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Currently I'm rewatching Kare Kano ( ) while taking glimpses at the manga purely for comparison Manga is very good but really, it has nothing on anime. To quote DVD reviewer "Hideaki's thumbprint is on these episodes in full force. His highly artistic and meaningful directorial style brings new depth and emotion to an otherwise stagnant genre. Simple title cards, words expressed over images, and other unique touches fill the series to the brim with believable emotion. It's unlike anything else, really." Anno-sama <3 (in totally not gay-way) Oh, and reviews shall be plentiful now that I've finished Gurren Lagann It IS best thing that has happened to anime in years Opening scene that was one huge Captain Harlock reference was so epic

Dude, you forgot the epic sunglasses

heh, well played edit: That "error of their ways" was reference to Jorian's post, not in mkreku's though it works either way to be honest

Clearly OE now sees error of their ways ...there's just something about punk girls with guns

No offense taken We can hope she turns 18 in course of the game can we? Well the legal age in Australia is 16... Same here in Finland, but I have to play game for americana moralists Oh dear. P.S.: I now support unlimited ammo in the context of this game. Traitor Fascist! Aussie!

Really, really traumatic In fact I go like this If I hear too much german

This is even better. Moral choices! In GTA!

Forgot source due to lulz overoad

Is there now a Mehrspieler mode? If it is a MMO, does it cost ? Can't you say multiplayer instead of Mehrspieler? My 6 years of german lessons were very traumatic

Indeed. Even then it is quite average How depressing

Well, this was kinda "we got rationale so stop asking stupid questions" when no such rationale was given

Yeah, that may be it But then you shouldn't say all is explained, God's in Hea-*represses urge to end sentence with Browning's Pippa passes* ( Also, related to this ) I've said before I'd be fine with decision if it showed some rationale but judging from preview all I can see was "streamlining "

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation

Yeah Sorry Obz, **** you Atari! It's just I had some nerd rage reserves left from AP section

...**** you Obsidian, **** you Well, it seems to be your standard Securom which isn't problem for me With normal I mean no forced connection to internet, no installation limits etc. stupid **** Oh and it hasn't destroyed my computer unlike Starforce

...except that they didn't tell us what they mean with "big nasty problems"

...wait, if I patch NWN2 I get some **** on my computer even if I wasn't going to buy MoW? WHAT THE HELL

Cool

Damn you Brutus! Good thing I'm lich so sneak attacks won't work *casts fireball* edit: that wasn't smartest choice considering your high reflex saves

What are these very nasty problems then? If including finite ammo indeed brings so many problems why vast majority of games - especially those who center exclusively on combat - then choose to use this system and why does it (in here too) get majority's support as system? "If this game had been made ten or fifteen years ago and you read on a BBS or in the pages of CGW that we decided that the player character wouldn't starve do death if he didn't carry rations people would have had a fit, citing many of the same arguments that have been floated in this very thread." Will to have ration-eating mechanics (lol) uses same arguments? I didn't know tactics, strategy, planning and equality of playstyles had so much to do with if I have to eat pork once a day or never. Truly it must be wonder how these gamers of old managed to bring in uselessness of melee ( in comparison ) when arguing against eternal fasting! "In this game you don't have limited ammo because, quite simply, we wanted to spend our resources and your focus on other areas. " Yet you drum about combat and combat mechanics quite much in each preview don't you? And call Alpha Protocol Action RPG. Screenshots so far have given special love to situations involving guns instead of - say - dialogue screens which are anyway already transformed into half-dialogue/half-cutscene hybrid. Ammunition question is big part of overall combat mechanics both directly and especially indirectly as I tried to point out in my long posts. So AP is action RPG but resources are spend and focused on other areas of what? I'd think combat mechanics are quite big focus indeed and infinite ammo has never done any good for these mechanics before. Or maybe it's just that it is so much easier to jus throw in infinite ammo and not having to worry about how to distribute ammo etc.? Sorry, but feels like dumping down ("streamlining") needlessly, just like some other aspects. What about not being able to drag enemy bodies (at least not in the current build) which is core mechanic of any "stealth action" (yes I went to wikipedia to find out what's the genres name) game/hybrid or not being able to pick up enemy weapons? All of this done in name of "streamlining". Doesn't it make sense to think infinite ammo design is merely part of this streamlining too? "That doesn't mean that we are crazy anti-ammo fascists who hate Jagged Alliance 2 and System Shock." Oh right, if Aliens RPG will feature unlimited ammo... "hell hath no fury like a fan scorned" A choice had to be made about what we want the player to spend time doing and thinking about, and where we put our efforts when building systems and assets." This is completely understandable and essential part of game designing. "This is the choice we made." Of course when trying to maximize efficiency of development etc. there's also thing known as going too far. That's what happened with DX: IW. With TLJ: Dreamfall game itself was efficiently taken away All in all this whole "streamlining" thing (infinite ammo, no body dragging, no picking up weapons and who knows what else) was the first negative and fishy smelling news on the game for me. For the record in otherwise good games streamlining utterly destroyed Kotors combat system. What Bioware did doesn't sound too different with them "streamlining" mechanics to better suit console pad. "Ultimately the public determines if we made the right choice, but I'm fully confident that we did." This is true. Oh, and sorry if I sounded attackive. You bothering to post in here is valued This doesn't mean I just stop and start to build altar when Developer steps in however Traitor We can hope she turns 18 in course of the game can we? Oh dear. P.S.: I now support unlimited ammo in the context of this game. Traitor

great, just great What, you-must-be-online sillyness wasn't ENOUGH back in NWN1 already Way to fail here Atari