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^ Dude, all you need is a hammer and some duct tape.

I'm in two minds about the vanity view thing. As some of you know, I'm a Company of Heroes addict and the zoom-in view is awesome... but I never use it. Hey, I guess it doesn't take up a lot of assets and would be in there anyway.

I only agree with Morgie occasionally, but the man really is on the money with this one. The problem is, in fact, that Diablo et.al do the action RPG thing so well... you have to wonder how to beat it. I don't think you can, so why I'm glad to see Obz involved in this project is that they will inject a little bit of plot, character and dry humour into a not-too-unfamiliar action RPG package and it will sparkle. As it happens, I'm with the OP in the general spirit of what he's saying too.

When corporate shills speak like this where I work, we refer to it as Bullsh*t Bingo.

I feel sorry for the referee in France V S.A. Honestly, I thought it was the bicycle-kick to the head too. It's not as if France can really complain about dodgy referee's decisions, really, is it?

I feared that Alcatraz was going to be cheesy, but happily I was wrong. The National Parks run one of the most interesting sites of national and historic interest I've been to anywhere. The audio tour is excellent.

So, you are bored and hungry. The only place on the internet you should be heading is Pimp That Snack where you will discover culinary genius in abundance, enjoy and use the rest of this thread to thank me profusely for showing you the path of gastronomic awesomeness.

I dunno, I just like the idea of being able to (a) interact with the environment using magic and (b) make magic directly relevant to the situation you are in. By that, I mean being able to make curses where you choose the specific effect (i.e. a clumsiness curse, a repulsion curse, a plague of frogs...) and I really REALLY want to interact with scenery and terrain like a mentalist poltergeist on acid.

Anything with balalikas usually brings a tear to my eye, as does peeling onions.

The All Blacks chewed up the Welsh like a meatgrinder. Painful to watch.

I saw Daybreakers last night. It was a pretty standard issue vampire sci-fi horror, but with an amusing twist as we saw the ins-and-outs of the vampires as a society in 2019. Liberal vampires argue for human rights on the TV news. All the vampires smoke, heavily, because vampires are immortal. Vampires have cool cars with special daytime-driving technology. Vampires have blood in their coffee the same way we have sugar. And, for some reason, vampires all dress like they live in the 1950's. Don't get me wrong, there are logic voids throughout, but this isn't really the point. Anyway, despite their general bad-assery, vampires are unable to stop packs of resistance fighter humans cutting about in the daytime (led by ex-vampire Willem Dafoe) which is a problem because the world's human blood supply is dwindling, turning the vamps into weird mutant creatures who prey on each other. Ethan 'reluctant vampire' Hawke wants to find a cure for vampirism, but has a problem with his brother, a member of the Vampire Army (it's a bit like the normal army, but with fangs and the requirement for special daytime-fighting protective kit). Anyhoo, that's the basics, there is a pretty clever twist in the tail and it has reasonable production values. I give it a Saturday night-with-a-pizza 7/10. By the way, argunig about comic book canon? Puh-leez, it's a movie. All of us who like literature of any sort have accepted that movie adaptations can and will take liberties with the source material. Sometimes for better, usually for worse but it's like making a big deal about microwave meals tasting less authentic than one you just made yourself from fresh ingredients. Cheers MC

At least England had a good game of rugby against Australia today, like I say the real world cup takes place in New Zealand next year.

Hi. I seldom play magic-using characters. Mainly because bearded guys in dressing gowns throwing fireballs is a bit meh. In DS3 have you thought about going off-piste a bit with spells? I'm thinking maybe spells that allow you to use the environment offensively (a bit like the way you can use the suit in Crysis to throw stuff about) or mind control to control your enemies (I liked walking bombs in Dragon Age). Also, can you have a mage that doesn't look like everybody's vanilla guy-in-a-dressing-gown? Lastly, a pack mule familiar would be the last word in cool. Cheers MC

From what I remember from DS1, the illusion of seamlessness worked pretty well. In fact, were it quite so mindlessly H&S it would have been a good game, it looked great in 2002.

The average pay of the English national team footballers, in the English domestic Premiership, is on average

I dunno, just off the top of my head... * They have rent and bills to pay in the harshest economic climate since the 1930's (when the original Dungeon Siege was released, history fans) * Maybe they want to go in a new direction and make a more action-focussed game (and why not?) * Perhaps they realised their perceived weakness in the action / combat aspect of their games and wanted to do a project that kicked that ball into the back of the net... * And, most shockingly, maybe they just want to make a really fun game lots of people will want to play (The Horror!) * Etc Honestly, I appreciate why fans of Obz's core games might be surprised and even disappointed, but the reasons why they've chosen this project don't strike me as a MYSTARY.

That song ruined Memphis Bell. It's not even maudlin, it's mawkish.

I'll happily admit that D3 is my most eagerly anticipated game at the moment... damn the lack of release dates.

For the love of God, you could have posted a warning or something.

Although it is common knowledge that Swindon is in fact the Twin Peaks of the UK. Anything can, and frequently does, happen there.

I agree. A car weighs the best part of a tonne, right? You need to get it bouncing to make a gap big enough to get in there and flip it. Of course, if you had a way of jacking it up you could use less people but I can't see four kids doing it. Unless it was a Smartcar or something of course.

I will not have this... thing on my computer.

Krez, that's pretty expensive. It comes bundled with the XP for about UK

Originally I fancied Spain, but yeah the Germans are now my favourites. I think they'll turn Brazil over.

I think we started by bouncing it on it's suspension, then bundling into the gap and making a scrum to turn it over. Like I said, it was a bunch of fairly big, fit twenty-something men.