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That can be arranged. And it's the right time of year too.

Who reads that might think you actually don't love the guy. And that's just crazy talk!

Doesn't this mean it's Llyr's birthday as well? Them being identical twins and all. Oh, and congrats!

I love you too.

I want to play at really high, not ridiculous settings! its only a couple months away, till the the gen cards come out. I do not have a 8series card so maybe i went out of line, but my 7series blows when it comes to LOW settings for unreal3 at resolution 800*600. So Ill save up for the uber 9series graphic card so I can kick boks ass in Unreal3. Bok my handle is still Enlight_2.0 if you want to play Unreal 2K4 Tourny! Which card is that, exactly? My 7600GT works pretty well with UT3 @Magister: SLI

Did they fire Todd Howard or something?

In Alpha Centauri, unlike other Civ games, you don't pick a country to play, instead you pick an ideology to follow. For me, at least, it makes things more interesting because the way things happen during an AC game reflects the differing ideologies at work. Also, this setup allows for role-playing and means that there can be a moral attachment between the player and the faction he represents. It's just awesome.

Not really, because thematically, the gameplay is completely disjointed from the rest of the game. And as it is a GAME, I'd say that's a pretty huge dent in its thematic armour. The gameplay has little to do with it. This seems to be the game that everybody wants to say is a case for the form's legitimacy as art. And as long as games have to be fun to be appreciated, they can't really be art. There are plenty of great, deeply artistic films and texts that aren't remotely fun (nobody demands that Wild Strawberries have more explosions and car chases). And that's what I mean when I say that it's a thematic work. That it's not fun doesn't matter. It's up there with Fallout and PS:T even when it isn't (hell, it's much funner than PS:T), because it's merit isn't in its gameplay but in the deconstruction of the form and the themes it presents. That's a pretty strict definition of fun you have there. Just because artistic films are entertaining in a way that doesn't appeal to most people, it doesn't mean that they cease to be fun. Personally I found, say, Persona (haven't seen Wild Strawberries yet) a lot more fun than, for example, The Fast and the Furious, regardless of the larger amount of action scenes in the latter. With this in mind, I don't think it's reasonable at all to oppose artistic merit to fun, especially when they are inherently subjective concepts. What I'm saying is that for a game (any game) to be a successful deconstruction of the form and the themes it presents, it also has to do that deconstruction through its gameplay, especially when the target is FPS gameplay.

DUH It's my favourite too, but not the defining one.

:sad: Try here.

By the way, no one reacted to the casual insertion of Democracy 2 in my earlier post, so I'll just say it: Go get it! It's a deep, realistic TBS game where you rule a country. It's great and it only costs 20

I did. Another game I still haven't bought. My wallet screams with horror.

Yeah, but wasn't this year particularly outstanding, at least on the PC side? S.T.A.L.K.E.R., MotB, the Witcher, Beyond the Sword, Puzzle Quest, Crysis, Gears of War, Sam & Max: Season 1, Democracy 2. That's a pretty good lineup. Also considering I still haven't bought almost half that list, I'm guessing I'll have plenty of stuff to keep me entertained in 2008.

Try to think up new ways to kill splicers, just for the hell of it. It's the best the game has to offer in terms of gameplay. There's some visceral pleasure in, say, using telekinesis to pick up missiles in mid flight and directing them towards some splicers.

Everything will still be the same, though. It will just take longer to deal with the enemies.

Actually, in my opinion, as far as Civ games go the defining game is the original because, well, duh! Another problem I had with the list was calling RE2 a survival horror game, as I've always felt that RE games, despite all their qualities, were never really horror games in the same way that Silent Hill or SS2 were. Also, a few sentences really struck me as dumb: "Half-Life is, and still remains, the shining example of what can be done with the FPS genre not only in terms of narrative storytelling but in terms of overall design." "Yes, we know hardcore PC RPG nuts will no doubt lament the choice of Fallout over other notable titles like Oblivion" Gah!

Not really, because thematically, the gameplay is completely disjointed from the rest of the game. And as it is a GAME, I'd say that's a pretty huge dent in its thematic armour.

Of course. Anyway, I just read through the whole article, and I have to say that I think it's mostly an uninformed take on the nature of game genres. Just pointless.

Oblivion? Right, all credibility right out the window then. And as Steve points out, considering how little is known about FO3, calling it a worthy heir is obviously a prediction of nostradamus-like magnitude. WHich is to say, total BS. I think that by "worthy heir", they meant games that haven't been released, but that they feel will keep that game's particular genre alive.

I'd advise you against it. The moronic AI and the unchallenging gameplay really make it a pretty bad straight shooter. Really, circle strafing is the only thing you need to deal with 99% of the enemies. Also, because the story is, in many ways, a critique of the straight shooter design paradigm, everything about Bioshock just becomes extra painful.

Awesome!

Just in case you didn't notice my post in the last page, MotB is just so, so awesome. The Obsidianites really outdid themselves. Spent the whole day playing it when I should be working. Thanks, I think.

MotB is awesome! I really, really like the party members.