Drowsy Emperor

So late to the party? What gives? I played it when it came out. I mean I started a new game. Oh. Why would you do such a thing?

191cm, ha! Your puny inches would deprive me of that important cm.

Being an officer is a physically demanding job. If you can't restrain a non violent middle class kid you should be behind a desk or not in the police force. In other words, stupid lazy bitch. And in the background: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2xV8cBnGu4

Your office job isn't enough capitalism for you?

So late to the party? What gives?

I'd like to see a game in the same vein as PS:T. What I mean by that is a game that tackles serious, philosophical issues (insofar as a game can do such a thing). The actual form is not important, although I would like it to be an RPG. Seeing as how Torment barely fitted in RPG conventions, it could just as easily be an adventure. The details of the story are not important but it has to carry real weight and be closer to actual life than to arbitrary mechanics. Just like in Torment, which could be superficially labeled as bizzare or outlandish - but is really a very human story of duty and redemption. Hopefully it would be aesthetically appealing. Things that popped into my mind while writing this suggestion: Tarkovsky's Stalker, Blade Runner, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Shadow of the Colossus (for aesthetic reasons). Keep it human and people will be talking about it for years, like they do with PST. Good luck. PS: It should not be PST2. That book is closed in the best way it could be, and there's nothing more worth saying about the Nameless One.

It's the "winner takes all" system, not the campaign costs which result in that. The actual election takes place after a campaign, which cannot, in general, get off the ground for third party candidates in a huge country like the US. Especially since those who could potentially fund such an expensive independent campaign are by default not interested in any real change. I'm not disagreeing, but the order of things is important. The fact that the actual power resides in an institution where only one person is elected with the winner takes all system is the final nail in the coffin.

Failure to meet (unrealistic) expectations suggests that Obama will not get another term in office. On the other hand, the Republicans seem to be able to put forth only morons and seemingly unbalanced people so they might help keep Obama alive. Not that it matters anyway, the flavor might be different but whether you pick chocolate or vanilla you're still eating the same ****. The american election system is rigged by impossibly high campaign costs, so that a candidate that is not created by the two parties has 0 chance to win. Maybe play kingmaker, but certainly not win. That's what keeps the policies consistent

That's why they created collectors editions so they could charge thrice the price for a few trinkets that used to be included for free.

Is that irony I smell. You have a sharp nose, my otherwise misguided friend. We can't all be lawyers.

Is that irony I smell.

Puppet mode (I think that's what its called) is mandatory. The AI is too stupid to rely on.

The UN had no mandate to use force in Rwanda IIRC. Some of them weren't even armed. That whole crisis was a disaster, but it Belgian involvement that led to it in the first place, with the classic colonial policy of supporting an ethnic minority rule over an ethnic majority. That led to a lot of bad blood and the outcome was predictable. Strictly speaking they aren't even separate ethincities - from what I was taught in my peace studies course they were basically one ethnicity but two separate lifestyles (cattle grazing and agriculture.) . I don't know how correct that is however. Regardless, Morgoth is right. Barbaric acts in war shouldn't be tolerated with a systematic slap on the wrist policy the US has. Those people will one day come back home and they might be pissing on corpses after a killing spree in an american city next. Even if they don't its simply unethical.

The problem is that today's armies are effectively no more than mercenaries, a profession done more for the money than anything else. As such, they by default attract the stupid, poor, psychotic and criminals. And ignorance makes for a poor excuse. @Wals: justifying pissing on corpses puts you just below Papua New Guinea's cannibals on the civilization scale. Any soldier of a twentieth century european nation state, back when people had an idea just what they were fighting for, even if they were going the wrong way about it would consider these men no better than dogs. If they can't stomach the fight, they shouldn't be in it.

I hope Avellone does a kickstarter. However, given how much creative control cutting out the publisher would give him - it would have to have the same level of inspiration as PST. So if he's going to go ahead with such a project, it better be very well thought out idea.

DnD as a system is too easy to abuse, and too tempting to avoid abusing. That's why I stick to rules lighter systems now.

And in other recent news, pissing on corpses is also in vogue with the marines: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085378/US-troops-urinating-dead-Afghan-bodies-video-used-Taliban-recruitment-tool.html

Western pro Wehrmacht propaganda is at fault. Nazis, while formally reviled are also treated as some sort of super soldiers that were only defeated because the Soviets had more men than they had bullets. You just need to look at the history channel. There are more documentaries regarding the Nazis than all other topics combined. And those documentaries alternate between Hitler hate and Wehrmacht circle jerk. Its no wonder many members of armed forces have the quiet adoration thing going.

I tried to start a game of MotB around Christmas last year, but I just couldn't get into it. I would love to play through with One-of-Many, but I just can't stomach the "highlevel" play I don't understand that, the combat system is on the same level of sophistication as the first game. Click and it dies. You're never really overpowered by your enemies to the point that you have to pay actual attention to the combat, much like in all NWN titles. The ultimate mage spells made mince of everything that my frenzied berserker couldn't massacre in under 3 seconds.

That's exactly how I played it, and I enjoyed ME2 overall. I'm just tired of invincible Space Marines. And it seems to be a staple now. Don't american boys have anything else to identify with? @Zoraptor: Shepard is less of a blank slate than some PC's you mention. He's half blank, half defined. The defined part is the problem. The male shep voice acting didn't help either. Although I would agree games want to keep the oohs and aaahs flowing so everything else generally gets thrown out of the windown - sense first. Can't really complain about that they're just games after all.

The other way the extra money goes to the publishers who are the worst sort of money grabbing, soulless business. I'd rather Double Fine get the cash. Of course, if the game ends up like a budget title considering the cash they have now (after all adventure games are cheap aren't they?) I have my rotten tomatoes ready.

You're right. What little personality Shepard has is downright idiotic. I've never found it so hard to immerse myself in a videogame character as with Shepard.

Good to see they're following trends in the food industry.

Very nice, although I'm yearning for a real simulation. If the game is really a standard FPS that just includes mechs I wouldn't bet on its long term longevity.