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You can buy a PS for pretty cheap nowadays.

Pretty much every time I've watched my buddy play WoW other characters have been crawling around like ants, but maybe I just checked at the wrong time. WoW is actually one of the smaller MMO's when it comes to square footage. But even with that, the only places I notice crowding are main cities. It's also a trickle effect, when the game is first released you are going to have extremely crowded low level zones. It takes a couple weeks for the level range to spread out. Then whenever new content is released you have a population explosion there. It's actually fairly realistic. It's a great small scale model of economic booms like the Gold Rush of 1849.

I think there is a big difference between a horror game and a scary game. Most games focus on horror, meaning violent visuals, bloody action, and gross enemies. I would love to see more scary games, but I don't see many developers willing to take a risk on NOT having a shootout around every corner. For example, Doom 3 might have been scary, but after the 10th imp jumps out from behind you, it becomes just another action game. A scary game should have maybe two or three actual fights, the rest should just be building up tension.

Is that 'the road to independence' Yep, it's very solid. George Washington is a pimp.

The real obstacle for MMO's on the console is the communication between players. A keyboard makes it pretty easy to send messages back and forth. But mic's are getting better and better, so that issue might fall by the wayside down the road.

I'm really enjoying the storyline campaign. I just finished the second episode. They are quick, better than a tutorial, and interesting.

I guess the stereotype doesn't just apply to American sailors...

MMO's aren't really crowded. There are overpopulated areas, just like in real life, but most of the time you are lucky if there more than a few other people on a zone with you. It will feel exactly like a wasteland, particularly if they make it a sizable game world. And honestly I've always thought the vaults in these games were underpopulated. It's not realistic to build something as massive as a vault for two dozen people. I just chalked it up to a design decision not to waste resources populating the vault with hundreds of filler NPC's.

Dang, you are right. Sorry Blank.

What the..?!? This thread isn't about muscle car transmissions at all!

Almost called Richard Garriot perfectly, he came in at 11. I'm glad Meier got put in ahead of Will Wright. Based on sales, I expected them to pick Wright, but it's good that they recognized Meier's ability to tackle different genres and still create a compelling game.

Wals, did she call you during those four days? Because if you weren't returning her calls, I can see where she would get mad, but if she's just mad because you aren't pursuing her then good riddance.

Why is the manual important?

There is a ton to learn in this game. I had my first naval battle. It seemed to be going well, but two of my ships sank rather quickly even though they were no longer under fire. I guess they had more damage than I realized, I'll have to figure out how to watch for that. I'm playing Britain as well, I'm sending a pretty sizable group over the the America's to tame the wilds of Canada, and I'm sending another army over to help with the vanquishing of the Mughal's.

Frankly I'm surprised Interplay has the resources to attempt this, but I wish them the best. There are a lot of successful MMO's on the market that people seems to forget about. Lord of the Rings Online, Everquest 2, City of Heroes, Eve Online...the list is fairly impressive.

While I'm sure someone will take a chance on him, I'm not sure how relevant he is anymore as a top receiver. He's not much of a team player. The Raiders will probably sign him.

It was a pretty quiet deadline day. I know that more players moved than over the last couple years, but it doesn't seem like there were many high profile trades.

Bubba Hot-Tep was good, solid acting by both Campbell and the JFK guy. He's great on Burn Notice. I don't expect him to ever reach Army of Darkness status again, but My Name is Bruce looked like it might be a good spoof, instead it just turned out silly.

Babylon AD - Meh. It was enjoyable as a sci-fi road trip movie. I have always liked Vin Deisel. Maybe I missed something, but nothing in the plot made a whole lotta sense. The ending was just a head scratcher. What was the real point of the movie? The visuals were decent. It just seemed like it really wanted to be Blade Runner, but didn't have the plot or the writing to pull it off. My Name is Bruce - I'm a big Bruce Campbell fan, I loved his books and all, but this was a bad movie. It was poking fun, I get it, but it was just too much bad physical comedy, bad acting, and bad effects. He needs to lay off the spoofs.

You need to load up Redneck Rampage, the absolute best of the old school FPS games!

I'm about 81% done with the download. I wasn't going to get it, but I'm home sick today and I figured I deserved something fun after battling mucus all week.

It will be interesting to see who cracks the top ten. My money is on Miyamoto taking the top spot, with Will Wright close behind. I expect Sid Meier to get at least top 5. Richard Garriot will also probably settle in around 9 or 10.

Is the list finished yet? It's actually blocked at work for me.

I've been really enjoying Out of the Park Baseball '08. The learning curve was a bit steep, but I've got a good team together now and we went 2-1 on our first road trip of the season.

I just wanted to put in my obligatory Gametap advertisement in by saying STALKER is available on that service as well. And it sounds like this is an early version, which would be cool to check out, but if you want the finished stable game, try Gametap.