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) Every one's a good'un!

>insert gratuitous Duke Nukem quote here<

Half-Life Generations includes all the expansions (CounterStrike, the fan mod that was eventually released by Half-Life, Blue-Shift, and Opposing Forces, which is easily a terrific game in its own right), and it's

Indeedy. I picked it up for

I suppose outright stupidity and complete lack of taste could also be considered points of view. " Nope. The expansion is just more of the same, with a gimped gravity gun. That I find is a bit odd really, since HL2 runs like butter on my low-grade machine, whereas Doom3 [sometimes] has trouble running smoothly on my comp. Frustrating :angry: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Perhaps it is your brand of GPU chip? Doom 3 = native nVidia Half-Life 2 = native ATi

I agree. I want a manipulator rather than some mindless massmurderer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, that's what I meant. There was no manipulation, no coersion, no extortion. Just full-frontal assault. The last thing in the world Zaalbar would do is betray his best friend. But, he had pledged a life-debt to Revan, and so he had to choose his loyalties. (It would have been interesting to have Zaalbar randomly choose either Mission or attack Revan or kill himslef (or something else?).) Regardless, that was clever scripting. More of that.

Feel free to drop out, if you prefer. I would rather have only those who want to play, playing. There is no more virtue in the tyranny of the majority than in any other tyranny. The alternative is that the game is played by those who want to play under the present circumstances. If not, wait for the next game. Or become the GM of one, for others, and make your own decisions. As Nartwak didn't appear for two turns in a row, normally (without substitution) his place would be vacated. Again, if you really don't like the game as is, please don't play.

It is coincidental that AUSTRIA profited from the continuation of the game. And it is sour grapes to cast aspersions from a point of ignorance. I would suggest that you do not know how Reveilled voted, so please do not assume. I would also ask you not to make a guess as to who did or did not vote to continue or restart. That is poorly-concealed bullying, and I won't have it in the game. For something as important as the restart of the game I wanted to ensure unanimity. The game was well advertised, everyone was aware of the rules. It hardly has made a large impact on TURKEY, especially as RUSSIA did not submit a move for Fall. Anyway, try to play the game from a "disadvantage"; who knows, you might find the game a little more interesting if you have to work together with more people? Remember, it is only a game.

Why not? Do you enjoy depriving yourself of pleasure? Is it some sort of masochistic kick, or something?

Why not just have another post-apocalyptic setting for a game? Why does it have to be the "spiritual successor" to Fallout? To every season there is a time ...

You prefer Doom 3 to Half-Life 2? Why do you think they stole the gravity gun from λ

Halo is like Deus Ex in at least one very important way: stories. The sequels had worse stories than the originals.

Master Chief was an annoying parody of the Sergeant from Full Metal Jacket. Incidentally, did you know that the guy who did the VO of the Training Sergeant in Half-Life: Counter Strike was the same guy who did Duke Nukem? Kewl!

I've highlighted the problem in your comments, above. It seems to be mandatory to include spoken dialogue (again, I have no objection, per se), but they seem to be allocating the same amount of budget, even though they are hiring fifty times as many actors. I recommend you go and play Beneath a Stell Sky. Really! Even just for a moment. The Voice Acting is far superior to anything I have played in the last year. I don't know why this is the case, but I wish they would correct it. I suspect it is a methodological problem: e.g. it sometimes sounds as though the VO is completed pre-production and then added post-production, or something equally crazy.

There were more conspiraces? And they cut them out?! OH NOOES! Deus Ex could have been even more TEH R0Xx0rZZZ!!!111!1eleven!!!!1one No, it's GOD Warren baby ...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, but notice how both games were Warren Spectre? It really only comes down to personal preference between the two game, imo. I just prefer Deus Ex because I happen to have read a lot about the Knights Templar and the Illuminati. But as far as gameplay goes, I already said previously that I think System Shock 2 is arguably better. I even made the observation that the trend, over time, seems to be a downward one ... Video ut supra.

Oh well, I wouldn't think you'd get that right either since you're having problems understanding what Mb means when applied to the size of a demo.. . <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No. I was insulted by someone who made a mistake and doesn't have the courage nor the maturity to own up to it, when challenged. The criticism was neither stupid nor wrong. To be clear: I wouldn't have minded if the reason was "Hey, I know you're right, but I assumed no one would have a problem working out what I meant", or equivalent. I find it beneath contempt to have to justify my expertise in this subject: I have an Information Technology degree from one of the world's leading universities, I am a member of the IEE and I have IT industry experience since 1983 (when this poster was barely in long pants), and I am casually told to fsck off. The insinuation that I don't know what I'm talking about was then reduced to a denial of fact and a plea for special dispensation due to the poster being from Sweden, where apparently the normally observed customs of conversation and exchange of information are rejected in favour of saving the effort of extending the littlest finger whilst typing a single letter simply because only anal "purists" are concerned with the misuse of language. Go on, insult me again. I dare you.

1. "The general population" does NOT use the abbreviation incorrectly. 2. "Purists" like me (i.e. those who know what they are talking about) try to marshal those lazier and/or less competent and/or more ignorant than they to help prevent language devolving into grunts and pointing gensticulations, where everyone just uses "f**k" as a noun, pronoun, adjective, adjectival clause, verb, proper noun and any other part of speech, as necessary. To take your argument to it's logical conclusion, why bother using words at all? Your argument is specious. Your faith in the teological determinism of human language is quaint, but you are actually overlooking more important issues. Using b as an abbreviation for Byte would have a point IF the bit wasn't a common unit in frequent use. It is. Not only that, the units being abbreviated are so similar that it only serves to occlude the true meaning. I would be more amenable to the argument if there were any precedent established. "in Sweden the terms have degenerated into Mb for megabyte and Mbit for megabit" Really? Why? And does Sweden reject SI abbreviations completely, or

Well, I am a big fan of the old Infocom adventures, after all. The full English parser and the copious descriptions and dialogue (metered via the BRIEF and VERBOSE switches) made those games instant classics. I find

Yeah. I'm not really interested in vehicular combat. That said, I did enjoy the Half-Life 2 vehicluar sojourns, but they were just to add flavour, I guess. I would have been pretty bored if I had to play much more in the airboat without a weapon, for example.

Just the E3 poster with no suporting info, afaik ...

Andrea Bocelli Liberta ("Andrea")

Well Christ certainly was a sabateur. Look at his efforts in the Temple, tossing out the money lenders and temple girls (sex workers), not to mention trying to (and eventually succeeding in) defeating the Roman Empire ...