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The Grom is absolutely right.

It was totally hilarious how the Normans' names in Asterix, which ended in -af, completely left the Gauls in stitches.

http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=...ouriousbasterds Pretty good casting, it seems.

There are two big items that differentiate AP from ME, though. One is that conversations are timed, one attempt only affairs, and the other is that AP will have proper melee and a stealth option. Furthermore, I'm hoping/expecting that the combat in AP will be a lot better than in ME, as ME's combat was mostly crap. If you add the things that Obsidian usually does better than Bioware, at the very least will be getting a vastly improved upon ME from Obsidian. If I worked in Obsidian's marketing departments, I'd try to distance AP form ME, though.

Because AC's writers didn't think their own writing was good enough to create empathy between a medieval Muslim and the player, without artificially turning Altair into generic present day bloke #37. Or maybe I'm just guessing.

Actually, I feel that BSG improved over the seasons, and that improvement has been directly related to a decrease in the importance of space towards the happenings on the fleet. The appeal of BSG is that, while it is set in space, it isn't really about the space faring and fighting.

I actually think he's better when reviewing older games, perhaps because points of view on older games are a bit more settled. I'd like it if he went on a revisionist spree, and started reviewing all the hailed games of yore.

Don't play coy, myself.

I've hated him ever since I first saw him in Fast and Furious. I think he doesn't any charisma, he always comes across as a big lummox trying to be smart, and he has yet to appear in a movie I've enjoyed.

I'm playing Riddick right now, and it's quite great fun, despite my hatred of the movie and the actor.

Since when has Dead Rising been about survival or horror? What it's about is killing zombies with lawnmowers and baseball bats.

All of the above.

I'd say the boobs trump the roots.

BREAKING NEWS: Creatures that look exactly like mammals, and have things that look like breasts hanging from their torsos are not, actually, mammals. That makes no sense whatsoever.

I thought Assassin's Creed was rather hit and miss. The plot was crap, it took itself way too seriously, and the combat was atrocious. Running across a city could be awesome, especially with soldiers chasing after you, but the controls were too hands off. Also, planning out and executing the assassinations could be awesome, but the death monologues completely knocked the goodness out of them. What ended undoing the game for me, however, was the repetitive and bland gameplay. If you've played one city, you've played them all and the side missions were completely uninspired collectathons. In a sentence, the game's core idea was great but the execution was lacking.

I think the MGS4 bundle was designed to get rid of the last of the "old model" PS3's. Honestly it's probably more cost effective to pick up a PS2 right now. That's what I've been thinking of doing for a long time, now. I would probably connect it to my PC screen. So many PS2 games I'd like to give a try and can't.

That's what they already do in the privacy of their bedroom.

You might as well play RE4 on the PC with all the insane high res and Bloom mods, if you want an improved RE4.

It's official: I now love Capcom forever.

Don't all PS2 and PSX games work on the PS3?

Mass Effect comes to mind. And KOTOR.

It's better than getting no CRPGs or CRPGs with crappy stories IMO. Unfortunately, we're already getting CRPGs with crappy stories. And we still manage to hail those games for their plots.

I have just started playing Chronicles of Riddick, a game I've heard well of, but which I've been avoiding due to the movie being crap, and not liking Vin Diesel. However, after playing through the tutorial mission and a bit of the first mission, I have to say I've enjoyed what I've seen. The only problem so far is the change to a third person perspective every time you grapple stairs, ledges and the like. It removes you from the game, it's bloody useless, and reminds me that I'm playing Vin Diesel. >_

20/20 hindsight? I wonder how it got all those high scores(Metacritic 96) and huge popularity then(6.5 million copies sold [Wikipedia])? If it wasn't a good game standing on it's own, what made it good? Broken Steam? Well managed hype, it was a sequel to an incredibly successful game and it used Source which is a great, moddable engine. Also, my opinion has nothing to do with hindsight. It has to do with me having played better FPSes than HL2 when I first played it.

The problem is HL2 didn't have all the finesse of 2001 shooters. It wasn't a very good game, standing on its own, back when it was released.