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Oh come on... Proof that OFLC needs a shake up, what in F3 could seriously be that bad? based on earlier rumors it seems to be drug use.

I love inventory tetris, it's fab. Resident Evil 4 has the best inventory ever. Have I pimped that lately, because it's awesome. You can even rotate items, which is an extra level of complexity than that seen in most inventory tetris. Everybody wins!

I'll backwards you... Anyway, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Fil...eo_game_ratings A number of games have been "refused classification" here, but the offending content gets edited out and the game is released, Dark Sector and GTAIV being recent examples. GTAIV was modified and released at the same time as the rest of the world,, but Dark Sector took months.

When it comes to incapacitating enemies, I prefer something like the MGS series where unconscious enemies would eventually be revived (by time or allies), rather than something like Thief where unconscious enemies were considered dead by all NPCs. Also hiding bodies in containers of some kind like in MGS or Hitman. Also destroying communication devices like in MGS. Of course I don't expect any of this, but it'd be nice.

Oh I didn't think you were. I think that certain types of games are most likely not being made today because they don't make the amount of money as other types of games, and whether or not they are complex isn't as important. I also agree with Krezack, that some types of games were never frequently made.

Those are all on console. Too complicated for the PC crowd.

Except he wasn't talking about realism. A character with unlimited ammo is no more absurd or cartoonish than a character carrying a dozen guns and hundreds of rounds of ammo. What's wrong with being interested in or excited about a game in development? Honestly, your comments are as "empty" as theirs. "This game looks great!" "But it might end up being terrible." "This game looks terrible!" "But it might end up being great." The problem is you aren't responding to what people are actually saying, you're responding to what you've decided they mean.

^I read somewhere that they no longer send boxes. Either way, a $2 dollar box from the post office did the trick.

I don't remember how the quick save worked in BP, what was so clever about it? I enjoyed BP well enough, but I'd gladly take polish over ambition when ambition gives me stuff like copy/pasted environments and constantly changing accents. Boiling Point could have been as big as STALKER. Okay, maybe that's pushing it, I guess we'll see when White Gold comes out.

A number of articles about this collected here: http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2008...zi-parents.html

The thing about "freedom of speech" is that it doesn't mean the freedom to say whatever I want, wherever and whenever I damn well please. The thing about "white pride" is that it's never just about being proud to be white, it's being proud because you're better than all those other races who should probably go back to their own countries. Since when does the swastika mean only "I'm proud to be white"? I'd say the mother redrawing the swastika before sending her kid to school has something to do with it, like sending your children out to preach hate or some such, rather than simply being neo-nazi. You're going to have to give some examples for this to make any sort of sense. Why would something be considered "unique and interesting" based solely on it refusing to do business with those outside certain groups?

Nope.

I sent my 360 in for repairs last Friday, was told to expect in back in 3 to 4 weeks, but I got it back all nice and fixed today, with a month of gold. Yay!

Surely a human male would be a better comparison?

I never said anything about you not liking console games, but there have been numerous comments from you recently that suggest an ignorance of console games. GTA as a game about sex with hookers, infinite ammo in AP being an appeal to console gamers, that sorta stuff. It's like when folks claim that regenerating health in so many games today is for the sake of console gamers, which makes no sense, being that life bars and the use of items to replenish them have been used in console games for as long as and as extensively as they have been in PC games. I already addressed this in the previous post. Gamers aren't made up of two distinct groups, it's many groups that overlap. Same old stereotypical rubbish. Again, it just show an ignorance of gaming on both consoles and PC. Actually, the original Diablo was ported to the PS1. The only changes necessary are, naturally, the controls.

The console war is a deliberate thing, it's companies competing with each other. It has always been this way. It's just business. That just fits into my view that it's the gamers that make it an issue. This is nothing more than "my system is better than your system" nonsense people have been going on about since, well, forever. Whatever helps you sleep at night. "Games" and "gamers" as a whole are all different, and lumping them all together as two distinct groups, console games/gamers and PC games/gamers, doesn't do anyone any justice. What a puzzle game player wants is going to be different to what an FPS player wants. What an adventure gamer wants isn't the same as what a wargamer wants. What a survival horror gamer wants is different to what a WWI flight sim gamer wants. What someone who only wants to play for an hour every so often is different to what someone who wants to be absorbed for hours on end wants. Hell, some Diablo 1/2 fans have started a petition because the colourful Warcraft style graphics of Diablo 3 isn't what they want. Of course I've never seen you post anything that suggests you have any real experience with console games and gamers, so I can hardly take you view seriously anyway.

Heh, my dad got a C64 and then an Amiga 500 for precisely that reason. The number one use for any of our systems have been gaming. That's always been the case, the consoles compete against one another, not the PC. It's the gamers that make it an issue. It couldn't perhaps be the game industry trying merge the console and PC markets that makes it an issue, hmm? No. If anything the fact that we get more multiplatform titles and ports should prove the idea of a war wrong. So we have gamers fighting a war against one another with developers as the weapons dealers arming both sides. Anyway, Pidesco is exactly right, the console companies are fighting a war amongst themselves. In both this generation and the last the battle is between Microsoft and Sony, with the Nintendo happy to do its own thing. None of them are competing with PC because there is no one PC company to compete against.

What previews said the third person perspective was crap? It was definitely tacked on for Oblivion, but I thought they were pushing it as the primary perspective for F3. I haven't been keeping up.

That's different, being the Amiga was competition for the old IBM compatible, as it was an actual Personal Computer.

That's always been the case, the consoles compete against one another, not the PC. It's the gamers that make it an issue.

Screenshots and trailers for those not wanting to bother navigating the official site: http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=53375

Complaining about games. Complaining about child porn. Worst comparison ever.

Er, that's a picture of Poms in Africa, from some British TV show.

Currently playing through ME again, and when I'm finished I'll start on MGS3 Subsistence, or possibly Rule of Rose, or Persona 3 FES. Also getting a bit of a JA2 itch.

I'm currently on my third playthrough. I'm terribly sorry if the controls are too hard for you to get to grips with, but Kaftan not likey doesn't make for bad design. Honestly, the idea that some senior designer forced this on the game, and everyone else, designers and testers, where too scared to say anything about it is just ridiculous. The 360 decryption mini-game wasn't the same as the PC version. It was a really simple Simon Says push one of four buttons as it lights up. Still a chore though. You can skip individual lines of dialogue, I dunno what the button on PC is. It's still annoying that you can go directly to shopping though. Heh, I'm exactly the same. I like that Renegade isn't moustache-twirling evil sillyness, but I'm just too much of a good little boy to play that way. Sure, but the exploration factor is enough for me to consider it an action/adventure, if only because that side of it is greater than what you find in most shooters. I also consider Deus Ex an action/adventure. Ultimately, all genre means to me is which games folder I put it into on my harddrive, or where it sits on my shelf. How others classify what games doesn't change how I feel about them, and I don't get why people feel the need to give certain games specific labels (like calling anything first person an FPS. I think FPS should be referred to as the Oblivion With Guns genre).