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That pretty much seems to be the default state of the Internet...

Can I attach a 1541 drive to it, allowing me to use my old C64 5/14" discs? Commodore Datasette 1530 and cassette tapes? How about cartridges? My old C64 is dead.

The quintessential Zack Snyder movie: lots of gore, nudity, some emotive completely irrational excuse for a plot and everything is shot through a blue or yellow filter. Seriously though someone introduce that man to the rest of the color spectrum. No gore or nudity in Sucker Punch - maybe that's why it hasn't been a success? Er...you say his visual storytelling style sometimes works, then give examples of three of the five films he's directed as examples of this. But somehow claim he's better known for his substandard work... ...but 300 was a hit money wise (earning about 7 times what it cost to make), so are you basically saying that because Sucker Punch "didn't work" that's all he known for now? I'm confused.

I figure that anyone that went to see Suckerpunch because of the plot is an idiot and/or will be turned off. There's not a problem with the plot of Sucker Punch, IMO. I think there is a problem that the ads make it seem like a weirdo alternate reality action film but that's not what it is. But I thought the plot worked. All I know is that aside from Legends of the Guardians plot isn't Zack Snyder strong suit. Sucker Punch is the only one of his movies not based on something else. Dawn of the Dead - based on previous movie 300 - based on Frank Miller's comic Watchmen - based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic Legends of the Guardians - based on book He did the screenplay to 300 and Sucker Punch (from an original idea).

Awww, thanks! I tried.

I had two quests never leave the active quest list until the chapter was over I had Merrill responds to an event before it happens bug I had the successful romance of Isabel not leading to her upgrading her outfit bug I had the non-active quest bug. I had a bug about recognizing an exit after an event (it moves you to the other place before asking if you want to leave the area) I had a minor bug about the portrait during character creation not showing the updates as you make changes (it did update once the game started). None of the bugs I had in DA2 were as egregious as bugs I've had in other games - and like Vol most minor bugs (ie not game breaking) don't phase me. That said I've heard of one or two potentially bad bugs in DA2 (but didn't experience them personally).

I figure that anyone that went to see Suckerpunch because of the plot is an idiot and/or will be turned off. There's not a problem with the plot of Sucker Punch, IMO. I think there is a problem that the ads make it seem like a weirdo alternate reality action film but that's not what it is. But I thought the plot worked.

Saw Insidious over the weekend. Pretty solid, scary Haunted House film.

Oh yes it was, dumbed-down sold-out console game. I remember that being a complaint, but it was more of a "they sold out their PC fanbase" and not "they're going to crash and burn!" kind of thing.

^Actually I don't remember KotOR being claimed as being the death knell of Bioware. But I do remember BG:TOB, NWN, JE, ME, DA, ME2 and now DA2 all being claimed as such. Sure is a slow death for them...

Sucker Punch wasn't that bad, IMO. I don't think its what many people wanted it to be.

I used to complete games I didn't like. And then I realized I was wasting my time as well as having wasted my money and realized it was kind of silly. So now if I don't like a game, I get rid of it. I find my gaming experiences to be much happier ones. *goes back to playing DA2*

I liked humming the "Moon Patrol" theme while driving the MAKO.

I dunno - casual gamers in my experience are more fond of hack/slash games than I think the more die-hard gaming fans are. I think this game is something that'd appeal to my brother, for example, who has never posted on a video game forum as his interest is pretty low key about games. For me - as someone who likes a well made hack/slash game I'm interested in DSIII. So I think the potential market is there - not just from BGDA fans but there were several games of that period that followed roughly the same model that did well (and a bunch more that did poorly); I don't think all of those people who supported those games spontaneously dropped dead...

Huh, what?! I don't know where he got the "Bethesda as a publisher" but funcroc speculated that Obsidian might be doing Wasteland 2 because Brian Fargo is followin Feargus and Avellone's twitter. Kind of a flimsy connection but yeah. I doubt that Bethsoft would see much business sense in bringing two separate post-apoc RPG franchises to the marketplace. If the option is to bring out two separate post-apoc RPGs or to bring out one post apoc RPG and let another publisher put out the second post-apoc RPG that could actively compete in the market place against yours, I'd imagine Bethesda would seriously consider bringing out two. Provided the setting in the second game was allowed to be distinct enough and the game good enough, there's no reason why they couldn't be successful with it, I'd think. I mean they're publishing a fantasy game (Hunted: The Demon's Forge) for InXile despite having their own fantasy game (Elder Scrolls) so I don't see why the situation would be that different.

I'm still playing it. There's good and then there's entertaining; I tend to favor entertaining for my entertainment and for my purposed DA2 is entertaining (I'd make arguments that there's a lot good in there too).

I think the problem - to my mind - has always been that its called Dungeon Siege III and whether its fair or not many people see the III and assume that the game will be exactly like one or two, when in fact they're trying to pull a Fallout 3 to the series more than anything else. Divorcing this game from the series (which for me isn't that far as I wasn't enamored enough with DS1 to try DS2), I've liked what I've read about DSIII based on what it is trying to do, as opposed to judging it based on what its not trying to do.

Sprigg! My goodness, been so long since I played the game, I'd forgotten about her. Then again Chrono Cross had a lot of characters I rarely used...looking Sprigg up I didn't use him. Sounds like an interesting power idea.

Maybe he's thinking of Kid/Harle from Chrono Cross? Or the Mimic class from Final Fantasy? The only doppleganger I recall in Chrono Trigger was the Doppel Doll

I think that - ultimately - that's why the series went with a Circle Mage for the initial game making the player nominally in compliance with Chantry law/Templar requirements (even if you could be a blood mage there too - awkward). I think by the time Meredith sees you, you're supposed to be too big to fail...er...to be too involved in the fight/famous to stand against but that creates a problem too since it seems like most people in Kirkwall agree with the Gallows and Templar treatment of mages, its weird they'd rally around an apostate PC (seem like it'd be more likely they'd hail Meredith and bury the champion under the Gallows). I kinda think that the whole mage sequence is kind of a "what if" that doesn't work. I imagine if there ever is a canon Champion it'll be a warrior or rogue w/Bethany not a mage w/Carver.

I was joking. I agree its borked.

Ahhhh...yes! That was it. I've also been thinking about DA2...why do the Templars not monitor everyone who buys magical robes and staffs? You have to have a high magic to use them and for the most part only magic users would be able to do it. They could set up "To Catch A Mage" style stings, offering low-priced, high quality robes and staffs and then when they come in to the store they nab the apostates.

Does that happen often in games for you, tep? Nope. Although my brother - who suffers from motion sickness in real life - does have the problem with other games triggering his motion sickeness problem.

Driving in Far Cry 2 triggered motion sickness in me.

The first two points were intended to be silly and I won't argue otherwise! To tell the truth the third I think that the third was actually the intention - for example Sophitia's outfit doesn't fit the time period either (hearkening back to classical Greece) but is supposed to represent the character; in that sense I understand why Ivy's outfit is the way it is, although I also understand that sometimes its possible to undercut a character by how you design them; as Ivy's outfit has gotten skimpier, its been a bit harder to take the character as something other than fan-service. (That said her alternate costumes that look based on Victorian-era dresses wouldn't work for combat either...) I'm not really calling for Kratos to cover up, either, sorry if that seemed to be my intent but instead it was to suggest that one could argue that Kratos' design could be seen as potential fan-service for women (or gay men or both) since the design divorces itself so heavily from the period (although you could argue that since its not completely inconsistent with the period like Ivy's that its not done with a thought to sex/sex roles as well). Oddly enough my biggest problem with Katrina's design (and coincidentally Ivy's design - or at least her initial design) has nothing to do with how much skin she's showing but that' she's fighting/wandering the countryside like Kane in Kung Fu while in heels...