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Its unclear, to be honest. Most of what I've read about the early info on THE DIVISION actually describe it as an MMO with opponents being other players who, in groups, are looking for the same resources as your group.

There's an interesting problem that I think Video Games have over most other forms of entertainment in that their length may prevent the ability for a reviewer to be 100% accurate. Film and music time investment can be rather low, time-wise. Literature and video games are definitely up there in time commitment, but (traditional) publishing tends to work so far in advance that the ability to get reviews completed for publication is probably a lot easier to manage. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that a certain amount of reviews for any given game were done with the reviewer not completing the game at all.

Thing about reviews - to me at least - is that they have to be contextualized as "one person's opinion". A professional reviewer may have just as much bias as a non-professional one. The key - IMO - to the reviewer-reader relationship is understanding where you fall in relation to what the other is writing, not in taking the reviewers opinion as the final word in opinion on the subject of the review. I agreed mostly with Roger Ebert but also had read enough of his reviews to know what kind of things we disagreed on. Roger Moore from the Orlando Sentinel almost never agrees with me on a film and yet I can use that too to know which films I might like too.

Its been done, I'm pretty sure. Like most things have been turned into porn. Also, I'll just leave this here...not porn but humorously "naughty" in its own way - http://www.whoguide.com/anunruly.htm Opening of An Unruly Child by Charles Daniels -

Oh yes it is! The intent of the personal fouls is quite clear; exploiting that for an advantage is poor sportsmanship.

Watched MAN OF STEEL and enjoyed it. Also watched Battle Royale for the first time; it was good but I feel like there's some sort of overarching theme that I'm not quite fully grasping. The film feels like its making a statement, I'm not 100% sure I got the statement though.

I certainly am not interested in any game where I'm online. And generally speaking I'd rather play single-player games; I don't think Skyrim would have been better had I been forced to group or trade or deal with other players.

Its poor sportsmanship; the rules being exploited are there to protect players from injury and it seems a bit unfair to exploit that, IMO. Its also against the rules in the NBA starting this season, so the idea that its not a problem is false (or else the NBA wouldn't have seen fit to create a rule against it albeit one that was 60 years coming...)

"Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our Admiral Anderson, but they'll never take... OUR ROMANCES!" ~ speech from Bioheart

My thought on this is - we know they were cloning people. There's no reason why Gat couldn't have been cloned, the clone killed and left as the "message" (and the never seen body for the funeral). That said, for this game I wouldn't be surprised if we see some Not-Quite-Really-Gats as they've also said in some of the VR missions we'll see some other dead characters (like members of the Vice Kings). Is that Laura Bailey? Yes

They're already financing the 2016 Summer Olympics though (which may be part of why the population is feeling a taxation crunch).

IMDB says yes to that, but I wouldn't take credits there as confirmed until well after the game has been out. I watched an interview were Gat was mentioned and they seemed a bit coy on the point.

So far Female Voice 1 is the only confirmed returning female player voice I've found. There seems to be conflicting information on who is voicing Shaundi too.

I actually keep hoping this thread will turn into a VS thread about the Internet VS Debates. "The internet allows communication between large groups of people..." "So do debates in large open commons - stfu noob" etc.

After reading this, I searched to see who was coming back voice acting wise (I personally favor Rebecca Sanabria's Female 3 (Main Character Hispanic Female in SR2)) and while the idea of a Russian accented woman hasn't been dismissed the voice actor for Female 2, Tara Platt has confirmed she won't be back. https://twitter.com/taraplatt/status/343605756240752640 Since you're supposed to be able to import your character from SRtheThird, I wonder then if they're planning on getting someone with an authentic accent to do this voice?

I'll be honest if they hadn't went crazy with SR2 I'd probably never have gotten it; I doubt I'll ever play a GTA game, for example. It was the more ludicrous stuff that I'd read about that convinced me to buy it. I'm SO looking forward to SRIV.

Give 5 a shot. Its almost as good as 2. 4 you can skip though. Dragon Quarter turned me off because it didn't feel like a Breath of Fire game. Didnt like any of the mechanics or the tone. Though really 4 was pushing it too. At this point I would just like a remake of 2 with a better translation and updated graphics. I'd love a better translation of BoF2. That was truly an AWFUL translation; there's a few sections in it that I'm still not entirely sure what was supposed to be said. How does a prequel to 1-3 work, exactly?

Guess I'm glad I didn't get the PS3 version then. I can't imagine what was different between the PS3 and 360 versions though; both would have the same limitations of the controller for input. Was DA2's and ME3's first trailers the same sort of thing? My memory says "yes" but its a lying bastard sometimes.

I played DAO on the X-Box 360 and enjoyed it. There was no problems with playing it on a console in my opinion.

Well that explains why the game companies weren't up in arms about it, at least.

Isn't that graphic actually wrong now? Per http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update

Microsoft had no plans to ever use their proposed draconian DRM, they knew fans would hate it. It got them a lot of press. It put the system's name out there. And now they're going to try to seem like heroes by "listening to the fans" to generate people buying the system. conspiracy theory> Let's see how far the internet takes this.

But anyhow this to me is complaining that you can tell that Elrond Half-Elven looks older in the Hobbit than in LoTR even though the Hobbit is chronologically first or that Brandon Routh doesn't look like Christopher Reeve despite their Supermans both supposedling being the same character in the same universe.

He's not in jail, from what I can tell. Last I'd heard he'd been deported to the US though and is living in Portland. And he's supposedly working on an autobiography...

Yes apparently. Every day. All day. There are several internet sites dedicated only to that. And reading it you will either cry of laughter or cry out of dispar for the future of mankind. Hehe, look at the "power grid" on the right side: http://marvel.com/universe/Captain_America_(Steve_Rogers) Well apparently some people take comic book universes seriously enough to try to classify such things :S Marvel put out handbooks that detailed a lot of specific power levels for characters.