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I guess I don't get hung up on visual styles too much; to me it either works or it doesn't (questions of practicality aside).

I have restarted a few times because of disappearing companions problems. Love the game, not crazy about companions disappearing and being unrecoverable (and they're carrying my stuff!)

The Assassin Mage 12% Strength, 28% Bloodlust, 48% Intelligence, 36% Spirit, 20% Vitality and 36% Agility! By combining powerful magic with skills in stealth and assassination, the Assassin Mages can easily take down any foe. The Assassin Mages imbue their weapons and armor with their deadly magic to enhance all their abilities. Utilizing the shadows to their advntage, Assassin Mages can singlehandedly defeat entire groups of warriors without ever revealing their presence. Although Assassin Mages specialize in wind magic, they are proficient in the other basic elements. However, their mastery over wind far exceeds that of any of the other spellcaster classes allowing them to manipulate the wind more skillfully and effortlessly. Leaping through the air and flying short distances is no problem for the Assassin Mage, and by using the wind to augment their speed and agility they can easily outmaneuver any foe. On top of that, they can use their magic detect the presence of any nearby foe, and by condensing the wind around their blade they can easily slash through any and all armor and barriers. Although Assassin Mages normally use their wind magic discretely, they would not be opposed to creating tornadoes, hurricanes, and prisons of impenetrable wind if the situation called for it.

Saw HP & the Deathly Hollows. Liked it pretty well.

Well, I made my first car explosion today. I mentioned missing them from FO3; this one worked out pretty nice. Tried to sniper some enemies and hit the truck behind them, they all ran to the noise which allowed the truck explosion to kill them

It started as a debate about the possibility of this game being a ME prequel; then became whether prequels could ever be good, with Indy2 being held as an example, which expanded into an Indy debate. I don't think prequels per se are bad, and I think there's room in ME's timeline to explore stories without feeling like you know everything that's going to happen so if the game DOES turn out to be ME related or specifically a ME prequel, I think it could still be fun.

I agree Aliens was way too much but doesn't belong there this much? Did I just imagine all the mystical **** in other Indy movies? Also his heart getting ripped out is kiiiiiiiinda the problem. Can't believe that we're debating whether an alien "fits" the Indy universe... In a series that has had - Wrath of God Angels or Spirits A priest who can pull people's hearts from their chests A drug that can hypnotize anyone into doing anything Magical Stones that keep lands fertile Magical stones that can be made to heat up by chanting particular phrases Magical stones that, when gathered together, are supposed to give ultimate power A cup that can heal any wound A magical seal that said cup can't be moved past That doesn't get into all the other improbabilities in the series...but then it was never intended to be realistic, either.

Ooooh, okay misunderstood you there! Sorry.

Destroyed looking city to me; I'm still thinking ME setting game (First Contact War, maybe?) but not connected to the Sheppard story. Alternatively, an alien invasion game (because, you know, sci-fi looking dude in destroyed city looking place).

I think it's ME. The rifle he's using looks like the lower level sniper rifles from the first game. Doesn't make sense to be ME, since the video shows ME and DA after they show Bioware's Logo. It'd be like verbally saying "From Bioware, the makers of Mass Effect and Dragon Age comes...Mass Effect". That said I could totally see it as a non-Sheppard ME setting story.

My first thought at the glimpses - with the sci-fi type look so similar to Mass Effect and the destroyed city scape outside the building the guy is in that it was either (a) an alien invasion game or (b) a game in the ME universe set during the "First Contact War" but not (directly) tied to the ongoing Mass Effect series' story.

What the guy is looking at:

It serves no other purpose than to tell you that your expectations have changed. It's (generally) impossible to play a game from the eighties today. Replay them now and they will feel like crap. That does not mean all games of the eighties were crap. Two great examples: Wasteland (1987) and Pool of Radiance (1988). At the time, they were both fantastic games. Now? You can barely tell you're playing a human in Wasteland and most people would never find their way out of New Phlan (starting city) in Pool of Radiance. I recommended them to everyone I met in the eighties, I would not recommend them to anyone today. I think anyone who never played the games of that time period would probably balk at the IE games, to be honest, much less earlier games. But I agree that it doesn't mean the games weren't good; just the expectations in games now is so vastly different.

Yeah the sniper in minefield would shoot the cars to explode them. Fun times. The raiders were mostly just about as crap at hitting things as I was. I haven't seen cars explode as much - I'm assuming they're harder to make explode (as I believe I saw one explode before in FONV).

She'll show up at your funeral after you...lightly toast yourself. I agree; I think that a lot of people do this. I have a bunch of friends who would rather date someone they don't like - even for extended amounts of time - than be alone for a few months.

Not only is it overpowered, it has a glitch that allows you wear it with a hat! I used the Chinese army hat, personally. It was fun! I do miss the exploding cars from FO3 to some degree. Finding yourself running from raiders only to realize you're in a drive-in theater and the raiders bad aim is hitting the cars second before it explodes and kills everyone involved (dismembering my arms and legs so my slow-mo death scene was my torso & head flying through the air) was a one-of-a-kind experience! I'm playing through Fallout: New Vegas though and it has its own charms. Massive exploding cars so far hasn't been one of them though.

For me I tend to use the "would I want to replay it" as opposed to COULD I actually replay it. There are a few favorite games that I have tried to play that I loved but find a chore to play through now (most of the IE games, to be honest) but that doesn't mean that I don't still occasionally say to myself "hey, I kinda want to play IWD again!). I love Xenogears and think I could play it again. It should have been on my list.

I liked Summer Games too (unfortunately my gymnast always landed on her head. ) Favorite games, hmm...well I'll probably forget something... Phantasie - C64 Street Fighter 2 - various Dragon Force - Saturn Tactics Ogre - PS1 Icewind Dale - PC Planescape: Torment - PC Jade Empire - 360/PC Mass Effect - 360 Mass Effect 2 - 360 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines PC Fallout 1 and 2 - PC Golden Axe - Arcade Altered Beast - Arcade Streets of Rage - Genesis Spy vs Spy - C64 Eternal Champions - Genesis Soul Blade/Soul Edge/Soul Calibur series - various Resident Evil: Outbreak 1 & 2 - PS1 Final Fantasy 6 - SNES Chrono Trigger - SNES Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 - Xbox/PC Persona 3 - PS2/PSP Persona 4 - PS2 Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne - PS2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army - PS2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon - PS2 Bruce Lee - C64 M.U.L.E. - C64 Archon - C64

So was most of the stuff we consider to be early (or proto) science fiction stories. Science fiction, as a genre, was merely coined to group writings that already existed. However, in that Frankenstein (the novel) is a cautionary tale about science without moral boundaries and the ramification of science on its main characters it has all the hallmarks of science fiction. That it is also a horror tale is beside the point, IMO. BTW, Johann Konrad Dippel passed away 50 years before the process of galvanism was truly founded by Luigi Galvini and his exploration of "animal electricity" (it is Galvini's reports that are specifically mentioned in Frankenstein). While Dippel did indeed live at the real Castle Frankenstein and had a "reputation" (some of it - if not all - totally unfounded with evidence many stories were manufactured well after his death), its unclear how influential he was on the novel or if Shelly had even heard of him as there was also a town called Frankenstein at the time (now known as Ząbkowice Śląskie) **** I watched THE GREEN SLIME (crazy Japanese/Italian/US co-production - lots of fun but one of the main characters is so incredibly stupid its amazing!), MATANGO (moody Japanese Horror film that's part breakdown of society in small form in the face of looming death and part creepy 60s style nightmarish body horror) and HOUSE (Japanese Haunted House film and one of the weirdest coming of age films in which the main characters cheerfully go to their doom amid bizarre visuals).

So...what's your point?

There's using a Chekov's Gun.. There's using a Chekov's freaking Arsenal.. and then there's just widely beating the audience around the head with an obvious plot hook/item.. which happened an awful lot in those books.. What always bugged me with Harry Potter was just how similar the appearance and initial attitude was to the main character in Gaiman's Book of Magic. Gaiman's said he feels its a coincidental, so I've never let it bother me.

I felt ravenous when I came out of surgery. Had this insane and overpowerin desire to eat chinese takeaway. I was too sleepy to think of eating food, personally.

Okay, one of my companions disappeared. I didn't kick them out as I still have their associated perk. My random guess is I accidentally told them to wait somewhere when I was trying to access their inventory. I'm going to go back and look and see if they're around any of the traders I went to last but if they're not...how do I find them again?

I never felt nauseous under anesthesia either - but IIRC they also told me not to eat for like 12 hours before the surgery.

Hurlshot, man of steel ... dude, collossus isn't the man of steel! SUPAMAN MUTHA FU*KA! Superman stole the Man of Steel moniker from Steel Sterling: (Superman's original moniker was "The Man of Tomorrow" until they appropriated "The Man of Steel" after MLJ switched their line to chronicling the adventures of Archie and his pals) That'd be the Man of Tin (Tin Woodsman, to be exact). I'm surprised -considering it was a titanium rod - that no-one went for the accurate Titanium Man: Glad to hear the surgery was a success Hurl!