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I thought there was 3 main categories of Anime... something with big robots, something with pedophile fanservice and the last category which features a lot of tentacles. Sometimes there are "crossover" franchises where you have two or more categories present. But then, the only Anime I saw from start to finish was probably Ghost in a Shell and I remember seeing most parts of a movie called 'Akira' many years ago. Just not my thing. Couldn't imagine it making interesting (for a western mindset) settings for rpgs. As a completely cultural stereotype, the Japanes comes across as having an obsession with dolls and robots, both in art and particularly in science, where they regularly feature in the heaedlines with new technological advances.

I can recommend trying out the demo. Unlike some games, this one gives a fair indication of what to expect.

Crossing fingers and hoping for expansions. Complexity is probably a matter of taste. Like Master of Orion 2, there is a "sweet spot" where it offers details, yet doesn't drown you in micromanagement. So far, I'm having fun balancing my 3 main resources, food (I keep thinking of "Madagascar" when I see the little steak icon), money and mana. It makes it challenging to decide how you are going to expand your cities, should you add more food production, money production or something that converts one resource into another. How much is it going to keep costing me in upkeep? Build too many regiments for a standing army and your coffers starts drying up and your population shrinks. Many little details to keep an eye out for, so for me and myself, detail is just about right. I'm just about to take my first enemy player (A.I.) capital. Those things are solid, even when using siege engines. I keep forgetting that I have "stay in play" spells that increases my units effectivity. Need to keep an eye on my research. If I want more detail, I'll go play 'War in the Pacific' or 'War in Russia'

I don't know about the rest, but I'm fairly sure the Infinity Engine was licensed from Bioware back then and as such was and still is the property of Bioware (minus whatever tweaks/changes Black Isle did to it). Which means, any disclosure of engine design/source would likely only happen at Biowares discretion.

As a perpetual single, I find this entire marriage/civil union institution disgusting and discriminating and should abolished altogether in the name of freedom and equality. Just sayin'

Luckily for me, I'm completely unaffected by the D3 "obsession". Never cared much the the entire genre of games. I can in a pinch be bothered to play a level or two of Zombie Shooter or Alien Shooter 2 Still playing Warlock - Master of The Arcane. Still getting my butt handed to me by the damn elementals. Tried gangbanging one, sacrificing a lot of peasanst on the altar of martial success just to see the damn thing reduced to 2hp and then turn tail and flee back through it's own lines of cannon fodder. Since they heal at an alarming rate, it was full strength a few turns later when it came back and broke my siege of the "provicial capital". I also haven't gotten the hang of amphibious assaults yet, getting my troops shot up piecemeal because of failed coordination.

I still have the box lying around somewhere... never really got into the game.

This country has a severe shortage of Gruy

I only tried the Steam demo, but yes. "Do not attempt to play Binary Domain without a controller. If you don

I'm sure the guy who designed those things have some Freudian issues...

Not much insight I'm afraid. Mandatory question, have you installed the latest drivers for the x1900 (not exactly the newest kid on the block, but I think drivers might still have been updated in recent years). What OS version and the rest of the key hardware specs (memory etc.)?

Felt like hugging a tree... Just standing there and wathing this grand old arboreal giant all by itself. It makes you wonder how long it has been stading there, watching world events and time flying by. Since there were no other trees nearby it probably hasn't been hugged for at least a century.

Warlock - Master of the Arcane. A dangerous game. Just one more turn. Then one more turn. Ah what the heck, just one more turn... suddenly the afternoon had disappeared.

Nope, cause I'm unreasonable that way. I can still recommend it though. It doesn't need anything installed, you just click on the exe file to start it and then tell GoG that you want to use it for downloading. I especially like the crc check (repair) if something went wrong in one of the chunks. I've had bad experiences in the past with FF download manager.

Don't you use their download manager? Just queue up stuff, leave your PC for a while and then come back when it's done downloading, doing CRC checks etc.

I know a number of games where the second game outshines the original, but that isn't necessarily the case here. When holding up two products and compare them against each other, which one are you going to have the most fun with? Even the original only had limited appeal once the novelty of fighting chess pieces wore off and you changed to standard chess board just for a game of chess. Archon on the other hand, I bought the remake of (original made by Freefall Games), because it never gets "old" whacking your oponents pawns over he head with a big club/sword/fist/lightning bolt/fireball (or just suck out their life force) in the action parts. Currently there is only one kickstarter project I seriously consider backing and that's because I can't run the original on my PC (despite having the original cd's)

Sorry Cutlock, but I think I would rather buy the original from GoG. Actually, I would prefer to buy the Amiga version to run on an emulator, but unfortunately that isn't really an option these days.

If you don't remember it, is that a good sign?

Watched a few of them on their home page. Agree with Rosbjerg. Too long, and the "music" just killed it before boredom did.

We have those "passport" photos on our intranet page, but not in our emails. Even with several hundred colleagues, you mostly deal with 50 or less on a regular basis and of those you'll have met most of of them face to face regularly. The joys of international communication... having fun getting systems to talk between continents. Why can't people just settle for a simple universal alphabet??? Spanish, Russian, Eastern European... they all have their own custom built letters with funny little accents all over the place. Don't get me started on Scandinavians who just adds letters to an otherwise perfectly good Latin character set. Some Socialdemocrat probably planned to introduce a letter tax at some time. Trying to avoid UTF-16 because of the overhead and finding an ISO set that fits as a lowest common denominator. The Latin alphabet has too many letters. Honestly, what's the point with 'Z'? Even worse with 'C' who is completely redundant and it's job could be taken over by 'S' and 'K'. Heck, if some nutcase decides to start a partition to save 'Z', we could drop 'S' and do a promotional tour for 'Z' to take it's place instead.

Second official trailer for "Iron Sky". This movie looks even better than "Dead Snow". Seriously guys, get those DVD's up for sale on Amazon already http://youtu.be/gQ3rQBL_EDo

Chess without multiplayer... I'm still wondering when the "Chess - the RTS" game will be made. People just don't want to sit and wait for their oponent to take his turn Battlechess for Amiga was one of my old favourites. I could have sworn it said EA on the box though.

They call him... El Mariachi!