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I got back on the old movie horse over the last few days: Les 400 Coups La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc Meshes of the Afternoon L'Atalante Suprisingly, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc was the highlight of the viewings. It was absolutely riveting, and it took me completely by surprise. Easily the best film I've seen this year.

I never enjoyed Yoshi's Island quite as much as Super Mario World.

Pixies - Cariboooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

74%. Weak.

Your ex-girlfriends were all awful actresses?

You figured out his secret way to get the ladies.

Why so jolly?

Isn't there a big risk this will just turn into World of Emocraft?

For some reason, FFversusXIII looks more appealing. Maybe because it looks less Final Fantasy-esque than the rest? I agree with that. Now, if Squaresoft was managed by people with an actual brain, they might do a whole game with Amano's art instead of Nomura's "let's appeal to the kids and the idiots" style. But, alas, theirs is the kingdom of the flashy and empty CG movies.

Visc mentioned Malcolm Reynolds, and I agree with him. Actually, I was never a Joss Whedon fan, as I've always considered Buffy, well, mostly crap(except for the geeky lesbianism. Geeky lesbians are always awesome). But, along came Firefly, and now I think Whedon is made of awesome and win. It really had kick ass characters, both due to the script and the generally spot on acting. The only character in Firefly that came out somewhat half arsed was Inara, and that was just because the chick who played her couldn't act even if her life depended on it.

Already? Is it really short or are you a gamer addict?

I find it very odd that you can't remap the keys in the new PoP. I mean, it's a standard option in any PC game, and it was possible to do it in all the previous games in the series. It would have to be a complete brain fart. Edit: As I'm going to buy this, eventually, I did some checking and according to this you can remap the controls...

Sledge Hammer was so awesome!

He did a hilarious lawyer in Arrested Development.

Emma Peel.

Space Rangers 2 with the expansion is available from Impulse for 4 bucks so I'm downloading that now. It's an absolutely awesome deal.

I'd prefer it if there was, at least, one other button for melee. To add a bit of variety to the combos. One button could be leg attacks while the other arm attacks, for example.

The graphics in Prince of Persia are pretty sweet. And in a good away.

They need to make a full game that's all like the diner sequence in Fahrenheit.

Ultima VII added dialogue trees, party NPCs that reacted to your actions and massively improved world interaction. Being revolutionary is important in the case of Half Life because everyone proclaims it to be some sort gaming revolution. As such, determining whether Half Life is overrated or not depends on its revolutionary qualities. Also, on the subject of games being improved upon by later games, Half Life hasn't exactly aged well. No One Lives Forever took the Half Life experience turned and into a much better game, with better scripted events, better AI and more varied gameplay. Unfortunately, as it hasn't sold 1 million copies a year since release it's most definitely a worse game than Half Life. I'm not really arguing against Half Life which is a fine game that took the Doom formula in the right direction. My beef is with two notions that often show up in "My dad is could beat up your dad" discussions: 1. The more and the longer an item sells, the better it is. 2. There's no arguing against taste.

Aren't a lot of dosbox compatible games free for download now? Dosbox is far from perfect though. I've tried to get Xcom 3 to run through it a few times and I can't get the sound to work. VDMS might help.

Are you kidding? Half Life was seriously hyped up and every reviewer who played the game hailed it as the second coming of Christ, and everyone back in 1998 was playing Half Life. Also my misgivings towards the game are not retroactive, even back in 1998 a few people were already complaining about the awfulness that was Xen and the idiotic platforming bits. And by the way, I wasn't comparing it to Doom, a game five years older than Half Life, by accident. Half Life offers the same product as Doom with two meaningful and important improvements. This makes Half Life a good game not a revolutionary one. System Shock, or Thief, or Ultima VII were revolutionary games, for example, regardless of how well they sold or for how long they sold. Half Life's qualities aren't just dependent on individual, subjective tastes. You can look at the game and easily discern what it is that Half Life did do, that was improved or new when compared to other FPSs.

McDonald's must have the best hamburgers ever, then. Also, Half Life is Doom with better AI, and the (same)story told within the game instead of through the readme. It is a good game, albeit one with serious faults, but not the bestest game ever that would account for selling 10 million units a year.

Karka thinks Half Life is more successful (i.e. sells more) than it deserves, therefore he thinks Half Life is overrated. I don't see how that means he is bitter.

Did you get the (massive) patch? I know SoZ broke the voices for MotB, but I didn't realise there were other issues. I'm a few hours into the game, and loving it so far. No bugs yet, and the death system and random encounters do feel a bit like Baldur's Gate (that's a good thing). Yeah the massive patch fixed alot of problems, but not this one. That's not a problem introduced by SoZ. You just have to manually walk into the door instead of using the mouse.