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Finally beat the main game. Ignored almost all sidequests for fear of breaking the main quest I was on. Sorta fun, but think I'll put it aside now.

I didn't like Red Dead Redemption personally. Can't really say much about the article because its a personal recollection and I wasn't there (and we're certainly only getting one side of the story).

I only used the loon watch report for the Europol numbers summary of incidents (as I didn't want to do the maths myself); I figured their agenda might make their article itself somewhat suspect. The numbers Europol actually reports are the number of "Failed, foiled and successful attacks"; they don't make a distinction in success, only that there was a terror plot. One interesting thing scanning through the Europol numbers is that while their numbers indicate a low number of Islamist terror plots failed/foiled/successful in Europe, it seems to indicate that arrests and convictions for Islamist terror plots are second only to Seperatists. So either the few failed/foiled/successful plots have huge rings of accomplices or there are some people being convicted of being terrorist who perhaps shouldn't?

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RIP; condolences and thoughts with his family and friends.

Are you really dissing Eye of the Beholder? I didn't like the original Eye of the Beholder; I kept getting attack in the back and my characters would die before I got turned around good. I did like the GBA remake they did for it where they went with a turn based fighting system. To tell the truth I'd have a hard time deciding what is underrated and what isn't (but am reminded I need to finish Deadly Premonition and Nier at some point) since my main interest in games is "do I like it?" not "did anybody else like it?" I suppose I'm a bit myopic on that point. Oh I've never played Fallout: Tactics. Should remedy that one of these days, as I think I'd like it.

Unless Boone not looking around is a sign that the computer Boone isn't capable of recognizing things around him in a way that effects how quickly he notices/targets opponents, in which case its not an aesthetic issue. Don't know if its the case cause...console and no internet connection = no patch. But also just because something is an aesthetic issue doesn't mean it couldn't impact a users experience in the game (for example how I'd get frustrated in Oblivion and quit because I couldn't create a face that looked remotely like something you'd see in real life (exploded face syndrome)). Totally a cosmetic issue - I could have ran around in first person with a clown face and it wouldn't have effected the game, but it really did bug me.

I think there are jaded grumpy cynics. I remember on Black Isle there were a number of posters who seemed to hate or have major issues with *every* game that came out; would over analyze press releases and accuse companies of lying based on vague statements made early in the development cycle of a game. If those aren't jaded or grumpy cynics, I don't know what is. That said not liking a game is certainly no reason to dismiss the opinion of another poster. I get that you didn't like ME1; I liked it - easily as much as I did KotOR. But that's me, I certainly wouldn't expect everyone to feel the same. Heck I liked Jade Empire and I seem to be in the minority on that too.

I believe the statistics are derived from Europol reports. A summary at Loon Watch in early 2010 led to a breakdown of Islamist - 5* Separatist - 1353 Left Wing - 104 Right Wing - 2 Single Issue - 6 (only 2007, 2008) Not Specified - 52 (includes Single Issue 2006) The addition of 2009 data puts it at Islamist - 6* Separatist - 1590 Left Wing - 144 Right Wing - 6 Single Issue - 8 (only 2007, 2008, 2009) Not Specified - 62 (includes Single Issue 2006) *Apparently the report indicates an attack in 2008 in the UK that wasn't reported going strictly by the numbers published this would be 6 for 2009 like mkreku posted but should be 7 if the UK incident is counted.

I've never understood the "Day One!" stuff beyond cyber-oneupmanship.

I like to think I'm chipper and I've never played a COD or Madden game.

But don't you see...I don't post to NeoGAF! I'm the root of this particular evil...

There's plenty of forums with non-cynical/bitter/jaded people out there. It's probably the post-Black Isle Syndrome. There don't seem to be any non-cynical/bitter/jaded people wherever I post... ...oh my god, it's me innit? The problem is me...

Begone you intellectually inferior peon, you... at least post a link to Brahms or Liszt I wish I could write a formula for what makes me like a game and what not. I can list individual rules for likes and dislikes (mingames and QTE is teh suck, tactical combat good etc.), but not a complete recipe. Some games have just about awful everything, yet the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. There have been games that - honestly given my taste I *should* have loved but I didn't. And ones I should have hated that I loved. That's what makes the entertainment field so frustrating, I suppose. But most of what I come from is - was I entertained. Some games do it and others don't. I can talk about things I like and don't like, but ultimately there isn't (and probably can't) be an objective "if A + B exist then C" when it comes to games.

Then everyone would complain that the games were too short and unimaginative. Guess in someways the game companies are between a rock and a hard place.

I only ended up restarting FO3 due to a bug once (because of that ant hill cave that buggered my save games and only triggering the game ending error a few hours after I went in it). I had to reload often because of bugs, though.

Yes, why not have giant crocodiles, Wasn't the second Fallout: Tactics going to have mutated crocodiles?

Ah, the load times of the C64 on tape...also known as GAME NIGHT Decide which game to play put tape in cassette drive and load eat dinner check progress of load go out and watch a movie watch tv check progress of load see who is on the Tonight Show Check progress of game Game has loaded Play game ten minutes into game, have to flip tape to other side

I always took it that the radroaches were there anyhow and the rats came in when he opened the door to leave.

Ooo, my brother had Sword of Fargoal for the C64 on tape, but I think that's long gone by now.

I'd take a picture of mine (going back to the days of the Atari 2600) but they're in boxes in storage.

Not bad, but not the best Tarzan film (and doesn't Sir Ralph Richardson get killed by surfing down the steps on a silver service tray?)

I never found the ME1 inventory clunky, but I didn't miss it with ME2 either.

Hahahaha, yeah that is true!

I liked Lambert in HIGHLANDER although I never found him particularly...Scottish.