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You're a puzzle. It's just that Vista doesn't have any use for me. XP fulfills all my working needs, runs all games I can throw at it and without any kind of stability issues. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

I don't have Vista, but I don't think it's awesome or terrible. Also, I don't want to get it.

Juno. Wildly uneven, but good fun nonetheless.

About the bare screenshots, I'd just like to say that I really hope the game world is really filled with people. If our superspy is going to walk the streets of, say, Rome (or how about Lisbon?), I'd like to see those streets bustling with movement.

It's what we strive for.

Does creepier mean awesomer?

Everything is Alvin's fault.

You are assuming there is a 'why' to answer.

How are you certain that science doesn't have all the answers?

Because "fun" is the only way to grade a game.

I love this thread.

There was a big bruhaha here in Europe when Haider got elected in Austria. I never heard anything else about it since, though.

Yeah, but everything else was true. And the fighting sucked anyway.

I'd say NOLF is just a better Half-Life. Considering everyone and their mothers think Half-Life is Teh Greatazt, I don't see how anyone can have any reasons to criticize NOLF.

They do genetic profiling at birth, and only those predestined for greatness are allowed a name that would result in the initials JB. It's true! Joey Buttafuoco

Fixed.

Well, no, I meant streamline. Is it called streaming in industry? Anyway, my point is that, like Dan says, "open" in terms of level design is to do with linearity rather than loading times. I think some people get confused by Morrowind/Oblivion's style and think that only games which streamline loading can be open-ended. That's far from true. That's not streamlining, it's streaming. Streamlining means to reduce something to its minimum components by taking away whatever is deemed superfluous. Streaming means to load the content into memory continuously without stopping the game (or movie, or song, or whatever). Your point still stands, of course.

You mean streaming.

Portugal is in Western Europe, and it sucks too. Apart from the weather, Austria is certainly a better place to live than Portugal.

I played on asphalt when I was a kid, and it wasn't the particularly smooth kind. Pants were necessitiy, and even then there was a large chance of you getting skinned when falling. I still have a scar on my shoulder from an especially nasty spill.

A mixture of open ended and level based would be nice, to allow for the many different locales befitting of an espionage game.

Ploop?

That makes sense as a ten year would more or less be FF7's target demographic. However, it kind of irks me when adults, even young ones, talk of FFVII like it's some kind of high point in storytelling. It was just a "look at the nice graphics!!!" fest.

Final Fantasy VII's gameplay is, to me, fairly awful and uninspired. This thread has a very high chance of going south.

You mean awesome.