EnderAndrew

Certain games play better with a controller, and certain games play better with a mouse and keyboard. In owning all systems, I never run into not being able to play the games I want to play. I tried GTA on the PC, and driving with a mouse and keyboard just didn't feel right. I'd rather kiss a wookie!

The crazy mutant comedy is in the Toxic Avenger movies.

I thought Bethesda developed and published the Elder Scrolls series by themselves.

Yep. Atari is no longer publishing any of Firaxis games anymore.

I've never played the Star Ocean games. What would you compare them to?

Rewards which you then tend to refuse for even more LS points. But money doesn't matter in Kotor 2 because you can't buy anything that compares to the stuff you find randomly. Giving up the rewards isn't a real hardship. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In refusing rewards, sometimes I get the LS points, and then they insist on still giving me the reward. Sometimes I get an extra reward for refusing the reward, and sometimes I refuse the reward and only get LS points. Said rewards that I miss out on are likely only credits, which are pretty worthless. I never needed money in KOTOR:2 because I used equipment to break down for components and upgraded my own gear. I never saw anything for sale that was better than the stuff I was making myself, and there was an over abundance of random loot laying about. DS players can intimidate for extra cash, which is pretty useless, but I'm sure most people attempt some balance in offering certain plot rewards that you only get with LS solutions.

NWN:2 is the only Atari game I have any interest in at the moment. They've been a pretty poor publisher up to this point, and I don't have a whole lot of love for them.

There should be some clarification. There was apparently a multimedia patch finished that is waiting on LA. That consists of music/movie stuff. Plotholes and extra content are another issue, and one likely not to be addressed. They won't add a new ending to the PC game and then shut out the XBox market.

I don't play online console games, but I saw my brother issuing commands via a headset to computer controlled characters in SOCOM 2, and I believe you can do the same in games like Ghost Recon 2.

Most Star Wars DVD Easter Eggs involve inputting 1138 at some point.

In playing games like KOTOR on both paths, it is fairly balanced. Killing people leads to looting, and saving people leads to rewards.

Touch screens are new to consoles, but not new technology. And both PS2 and XBox games had voice recognition.

Cell processors won't make it into the PC market. They were designed for the PS3 and home theatre systems primarily.

Or Canderous just exaggerated about 40 years of war. He could be 40 who has seen 20 years of war.

Most publishers aren't going to release a game where you are penalized for being good, and rewarded for being evil. These games are influential on kids, and parenting kids would crucify a game they felt was influencing kids towards evil. Games like GTA already get such negative publicity, but Rockstar can defend the game saying it's stylized crime. No parent in their right mind should let their kid play the game to begin with. When you make a Star Wars game along these lines, you will attract a younger audience who loves Star Wars, and parents will assume that a Star Wars title is appropriate for a younger audience. Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast actually has it in their guidelines that Evil can not triumph in any of their products. I'm sure Lucas, as a big family man would have the same standards with LucasArts games.

Gilgamesh rip-offs?

I'm not saying the second or third were bad, they were just different. People shouldn't complain simply on the basis that they are opposed to change with the 4th.

I think the first game and the second in the series were quite different. The first was a quiet, creepy game that made you jump. The second and third RE games were non-stop action and gore.

Multi-threaded processing in and of itself is a very different beast to develop for. Development for the PS3 is a new trick to learn, but that doesn't make the 360 a more powerful machine.

What would you like to nominate?

Except many actors act along one of two lines. The first is akin to stage acting where you get into the scene, you allow the flow to carry you, and you react to the actors around you in said scene. The others get direction from a director and just read their line the same way on every take. Voice acting I imagine is quite different from standard acting. It's harder to keep the lines flowing together when you're recording them seperately.

Moriarity said...

Just kill the historians and appoint new ones. Then you save the bribe money.

And those are the key words. Which is what he is alluding to I suspect. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think that's propoganda. The guys at Sony aren't stupid. You do really think they just spend 4 years making a processor for a gaming system that can't run games?

Again, X-Men Legends and Hunter: Redeemer are basically the exact same game as Dark Alliance with a different setting. I even heard they used the same engine. X-Men Legengs 2 is coming out, and we may see another Hunter title, and a rumored Exalted title. Gauntlet Seven Sorrows has a killer resume of devs working on it, so it may be the first title in that genre to really shine in a while. And what is the worst title in that sub-genre? D&D Heroes or Fallout: POS?