VincentV wrote:

Oh it will.

You're not wrong, my friend, you're not wrong! I can't stop playing. I started out on regular difficulty with the "Classic" setting where characters don't come back when they're killed/beaten. I just lost Frederick in a battle and I was properly upset.

Superb game.

I do hard on casual to have a challenge and not worry about plowing on with just a few soldiers. It's going good. Considering how devastating Frederick is (and funny), that's a shame. He rarely gets damage from attacks & does lots of damage to enemies. In the barracks, there's a hilarious conversation between him & Chrom that you missed out on. He does lots of nice favors, but then, to help get more recruits, he hires an artist to draw Chrom in a pose naked saying "Join Chrom." He said he hung them everywhere, and Chrom's reaction was priceless. Me & my friends laughed so hard at it. It got mentioned later in the barracks, & Frederick apologized. Funniest moment of any game I've ever played in my life.

Somehow my Dreamcast survived being dropped down a flight of stairs and landing in a puddle of water. Amazing little console.

You can say that again. My launch Dreamcast has survived all sorts of adverse conditions, including being kept in a damp garage for a year, and falling off a 5ft-high shelf at least twice. Still works beautifully.

They don't make 'em like that anymore!

Well, just beat the game and while it seems people are split on the ending I loved it, best ending since Arkham City and though I'll take a few days to think about it, this is possibly my favorite last half hour or so of any game this gen. Overall, absolutely loved Infinite. The shootouts, the awesome world that was as fun to explore as Rapture was the first time, the main story and the back stories, just a masterpiece of game design. I bought the season pass and hope the story DLC lives up to what they've created here and the next game in the series can't arrive soon enough for me.

Couldn't agree more. Bioshock Infinite is currently my GOTY and the ending gave me goosebumps and left me emotionally exhausted. My friends and I still enjoy conversing over everything about the ending.

Ah, I see what you mean. It's just showing that you can use either way - either HTML color codes, or the name of the color. It should say (color=colorname) as that would make more sense.

If I'm right, this next bit should be in green...

This is green text

That was done with (color=green) - So you can use blue, red, green - whatever you can think of, really!

Cool!

Race (regular 3 lap races)
Rivals (Playing against the developers ghost)
Exploration (free roaing giant envioerments and collecting stuff)
Trick Session (A time limit and doing tricks to gain metals.)

The game has a decent amount of content with three main locations with three races each. The one thing I didn't like was the Bike Club (think Autolog) doesn't open up till you reach level 10. Bit once you unlocked the cclub and recruit people the game becomes even more fun one uping each other challenges.

You have to level up to earn skills which can be annoying as the lack of them hampers what you can fully do in the other modes. I also wish the trick mode was more of Race instead of random driving and doing tricks having a guided course would make it much easier to score massive points.

The only other complaint is the Multiplayer is fun but barebones being able to earn exp but not cash.

Improvements like this aren't a last seconf thing, Most likely the Dev kits are different from the retail unit.

Also anyone get the feeling this was leaked by Microsoft to beat back bad press.

I'm afraid I have to disagree there. Requiring an always-on connection could just be a matter of turning off a flag in the firmware, if the operating system designers planned it properly. I'd imagine that at a software level, the requirement could be disabled so that it doesn't take months of redesigning the O/S when Microsoft wants to release the console in nations that are less technologically advanced later on in the machine's lifecycle.

And it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft leaked the info one bit.