grind is covered up by quests that involve grind, hated the fact levelling up any skill took grind, did I mention the grind? Anyways my mates still play it and tell me to go...
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    Games that have taken the most hours of your life away (apart from WoW!!)

    Halo 3, Fallout 3, COD4, in that order.