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FCUK YEAH! I'm always in the mood for crusing 'round a beautiful, realistic world, especially one of Rockstar's creations. I hope they keep it (ultra) realistic, and relevant to current events. I wonder what the world will be like at its release, with all the protests and coming elections (where people are bound to get even more pissed, no great candidates in sight, hope fading, etc)...

@Kibbles XIII Poor that. Do not butcher thats! :(

@Rain I'd also avoided Borderlands until recently (Steam Summer Camp Sale, same price). Go into it with "Duke Nukem Forever" Gearbox in mind and you *may* not be disappointed. I was expecting ... more. Perhaps the constant reminders of (the perfect) Fallout 3 threw me off. Pretty, lots of guns, but a very weak story and single-player experience that bored me quickly. Still hard to regret at $8, though.

@RubbishyMe: Yeah, GOTY wouldn't work, but nothing's stopping them from releasing somethings like a "Complete Edition". That's what I'll continue waiting for, to be expected after *all* the DLC's been released for a while.

Ha! Sony (is totally incompetent and) kind of does the exact opposite of everything I'd ever want. "PlayStation-branded 3D TV!" Wut. "Wait, have this Cinavia DRM. Did we mention 3D?! Oh, and we lost all of your personal data eleventy times over two months." GTFO...

@(Unverified) Exactly. If you just buy what you want, it's somewhere in between $0-$100. No doubt, $100 pricing plans (esp. for "free" games) is bad publicity, and kind of alarming. However, it's hard to believe that people who have even the slightest inclination to play the latest AOE won't at least try it, for free.

@DokiDokiBawanga You're not alone. For me, multiplayer/online FPS was novel for a while (BF2 was pinnacle)... until the later games started making it a level-up/achievement grind, more addictive than enjoyable. All the little boys annoy me, too. Can't wait to simply witness the beauty of this game, though (videos might do), and perhaps singleplayer.

@FuzzyPierce You're wrong.

@xiLeShadow Not sure if serious. (What games have released at $30? Terrible ports of (terrible) games, maybe, and that's more like $40. This is looking like a AAA title, in which the devs are doing everything right. $30? Psshh.)

@Red Deer The alpha (and Battlelog) is over, unplayable, correct me if I'm wrong.