Azure79

Yeah, the past weekend, I told everyone I was busy and just stayed home reading. Haven't done that in a while. It felt good.

I'm still reading George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. I am in the middle of Storm of Swords and feel like I've been punched in the gut repeatedly. Lets just say I've read through a certain wedding and I feel sick. I have to admire the handiwork and scheming that went on there and I suspected that something like that might happen, but I still feel horrible. I was not prepared. I was rooting for the . Damnit, Mr. Martin, you write a good story. Now I have to stay up late and see how this pans out.

I don't want games to look that realistic, though it is an impressive piece of technology.

I agree. We should use his biomass as a fuel source.

I enjoyed the Divine Divinity, though I didn't enjoy Beyond Divinity. The setting was generic, the story was generic, but it let you do a lot of things, had lots of skills and was generally fun. Until you realized that the scorpion trap could kill anything in the game within seconds.

So he raped and murdered two girls and now he is complaining that he is too fat to die because it might cause pain? ... As far as I'm concerned any rights he had ended when he decided to kill and rape those women.

Well, I read through the Operation Freakout and Snow White wiki entries and am appalled that this organization still exists. Good on you for protesting.

I think give any religion the opportunity and they'll all start to coerce you, because they know best, after all.

Is this one of those Scientology protests? I've been wary of Scientology ever since that Tom Cruise video. Until then I just thought it was another money grubbing cult that took money from naive and trusting people. But it seems like they really mess with your head. Unless Cruise was a little loose to begin with. Ah well.

There are only two games that literally made me cry of frustration. Pac-man. It was the Atari version Pac-man and there was a competitive mode where you played for points or something. I can't clearly remember. I do remember my father humiliating me time and time again on that competitive mode and then laughing in my face in his victory. I used to throw down my controller, wail and go running into the bathroom to weep, wondering how life could be so cruel. Hey, I was like 6 or 7. My mother would admonish my father and my father's usually reply was an innocent, "Whaaat~?" Hmm...this might actually explain a lot... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES. I could all the games I had for NES. Ninja Gaiden 1, 2 and 3 no problem, Battletoads? I beat it one night during summer break and finally understood the meaning of euphoria. Double Dragon 3? It was like eating peanut M&Ms. But not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I could make it into the Technodrome but as soon as I set foot in there I lost all my turtles. Maybe it was because I couldn't kill those grey guys in the jetpacks that shoot lasers, or perhaps because the level seemed like one big maze and I couldn't figure out where to go. In the end I would cry in RAGE and frustration as I watched my last turtle shrink and disappear off the screen. Thanks to the power of Youtube, I was able to watch someone beat the game. It turns outs you didn't even have to kill most of the enemies. You could just avoid them. Damnit. I played FF7 on the PC and didn't blink an eyelash when she died. Probably because I was in college and drunk most of the time. It was the first FF I had played and I just figured she would come back to life at one point. I guess she sorta did at the end. A few games did almost make me cry. There was a definite pang in my chest. Like the good ending of Bioshock. Awwww~ Many times in PS:T The opera scene in FF6. Pixels never seemed so real. They should remake FF6 not FF7.

After hearing so much about George R.R. Martin, I'm reading the Game of Thrones. So far, the book is awesome. I think Martin enjoys crushing the hope out of the reader, but it only makes the story more engaging.

Just finished Gears of War for PC. The basic gameplay is fun, but the game ended so suddenly it was a letdown at the end. All this BG talk is making me want to play again too.

After watching the Dark Knight, I thought for sure it would be in a trilogy format. Batman Begins establishes the Batman character. The Dark Knight, Batman realizes the extent of the responsibility/consequences he has taken on, personal sacrifices, lines that he can't cross and what he represents to Gotham City. It ends on a Next film, the Gotham populace accepts and welcomes Batman as Gotham's protector when he saves the city from some criminal menace. I don't read comic books, so my knowledge of Batman villians is limited to previous movies and TV shows, but I think Riddler would be the only choice that really fits. Riddler could have some funny interactions with the Joker.

Force Brouhaha should be an actual power. I wonder what the time frame will be for this game. I mean, if it happens just after K2, aren't most of the Jedi dead? I suppose they can make it about rebuilding the Order and all that. I agree that K1's story did wrap up well, but then Obs opened up the story to new possibilities and I want the chance for devs to explore the true sith, Revan's backup plan, the Exile's wild chase into the stars and the epic showdown. I don't want the ultimate sith lord or whatever to be just a 'monster' that is farmed for loot. Ah well. Maybe Bioware can pull of a whole new MMO paradigm.

The Dark Knight was really good. I don't think it was meant for kids to watch. I could tell the kids in the audience were getting bored when they started talking and throwing stuff. I wonder how the next film will work out. It seems like it will be a trilogy seeing as how this one ended. I don't think anyone will be able to top Ledger's performance as the Joker though.

So are they making three games? Is that whats taking them so long?

hahaha

Damn, I was hoping Obs would develop K3. Oh well, I'll see how this goes. I don't generally like MMORPGs because they always seemed more like a job than a game. I guess if they have somekind of strong narrative in the game, I would play it.

I like the gameplay video. Its what I've always wanted, third person over the shoulder for exploration and isometric for combat. Its good that the game has that option. Looks like the game will have plenty of magic, with spells like blizzard and stuff. Also I guess the PC becomes a Warden, which I guess is the Spectre equivalent in the Dragon Age world.

I like how you think. I did that once on a playthrough of IWD2. It was great fun!

Wow, a lot of progress has been made! Congrats to team gizka and thanks from me! Maybe I should get my copy of K2 back from my friend.

Sure, the trailer is hardly original, but I'm still looking forward to it. I hope the larger scale battles do make it in, where you can direct your party members to lead certain battles while you choose to lead other members in other battles. Somewhat like the keep battle in NWN2 but on a larger scale with more enemies storming the walls and all that. Graphics look good to me, though the art direction is pretty generic. I don't care much about the level of graphics as long as the storyline and gameplay are great. Can't wait for more info.

Good read. I'm playing the Phoenix Wright games during my morning and afternoon train rides. Good fun.

Nice, I'll be looking forward to this.

I liked the main story of Mass Effect. I'm looking forward to how they're going to continue the story in parts 2 and 3. I didn't like most of the side-quests. As other people have mentioned it basically going to a planet, shooting your way through to a goal and then shooting your way back out. There are some encounters that I enjoyed, but most are the same. Other sidequests like finding minerals and gas deposits I just started to skip as I didn't want to drive around empty planets looking for everything. I still think exploration was done the best in Baldur's Gate, where there were separate areas that had one interesting thing or encounter going on. Like the archaological dig site, encounter with the mad wizard and his basilisks, the soldier gone crazy because of the cursed sword, High Hedge, the siren enslaved by the Ogre Mage, the boy who lost his dog, the transmorgified pupil/chicken, the destroyed school and the skeletal warrior that you encounter, on and on... It made each area feel interesting and alive. The planets on Mass Effect were a bunch of barren landscapes with different weather. The places you could go into with your party were all pretty much 3-4 rooms connected, with containers of stuff conveniently located for gameplay purposes. It was dissapointing to say the least.