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Asked to play something somewhat less noisy and ‘splodey than Spec Ops: The Line, I realized that I never got around to beating Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. So I started playing that thinking “oh, it’s a nice evolution of Tomb Raiding in the Indiana Jones vein, lush environments, great voice acting, interesting characters… we’ll do that!”

And I’ve shot, like, 200 people.

It’s irritating because the non-shooty parts of the game are *SOOOOOO* good (there’s this scene where you and your compatriot are trying to escape a sprawling mansion as it burns and, seriously, I’ve seen action movies that weren’t as exciting and I’m thinking “I should recommend this to my nephew!” and then I start shooting people in the head again). Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if the shooty parts didn’t feel like padding.

So… what are you playing?

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  1. what do you think of spec ops? i’m stuck between “this was a lousy spend of 7.50” and “i see why all the critics i like peed themselves over this”.

    also i mean r u in 2 it in the opening sequence? fer rilla?

    • I’m just coming off of Far Cry 3, so I’m charitably inclined toward it. Sure, it’s a Military Shooter set in the Middle East where The Terrorists are the bad guys but… eh. It’s not like there aren’t Military Folks in the Middle East fighting The Terrorists.

      I haven’t gotten to the lousy part yet (nor the peeing).

      • i will say i was impressed by the load screen that simply read “you are still a good person.”

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