Musopticon?

Yes.

Cuffawkling is a nigh-secrect art not oft-shared. *cuffawkles Pide* Summoning - Like Snow-white marble eyes.

Hurry up, lazybud. And I read that article you posted(Retro Harmagedon, etc), and it was right. I agreed with the guy, out of all people. Edit: Landiskan, ask this in that thread and you'll get suggestions there.

Damn, I hope yes. I'd buy it the instant.

I don't understand why anyone even bothered with Oblivion's lokcpicking, when you had Alteration. Sure, it was a fun for a while, but I really wanted to play a TES game instead and focused on doing that, instead of saving lockpicks.

Hillsfar's system...I wonder why hasn't it been salvaged by newer games? Thief had two picks and required you to use them in combination, but had no visual component to it, while Hillsfar's was highly elaborate; lots of types, picks could(and would) break and time was a tiny resource, etc. Than again, it was much more integral to the game than...say Splinter Cell's lockpicking was.

Nukes weren

That. Is. AWESOME.

I am Legend by Richard Matheson Go for it.

It's a biography of an Imperial Inquisitor, Gregor Eisenhorn, going over major points in his life of over 300 years of fighting heresy, sometimes from others, but increasingly more from himself. It's a book about falling and redemption. And it's crazily good for a license book. Of course, since there's a total of five stories written over a wealth of years the quality tends to jump around in leaps, but Abnett writes in very enjoyable, almost martial, style. He moans about the problems of the first person narrative focus in the preword, but I think it works rather well when accounting a personal view on one's life. I'm about halfway through the last novel, Hereticus. Nice, very nice.

And they missed the change to do the good old bend-over-in-pain animation(in previous Fallouts the shot characters would sometimes fall on their faces as well). Not to mention, is unarmed even a viable option in the world of portable nuclear weaponry?

Go to therapy most likely. God complex and unfettered rage usually means unresolved childhood issues. You know, just to be on the safe side.

Have my apologies as well, Archie. When I lost mine, I realised I hadn't spend much time at all with her lately. It hurt to think that.

That can be fixed, you smarmy cuffawkler you Yes - Homeworld

My linguistics teacher a Canuck. I can relate, eh? Happy Canada day!

I can relate to the Apocalyptica and Nick Cave lovin' Apocalyptica - Coma

Gar, how could I forget those! And how was the Champloo game? I heard it doesn't have anything to do with the series? Agreed, I just wish that we didn't have to do that stoopid Pelenor Fields level. Taking down all those elephants sucked. I only played the demo for Return of the King, I admit it was fun. Very intuitive basher that. I mostly ment the RTS' though. I only tried it in passing on some game event, but the mix of fighting and music was pretty unique. Wasn't my kind of thing, but the characters and the overall feel of the series was still the same awesomeness.

Yes - New Language

The LotR movie games have been prety decent as well. Also, the Samurai Champloo game, but I guess that doesn't count.

Recently released Ankh, Broken Sword 4, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened and Penumbra are all high quality adventure gaming. And cost money. I'm pretty satisfied with just replaying TLJ. Edit: Also, found Beneath a Steel Sky, so I'll play that as well.

I like "hijinx" more, but good effort. San Andreas really doesn't have much of a ghetto vibe after you stop with the gang wars due to plot developments and that is really, like Pop wrote, about the first fourth or fifth of the game. Heck, after that there's a long while when you don't even visit a city and instead acquient youself with the freaking backwoods and countryside. I thought it was a very varied game themewise and there was plenty of GTA 3 style action and hijinx later. To not sound exactly like a cheap Popclone, Calax you should play the damn thing through. Unlike you, I did have some interest for the then-supposed ghetto mayhem, but was actually pleasantly suprised when there was very little of that. I was sort of expecting a parody, but while there's plenty of that as well, overall it is a pretty dark game.

olol j-rock abingdon.boys.school - Howling

Yes, it s worth passing up reading other books, even if you have only the slightest interest. The book has a slow and pondering style that takes a long time to get going, thanks to it being almost ludicrously...British and once it gets going the narriative easily holds the reader spellbind. Clarke has spent along time weaving the charaters and it shows, since nobody is really who they seems to be at first reading. It is unfortunate then that she has resorted to using an archetype for Mr Norrel who, obviously, is a central character. Throughout the book I was looking for another reading besides the dominant one and for a while thought that Clarke was trying to perhaps give a sense of postmodernism by acknowleding the use of such a stereotypical old stuffy gentleman character in an otherwise modern novel. Alas, I was looking for incongruity where there wasn't any. The book doesn't suffer from it, no, but I was waiting for developments that weren't there and was a bit disappointed. Norrel's character does develop throughout the novel and it is not a bad one, but I would have loved it if Clarke had done something original, inventive at least. As a fantasy novel, it is a bit light on the fantastic bits, rather verging on the side of magical realism with bits of low fantasy. Sure, there's, among other things, an illusion that spreads over the whole English canal to fool the Spanish Armada, planewalking and a man disappearing into a throng of crows, but they only occassionally take the center stage from Norrel and Strange. Nevertheless, I liked it's approach to magic and how it was shown to be a two-edged sword, one of the main themes of the novel actually, sometimes a controlled chaos and sometimes an exact science. The two main characters themselves portray this duality as well, being near opposites as persons and thier worldviews. All in all, it's not just a book you can read in parts, it's one of those time consumers. Yet again, I was a waiting for a bit more, but it does reward the reader's devotion. Recommended.

Well, the sun shone today and yesterday, enough that I ran my regular milage. It's just been a rainy summer. Fortunately, since the last one was booming hot.

Hohhoo, this is the first Fallout game that's not cheap when it comes to explosives and missiles! After beating a couple of super mutant missions, I'm swimming in both bazooka rockets and grenades. I got this Junior Squire called Stein who had good tagged skills but not that good attributes. I made him take Mutate!-perk with his 9th level up and gave the bugger Gifted-trait. Now, M2 Browning Machine Gun with 9 in agility is almost criminal. And definetly homicidal. He also carries my only bazooka and serves as mobile weapons platform with the aforementioned nigh endless rockets. Not a lot survives. Damn, to think that a couple of weeks earlier I was wishing for a good adventure amidst all the fps' I play. But serve the killing in this delightful format and I'm as happy as a puppy.