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LOL. I still plan on playing the game. Should be less "bad" now that I know all about it

I fail to see how comments of soccer moms were related. Especially, as fans of the english language would have recognized, you separated the points with a new paragraph (commonly used to indicate a shift in topic). Furthermore, fans of the internet have long since recognized that such things as hyperbole are poorly translated in written form. It's one of the main catalysts behind the explosion in emoticon use.

The lack of explanation is probably what did it for me. I was not expecting it at all, and suddenly on one mission I bumped into 4 of them and they wiped the floor with me.

Some games may come out around $50. A $40 release is VERY uncommon.

Then it's pretty easy to see that you haven't actually played the Geneforge demos.

PC games (and console games) have been costing anywhere from $60-$80 in Edmonton for the last 10 years at least.

Consoles have always looked like portable PCs. Isn't it lovely how Sony and MS try to regain lost income from units from gamesells thereby making the games 10 (or more) bucks more expensive, and still the devs receive less than they would without a "licenced system fee" games <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The devs still make more money overall, so I doubt they care that much.

I followed DX through development enough that I knew it was "all conspiracy theories are true" in design. So when I saw unknown lifeforms, it didn't bother me at all, given that that is a consipiracy theory.

You can use the environment to kill him.

Combine it with the Copy and Paste school of level design, and we can easily get longer games. Which it seems many of us want around here anyway, as many seem to dictate "worthy" games purely on their length. The funny thing is that Hades can beat Vampire as fast as I can, while walking at 1/3 the speed...yet he does not possess the skill to get past the werewolf.

I did not get that impression from Silent Storm. I still have yet (but plan to...just been busy/lazy and sort of missed the boat) to play Farcry. The thing with Farcry is that the AI is supposed to be so crazy. The problem is, once you get into artificial beings, expectations for the AI are muddled because who knows how these things are supposed to react. I would love for Far Cry to be inspired by 80's B-action flicks. Like Commando and other Arnie movies. Sneaking around avoiding a small army is cool. Add in some zombies and a crackpot Dr. Frankenstein, and the suspenion of disbelief goes out the window.

I love Half-Life 2, and Deus Ex! It's funny, because of the setting (and probably history) of Half-Life, I don't mind the alien presence. But for the most part I find many games suddenly introduce a sci-fi element almost just for the sake of it. For the most part, I actually prefer to fight human opponents. Maybe it's because I find it easier to relate to. I'm also a big fan of the WW2 setting for games, When I play a WW2 I have certain expectations of it. When those expectations get warped by a game device that, for the most part I don't particularly like, it leaves me sour.

Yeah, it's a reservation I still have for playing Farcry.

There was another one that I made demonstrating the walking speed in Bloodlines, but I couldn't find it. I couldn't even walk halfway down a street in Downtown in 30 seconds.

Never played IW. I think the Greasels were set free in Paris to help weed out the riff-raff. As for the OceanLab and whatnot, I felt it was obvious that experiments were being run on them. Both Area 51 and the OceanLab were research centers. They started running free in Area 51 because Bob Page wanted them to, and OceanLab had an accident occur.

I didn't entirely disagree with TrueNeutral until I got to this part of his post:

Hehehe, I laughed when I read your typo because I didn't realize it was one. Unless you really meant predicated. It sounds funny with it.

I didn't mind Deus Ex, because I knew the basic premise of the game was that all of the conspiracy theories were true. When I saw them, it was just another coverup that the government pulled on us. The thing about Deus Ex is that every loonie with a crackpot theory was actually correct.

You made it with FRAPS right? Which should give you a huge AVI file IIRC. Just import that file into Windows Movie Maker, drag it into the timeline, select save movie, and pick a small file size (which I think it does by default actually, since the uncompressed movie file has plenty of room for compression left in it). And yes, my character was a Malkavian. I wanted to play through as one still, and after Hades had his problems with the werewolf, I had additional motivation to go through with it as I could also film a "How To" series of movies for the werewolf, that BC found.

Me neither. I enjoyed the WW2 tactical combat, and using the historical weapons in a setting I enjoy. Start altering that setting (which I love) too much, and even good games lose their appeal to me.

It's been a while since I've taken stats, so I was thinking you'd need to take into consideration the probability that your hat has been taken (essentially k/n). I suspect if I thought about it a bit more, I probably would have come to the derangement. Is diamond correct though? Or has he found the probability that you get neither an umbrella or a hat? (the question asked for the probability you get both). Because if a person doesn't get their hat back, then they can safely get their umbrella back and still have a valid solution.

Which is too bad, because I that game was swallowing up a TON of my time. I anticipated needing Bazookas for my commandos because I might encounter tanks. Not

Yeah. One was a demonstration of how sloooooooooooooooooooow walking everywhere was. The other was what to do and what not to do against the Werewolf. Surely you remember that

I was definitely a Westwood fan over Blizzard fan for the RTS wars

I'm hoping for San Jose because I have Thornton and Cheechoo in my pool My picks: Ottawa over TB Carolina over Montreal NJ over New York Buffalo over Philly Detroit over Edmonton (though I hope not) Dallas over Colorado Anaheim over Calgary San Jose over Nashville