Hell Kitty

This game I'm interested in, it's nothing like that game I don't like, it's totally like those games I do like!

How do cases like this, these "black swans", disprove peoples disbelief in capital punishment? That doesn't make any sense. If, for example, one doesn't believe in capital punishment because they believe any form of killing is wrong, this case isn't going to change that belief, and it certainly isn't going to "disprove" it. This is an impossibility.

What is this "rule of non-capital punishment"?

Of course it is, which is what makes claims that the screens are actually not very similar so ridiculous. AP shares many similarities with ME. There are also many differences. The character screen, not one of those differences.

Are the death penalty and rehabilitation the only options here?

Did Gaider work on Mass Effect?

Why on earth would you bring up colour? Do you honestly think that's what people think makes it similar? It's the layout of those pages that makes them resemble one another, certainly closer to each other than Bloodlines. The only way to claim they don't look similar is to get seriously nit picky with each individual element on the screen.

As action RPGs go, MEs and APs character sheet screens are actually very similar.

Whether he actually ever molested anyone is ultimately irrelevant, people made up their minds a long time ago. Many people believe he was guilty of child abuse, but without proof you just look stupid attacking anyone who chooses to celebrate his career.

If I live to see the zombie apocalypse I'll die a happy man.

You are correct. Quicksaves are just a shortcut to going to the save/load screens, and with limited buttons on a controller it makes no sense to dedicate some to quick save or load functions. The file size of saves depends entirely on individual games. The saves in Deus Ex on PC would get increasingly bigger, to the point that the save folder would be several hundred MBs. This was a problem that they needed to, and succeeded in, fixing in the PS2 version, which also allows save anywhere. Checkpoint saves nowadays are purely a design decision. The reason we see them more on console games (or console versions) is because console gamers are used to them, and ultimately more tolerant of them.

I've reinstalled Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, though I'll need to get away from The Sims 3 if I ever want to play it.

Excellent. My plan shall soon be complete...

Bethesda didn't make this move, ZeniMax Media did.

It's strange that you would argue that "console games do like their games more simplistic, casual, and streamlined. It is simply the nature of the console that allows for the gamer to be less attentive to details" being that a limited save system is pretty much the opposite of that. A limited save system requires more work from the player, because it means they need to be more attentive, so they don't lose all the work they've done before getting to the next checkpoint/safe zone. By allowing the player to save anywhere you remove this, making it easier from them, and as such it's the save anywhere system that's "dumbed down". Take Far Cry 2, for example. The console version only allows you to say in specific safe zones, while the PC version features save anywhere. The developers didn't exclude that feature from the console version because "console kiddies" just luurve a limited save system, they included it in the PC version because PC gamers bitch when they don't have it.

And you, Blank, shall always be the enchanter of my nether-regions.

360 games generally use the R2 trigger button for shootin'. The only PS3 game I've played is MGS4, and it took to me a while to get used to using R1 instead, but it made sense considering how wonky the triggers on the PS3 felt. I guess it's more a request that PS3 controls not be a simple conversion of the 360 controls.

What is a dark and rising evil? I think part of the problem is that in reality evil is a label given to others, rather than something people see themselves as, which is how it works it games. "I just slaughtered the whole town for so reason! I'm so evil." Real people don't commit acts such as murder because they are evil. Would an evil character see themselves as evil?

So his career is just down to being really lucky? Doesn't strike me as a particularly fair assessment.

I don't need no developers telling me how to play their games by forcing their fancy shmancy "rules" on me. I demand the freedom to reload until my hacking attempt is successful.

Does having more people work on AI make for better AI?

I'll finally be able to sleep tonight. Thanks Maria Caliban!

Things Hell Kitty does not know: * Whether Maria Caliban is confused or a teller of filthy lies. * Whether Claudia Black does a good French accent. * Whether he would be able to tell how good a French accent Claudia Black does. * Whether Claudia Black tries too hard when speaking in a French accent. * How hard too hard is.

Claudia Black is an Australian from Sydney, not a real french woman from Paris.