Recent content by Ziren

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    Max Payne 3 Shaves Head in First Look Trailer

    One of the TVs in the final mission actually has a report that Bravura is in a stable state, so at least he should be alive.
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    Stolen Pixels #205: The Bullet Massage

    You can kill Hermann through talk without the self-destruction code? If yes, then I never figured that out. If not, getting the code is exactly the thing I was talking about: it depended on a choice you had to make much earlier without any knowledge about whether this decision could influence...
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    Stolen Pixels #205: The Bullet Massage

    Considering that advancing the stealth skill gives you an ability to turn invisible, while still being able to perform silent takedowns on non-bosses, I'd say it's very viable. Second most powerful ability in the game (right after chain shot, the pistol ability), actually.
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    Stolen Pixels #205: The Bullet Massage

    "This plan fell apart about three hours in when I met the first boss fight and realized the game expected me to fight a guy in the open, on a bridge, surrounded by henchmen, in broad daylight, with no possibility for a surprise attack." This is wrong. You can defeat the first boss by sneaking...
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    Poll: Best Star Trek Ever? Star Trek Voyager

    I liked DS9 most, it was focusing more on the characters and a sophisticated storyline rather than the classic Star Trek exploration theme. Voyager tries to be somewhere between the two of them... but that didn't really work for me. However, it's still better than Enterprise or TOS.
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    No Dedicated Servers or LAN Play in Command & Conquer 4

    I'd really like to know why they had to cut LAN-support for the new features Bass cited. I can't see any hurdles that would make it impossible to include both.
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    Escape to the Movies: Special: Bond Girls

    Those lines aren't contradicting each other because "many" doesn't mean "all" or even "the majority". And while it's true that no movement, scene, etc. is universally unified, there seem to be a lot of people that don't realize this. Look at peoples reaction towards emos, goths, furries, gays...
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    Escape to the Movies: Special: Bond Girls

    Thanks. You saved me the time to write a post like this myself. But since this is a gaming website we'll most likely fall on deaf ears.
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    Horror Meets Shopping at the Echo Bazaar

    I think I'm done with this game now. Failing three times at straightforward-tests to conclude an ongoing mission - and the last one was the hard conclusion to "The curate and his sister" (which I attempted at Investigating... 30), a quest that can't even be repeated. Right now, I'm frustrated...
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    Horror Meets Shopping at the Echo Bazaar

    I'm currently at dangerous 21, watchful 24 and shadowy 14 and all targets in Knife and Candle are still way out of my league... So in short, you probably can't.
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    Horror Meets Shopping at the Echo Bazaar

    To everyone who wants my help getting rid of nightmares: I'm currently at nightmares 5 myself, so I can't afford to help you. Sorry. I'd be happy about supper invitations, though. I need a lot more of those tokens of admiration.
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    Horror Meets Shopping at the Echo Bazaar

    Oh, low-level work becomes unavailable when you raise your stats too high? Bugger. Does anybody know where I can get rats on a string other than in Watchmaker's Hill and the Bazaar?
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    Horror Meets Shopping at the Echo Bazaar

    At least you get an uncommon item out of it... I tried to decipher runes today and got nightmare +4 and nothing else because I was unlucky, putting me to an eight. It's not really that bad turning crazy (no permanent stat damage, lost items or anything) it just needs a lot of adventures to...