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I am almost hesitant to mention that the first image didn't manifest ... :ph34r:

Is that near Amarillo, TX? "

Here's a list of the UK PC Format's Best of E3 Games 2005: Advent Rising Age of Empires 3 Alan Wake Area 51 Auto Assault Battlefield 2 Battlestation: Midway Blitzkrieg 2 Boiling Point Call of Cthullhu: Dark corners on the Earth Call of Duty 2 Charlie & The Chocolate Factory City of the Dead Civilization4 Codename Panzers: Phase 2 Commandos: Strike Force Company of Heroes Conflict: Global Terror Crime Life: Gang Wars Cuban Missile Crisis Demonik Desperados 2: Coopers [sic] Revenge Dragonshard Dungeon Seige II Earth 2160 El Matador Elder Scrolls IV Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Evil Dead: Regeneration Fable Fahrenheit Fallen Lords: Condemnation Fantastic 4 F.E.A.R. Full Spectrum Warrior ... Ten Hammers Gothic 3 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hellgate: London Heroes of Might and Magic V Hitman: Blood Money James Bond: From Russia With Love Jaws Unleashed Mage Knight Apocalypse Moscow Rush Myst V: End of Ages Need For Speed Most Wanted Neverwinter Nights 2 Officers Pacific Storm Pac-Man World 3 Panzer Elite Action Panzers: Phase 2 ParaWorld Prey Prince of Persia Kindred Blades Professional Manager 2006 Quake IV Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends Rollercoaster Tycoon III: Soaked Rome Total War: Barbarian Rugby Challenge 2006 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl Scarface: The World is Yours Serious Sam 2 Sparta - Ancient Wars Star Wars Battlefront II Star Wars Galaxies Episode III: Rage of the Wookiees Tabula Rasa The Movies The Regiment The Roots The Suffering: Ties That Bind Timeshift Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 3 Tomb Raider: Legend Total Overdose Tycoon City of New York UFO: Aftershock Unreal Tournament 2007 Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Warfare Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Winter Assault XIII Century: Sword & Honor You Are Empty Yume

... And what he looks like is a third.

Thanks guys.

Theres' a product on the DVD called HDClone.

I suspected as much. What's the best (free) film resource?

Pick up this month's PC format, there is a couple of free utilities to do exeactly that: back-up selected parts and also make a ghost of your entire harddrive. I can also recommend this site for good Windows advice, except it's not there at the moment ... A good technique I can recommend is to have different hardware profiles, available after you boot. For example, I have: Default Game - Performance Install / Full You can then edit the service profiles (type services.msc in a command line, like the Run... dialog in the Start menu). For example, I normally boot up the performance profile, because it doesn't start RAM hogs like the indexer, so the pc boots faster and has less clutter in memory.(You can leave the service running in "default" and "Install / Full", so that when you want to install some new software it is available. There are hundreds of windows services running at any startup, and a lot of them are not needed -- like the indexer and ASP.Net extensions, etc.) You can also google the services and you will find capacious background info for all the services, too. That website has a very thorough run through of this and other techniques -- I got it from the PC Format or PC Zone website, he's a regular contributor.

Or, more likely, it's for the idiots in the cheap seats "Eks-Zav-I-A", oh, that must be why it's called "Eks-Men" ! Incidentally, despite what Mr Cumming says on his website, he is still listed on the honor role at IMDb ...

Hehe, like the Steward of Gondor, Boromir and Faramir's father? He comes across as a lunatic chaotic evil, when his actions weren't that extreme (until his flips out and panicks in the big battle just before he dies). I think Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson did especially well giving as much light and shade to the characters as they did.

I don't mind so long as they get actors who don't pronounce his name as "Ecks-Zavior" ... <_<

I agree with Eru; the easiest, simplest and cheapest first course of action is to check your wires. Now go back and do it properly. Loose wires make up a large proportion of helpdesk calls. And it's free to fix. Then run a checkdsk / scandsk. (Of course you have backed up your files regularly, so just make your incremental backup so that your archive is completely current.)

I don't follow you. How is a film, based on a protagonist, different from a video game, based on a protagonist? Surely the same tactics are relevant; a game is just interactive.

I never said that LA execs would actually read our suggestions, just that, as part of their contract, OE were collecting our views on LA's behalf. On current form, I'd expect them to be "stored" in that little box-like thing conveniently placed under the desk ... "

That's pretty hard to do when they are talking about filming the first 20 episodes at once like a mini-series. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The current tv series modus operandi is to commission 4-6 episodes at a time (the producers don't want another actors' class-action-pay-negotiation, like Friends), so I find it very unusual that anyone involved would just film 20 episodes "even if they sucked". Sounds like wishful thinking, to me. "

Setting aside your admiration for the attempt at a workable influence system, there is still the woeful charaqcter development. The NPCs were not much more than moving wallpaper. Anyway, I think the writing should have been emphasized more, you have stated earlier that better graphics would have impressed you more. I think your hope for a promising-but-flawed improvement in the non-combat mechanism requires more writing than a stagnant-but-graphically-superior one.

High school? I think you're being generous: more like kindergarten. :D

Was that the Asimov (?) short story about the Anti-Christ appearing as a travelling bubblegum salesman, and detected by the Earth-government-replacement super computer? (Stop me if you know what I'm talking about...)

I wish you all the best in your endeavours. Anything to compensate for having been observed with a Boba Fett statue by any of the neighbours ...

Except it didn't work like that, nowehere near as well as that. It was much clumsier than that, and bugged as well. I liked the concept, but I didn't like the result. You may wish to defend it till your blue in the face, I am not disagreeing with the concept -- far from it -- I think it was a poor implementation, which led to my disapointment (which empathising with gives you much trouble, apparently).

You're just jealous

Just eat it, then?

But what's this? A cunning plan that requires the services of Baldrick, some arts suplies and the best portrait artist in all of England? What possible darstendly plan could be unfolding ...?

Nah, I didn't like Helios nearly as much as D

There wasnt any. Going on sidequest dosnt equal character development. Each character went on, what was supposed to be this pivitol side quest, that ended up having no affect what so ever on their personality or values. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... As opposed to K2, where one went about merrily way solving quests etc; if you had the correct NPCs, at the right place and time, and acted in accordance with their wishes, the PC received influence with them, and they eventually told some sad and pointless story that had no bearing on anything. Yep, much better.