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But earlier you were saying that it was really in no way an FPS.

He also said it when you scorched people with Scorpion's finishing move, while flashing "Toasty" on the screen, so I'm pretty sure it's "Toasty"

I did buy Jedi Academy after beating it too.

Looking Glass Studios is probably the poster child for piracy hurting a company. Both Thief and System Shock 2 had heavy exposure throughout the internet via piracy, as well as critical acclaim. Both games had hideous sales however. I remember reading up about how at one point, there was more people playing Tribes online than actual copies of the game being sold. It's no coincidence that excellent multiplayer games that started to require CD-Keys to play online resulted in an explosion in sales. Furthermore, what about single player games? How many people actually go out and buy a single player game that they've already beaten?

Geneforge and Galactic Civilizations were both made by small teams as well.

No problem logging in 300+ hours in Guild Wars I see.

I really like the Luke Vs Vader fight in Empire Strikes Back. I just get the impression that Vader is an absolute badass toying with Luke and he has power we can't even imagine. Duel of Fates is probably my favourite duel from an acrobatic point of view, plus the score...wow the score!! I still get goosebumps during Luke's trench run. Vader's "I have you now" with the excellent music and then suddenly BOOM: "You're all clear kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!" Seriously...I just got goosebumps typing that.

Definitely limits it to a 9.9/10

MK2 had him too. I think you had to win something like 50 consecutive rounds to get him. I know he is in MK2 because I fought him, and have never played MK3. I can't seem to find any variance information. My stats courses were probably a bit different than yours too (depending on when you took them). Mine were CompSci stats courses, so we were more concerned with probabilities, rather than just aggregate statistics. Maybe yours were like that too? They were quite a bit different than the stats courses than the ones taken by most people I know.

Cunning smart, with surfer music following it around? (and golden??)

Probably you didn't take statistics classes, or just being humorous BTW, If you didn't take stats classes, DON'T <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually I have taken stats courses. Applied Probablity and Applied Statistics (two fun calculus based courses......actually they weren't too bad). I was just being obtuse. Though my statement technically is not false "

Ugh....I hated Mileena. Forward, Forward, Low Kick = dumbest special move ever.

Fortunately terms like "hybrid" are ambiguous and you can pick and choose exactly how it's a hybrid :D

Isn't that sub-zero's?

The values you posted don't indicate that the average age of a gamer is younger. It's just relative percentages. Let's say there's 100 console gamers. 46 are 17, 35 are 35, and 19 are 36. Average age is: 26.91 Now lets take 100 PC gamers. 35 are 13, 26 are 18, and 39 are 36. Average age is: 23.27 :D

Diamond, see my above post if you haven't already. The information you provided shows that the majority of console game players are over the age of 18.

Actually Diamond, you made a mistake: Since only 46% of frequent console game players are under eighteen years old, that means that 54% (i.e. the rest of the people) are over 18. Therefore, MOST (i.e. the majority) of console game players are over the age of 18.

Sample size is 1,500 households. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I can't find those numbers you quoted in your link. What page were they on? The only age related information I can find in your article is: 35% are less than 18 years old 43% are 18-49 years old 19% are 50+ years old. The average age of a video game player is 30 years old. I also notice that Women over the age of 18 take up a greater portion of the ENTIRE gameplaying population at 28%, compared to 21% for boys aged 6-17. Where's the console specific numbers? EDIT: Whoops I'm an idiot and didn't see that other link.

I know that's what you said. But there was no reason to state it in this thread. If you want to talk about how you're done with PC games, why don't you create a new thread about it instead of taking this one off topic?

I'm much more understanding of piracy towards abandonware and other older games. I think it's a bit of a silly clause to have copyrights last for I think seventy five years. Technically you are still pirating (i.e. infringing on copyrights), but given you are not actually removing a revenue stream from the developer, I really have no problem with it.

Myth.

If a game isn't worth paying for, even at substantially reduced prices aka the bargain bin, then why is it worth your time to begin with. The problem with Drakon's reasoning is that his logic is not falisifiable. Sure, there may be people that would just never buy the game, but it's easy to just make up magic numbers like 1/10 because clearly, people just wouldn't have the desire to play the game. It's basic economics Drakron. People like to maximize what they can purchase. If something can be acquired for free, many people would choose that route. I mean, lets imagine if there was an offer for everyone that has preordered a game to receive a free copy without any strings attached "just because." Now these people have already committed their money to the product, having preordered the game. I wonder how many of them would opt for the free copy of the game. I would suspect it'd be much more than 1/10 because people always like getting something for as little as possible. The "piracy doesn't hurt anything because I wouldn't pay for it" point of view is a naive one, used to justify the actions of piracy.

Hooray for anecdotes!

Wouldn't it be hard to play any games for the console if it can't be hooked up to a television. I mean, its not a handheld, though it is small enough to be one almost. Well, if this is true then it will be one major kick in the jimmy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Errr.. Inspiration 1 Inspiration 2

Sorry, you are right. Deus Ex definitely isn't a FPS. My bad.... As for Kitty, how do you tranquilize Howard without shooting him with something? Whatever....this has gotten stupid. When the developer of the game classifies it as such, in addition to 99.9% of the gaming media, community, and so forth, I'm willing to take their opinion on it rather than someone else's anal retentiveness over semantics for no other reason than trying to be obtuse.