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I finished the story mode. Not sure about the ending, which I won't spoil, yet. But it's a vast improvement overall from AC1. Not so formulaic, much more story-driven. Now I'm going back trough the cities cleaning up the side missions and such.
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NERRRRRRRD! 
Before the war on terror, if I saw an unattended package I used to think "I'll be having that!"
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Sorry John - couldn't resist that !
Before the war on terror, if I saw an unattended package I used to think "I'll be having that!"
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On Thanksgiving I had to listen to three 20 somethings spend hours talking about video games. They might as well tattoo "Couch Potato" on their foreheads. I wonder, does being a "Gamer" help with picking up chicks?
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Is there really much of a difference between spending a few hours a day on the couch gaming or a few hours in the garage tinkering with an old bike or car? Neither one will help pick up chicks.
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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I love my kids. But a couple of them spend a huge amount of time and money ($50 a pop) on video games. Then, they swagger around and brag about how far they got in "Monsters Grand Underwear part 5, like they've invented the internet or something. They are really diggin "guitar hero" right now. But I can't help but think that if they had spent a couple of hundred hours practicing a REAL guitar, they could play one by now. And one more rant. Every time they need a tool (drill, soldering gun, saw, battery charger, etc.) they come to my house, cause they don't have the money to buy one. Heck, at $50 a pop per game, they could own an entire garage by now! (Sorry about hijacking this thread, I just got an earfull of my my video hero's on T Day and I guess you hit a nerve.) 
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Rich, I have a Wii and a Playstation, but you know me better than that 
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Rich, I have a Wii and a Playstation, but you know me better than that
Sure you do, and I'll bet you play them some. But then, you also are restoring an antique bike, an antique car (for the wife, no less! Kudo's!) and you still have time to light up the highways on your bike! Now, THAT's a life. I even play a little STAR WARS on my playstation. But my child goes to work (thank god), eats, sleeps, and watches the brain sucker. Thats IT! He's a good kid (24), just really under motivated.
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they swagger around and brag about how far they got in "Monsters Grand Underwear part 5
This really bothers me guys! It seems like they've marketed Michael Jackson more in
death than they ever did while he was alive. Can't they just let him rest in peace?
If there's nothing wrong with me,
maybe there's something wrong with the universe!
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Is there really much of a difference between spending a few hours a day on the couch gaming or a few hours in the garage tinkering with an old bike or car? Neither one will help pick up chicks.
At least with an old bike or car you have a bike or car to ride/drive when you're done. Additionally, I have to pay pretty good sums of money to pros who work on my bike or car. Video games? Not so much. As far as I can tell video games are about as good for you as watching TV with the additional possibility of getting carpel tunnel.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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I'm just comparing the two as hobbies. And believe it or not, some people actually make a living by playing video games. But I understand the frustration, my almost 12 year old son spends way too much time playing his, and not nearly enough time with a rake or a lawnmower or a shovel.
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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I finished the story mode.
My son wants to know how long it took you.
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1. Soren: if I'm reading the profile screen correctly, I've got 16.75 hours into it, spread out over the past week. I pretty much screamed through the story mode without stopping to do any side missions or looting treasure, or buying art or most of the weapons. That number includes "cleaning up" the cities of Tuscany, Romagna and much of Florence. It also include the statues and renovations at Monteriggioni, as well as the glyphs, the assassin's tombs, the codex pages and collecting about half the feathers. I have a ton of clean up left (side missions and such) in Florence and Venice. There are a TON of assassination contract side missions in each city. Only Tuscany and Romanga are "complete." Tell him to be sure and buy the maps from the art dealers. I wouldn't be surprised if I have another 16 hours left to "finish" the game.
2. Geezers: I love how these threads bring out the cranks. Bugger off, pops. Heh...
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I've done a few missions in Venice, and completed the villa. Other than that I've done a few side missions in Florence & Tuscany but have mainly just followed the plot. Glad I'm taking longer than you given what I paid for the white box version here in oz... then again I work 12 hour days AND I'm building an RC plane at the same time so I -should- be taking longer than a week!
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I'm boycotting video games until they put out a sequel to Bards Tail. Although Fable II has its moments.
Of course, kids can't wait a week for someone to tire of the latest game and trade it in, but you can save a fortune buying off the used game table.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Let's just say I bought it for Chris, Wendy's lad, and he's 12 ....  I don't know what it is with video games - I never really got them ... then again, the best on offer when I was growing up was that tennis game with two 'bats' and a bouncing square ball that went ping!!
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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I was wrong. I've got nearly 35 hours into it (I haven't played since I typed my previous estimate). So, there's easily another 40 hours or so of gameplay with the side missions. Now that I've completed the story, though (and I've got my job back) I will scale it back and it will take much more than a week to finish.
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Hey, with the Wii you can can some exercise. Any really bad TW 10 PGA players?
Kendall
"When you drink the water, remember the man who dug the well." Chinese proverb
2008 America Pacific/Aegean blue w/long slash cut TOR's, and stock carbs rejetted.
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Is there really much of a difference between spending a few hours a day on the couch gaming or a few hours in the garage tinkering with an old bike or car? Neither one will help pick up chicks.
Speak for yourself - I met my fiancee because of my bike. I mentioned on a forum that I got the America because it had room for a passenger and she volunteered.
Dave
Qui existimant se omnia scire faciunt vitam miseram nobis qui omnia valde scimus.
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Hey, with the Wii you can can some exercise. Any really bad TW 10 PGA players?
don't have that, but I'll race MarioKart 
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Is there really much of a difference between spending a few hours a day on the couch gaming or a few hours in the garage tinkering with an old bike or car? Neither one will help pick up chicks.
Dangit, that must be my problem because I do both of those things. If it wasn't for work or rallies I'd rarely leave the house. 
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Hey, with the Wii you can can some exercise. Any really bad TW 10 PGA players?
don't have that, but I'll race MarioKart
Dave,
I am not very good at that one or at any game but I will pm you my friends code tonight and maybe we can get a race time schedule.
Kendall
"When you drink the water, remember the man who dug the well." Chinese proverb
2008 America Pacific/Aegean blue w/long slash cut TOR's, and stock carbs rejetted.
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That works for me. I haven't played in quite a while but I'm sure I still remember how
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