Nick_i_am

Atreides is right, see if you can find people who'd be worth living with in coming years. Saves a lot of effort down the line.

The Japanese appitite for fish is causing problems the world over.

Technically, yes.

Oh Ground Control, how I loved thee. I still lament having nobody to play the Ground Control 2 coop campain with.

Oh, yeah, the story itself was a pile of Hades, but nice missions.

Nexus? I thought they shut down the MP servers because nobody was actually playing it. No, it's got an extensive and satisfying campain, and while Llyranor and I played the MP demo to death, I only ever played the Singleplayer in the full game and easily felt like I got my money's worth. It's the lengh and quality that you'd expect from a full game.

Which, as Krookie pointed out, is excessive unless you're going to download HD movies.

All new 360s have that now.

On the simplest level, it's a Navel simulator in space. You control between 1 and 8 ships in a strategy view, but each ship in itself itself is a living entity, with various hardpoints for weapons, engines, generators and sheilds that can be customised to your will. For example, pile lasers on a pair of frigates and have them target subsystems, disabling engines or destroying weapons so that your cruisers have an easier time pumbling the hull. Ships can carry fighters, various sensor arrays and backup engines for emergancies, and part of your job tends to be balancing subsystems so that power goes where it's needed. For example, sheilds taking a beating? Disable sensors so as to divert more power to keeping them online. Different weapons can be fired at different ships at the same time or disabled when they wouldn't be appropreate (for example, anti-sheild weapons when attacking a hull). So far so startrek, but there are two other things to note about this game. 1) it's a lot of fun, and while it requires intelligence and mircromanagement, and a willingness to get your butt kicked learning the ropes, you can play the game without feeling like a complete dork because: 2) it's beautiful. gameplay videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46G7-9BdNmM There's also a rather brutal demo around somewhere.

You freaking suck with Jet.

Bought a copy of Jagged Alliance 2 and Disiples 2 with their addons for

Irony bonus!

You... dont have any idea what a relatioship is, do you? Irony bonus.

Yeah, get the full version. I didn't even think of it when buying my xbox, but actually, i've REALLY made use of demos, videos and esspesally the arcade. There's a ton of great oldschool games on there, all of which have multiplayer online options (if it had multiplayer in the first place). Many a time have I teamkilled Llyranor in Golden Axe, Streets of Rage 2, Turtles or Contra. Point is that while the price is higher, the hard drive has been pretty important to my 360 experiance, which has been the first console i've actually really enjoyed owning as more than just 'put in the game and play'. So maybe it would be a good idea to just get Arcade, then buy a hard drive later if you feel you need one. Also, get gold so that we can beat you up online.

Erm yeah, after the first time you have to manually tell them to do it using the scrolls.

Hey, good point. Not really a 'relationship' since it came down to some sexual tension followed by some awkwardness, then the main character driving off into the sunset. But it felt realistic, well done, subtle and belivable, based on the personalities of the characters. Sure, the game was short and not particually deep, but neither was the relationship, which made it all the better. I'd take stuff like that over DON'T LEAVE ME SQUALL! crap any day of the week that ends in y.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHKSALKSAHFKSAJLHDLASHD I miss you Pixies

That pretty much is, when you compare to every other CRPG romance i've ever experianced. For example, Druid chick in BG2 started hitting me up 5 minutes after I laughed at her dead husbands corpse, while NWN2s druid chick actually responded positively to me being a lecherous idiot. In Fallout 2 I was able to marry either a total slag or a dude, though, admitedly, this was as much for humours sake as anything else. However, all too often it feels like the *standard* is to appeal to the lonely lonely 16 year old and the Annah crap was about as close as i've ever seen to actually interesting or realistic romantic interaction in a computer game, which is a medium that just seems incapable of dealing with sex in any kind of subtle or intelligent way. CRPGs arn't the only offenders by a long shot either, but they SHOULD be the only genre which actually does this crap well. To this end, i'd say that TNOs romantic interactions with Annah and Grace, both in terms of what's said and what's not said are very much 'somthing different' from what we normally see in VIDYA GAEMS LOL. Or can someone name me a video game romance or relationship (any, even if it doesn't invole the player character) that is handled with any kind of real subtly or maturity? EDIT: Lies, he walked into a door. Very hard and repeatedly.

Is this a thead where several people use a lot of words to try and argue both sides of the debate 'If there is a line on a graph that goes up, does that actually mean that x is effecting y, or is it just cooincidence?' Or am I completely wrong about that?

It was done in Poser, a psudo 3D program that allows you to pose and manipulate 3D models using forward kinematic handles and keyframes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_kinematic_animation

The previsualisation and direction is what's really impressive here. Much of the animation itself is either stolen or poor. But really he should learn to use a real 3D program and not Poser.

The point is that humans are playing a significant role in the changes and projected changes we're seeing in the earths enviroment. Picking straws over factual this and science fiction that is still pretty much missing the point, and, as such, the thrust of the film remains in tact. The fact that someone might not like the message or the person giving it has zero impact on this. The judge in question said as much.

I was going to throw in a comment about them just being Zerg ripoffs anyway, but i'd like to think I wouldn't stoop that low. haha, who am I kidding On the subject though, Jinx is right, having such a number of genuinely unique races does make for an interesting game. The problem is that not all the races are really that balanced (as the leaderboards show, when last I looked) and as such, the games dynamic can lose focus that it would retain with a smaller number of races. It's a huge improvement over vanilla DoW, cirtainly, and I congratulate Relic for reinventing the game several times over it's history to keep things fresh and fun. But while the unit balancing has been vastly improved, a number of the races could still do with a decent amount of tweaking, esspesally when it's so easy to split races into infantry/heavy infantry and the only real counter to the Necrons is rushing their butts off.

If you love Tyranids so much why don't you marry them!

Cake?