Orogun01

This is a feeling that I share; to a point. I don't see them falling from grace but I don't see them live up to what I perceive to be their full potential. They have this amazing ability to create deep, thorough backgrounds for their original IP games. With stories going back further more than what anyone in the audience would care to read. This was something that one could appreciate in their earlier games, but as technology advanced I've somehow lost track of it. Namely, everything post ME

In that case, Stalker & CoD: Modern Warfare must be RPGs, and more complex ones at that. The funny thing is.. Playing Stalker has always felt like playing a RPG for me. Instead of advancing my character's stats, I am advancing my character's equipment. I'm solving quests and I can move freely in this strange world and converse with people. Not so far from a RPG if you ask me! Stalker shares mechanics with Rogue and Dungeon Crawler genres, but with FPS combat. I also though of it as an RPG hybrid since most of the game falls under the category, even though character customization its reduced only to equipment.

I want to marry this game...or Mary DeMarle, i'm good either way. Dem dimples

With a huge spoonful of skepticism, as if they would risk losing their new audience "The COD crowd" which coincidentally makes up for 90% of the GOW crowd. It's a conspiracy man, i'm telling you!

Most likely they will repeat the same crap from ME2 only that instead of fully upgrading the Normandy and choosing the right squad members, now you have to solve the differences of every species on the galaxy in order to form an armada to fight the Reapers. The consequences of your choices being irrelevant since they are going to be "be nice= win" or "be an ass=win" So ME3, Shepard is an intergalactic social worker with phaser guns.

Clever move, Mr. Murdoch. Clever move. Really their only move, now I suppose they will burrow down and wait this out. This is the problem with these scandals, a lot of righteous indignation but no one to use this momentum to forward legislature or civil action against these wrongdoers.

One day if I meet Zack Snyder I'm going to have a color chart ready and finally introduce him to a color that is not blue or orange.

Actually from what I've heard charter schools aren't any better, the only difference is that their curriculum tends to move towards a specific career. Aside from any economical obstacle there is also a sociological one; namely that your common Joe has a certain expectation from schools (much like I read from Gfted1's post) America is the land of the "easy pill" we want to lose weight but we don't want to exercise, we want our kids to be smart but we don't want to have anything to do with their education. A lot people just drop their kids education solely on the teachers, but is a two way effort on the part of both the educator and the educated.

I'm now visualizing Wals looking like Clive Owen (with a beer gut) on "The International" hunting down executives

Now I subscribe to the school of "they are not paying me enough money to put up with this" You can't get the kids to do anything, you can't fail them (you really can't) and you basically have everything against you. Not to mention that the lesson plans coming from the State are f'ed up. And you say that knowing that only about a quarter of students actually show up for their Science tests, I assume? I doubt money is the problem, is a general level of stupidity up to the point of being idiosyncratic to the fabric of education in the States. Basically the problem comes from coddling the students. Hell even Third World countries have a better level of education than the US, so I really doubt that money or accountability is the problem. Talk about impossible expectations.

What is this pressure you refer to? Accountability? Doing ones job? The program sprung into place do to unacceptably high percentages of US children doing poorly. What entity is directly responsible for educating our children? Teachers. So if the teachers are asleep at the wheel dont you feel they should be held accountable in some way? Shouldnt there be some metric for grading individual teachers capabilities in how they perform their jobs? You do realize that teacher's jobs hang in the balance, funding goes down and they fire half the staff and the half that remains needs to carry double the load. Plus how much can teachers actually do when all the rules tie their hands on their backs? We have protected the little kiddies :bastards: so much that there is no reinforcement to make them learn. Basically the grading system is set up so that you can only fail if you actually make an effort to fail. Not to mention the lack of an unified curriculum, under-payed teachers, lack of funding and just plain old stupidity by the board of education. Because as soon as some naive parent who's ignorant that their son/daughter is actually a spoiled, nasty little brat goes and raises some hell to the director their backs are against the wall. So please tell me; when faced with so much hostility and regulations can you really blame teachers for doing a poor job on teaching a bunch bastard that rather be texting that actually paying a modicum of attention?

I'm quite fond of some of the Japanese brands, such clear taste.

Do you mean Godwin's law?

He's going to be the first guy who gets sacrificed for humanity. That was my first thought. My second was "Can we sacrifice everyone for humanity?"

Does anyone in this forum doesn't have a mail order bride? I was planning to go the old fashioned way and meet someone but I don't want to stand out so count me too Edit:Wals did you receive yours yet? we all pinched in together and got you one.

Subtle

That's what gamecop...errr.. I mean....Probably because it's illegal still, no ? Yea it's pretty funny if you get a crack for the game you already bought but you're still a filthy pirate, thieving honest people out of their money. I doubt anyone would blame someone who bought AC2 for downloading the crack. Point its companies do tend to get a little carried away with their DRM schemes, to the point of hurting the customer.

No I'd still speak Spanish because you bloody English chickened out and traded Havana for Florida. I could had been bloody Welsh, you bastards!

Not advocating piracy here, but if you do own the game why not just get the crack.

Not likely since there are a lot of augs in the stealth and hacking trees. I'm thinking that you could go for a pure combat/engineer/stealth class or a power mix with a focus on one of these. One thing that bothers me is that some areas are pretty straightforward when it comes to progression, meaning that class has little relevance but maybe that changes on higher levels.

Right and it had nothing to do with taxes or the great american expansionist thirst. Please Volo don't spew propaganda you're above that.

Anybody else noticed Bob Page on frame 1:24 to 27? Edit: BTW, conversations with the upgrade that reads body language, emotions, and emits pheromones (forgot its name now) is brilliant.

Show me on the doll where he touched you

Reason # 1 I hate independence day, my ****ing neighbors buy enough firecrackers to blow their own house and spent until the daylight setting them on. Which mean that my entire evening consist of fighting the urge to buy a shotgun and consoling my dog who's terrified by the sound. Happy ****ing holidays

While we are on the subject I don't much care for Cuba Gooding Jr.'s name.