Diogo Ribeiro

Sim City was nice but I wouldn't choose it as a launch title. Super Mario World and F-Zero would have been a better pairing. Problem is that these classics are basically overpriced ROM images. The main advantage between a barebones digital version and a retail version is that the later is official, runs no risk of having been internally modified, and is neatly packaged. I loves me my videogame boxes. Considering that, at least in the US, there are still some places where you can get these retail versions for a similar or sometimes inferior price, Nintendo just seems greedy. I'm also willing to bet none of those old games, or a vast majority, will use the Wii's hardware in particular the Wiimote (sp?). What I'd like to see are special or themed packs that contained goodies. Say, all Mario platformers with pictures of boxes, ads, sketches and similar stuff. Like digital collector's editions.

How is the pizza's customization?

From Gamespot: I suspect the initial titles are there to give a feel for what may come and as such can't really bring out the big guns yet, but there are some pretty mediocre games there. And others just don't merit being re-released considering there are already better versions out there even if you consider nostalgia.

^Great moment, that. I had a hard time finding Resident Evil scary. I tried but cheap thrills such as the Dobermans in the corridor (RE1) or the many zombie arms in the precint (RE2) only make me jump the first time, and they're as banal as any other similar tactics. I already knew something was going to happen (ie, cramped quarters, suspicious camera angles, complete silence), and when the game is making its best to show you something will happen, it isn't scary. I found a much subtler, unsettling moment in RE2 when a Licker is crawling outside the precint's walls and is briefly seen through a room's window.

Oh. Well, that explains it.

Are you talking about a lead pipe, or is this some kind of clothing I don't know about?

They didn't had necessarily more to say but they did have more important things to say. Concise, direct speech is a better way of handling character diversity than to give the vast majority of gameworld riff-raff the same wikibased hyperlink system. That's part of the problem, assuming that every character must have something to say or that they should be asked about everything. Making information centralized and in the hands of a select few characters per location is more than enough, like Fallout did. Either that, or sprinkle information across NPCs so as to give players a sense that each NPC is embebbed into the local culture but that each one has different perceptions and experiences from it. Look at Baldur's Gate 2, some areas had handfulls of NPCs strolling around each with their own account of the area they were in.

Bethesda doesn't have writing skills, just copy and paste skills.

A rubber chicken on my shoulder.

Quite right; however, I'd pass up on any official mod that could just as easilly slipped into the finished product. Even if it's dirt cheap, I wouldn't spend money in official lacklustre content when I could get free and quality fanmade mods instead.

Trying to find some incentive (read: mad skillz) to do something interesting with Adventure Game Studio.

Hades? That you?

Randomization insofar as character creation is concerned doesn't have that much merit, other than being a quicker way to conjure some character type. Not much beyond that. The issue with being totally or partially in control of creation isn't really important: an oddball character which you wouldn't normally play can be created manually just like a character you'd devise from scratch. You can very well 'handicap' your character either way, and you can very well roleplay a character you didn't make or didn't like, give or take the obvious differing levels of success and enjoyment while doing so. Everybody could still roleplay some aspects of the Nameless One to a certain extent and within the confines of the character's own previously established motives and persona.

Do they ever do anything remotely interesting with the characters and their mythologies or is it just like a glorified Freedom Force mod?

Arcade Fire - Funeral Morphine - The Night Deftones - White Pony Joe Henry - Tiny Voices Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads The Clash - Sandinista! The Smiths - collage, mostly the best known singles Sigur R

This happened in my game as well. It just so happened that the ogre was the PC. "

That image is awesome. Where's it from? Not that I care, I'm stealing it anyway. Since I'm working afternoons I only catch night shows, and Portugania is pretty crappy when it comes to show schedules. Basically the only shows I watch now are: House, M.D. - the medical gibberish the characters exchange between each other is wasted on the likes of me, so I'm glad they sometimes explain in layman's terms what actually is happening ("quick, give him 20ccs of plestopornamignhuloiopeanduemoxiecyclotroniciacide - or he'll tell amish jokes for the rest of the episode!"); but I can't help loving Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leaonard so that basically is why I watch it. The Shield - been following this one almost religiously. great drama series and pretty much one of the best cop shows ever, even those I haven't seen. Michael Chiklis rocks long and hard. Here in Portugistan, I think it's around the ending of the 2nd season. 24 - Jack Bauer, man. Jack Bauer. I'm also trying to get glimpses of Help Me and Carnivale.

I always saw myself as more of a fatty transexual whose sex changing operation went horribly wrong, but 'man' would suffice I guess. Equally disturbing to my psyche. And back is pretty relative. Of course, but it's possible to do it in so many and better ways.

Ah ah, you rat. Still trying here. Cheers.

Well... Yeah. No big surprise. Shoot. There's just so goddamn more you can do with turnbased than Fallout's rudimentary system. I didn't even know this was still up for discussion.

The princess of Dragon Warrior doesn't come off as much of a focus either. They hammer into you that she's missing and all, and it's true the King bleats about it on and on like everyone else, but you can focus on the other quests going on. She's not much of a priority gamewise. Like Sara from Final Fantasy, the DW princess is mostly irrelevant right up until the end as well. The only difference is that everytime you turn the game off and then on, you're in the King's room with the princess sitting on one of the chairs.

By the way, The DaVinci Code sucks ass in all possible ways. Stilted dialogues, terrible characters, hackneyed plot. Just like the book but even more depressing because I can't seem to hate Tom Hanks

Yeah, Muppout: A Post-Apocalyptic Muppets Adventure. Kermit on Ms. Piggy: "Ham... Ham never changes..."

If Metal Storm is the game I'm thinking, it rocked. But it's been a while. As I've said it's been a while, so I can't really remember that well. However, I was taking more of an issue with people just going "best game ever" without really going into why from a gameplay perspective, so I pointed out gameplay improvements when compared to its predecessor as a reason for it. And Metal Storm came out in 90 or 91, if I'm not mistaken; Megaman 2 was released in 1987. The E-Tanks allowed players to store energy to use at a later time. It would restore your energy fully once per tank. It seems I have to replay Metal Storm.

Sure, if "outdoing" means "doing the same, only more of it". That's pretty much it.