Gorgon

One can't predict the rate of innovation, but it would be rather foolish to put all our eggs in that basket. I think we are back to a basic truth about humanity, we don't live long enough to bother about issues that will arise two generations down the line. We can worry, were good at that, but actually make choices here and now that will directly affect our economies, such gestures are usually in the token category.

I find this game terrifying and I

I've hit a bit of a snag. Anyone.

Ok, how much are you going to pay us again.

I wonder who decided that most of the short swords had to look like wooden toy swords painted gray.

No you bum, earn your own.

It's not getting my money.

The truism that in war the truth is the first casualty applies. Of course the US tries to avoid civilian death, but if they happen to screw the pooch it's not like they are going to come out and admit it. They are just going to say 'we don't know, they could have been insurgents'. Point of fact, it's happened that way in Iraq a couple of times already. The level of indiscriminacy is lower than say for instance in Gaza, when Israel carries out its policy of assassinations, or 'targeted killings' as they like to call them. Simply because A, the US has easy access, and B the question of hearts and minds can't be ignored.

Aren't we forgetting that the constant 'look behind you' scares in Doom 3 were bloody annoying. I much prefer them coming out of vents, or the ceiling, or the corridor ahead, it preserves some believability.

Or like Morrowind, where you trek around for a few days having fun exploring and eventually lose all interest because everything is essentially the same only different.

Some of the perks appear to grant dialogue options and there appears to be a lot of them. So if you don't buy dialogue perks, a lot of the options won't be available. I don't see why you would need special training to talk to people. I mean, one or two of those would be acceptable, but it really looks like there's too many.

Go there fetch that, give to NPC here. Can't have computer games without it.

I could take offence to that, given I have friends in the US Army. They do give a damn. But that's not really what you mean. You mean the organisation. However, as I've just explained, there's a massive organisation which tries to minimise civilian casualties. moreover you can bet that if you could come up with a way to entirely remove civilian casualties they'd buy it immediately. You'd be a millionairre. Whereas a terrorist would have no use for such a device. They NEED to kill civilians to scare the bojangles out of people. I should also point out that according to the Syrians, the attack wasn't an air strike. It was a special forces team. Makes it rather less likely that those killed where civilians (although clearly far from impossible). Ref n00bo's question, I don't know what constitutes an unlawful combatant, but I think it is something to do with wearing a uniform, and not including persons wearing the red cross or red crescent. Sounds like a nice device, but really isn't that a rather childish hypothetical. War, military operations, they costs lives, innocents lives too. You do what you can, but accept it as the price of achieving an objective. If you were merely trying to show that they weren't as bad as the terrorists, well, it's not that hard being better than a terrorist, no browny points for that achievement alone. Of course it's in Syrias interest to prove that the US slaughtered a kindergarten to achieve its aim, but one would be just as foolish to accept an official US military version of what happened.

I guess it' having some effect, because I found myself sitting through the most trifling romance movie, I guess in the way of antidote. lol.

So how is it already

I dunno, the baddies just don't seem that scary design wise, it's just too much, had they looked more human on the other hand... Although there was this one time where I had no ammo left and had to get to an elevator with only a few shots in the 'time warp gun'. they were blocking my path so I had to beat them to death, one swing that misses and one of them would have latched on to me. That was pretty intense. By the way, is there any way you can break free once one of them has clasped onto you and is chewing your arms off. I kept pressing the mele button, but it didn't seem to do anything.

The problem is the non aiming navigational mouse, what you use to look around, versus the aiming mouse. If you want half decent aiming you have to crank the sensitivity up so high the slightest twist of the mouse will send you on a 180 degree spin.

Yes, that is a bit strange. What would you need flies for.

In any case An Associated Press journalist at the funerals in the village cemetery saw the bodies of seven men - none of them children. The discrepancy could not immediately be explained. The Syrian press is not exactly a beacon on neutrality.

I think he's mistaking terrorism with the usual eggs that get broken when governments make omelets. Human rights go out the window as soon as we are talking about the national interests of a major power. I'm sure the US would have preferred no 'collateral damage', but it's not like that was ever a deal breaker.

Well there are obvious dangers to spreading the conflict further. Whats next, a raid into Iran, we all know they wholeheartedly support the insurgents.

For Shame

The Syrian govt is a bit of a joke, considering the amount of leverage wielded by Hezbollah. However, going in and assassinating people on foreign soil, that's the kinda thing you would expect of Israel, not the US.

There is no level system, instead you find upgrade canisters a la Deus Ex and upgrade your suits or your weapons, the weapons all have special abilities, overall it's much the same effect as a leveling system, albeit more primitive. There's no jumping except in zero grav where you get to walk on the walls, which is pretty cool. Otherwise you get the same feeling of wishing you could do more with the environment as in the witcher. There is no quicksave, but save stations, and a ATMs where you buy upgrades a la System Shock. The baddies are like something out of a Warhammer Chaos army. If you have seen the movie Event Horizon, it captures the mood pretty well, so far not that much character interaction.