Nick_i_am

If we actually played it i'd get NHL without question. But given the current gaming time to date, we'll have to see.

Vegas would have been better if you hadn't been trying to play DS with your feet at the same time.

'It's so hard to tell Nick off because he's always so polite.' Talking to an old guy in Japan, he started complaining about the youth of Japan and how they were so rude these days. Then said that it must be okay for me because everyone is so polite in Britian.

I guess being visually responsible for an RPG hero makes up for not being visually responsible for oneself.

Yeah, my specalisation is in computer animation.

Huge library of high quality games, both single and multplayer, made before the playstation era of 'frat-boy casual console games' came along and crapped it all up. The same could probably be said of the Mega Drive too. The PS/PS2 were awful for coop (though a few titles stand out) and not brilliant for much else (though there were cirtainly enough good titles for me to justify my purchase at the time) and the N64 simply didn't have enough games that would still be playable today. The Dreamcast died a horrible death (despite having some brilliant games) and the Gamecube was mostly irrelivent.

As much as I might take the mickey, I do sympathise with the notion that the player should be able to chose their own gender when playing an RPG. Given the subject matter though, and how gender-specific a lot of the options the player will have are likely to be, I can understand why the option of a female PC has been cut and will just hope it's for the best.

Turtles in Time = godly. Not to mention Contra 3.

Well, I heard that the only real way to get the 'full' experience out of the game was with the subscription, that content updates are only available to subscribers along with the quests to get the 'best' items. Basically, has anything you havn't had access to been an issue?

I'll be honest and say that the ONLY reason I got a 360 was the online functionality, which only came into play because i've got friends who also own one. If I didn't I wouldn't have picked one up (not yet, cirtainly), which makes all arguments against the 360 completely legitimate when they come from people who don't just hate consoles on principle. I'm not even saying the current generation of consoles/games is worth a crap, but people who don't like the SNES officially have no soul.

haha, see what you did there!

Do you feel nerfed by it? I was interested in this game, but the payment model put me off without my actually having that much reserch on it. I did freaking love Diablo 2 back in the day (it's hands down the best coop RPG out there).

no, I mean an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ with a GeForce 7900 GS. And when I do serious 3D work i'd WANT somthing better than a 256, but the 256 works fine for now and i've got a second computer for rendering, meaning the time isn't really an issue. Funny though, it's almost as if you're saying you don't belive that I actually have a half-good PC, meaning I can't possibly like PC games, like Nexus, Hearts of Iron 2, Age of Empires 3, Sacrifice, Giants, Battlezone 2 and whatever others my shelves are lined with. BOOHOO WAH WAH.

Are you on the 'pay to play' version.

Actually, i'm on a duelcore 4ghz with 256 of video memory. I need it for 3D work, so i'd be an idiot if I didn't use it for games too. Not the best computer ever made but it plays NWN2 and Supcom on high settings without a hitch. See, I love PC games, I just don't BOOHOO WAH WAH over having to use a controler.

It doesn't happen until three minutes after the fuse is lit when i'm looking right down on it? I actually did some reserch on cous cous the other day, when I realised I didn't know what the buggery it actually was. Well colour me suprised!

Actually, I thought someone would jump on that point. Below are two examples of Guild Wars concept art. and two screenshots. I will make no comment on the quality of the game, but what I will defend is the quality of the artwork and the way in which it was incorporated into the game. Ultimatly, the best thing about the entire game was how good it all looked compared to any other WRPG out there. NWN2 might have better graphics, more polygons and surface shaders, but all the designs were everything that we've seen before since DnD was invented, while Guild Wars presented a huge range of different styles and influences and meshed them togeather.

This is why I feel bad every time I watch the Simpsons.

Tell me about this 'god'.

The irony is that it's PC snobs who are still playing the same 10 year old crap who could be said to hate games, unless liking a tiny subsect of the gaming market excuses them because 'dude, those are REAL games'. Nice work you freaking hippy, get a job. Hades is more of a gamer than a PC snob will ever be.

JRPGs are full of problems (it says enough that the best one ever made is only best 'by default'), but at least they generally try to mix things up rather than pushing out the same cookiecutter elves and dwarves fantasy over and over. Don't get me wrong, MotB was genius, and games like Fallout and Arcanium are bumping around (even if they're both ugly as sin), but it says a lot that the two most recent bioware games that broke away from the generic formula both borrowed heavily from Asia in one way or another. The best JRPGs tend to have better artistic direction than the equivilent WRPGs. It's not that western companies are incapable of great art direction (just look at Guild Wars), but they're way to obsessed with DnD, which sort of drags everything down in this department.

Stop talking to yourself.

Goths have a sense of humour?

Don't confuse plot with actual storytelling. Gameplay was totally haha.

Play Lost Odyssey.