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Ninjas versus Vikings. Meh. English football fans pwn them both. Anyhoo, let's hope CA sort out the AI, despite loving the series Empires put me off and I'll need to see some glowing reviews to drag me back.

This callsign is playing BG2 and Alpha Protocol. He will not regret missing this game. Out.

Haha. WTF!? That's right, he's committed heresy. Burn the witch. Why not have a think, y'know, an original thought? One not prescribed by your almost certainly libtard peer group? Maybe challenge them and explore a perspective you don't normally share? I do it now and then. Sometimes I even realise my point of view on a subject was skewed. Why not check it out?

+1

Of course, the uncomfortable thing for a lot of folks is the slowly dawning realisation that Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld had a point...

This is their trademark narrative structure, you just missed the bit that goes TREACLY MUSIC > EMO FLIRTING BY NPC > TALKS ABOUT THEIR PROBLEMS > GIVE THEM A GIFT > POORLY ANIMATED LURVE

It's a case of pop eating itself, CRPGs aped pen and paper now pen and paper apes video games. It uses a 'streamlined' (we all know what that means) system resembling one part MMORPG, one part part trading-card game. The iconic classes are FUBAR'd so they are now 'cool' for the attention-deficit crowd. It's horrible.

4th Edition D&D isn't really D&D, folks here are gonna hate it. Really, really hate it.

Again, the control freakery is a fairly recent development. It used to be a nice company to interact with, now it's a sort of prissy, precious type of outfit. And as somebody who loathes the collected works of Joss Wheedon, I'm sort of seeing the link.

LOL... again LOL :: cries :: Over 13000 posts. And every one a winner, like this.

Tigs, seriously mate, you deserve a medal. You'd have to pay me real money to play this PoS.

I hate it when the gaming press fail to dig where Bio are coming from on this, the skill trees are distinct, help the player make optimal decisions and are indicative of the sort of game Bio wants to make. And, of course, the epic dARk HeRoIC FanTaSY that only Bio can deliver. Naysayers should be sent, quite rightly, to the gaming naughty step for being out of touch elitists.

Despite my respect for MCA I cannot, in all good conscience, admit to a man-crush on him. Although if he's ever in London the beers are on me, does that count?

Am downloading the Men of War Assault Squad demo. I find MoW a tough game to play, there are so many controls but assault squad looks like it might be different. Will let you know what I think later.

And the award for most insecure post of the the year goes to..... ROFL. Too true. Surely if there's one thing we should have grown up enough to know by now it's that you're either gay or straight and fretting about which merely suggests you're the opposite of what you say you are. EDIT: Unless you're bi, obviously. The opposite of which is I suppose being not at all sexy. I take it you guys don't realise what its like to be 100% man, with spandex, and the lot. You also have no humour gland. No, I too find aspects of this thread beyond tragic. Except my man-crush on Wals, which doesn't count. In my mind's eye we are punting down the Cam together with Rathbone, my teddy bear ::sighs::

I stand humbly corrected. All I'll say is that the interviews I've seen with Ridley Scott make it pretty clear that he wanted a decent horror movie. In space.

Oh man, plumbers, electricians, and mechanics make bank. Also, and I'm only basing this on a brush contact knowledge of 1970's European adult cinema, but plumbers also have interesting and varied love lives Edit: shockingly needless use of an apostrophe, am off to whip myself with bike chain or something.

Sorophx and I are members of a tiny, two-man sect that find me amusing. There's me and him. Don't worry.

Alternatively, have you ever met a really poor plumber?

I think Ridley Scott saw it as a horror movie in space, period (keepin' it simple, stoopid I guess is a good idea), Sigourney Weaver, IIRC, has occasionally mentioned that is has shades of fear about biology and the body. Hey, what do I know? I prefer Aliens anyhow because it has drop-ships, APCs, space marines, MG42s on steadicams and the line "I say we nuke the site from orbit."

So, like, from the past? That's spooky.

If that's how you want to interpret the piece then fine, but having read a number of interviews with the director, writer and cast I certainly don't think that was their intention.

I will be deliberately provocative... Academics are scared of life, but even more scared of the commitment required to live a properly cloistered existence, say a monk or a soldier. The ones I met didn't particularly impress me as people. I think academia is something you'll fall into only if you genuinely love and excel in your subject of choice.

Graduated twenty years ago, looking back the subject was largely irrelevant in a purely vocational context but the disciplines involved in studying for an obtaining a decent degree were extremely valuable. Even more importantly, I met my wife at university so you never quite know what you are going to take away from the experience. I got a degree and a wife (yes, am still married to her, mit sprog).

Wait until you become a father, things will become clearer.