Calax

Did I just hear a cartoonish "SPRONG!" in the backround there bucko? The idea of removing all gender is just ridiculous. On the base biological level, men and women operate and thing different things. Women are hunting for a man who can provide for them and their offspring during the necessary parts of their lives, while the men are just siring up an entire civilization as fast as they can.

When I watched the show, his personal editorials for that and the series were actually the most honest part of that network I'd seen.

Well, Here's another reason why Guardians and Warriors SUCK to level up at the moment. Apparently if you are in a fight and your character dodges/parries an attack... it interrupts your own attack so you have to reque your ability. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread....3944&page=5

THQ's BIGGEST stuff has been Saints Row for money. But having that solitary bet of guaranteed income compared to the piles of drivel that they release or bet badly on is probably putting a dent in their bottom line. Look at their STEAM catalogue. It's Saints Row, Relic (Warhammer/Company of Heroes) and a few of the niche war-sim games. Metro and Homefront are there, sure, but Metro was never expected to be big, and Homefront was a rather dedicated failure. All in all, they develop either schlock (been digging through their various online databases... a LOT of movie tie ins), or rather niche games. The broadest appeal game has to be Saint's Row, and that's so over the top that you might no be able to get a parent to buy it in favor of GTA IV. I can see them having to restructure, and maybe being bought out... but I'm not sure.

The issue THQ has is that their past few iterations of some of their better franchises have SUCKED. Red Faction Armageddon for example failed, as did homefront (rather spectacularly)

Well, blizzard admitted that they stripped a bit out of the game (units wise and such) to cater to the competative market.

neelix!

Didn't do Boarding party... but pulled off Taral V where i was sent by Jedi Master Whinnie the Pooh to retrieve a specialized computer that could calculate a way for me to get into the Maelstrom Prison. It's actually DAMN hard all things considered.

I do think that there's way to many jedi at higher levels...Almost everyone you see is a Jedi.

And then I drove around in a car with a tiger as my passenger

So, I just got the flashpoint quests for Taral V and then Maelstrom...

I prefer them of the force monkies

There's also the guy who talks ENTIRELY in auto-tune. Leaping out of a plane, floating down, jumping back through the plane (going through the front windshield then out the back again), diving to catch a girl, and landing... And a few Indiana Jones references about a giant metal ball that is just rolling down the streets and the cops can't figure out how to make it stop.

sfdebris.com go have fun in his Voyager reviews section.

Saints Row The Third... I just performed a breakout at an S&M club where the guy i needed to break out was turned into a "ponyboy" and harnessed to a cart... and we had a slow speed chase with him running, me in the back seat shooting at two other carts. Then I beat somebody to death with a giant sex toy........ This is a very strange game.

I'd guess that's actually down at the Davis Monthan AFB where they have the Air Force Boneyard. Either way they keep migs on hand to play aggressor squadrons.

Are you by any chance a Husky? or a cubscout?

I think to a degree, they might make it so that the mods will also change the color of the armor, in the same way lightsaber crystals change the color of the blade. I finally managed to get my Knight back... it took me re-doing two questlines to pull it off however

I think it's a new flashpoint and a new operation with some extra quests on Illium.

NEW CONTENT ON THE 17th! That is all.

One of the biggest issues is that they don't really accept the fact that this is the grimdark reality. In Warhammer, humans are just a resource for the empire, but in every book humanity and it's life isn't treated as such. Add to that the fact that the lead character are always the noble ones... it just gets nausiating. Probably the two best authors are Dan Abnett (Gaunts Ghosts) and Ghram McNiel. OH! And Sandy Mitchell, who's main character is trying so hard not to be in the spotlight he ends up as one of the biggest heroes in the galaxy.

Probably because they didn't want to kill their voice actors by having them record a new line for EVERY SINGLE PIECE of dialogue.

And my "main" guardian still can't friggin progress because the GM's looked at my ticket, forwarded it as a bug, and ignored it. The Least they could have done is give me the quest complete >.< (for the record, this character has been stuck at having a pair of class quests in her log that won't allow the other to complete for about four days now) And apparently Customer Service for Bioware sucks all around with EVERYONE getting form letters in return, or not even getting a response.

Bleach Soul Ressurection is a third person hack and slash in the vein of Dynasty Warriors and Sengoku Basara. It's based on the long running anime during the Arrancar/Vizard arc. Sounds like it'd be a match made in heaven with Hollow's flying everywhere, Super powers snapping off, the Soul Society going crazy right? Well no, the long and short of it is that it feels like the developers don't quite have a grasp of what makes something like Dynasty Warriors fun (at least, in my personal view). The combat feels jerky, with very little in options for combo's (no XXXY combo for example). Instead it's all based around single button strings for combos. I suppose a higher level player could find a few combo's that work, but they'd feel jerky because of how the animations would play out. Not everyone can get smacked into a building like that Now then, Characters are varied, with all the major fighters from the arc (well, except for Renji and the evil scientists), each playing somewhat differently. The game design for their progression however is... painful. You remember the Sphere Grid from FFX? Basically the leveling up system is that with the options of either 5 basic upgrades (attack, spiritual pressure, health, defense, or limit breaks) or unlocking a character. Ok, not actually a character, they couldn't seem to fit in the various other fan favorites (Kisuke Urahara for example, isn't on the roster), so instead they added them as upgrades that allow various different actions. For example, Ichigo can unlock Urahara and get the ability to do a quick counter if you time the attack correctly, other "characters" tend to provide more static buffs. Who doesn't love a good fight? As you can see in the screenshot above (not the face, above that!) the game is GORGEOUS. Cell Shading makes the entire thing look very much like an anime, and honestly would probably be a good way to go in general for the industry for more outrageous games, particularly anime (anyone remember the original DBZ:Budokai look? Yeah...). The Cell Shading also provides a very much less taxing way to show these off compared to more "realistic" engines (like Unreal) so the entire game RUNS fantastically. Also it makes exploding buildings, sand dunes, or people, look like they actually took a BAD hit. A nice touch is that if your characters get their asses handed to them, the characters model starts to show the dust and damage from the fight. Entirely Playable baby! Now, here's the downfall of this game, there's actually less content than you may think. The "story" runs from Ichigos arrival at the Arrancar palace, until the defeat of Aizen, but it doesn't really have much of a connection between the missions so you need to have watched the anime to understand wtf is going on. Added onto this are a mission mode, and a semi-competative mode where you kill as much as you can for points. I managed to do the entire story in about 4 hours overall (no, I'm not kidding), and have done a couple of very samey missions. The game just doesn't have that much of a hook to it, and you feel either VASTLY overpowered, or REDICULOUSLY underpowered depending on the situation (basically you can flick on your "limit break" (not the technical name) and get an upgrade to your stats, which lets you throttle anyone nearby, but if you face a boss without it? eewww). The story's length is particularly annoying when you consider just how long the arc was in the series, and how many fights there were, and yet you're left with 12(!) missions to compress that entire story. For non-viewers, there were about 100 episodes for the arc, along with some 20 odd fights. Most of the fights not in the game were skipped because of the roster limitations, but some of the omissions are just.. bad. You don't get Ryujin Jakka (Old Man Yamamoto), any of the lieutenants, Komamura, or any of the Vizards. There was SO much potential for this, but in the end, the game just feels like a cash in... at least Mugen Ichigo is unlockable. >.> was writing a review for another board... but I'll just leave this here

Got really frustrated when I logged in and saw that not only did i have the right part of my class quest... I also had the last part of the class quest too! And I couldn't get rid of the last bit (to complete it). I submitted a ticket and went on my merry way... Then I get into my next quest (I'm annoyed at tattoine, so kithsara, my Knight at 28, is just plowing through it as fast as I can) and get up to the Shock Drum (the kinght's "Act I" stuff revolves around finding and retrieving a pile of superweapons) and... I can't complete the quest. I log out in frustration.