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I don't know, I just think San Jose needs to stop getting two goal leads. It's like a death wish.

Folks are just upset because they created a monster MMO. Plus, this is a board that really enjoys deep RPG's. Blizzard rules the Action-RPG world and now the MMORPG world, which are both basically shallow versions of story telling RPG's. Personally, I think they are great for PC gaming as a whole and I loved WoW.

*crosses Gfted1 off the baby sitting list* Fascinating.

The trouble is, Ottawa has had an extremely talented team that typically dominates in the regular season for years. But yeah, they've been unable to translate tha into a Stanley Cup, and that's the real test of a team's greatness.

Oh my gosh, they are totally like little daggers. We bought a bunch of mittens after we got home from the hospital, but she manages to Houdini out of them rather quickly. We trimmed them, but that's a fairly stressful event for the entire household. Luckily they have these little shirts that look like straight jackets.

UFO: ET is supposed to come out today. I just watched an impressive gameplay video, it really does look like the original Xcom with a graphical overhaul, and that's just fine by me. I heard a rumor that soldiers don't die, they go unconcious and spend time in the med center. That;s an odd decision, but hopefully the hospital stays will depend on the injury. I don't want a guy who gets torched being ready to fight in three days.

A lot of these suggestions really come down to, specifically, what type of gameplay you want in your realistic shooter. Rainbow Six, from what I've heard, is all about keeping a small squad alive. Typically your handling hostage situations and you need to think very carefully about how you respond in a situation rather than just trying to stay alive. Battlefield games are all about multiplayer survival. Sure, you can work in a squad, or you can lone wolf it. The fact is death comes easily, but can be avoided with caution and care. Operation Flashpoint has a great single player campaign and focuses around a realistic military feel. I guess Armed Assault is a spiritual sequel? But what setting are you looking for? That's a major question too.

I've heard that Red Orchestra is extremely realistic. I prefer the Battlefield games, as they are semi-realistic but still easy enough to jump in and play.

Starcraft 2 seems a heck of a lot more likely than a new Blizzard MMO. I can see them beginning development on an MMO now (like WoW2 or something) with the idea of releasing it in 4-5 years, but they have absolutely no reason to take on an MMO with WoW still running strong.

Ok, first off, Skylar gives me an excellent excuse to pick up a Nintendo Wii and Guitar Hero Here are the promised pics!

I figured I'd share the birth of my child with y'all. My wife brought a baby girl, Skylar Lee, into this world this morning at 9:26. Luckily she seems to have my wife's looks She was two weeks early and weighed in at 7 pounds, 13 ounces, and is 19.5 inches tall. Both Mom and baby are doing great. I'll be off the computer for a bit! When I get a chance, I'll post non-icky pictures.

Every atom of my being is telling me to let this slide, But I'm not going to. I hate Final Fantasy its complete trash and its got slowly worse over time. 7 and 8 where the 2 good ones everything since has been aweful. Its a cash cow and the men look more like woman then real life woman do, who comes up wit this crap.. Main Stream rubbish. Time for me to pull the 'IMO' get out of flame free card. Oh btw, I'm talking about normal RPGs not MMO or Action games with RPG elements. 7 & 8? How old are you? Have you played every Final Fantasy? Yes, the series seems to have declined, or rather is being milked dry. But there have been a few classics in the bunch, my favorite being 4 on the SNES.

Well, are we counting dead development houses? Because otherwise this is a short list. Alive: 1. Bioware 2. Bethesda (based on experience, they deserve a nod over Obs.) 3. Obsidian 4. Blizzard (eh, action-RPG's) 5. The Gothic developer Dead or Alive: 1. Black Isle 2. Origin 3. Bioware 4. Sir-Tech 5. Whoever did the D&D Gold boxes

Yeah, we probably won't see many good MP mods until this summer, so I guess we are stuck with the campaign for now. Hardcore rules are good, although permadeath would really make it interesting Of course if we are just looking for a sandbox to kick around in, we can probably find a decent empty mod and rely on someone DMing to provide encounters. We would probably need to outfit characters and import them in, though.

Ok, prediction time. I went 6-8 in the previous round, although my expected games played was way off. East: Buffalo over NYR in 7. I think the Rangers will extend the series to 7 with pure grit, but they can't roll 4 lines like Buffalo and that will wear them down. New Jersey over Ottawa in 6. I was shocked that Ottawa beat the Pens, but they are facing a lot more experience in the Devils. Ottawa doesn't do well against strong defensive teams. West: San Jose over Detroit in 5. Detroit doesn't have the depth to keep up with San Jose. The Sharks had 3rd and 4th liners playing over 12 minutes a game in the last series. Detroit really only has one line that's dangerous, so it just needs to be shut down. They don't need to solve Hasek, they just need to pepper him. Detroit also isn't disciplined enough and will likely take more penalties than San Jose. Anaheim over Vancouver in 6. I like Loungo, but it was pretty disturbing how many times this theam got shut out against Dallas. Anaheim has a more potent offense and won't need too many goals to beat the 'Nucks.

I'm picking up LotR Online today, but I've been playing the open beta for a couple weeks already and I get to carry my characters over. So far I'm getting the sam feeling I did wth WoW initially, which is great. Lots of folks who bash WoW can't seem to remember that before they reached the higher levels, the low level experience was simply fantastic. LotR captures that pretty well.

I was pretty amazed at the voice quality of the Xfire chat. It seemed much better than Teamspeak, although it could be that Blank has a better mike.

WoW, McLelan (or whatever) was suspended for 5 games. Too bad he's just a backup and it won't really affect the series. Still, interesting punishments, I'd say it's a good call to fine everyone.

Really? Wow...it was pretty dark as is. Maybe he had a point.

Have you tried Xfire? It's way less intrusive than both of those. I'm pretty sure it runs better with games, ar at least it's supposed to.

Yeah, my Xfire profile is in my sig, so feel free to add me. Just be sure to tell me it's from Obsidian. I don't need anymore "luv u long time" girls.

Can we possibly create an easier way of meeting up than over the forum? Like maybe we all get xfire profiles, or meet in a chat room or something?

They are 5th, so the Detroit/Calgary series has a lot to do with it. If Detroit and Vancouver win, they play Detroit. If Calgary and Vancouver win, they play Vancouver. If Detroit and Dallas win, they play Anaheim. If Calgary and Dallas win, they play Dallas. That is the only one that gets them home ice advantage.

Turco was pretty bad last year. He's definitely turned it around this year, but unfortunately he's up against a similiarly dominating goalie. Woohoo! Sharks won much easier than I thought they would against Nashville. What really amazed me was how dirty the Predators were playing. They had three game misconducts, and a series of bad penalties. I know Forsberg is chippy, but he made a ton of bad decisions out there. This was a talented team, too, so it's a shame that they couldn't try and rely on that talent. You can't win games from the penatly box. I kinda feel bad for the city of Nashville, but then again, they don't even sell out during the regular season.

The original Halo on the Xbox really was the first game to give an excellent FPS experience, co-op and multiplayer included, to console gamers. PC gamers have had solid FPS games for years, but Halo was the first to make it very attractive on a console. I played a few console FPSers, such as Goldeneye, and many were good, but I always felt they could be better on a PC. Halo was the first game that didn't make me think that.