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I'm not sure what it says about my intelligence if the "dumb AI" keeps killing me. ;_;

Ahhh, you mean how the foot color kinda looks like its overlapped onto the shoe a bit?

I'm probably being dense...but where?

As I recall (and may be wrong since its been a long time since I read You Only Live Twice) the fake death is in the movie and he does a little training in ninjitsu with Tiger Tanaka's ninjas (and he does a little Japanese culture and gets a horrible haircut); the book doesn't have the fake death (Bond is renumbered 7777 and given a last ditch mission to save his career after the death of his wife) and has him spending a large amount of time trying to live as a Japanese man as well as Tiger having him train in staff fighting, karate and judo. I don't think in either case Bond really became a "master" of the techniques he trained in, although it probably helped him a good bit with his final duel with Blofeld in the book. And I think that's the issue with secret training - for a master to really impart his knowledge it'd take years away from the mission to accomplish. So either you have a game mechanic that happens a lot in video games where people get imparted magic knowledge of martial skills (which doesn't work IMO with an Alpha Protocol like setting) or you skip lengthy training period and have the character just get better at what they already know how to do.

Are you more interested in "LEGION GO HOME" or "DEAD MAN'S DOG"?

or maybe stumble upon magical lighting!

I had to click each of them to have them show up too, initially.

Check the bottom of the blog for in-game screenshots.

No light in the tunnel?

Didn't notice the signs first time around. Pretty cool looking.

Don't be hatin'

Welcome to the club! EDIT: fixed quote. Do we get our own clubhouse? The difficult part is going to be demonstrating the secret handshake...

No, the actual literal meaning is that there is not a single person who had their expectations met. "Everybody" is a singular pronoun. It just looks like a plural one. Of course, it's incredibly pedantic to point that out, since we all know what Unskilled actually meant (what you say above)... but, technically, he was wrong. You can't say this game DID meet everybody's expectations and you can't (technically) say that it DIDN'T meet everybody's expectations. You can say, however, that it did not meet all expectations without anyone being able to nitpick at your choice of words. (since "all" is plural) Yeah, I think I should check into things a bit more before making big posts that are basically wrong. Made an example of how presumption can lead to ****ups myself there. Welcome to the club! EDIT: fixed quote.

I really wasn't trying to be pedantic...I thought he was making a sweeping generalization. Apologies if I was wrong.

unskilled-: "What AP did was fail to meet everybody's expectations." Me: "It hasn't failed to meet mine, please quit making statements about my opinions." You: "He said everybody's expectations, not anyone's." As far as I can tell you implied that unskilled- wasn't speaking for me like I claimed he was. Since everybody is every person and I'm a person saying "everybody's expectations" makes it a statement about every person's expectations which includes my own. Since my expectations have been met, his statement wasn't accurate. My entire point is that we should try to avoid sweeping generalizations.

Other than the potential for horrible mutation (and horrible mutations killing me), The Pitt was a lovely place. Honestly I never really felt Fallout's strength was in the large cities; vastly preferred the smaller ones.

Fixed for you. My point still stands that I'm a part of "everybody" Egads, that sounds dodgy.

It hasn't failed to meet mine, please quit making statements about my opinions. He said everybody's expectations, not anyone's. I'm not a part of everybody? Did I get voted out of the human race or something while I wasn't looking? Everybody = everyone = every person Anyone = any person at all Saying something "fails to meet everybody's expectations" is equivalent to saying "did not meet anyone's expectations" It'd be more accurate to say something like "What AP did was fail to meet the expectations of a not insignificant number of people who played it (the exact number in comparison to those who did still being open to conjecture at this point)."

I read "bow" as "blow" for some reason...

They're definitely seen. Don't know if you can ever ride in one (so far I've only played long enough to prove myself incredibly incompetent in lining my horse up with a hitching post, hilariously jumping over fences instead.)

It took me several months to make a face that didn't look like it had exploded in Oblivion, regardless of the race (well, no I take it back, I just didn't worry about the face of the lizard people although I hated their scale coloration)

It hasn't failed to meet mine, please quit making statements about my opinions. I played and loved Mass Effect 2, but come on this game is not Mass Effect Gaiden: Alpha Protocol. Comparing them is a useless endeavor; and given that they're vastly different games in what they're trying to do any comparison is only going to scratch the surface of the good and bad in either game.

There was a lot of setting detail, or I guess world background, but it wasn't in the form of information dumps through talking to a wide variety of people in a bunch of different towns all over the place. It was instead put in books you could easily choose not to read. This doesn't mean that is how DS has to continue, and could easily use the world background as a basis for creating something more realized than the original.