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  1. 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.

  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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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?

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