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While I didn't pick up a lot I didn't already know from a Eurocentric view, if definitely made me more interested in medieval Indian and Asian history. Started reading up a lot on a lot of stuff from the Mughal Empire over various south-east Asian realms to the various Chinese kingdoms. Also re-kindled my interest in the part of European history leading up to the games start (1100-1400). Wasn't that why they invented the Guillotine? Where such options are available, I usually try to strike a balanced approach first. If I like the game and suspect it might be worth the effort, then I play the extremes. First the Lawful Stupid character and then the Chaotic Neanderthal option. I often find myself cringing at my characters actions in both extremes. Speaking of Crusader Kings, I wonder how many people have some kind of romantic notion about Richard "Lionheart" based on the Hollywood movies? Aka, Richard Plantagenet, french duke of Aquitaine, mostly interested in murdering fellow noblemen and when in short supply of victims, resorting to wholesale massacres of thousands of pow's, earning him the epithet "The Butcher of Accra". Funny trivia, he only visited the most remote province of his realm (England) a very few times in his lifetime and he didn't speak English at all. Yes, too much reading, blame it on EU III

If you didn't carry a tonne of guns around (and maxed out on your stamina for more carrying capacity), you could spam bionic spells with impunity and neglible wait times. Stick to a pistol and a reduced weight SMG and you can fire Shockwaves and Slams as fast as you can click on them.

Yeah, I've got both Tomb Raider movies on DVD. I used to be a Tomb Raider fan, although that's a thing of the past.

:Cant's shuddering icon: Seriously, though, I think he did Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeon Siege, and Something of the Dead, didn't he? I saw Dungeon Siege, like I said. I know it was low budget, but it wasn't really that bad all things considered. That is to say, I figured it would be pretty bad and it was, but it wasn't absolutely completely horrible. I kept watching it while I did other stuff. There are some movies so bad I literally can't have them in the same room even if I'm not paying attention. I sat through the entirety of Bloodrayne (because the only other thing on the stupid hotel TV was porn). He seriously managed to make an entire movie with a scantily clad Kristanna Loken that wasn't worth watching. *That* takes a special talent

Every time I hear "movie" and "based on video game IP", I always conjure up the name Uwe Boll...

I've got a huge backlog of games that I've purchased and only installed. Sort of spoiled for choice what to pick up next. Probably Skyrim or one of the Grand Theft Auto games.

According to Wikipedia, the movie script and ovnership of the movie project has been shuffled around and changed hands (studios) several times since 2000. Maybe movies have "development hell" too?

I think Chris Avellone said something in an interview about hating Star Wars (or at least certain aspects of it) and Kreia's loathing of the force being a proxy for his own feelings on the subject (paraphrased quite a bit as I don't remember the exact quite anymore) Of course, a lot of SW fans probably didn't take too kindly on all the not so clear cut stuff... and there was also the thing with a certain Lobster Mecha that didn't look like some silly comic book version.

Anybody making good movies at all these days?

Beginning to look forward to some days off around Easter. I feel like a banana that has taken a beating... only held together by my skin Crossing fingers and hoping for some nice weather, then go for a ride up along the east coast for a bit. Time to see the Sunshine Coast.

Not uniquely Cutlock though, as my Sikh friends do pretty much the same thing. Of course it's counterproductive as few people ever gets taken seriously when resorting to schoolyard style name calling (and when pushed a bit about the "why" going into circular logic).

My favourite FPS games are FPS games... Painkiller, Quake II, Unreal Tournament, Delta Force etc. IMO few games pull off the hybrid part well and most if not all fail in one or more aspect of what they are trying to mix. Action "RPG", Real Time "Strategy", Action "Adventure" and so on are games where either Action or the quoted bit fails to some degree.

Creating a bit of hype for a DLC maybe?

It's better than most of the other reality shows that gets exported overseas? Realistically though, as the world gets more integrated and economies more interwoven, the repercussions of the actions of one of the larger economies will invariably be of interest to those it affects, eligible for voting or not.

$1.8M reached at the time of writing. Crossing fingers and hoping for the best

Ok, that's worth a bit of money. I went for the "your boxed collectors edition copy of the game will be AUTOGRAPHED BY...". There better be an MCA autograph on it too.

Thats sounds awfully familiar, right down to playing Adept Didn't think about changing the difficulty though, although that might have made the London level less tedious. Might consider that if I ever replay it. Yes, the Marvel Comics ninja dud must be there for comic relief. For some reason I thought about Jar Jar Binks when running into him. He just doesn't fit anywhere in the game.

From various press releases around the net... In a press release issued today Brian Farrell, president and CEO of THQ, revealed game-changing plans for the project.

Weirdly, that is exactly how I ended today. With different calibre bullets? Actually it was more to do with bullet forms and their characteristics in different mediums. Thinking back if we'd carried on long enough I guess we'd have asked the question exactly how to make a macarena round. For some obscure reason, that reminds me of the Muppet skit with the Swedish Chef making donuts...

Ideally he/they would have some kind of home page for their mod project (either on their own or hosted by somebody). It would be a perfectly good idea to post a link to it then

Nothing that "forbids" the posting of mail addresses (assuming it's your own) per se, but it's not a very good idea, as spam bots crawl all over the internet harvesting email addresses for spam databases. Just sayin'

I'm fairly sure R. Scott Campbell mentioned something about that critter and it's "origin" in a recent interview.

3 As in three choices of Mass Effect 3 threads... Mass Effect 3 Mass Effect 3 Mass Effect 3

It does with Disney, and disney has more clout than mcD's (trust me) Cholesterol kills more people than Donal Duck.

Hey, it wouldn't be the first time US troops marched into Austria