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    Poll: The glories of Ice cream

    Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough is clearly the best. I once had Smurf flavour ice cream from a little ice cream shop in Belgium though, which was pretty awesome.
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    Are There Any Games You Loved, but Never Finished?

    Cheers dude, I'll go check it out :)
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    Are There Any Games You Loved, but Never Finished?

    Rayman 2: The Great Escape. I got it when I was about five, and it would crash at a certain point about 2/3 of the way through the game- so I never completed it. :(
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    Zero Punctuation: Tomb Raider

    And yet you implied that he agreed with your analysis. ...I hope that wasn't an attempt at humour there.
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    Zero Punctuation: Tomb Raider

    Wow... You really have given it some thought, haven't you? Well, that all does sound pretty cool (although I'm not so sure about the giant Sam/Himiko boss fight idea). Nevertheless, I still enjoyed the game and I think a lot of the criticism it's been getting is needlessly exaggerated. But...
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    Bug or Glitch?

    I didn't think there was a difference, but if there is I'd say it's more a problem of degree than classification: bugs are worse than glitches, but the words are otherwise interchangeable.
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    Poll: Prequels; Can they be good?

    Well it's a pointless question. Any story can be good if handled properly, regardless of whether or not it's a prequel. To an extent, but then the best stories are able to be suspenseful even on repeat plays/reads/watches.
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    Tomb Raider Writer Halved Lara's Kills For Narrative's Sake Update: No, She Didn't

    To be honest, I think basing the game on tomb raiding would have kind of missed the point of the story... It's about Lara becoming the woman who raids tombs, but as far as she's concerned here all she wants to do is get off Yamatai. Having her spend hours searching for ancient treasure wouldn't...
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    What are some gaming 'icons', companies, 'opinions' and/or famous games you hate?

    The positivity on display here is really starting to rub off on me. I'm so glad that this hasn't just deacended into a Master Chief hate thread or something... Anyway, trying to pick favourites/least favourites is practically impossible. No developer is completely beneath my contempt, because...
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    No extra tombs to raid in Tomb Raider, says Crystal Dynamics.

    Why would you not bother? I thought everyone was complaining that there weren't enough tombs to raid. OP: This is good. Half the time, DLC is essentially just a marketing ploy to get people to buy stuff that should have been in the game in the first place anyway (barring full-on expansion...
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    views on the world thread, quite possibly the funniest topic.

    Sorry, double post. Bloody phone. :/
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    views on the world thread, quite possibly the funniest topic.

    Life's a *****, and then you die. There is no meaning to it beyond that which we give it ourselves, and there is absolutely no point in believing otherwise. We've all got two choices: either live our lives how we want to live them, or waste them wallowing in guilt and self-pity. Since we only...
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    RPG games to fill my Dragon Age Origins needs.

    I don't know if you've ever played the Dungeon Siege Games. I haven't played 1 or 3, but Dungeon Siege II was a fun party-based rpg (like Dragon Age). It might have aged a bit since it came out in 2005, but I have fond memories.
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    Zero Punctuation: Tomb Raider

    I don't recall Yahtzee saying he thought this game was an 'overrated piece of shite'. He just did what he does with most games, and actually, I think it was really not that scathing at all by his standards. So how would you improve the story then? There is character development- she starts off...