Pidesco

You just wish you were as cool as a Duran Duran auditioner.

Nelson

If the final boss in AP turned out to be a potted plant, I wouldn't complain. Quite the opposite, in fact.

There was something a bit off, but ti was still forking awesome.

This is the sort of thing where our little community shines.

You didn't get silver in the women's triathlon, actually.

That would be a Barbie game.

I thought GOTO was one of the more interesting characters in KOTOR2. He was useless in fighting, but that was generally true of all droids.

I've seen those and they're really nice, but I don't think they're quite as good as the screenshot here. And that's really saying something about the stuff here.

Yeah, yeah. I'm betting it was more like an embrace of sweet love.

With AGEIA physics you now can simulate hair. Heavy Rain for example is supposed to utilize this. That perfectly? With those strands of disheveled hair?

THe thing that really seems impossible to do is the hair. How the hell did they pull that off?

That's really impressive.

I'm guessing(hoping?) that's a typo...

An unarmed build is the best possible build in Fallout 2. After playing through it with one, I never was able to play it again without an unarmed build. It was just so awesome to run around the Enclave punching people in the eyes or, occasionally, the groin. The only problem was chasing your enemies because after hitting them they could go sliding away until they hit a wall. Being able to get 5 or 6 hits in a turn with Slayer was just incredibly powerful.

I'm glad to see you are humble enough to admit your own flaws.

Are those martial arts skills ever used on coworkers, for example, during bitterly disputed design meetings?

Also, I'd like to point out something else. The problem with this lowering of standards is not for your average student, but rather for the best in class who have a harder time achieving their potential due to not being challenged by the school system. Modern education systems probably make the smarter students lazier, unless the parents step in and push their kids towards excellence, themselves.

It's not that people are getting dumber, it's just that the more people enter school and go for "higher" education levels the lower the teaching standards have to be. I mean what was the percentage of the population that finished high school in the 50s, in England? And what is the percentage now? In fact, I'm betting people are getting smarter not dumber, even if just marginally. A not very smart guy in Portugal, in the 30s, for example, would go through, at most, the first 4 years of school. Now, the same guy would at least finish 9th grade, probably the 12th as well. That has to help something, even if the difference is almost negligible.

I understand all your points and all I can say is I do not find twitch based fun but I know many people do. I guess I do not understand why both of us cannot be catered to. It is not like there is a massive shortage of twitch action games out there. What there's an absence of, however, are RPGs with well done, twich based action.

CGI, apparently.

Some do:

Melee will be useless in Fallout 3. It's becoming increasingly unlikely that I buy the game.

I was about to post that.

Oppressing personal freedoms? When did that happen in the Afghan war? As far as I can recall they occupied Afghanistan at the request of the Afghan government. Also, the insurrection in Afghanistan was led by extremist nuts.