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Also just in! Bioshock uses Vert- for Widescreen! http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum...asc&start=0 http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4883 If you don't know what that means, check those two links. Pretty easy to figure out and why we dislike it. If you're a widescreen user, please post in the second link about how you'd like them to resolve it in a future patch. Please be civil. Edit: Apparently the 2K devs have responded that they're looking into it. Awesome. I'll update if I hear more!

HAHAHA! Oh wow! People who buy the PC version can't activate it until seemingly 4 pm EST. Steam or not.

I enjoy Roosterteeth's (back before they were "Roosterteeth) Mac Gamer parody. It used to be that when I'd go to the store there'd be games all over. But now I don't have that problem because with a Mac there's just 5 and you know which ones are good because you played them all 5 or 6 years ago on the PC! Hi, my name is Gus Sirolla and I'm a gamer... well, I used to be.

It's awkward because you're getting worried about a 9.0! You're reading way too much into it. WAAAAAY

That's an awkward claim. The "Oblivion craze" actually required people to play it for it to seem that way. It's one thing to be skeptical, it's another thing to start making comparisons. It's a bloody 9.0 rating! What's worrying about that?

That is depth! Just like the real world, the depth of all people is dependent upon their incessant need for relationships as defined by sex. I mean, c'mon! When was the last time you hung out with a group of 4 or more people without every girl under 50 throwing themself desperately at you based of a couple of shallow responses to menial questions before the month was over? Why just this past Saturday I met this one girl. I walked up to her and said "women are neat" and the next thing you know we're getting indecency citations! Which automatically means we're going to have a long fulfilling relationship. Her career as a high paid lawyer is already on hold while we plan a family.

They'd better be quicker with the Wild Mage this time. And it better still be wacky with a chance of killing the entire party accidentally while doing mundane tasks. Or I'll have lost what little interest I had in starting D&D in the first place.

The solutions sounds like ignoring the D&D guidelines for CRs at 1-3. Or skipping your characters a few levels. I don't think it's a good solution to completely get rid of the newbie adventurer experience altogether.

Will do! I know what I'm having for lunch tomorrow!

Played through the demo over Steam. Excellent! Wait a second... Andrew Ryan? THAT'S MY NEPHEW'S NAME!

I came under the impression that Ophelia was Nicollete. Seemed kind of sudden, but not without some clues.

Why should I mention Ico? You actually were using Ico against your own argument. You know barely anything about Mass Effect to judget its artistic merits. It's a whole moot point. Which has nothing to do with movies or other mediums. Games allow for other messages to seep in too. So, the requirement of technology somehow takes away from a message in narrative or presentation? I guess any movie with sound not shot on black and white is only catering "towards a certain standard." My counter is just as nonsensical as this supposed point. Movies cost around the same as as games to produce. And big-budget films are even more derivative than big-budget games. You were using it as an argument for why it is art in a way of excluding games. Because games don't have a "message." It's a pretentious argument. I wasn't specifically talking about you. However, your entire argument consists of shallow games lack artistry because of an inane consideration of technology. It seems like it's little more than to justify keeping fine arts on a pedestal. An argument seen in this thread a few times before yours, only differing in the content, but not the lack of genuine support. Same references to shallow games and supposed messages of "deeper" art.

What was the message of the Mona Lisa? Or is that not art, Zero? If you've played a game that intended to be more than SHOOTAN GAME, then you've probably experienced a game with a message. If you want to look only at games like Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto, and Dead Rising, of course you're going to end up having a difficult time finding anything in there that's more than about action. You're playing a bleeding action game, good luck finding a deeper message in Die Hard. And heck, the black square itself isn't a message about the cross. It was the event of placing it that had the message. If I throw up a quarter onto the steeple of a roof and ask people to worship it, the art of what I'm doing isn't kept in the quarter when I bring it back down. I don't know what's worse, shallow gamers or pretentious artists.

I thought the ammo scheme was good. I could just pick the weapon I wanted and didn't have to worry about if the next guy would drop any of what I needed or not.

OH NO! Bioshock got a 9/10 from Gamespot! XBox360 is doooooomed!

Don't need them anyway. But you might see some performance gain.

Oh, screw you nVidia. The control panel isn't working again.

nVidia beta drivers ati hotfix

It's the same thing as horse racing and craps "culture." People just looking for an excuse to gamble. I imagine there's some interest in it as a sport, but I doubt it's much.

I see what you did there.

I recently replayed it, have played through the original as well, loved it and got none of this feeling you're saying. How do the endings seem rushed? I thought they all seemed relatively better than those in the original Deus Ex.

With the source code, planning materials, and full time employees? Not nearly as long as its taken Gizka. Rough uneducated guess to be about 1/3rd of the time.

I keep hoping I'll see a mac parody ad where the PC guy is wearing a laser tag set, then a bunch of PC guys with laser tag sets show up and run around shooting each other. They invite the Mac guy who ends up having difficulty with the vest and gun, shoots himself with it, gets frustrated, tosses it all on the floor in a fit then complains they must have built it wrong and how its stupid and "he didn't really want to play anyway." He runs off to go play Zork instead.

Tale casts Gate, summons a Balor, and is promptly devoured.

Maybe they should have deported the son, too. Would that have made her happy?