Llyranor

And then I ate her.

I wanna join your campaign, Hades. Because you're awesome!!!

Congratulations, Blank! I think you'll do very well as T3 ^_^

"4-6 hrs" of babysitting Alyx <_< Kinda lame how they wanted to make the most boring character in HL2 become the most important NPC in this one just to please drooling fanboys. Yeah, I guess Aribeth was a deep character too.

You need vegan bacon. Wouldn't want to discriminate against that group, or they'll litigate your buttocks.

I might end up giving this the pass. I'm more interested in seeing how a FPS would play out on the Revolution right now.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 5 (PS3, Xbox 360, Rev, PC, PSP) - November 2006 Assassin (PS3, Xbox 360, Rev, PC, PSP) - March 2007 Rayman 4 (PS3, Xbox 360, Rev, PC, PS2, handheld) - November 2006 Brothers in Arms 3 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Nintendo Revolution, DS ) - February 2007 Ninja Turtles (PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Revolution, PC, handheld) - Spring 2007

I loved the force-jump + force-pull combo

Iwata at GDC

I can't name a single PS3 title that remotely interests me. I'm a bit sick of JRPGs. They tend to stick a bit too much to outdated conventions both in terms of gameplay and storytelling. That genre would have been the biggest incentive for a PS3. I'd rather watch anime. For the 360, there are some titles that I could see myself enjoying (it'd be mostly Obsidian and Bioware ones, I would wager), but none of them as of yet is a strong enough incentive to actually consider the console worth a purchase. Aside from bigger numbers in the specs, I can't really see how any of those two is in any significant way a generation above the PS2 and Xbox. Next-gen graphics mean squat if you don't have next-gen gameplay. Revolution has the potential to make consoles fun for me again. I'd say there's a good chance I end up getting it, barring a drought of games.

Yeah, Sony isn't doing that nowadays.

Meh, it goes both ways.

2006 is shaping up to be a great year.

I wanna be Deciple!

From Gamespot forums

On the bright side, World of Warcraft is going strong!

I don't know about you, but having a sword duel with a boss while shooting all his cronies with a gun using a second controller sounds like mighty fun. It's not just about being gimmicky, but the new controller scheme basically doubles its functionality by allowing both hands to handle different roles. Multitasking would be nowhere as easy with just a conventional controller.

Transparency doesn't exist on this forum. In any case, yeah, third-party support better be stronger this time around for the Rev. A survival horror game with a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other would be pretty cool.

Actually, this is true. I take back my previous comments on Oblivion having no cool characters.

I'm not really sure I want to babysit Alyx for most of the game, though. She was the most boring character in HL2 vanilla. lol chick

After Morrowind, I would have said they'd have no chance of making a remotely competent FO3. After Oblivion, I'd say they at least have *some* potential to possible making an interesting game. I don't buy that 'too many NPCs, can't infuse awesomeness into any of them'. For a professional product, it's a pathetic excuse. Bethie can hire Patrick Steward and Boromir, but they can't invest time into the main story to actually, like, make it compelling? There are two possibilities here. 1) They had some people working full-time on the main story, but they were mediocre writers/designers. This would not bode well. 2) They pulled a NWN1 and either did the main story at the last minute or never gave it much importance in the first place.

Red Steel is a first person shooter themed around the Japanese yakuza. The player has both pistols and swords at his disposal, which are of course aimed with the Revolution's motion-sensing freehand controller. The attached "nunchuk" analog controller is used for movement. Since the controller senses movement in all directions as well as rotation along an axis, the player can, for example, rotate his wrist to actually rotate the gun at an angle within the game, or bring the sword up at an angle to block an enemy's sword stroke. Grenades can be thrown by imitating a lobbing motion with the controller. There will also be benefits in sparing the lives of key enemies after a fight in order to convince them to join your side, rather than killing them outright. Ubisoft's Damien Moret explained that before even beginning work with a development kit, the team spent a great deal of time playing around with regular television remotes to determine what physical actions are the most fun to perform and which would best suit a first person shooter. The game will have multiplayer via split-screen or online, but since Nintendo has not yet announced its online service plans for Revolution no further details were revealed. Ubisoft has stated that more about the game will be revealed soon, but for now either pick up this month's Game Informer or wait until E3. In more general Revolution news, Nintendo's George Harrison mentioned in a Game Informer interview that the console will likely have about twenty launch titles, with a third coming from Nintendo.

Well, come to think of it, I guess this guy was memorable http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1216213971004625060

See, if you prove your awesomeness by screwing the company over while you're running the show, he's bound to give you a raise.

I did take it a bit too literally, but I must still be easy to please then...my fav. NPC list is probably huge by now. And his dialogue was awkward, to be sure, but wasn't what I'd call "terrible". There's a fine line between mediocre and "terrible". Bethesda tends to walk this line often...but they always make sure to inch their way back toward the former. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In a professional product, that fine line doesn't really matter.