Wrath of Dagon

Huh? The .223 round is exactly .22 caliber, and is used in M16 and M4 assault rifles. The difference, as has been mentioned, is a longer, heavier bullet and a much more powerful cartridge. With all that, the M16 actually has less recoil than 9 mm pistol, and much less than a .357 (same caliber), which can actually hurt your hand it kicks so hard. The reason is a much smaller bullet to gun mass ratio of the M16. Also the power of a bullet mostly depends on its energy, which is proporitonal to its mass and to velocity squared. Thus a relatively light bullet like the .223 has a tremendous amount of energy because of the velocity it is able to achieve. Nevertheless, I completely agree with your idea of doing what works best for the game, instead of what's most realistic.

Huh, where do you get that? Generally, no weapon is less accurate and weaker than a pistol.

Sounds like dual-wielding is purely cosmetic anyway. Sure no one uses dual SMG's in real life, but this is a game and they want it to look cool. It's just like no one hand carries a heavy machine gun like Rambo, but it's OK in a movie, and this game isn't any more realistic.

Submachine guns have a longer barrel, thus are more powerful and more accurate, even using the same ammo. Don't know specifically about MicroUzi.

Sub-machine guns are both more accurate and more powerful than pistols in single shot mode, hence their use by commando teams.

Does dual-wield mean that you have to pull both triggers, or is it just a cosmetic thing? I used to kind of dislike dual-wielding, but now I'm used to it because of Halo.

It's a game, games should be fun, I should be able to bring along whatever equipment I'm skilled in because I don't know what I'll run into. Edit: Or else why did I invest all those skillpoints? /edit Trying to make games make complete sense is beyond silly unless it's a sim.

The difference is that I could see having to choose between mobility and firepower among loadouts as a potentially fun and game-balancing mechanic, whereas I find looking for ammo or bringing enough with me to kill 50 guys logistically boring. That's already taken care of by the skill system, you should be able to bring along any equipment you're skilled in, without suffering additional penalties.

Are they also going to show him carrying a giant sack with all of his other equipment? If he needs a giant sack to carry all the equipment, makes sense to me. Santa Protocol

Are they also going to show him carrying a giant sack with all of his other equipment?

I find that screenshot very disconcerting, it makes it look like the stance is the only thing you select, unless the line on the bottom is indeed what you're about to say. That line looks like it's from the intimidate option though. Also they chose to display all the weapons you're carrying, which I think looks a bit silly.

In Beyond Good and Evil, if you die in a battle you just re-start in the beginning of the battle, without loading, which I thought worked perfectly well for that type of game. This system sounds very similar. Usually Ubisoft errs on the side of making checkpoints too frustrating, or not being able to save checkpoints, or some other screwy mechanism designed to punish you for not being hardcore enough.

Is an inability to spell 'lighten' properly also "proper American spelling"? That was intentional. Also I had too much lite yoghurt. If non standard spelling was good enough for Shaksper, it's good enough for us stupid Americans.

Good point, and if you study history, you'll notice there's a definite pattern to events.

I thought QTE's worked great in Shenmue 2, and made a lot of sense in the context. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the button mashing minigame to open locks in console Mass Effect was the worst single piece of gameplay I've ever seen, and a huge and tedious waste of time for me because of all the reloading I had to do.

Sounds like it's delayed, and if it is, there's no guaranty it'll come out in June either. Oh, well, so long as it doesn't become vaporware.

That's right, dialog is proper American spelling, liten up.

Great post, Guard Dog. I'm glad you posted first, I was going to post pretty much the same response but would've been too lazy to look up the sources. Another justice of the ilk of Bryer or Souter would be a complete disaster. At least right now Kennedy, who's half way reasonable, holds the balance of power.

I think what he's trying to say is you can play it either isometric or over the shoulder.

ROFL, Obama pretty much said he doesn't care what the constitution says, he wants judges to make it up as they go along, based on their ideology, which is the prevailing liberal view btw. Obama may seem like a centrist now, before he has power, and indeed his appointments so far have been quite reasonable. But there are several laws the Democrats will pass if they can which will do severe, long term, and probably irreversible damage to the US economy, as I mentioned before.

I bet the 360 is the lead platform.

It was a woman who tried to assassinate Ford, from the Manson family. Anyway, the Secret Service has become so good at their job there's very little danger.

Seems like stealth and setting up traps / hacking should go together, I wonder how the division of skills is going to work.

From the article it sounds like they're not really Jews, they only have a Jewish ancestor. Also from their ages it's probably their parents who moved to Israel, and probably for purely economic reasons, or perhaps they just hate their parents. Really not that strange, hitler himself was concerned he might have a Jewish ancestor, although that doesn't seem to be the case.

If they're in puppet mode, you have to assign them a command for every single round, else they'll stand around and do nothing.