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If you HAVE to have a mini-game in your game, please rip off the Paradroid mini-game! That's the only mini-game I've actually enjoyed playing of all the mini-games that have passed my way. The mini-game in Bioshock is probably the worst one yet since it wasn't always possible to win (I'd consider that a bug), it took too much time and required no actual skill. The mini-game in Oblivion was bearable since it was over within 5 seconds or something. In Paradroid you had a small robot you controlled onboard a gigantic spaceship. The robots deteriorated pretty fast and to win the game, you had to transfer your robots AI onto other robots before your own robot died (either from being shot or just from deterioration). The way you did this was you rolled up to another robot and engaged it in a battle of AI minds! The screen changed from the ship with robots in it, to an overview of a computer chip, complete with rows of "legs" on both sides. The goal of the mini-game that presented itself at this stage was to control the most amounts of legs (segments) on the chip, by using the connections your robot had at his disposal. The robots all had numbers on them, and a low numbered robot didn't bring as many connections to the battle as a high numbered one. Therefore it was really difficult to win such a battle with a 1-robot against a 249-robot.. (In the picture above, the yellow 249-robot has 4 available connections and he's wasted one. The purple 1-robot, the player, had two connections available and he's wasted both. The yellow side has 8 segments of the chip under control while the purple side only has 4, so the 249-robot is winning that game.)

I thought the game was a bit on the boring side. Spain has played better before (twice against Russia!). Still, they are very well deserved winners! Congratulations, Spain!

I have a double-pack so that's the resolution I am using. But honestly, it still looks like crap. It's mainly because it's so jerky. Everything is jerky, from the scrolling to how the mouse pointer moves across the screen. It's the same effect as when I am playing Fallout or Icewind Dale. It's like the games were made jerkier back then and noone cared.

I've had the same avatar since I joined this place 4.5 years ago. How sad is that? Just look up the other thread for an explanation if needed.

I keep dying because I suck at Diablo 2 paladins.. There are these weird archers that make me blue and slow when they shoot me. And they begin shooting me before they even appear on screen. So I have to try to run towards them while being blue and slow and every hit they score on me stops me in my tracks. So I'm not really surrounded, I'm just slow and out of potions.

Uhm.. I have my Diablo 2 up and running, but I am reading this thread with interest. I have my paladin (yes, I was that unoriginal) at level.. 16 perhaps? So far I've spent ONE skill point.. on some really weak Prayer skill that was supposed to heal me but doesn't seem to do anything but drain my mana. I am so clueless as to how to build a paladin properly. I'll take it up to level 30 or so and read your (and other online) suggestions first before I'll start messing around with online. By the way, I am in some place called Inner Cloister right now in the single player campaign.. The enemies keep freezing me and I keep dying

My mom wants this played: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxDXq9I3MvM...feature=related

I played through Diablo once a very long time ago.. Bought Diablo 2 from a dorm mate, but never managed to get into it (I think I found Gothic at around the same time and going from Gothic to Diablo 2.. er..). But I watched the gameplay video of Diablo 3 and it looked.. interesting. So now I've installed Diablo 2 and am currently trying to play through it. Not as bad as I remember it to be.

Had a fantastic party in my apartment tonite. Went out to a popular club, waited in line for 40 minutes and then gave up as the moronic guards let everyone blonde and female enough in the VIP queue in and let everyone else wait for ridiculous amounts of time. Sometimes I hate the Swedish club admittance system..

Sure, everyone misunderstands you because you're so much more advanced than anyone else. No matter how many university points everyone else has in the exact same subject. Keep living in your little bubble. Makes it a lot easier to 'discuss' things if you can just dismiss people as knowing less than you based on a few university credits. The US has a lot more guns out in the wild than most civilized, non-warmongering countries. Yet the US also has one of the highest death-rates by gun related deaths than any other civilized non warmongering country. The only people not clever enough to realize the connection are the Americans themselves.. so I guess Darwin's theory is in full effect in the US. Good for you! Shoot more, you deserve it!

Haha, notice how Thorton is consequentially misspelled as Thornton throughout the quote? I TOLD YOU IT WAS A MISTAKE TO NAME HIM THORTON!

Yes, task has read statistics, he knows more about everyone else about everything! I'm fine with Americans having guns. It's like a modern form of Darwin's theory..

Yes, I did! Dead Island: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23848.html NOW did I forget anything?!

Learning by doing worked well in Wasteland.

I never understood why people were praising Diablo 2 and ridiculing Sacred in the same breath.. I thought they were carbon copies of each other. Of course, I couldn't play either one of them for any prolonged periods of time.

Another of the games I'm looking forward to, Far Cry 2, had a presentation on Sweden's biggest computer get-together, Dreamhack: 20 minutes long! Looks fantastic.

One of the games I'm looking forward to the most, White Gold, has gotten a short but good preview: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=191058 I really like the sound of the perk system!

New preview with new screenshots baked in: http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/pc/previews/131888.Fallout-3/ Pretty interesting read, actually.

Please feel free to elaborate on how GTA4 is even an advancement over the previous part of the series, GTA: San Andreas. Exactly what in GTA4 did you think evolved from GTA: San Andreas that makes it worthy of a mention in a discussion about how games evolve over time? You talk about how the UI and the control system has changed for the better. I agree. But it's like a drop in the ocean compared to what's been lost in the same period of time. Not many people like inventory tetris, true, but is the solution really to just remove the inventory then? Sure, the game will become more "streamlined", but wouldn't a better solution be to work on the UI to avoid the inventory management from becoming a chore? A lot of design decision recently seem to rely on removal of features instead of refining of features. And I must admit that it's a little worrying reading about how you refer to a standardization of control methods for a game genre as game evolution. Yeah, it's a chore having to relearn the controls for games before the mouse-look revolution, but is that really a point to prove how new games are still evolving in the right direction? I certainly don't think so. Oh, and it's not really a secret that Bioshock offers vastly less choices for the player than System Shock 2. Choices that matter, skills that made a difference, different playing styles (not just a choice between burning and electrocuting your next enemy), a more varied and important inventory, more complex problems to solve (were there any in Bioshock?), longer playing time (around 10 hours for Bioshock.. and over 40 hours for System Shock 2). Yeah, Bioshock probably had a smoother UI. Is the trade-off really worth it though?

Naah, Wellwood was just too young and talented to be on my team. We'll replace him with someone at least twice his age, don't worry.

Yeah, that sounds pretty healthy! I must be living in the media. Or wait. Why does one need to eat it in moderation? You say yourself that it's healthy? Why not eat it all the time since it's healthy? Since we're obviously not taking the amount of the ingredients into consideration, shouldn't eating an iron bolt be healthy? I mean, everyone knows the body needs iron! Is it the statistics that's telling you to type out this nonsense?

I have two built-in NIC's too on my motherboard (Abit Max.. something). By the way, they released the 4870 specs to the Swedish retailers today too! It'll give the 260 a run for its money and in Sweden it'll cost around 2500SEK. The 260 goes for 3400SEK. Guess which one I'll be buying?

Guess if I'm hoping Sundin comes back. Take a wild one.

Oh yeah, please keep telling us more about health issues and healthy food. Please. If you knew more than anyone else in this thread (because you have the background) you probably wouldn't try to say that junk food has what the body needs.. Because if junk food had what the body needs, Super Size Me wouldn't have been made and the term junk food wouldn't have been coined. You got some degree in something, right? And now you think that makes you know more than everyone about everything..? Hilarious.

It doesn't. I was merely asking why realism and providing a challenge has fallen out of style so much in the same post. I don't believe in this philosophy for a second. What you are talking about is an interactive movie. I want to be challenged by a game, not become a semi-active participant in a computer generated story.