Musopticon?

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.

Invictus used voxels? Voxel enviroments a la Delta Force and Outcast? I can't remember at att, but cheers. Hehheh, NHK.

Yesrtady it rained water and hail so hard that shops had to close in danger of flooding. That has never happened here before. Absolutely crazy. And I was sleeping all through it, woke up hours later at 4:36.

Alamaailman Vasarat - Pelko antaa siivet

"Oooo-eee-ooo, Oooogeee Loc with da bangers an da bitches....uh....in da house!" After you steal the rhyme book an' see his pitch, I couldn't stop laughing so hard. Even when those idiots storm your place and you have to down a damned helicopter from the motel onwards - I was giggling. Same goes for the chase scene with OG and you on a motorcycle after the latino bosom buddy of his. Hah, but I' currently more interested, crime game-wise, on what Illusion Softworks is doing. Also, http://www.kaneandlynch.com/

I liked San Andreas the most as well. It's only game where I've killed a mob boss with a bicycle. Well, the first 2d GTA still has that odd shine as well.

Emperor - Ensorcelled in khaos

Man, I so wanted to be part of Spelljammer game even once. The setting had so much potential.

Cheers, no problem. I'll look into it. It's just that Legacy of Kain:Defiance is a bit difficult played with keyboard controlling, since I lost my old Sidewinder.

Could it work with a regular first generation Xbox Controller S? I have one and have been thinking about getting an adapter for PC. Also, Super Mutants are terrible shots. The Ai should have been augmented with the info that while a H&K SAW does reach over 32 in range, it can't hit a thing from that lenght, while on the other hand a Sniper Rifle can castrate a mutant from 45. Now, one dudette and dude with over 7 in perception on a ledge overlooking a mutant base both having an almost endless amount of 7.62 ammo for their sniper rifles... Suffice to say, the open nature of the level is making the legion of super mutants an increasingly easy opponent. Then again, there's mined roads, rocket launcher-weilding bastards in trenches and the fact that I took a completely useless deathclaw with a me as a recruit instead of recruiting another heavy weapon expert. *tearing hair* Granted, the first two problems usually solve themselves thanks to the battle in general being to erratic and...explodey. Bits and pieces of green flesh litter the roadblocks where my trusty APC was supposed to grind to halt and mutant bones bleach in the wasteland sun, while yet another oversized potato head peeks from the trenches and gets a lead injection. Heh, if the game could portray flanking attempts, I'd actually be cornered a million times now, but fortunately it's a stand off between me and Sgt. Radflesh's Lonely Mutants Club and I'm winning. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy Fallout:Tactics lately?

Damn, looks good. This means I don't have to goad my friend into buying a copy, heh.

Isn't the game like 5 hours long or similar?

Mael M

Cheers from me as well, damn.

Yeah.

The Beatles - Happiness is a warm gun