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... And the Taris survivors in the Promised Land will have uncovered The Fountain Of Youth, and rumour of its discovery will have just been leaking out (fountain, leak: get it?) to the rest of the galaxy, and there is a super battle between the Sith and the Jedi for control of it, whilst the people who drink from it become super-strong and ... then die horribly and painfully because it was all a Sith trick ... ... or something.

Yes. *looks around* Oh! Me! Okay. I'll set it up, then. "

It must be overpowered, as it has greater success in all the posted results. (Most wins are with Russia.)

... Then again, we don't know the effect of midichlorians on growth factors; perhaps in ongoing generations it can cause burn out in the endochrine system, specifically the Growth Hormone becomes less effective ...

Oh yeah, I think I'm thinking of Kreed. Cheers, Mus? Edit: Too late Baley, Mus? beat you to it!

I think there was a reason that the bits that ended up on the virtual cutting room floor were edited out of the first game. BORING.

Wasn't Kult that awful bug-infested and poor immitation of every other FPS clone?

For as long as n00bz never search. Yes, but you votes KotOR 2 above Deus Ex: so we are all capable of correlating your opinion to its actual worth.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Linkie? :cool:

I liked the serendipidous fact that I chose a character class with magical resistance, so that when I got a certain item that was unusable without it, I could use it. That made the game berable for me.

I've only played Deus Ex through (always from start to finish) a couple of times. Every time I get to that part at the Hangar, I just want to stuff her face into the floor, so I end up doing that. :D I have read what happens, and I know that it doesn't affect the story at all. If I'm not right, DON'T tell me, because that will be more fun when I do.

This is so true. Turn on a music broadcast station; if it's playing a rap album there will be young women gleefully portraying submissive sexual acts and objectifying themselves with the message that women are shallow and will give favours commensurate with the material reward given ... ... And people are on a crusade against games? I agree that video games seem to be the fixation for this generation ("X", or is it the Baby-boomers in control of the media "talkback" and "opinion polls") who are now hypocritically in total-puritanical mode. This is the current parents love-to-hate teenage trend: like rap and even Elvis before. It'll blow over, but not before some people's reputations are shot.

Check my profile; I am nearly 36.

I think she was the one that suggested they "take a lovely walk through the park on the way to the wedding." I don't think it's odd that the adults are trying to ignore the drunk guy on the lawn, beside the main path, through the public park, to the church. The children are probably wondering why he wasn't asked to dress up for the occassion. I don't think the man is of African descent, either. I think more Asian (he does not have curly hair, as someone aserted earlier), as in subcontinent (India / Pakistan / Bangladesh / possibly Eastern Soviet Urals).

Maybe part of the problem is that "mainstream" gamers don't want the (I assume there must be) stigma of RPG in their games, so even games with "RPG elements" are played down, and launched as whatever their main genre is ("FPS", etc). After all, the process of creating and building a virtual character in its own world is intrinsically interesting, surely? OR aer we all just a (significant) statistical blip on the gaming radar?

It's a pity the Jedi Masters, when they see Kreia, don't call out her name ... "

The game sounds like a Prince of Persiaesque fighting adventure. Which doesn't interest me. At all.

I am quite impressed by the use of physics in the demo; it looks like they may have pulled off a fun game to play (story notwithstanding), which means it should be good for a few hours entertainment. (Longer than Doom 3, at any rate.) :D

My chimps are also excellent swimmers ...

I think it doesn't matter in the story, from what I've heard ... but, as Freddy used to say in Scooby Doo: there's only one way to find out!

Because you only have a limited amount?

You do NOT have to kill Navarre. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I love that part... you have the chance to join the terrorists and ditch your brother. I never tried it though. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I haven't either, so I have to. Something about her impudent little face and her derisive tone make me want to smash her ugly little face into the floor. ...

Okay, I happen to have recent figures on voice acting. The cost of a voice actor is apporximately $500 an hour. So, given theat there might be 10 hours of voice over, and that may take ten times as long to create, you have a grand total of $50000. Now considering that budgets for a "standard" game are now pegged at $10M, you can see that adding voices is about

Avoiding the traps and trappings of big production companies might help. Perhaps Valve's Steam mechanism (or others like it) might provide enough independence from the constraints of the shallow high street game store selling model to allow for cheaper release prices, and a more sustained value overall. That said, a lot of good games command higher prices for longer after their release. Half-Life 2 is still in the Top 5, Rome: Total War is near the Top 10; even KotOR:TSL is still in the Top 20, although I don't know how many games you have to sell to make the Top 20 in a bad month " (figures for the UK, as of last month's publishing deadline, so that might be a few months old, at worst). With a delivery mechanism that removes most of the up-front fixed cost of selling a game, the returns for smaller enterprises will be proportional to larger ones; i.e. it will be a linear relationship, not one where smaller companies automatically go bankrupt unless they develop the next Doom or Half-Life. I'm hoping that means a lot of smaller development houses get modest returns on their smaller projects (i.e. not 100+ hours of complex interlayered multiple pathway RPG stories with realtime combat, ragdoll interative real physics, and a 3DMark05 demand of 25000).