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Subjective? Ultima Underworld had fully textured worlds, height differences, different light levels, non perpendicular walls, and an actual 3D world(unlike Doom). I don't think it had weapon swaying. Also, Doom didn't start the FPS genre, Wolf3D did. The reasons Doom was more successful than UW were that it had much tamer system requirements and the gameplay was much, much simpler. Doom didn't have dialogue or a complex magic system. It was all about accessibility, which is something Ultima Underworld didn't really have.

I should stress that in the comparison with Wolf3D I was talking about gameplay. Anyway, all those things on the wikipedia list had been seen before in Ultima Underworld.

As far as I can recall, Doom didn't do anything that wasn't done in Wolf3D before, apart from multiplayer. The difference was in the scale of its success. Its graphics certainly weren't pioneering, except in the sense that the game had relatively low hardware requirements. Ultima Underworld had a much more feature rich 3D engine than Doom, even if it ran like ass.

I wouldn't call Doom groundbreaking. It was great fun, of course, but it wasn't particularly new or original.

There was this girl in elementary school who appeared to hate me with a passion. I did my level best to appear to hate her too. However, I had a huge crush on her that never really went beyond the confines of my own mind. Even today, I still fall for strong women in the mold of that one girl.

It really is amazing how well designed SS1 still is, in spite of the awfully dated interface and controls.

Isn't Amnesty International pretty powerless?

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I just got the big box, CD version of System Shock in the mail. It's practically in mint condition. Happy happy joy joy! Happy happy joy joy!

I might be if I knew why Mr Double Entendre has a gun shaped lighter.

"Rest well this night, for tonight, you sail for the Kingdom of Daggerfall!"

I recently bought a new hard drive, so I've been installing quite a few games. NOLF1, Civ IV plus expansions, System Shock 2, Guilty Gear X2 Reloaded, DMC4, Alpha Centauri, The Witcher, NWN2+MotB, Democracy 2, Red Alert, Trials 2, Painkiller, Audiosurf, Geometry Wars, TF2, Portal, Trackmania Nations, Civ 2, DMC3. More will be installaed in the near future, including S.T.A.L.K.E.R, System Shock 1, Silent Storm and KOTOR 2.

While my love of SS2 knows no bounds, I always found its intro to fall a bit flat.

Thorton doesn't use guns. That's a cigarette lighter. With a silencer.

They're gods.

And also, everything in the history of the universe ever.

And Portugal lost the game in true Portuguese fashion.

It depends on the teams involved and circumstances of the game.

Meanwhile Lithuania has only wins, after playing Romania and Austria. And Portugal is beating Denmark 1-0 at half-time. Suck it Denmark! What good are your great education systems, great healthcare, better standards of living, more beautiful women and Roskilde, now?

Alpha Protocol is very new and innovative by using a completely new technique known as uzi-jump. If Obsidian was making a Devil May Cry RPG, I'd be doing backflips of joy.

Holy mother of god. You should try aligning the mouth with the upper line.

"Benned"? Was Affleck going to be in it? That would make it Fallout in name only.

I thought that FEAR's combat was awesome. The graphics were damn good too. Everything else in it was either badly done or didn't fit the gameplay or both.

which is accomplished by reducing teen sex (not that it is possible, just saying). taks That would be akin to trying to solve famine in Africa by sending bags of rice over. It's missing the point.

I thought the goal of sex ed was to reduce teen pregnancies and the spread of STDs, not teen sex.