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Oh, yeah, forgot Open Range.

How about discussing a game's merits based on its content instead of its awards? BG2 got plenty of awards, too. Best RPG of the year for about everyone.

And KOTOR turned out a worse game than BG2 and it was a move by Bioware to just make more money. Do you see how the MMO naysayers are completely right, Alan? Well, do you?

The problem with Costner is that other than Mr. Brooks, all he has ever been in for the past 15 years has been crap. Madsen on the other hand, isn't a very good actor but does certain characters very well. If well cast, he can be awesome.

Some of those screens are pretty sweet. I like the way Mike looks. It's really starting to become apparent that head and face customization is really powerful. It's always the same basic structure, but the different choices make for really different Mikes. Much better than customized Pete Postlethwaite. P.S.: I spelled "Postlethwaite" correctly without checking. Because I'm awesome.

Had the system requirements been released already? AP's Steam page has them. Supported OS: Microsoft Windows XP

Bioware was on of my favourite developers 9 years ago. Bethesda was one of my favourite developers 12 years ago. I'm not sure if these are positive, though....

Does that mean Grey DeLisle won't be in the game?

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Other than that the pacing was perfect, the action far more fluid than in the games you mention, it introduced usable NPCs to FPS, graphically it was a step above everything else. The AI was not just better, it has never been really surpassed. Add to that outstanding multiplayer functionality... No One Lives Forever, Unreal Tournament and Stalker have better AI than Half Life. Unreal wiped the floor graphically back in 1998. If you're going to talk about the flow of the action, STALKER, TRON, Serious Sam, Painkiller, Unreal Tournament all have better action than Half Life.

Interesting. I also like my humor like I like my women. Only I like them sharp and to the point. Was the relationship between Herzog and Kinski homoerotic?

Instead of a womanizing, heterosexual god?

No

Done.

Perfectly bland, boring and pedestrian?

HL proved that FPS-es can have stories, movie-like experience, had great AI, and introduced interaction with your environment (a certain microwave). That's pretty radical. Remember, 1998, not 2009. Two of those I covered. Movie-like experience doesn't really mean anything. And wasn't interaction with the environment mostly about crate smashing? Hitler threw me off.

None of those games had even a part of the significance or radical change in gameplay that Half Life brought. System Shock is the only one that is even in the upper "legendary" class of shooters. The rest are just periodic hits. 1st: you asked for better shooters not for signficance and radical change. 2nd: "radical change?" The AI was much better than in previous FPSs and developing the narrative without removing the player from the game was pretty awesome even if done before by System Shock, but other than that?

I have System Shock 1 CD version, System Shock 2, and Alpha Centauri boxed with all the goodies still inside. Also, I have the CE of the Witcher, and two copies of Storm of Zehir, signed and unsigned. These are the highlights. No camera, though. By the way, even if you only buy digital versions of your games, you are still materialistic.

I should be getting 15Mb not 10Mb. I wonder what's wrong.

System Shock. No One Lives Forever. TRON 2.0. Rainbow Six. Rogue Spear. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Edit: I'd include DeusEx and SS2, too, but people would start saying they're RPGs, or something.

What, the first one? Compared to "Game of the Year. It's official." The second one compared to about every good FPS I've ever played.

Closed.

That's like saying you don't like ice cream. How do you know you don't like it, if you haven't played it? I found Half-Life disappointing, and Half-Life 2 just plain bad.

I believe ETW was victim of loudmouth complainer syndrome, a handful of people with problems kicking up such a fuss that it seemed a lot bigger than it was. I dont know anyone who has had any major problems with ETW. With a truly broken game, like Damnation, you know its real because people complaints will come from more than one source. Well, I agree that ETW wasn't broken from the point of view of stability and game breaking bugs. However, the no land invasions AI retardedness made the campaign essentially pointless, which, for me, meant that the game turned into a coaster, and not a very good one, at that. And also, it annoys me a great deal they needed months to release a patch to fix a bug that had already been fixed in previous iterations of the series. It's really gross incompetence.