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Just speculation on my part, maybe the D&D name still carried a bit of weight in the late 90'es? Whereas the Planescape setting would at best get raised eyebrows and a "say wut?"? I laugh at your funny faces. Real men play with default Shepard (either that, or I just don't care enough to fiddle around with sliders, short of constantly clicking a randomize button).

Muahahah... lazy scientists will have to rethink the universe again. Growing all complacent and believing in the standard model like some kind of religion @Thorium cars: Good thing the material isn't "reactive". Might bring the world one step closer to Fallout 3's exploding cars I wonder why nobody has come up with ejector seats as replacement for the old airbag yet. Just imagine if the car computer could catapult you up in the air a fraction of a second before impact at terminal velocity. Of course, ramming the guy in front of you in a tunnel or under a bridge might still prove a bit of a challenge

Well, I'm nothing if not stubborn. Not sure what made the difference between rebooting my pc, changing resolution, disabling AA and a few other things. Only the great CPU will ever know. Anyway, finished this DLC and found it fun within reason. I don't understand why it needed to be "high level" area, when it completely ruins the suspension of disbelief that a bunch of hicks are harder to kill than combat veterans in power armour Nice atmosphere though. Besides, I love swamps Accidentally triggered Mothership Zeta while going elsewhere. There is probably a special Fallout hell set aside for me for thoroughly enjoying it. Sure, it has nothing to do with Fallout, but I enjoyed the trip. Sort of Mars Attacks meets Plan 9 from outer space.

They are just trying a new approach to a philosophical questions: What makes a crpg? We all know that The Witcher 2 was aimed at the Diablo crowd Nice revisiting the thread though, I hadn't seen the Hunted video, gave me a good laugh.

Isn't that based on the assumption that you want the entire market (and barely ever succeeding) rather than dominating a market segment? The entire market? Hyperbole on my part. The fabled 7 cities of gold for publishers, looking for the most ROI they can get for the expeditions they finance. It's mythical and undefinable, yet they seem to believe it exists and so try to cover all bases. Thats what their market analysis and sales projections are for and why games seems to converge towards some kind of formless protoplasma You can pretty much write a list of what has to be in a game if you want to find X amount of dollars in investment. The difference seems to be in the ability to mix and match the items on the list, but it gets harder and harder to distinguish games from each other.

Isn't that based on the assumption that you want the entire market (and barely ever succeeding) rather than dominating a market segment?

i take it you didnt play battlefield 2? last fun Battlefield game was BF Vietnam

It was even offered as a reward or bribe, i.e. become tyrant of xyz region/province for 10 years etc.

Well, people in their own home gets assaulted by dog that forced it's way in, chased them around and killed kid in front of family. I can sort of understand why they think that maybe some people are unsuited for having some dog breeds in areas where other people live. What you do in your own home is usually your own business, but when it's deadly to your neighbors, people sometimes do take offense at it.

I've got no less than 4 queen bed sized air beds stacked away in a closet. Only used 1 of them the last year and a half while moving interstate. If you had been living a bit closer to my place you could have had a couple of them for the taking

Once you have a population and a country of a certain size, you'll always run into the problem of balancing the protection of the rights minorities against the tyranny of minorities. Short of dissolving the union and creating 52 independent countries, you will always have the issue of how to ensure everybody has a say, yet still be able to actually accomplish anything without getting bogged down. EU has a similar problem, where they try to balance the influence of countries of very different sizes and influence without giving a lot of the smaller countries the feeling that they have simply been assimilated Borg style, yet without letting something like say Luxemburg and Estonia dictate German politics because they gang up on them 2 to 1.

You don't need to look any further than the presidential election in 2000, where the new president was effectively appointed by the judiciary system of Florida. Coincidentally a state run by a relative of the then new president.

The haunted house in VMBL did a good job of playing on peoples fears, building up gradually as you went along. Perhaps it was because it played on familiar subjects (something fantasy and scifi games might have problems with)?

Oh no!... [/lemming voice] New beginning >_

Start of old thread End of old thread I've been playing a bit of Fallout 3 lately (since I bought the big box with all DLC's cheap). Things sort of went fine until I went to Point Lookout. Currently stuck with an unsolvable main quest, because the game CTD's every time I try to reenter Calverts Mansion after finishing the Sacred Bog quest and talking to the addle-brained guys at the Cathedral. Not going to start over again. Bye bye Fallout 3... >_

Shame, man. Easy mistake to make. Poor bastard. Poor bastard indeed. Like the people killed by Irene, it just feels "unnecessary", as in it doesn't need to happen

I'll probably agree to disagree on the silent protagonist, but I still got my game installed. I have an xbox360 controller too, which I bought solely for this game when I got it. It makes the controls less awkward (imho)

Totally read that "testicle" at first. Them Freudian slips Anyway, I'm enjoying my new CD's. First music cd's I've bought in... 7 years? Now I just have to be a good cultist and The Great Old one will bestow gifts on me

Probably the bold faced part... When Yasi hit Queensland here in February (iirc), it was the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane, but much bigger (a bit smaller than the US and northern Mexico) and only lost strength after having travelled halfway through Australia. Only recorded death was one for the Darwin awards (a young man running a generator in a small enclosed space, died from monoxide poisoning). People more or less went underground, only a few stupid tv journalists making very brief appearances to take some shots before running full tilt for their concrete shelters. Banana prices are still sky high.

It might not have been the worlds most impressive earthquake, but it can be quite an experience the first time you literally feel the earth move. On a semi related note, how the heck can a small storm rack up a death toll like that? I mean, it's not like people weren't warned that Irene was heading that way

I liked Dead Space (quite a lot actually), but it never struck me as "survival horror". There was no gradual building of suspense (relying solely on simple jumping out of the expeccted shadows yelling Boo! at you gimmicks) nor any real shortage of ammo (played it on easy). The visual style and the "soundscape" were stunning however, as was the feeling of moving around in a supersized derelict space ship. Isaac was hard to like though as he never said anything. By that I do not just mean no voice overs. I can't remember him actually ever saying anything, just listening passively to instructions all the time, like some bot with built in voice recognition module. Oh, and the weapons were quite fun too, giving new meaning to 'cut and paste' (I'll cut you into a gooey paste) If it wasn't for EA's silly insisting that their customers needs online accounts to play single player games, Dead Space 2 would have been a must buy for me. I just can't be bothered to keep track of more logins.

"its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations." So, it would be bad behavioural bias to take the article at face value. Why does everybody assume that LoF is a "he"?

Playing with my new tentacle.

That description fits more than one country at the moment...

I'm not sure why anybody would want to use cheat codes, the game is rather easy as is Anyway, I'm not sure that it actually shows you a "console" when hitting the '~' key. Did you try just typing in just '~' and then one of the codes (eg 'bright') followed by enter?