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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!)

The XBox 360 got RAVE review in the UK Christmas issue of PC Format (yes, a console got rave reviews in a PC magazine) because of M$ now-revealed big-hands-on-little-maps strategy. Their view is, basically, screw the XBox 360 versus PS3 debate: the XBox 360 is a perfect PVR platform to link into the wired home of the future. It runs Windows Media Centre Edition and plugs seamlessly into a Windows network to manage all audio- and video-on-demand functions for the third millennium house. That's the big picture. The PS3 is trying to leapfrog the M$ strategy like they did with the original PS when they instigated the compact disc revolution. We live in interesting times.

All basically the same game. The first one I played on PS (one). I am still playing the series (not high on the game-playing priority list, to be sure) currently on number three. The last one (Angle of Darkness) was a total failure of gameplaying design. I refused to complete it once I reached the first "end boss" after the "change of avatar": over half-way through the game, you get to control a Templar-Knight-alike boy. Unfortunately, the woeful controls on the PC version (poorly converted from poor console controls in the first place) became even worse at that point. I didn't see the point in destroying my Dell laptop keyboard under the necessary button mashing mess that was required to kill the wolf-thing. It is (check out the trailer) a terrific console franchise, though, and the backlash from the last game should mean Eidos makes amends this time. I guess that depends on the definition of "limited".

Is Take Two listed on the US stock market? Aren't they, therefore, bound by Sarbannes-Oxyley (SOx) legislation, brought in especially to counter Enron-type legerdemain on the balance sheet? ... Does this mean Bioware's financial foundations are built on sandy ground? Edit: Yah! The bunny ^ is back.

Hot off the press - Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend

TURNBASED = Better for strategy Also, Civ invented strategy while Real Time may have referred (erroneously) to total length of time it took for celluloid films or yarns to unroll. What is kewl about Civ 4 is the richness of options available for progression towards success, and the multiplicity of different interactions between these options as manefested against a backdrop of different background environmental particulars Culture and religion are particlarly interesting for me (as I still ain't played SMAC): but I soon discovered that changing to a new prophet each time one pops up is not the best strategy ... "

Jaynestown is a great episode. I would expect the censors would edit any unsuitable seconds from the telecast. Not really sure what bits you are referring to as unsuitable: maybe the disfigured guy in the sweatbox? Death doesn't qualify, per se: mature themes do (innuendo, sexual reference, profanity, etc). They would just play it after the watershed (9pm) to avoid ANY censorship, and children could record it with a PVR for watching later.

Talentless whores of media, men and music. Really? After she's opened her mouth? I wouldn't drink a moderately tasty diuretic beverage in preparation for extinguishing their rapidly-immolating bodies. And she looks like a skeleton with a pole up her bum.