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Wow, I've never seen that before. And it's turn-based! Maybe I'll have to give the PSP another look.

Generation of Chaos looks like it could be fun, but that's about it. I'd buy a DS first and I'm not even a Nintendo fanboy.

Those big plastic half-gallon bottles of generic vodka you can get for $10. That's about 2 days of happy joy fun time for very little money. Also coffee.

This wasn't banned, but Foreigner's Head Games had one of the worst mainstream album covers ever. The band was horrible, too.

I haven't liked any of the Sci-Fi TV series. Their Dune mini-series (Dune and Children of Dune) were surprisingly good, however. They each had moments of cheesieness, but overall were better than the David Lynch movie.

Just imagine what he could do with a rubber band, a quart of oil, 3 nickels, and YOU.

That's a totally fake interview. VD just answered all the questions himself. The scary thing is, he actually believes he's Sawyer and sometimes even David Gaider. We plan to do an intervention soon (don't tell VD).

James Taylor - Fire and Rain (yes, I'm old)

System Shock 2!!!!!

Pink Floyd - Flaming Lyrics by Syd Barrett Alone in the clouds all blue Lying on an eiderdown Yippee! You can't see me But I can you Lazing in the foggy dew Sitting on a unicorn No fair, you can't hear me But I can you Watching buttercups cup the light Sleeping on a dandelion Too much, I won't touch you But then I might Screaming through the starlit sky Travelling by telephone Hey ho, here we go Ever so high Alone in the clouds all blue Lying on an eiderdown Yippee! You can't see me But I can you.

Weird Worlds!

Beatles - Abbey Road (the whole album of course)

I'm playing Final Fantasy Tactics right now.

Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice - Genesis Joplin

I'm glad he's dead Too bad it wasn't an official execution after the trial, though. He didn't deserve to die in his sleep (if that's what happened).

It's raining right now. It was even hailing about 10 minutes ago. That's like Armageddon around here. Let's all talk about the weather!

Besides Gibson, ****, and a few others mentioned, I would go for most anything by Stephen Baxter. He's excellent at portraying normal people dealing with strange ideas and the possibilities of the universe. Also, "Time After Time" by Charles Sheffield is amazing. The premise seems lame (man has himself frozen to be awakened when it would be possible to revive his dead wife), but the way it's handled is moving and exciting.

What are you wearing, DarthHavoc?

The writing is pretty solid throughout. Vogel's especially good at the dialogue and descriptive parts. Guess he needs to be to make up for the bland graphics. The stories are good, but not anything to write home about (like most RPGs). One big weakness is the characters. I can't think of one single memorable character. Maybe someone else knows of some examples to contradict me. The roleplaying is also solid. There are plenty of "who do I help, who do I lie to, who do I push aside " moments in the Geneforges. The RPing in the Avernums is more oriented towards functional party building decisions, like in a lot of dungeon crawler type games.

BioShock, of course

Cranes - Vanishing Point

We just love your Doggy Style. "Moral Majority meets the PLO" Scratch PLO and replace it with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

Geneforge and Geneforge 2 are my favorite of Vogel's games. They've got a nice mix of fantasy and sci-fi going on and you can create your own little army of retarded creatures to fight for you. Geneforge 3 ain't bad either, although some don't like it as much. The Avernums are great if you're in the mood for sort of non-linear TB hack n slash. I prefer Avernum 4 of that series because of the higher resolution and improved UI. They're all pretty good, but the combat needs a little more spice.

I still disagree about the first part (selling as well w/o the known entities), but you're definitely right about the second part (buying anything SW related). There's a lot of those people around and I used to be one as a kid. Maybe I should alter my earlier statement from "wouldn't work" to "less likely to get green-lighted than another SW project." edit: I was responding to alan above.

SW:BF2 let you play as Vader, Leia, Chewbacca, and a bunch of other popular characters. BF1 didn't have those (AFAIK), but it still had recognizable entities from the movies (Stormtroopers, clone troopers, rebel soldiers, etc). Without those, the games would have been Star Wars in name only. Do you think they would really have sold as well without all those well known assets? How many people know what a Mandalorian is compared to a Stormtrooper?