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I think that the Dark Messiah version of Source engine(with a lot of tweaking) would make a nice engine for Thief 4. It probably doesn't have enough shaders and gray/brown filters, though.

The trailer doesn't necessarily show all that the game is about. I'm sure you could make a trailer like this from most games. What saddens me is that they will happily whore out the game so that the Gears of War and Halo audience will go "blood and boobs, F yeah!" instead of "ugh nerdy wizards". It just cheapens the game and all the "spiritual successor" stuff, whether it turns out to be true or not.

They could have at least ripped the cool music from 300 then...

Bioware in name only. Sellout am total! Etc...

Headphones are a real blessing on public transport. Analog entertainment just doesn't cut it these days...

I'd just be glad it wasn't Twilight. damn if it's worse than Anne Rice's stuff than it must be really bad Oh it is.

I'm with Pidesco here. Sierra/Whiskey as lead? Guess it's Europe vs America...

As long as they don't release the game together with say Assassin's Creed 2, it should be fine. BG&E was released at about the same time as Sands of Time - madness. The fact alone that Ubisoft allowed this sequel to be made was already a huge surprise for me. Ancel must've done some serious lobbying. Apparently he sold his soul and the evil Ubisoft overlords made him develop 66 Rayman Raving Rabbids games before he could make this. Small price to pay. He died for our sins.

They didn't create Alpha. They imprinted him with a bunch of personalities, but he was always ax crazy. But if Topher hadn't messed up and imprinted him with the 40 personalities, he'd just be a crazy dude. Thanks to the mess-up his a crazy dude with ninja skills. I always thought that his previous personalities just came out slowly ala Echo and that drove him mad and eventually he learned to use them.

I'd just be glad it wasn't Twilight.

The set up for the next (possible) season looks promising. I agree that the end itself fell a little flat. - So the great Alpha, while played great by Alan Tudyk, was just a crazy dude with no real plan? He was hilariously incompetent. - The girl who got imprinted with Caroline played her more believably than Eliza, I was surprised at how good she was. - The hooker/Echo/Omega was pretty meh. She didn't really feel like the

As long as he continues being awesome... "Good" and "evil" have been blurred so much in Lost that in the end it doesn't matter, it's more about the characters themselves than the allegiances. Also, I still believe that Richard is just the "advisor" whether or not his "boss" is evil.

As long as they don't release the game together with say Assassin's Creed 2, it should be fine. BG&E was released at about the same time as Sands of Time - madness. The fact alone that Ubisoft allowed this sequel to be made was already a huge surprise for me. Ancel must've done some serious lobbying. Apparently he sold his soul and the evil Ubisoft overlords made him develop 66 Rayman Raving Rabbids games before he could make this.

Hillys was just one planet, maybe this is an India-style planet? I hope that this is the actiony part, like when you were escaping the evil flying dude on the rooftops. They are probably not going to make a pre-rendered trailer showing stealth.

Yeah I was going to add that after looking at it more closely. What matters is that it looks like they haven't screwed up BGE 2 yet. I love that they kept the cartoonish style.

Kotaku got their hands on some pretty convincing looking footage of what appears to be Beyond Good And Evil 2. Looks pretty slick, maybe they finally found a worthy use for the Assassin's Creed engine. EDIT: Probably not gameplay footage, but a CG trailer. Still awesome!

Lies. That series isn't worth the paper it's printed on. I weep for the forests that gave their lives to be churned into a multi-volume piece of human waste. Also: I've read Palimpsest (great), The Night Battles (Didn't finish - boring), and Genesis (150 pages - interesting ideas, flat narrative. Would be good for high school lit class along with 1981, BWN, etc) Go out and get Palimpsest. It's phatasmagorical fantasy about four people in the real world who travel to a living city in their dreams that will fulfill any/all of their desires. The trick is to get it in audiobook form and listen to it while commuting/working out/whatever. It is drawn out at times, but I really love the different perspectives that you get from being in the head of so many different characters.

Gold/Silver was only good because it had twice as big world map.

Maybe the lack of a laugh track threw them off? Or the multitude of characters or the word play? Two And Half Men is running on it's sixth season...

I used the dark arts to bring the awesomeness that is Arrested Development to the masses. "But where did the lighter fluid come from?"

What a douche. Penalizing a game because it doesn't hold your hands? Wow, so much for the "professionals" out there. They are just a blog and they don't really seriously review games. I was just trying to point out the severe negativity towards the game from multiple sources, the other being podcasts. The Giant Bombcast said that it was frustrating and unfinished. Gee, if only they had a demo...

What about Bioshock, Stalker or Mafia in terms of atmosphere? Call of Cthulhu fell apart less than half way through and then it had you kill an elder god with a goddamn cannon. Also, enough with the hate on 'big' gaming sites. Yes, they have biased and bad reviews, but don't turn this into some kind cry fest for "poor foreign developers". It's great that you like the game, but there are a lot of people out there that genuinely dislike it, some of who write reviews.

Joystiq refuses to complete, review game. Fanboys cry.

Just watched the whole thing, it's awesome. Go see it if you haven't it should be on Hulu. It's sad that it was canceled after just three seasons, but there will be a movie next year.

I just finished Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, which is a Blade Runner-esque cyberpunk novel. All in all, it was pretty good, I especially liked the descriptions and the world that Morgan created. There were a few things that really annoyed me: the plot is hard to follow at times, there are a few (very) implausible things in the world and the (two) sex scenes(while being really good) are way too long. The characters are pretty interesting, even if the main protagonist is a cold hearted SOB. I do really dislike the first person viewpoint in the book though, it feels very constrictive. The Dollhouse-esque technology poses a lot of interesting philosophical questions and the book deals with most of them really well while not being in-the-face like a lot of other books. I especially liked a scene where two copies of the protagonist were deciding which one of them will continue on as the character. If I had to rate it, I would give it a solid 4 out of 5. Also, I have some questions if anyone has read it: