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I need to get Red Dead myself but i'll wait till i get a new Gaming Laptop.

Are you planning to grab a new laptop anytime soon? What kind are you thinking about getting?

HP ENVY dv7-7338ea, 16 gig ram, 1 tb storage, 2 gb Nvidia graphics, i7-quadcore. 

I'll probably get it next year, after the christmas rush i'll haved saved some cash and my current job position will be stable too.

That sounds like it'll be quite a hoss, that should be able to handle all the games from the past gen at pretty high settings right? I bet that'll be a real nice gaming laptop.

yep, upgradeable too, i've taken apart computers so it'll be pretty easy to do.

that's a lot of new games.  I liked Dead Space 2 and the fact they gave Isaac a voice and face too.  I love the ending where he's just sitting there for a moment....

I liked the Sprawl as a setting. The Ishimura was good for being a cold mining vessel, but the Sprawl is a residential colony with humans and children. They really sold me the fact that humans lived there through the art, lighting, and vingettes.

What did you think of the section where you go through the elementary school? I thought that was the most emotionally affecting and disturbing area for me because I knew that those monsters use to be somebodies babies and adolescent children and not just faceless monsters. A number of games have used baby monsters as an enemy type before, like Doom 3, and that kind of enemy type has never been affecting or convincing until I played Dead Space 2. I felt horrible during that whole section, I was uncomfortable and I think that speaks well to the efforts the game went to making you feel a sense of place and humanity.

I think "zombie" children are okay enemies.  definitely creepy, but fair game.  having children to kill in a game like GTA though isn't cool with me.  

The Dead Space 2 story ends on a positive note and has a good outro, but the whole game leading up to it is along the lines of a tragedy drama all centered around survivor's guilt and I thought that was really amazing for a game to go there. That survivor's guilt is built upon Issac's relationship with Nicole and what happened to her, but I also felt some of that guilt going through the Sprawl and seeing all the people who had been killed by the necromorphs. The children in the elementary school sequence were the strongest moment of that effect and I thought it was well done. They could've made this game a silly monster of the week game where you just run around killing the Moby Dick of necromorphs like a space marine but instead they made it really uncomfortable and cerebral. It worked well for me and turned out to make a pretty good story and tragic atmosphere that made me feel creeped out, sympathetic, and both suspicious of Issac and hopeful for him at the same time.

yeah it's disappointing that the 3rd one isn't so good. I haven't played it myself but my brother says it's not so good.  

I don't think I'm going to buy the 3rd game. Maybe next year when Halloween time comes around I might try it out but I'd bet there will be better horror games for me to go check out. It's already dirt cheap to buy DS3 new so it'll still be cheap next year, but it all depends on if I'm interested in giving it a shot, it sounds like that game turned out pretty rough.

I feel like a terrible person because while I have read The Name of the Wind, I have yet to read a Wise Man's Fear.

The Witcher 2 is definitely one of my favourite games of this past generation.  The Witcher 3 is the entire reason that I am excited for the next generation of consoles...  Thankfully for me, I do not have much longer to wait until I join the next gen crowd. 

The Wise Man's Fear is a pretty excellent continuation of the story. I love the way the characters develop during that 2nd book, I think you'll like it.

I'm going to have to play The Witcher 2 sometime soon, it looks really good. Of all the next gen games coming Witcher 3 looks like one of the coolest by far. Dragon Age 3 looks pretty cool but there's reasons to be suspicious of how it'll turn out. The Witcher series seems to have a much better track record.

The WItcher's decisions felt like they held a lot more weight.  Especially compared to the ones you make in Mass Effect.  I have not played Dragon Age, but I assume that the choices that you make are along the same lines as the Mass Effect choices.  The Witcher's game even branches depending on which choice you made.  That never happened in Mass Effect.  

BTW, I did enjoy Mass Effect, but I think that the Witcher did choices a lot better. 

The choices made during Dragon Age 2 have some similarities with Mass Effect but the game is structured differently and feels different. DA2 has a clear 3 act structure you move through and you make big decisions in each act that affect what happens to people and factions in the next act. Mass Effect never had any clear acts it just flowed together and decisions made it into the next game. DA2 is a much more contained story and digestible and the main character's story is wrapped up in that one game. In some ways it's better than Mass Effect because you don't have to play through 3 whole games to see things wrap up, or not wrap up. The Dragon Age universe is pretty interesting and you get a good sense of it in DA2 and the story wraps itself up by the end.

I'll be interested to see the story in Witcher 2, it seems like it's right up my alley since I'm a fan of dark fantasy and political intrigue.

I need Super Mario 3D World too!  I was going to wait a little while until I finished some other games, but was too excited about it so I went to the Best Buy near my work today at lunch but they were sold out. On the way home I stopped at another best buy and then a Target, and they were both sold out too. It sucks!

I hope you can get that game sooner rather than later, it looks really cool. I need a good platformer right now and that game just looks like the perfect fit, I hope I can get a Wii U sometime next year.

I hope I can get a Wii U this christmas. It's not that the other consoles are bad, but they haven't atracted me that much, and I had always been a Nintendo fanboy. Besides, Mario, the latest Sonic game and Wind Waker HD look fantastic, together with other games that are gonna come out like Watch Dogs.

If I can get a Wii U next year I'd like to get ZombiU, Super Mario 3D World, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Windwaker HD, and Pikmin 3. There might be a couple I'm forgetting but I'm certainly excited for future games for the system, I'd like to see what the next big Zelda will be like on Wii U.

Whats going on Michael you never comment on my blogs anymore so I figured I will comment on yours, really like the games you got Dark Arisen is a awesome game tough as nails but really good and the Witcher 2 is one of my favirite rpgs actually The Witcher 3 will be the main reason I go next gen, and whats your thoughts on tale if two sons I have been eyeing that one.

I haven't played Brothers yet but I'm going to try to finish it soon before goty deliberations come up because I've heard a lot of good things about it. I'm really happy I have both Dark Arisen and Witcher 2 now, I've been talking about getting those game for months now, and now I finally have them. I want to play Dark Arisen first between those two I think.

This is a huge game be ready for a long haul with that one but totally worth it.

I was surprised by how good The Witcher 2 was.  I had a little trouble getting into the combat system, but once I learned it, the game was great.