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I think the weapons are queued in order of strength. I usually throw a few blades to kick things off and it always defaults to my next strongest weapon I have equipped. Bit annoying, but I suppose it makes sense. The weapon prefixes are relevant to a specific stat (or stats). There's a forum post somewhere that explains it all, or at least a best guess from the guy that's written it. Don't trust the auto-saves. Not ever. When you quit always make sure you pause the game and select Quit (I think it's the Y button actually). It moans about unsaved progress but then kicks off a save anyway. You should start from exactly where you were standing doing it that way. I've not had a problem so far doing it that way.

So this is going to be good, right? Haven't seen something get that many top scores for ages. Can't wait. Shopto have taken my monies, not had a ship notice yet though so i'm expecting it for Monday. Not really that fussed when I get it though as I won't be able to get a good session on it until the weekend anyway.

Looks comfortable, has more buttons, it could pleasure me whenever I wanted but it would still be a ridiculous piece of kit I'm seriously thinking about getting rid of my 3DS and i've only had it for a month. Ocarina just isn't doing it for me, it's not as I remember and i'd be happier with my memories of it I think. The only thing stopping me is Resident Evil and Mario Land 3D, as they both look excellent, but not sure it's worth keeping just for those two.

Easy peasy! Sep: Gears 3 Oct: Batman Nov: Skyrim Dec: Uncharted 3 Soooooo not gonna happen though. It's silly not to wait as I can (and should) only play one game at a time. I just can't help myself

Done! Set Raptr up ages ago and it tracks my 360 stuff, but they still don't have a Mac client so my WoW and Steam playtime never gets logged.

Good episode. Felt a bit sinister almost at the end there when Also, older Amy = totally still would

I'll join the fight also Not long until it's out!

Mr. Hendo, how does one's stats get included on this list?

Sounds shite. Heard nasty things about the sewers, not looking forward to that. The sound in this game is fappin exceptional. I'm constantly on edge around the city as there's groans and screams coming from every direction. Never know where they're gonna come from next. The day/night and weather cycle within the city is sweet as well. It gets very spooky when it starts chucking it down and gets all dark, especially with all the noises. Just found out that B is for a quick medkit, could've done with that eariler doh

It basically just says "So what? We got our money, you'll get it when you get it, jeeeeez " although it may as well say "LOOK JUST FUCK OFF, OKAY?". GAME, Zavvi, Play, HMV are all on my shitlist for pre-orders. That sort of thing is all I ever got back from GAME when they fucked up some of my orders and I sent them a strongly worded email. I must've sent about 10 emails, including replies, for one order. I even explicitly asked for some compensation in the form of points or something. They ended up giving me 1000 points, probably just so i'd stop emailing

9 hours? Epic! The women in the city do wear clothes, no more necrotic bikini action I've noticed it's fucked up one of my quests, A Voice From Above The Sky where you have to grab the sat-phone for the Russian dude. It's skipped over and greyed out actually getting the phone and moved itself onto the next step. Same with the downed plane one. Hopefully they aren't completely broken and I can still do them. Constantly forget to use Fury, think i've popped it about twice or so myself. It seems to charge up pretty quickly though so I should really get into the habit of using it I guess.

Not been bored at all since I started playing, I keep wanting more if anything. Not had any trouble finishing any of the missions so far, they've all been clearly labelled on the map. Sometimes the routes get a little screwy but as it's all open it's not tough to find an alternative route. Tell a lie actually, getting the alcohol for Stanley wasn't 100% clear on how many bottles he wanted, turns out it was 15, but I just kept collecting and going back until the quest ended, no massive issue really. Really enjoyed the food and gas run iit was very cool driving around all over the place. I think it's the combat that keeps me wanting more, it's so tactile and strategic. Every hit you make really feels as though it's connecting and placing your hits to disable and slow down your opponents is like a mini-game in itself. It's also a lot of fun toying with them when you get a couple on their own. My favourite thing so far though is waiting for the fast Infected to charge at you and just spanking them when they get close. Their momentum usually makes for an interesting death. Using the molotovs and explosive canisters in inventive ways is also great fun. Will be on this for the rest of the day I think, once the F1 is finished. Looking forward to getting my hands on some guns this afternoon

Feel like i've been playing this for ages, and the end is still nowhere in sight. It says i'm at 17% plot progress, which isn't even a quarter of the way through yet! Damn this game is big. Figured out some cool combat tips I thought i'd share: Thrown weapons don't take durability damage (or at least very little) so keep your distance with kicks and chuck a bunch of bladed weapons to weaken them, then go in for the kill with your main weapon. You can then pick up your blades off the corpse and your best weapons will last longer as well. One from the loading screen was nice to find out: Apparently when you knock enemies down, the force stat is added to your damage stat! For great justice... and popped heads Use your kick to finish off a downed enemy on very low health. Saves using a good weapon and taking a full hits durability loss on it when they only have a fraction of HP left. Didn't find this out until last night but you can press A and a direction to quickly hop and avoid stuff. Especially useful when fighting those sumbitch Thugs. If you guys have any tips i'd love to hear them.

Quite a ways through this now, just hit level 12 I think. It just gets better and better. I picked the big guy also as he had the best starting stats. Picked up and created some sweet weapons, my favourite so far being a flaming stick of DOOM . Has a chance to set the zambies on fire which really fucks them up. I'd definitely recommend the analog controls to anyone playing this, they're so much more accurate than the digital. It's almost as if Techland wasn't confident in those controls by burying them in the options menu. They should have had a bit more faith and made them the default. Quests are structured really well I think, despite mostly being fetch quests so far. They tend to send you quite far away which takes you well out of your comfort zone and it gets very tense when exploring new areas, especially now there's more variety in the enemies i'm facing. Sometimes it's not very clear where you're supposed to go and the ant trails on the mini-map have sent me into dead ends a few times, but it's so much fun just mooching around and exploring that it's difficult to hold it against the game.

I make it a general rule to stay well away from GAME's website, they've fucked up new releases far too many times in the past for me to pre-order anything from them ever again. ShopTo all the way!

This is going to be an immediate restart once the credits have rolled, I can feel it now. Did the same with the first game, but with a normal > hard playthrough. So excited for this, i'm literally beside myself in anticipation

New Coheed track, suits me just fine

Ummmmm, whaaaa...? Kinda lost for words with that.

Very enjoyable episode, no need for any knowledge of the current story arc, just sit down and watch the Doctor do his thing. I prefer the weirder epsiodes, and those fucking dolls scared the shit out of me I've completely exhausted any likely theories I can think of and read elsewhere as to where the story is going so i'm content to just see where it goes now. Next weeks episode looks a bit good!

I can't help doing it whenever i'm waiting around for something, especially when there's a patrolling guard and i'm boogying behind a wall, Safety Dance blaring in my head

Played the trial loved the Python references and general style of it but couldn't see any challenge in it. It's easier to just forget about placing defenses after you've done your first lot and kicked off your ball and just race to the bottom as quick as you can. Three hits and the door is down regardless of how hard you hit it despite what the game says. I'd like to pick it if it ever goes on sale though, for the style alone as it did make me laugh quite a bit.

Though this was a bit funny:

Most complete automatically, like the collection and kill quests. There are a few that require you to return to the quest giver but they tell you when that's necessary. Just got out onto Guar Plains... omg that place is immense! Massive monsters wandering around as well

Great return from Dr. Who, very enjoyable and fun episode, glad to finally have it back on telly. Love Matt Smith in that role, easily my favourite Doctor since McCoy.

Got to China yesterday, the story has kicked up a notch. First boss fight is done, less of a problem than I was expecting. Few well placed grenades and some barrels to the face and he went down. Completely upgraded my hacking and hacking stealth augs, and picked up a stun gun, much easier to sneak about and find new routes now. I've been holding off using my Praxis points until a situation presents itself which seems to be working rather well than trying to guess what's coming up. Found a route which required a long fall so bought the Icarus landing system, likewise with the heavy lifting aug. I think they could've done a much better job on the upgrade system, seeing as some augs feel mandatory (like the hacking and speech). They could've had the fun upgrades require points, like the landing system and the typhoon aug, but have the upgrades like hacking and strength etc. just level up through successful use. The upgrade tree seems to be split in that way as it is with the important/useful things on the left and more situational upgrades on the right.