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Well, you did say "you are here longer than me" not "you have been here longer than me." So your statement probably isn't incorrect.

Well, we can't speculate on that. We can only go on what we were given.

Deathclaws, deathclaws. How can you not have played a game with monsters called deathclaws??

I actually wouldn't mind if this was the greatest RPG ever, since I enjoy playing good games.

Quake Wars is on the Doom 3 engine. I don't think it is even that heavily modified. Doom 3 did support open environments, it just rarely used them. THere are a few instances where you go out onto the surface of the planet and there is wide open spaces. The game design just didn't call for it. Quake IV is on the Doom 3 engine as well, and it also has wide open environments.

Heh, yay.

The second I saw it was Bruckheimer I knew it wasn't going to be much in terms of historical accuracy or believability.

He has since reverted back to PC gaming.

Yeah. I was just expecting more of an explosion, which id has always seem to do. Even if their games aren't that great, their engines have always been popular to license. Though I think this might have more to do with Epic and their engine.

You must not have been here when he swore off PC gaming, and was only going to play console games from now on.

I think he's too daft to realize I was making fun of him. To be fair, Quake 4 wasn't them, it was Raven. Though I am surprised the Doom 3 engine didn't take off.

"You can't die, you're going to be a father!" "No....<urk>....you are!" <dies>

Yes. He is the recipient of a lot of altruism.

Yeah, saw that. It sounds more FPS than RPG, but that isn't a criticism, just a lame categorisation. FPS with RPG elements, as if Gordon Freeman gets a new HGV suit, or the super-jump from the first game when he get's to Xen ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> HEV HEV Oh the atrocities.

It was funny.

I'm sure I annoy the piss out of some people. Quake 3's purpose was multiplayer, but Quake revolutionized it. It lead to things such as QuakeSpy (precursor to Gamespy, which was THE server list of choice until they went to suck). The Team Fortress mod was also exceptionally popular. The game was also playable on a 56k modem. Quake II seemed to be the mass introduction of mods (yes, mods did exist before this, but wowee was there tons of Quake II). One mod in particular was Action Quake 2, which ultimately evolved into Counterstrike for Half-Life. Half-Life decided that stories were not passe, and coupling that with fantastic mod support, it's not too surprising that Half-Life is probably the best selling FPS of all time. Quake III was out shortly afterwards, focusing solely on multiplayer. I suspect it didn't do as well because Unreal Tournament came out, and offered much more variety in game styles, as well as better bots. The biggest contribution Quake III did was probably it's engine, which was used to create games like Call of Duty and whatnot.

The "drama" of Pearl Harbour was hideous, with a final climax of "You can't die, you're going to be a father" "No...you are" because they both loved the same woman cheesiness. That and the producers felt it wouldn't be prudent to end the movie without an American victory, and felt like dragging the movie out longer by spending an hour preparing for the Dolittle raid.

Of the two, I don't think Shakespeare in Love deserved the title more. Yes, boobs are good, but still. Not that I'm really surprised it won it. Hollywood is not very favorable towards the military or veterans, and it's never been kind to Stephen Spielberg anyway. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's funny, because I remember watching some show prior to the Oscars (which is funny, because I didn't watch the Oscars) in 1998, and the consensus of the panel was that the Academy was biased towards epic war movies.

Interesting.

So then you wouldn't have any idea if either of the games were the big catalyst for FPS gaming. You yourself said you weren't playing them at this time. Doom still has way more gameplay than Wolf3D.

Me

Quake was released via Shareware as well. It's big impact was large scale internet multiplayer.

It is rather like arguing with Magical Volo, now that you mention it.

I actually felt that Shakespeare in Love was an excellent movie as well.