10 years from now:

"Eh, sorry, can't play any TF2 today, a creeper blew up my gaming rig."

Yay, +10 fame ^_^
On a serious note though you guys were awesome and the game wasn't bad either, so a good day out in the end.

*looks at number 100*

*flies into an uncontrollable rage*

*squints until 100 looks more like a 10 and feels much better*

For those of you complaining about GR taking the side of pre-release DLC and store specific pre-order bonuses, or indeed any pre-order bonus, should bare in mind that they just like playing devils advocate.

I agree with Curmudgeonly Gamer on most points bar art-direction, FPS' to some extent, and younger online gamers who have as much right to be playing the games and talking over voice chat as I do. Other than that Open-Minded gamer is obviously just a chump with no backbone and Curmudgeonly gamer is spot on the money.

He wants college courses to be poorly designed lumps of faeces?

"Did the writers intend this companion to be part of the story? Is his narrative integral to the plot as it was conceived, and sort of done without if the DLC is ignored? Are writers even able to create something cogent when a marketing team is demanding that they cut the game into ribbons, so each section can be sold separately?

The mistake is the appearance of greed, of swindling your initial customer."

Rock paper shotgun put it best as usual... http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/02/dragon-age-ii-dlc-already-this-is-silly/

Looks fun, I'd be interested to know if it's something that'd really hold your attention for long but it looks like they've got a nice variety of game modes and maps so it's all looking promising.

A perfect score for a perfect game that will piss off people who are looking for story driven... oh no.

I hope they've learned from their mistakes from the first game, not sure getting dice to do the multiplayer again would be a good move (it kinda just came off as Battlefield BC2 mini version) and as far as SP goes from what I've played of it (haven't finished it, don't actually own in, played the first few levels on my mates ps3) they really need to learn how to do scripted events better... although to be fair so do their competitors (the COD series has gotten worse on that front since COD4 IMO, and Bad Company 2 was pretty dodgy with some of it's scripted sequences).

I also really hope a couple (not those whole bloody FPS side of the industry) of studios put out some solid sci-fi fps' soon, and high sci-fi, not the gritty Killzones or Resistance stuff, which are fine, but for some reason I find myself yearning for a Halo... that isn't Halo.

I god... so their delving further into the deep wealth of vibrant, diverse and interesting *massive sarcasm* fiction that they've built up over I suppose both COD4 and MW2, but really mostly with MW2, the inferior SP experience by quite a bit, partly because the level design simply wasn't as interesting, but also because the story was utter gash.

Planescape Torment would like a word with Mr. Wright

"It’s not an accident that they died."

His face is guna be broken is he doesn't stfu >.<

Also stop slagging off Bioshock Blow, it was better than Braid, it's a great game, deal with.

Surprised to not see Johnathan Blow's name pop up on here somewhere, not nessesarily all that bothered seeing as there were bound to be people/teams forgotten/left off, and he isn't the only one, but still surprised.

I think if you're excited for Arkham City, it's never been for the prospect of a multiplayer mode.

Love the ending...

As somebody who has no interest in pirating this build, or indeed any build (unless there's a curve-ball last minute killer DRM announcement which I highly, highly doubt) of the game, I'm more pissed that it got leaked in the first place. Games getting leaked to pirates isn't unusual, but normally it happens when the game goes to print, for a beta build to get leaked is a little more sinister.

The pirates are just doing what they do, I don't approve but expecting them to ignore a beta build of a high profile, AAA title that "falls" into their laps is like putting a panda in a bamboo forest then telling it to just eat meat... not guna happen. Who ever leaked it though, be it a person or persons at EA/Crytek, should be very, very ashamed of themselves... although they probably got paid pretty well so I doubt it sadly.

Also in response to the original comment "video game pirates are the worst. and then people wonder why DRM is so intense"

I think I should point out that us pc gamers wonder why the DRM is so intensely punishing for the paying users because that's exactly what it does, it punishes the people who buy a legitimate copy (when it's bad, there have been and still are effective, at least mostly non intrusive DRM methods) not the pirates, they rip the DRM off and get a pirate version out there usually with-in a couple days of release, I think the longest it took for a fully working pirate copy to get released was with the Ubisoft always online DRM, and that was only around a month.

:'(

Meh, partly agree, partly disagree. What is for sure is that his ego is now bloating out of control, give it another month and "CliffyB" will have morphed into a black hole of self congratulation.

PC FTW...