Nick_i_am

haha, truth. For the PC though, Hearts of Iron 2 and Civ4 are both thinky games, but both very satisfying in coop, but only consider them if you know you like these kinds of games. In both cases though the coop is nicely intigrated (not just 'skirmish mode') and playable with just one copy of the game. Otherwise, the hugely overlooked RTS Ground Control 2 has its complete campain playable in coop with just one CD across a LAN. This also goes for Red Alert 2. If you're feeling sadistic Dangerous Waters is now available on Steam. It's a submarine simulator which allows for coop within the same vessel (including destroyers and helicopters). You each choose which stations to man then attempt not to crash into the ocean floor. Which is easy, unless your pilot is retarded or Llyranor. Starlancer should be very cheap now, and while it's enough that it's one of the best space sims ever made it's campain is also completely playable in coop, including promotions. Nothing quite like working togeather to beat a mission then getting a promotion while your team-mate doesn't. You can then fly your new ship in his face just to spite him. If space sims have daunted you in the past then this one is very much on the action end of things, no fiddling with your sheild settings or engine output is needed. Freelancer is also a lot of fun in multiplayer, though it's not strictly a coop campain. More like, you and your buddy are let loose in a universe full of potential and can do whatever you want (including forming a wing, which is coop for all the hirable missions/piracy/trading you can do). If you're looking for more subtly to your coop, both Hidden and Dangerous games have their campains available for coop. Be warned though, the first game is very unforgiving to those new to it and the second is only coopable with the sabre squadron addon pack (but a far more forgiving and polished game). I can second Commandos 2 being a lot of fun in coop, though you really really have to be willing to work closely with your team-mate in tactics and coordination. Commandos 1 is also coopable, but I wouldn't recomend it.

Opinion of Volo going skyhigh!

Not as much as they hate you.

Godly Sacrifice indeed. Respect is deserved by any game with a spell called 'Bovine Intervention'. Needs a replay.

Yeah, all the units were pretty awsome in their own right. Even humble things like the Dragon spearman for his stun ability (though selecting abilities in the heat of combat was a tad microy). My personal favorate was the Kabuki warrior though, just for being so goddamn pimp (though his special ability was freaking useful against lotus wizards, no more magic balls of doom for you BITCH). Yin/Yang points were a very very nice dynamic too, and coupled with the very limited harvesting, made for an RTS very focused on early combat, much like Dawn of War.

Doubled, I had great fun with this game. The only problems with it were that the lotus clan was overpowered and there was no way to produce more horses (despite being able to capture them and keep them at your stables).

if you have friends (haha) sven coop.

Wait, jump-ducking was covered in the tutorial. SOMEONE DIDN'T PLAY THE TUTORIAL!

As long as your eyes were closed, yes.

Is that what it's called when I put 'discrete amounts' of 'purified water', sometimes infused with 'minerals' or 'other materials', such as 'organic coffee', into the 'colon' using 'medically approved class II colon hydrotherapy devices' with 'sanitary, disposable speculums' or 'gravity-fed enema-like systems' 'inserted' into the 'rectum'?

Wait, we're talking about colonic irrigation right?

If you'd stop clenching there wouldn't be a problem.

It only hurts the first time.

Just give him the ass and nobody has to get hurt.

You'll take your platform elements and you'll freaking enjoy them you ungreatful brat. Then, THEN maybe you'll get a shotgun and more than three bullets. But only then. I HAVE A SPOON IN MY FACE. OUCH.

virgin mary toast evolved from square toast? When a painting apears in a forest it's a statistical improbability, unless it's a picture that vaigely represents somthing religious, then suddenly it's a miricle.

Remember all those peices of toast with seemingly randomly created images of the virgin mary on them? I'm just saying.

Haha, Baley got mazed.

Leelu is love.

I quite like the base thinking of this point, which links into Taks above talking about explaining of the unknown. We evolved tenancies to be 'religious' because we are sentient, and like to question and poke everything around us. However, some things are so unbelievably huge and out of our comprehension that we fabricate explanations, even if they are completely unprovable. Science would call this a hypothesis, but others have called science a religion, and in some ways they'd be right. Frankly, I'm of the belief that the existence or not of god is irrelevant, that if living a good life means I get to go to heaven, great, if not I've lived a good life and not let it bother me. But I don't expect this to matter to anyone but myself.

Whoever wins, we lose.

Actually, given the 'dozens of gods', i'm more wondering what it is about humans that drives this need to create the divine. After all, even if one religion WAS right, they can't all be right, unless they're all different manifestations of the same thing, but putting this aside i'd love to read any studies on why people do this and have done this seemingly since time began. I'd like to think that it's more than 'they were lonely and hated their lives'.

Hook it up to the internet and download all the demos you want, then head over to XBL Arcade and see if there are any classics you feel like reliving the glory days in. Seriously, just about anything you would want to actually buy has a trial version on XBL which can be filtered by genre.

The general consensus in the UK (from my own experience talking to people, anyway) is that from the outside at least, US politics seems to be far more about popularity contests and 'defaming' the other party (in particular, on character rather than policy) than actually about then running of the country. This, of course, happens in the UK too, but it always seems far more subtle than a man on a podium shouting about how his opponent wasn't really in the army or smoked cannabis in college or somthing. As for the alternative being worse, we seem to have experianced that over here too, with Labor being disliked, but Conservative disorginised and Lib Dems being 'a bit too wishy washy' on a number of issues, and both really lacking a strong (stable) figurehead. Having said that, I liked Gore, but only because he didn't come off as a flaming moron and my opinion is that he wouldn't have driven the US into such debt or waged war on the entire muslim world, but I know almost nothing about him or the issues at hand.

You, duh. And by punch, I mean, fondle