Chindie
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The gliding you definitely pick up with practice. It's all about getting the 'finesse' of it, so to speak - it's about nailing the length of time to dive and then nailing the right amount of pull back to gain height again. Pissing about around the city (especially with the grapnel upgrade) will soon have you gliding for ages. The AR missions are effectively just a test about how accurate you can be - and I'm still not much cop at them, but that actual gliding to get places I've got down after struggling at first. The whole game improves when you get your bearings and click with the mechanics again.
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UK Military steps up plans for Iran attack amid new nuclear fears Worrying. More conflict is no good thing, Iran's motives are certainly questionable (as might ours be, depending on your viewpoint), and even if it was a comparitive hit and run capability removal campaign ala Israel v Egypt's nuclear ambition, Iran's leadership will only be further driven to hatred and aggression. A no win situtation, arguably. EDIT - I was fairly sure we had an Iran thread, or at least one this fit into, but it appears to have been pruned.
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The remote batarang is probably the weakest thing in the game. It's a cool idea that they've never really clocked how to implement well, it is very twitchy and a lot of people get thrown by it suddenly switching to inverted controls. I find the best thing is to make liberal use of the brake, only use the left stick and make the most of your aiming/positioning before you throw. It's not the best part of the game regardless - thankfully unless you go Riddler trophy hunting, you are forced to use it maybe... 3 times in the game.
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Hardened Edition looks like it's going to be popular - our allocation is now all preordered. Surprised me a little. Got to take a look at the Intel pack today. Comes in a little cardboard envelope with some codes and stuff in, it's nothing much but at the same time it feels like a nice touch kinda thing.
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I hated XII. I was hyped for it, even managed to buy the hardback strat guide. Let me down terribly. Never finished it. Got about 7 hours in and just couldn't bring myself to finish it. IX is my favourite. Great game. Vivi for life yo'.
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The list is also, however, we must assume, wrong - it claims the main character is Hispanic and involved in turf wars. The trailer leads us to the conclusion that we play as a middle aged man, and hints quite heavily (though we cannot say decisively it as good as confirms this) that he is a white man. He does not appear to be the type to be involved in gangland turfwars. Much of the rest of it you could have guessed pretty easily. The San Andreas setting was the number one guess of pretty much everyone. ...I wouldn't hold it in too great an esteem. As Rev says, it's from 4Chan.
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You need to talk to him on the specific dates, so the Halloween dialogue is only on 31/10, Valentines only 14/2... etc. The special dialogue is supposed to be quite interesting and revealing about the characters back story, though I've not done it myself yet.
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Trailer left me a bit nonplussed. Los Santos, at least, hints that it's going full San Andreas, cool enough, but besides that it struck me as being GTA4 again as an initial reaction. Even the (already set up) reluctant criminal angle that Nico had elements of. Hoping the coming months reveal rather more to be hyped about.
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GTA became a satire of US culture, the 'spirit' of the series is now that it's somewhat poking fun at America. It can't really do that anywhere else and, now, to go somewhere else would fundamentally alter the franchise as we know it.
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It won't be on new consoles because they are at least 2 years away and Rockstar/Take2 need a big new title out before the end of next year, and the only other thing they're releasing is Max Payne, which is out in March and isn't big enough.
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Washington is an insanely dull city. Company town, and the company is the US government. If the financial crisis is involved, it'll be a theme, background, whatever, to the games main plot.
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Not sure on the setting (although I would not be disappointed by a San Andreas setting. I loved the variety), but a lot of the talk, which I think has merit, has the plot set against the financial crisis. Given how Rockstar loves some satirical elements to their games, I can definitely see it. We shall see tomorrow anywho. It'll still be a circa a year away but it'll get the tongues wagging. Heres hoping it's a bit more fun than GTA4 was, which whilst an impressive title just didn't have the fun factor of the old games.
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I know it does if you ask them to wait for one reason or another. I just never noticed it going up when actually travelling, i.e. when stopped at lights. I can't believe that's the first time I've ever noticed that.
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Got in a taxi home last night and I dunno whether I've just never noticed this before, but the meter was running up on time elapsed - every 10 seconds the fee went up 13p. I always thought it was on distance, with the cost per distance covered adjusted for time of day/etc. It annoyed me anyway. I just sat there watching the cost toll up as we sat at a traffic light. Those lights cost me best part of a quid.
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I'm still perplexed how Makoun seemed to have changed as a player after his time at Lyon. He was nothing like what we saw when he played for Lille. Odd. Sometimes things just don't work out and thats the way it is for Makoun.
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From what I know, it's just the standard edition and the collectors. I have heard talk that the first pressing might be a 'limited' style thing, coming with the premium map (which is not cloth - it's a 'high quality textured paper') instead of your bog standard paper one, but nothing else (Bethesda are recommending preordering if you want it, shock horror). There are other variants available elsewhere but I've heard nothing of the sort for here - for example I think the US company Future Shop is offering a steelbook case with their copies or something. I've also been hearing the talk that the 360 version is a bit rough - I do know that it allegedly has an obscenely small 360 install file, sub 4GB, which is crazy for a game this ambitious in scope. Also, beware Youtube from here on in - 360 version leaked earlier today and Youtube will be full of vids soon enough. If you do want something premuim for your Skyrim purchase, theres going to be a hardback strategy guide which looks quite nice.
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I reckon modern technology could make those quite easily. I also am slightly perplexed as to why we're supposed to be confounded as to how these things where made - we've carved 'difficult' materials for thousands of years. We've carved granite for time immemorial. We've carved brittle objects for as long - slate is one of the most brittle stones around yet we've been able to carve it. Basanite is simply a form of jasper, which we've used for everything from jewellery to boxwork and quite intricate carving, for quite some time as well.
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You don't need to have played Arkham Asylum - the story does follow on but not in a particularly meaningful way. All you might need to know is that Arkham Asylum, the place all of Batman's villains end up, was run by a bloke called Quincy Sharp and following Joker sending the place to **** in the first game, Sharp has become Mayor of Gotham and decided that closing off part of the city to make a giant open air prison is in fact not a stupid idea, and instead a fantastic one. And Batman/Bruce Wayne thinks it's a crazy idea. The first game is superb though, it's much tighter and feels a little more nostalgic of old school games than it's sequel, and I would think with the new additions to the fighting and traversal mechanics that playing the first after this one might leave you feelin something is missing. It's cheap too and not that long to play through - get them both in
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Interrogating goons never gets old, even if it does reveal that Batman is a bit more of a dick in this than usual 'How many bones do I have to break to make you tell me what I want to know?' 'If you value eating solid food, you'll tell me what you know about the Riddler' All while Batman holds them up by the throat
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The story on the Makoun/Houllier connection IIRC was that Houllier was a known admirer of him and wanted to get him at Lyon but never managed it. After he left Lyon managed to get him anyway.
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Rocksteady are Brits, but since the game is set in the US, the main audience is American, etc etc, it makes sense to have a slightly more US influenced line up of dates. Besides which I think they wanted one in each month and conveniently the US has Independence Day, Labor Day and Thanksgiving that the rest of the world don't have.
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Aye, visiting Calendar Man on 12 notable dates (US centric - New Years Day, Valentines Day, St Patricks Day, April Fools Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Independence Day, the Feast of St. Roch (?), Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day) throughout the year will unlock an achievement - he has unique dialogue for those days to make it somewhat worthwhile. You can of course 'game' it. Unhook from Live and fiddle with your date settings IIRC.
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Remember to pop in and see Calendar Man today chaps
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You're in a for a treat Risso. A little overwhelming at first once you get your earings it's superb. And it's even more of a Batman fanwank than the first one was.
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The presence of a crab also suggests primitive knowledge of sexual health and wellbeing.
