Kaftan Barlast

I wont be getting my physical copy until friday, so I cracked and got a copy of a friend and it's friggin awesome! It definently surpasses all my expectations.

The problem is that the film advertised as a tutorial is really a demo of the new features of this particular xpansion, it doesnt tell you how to play really. Nevertheless, I did manage to fly some places and shoot some stuff, now I apparently have to find three bags of food for some tossers on a space station and I dont even know the way to the intergalacic supermarket

I would like to call everything that is gay, gay. But I promised Mr. Walsingham that I would find another word, like... anyone got an idea?

I complained to a friend of mine that I wanted a proper space game and he told me to buy "X3: terran conflict" on Steam which I did. Its a freelancer like spacesim with pretty neat graphics. Now my problem is that I have never played anything this complicated before in my life, and there are no proper tutorials in the game. I did manage to hail another ship and ask how to throttle up and then I crashed into a space station. Some of you must have played this game, so could you give me any useful advice?

Some stores say they will have it on Thursday, in Sweden atleast. And some of the smaller places will put it on the shelves as soon as they get it delivered instead of waiting for the official release

Maybe Eurogamer is short on cash and now they have to accept bribes from even small fish like Bethesda. Beautiful, wonderful, PC! Mother of gaming!

Speaking from my own experience, animating for computer games is the last thing you want to do in the field of animation. Most of it consist of extremely repetitive and dull work putting together dozens of very short loops and even more variations of each loop for different purpouses. Sometimes youll also have to do both boring and technicly demanding things like baking animation generated by physics into keyframes and adjust them to look cooler, debree from explosions or even worse - cloth animation. Youll probably get to do much cooler and more fun stuff working in advertising for instance

Gabs has made me afraid to look at american-made pornography, I can never quite enjoy it knowing that theres a slight possibility that shes in it. So now I have to look at strange french films and try to guess the story

Yeah, the dismemberment mechanic is one of the coolest things about the game.

Phhh, I did that already. Way too slow and unresponsive

I dont think Fo3 is going to be a bad game, its just a question of wether its mediocre or somewhat interesting. Oblivion was fun to play a few hours, so logicly, Bethesda should have learned what to do and what to stay away from by now. Oh, heck. Im buying it.

Its quite similar to Bioshock, but with monsters that leap out of walls as soon as you get to a new room. Oh, and the "you just have to get through this door to get to the next level, but in order to do that you have to go back and repair the..bla.bla over and over again" school of level design. Sometimes I think they do it just as a cheap filler to make the game longer without having to build more levels. edit: I forgot to mention that they've intentionally sabotaged the PC controls, the mouse is so horribly laggy and slow, that I had to plug in a 360 controller to play. I think they did this because if you had full and quick mouse+keyboard controls, you would pwn the hell out of the monsters. Lies. I just find it alot more fun to ridicule the bad things, than to preach about how good the decent parts are.

We got it today for the PC and Ive been playing all evening. It looks very nice, and its fun to blow the arms and legs of alien thingies, but the only thing thats actually scary is the number of times you have to drudge back and forth in the same damn corridors to get keycards and useless technical thingammabobs. If theyd skipp all that and just gave me a shotgun and let me massacre people it would be so much more enjoyable. But maybe I havent got the mindset to be scared of computer games. Have you played it and were you frightened?

I would have ordered the CE but if the game sucks, I would hate myself. The NWN2 c.e that I bought is just like a big reminder that I threw a large amount of money in the toilet

And by interesting you must mean frustrating, because thats what 99% of gamers think when they have to restart from a savepoint a hundred miles fom where they died.

Ok, So I finally finished it. The enhanced edition that is, so it might be a tad different from the regular one. I was relatively pleasd with the ending, but it left too much unexplained. Like what the friggin' heck happened to the other three witchers??! How did Gerald come back from the dead aftr 5 years?! And where did Alvin go? And what happened to the whole marry shani/triss and start a family? And Alvin is not the grandmaster, thats rubbish. Its just people trying to tie a lose end that the developers missed. Alvin is blond with blue eyes, the grandmaster has dark brown hair and brown eyes. I think the devs were just trying to do some kind of half-done attempt at "heres what can happen if you dont obey spiderman and go with great responsability for great power" or maybe just to confuse the player in an attempt to be "deep"

Isnt anyone else bothered by the strange lack of black people? I mean, for Africa, there sure are a lot of white guys around. I want more lastkingofscotland-ishness You told me, Jonathan! But you did not convince me!!! No you haven't, this doesn't use the CryEngine. Yup, the only thing Farcry2 has to do with Farcry and Crytek is the name. Its made by another studio(Ubi Montreal) using another engine in a whole new setting with new gameplay. Rumour has it that Ubisoft had had this game in development for years before management decided to use the Farcry name, which they owned after publishing Cryteks first game.

I was really surpised when I ran this game for the first time because I hadnt read anything about it. It really doesnt have ANYTHING in common with the original game, apparently Ubisoft just took a game that USM were already making and slapped the name Farcry2 on it to boost sales. Its quite interesting though, once I got over the shock. Since its not a straight-up FPS like the original Farcry or Crysis I dont really think its fair to compare them. Its more like Stalker if one was to find something similar

The Hungarian revolution was widely covered in Sweden at the time and we still read about it in school and whatnot. What amazes me about it is that even after 1956, there were still plenty of ultra-leftwing socialists in Sweden that plainly refused to admit that Soviet wasnt the democratic haven and symbol of all that was good and true in the world.

I talked to my friend again and he claims all MMO's has clauses in the eula that states that all the player actually owns is the physical disc and box, everything else, especially ingame content belongs to the publisher. So this case should never have made it to court, unless they somehow managed to prova that the kids hadnt signed the eula.

This is just plain stupid, should we charge people with assault for TK'ing aswell? According to a MMO playing friend of mine, coercing other players to give up gold and whatnot is a legit gameplay feature. Thats apparently his guilds main cource of income in EvE online; they jump people and threaten to PvP kill them if they dont pay up. I asume that would beclassified as armed robbery in Holland.

Right, Ive now played it for 5-6 hours with my friends and Im sad to say that it isnt the complete rubbish I had hoped for; its just not very interesting. Its not a bad game, but its not exactly good either. As always with Peter Molyneux, all the effort has been spent on unescessary periferal details like being able to buy a shop or change your haircut, while leaving the actual core gameplay in a functional but rather uninspired state. The differance from the first game is mainly in the graphics and combat details, you still have all the idiotic things like only being able to cummunicate by using various emoticons ranging from "fart" to "seduce". But what ticks me off the most is that the co-op system has been intentionally crippled. It could have been something to do on bored days, but theyve really gone to great lengths to ensure that the second player doesnt enjoy himself. As the second co-op player, you cannot create a character or interact with the world in any way except combat, so all you do is choose a generic unchangeable character model and jump in to help the actual player during combat. Thats all you do. They even go as far as to make you transparent during cutscenes to really rub in the fact that youre just some useless appendix to the person actually playing the game. You cant even open doors or smash crates. Kaftan rating: 3/5 - mediocre.

Im going to play it co-up with a friend in an hour, Im expecting a proper Molyneux crapfeast.

I thought it was already establishd that this is another Star Wars MMO?

They have the right to be offended, but they dont have the right to try and pressure everyone else into submission because of it. Its just bad, intolerant and highly uncivilised behavior.