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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!

I wasn't meaning all to be all inclusive either. Must remember not to type in slangisms ("...and he was all up in my face, and I was like his stuff ain't all that and everybody was all like 'he went there' ") I still wouldn't say Frazetta is best know for non-magical fantasy stuff, but meh... What I've seen from DA2's art style isn't negative to my mind. Mind you I tend to have a high tolerance for weak graphical style if the gameplay is good, so maybe I'm not the best judge of things.

Well I've heard the legend that salt thrown after a suposed witch is supposed to keep them from returning, but not sure about throwing it on them...

Dunno, rock salt could hurt though, I guess.

Except that its Frazetta who defined much of fantasy in general. Most of what came after were copycats. So much for your knowledge of fantasy illustrators Which is exactly why your post didn't make sense. Dragon Age 2 art is pretty obviously inspired by Frazetta's work too. I don't know where you see that. Most of Frazetta's work is Conan like low key fantasy. Definitely not the high fantasy anime influenced stuff of DA2. In the long run it might take some notes from Frazetta but it has no specific visual identity of its own, unlike his work which is instantly recognizable. The man might have invented a set of ideas that became generic but his work isn't. Err...not sure where you got that Frazetta's work is all low key fantasy. I used to have a Frazetta painting on my wall of a wizard summoning a demon. Besides the Conan stuff he did a lot of horror/fantasy covers with all sorts of monsters and things (and he did science fantasy paintings as well).

They should go for clicking morse-code style. short click short click short click long click long click long click short click short click short click could be a last ditch all out attack, for example.

Has anyone actually managed to beat Lionheart? The same thing happened to me. I loved the Barcelona section but just got sick of the game once you leave. Yeah I did. It wasn't worth it, IMO.

"If we fight like animals, we'll die like animals!" - The Doctor, Survival

It was successful enough to spawn a sequel Champions: Return to Arms. I actually liked CoN pretty well, personally; it was like a better version of what Snowblind had done with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. The sequel delivers more of the same, but IMO if you liked the original there's no reason not to like CRtA (unless you were wanting something radically different).

Lionheart is great in Barcelona. After Barcelona itis a pure hack and slash game where the hackin' and slashin' ain't so fun (unfortunately I don't think they balanced the system very well so for my money the stuff outside of Barcelona is just an incredible pain in the rear. Mobs of enemies and for the most part no easy way to deal with them).

A trailer for an announcement?

ME2 is Mass Effect 2? It just had downloadable content, yes? I've never had a problem with paying for additional downloadable content or expansions and the like (as mentioned before). I see now I kinda missed the point a bit; I guess the idea of buying a new game for $10 less never made sense to me. I know other people do that, but first few weeks a game is out, if I really want it I buy it new.

ME2 is Mass Effect 2? It just had downloadable content, yes? I've never had a problem with paying for additional downloadable content or expansions and the like (as mentioned before).

But you do when game publishers do the same thing? I don't get it... I think we established a few pages back that I was under the mistaken impression that the online content being locked out was not server based.

Well that certainly puts a different face on things, I suppose. Of course as I mentioned way back in the begining I was being a bit of an alarmist; taking things to a scary extreme (and yeah I'd be rather put out to be locked out of offline content which was my alarmist reaction). Does seem like there's a legitimate point to the additional fee that wasn't obvious to me. No. When I reinstall WoW I no longer need my CD Key because I already have an account. YOu need a CD Key in order to create a new account. But couldn't you give the entire account over to someone? Or is your personal information locked into the account in a way that makes it, essentially, something you could never "blank out" and give away?

Interesting about WoW. I suppose you can't clear your personal information out and sell the keycode access as well then?

The cost of buying games has continuously decreased since games came out, especially in my neck of the woods when NES cartridges were $60-$70 upon release. Games DID get cheaper when the conversion was made to CD (see: N64 vs PSX) moving to their $50 price point. They then returned to $60 price point again in the 2000s. Maybe it's different where you are. Hmmm, there were only a few cartridges that were super-expensive here that I recall Phantasy Star IV for example being $100. Most cartridges of the SNES/Genesis era was $50 here though. PSX games started around $50 as did Saturn games. There was, I recall, a rather large debate over this fact on rec.arts.games.video.* heirarchy on USENET complete with a breakdown of the costs to make a cartridge at the time and a CD and based on those numbers it was much cheaper to make the CD without any resultant difference in the price of games to the consumer (but perhaps it was the game seller's markup as opposed to the publisher?) Irrelevant. In this case they're spending time and money doing this then. Furthermore, how long do you allow an account to be inactive before removing it? There's additional overhead regardless of what you do. Now you're just warping your original premise in order to try to keep some footing under yourself. Actually I was asking a question.