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I fail to see the logic in that. I played Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel long after I had played Fallout & Fallout 2, and I still think those are excellent games, despite FOBOS. Why would a bad sequel somehow affect a good original? It doesn't work that way. I believe it has the opposite effect, actually. I think a lot of folks remember Deus Ex (for example) as a hell of a lot better than they first thought, after playing through Deus Ex: Invisible War, just because the sequel was so crappy.

Fallout isn't dead. There's a sequel brewing in the Bethesda headquarters. Whether you like it or not, Fallout is far from dead. Oh, and Herve has promised us a Fallout Online too! )

Deus Ex may not have as many choices as it seems at first, but the illusion of freedom is still there all the time. Every problem/quest in the game have several solutions, and most levels have several ways to enter and exit, so you'll have a great time just exploring and finding alternate routes everywhere. And everytime someone mentions Deus Ex I get the urge to reinstall it and replay it for the tenth time.

Hmm.. I've reviewed both F.E.A.R. and Quake 4 on that list, and I am reviewing Call of Duty 2 right now. Quake 4 is a boring action romp that really shows what the Doom 3 engine (that our newly self-appointed expert Kaftan says is clearly the best engine out there) is capable of: NOTHING. I gave it 6.8/10. But if you like running in very dark corridors, taking orders from anonymous NPC's, then it's the game for you. Otherwise I wouldn't recommend it. F.E.A.R. is yet another action game that tries too hard to scare you. It fails horribly. The first few minutes are scary, when you don't know what you're up against. But then, after about 15 minutes, you realize that tjhe ghosts never actually do anything, except go up in smoke when you shoot at them, and they cease being scary. After that you're stuck running in gray office buildings for the next 10 hours, although the action sequences in this game are unbelievable sometimes. Make good use of the slow motion button!! If you're not bothered by repetitive backgrounds and very uninspired level designs, then you're going to have a great time with the action (even if the game is very hardware demanding and things tend to slow down occasionally). Call of Duty 2 seems to be the best of the bunch. I've only just started playing the game (got it on Monday) and I'm still in the russian campaign, but so far it's a graphically upgraded version of Call of Duty, meaning lots of cinematic action happening all around you all the time. The action has so far seemed a bit simple (shoot, run, shoot, run) but I am sure that will change when I get further into the game. Oh, and grenades are far more lethal this time around. Their blast radius is huge. So far I'm leaning towards a ~8.0/10 or so. Far Cry is one of my favourite FPS's ever so I won't say too much about except: get it! It costs like.. $5 in Sweden right now, and it's still a great game.. Unless you have something against mutated apes. Edit: I misspelled Sweden! SOMEONE SHOOT ME!! (and seize/cease..)

Seriously though.. those girls are ugleeee! How can they be cheerleaders..? I thought cheerleaders were model rejects and wannabe pornstars. Oh.. right.

We're taking on Washington tonite! The league's most feared and dangerous team!!1 No matter, I bet the Leafs will manage to find a way to lose and Ovechkin can score three new ones. Grr.

You have to remember that Ovechkin is 21 and Crosby is 18 though. I bet when Crosby is 21 he'll be the player to watch in Pittsburgh.

Long gone are the times of cloth maps and tiny metal ankhs..

Catfight!

Are you hogging my nude gurls?

Yeah, I've been fortunate enough to be able to follow Ovechkin for a couple of years before he entered the NHL. He's one of those rare players that you just enjoy watching, because of his unpredictable nature and raw talent. I just wish he was a Leaf. Unfortunately for me, I haven't seen much of Crosby at all. All I know about him is basically what I read during the lo.. lock.. during that awful, horrible time when no hockey was played. It was mostly hype though. Still, he keeps producing, even if he's not yet dominant enough to win games all by himself. Edit: Doesn't look good for the Oilers tonite.. At least it's against Dallas, a 0.500+ team, and not against Washington.

So how was Crosby? I saw he got the First Star, but I didn't care to listen to that game.. Radio is ok, but I'd get fed up if I listened to anything but Leafs games.

On a Gameboy perhaps.. but there's also the PSP! It has a somewhat higher resolution screen, although I am sure they would have to compress it a little even for the PSP. Ok, I looked it up: 480x272.. that's uh.. still too little. Oh well, one can dream..

If only they didn't keep deleting all my nude picture threads they'd all be cool.. BUT THEY'RE NOT!! BURN IN HELL FOR REMOVING ALL MY NAKED GURLS!!1!

Hmm. Either you have a faulty memory or the prices in the US have had a very different evolution than the swedish ones. When I started playing games on my Commodore 128 (same as Commodore 64 but crappier) the games cost between 49 SEK and 149 SEK. Today they range from 299 SEK to 599 SEK. Console games are even worse with prices up and above 649 SEK. On average a normal game is THREE TIMES more expensive today than it was back in the eighties. I wouldn't blame that difference on inflation. I remember the post where Feargus said the prices have remained constant but the development costs have gone through the roof. I still don't understand what he meant, because the prices have also gone through the roof in Sweden at least, just as development costs have.

Not only was that a crappy list, it wasn't even funny. And it was uninformed on so many titles.. Sigh.

Piracy is a problem on consoles too, noone's arguing against that fact. But you can't buy a console (Xbox/Ps2/Gamecube), download a game and instantly play it. That's the reality on a PC. The threshold to start pirating games is much bigger on the console than it is on a normal PC, because of modchips and the like. Availability is key. Piracy on the PC is free, piracy on a console costs money to begin with.

Steen is great but he won't win any scoring titles, and unless you're watching the Leafs each and every game I'm certain it's difficult to appreciate how well the kid plays. He's just like his father, an excellent two-way player that gets ice-time in boxplay, powerplay and even strength. And he's a rookie! It's hard to believe that Quinn (of all people) puts so much trust in a rookie. If the Calder trophy would go to the best two-way rookie, I'm sure Steen would be in the race.. but not as it is now.

Uh.. the industry is bigger because more people play games? Isn't that like saying a rich man is richer because he has more money? The question is why the gaming industry is bigger now than ever before. I believe it is because of the avaiiability that console gaming brings. Which brings me to my other point as availability seems to rule out complexity. That's what I usually refer to as dumbified games. As for the other replies in this thread: I'm sorry if I'm not being 100% clear, as I am used to carrying normal conversations with normal people who are able to 'fill in the blanks' when I don't write things on their noses. Semantics does not interest me.

As much as I like Ovechkin, I'd rather see him score on other teams than the Leafs.. Oh well. Rematch on Tuesday!! Welcome to Air Canada Center!

Yup. Piracy on consoles were (are?) at their peak during this generation. Yup. The gaming industry is blooming like never before. These two facts, however, are not mutually exclusive. Back when consoles arrived, the games came on cartridges. Those were near impossible to copy. After that there were CD's and DVD's. Naturally the piracy is going to be higher with easily copyable media than with cartridges. That still doesn't mean that piracy is running rampant on consoles, like it is on the PC. To be able to play pirated games on consoles, you need to invest time and money in a modchip. That's quite a difference from clicking ONCE on a torrent, go to sleep and have a fully playable game on any normal PC by the time you wake up the next morning. Maybe I pulled a Jack Thompson, but you pulled a George 'Dubyah' Bush.

The gaming industry is bigger than ever in the history of gaming, thanks to (mostly) consoles. Whether you like it or not, piracy is killing the game industry. The fact that it's much harder to copy games on consoles probably made the industry what it is today: prospering. The only thing consoles might be guilty of killing is game complexity.

If I had a choice I'd watch it too. It's still not impossible to hear what's going on. NHL.com has some really good commentators who are really giving you the game play-by-play. Of course, it's still only a feeling you get over an entire game, if the refs are being uneven or inconsistant. I would blame it on bias of the commentators in the usual case. But then the commentators are screaming about weird penalties for both teams something is definitely wrong. By the way, the Leafs are trailing Washington by 1 goal. Hooray. At least Sundin has 2 assists in this game. Was hoping for a burst of goals too, but.. Edit: Spelling.

Ageia might be on to something with their physics chip. I'd buy one if they released it and got the support needed from developers. But I think ATI might be on to a better solution. They've designed their latest GPU's (X1800 for example) to be able to use unspent calculation power on different tasks, other than graphics.. for example physics! Check this out: http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/8887 I really think this is one way to go, even though I suspect a dedicated physics card would be more powerful.

Wasteland is a fantastic game. Unfortunately it's probably almost impossible to become immersed in it for a player of today, since not even the text is incorporated into the game (space issues)! You have to download a paragraph book, and whenever the game is trying to explain something lengthy, it will refer to it with "Read paragraph XX in the book" instead of writing it out. It's one of the best games I ever played though, but I played it in 1988 or 1989. I'm still hoping for a modern game to come along and continue the post-apocalyptic story of Wasteland.