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I dont wanna join in because I'm a strictly solo gamer, but it's a great play. My only gripe was vastly preferring the character menus of 1.
oh i know, its one of my favorites series(minus the last one). I'm actually a solo player too and plat'd the first two on PS3 by myself. Borderlands 2 is in my top 5 games of the last 10 years. I love the quirky story. Claptrap is the best.
 
Have any other red dead 2 players had a motherfuck of a time getting a bull moose when they're actually looking for one? Like for a big ass animal they're fucking sneaky low spawn pieces of shit. I've probably dumped near 8 hours into looking the past week, following all the YouTube and google advice, not a single one.
 
Not sure what your standards are for RPGs, but KotOR 1 is pretty great, and KotOR 2 is masterful, but unfinished. (The game was released before it was ready and it shows, but it's still worth playing through for some of the most complex character writing in video game history.)
 
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I bought Project Warlock, for first look it's ugly, even as retro fps :/ i hope the gameplay is much better.
 
started a new game of x-com ufo defense, the spin being that each of my soldiers shall be named after GMD regulars. i've named the soldiers using a randomiser so there's no bias. more will be added in due course.

here is the current lineup:

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the words after each name are auto-generated based on your stats. the longer you survive the more battle-hardened you were get, but for now most of you are cowards, weak, terrible marksmen or... actually mildly competent in a few cases.

the first ten on the list are about to embark on their first terror mission after we shot down a UFO in the wastes of eastern russia. it's a daytime mission so hopefully there won't be many casualties, but please don't underestimate my ability to fuck up at xcom. aliens are mean and i'm retarded. you might all die.

good luck @Omnilacterybonemora @Mort Divine @HamburgerBoy @Jimmy... Dead. @arg @Dak @Blurry_Dreams @Manic Ferocity @zabu of nΩd @Anom@nder Rake i'll update you as to your fates after the mission's completed.
 
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the crashed aircraft contained seven floaters, pictured above (screenshot stolen from google, i'm not playing on dosbox). four soldiers, two navigators and an engineer; soldiers are generally regarded as the lowest alien rank, navigators are fairly low and engineers are mid-tier. this particular squad was rather cautious, all of them staying in or around their crashed ship, which meant that we quickly had them surrounded and laid siege. in retrospect, we may have pushed too hard, too soon...

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unfortunately, after a number of smooth, painless turns in which three aliens were killed without incident, we took three casualties ourselves in quick succession. mort got the joint most kills of anyone in our squad and died a hero, albeit a hero who got shot in the face from point blank range because he ended a turn standing right in front of the ship door like an imbecile.

however, let's end the recap on a positive note:
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congratulations to hamburgerboy and manic ferocity, each of whom got promoted to sergeant off the back of their mission heroics! hbb stunned and ultimately killed a navigator, while manic incinerated the last of the soldiers. blurry_dreams and omni have been semi-promoted to squaddie. blurry might feel hard done by after killing a navigator and engineer--the most kills of any surviving soldiers--but i suppose nobody wanted a toesniffing meth addict in command. omni is extremely lucky to be alive after a floater missed three shots from just a few yards away as he was raiding the ship's bridge.

meanwhile, anomander rake, jimmy and arg remain rookies after doing sweet fuck all during this mission. jimmy's presence was particularly pointless, ambling around the edges of the map and leaning against trees catching his breath every 20 yards. he gets tired so quickly that it would've taken him about a hundred turns to actually reach the action. and for someone named after an immortal sword-wielding dragonlord, anomander sure acted like a total pussy here, hanging back by the ship for most of the mission. grow a pair, rake.

what the fatalities mean going forward is we'll be getting in some new GMD recruits, as well as giving other existing recruits a taste of action, so stay tuned!
 

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