Nick_i_am

That's how you watch all films jerk. I just saw Tank Girl. ...'amusing'.

Likewise, the potential IS there, but who the crap is actually using it? One thing I liked about Planescape was that it wasn't a story about 'the struggle between good or evil' or whatever, but rather, a completely personal story. There was no 'idiot trying to destroy the world' the only person in any 'danger' from the antagonist was the nameless one himself, and frankly, I liked this angle, which is why I found PST to have pretty much the most satisfying ending i've ever experianced.

Just to clarify, Operation Flashpoint was only published by codemasters, it was made by Bohemia.

Deffinately, I had a blast with Homer, Aristophanes, Aeshylus, Sophocles and Euripides. It really says somthing for a culture that can produce so many writers of such a high quality in such a small timeframe.

This makes me wonder why no 'fantasy settings' have ever borrowed more heavily from greek mythology. Sure, some might borrow creatures (for example, Sirens) but the themes and concepts, even down to the nature of the universe are vastly different. As was stated, fantasy arcutypes (and therefore, gods) are based pretty much entirely on alignment. Hearing 'Lawful good' can be all you need to know. But the Greek gods (as portraied in litriture) were 'more human than the humans'. Morals had to follow the rules that they set down, but that doesn't mean they had to. For example, the wife of Zeus, Hera, jelous of the fact that her husband keeps on raping mortals, takes revenge on the ravished mortals. Likewise, a chick who claims to be as good a weaver as a cirtain god is beaten in a competition and turned into a spider. The gods were vain, selfish and judgemental, and gods like that could do wonders for a fantasy setting. Moving on, protagonists and antagonists were always more complicated than 'good or evil' and a hero wasn't really considered a hero unless he had a 'fatal flaw'. Take Odysseus, a 'great hero' and yet, his own pride gets all his men killed, he fights with a bow (a weapon that the greeks considered cowardly), and his own selfishness and curiosity causes a great deal of suffering to those around him. Take the most typical bad guy I can think of off the top of my head, the cyclops. Odysseus and his men steal his food and kill his animals, then complain when they start to get eaten. Said cyclops is eventally tricked and blinded, again, by 'cowardly means' and as our 'hero' is making his escape, he boasts his name to the cyclops, which allows the creature to call on his father (posidon, god of the sea) to bring storms upon him, killing yet more of his men. 'self defence' sure, but the cyclops was just trying to live peacfully before these men come and start murdering his herds. Likewise, Medea, the wife of Jason (who lead the Argonaughts, another 'hero') kills her own children because Jason marries another, younger, woman to 'ensure his place in society'. 'I did it for the children' he says. Who is even the 'bag guy'? Medea killed her own brother and betrayed her family and countary for Jason, and is repayed for her divotion by being dumped like a rock for the younger model. But does this even start to justify her murdering her own children? Incidently, Jason eventally dies when the rotting mast from the Argo breaks, crushing him. lol Irony. Basically what i'm saying is that in greek mythology, 'good and evil' are not concepts that are ever important, rather, they are far more keen to look at the nature of man, and the nature of mans morality. Just a random idea.

'New Labor, new danger.' But nothing about Tony Blair himself was 'sniped' at as anything more than the figurehead of his party policies.

And also, Civ4

<3<3 Holy Grail And being British, watching American politics unfold around election time always amuses. Sure we get mudslinging here, but it's very much 'low key' compared to what seems to happen in America. Honestly, I can't really remember the last time a politition or election campain directly called another politian incompitant or took stabs at their past life. Sure, it's a factor (leader of the third biggest party was mutinied against because it turned out he was still an alcoholic, just recently) but you never had any leaders of the opposition saying 'don't vote for this man, he used to be an alcoholic' which is (this is the impression I have gained anyway) what I would guess would happen if the same situation came up in one of the major American parties. confirm/deny? (p.s. this isn't me highhorsing, British politics cirtainly have their own problems, i'm just curious about national divides and how they 'really are' as compared to how they can be portraied by forign media)

Battlefeild tactics in civ4 are vastly superior to anything civ3 could produce. Combat in civ3 was, frankly, boring. The 'stack of doom' was really the only option, and seige weapons were useless. and how I loved playing 'pollution wack-a-mole' with an army of engineers in the modern age. Honestly, Kalfear is the first person I have ever seen actively defending civ3 over 4, and ultimatly, it probably comes down to the users tastes over city micromanagement. 'Barbs effect human players just as much' That really depends on your skill :D

...maybe

Splattlebooty

In before close!

Like I just did.

Wanna make out?

You're a chick?

Yeah, pretty much, 'quick' was good for learning the ropes, but it's epic all the way now baby.

So IE fangirls, do you have any actual reason to support the engine beyond 'l lieked teh gamez lol' or are you just being stu...normal?

Exactly. Civ3 just wasn't fun.

...exactly

Judge Hades smells.

Okay, we get it, you're a feminist and like evil things. It'd still suck. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ROFLGUFFAW!!!

What do I win?

'Stealth tanks' actually exist. You cover a tank with fiberoptic cameras that show whatever is on the other side of the tank. Doesn't work very well in anything other than desert though, and only against people who left their thermal imaging goggles at home.

Why am I posting an opinion about MMORPGs in a thead about MMORPGs? I dunno lol

Chimpanzees do it too.