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In the PC version it seems really, really easy to score goals from defensemen. The EA onetimer hardly ever works too (though it's probably a timing issue with my roommate and myself playing on the same team. Goalies aren't aggressive enough. You can pretty much be right in front of them and they don't poke check you, and you can just pick the corner. They also play the pass WAY too much. I actually scored on a pass once, because it was way too late and the target ended up going behind the net. But the goalie played it like a pass, so he slid across the crease. The puck just slid right into the net. I was rather unimpressed. I'm glad it was my roommate that bought it, and not me. I'm not sure who the genius was that decided "switch player" should be the same button as "spin-o-rama" when you have the puck. Frequently I'll go to switch players just as he touches the puck, so I'll do a spin-o-rama right in front of my goalie, end up WAY out of position, turning the puck over to the other guy. With the unaggressive goalies, it's almost always a goal. Overall, a mediocre effort. Hopefully the 360 version is better.

Believe it or not, this issue is not just limited to nerds.

Fallout is an excellent game, but nostalgia is a powerful influence.

Black and White received huge review scores as well, but in the end it still left a bitter taste in many people's mouths.

A 10 cm drop in height for people 3 years different in age sets off red flags in my mind.

The fun is in the details. He is essentially just talking about the results. It's easy to criticize the lack of results, but when you don't really talk about alternative solutions that may have received the results you wanted, then really, what's the point?

According to Statistics Sweden, it looks like the average height has steadily increased.

Newsweek online has an article that suggests a "what if" situation for the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Centre. You can check it out here Personally I think it's a bit too utopian. But as they say, hindsight is 20/20.

Eastside Hockey Manager is a week away!!!!!

Development would have just started, and therefore they would not have had much financial investment in it. A different way of looking at it, would be that KOTOR 3 was likely still millions of dollars away from completion. If they have other stuff that's already done, they won't have to put up as much money since they have already spent some of it.

It seems it is becoming a more common trend to have patches come out on or near the day of release.

From an RP perspective, I remember when some guy tried to double cross my DS guardian in the original Knights of the Old REpublic. I proceed to force jump all of his henchmen, and then proceeded to use Force Kill on him once he was alone. I'm sure his last thoughts were how big of a mistake that was.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing. It's seriously the only reason why people can claim that NHL '94 is the bestest NHL game ever.

It's easy to say that because Anakin is actually able to be in all of them. I heard the same thing too, and I don't entirely disagree. But it's clear that the original trilogy revolves around Luke. During breaks in the action we don't see to much of Vader chilling on the Executor, but Luke training in Degobah, or Luke rescuing his friend Han on Tatooine. Luke destroys the Death Star, and defeats the badass Vader.

Were you not around when Valve first announced Team Fortress 2? I think if anything they just learned their lesson. The thing is, Lucasarts already had a KOTOR 3 in development without us knowing about it. Unless I'm mistaken, the first news we heard about KOTOR 3 was that the team was laid off when Lucasarts went through its restructuring.

I preferred the original Mechwarrior over Mechwarrior 2. It's kind of ironic, because the original has wholly inferior graphics, a non-existent sound track, and PC speaker sound. The game mechanics aren't even really all that correct, as the AC-5 was represented as a floating 3-D diamond, and the SRM and LRM packs only displayed a single missile. But the setting and novelty totally took me by storm. I loved the fact that you were essentially a mercenary, and could build standings with the various Houses. I didn't even recognize that the game did have a story, and I essentially played until I was 87 years old. The news ticker quit reporting news a LOOOOOOONG time ago. But I still loved doing missions. Even if I was decked out entirely with a squad of Battlemasters that would absolutely rip you to shreds once it got you into medium range.

I'd actually say the movies are about the Skywalkers, as Luke is definitely the focus of the original trilogy.

If you are to pick someone that the 6 movies revolve around, Anakin/Vader is an infinitely better choice. How can you say the whole conflict revolves around him in the movies, when he doesn't even appear in one of them, and in another one of them he only shows up for a brief moment to listen to Vader's report on the Executor. The movies were not made around Palpatine, no matter how much you may think Palpatine is the best. Palpatine's roles were ancillary to a great number of characters in the Star Wars movies. And there's no way a video game character is going to come close to the most popular Star Wars character of all time. I guarantee that the vast majority of people that have seen the Star Wars movies, have no idea what the heck Knights of the Old Republic even is. Given the nostaligic factor of the original movies, and how they set the standard by which all others would be judged, I'd have to pick someone from the original Trilogy. I'd probably go with one of Luke (he is pretty much the hero of the OT), Vader (the antagonist, and an all round badass), or Han (scores huge points because he's played by Harrison Ford, hence turns in a decent performance. He's also a scoundrel who, while isn't a bad person, plays by his own rules. He oozes charisma and has a definite swagger about him). Honorable mention could go to Obi-Wan, because IMO his stock skyrocketted after the new trilogy. Which isn't too surprising, given that he, along with Natalie Portman, were far and away the best actors in the original Trilogy. Unfortunately for Portman, her character wasn't written all that well.

Sorry, but logic isn't on his side. It's all guessing. Half-Life 2 was an infinitely bigger game than any of the KOTORs ever will be, and it was able to stay under wraps for years. 4 of them to be precise. So claiming that because KOTOR 3 "is a big project" means nothing. The fact that you make all encompassing statements (use of the word always is typically a big no-no, and it definitely applies in your case) is also laughable. Depending on what stage of development the game could be in, it's entirely possible that they are still deep in preproduction. I don't recall there ever being any news that a KOTOR 3 was in development, but there clearly was one, because Lucasarts commented during their restructuring that they let the in house team working on it go. For the record, I don't think KOTOR 3 is in development. But it is all just guesses. Don't presume to know anything. And certainly don't make bogus claims that use absolute words like "always."

What's your disappointment with Requiem have to do with Obsidian making a Vampire RPG?

Belfour is not unemployed, he is signed in Florida.

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When you say "Battletech," are you referring to the giant mech universe, which games such as BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge and Mechwarrior take place in?

It could be the excessive anti-social, introverted nature of the Swedes', which is only cured by excessive drinking, and Kaftan's parents dipped a bit too much into the sauce while he was still incubating as a fetus.

I'm pretty sure a good chunk of "the reason" was a bit more than merely "they had the right to," as there were definitely people saying "what were the images being shown?" among the public. The thing is, once they are getting published in other countries, is there anything that Denmark could have really done about it?