Wrath of Dagon

So, that's games sold in Australia, not made in Australia. At least a lot of wine is actually made there.

How's ME not a shooter?

New video, looks pretty good. And the Geth actually have a personality now!

ESC is supposed to let you skip the VO.

Stay away from Chinese dry wall.

Yes, I think you should have less and less health while the fights get harder and harder. What's so great about finishing a game anyway?

20h? You're lucky.

Playing paint ball is kind of like multiplayer without any graphic violence. It's quite different from a game depicting sadistic/graphic violence. Like I said, it's all about the moral message the game sends. Playing paint ball doesn't send any message.

Well, I don't care about those, but I would've liked the top down view, which I can get later as I said, along with any mods if I get the urge.

That's OK, I don't blame you personally.

So you bought the more expensive version, limited version and are complaining about the price of the less expensive, "full" one? First I haven't bought anything yet. Second I'm not complaining, I'm saying if I have to buy a game twice, I'll wait till it goes down in price. Third, it's only limited depending on your priorities, I've decided for the first play through console offers certain irresistible advantages for me.

Well, my point is it could've worked like KOTOR in 3rd person, but worked more like the PC version in overhead mode, if there was one. Now I'll probably have to get both versions, but I'll wait until PC one drops in price and I'm ready to replay it.

My experience with emulated mouse pointers on consoles has typically been less than awesome. It would have definitely required a different approach in general to the control scheme from earlier than when I started on the project. Transitioning between different control schemes depending on your viewpoint starts to make things complicated as well. Surely if I can aim with the pointer, I can use it for positioning too. It also helps to make the pointer a bit "sticky", sort of like autoaim. As far as transitioning, if overhead was treated as a separate mode, like menus are a separate mode, having the controls work a little different would make sense I think. It's pretty common to do that on consoles, due to the scarcity of buttons.

Laws are supposed to protect individuals from mobs too you know, it's not always majority rules.

It's really a result of the control scheme. There's no way to give move orders to all 4 of your party members at the same time (since the Left Stick is used to move). The tactical abilities with the mouse are limited, though perhaps it still would have been useful from a visual standpoint, I don't know if it would have worked as well with the Radial Targeting menu of the console. But yes, PC reigns supreme!! The Left Stick should've been used to control the cursor in overhead view, so you could do click to move, which is what's needed to control the entire party. The official reason Bio gave was that the consoles don't have enough memory to support the zoomed out view (which is weird now that I think of it, doesn't the entire 3-D area have to be in memory anyway?)

The patent system is so abused and broken now it would just be better to get rid of it entirely, all it does is let a few parasites blackmail and stifle innovators. The copyright law though works exactly like it should, I don't see any question of fairness or ethics, just because a large segment of the population is willing to violate the law doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the law itself.

That, I just can't understand that decision. Plus if they had an action queue, they could let you autopause on action queue going empty, saving you all that random pausing every 2 sec. The official answer from Laidlaw was to use the AI scripts instead, if I understood him correctly.

So because of this discussion, I was just watching a National Geographic show about pot. They said it's claimed that it can lead to depression, memory loss and reduced performance on the job and in school.

Games might have more of an effect on someone who's already unstable/maladjusted than on a normal person.

He's talking about lead gen type offers, which tend to be scams, not straight cash for game currency exchanges, which he said are fine at the very start. The examples given are of the lead gen type offers.

1up has a pretty good review. This is a funny line: Yes, and a thousand times in real history. Also says you need a rogue in your party, and compares console and PC versions. Surprise: console loses big!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamv...system-of-hell/ from RockPaperShotgun. Very interesting to find out how this stuff works, I've seen a lot of those ads even without the social networks.

I know you're joking, but I'm pretty sure I'm older than you are. *Coughing with laughter* I hope for your sake that you're not. It's a common affliction, not much I can do about it. Mushrooms are really good fried with potatoes, yummy. Why anyone would intentionally eat poisonous ones is beyond me.

You can't just deconstruct a game and say it's just pixels, any more than you can say a movie is just make-believe or a book is just characters on paper. You have to consider what the message of the game is and how likely it is to be absorbed by someone. Edit: Is Saw a violent movie? In that case why can't a game be violent? And no, it's not an abstraction if you show everything in realistic true-to-life detail, it's a representation.

So we're going to be maintaining dictators in power through the use of force? Kind of the opposite of what we always professed, isn't it?