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So far the only things I've noticed are a few graphical twitches now and then.. Nothing game breaking. Oh, and the checkpoints can be a bit irritating. Quite often you complete an objective but that isn't a checkpoint to save.. And I've just had one annoying thing where I finished Saudi, but real life interupted and had to quit out..but the game won't allow that until you get through all the dialogue sequences....and then it keeps autosaving during those without letting you quit. I was stuck having to "skip" through it all rather then play it so I could quit. Dammit. Now I've got to reload from an earlier save , redo that final mission and then I can actually "play" that sequence and make actual choices.. Ah well. Apart from that, I'm finding it fairly brilliant in that good game way. Enjoyable, interesting, and drawing you in to find out what happens next...

Hm, I haven't had any sort of trouble like that with my mouse while playing... Sure I'm playing a lot of stealth and hand to hand.. but I've also been using a fair bit of pistol and assault rifle without too much grief..

"erotic is what you like, kinky is what everyone else likes.."

Heh, i've always done a lot better on mouse and keyboard with shooters then with console gamepads... Dang it.. amazon was telling me AP was "preparing to dispatch" on wednesday morning.. there I was hoping it would mean I'd have it arriving today.. but instead.. that "preparing to dispatch" lasted about 19 hours, and only finally cleared to "dispatched" today... So my pc version should be arriving early tomorrow morning...

It made back a little over triple the budget.. and that usually satisfies the producers.. Dougray Scott was quite decent as the Interpol agent. I thought they worked quite well together.. That and the whole bathtub sequence with Robert Knepper... the rubber duckie.. They did manage to put in quite a few iconic images from the games in the movie without making it look too forced.

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6263818.html Well it looks like filmwise there's going to be a sequel... To be honest I thought the first one made a fairly decent film. It wasn't anything hugely brilliant, but it has to rate up there as one of the best video game to film adaptions.. It'll be curious to see if Timothy Olyphant does return with it as well...

Hm, so to him things are linear.. but to some of the other people on the boards who have been playing it..they're not linear.. Gee. Methinks something is quirky there.

Dang it.. Amazon haven't even started the dispatch process for my pre-order yet.. I guess they're really keeping tight to the official date regardless... so it'll be sent tomorrow and arrive friday..

So how long before the pc port version comes out do you think? Lets lay odds... 6 months? 1 year? 18 months? 2 years? more?

Any game that lets you have an exciting level set in Akron, Ohio has an awful lot going for it... Here's hoping AP can match up against that level of awesome.

It all depends on your approach and what you happen to be looking for. ME2 has some plot holes, and some issues... but it's seriously space opera over the top... That's always a a part of it. You can have a lot of fun with space opera without needing to take it too seriously. It's not hard sci-fi. It's not meant to be hard sci-fi. The plot does seem more of an excuse to throw in the death/revival of Shephard, and then give a reason for going around and picking up the companions... Sure a lot of the companions have "daddy issues" in one form or another, but there's a lot of good content in there.

Amazon has a pre-order bonus for the pc version.. but technically it doesn't actually provide any in-game issues. It's a 24 page booklet. A "Field Guide" to skills, weapons, equipment etc...

There were valid points in there.. but there seemed an awful lot of bollocks where he's taken the (what seems to me) wrong view of how something was presented.. or hell, even gotten something out and out false. It almost seemed as if he'd sat down and worked out precisely how to take everything the wrong way to meet his expectations...

Film Bourne - Army Officer who gets volunteered into a secret program, and gets trained to blend in and assassinate people. So soldier type, tough, with martial arts and sneaky stuff added to it... Book Bourne - Army Officer (with Academic background), who loses his wife and kids, throws himself into a vietnam special operations group.. then volunteers to go undercover to track down another assassin because he has nothing to live for.. Soldier type with some martial arts, sneaky and a touch more technical.. (And yes dammit, I wanted to see either The Jackal or Medusa turn up in the films at some point..)

I think it's kind of like Ron Perlman. Girls love the voice, even if they don't have the looks of prettier actors.. <shrugs> I just know quite a few girls who happily do the "squee!!" when Vin is mentioned.

Well technically (just to be a little pedantic), Bourne would be a Soldier with a bunch of Martial Arts added on...

Hey, Vin Deisel happily admits to being a DnD geek. Hell, he even had the names of his favourite characters put into the tattoos he had to wear for xXx... And yet still a fair amount of the girls I know find him incredibly hot..

Or a pen n paper roleplayer Wargamers can get a better rep in certain locales... But say you play DnD or Mutants & Masterminds... Of course, then you get to look down on the Vampire Masquerade Larpers..

Take the Wing Commander film. (please, take it...) But seriously, that wasn't as bad as it gets a rep for... Sure it wasn't as comparable to the games... and really, after the push of the last couple of WC games with the full motion video and the various actors they had starring.. going for a film route didn't quite click the same chemistry. (And there were some quite entertaining "bloopers" from the WC games floating around the web if you can find them). It's the question of how to take something that's been pushed more as an "interactive movie experience game" and then turn it into a strictly standard sci-fi movie...

You have to admit, there are a lot of places where there seems to be frothing teenagers..or at least , people who seem to act as if they're frothing teenagers with attitude... That and the amount of blinding ignorance people seem to show off when they make comments on gametrailers and the like.. It can be very disturbing to realise these people actually seem to mean and believe the astonishing drivel they're writing... (yes, that might be a touch of arrogance on my part.) Gamers are a cross-section like any other "hobby". It's just very simple to stereotype certain extremes and carry it over.

Now I wasn't going to go there Oner...

That's been my planning, I've had a retail on pre-order for awhile. I guess my main puzzle that if you say Steam as is, is a form of DRM, but then most games from Steam also have Steamworks as DRM.. they suggests they have two forms of DRM... Or is that just a warped way of looking at it from the things you've said... I mean, okay, apparently you like Steam, you like Steam's DRM. And you feel offended that a game that's available via Steam doesn't use Steam's usual style of DRM.... That's your point of view and personal preference. Mine is that is seems a very artificial distinction to make, and makes a mountain out of a molehill. So I'm trying to understand it.

Well if they do decide to go with a movie based around Shephard... they might just go with a fem-shep.. Who knows, it could end up with Milla Jovovich starring in one more game adaption...

So you're saying that any company that produces a game that is being sold through a lot of outlets, retail stores, different online stores beyond Steam.. should then put the expense of having multiple DRM's on a game to suit each individual outlet? They produce a game, they put a single DRM to it, then put it out there.. Why should they then have to chop and change it just for one particular form of outlet? Besides, if you consider it a case of double DRM, why don't you just buy a retail copy so you have the disc and all? Or if it has to be a download, why not use one of the online suppliers that's not Steam? Then you won't have to deal with the hassle of Steam as well as the games DRM.... All seem valid options if you feel using the Steam version is "wrong" in some way...

Hm, standard space opera sci-fi.. The "Mass Effect" science to base technology around and to gimmick in a form of "The Force" Green skinned alien girls.. (well, blue mostly, but there was a nod to the green skinned alien girl..) Another universe where every alien species has a specific type of role.. and then humans come along and are the unpredictable jack-of-all-trades type to upset the applecart... Hey, it's no different to the standard fantasy setting being used to come up with lots of different things. It all comes down to whether there can be a decent story and interesting characters using the variations of the standard space opera sci-fi... Throw in a few nods and winks to the games... It could work.