Wrath of Dagon

Yes, since it's an abstraction, you can imagine anything. But the point is it's an abstraction of combat, and we know what happens in combat.

Ok, so I guess checkers, by that standard, is also all about war. You seem to have ignored the fact that, as I pointed out, Chess is a game of strategy, one where, I might ad, you cannot kill the enemy king

Actually, no, Chess depicts the grand strategy of war

Therefore, you would not play, or support, a game that had you killing other people in cold blood, required you to steal, or otherwise commit a crime. Is that what you are saying? If so you must not have like, to name two examples, either KotOR or KotOR II

What do you call having the player perform those acts? I hope you are not saying that committing an act in a video game will make you do the same acts in real life because that is what it sounds like you are implying. If so, I suggest you go seclude yourself from others, contact Jack Thompson, and stop posting here as clearly you would likely murder someone or commit some other horrible crime due to all of those

What do you call having the player perform those acts?

If you play an Xbox game on the 360 all the colors are washed out. No one seems to notice though.

There's a big difference between BG&E which resets you to just before the battle and most other Ubisoft games where you have to go for an hour before you get a checkpoint, which with my mediocre skills results in lots of repetition and leads to tedium and boredom. Another concern for me would be the checkpoints in an open ended game suggest either a certain amount of linearity or rarity of checkpoints.

That's an argument against cross-genre games then, since a game which focuses on only one thing will generally do it better for a number of reasons. Personally I prefer the cross-genre approach, as I find most one trick ponies boring and repetitive.

Check point saves, ugh.

Some pieces of human garbage simply can't be allowed to go on living. It's a matter of principle.

Pretty sure they will have working jet packs. There's a description of the bounty hunter class on the TOR site.

Here's an example of the effect your choices will have (hint: not much) http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3174566 Also sounds like combat will be a click fest, which sucks.

Didn't you see the bounty hunter class? And uh, they have lightsabers. And it's DAAAARK!!!!!!!!!!

Heh, heh, ADHD. Used to be known as just plain laziness. But yes, starting with the easy parts sometimes helps.

I saw Matthew's demo on G4 earlier today. We should really have a first person option, so I don't have to look at Thorton running around like a dork all the time. Plus it would avoid unfavorable comparisons to SC: Conviction.

It has some pretty fun quests, if you just keep randomly exploring dungeons it does get pretty repetitive and tiresome. Especially Knights of the Nine I thought had a good focus and a good variety of locations.

Diplomacy worked great with North Korea, keep it up guys.

Why would Leviticus be discussing Christians, as it was written approx 1500 years before Christianity? Also I'm not aware of stoning people of other religions to death, in fact the Bible often repeats the injunction of treating the "stranger among you" well. Also I'm not aware of killing people for eating shellfish. Lev 18:22 "Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abhorrence." Lev 20:13 "If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, the two of them have done an abhorrent thing; they shall be put to death - their bloodguilt is upon them." Edit: Never mind, Maria was talking about Acts of the New Testament, not Liviticus.

Does look very cool.

The writing in MoW is one of the best things about it.

Bush's big problems were that he was too idealistic abroad and didn't understand economics well enough at home. Of course that's a general problem with our government, and besides there's a tendency to let sleeping dogs lie until there's a crisis, at which point we take half measures. At least Bush tried to do what he thought was the right thing, regardless of his popularity, but he would've been better off if he addressed a few immediate problems, like energy independence, instead of trying to make over the world.

We look forward to becoming part of Mexico again.

Just watch out for spoilers, I'm not going to read it until I finish the game.

No, you were right, except it's not only combat that's cheesepuff.