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 Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. I woke up early and finished Gabriel Knight 2 this morning. I played it for hours and hours on end yesterday and it gave me some really weird dreams. It was a great game and a worthy entry in the series. Maybe it is the dated FMV, maybe it was coming off the far deeper 'Sins of the Father', maybe it was just a victim of hype but it just wasn't the opus I remember it being. It was certainly an entertaining and polished experience and I still hold it up as a pillar for the genre, but I can't help but feeling a little let down for some reason. Anyway, I'm thinking I'm going to move on to its older brother now; Phantasmagoria.
...bysmitty 
I don't know how well NOLF 2 and Armed & Dangerous have aged but they were both great games at launch. NOLF 2 is more NOLF which is a damned good thing. (why no NOLF 3 anyway?) Armed & Dangerous was one of the funniest games I played in years and to this day has some of the best weapons this side of Duke3D. I have to agree on the GoG stuff. For as many games as I've bought from the service, I haven't gotten much time in with any yet though sometime soon. I'm kinda' glad new releases are pretty sparse this time of year because I still have a few holiday 08 games to play through and I'm loving me some retro gaming. Man I miss gaming in the 90s.
SC: How long do you think you spent with that Star Tropic's game? Sure sounds like you got your $6 worth.
...bysmitty
I just downloaded and started playing the Portal map pack called, Portal the Flash Version Map Pack (http://portalmaps.wecreatestuff.com/) for PC. It's a fan made mission that takes you through the enrichment centre again, but along a different route to that in the original (well, obviously!). I will not give too much away, but I will say this is an excellent mission pack, and well worth the play. Apparently some of the maps were incorporated into the extra maps that were made available for the XBox version of Portal.
Only drawback with these maps is that if you have to have Half Life 2 installed for them to work, so if you bought Portal as a stand-alone and not part of the Orange Box then you have to have an install of HL2 to play it.
Also still playing my way through Fallout. The Turbo Plasma Rifle is not just a pretty name for a gun. It's a very pretty gun! 
Portal. I'm not kidding when I say that I will refund your money if you don't like it. It's a 4 hour game at best anyway so it's not like you'll lose a ton of time to it.
...bysmitty
Glad I'm not the only one who like GFW Live :-) I want achievements on my PC games.... 
Metroid Prime and Twilight Princess are my two favourite games ever. Then again, I'm a Nintendo fanatic and loved the GameCube controller, so that is a very biased opinion. Anyway, I hope you enjoy them.  Playing: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC)
Whenever there are achievements for a game, I feel compelled to get them. So, I guess that is a good thing, as it makes games last longer. I've still got to get a whole bunch more achievements in Fallout 3 so that I can hit my "50% of achievements" mark, which is a personal "pass" for me and about as far as I'll go for achievements in games. That said, I still detest GFWL's interface. Playing: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC) Well I guess I've stagnated on Phantasmagoria. I made it up to chapter 3 but now the nostalgia seems to have worn off a little and I haven't touched it about a week. It's still a good game but I kind of know what to expect having played through it before so I don't have the mystery to pull me through. I should just finish it though considering it is not a long or difficult game. For some reason I've got a strong urge to pull out Laura Bow 1 & 2 next.
Also, I've been killing time in GTA4 pc now that I finally got it working. I'm doing a few missions here and there but mostly I'm just going around causing chaos. It's the same game as I played on the 360 but using a trainer for god mode and infinite ammo allows me to break the game in some devilishly fun ways.
...bysmitty
I just finished playing BioShock. It was a fine game, for sure. The gameplay wasn't particularly fantastic, but it was fun and at times frantic shooting action, and that's never bad. The graphics were nice, other than the human character models (because of Unreal Engine 3's dedication to making everything look like plastic). The sound was phenomenally good, some of the best of any game I've played. The highlights of BioShock were the environment and the story. Rapture (the setting of the game) is beautiful and vast, and I never got tired of just looking around. The plot was very well done, with many surprises and tons of interesting dialogue. I still don't think that it was quite as good as its System Shock predecessors, however, due to an inferior atmosphere and a lack of complexity.
9.0/10 Playing: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC)
I've played and beaten every Zelda game (other than the sacrilege that is Phantom Hourglass, but I'm almost done it)... and Twilight Princess is my pick for best of the series. It is definitely top-notch. It's also the easiest and best-paced Zelda game, so I heartily recommend it as a good starter's Zelda game. Playing: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC)
I meant mainstream in a way where it is too geared to attracting non-Zelda fans without really focusing on something solid to attract Zelda fans. Maybe with the exception of making about half the game seem similar to Ocarina of Time in ways. Mainstream to me = working to attract people to something without really focusing on what is true self. Basically trying to do something different.
I disagree. Other than the Wii port (which was done just to get more sales of the Wii console) and the general lack of difficulty, the game was a shining example of fan service. There were tons of architectural, musical, and plot references to other Zelda games (most notably Ocarina of Time, but there was also plenty of A Link to the Past), the world map was the biggest yet of any Zelda game, there was a massive array of sidequests, and the dungeons were significantly better layed out than in any 3D Zelda game to date. As a matter of fact, the very premise of Twilight Princess was to be a Zelda game "for the fans" after the overwhelmingly negative reception towards The Wind Waker's visual style.
Playing: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC)
The Wind Waker was excellent, and I even liked the visual style. It just wasn't taken well when the graphics were first shown. Playing: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC) Finished Phantasmagoria earlier today. Twas good fun and a nice trip down memory lane but ultimately, the game is 'pretty good' at best. I'm all about easy games but this one takes it a little far; boiling down to progressing merely by finding the right hot spots to trigger the next event. Nothing really counted as a puzzle and even the timed sequence at the end was more memorization than anything else. Of course this would be forgivable if the story were better but it is cliche-city to the extreme. It was fun to see the integration between FMV and pre-rendered backgrounds, there were a few great gory moments (Adrien's face getting ripped off by the demon in ch7 was definitely the highpoint of the game), and the real star of the game was exploring the house itself but... [6/10] edit: btw, if anyone cares, the best moments from the game are shown here.
Hmmm... To Laura Bow or King's Quest 7 next?
...bysmitty
I just finished the first two campaigns, as well as half of the third campaing, in Left 4 Dead. I wasn't even playing with other people (just with bots), but damn, I was having a blast! It's too bad my video memory conked out half way through the third campaign and I had to restart the computer... but hey, that's what I get for overclocking. I'll have to finish it up... maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow.
Playing: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC)
I was playing some Fallout 3 last night, and considering that my goal on this run-through is to kill every single person I meet, there's a little something that pissed me of: some characters are not only invincible, they're invincible and will attack you relentlessly. Now, Bethesda, how is that fair? Luckily, I found a way to make them stop chasing me: I knocked them out (this doesn't last very long), and then slept. When I woke up, they were friendly again.
Playing: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC)
LOL...you are evil. I'm actually playing through fallout three again too. And this time, I've downloaded a ton of mods to change the game a bit and it's got my interest again. I've got about 35 mods and counting plus I'm using the HD texture pack and another mod to change the colours because I thought the original fallout 3 was just a tad too yellowish/greenish 
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