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Pat yourself on the back LoF, there's at least one person who bought your joke character.

Not Call of Cthulhu-weird, just shouldn't-they-look-better-by-now weird.

Don't forget to grab the soundtrack, it's really good. It's pretty good and visually interesting, but it's pretty short. Grab it for ~$20 if you can. Also, not very fun if you have motion sickness when playing FPSs.

exactly. especially if that's not what you get paid for. The problem is that lots of smaller budget games(at least PC ones) fail horribly in the QA department. Also, the problem isn't there being too few good ideas, but with actually implementing them. Even the best idea isn't worth anything if you can't make it actually work.

**** prices for Australians that are not in line with international exchange rates? Also places like Hulu that are US only.

Let's see: Ground Control Commandos Giants: Citizen Kabuto I also liked Gorky 17(Odium) and Septerra Core back in the day(but I don't know if you'd like them). EDIT: The Incredible Machine games were also pretty cool, if you like that kind of puzzle games. Good choices, btw.

No, I steal them from various places.

Yeah, the bodies look weird, like in NWN2. It's like they made awesome heads and then threw in the bodies during the lunch break.

The student becomes the master. Pretty good review, Wet deserves all the hate it gets(at least going by the gametrailers review). Just another mediocre game in a sea of other mediocre games.

No German accents?

All the more reason to make a female character? It's funny that all the voices have British accents.

Most other people are about as objective as Fox news, everyone who owns the game is already potentially biased.

It's bad

I will be interesting how this turns out with Deus Ex 3. Sometimes I feel like we have mostly lost a level of complexity between the super-hardcore wargames and the super mainstream games. Considering that the gaming industry is bringing in more money than the movie industry, the niche market should be much larger than it is now. I guess it has a lot to do with the costs and time required, maybe the $60 game market will have to collapse(because of the increasing costs of making games) before the market really expands to cover all the niches.

Agreed, and more original IPs, please.

Ah, it's all coming together now. I can so see him trying to paint and people going "Why is everything so yellow?", "That's not what the sky looks like!", "What's with all the boring stuff? Paint something awesome!" etc.

An unreleased game is hell of a drug.

"Fan bases" are probably some of the most annoying people ever. There's no way to please everyone and it's probably a better idea to follow a set vision from start to finish and take criticism afterward than change things along the way to please the fans. Think what movies would be like if directors asked for fan input or if Van Gogh had a bunch of rowdy "fans" screaming over his shoulder when he was painting.

The intro movie was pretty much a glorified ad, would have liked to see the actual intro movie.

Trick question? This seems like a thinly veiled attempt to troll the few NMA people we have left. Obviously it is a better idea to try to appeal to the widest audience possible from a business perspective. Companies do what they do to make money, not to appease a bunch of crazy hardcore fans, I'd like to hear someone try to argue the opposite.

I'm still surprised they didn't make an international memorial day for you guys, it must be tough.

Apparently I created another Leliana, maybe she can be the not crazy twin? At least it's better than the Mass Effect character editor, there is a severe lack of blue eyes, though.

I really wanted to make a thread about this after I saw the Gametrailers review. If I had a PS3, I would totally buy it. The animation, dialog and cutscenes look really cool. It's nice that they actually gave the voice actors multiple takes and went for some pulpy stuff instead of the usual brown/gray swear/gore/macho-fest.

Epic thread confirmed!

They kept their independence while the whole Eastern Europe went under the Soviet Union, also