Nick_i_am

Too subtle for him dude.

well, yeah, even goths know that goths suck. I was going to say 'even the dumb and disillusioned ones' but that's redundant.

5 million smokers can't be wrong!

haha, I was going to make that post, then realised I couldn't be bothered.

.....I share your pain.

a) That's a given, but it was never forced upon you (not to say I didn't click on every NPC and read everything). I found the part where Morte gets kidnapped to be pretty lame because of it's 'forced' nature. b) I said a waste of the players time, not wasteful. That is to say, good quality, interesting to read diolouge makes up for it's complete lack of relevence to whatever is going on in the game. Most of it was in some way contextual to the world at hand, esspessaly to someone like me who knew nothing about the Planescape setting (and little about the DnD world). Compared to the completely pointless and forgettable diolouge you'd get from random NPCs in KotoR (and probably Mass Effect, though I havn't played it). For example, the Wardrobe wizard would have been fun to talk to even if he wasn't involved in that quest.

a) there was very little diolouge in PST that you HAD to read b) very little of the diolouge was a waste of the players time I would imagine that it's not simply a case of him not liking 'too many words' but too many 'what's the freaking point of this' words. It's an art that movies perfected a long time ago given the constraints of time and audience interest. I am however, only talking about diolouge which the player HAS to (or is expected to) engage with, from plot points or party members. Having a large extended world of people to chat with is, of course, a good thing. EDIT: though he didn't seem to actually like PST either, hahahahahahahaha.

Agreed, though with any luck they won't even try to 'provide more context' (which has made roflcakes out of more than one revived oldschool game). Likewise, the gameplay might simply not be able to make the transition to modern times in any way that makes it above average in a crouded market that has long since forgotten about the duke. I guess that the reason people are excited is that, far from being a Doom knockoff (not that you actually suggested that), the game was pretty groundbreaking in terms of the mechanics it introduced. Destructable terrain, integrated melee, mouse-aim, usable tools (such as the medikit or jetpack) and coop multiplayer all made it stand out from the croud. My point is that it's not completely irrational nostalga (save for the sadacts who have been obsessing about it since launch).

You're right, Ash was awsome, but if your real problem with Duke Nukem is with the setting then that runs outside of the quality of the actual games or the laughable 'lets keep our stocks afloat' vaporware of DNF.

Man, someone's bitter and twisted.

Why does this trailer look like it was made in 2002?

Ahhhh, so the situation is better than I thought it was, and Hades' 'IF HE TOUCHES MY STUFF HE DIES' routine is just him being a redneck rather than the law.

Yeah, the second one, him actually trying to run off with your stuff, rather than dropping it and running off.

So 'stop or I shoot', followed by the guy trying to run off with your stuff before getting a new hole in his noggin' would be legal?

The 'three-legged' design cuts down on water drag while maintining stability, but what the freak is the point of the two 'wings' on the back?

I was under the impression that, in the whole of the US, if someone broke into your home you're legally allowed to shoot them. Is this the essense of the 'stand-your-ground' thing?

Actually, as a Brit, this thread really is amusing me, and there is a sence in which, given the context, I DO acgree with the 'shoot first and ask questions later' approch, given that there is a chance that whoever broke into the home could have a gun and could be willing to use violance in order to fund his next drug fix. However, all the people who are supporting 'shoot-to-kill' are opting for a first strike, no matter who or what the intruder may be. What if said intruder was actually your own son, who lost his key and, stoned, fell while trying to climb into a window. It's dark, you see a shadow in the side of the room and blast away. Oooops, you just blew your own sons head off since, apparently, just pointing a gun at someone and shouting at them isn't enough of a show of force to satisfy bush-land. As for the idea of it being cowardly NOT to shoot someone in the back, hahahahahahhahshdaslk;hdklsahdlsahdsha.

Yeah, you know what's REALLY cool? Ballroom Dancing.

Hmm, Owner doesn't seem such a bad choice in that light.

It means your face is being disrespected, duh.

Dawn of War 2, with a larger strategy scale, ala supreme commander.

It's the 'stopping farmers from blowing off a kids head because he catches him messing around in his barn' law. I'll disrespect your face.

Hades.

Haha, in england we have somthing called 'reasonable force', it protects kids who grew up in the wrong neighborhood, on the wrong path, had the wrong friends, from brainless gun-happy morons like the above. Am I talking about shotgun dude or Hades? You decide!

The guy has a zipper fetish, it's creepy.