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Well, they do have a couple of young stars in Datsyuk and Zetterburg. Although Datsyuk is already out of the running for the Yzerman successor at this point given his demands of money and then jumping ship to Russia because things weren't going the way he wanted. He'd have to make quite a recovery to reattain Yzerman successor status

The problem with his definition is that it's all encompassing. What game do you not play as a role? Whether it be "chess player" or "The Nameless One?" American Football may have parts of the game played by foot, but it's still a misleading name. A game of football could realistically be played by never kicking the ball outside of the opening kickoffs. It's usage for the Western Soccer makes more sense. I wonder how it came to get its name. And yes, us Canadians call it soccer

Joe Sakic is a terrific player. Yzerman has been my favourite player for many years now. Gotta love a guy that can barely limp onto the ice, that's still the best player on a very talented team despite have bummed knees that require surgery in the off season. Or a guy that, despite having a potentially career ending injury in his last game played, still wants to keep playing in spite of the additional year off due to the strike. A fantastic two way forward, and the longest running captain in league history for good reason.

Hello, I've waited here for you Everlong Tonight I throw myself in two Outta the red, out of her head she sang Come down And waste away with me Down with me Slow how You wanted it be I'm over my head, out of her head she sang And I wonder When I sing along with you If everything could ever feel this real forever If anything could ever be this good again The only thing I'll ever ask of you You gotta promise not to stop when I say when She said Breathe out So I can breathe you in Hold you in And now I know you've always been Out of your head, out of my head I sang And I wonder When I sing along with you If everything could ever feel this real forever If anything could ever be this good again The only thing I'll ever ask of you You gotta promise not to stop when I say when She said <something whisperiffic!> And I wonder If everything could ever feel this real forever If anything could ever be this good again The only thing I'll ever ask of you You gotta promise not to stop when I say when!

I don't think Messier's accomplishments in Edmonton mean anything to Volourn. But one player does not represent the league. He's just unhappy because his favourite player is retiring. Although to state that Gretzky wasn't a leader is a bit, misguided. He wasn't as outspoken as Messier, but the two definitely fed off of each other. The "Boys on the Bus" documentary was very enlightening in that aspect.

The reason why I ask is because he comes in stating matter-of-factly that it's, "by definition," a game that lets the user play a role. I just asked him where he found this defacto definition that lets him say "by definition." Ironically, American Football is rarely played with the feet...

Well, he said that a roleplaying game, by definition, is a game that lets you play a role. I suspect his "definition" is just the words involved in the statement, which is hardly a definition at all.

I wonder how many people were in similar shoes as us, denying the oncoming of Gretzky and Lemieux while their favourite players like Lafleur and Esposito were in their twilight?

Haha, one the comes off the top of my head is the bar run by the Malkavian twins in Bloodlines. It's rave type music which I typically don't care for, but I felt it fit the situation so perfectly. Same goes for some of the Lucky Money music in Deus Ex. I also liked the Jenova fight music (and the boss fight music in general) of Final Fantasy 7. I can still play the fight music flawlessly in my head, despite not playing the game since like 1999 or so :D).

A large part of military training is attempts to allow the soldier to disconnect themselves emotionally from a situation. This is obviously done in an attempt to make them more efficient killers. Furthermore, the bulk of a city's police force are not trained for large scale situations. Riot police are police officers that have more specific training in large scale riots for instance. The mere fact that police officers have specialized teams such as SWAT is evident that police are not trained for a wide variety of emergencies, particularly unusual ones. On a final note, a typical police force does not have the manpower to effectively deal with a city wide crisis, and certainly not the evacuation of an entire city. However, Volourn would like to think that the relatively small scale and isolated incident of the World Trade Center is somehow comparable to the evacuation of an entire city. Lets see how the NYPD would handle the evacuation of NYC (a city where the local police force is complaining of being overworked and understaffed as it is, with decreasing numbers of officers as a result. A city where the local police force feels as though their mayor "treats them like garbage and pays them for [shyte]." The same police force that the current challenger for mayor feels that NYC requires the hiring of an additional 1,000 police officers). Police may be better at dealing with the civilian population, but the addtional bodies, with a no nonsense attitude, of military men is always appreciated. Particularly if situations arise where martial law is invoked (i.e. when looting becomes rampant).

I'd like a little proof that the Police force is as highly trained to detail with extreme situations as the military is. Until then, you're just lying.

Where did you find your definition of role-playing game?

The 7+ million in documented wages alone would indicate that this was a Triple-AAA budget. Greg Zeschuk could say the game flopped and you still wouldn't believe it.

I've had that happen before too. It's very confusing.

Halo 2 = huge. Halo was pretty huge too. Not bad for a new IP :D (Ok not technically, but I doubt that the huge sales were from people that were familiar with the Macintosh oriented Marathon environment).

Just an interesting tidbit, but I'm taking my first formal course in Artificial Intelligence this semester. The very first lecture contained an interesting point regarding trends since the 90s in AI: "Relying less on logic and more on probability theory and statistics."

I'm just saying that maybe by today's standards and what people expect in an RPG is not the same as what the older RPGs provided. Maybe we have a new sub-genre...the Classic RPG!

I was looking for Fable's numbers but ended up getting distracted I do find it interesting that the limited edition of Jade Empire isn't very limited

Interesting.

This was probably already mentioned, but oh well. Hmmmm, assuming Bioware gets a full 15% from every sale, and assuming that every sale is $50, then they get $7.50 from every sale. 500,000 units sold * 7.50 = $3.75 million dollars. I can see where Gaider gets his idea that million units being shipped starts to be key, with the $7.5 million in income that would provide.

Just so you all haven't forgotten:

I think it's been suggested that it will be an "action-RPG." But the thing is, is that "new IP" in and of itself is not a game killer. A good game is a good game. Established IPs can be helpful, but certainly not necessary. It sounds like PNJ is a "spiritual successor" of a game.

Just to make sure it's clear Police are not trained to deal with emergencies of all kinds!

You didn't address any other parts of my post. Probably because you couldn't. Typical for a troll though. Just pick the part of the argument that you liked. I was just asking what the population differences of the cities were. r00fles! But you think that a city block getting destroyed is the same as an entire city getting destroyed. Gold! Then why was the National Guard created? The training regimine of the military is waaaaaaaay more intense than the police officers.

I'm not yet able to score consistently......except when shorthanded