Pidesco

Iranian SSR?

Fixed. Thanks, Pidesco You missed "bureaucracy."

While I enjoyed both a great deal, I have to agree that the voices start to grate after a while. Especially the narrator.

While that's kind of true, it isn't that clear cut. There's a very large number of people in Portugal that are against the EU.

Crysis sold lots, actually. It just took a while to take off.

Council!

At least some are appointed. I'm not sure if a few aren't elected by the European Parliament. I'm totally in favour of more centralized government in Europe, by the way.

Actually, traditionally, Muslims usually treated the people of the book better than the Jews or the Christians did. The reason, for example, why learned Jewish people started popping up in Muslim Spain in the Middle Ages, was because among the Muslims they didn't suffer the same rampant prosecution that they in Christian lands. It was only with the Muslims' loss in power and cultural significance that they started to become more close minded and fundamentalist. I believe it is basically a desperate way to preserve their culture. Culturally, they feel and they are, effectively under siege.

IT seems to me that this thread has outlived its usefulness, so.... LOCKED!

I'd just like to know what the actual focus of the game is in terms of tone. Light/mindless/humorous or mature/realistic/dark? I'd imagine this would be set in stone already, and it seems to me it's the type of thing you'd want to get out to the gamers in order to catch the attention of the customer base Obsidian is aiming for. Since they mentioned the story being in vein of Syriana, would i vouch for "realistic/dark". At first I did too, but then they mentioned Kill Bill and gun toting teenagers with pink hair, and suddenly I don't know what to think.

But you'll have to spend oodles of money to do that. It has always been possible to eat good food in the States, but only in the very expensive restaurants. As an example, within walking distance of my apartment, I can get an excellent Indian full meal for 10 Euros, an excellent Neapolitan style pizza (I've only eaten better pizzas than these in Rome) for between 8 and 15 Euros, or a typical Portuguese full meal for less than 10 Euros.

I'd just like to know what the actual focus of the game is in terms of tone. Light/mindless/humorous or mature/realistic/dark? I'd imagine this would be set in stone already, and it seems to me it's the type of thing you'd want to get out to the gamers in order to catch the attention of the customer base Obsidian is aiming for.

Are you kidding?

As long as you clean the chainsaw afterwards.

This is exactly what I was talking about. Americans have no taste in food.

Yahtzee takes a stab at Oblivion. This is his first review I actually didn't like. It was shallow, not particularly funny, and failed to address most of Oblivion's problems.

MMO?

MMO?

A few of NWN's portraits were an improvement over BG's portraits, but a lot of them were the same kind of atrocious.

Well, Oblivion's combat system is a big improvement over Morrowind, and you aren't always fighting the same bloody cliff racers.

IT really depends on thegame. If they decided to do the same unlimited ammo thing with the Aliens RPG I'd be a lot more worried.

Use the Icewind Dale portraits, people. They are varied, and they look oodles better than Bioware's awful excuses for in game portraits.

Finally.

While the variety in Morrowind was certainly better than the blandness of Oblivion, in most other respects I feel Oblivion is a better game than Morrowind. It feels like the natural next step for the series after the changes that went into the series from Daggerfall, to Morrowind. Effectively they're not trying to make RPGs anymore, they're trying to make action adventure games. Oblivion is a better action adventure than Morrowind, even if it isn't much of an RPG.

Oh yeah, Silent Hill belongs to Konami. My mistake. Incidentally, who were the guys responsible for Guilty Gear? That's been ported to the PC a couple of times.