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My cousin bought Infamous today so I've been playing that all evening. Excellent game so far, with lots and lots to see and do. It's fun to just scramble around, trying to find blast shards and dead drops. The side quests have all been varied and the main story seems interesting enough. We didn't get very far and the only "power" we managed to level up was the one that makes you take less damage from enemies. We desperately needed it! Fun game, definitely worth the price.

They had to cut out the peeing animations for it to pass the Xbox ratings. Oddly enough the beheadings and sadistic violence were allowed to stay! Apparently it's worse seeing someone take a leak than actually performing a brutal murder in a game. Only in America.

I'd suggest you look up: Hardwar: It's basically Elite on a planet. But with great graphics, even now (it supports 1600x1200!). You follow a weak plot, all the while you're trying to upgrade your ship and buy property and more "lives" (called clones in the game). You begin with only one life and if you die, the game throws you out to the desktop (or maybe my game was buggy?). It's extremely difficult, totally unforgiving and highly satisfying once you get a hang of it. Oh, and you can play as a bounty hunter, a trader or a pirate. Just like Elite. Scrapland: Think GTA with robots. You play a weird looking rasta robot that's a journalist (the lowest job available on this robot planet). You get sent on a reporting job, but you soon end up playing a private detective unravelling some huge conspiracy/murder story in town. You're free to roam around the city as you wish and take on challenges and do battle with either bandits or the police. You can also upgrade your ship with new parts and weapons you find/win in the world. It can get repetitive, but I liked it. The Neverhood: A very beautiful adventure game, made with claymation technique. It's actually a collaboration between Dreamworks and Microsoft! You play as a clay man (actually named Klayman) that's lost his memory and your mission is to wander the world, solve puzzles and regain your memories one at a time. The world is amazing, the characters gripping, the soundtrack is great and it's actually humorous. A true forgotten gem.

It really doesn't though. This time the combat animation reflects your characters skill. At the beginning you'll basically stumble around with your sword, stabbing your own leg. At the end of the game, you'll be able to wield a two handed sword in one hand (lame, I know). The animation sets will reflect this. I'm assuming you've only seen the beginners combat animation since those do resemble Gothic 3 a bit.

A real spy game would immediately self destruct upon completion.

How about Sweden? We do have the best blondes, after all. And no spy game can exist without a lot of slutty blondes!

http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows-XP...-RTM/1249687071 Sigh.

Very strategy game heavy list. Not at all for me.

Nevermind. Carry on discussing everything except Alpha Protocol.

No. It simply means it's the best of its kind at the time.

A lot.

By the way, did you know that the daughter of Terry Pratchett (author of the Discworld books), Rhianna Pratchett, is one of the co-writers of the Risen story? Pretty cool.

Don't you ever get tired of being wrong, Morgoth?

Actually, there's 20-something new pictures in this link: http://www.pcgames.de/aid,691931/Risen-Meh...mage_id=1170688 I must say I like the graphics, even though it may not be the most advanced graphics ever. The art design suits my taste, I guess.

Just a random picture from Risen that I liked: Swine army!

Eschalon: Book 1 was made by like.. two people. It's excellent.

You have a Venereal Disease that's talking to you..? You need a doctor.

I blame my lousy speed on my university's lame speed throttling. Sunet is evil, but at least it's free.

Yeah, the concern has been raised in earlier threads. I, too, am fed up with the American way of depicting themselves as heroes and the only just cause on the planet, whether consciously or subconsciously, but this world view seems so deeply ingrained in the common American mind that they no longer even react to/notice it. Kind of like the Chinese looking out across the borders, wondering in surprise why the rest of the world thinks they're oppressed. I expect no more from Obsidian (it's not really their job, after all) so I'll settle for snorting derisively while playing the game. Because play it I will.

Well, this is the first time Piranha Bytes has tried to release anyhting on the Xbox 360. While this is mostly bad news for us PC gamers (we end up having to suffer through the same limitations of the Xbox 360 hardware even though we have much more powerful stuff in our rigs), it also brings something good to the table: rigorous Quality Assurance! I'm afraid submitting a Piranha Bytes game to Microsoft QA will do what the Great Hedron Collider could not; create a black hole that swallows Earth.

Everytime I read up on Windows 7, I hear all these superlatives being thrown around how it's so amazingly fast and much, much better than anything Microsoft has ever done. But as soon as you try to get the details, exactly WHAT is so much better and faster, they can't specify. And then I run into videos like these: I really want to believe in a new OS (because of the RAM limitations in 32-bit XP) but WIndows 7 still sounds like a moderately tweaked version of Vista.

Oh, and the final cover has been released too: I kind of like it.

I just found out that Gollum and Gimli are voicing two of the characters in Risen. That's actually pretty.. neat. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475543/

I don't care what you say, Weird Al is awesome: http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/weir...s_nelson_reilly

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/alpha-pr...-august-preview Not very positive (they mainly describe it as bland) but Eurogamer are known for being harsh. Sometimes.