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Tron Legacy Soundtrack - Daft Punk goodness..

I thought it was Pixar...

Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler. Pulpy nonsense, but enjoyable all the same.

Picked up Solar 2 on steam with the sales..and.. it is strangely enthralling in a way I can't quite understand...

There was just something about it that I could not get into. How much more its focused on hack and slash, push the mini's to highlight combat zones.. It just didn't feel as if it was geared to do that much out-of-combat rpg'ing. Maybe if I'd waited until the plethora of books were out rather then just the core books I'd have seen more, but it just didn't feel like the wide variety of options were there. It just gave a vibe more like "WoW at the table" then something to have fun roleplaying with. Maybe I just got spoiled by 3.5's ability to mix classes as you levelled, and picking feats to really tailor a character for more then just combat. >shrugs< It's hard to put a finger down and say "This! This is why I hate it!" but after reading the core books and giving it a little kick around, it just did not gell in a pleasant manner. Beyond the art. Man there was some damned good art in those books.

Since we've been having the whole nuclear / solar discussion.. I thought I'd throw this news report in for the amusement value... Jellyfish shutdown Nuclear Plant

And the BBFC have provided a 15 rating for DE:HR BBFC classification for DE:HR

I find Hitman to be like a really strange adventure game. Especially Blood Money. Which is why I think I enjoy it. give Donuts to FBI An adventure game with multiple solutions.. Well, the donuts was a classic. The explosive bbq was fun for that level as well. Although I usually ignored the clown diguise... The New Orleans level in Blood Money was a little less strange adventure game, but I definitely get where you're coming from... Edit: And on the DE:HR news front, the latest tweet from JB

Behind 2027 - The Cities of Deus Ex

.. and the joys of discovering that the cat has picked up fleas from somewhere

The original had Charles Bronson in the role that Statham played and Jan-Michael Vincent as the Apprentice. Directed by Michael Winner. And in the original, he dies. No last minute reprieve, no slow rewind to show an escape. He was dead, he expected it. (and yes, he still had that setup and the message left for his "apprentice")

Was listening to the soundtrack to Ferris Bueller as I was running around the village taking care of various errands. Now that's making me hanker to dig out the dvd and re-watch it.

But they gave it a happy ending! I mean, sure it was competent and fairly good for what it was. But hollywood changed it to a happy ending!

Taking the day as it goes.. Realised I was in the mood to read something fresh and pulpy, so ordered up a Clive Cussler book. Yes, they tend to be silly, but they are good clean, pulpy entertainment.

Is Cole Phelps a Psychopath? Kind of amusing in its own way... Although I'm taking it more as a bit of fun then out and out serious. But it can make ou think...

I'm amazed. We've had more comments on this thread based on the stealth mechanics in various games in this one day, then in the previous month about Deus Ex.. It's always interesting to see just what directiosn a thread will turn in..

Since we have the TOR mention, just in case no-one had seen this before (it is about 6 months old) I'll put a link in... Daniel Ericksons Quest Breakdown

One thing about the "radar" in DE:HR is that it starts off being quite fuzzy. Or at least, it doens't give you all the detail. When you start to improve various augmentations, then it'll start to add in things like visual cones of people, highlights of where they can start to hear you.. things like that. Which makes it interesting is that they combine hearing as well as visual aspects for the sneaking.. and that the AI is designed so guards will (supposedly, at least according to demo's they've given) randomly look behind them and such like. It's the little things like that that add to the overall stealth experience, not just whether there's a "cover" system or a "light/shadow" system or such like..

Well the only thing Bioware have said they want to advance as an MMO is the increase in story. They've never talked about revolutionary new game mechanics.. more about how they want to push the idea of each class having it's own unique story, how each world will have a story, and how to really get the full experience of the universe people will be playing multiple classes over time to gain that "full/different perspective". There does seem to be that odd mix of folks on the TOR forums who are either hard core mmo players.. and people who couldn't care less about the mmo and are seeing it as a continuation of Kotor, and they want to pretty much solo the game/story.

Of course miserabilist is an accurate description. Pretty much everyone born north of the Watford Gap is a miserabilist. And deservedly so because they didn't have the good fortune to come from the civilised south...

Happy birthday then.. and congratulations on survivng another year..and not getting shot at by some hot girls brother/father/jealous ex. Hm, on the slightly random... Especially for all those fans of a certain game series, I didn't realise that Pripyat is open to tourism these days... Visiting Chernobyl Visiting Pripyat Welcome to Chernobyl

The thing about ME2's cover system that most annoyed me.. was the multipurpose key. Hold space down to run..and if you happened to be passing too close to a piece of cover.. Shep would stop running and dive into cover regardless... That left me stuck on the wrong side of cover, or various related annoyances.

No no.. He's a lawyer.. he should do it via Origami.. I mean, he should have plenty of documents and lawbooks to utilise...

Made it into bed early last night.. shivvering with a temperature. Which combined with one of the hottest nights we've had in a while wasn't the most comfortable experience. Although did have some funky dreams that were interestingly weird. Very.. somewhere being besieged. Everytime the enemy would manage to get on the walls I'd suddenly wake up, feeling really cruddy, all oppressive... manage to doze off again.. Later the dreams would run into managing to throw the enemy off the walls..and I'd wake up feeling not so bad and as if I was semi-comfortable.. Just kept running that circle of dreams and wakeup throughout the night. Worst seems past at least, just got a slight temperature and annoying headache but nada major. So some fresh tea and such to help rehydrate and on with things.

,, I shudder at 4th Ed D&D. I'm just one of those few who really can't stand it. I mean, I love the art they've put in the books it's totally shiny that way. But the whole system just.. yeah.. really rubs me the wrong way for some reason.