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Don't start: the anoraks will bring out a orkish dictionary ... :ph34r:

It's not very well, but it is not dead yet. Sort of in a vegetative coma.

The anti-trilogy?

Did you play AoD on console? I would expect it would be a lot better on the console. The biggest crime it perpetrated was the atrocious port to the PC.

The six foot invisible rabbit. Didn't you see him when he was here?

Occidental reductionist philosophy meets the mysterious Eastern ontology, manifested in the Obsidian forum!

I blame those pesky Tachyon RPG Elements contaminating games and game debates from the future.

You haven't been kissing parrots, have you? :ph34r:

The ninja Bunny strikes again! Who ever said I was trying to be succinct?

"Cut glass" was a description of immitation gems, made from ordinary glass. Not shards of glass for dicing up arbitrary body parts.

Of course a brilliant long game is better than a brilliant short game, but a poor long game is worse than a good short one. (I would love a lifelong virtual reality of perfectly-targeted bespoke game that completely challenges and satisfies my complete spiritual, physical, metaphysical and intellectual being. Sort of like being Neo in the Matrix. But I'm not holding my breath.)

So games that have no RPG elements will be impregnated by RPG elements from the future? :cool:

I'd rather eat a rare delicacy than an ocean of generic brand cola. I'd rather have a ten carat diamond than a room full of cut glass. I'd rather have a brilliant short game than a meandering pointless hotch-potch of meaningless drivel.

Wait a minute. Maybe it's your definition of RPG elements that don't match up with the rest of the world, if two game types marketed (and branded by customers) as RPG games supposedly have less "RPG elements." I mean, if RPGs don't have much RPG elements, are the RPG elements actually RPG elements? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe there are Dark RPG Elements that make up all the undetectable RPG elements in RPGs ...

I was thinking about the online review journal, but that'll do

Beware the Bunny!

Hopefully (all else being equal) a bad bundle equates to a better Graphics Card. The game was so poorly designed that one had to have the patience of Job to dedicate enough time and energy to the random controls and grit your teeth at the glaringly stupid plot holes (e.g. Lara is being chased by the police on suspicion of murder of a pivotal NPC character, yet she blithely kills innocent guards with total impugnity) and ludicrous puzzles (killing the ghost after climbing up a precipitous cliff face, which requires pushing Lara's "endurance" meter to its limit whilst battling the random cotrols to jump up into an unsighted platform). You didn't miss much, anyway: the plot was diabolically awful.

I miss Ender. Anyone got a link to his column?

Yes. It was an analogy. Actually it is an English word of German derivation.

Well, from a business point of view, the market forecasts are generated from pst performance. Therefore it makes perfect sense that the first releases for each platform would be in keeping with the current market segmentation (for each company itmight differ slightly, and I have no idea what the overall percentages are). This doesn't figure any large incentives made by either camp in the initial marketing putsch of a new hardware generation, though. I wonder how much Sony and M$ are prepared to pork-barrel ...

Certainly has more impact on my PC gender decisions than I'd be willing to admit here. "

It demonstrates the marketing power of the franchise, par excellence.

I skimmed through the Edge (not sure about their biases) article "PS3 versus the world" and the off-the-record industry source pointed out a pretty obvious conclusion that the game developers would develop games for the next generation in the same ratio as they are currently (50% PS2, 30% Xbox & 20% Ninty). I'm not vouchsafing their editorial independence, but the point made seems pretty commonsensical.

I tend to get over things quickly <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Too bad for Harvey. (Harsh!)