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I liked Mirrors for the most part (saw it when it hit the theaters).

That would be Doomsday from writer/director Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) with Rhona Mitra, Sean Pertwee, Alexander Siddig, Bob Hoskins, and Malcolm McDowell.

That's what I'm currently betting on.

Well the teaser could really go anywhere and mean anything. I do hope that Sheppard isn't dead just simply because the idea of the game series was presented as being Sheppard's story with an implication of us playing that character through the three games being fairly strong. But plans change, so I'll wait and see.

Not really; they haven't released any information - possibly because of THQ buying BHG.

I'd imagine I'd feel kinda dead. I do agree that single player RPGs can't just give a hack and slash anymore though. Seems we still get plenty that do just that though.

To be fair, Jade Empire pulls heavily from Chinese Wuxia films and books and Barry Hughart's Master Li series. Obsidian has done SW:KotOR and NWN2 which are established franchises, Alpha Protocol which IIRC has used several spy franchises (Bond and Bourne) as a point of reference and while Mass Effect borrowed from Alien, Obsidian is doing (maybe ) a game BASED on Alien. So rather than worry about whether the game has a blatant influence or reliance on established franchises, I'd just say lets look and see if the game, based on what we get, is good or not. As the critics say, there's only a limited number of stories, everything else is a variation on one of those originals.

There was English voice-overs, but from the Demo it was limited to the opening of the conversation with the remainder being text. I don't know if this is how the final game is going to be, though, or if it was done to keep the demo small (ha!) because the actors seem to be emoting the remaining text even though there was no vocal accompaniment. I don't remember music but there was some ambient sound in one sequence. I seem to remember music being there, but I'll be honest and say I just plain don't remember at this point.

Good luck; I hope things will get better for you in all areas.

I've always liked guns of navarone. hECK i even like Force 10 from Navarrone (probnably bec ause I saw it firsat). 'nm looking forwar to The Exzpendables though.

I actually enjoyed the episode. Its cold and lonely here. I didn't mind the Kate/Aaron thing or the "what was Ben up to" thing or even the "how did Sayid get arrested" thing. It seemed like it followed the shows typical format to introduce a mystery to illuminate later. Since we're still doing "centric" episodes, it makes sense to leave those things for something else down the line.

I seem to remember linking to the Lina Medina story (not from snopes, but one that didn't have pictures) when there was some other young mother story back on BIS. I probably also mentioned then that I graduated with a girl in high school whose son went to the elementary school next door.

An Italian company was going to produce an adaption - not sure what became of it: http://www.dantesinfernocomics.com/ I think there have been a few loose adaptions (one with Mickey Mouse!), parodies, or homages in comic form.

So long as they don't include any of the sex from the original, they'll probably be alright.

How can it be trying NOT to be the book when the game is supposed "to re-introduce Dante to an audience who, until now, may have been unfamiliar with the remarkable details of this great work of art

Actually it *is* different from using mythology because they're not pulling from a singular source. Even that recent Joan of Arc game had numerous legends to pull from for the game (despite the fact that, historically Joan never fought in battle). Had God of War been called Hesiod's Theogony perhaps the comparison would be more apt. What this is closest to, in some respects, is Konami taking Shuǐhǔzhu

STraight to hell! ALl of them! Ah, but which circle of hell do they go to? Dante tells us that the circles of Hell contains: 1st - the unbaptized and virtuous pagans 2nd - the lustful 3rd - the glutons 4th - the avaricious, the miserly and the squaderers of material possessions 5th - the wrathful, the sullen and the slothful 6th - Heretics 7th - the violent, the suicides and the blasphemers (+ sodomites and usurers) 8th - the fraudulent (pimps, seducers, flatterers, simoniacs, socerers, false prophets, corrupt politicians, hypocrites, fraudulent advisors, sowers of discord, fasifiers) 9th - traitors

God of War doesn't claim to be based on a novel and completely change the novel around to make a game.

Yeah, that was annoying.

Too easy has the same effect no? My character in FO 3 had like a 12% in Small Guns and I was wasting everything with critical head shots Easy can effect my interest, but not as much as frustration.

Eh combat wasn't hard but when combat in games get too hard (or even too fidley) I start loosing interest. I still got killed a number of times (typically due to my own stupidity or rocket launchers).

I might be the only one that finds this funny. My nephew played (breezed) through Fallout 3 without asking any questions on how to get by a certain area or encounter. I stuck him on the PC to play Fallout 2. Two hours and 20 questions later he is still stuck in "The Temple of Trials" Carry on As someone who didn't play Fallout or Fallout 2 until a couple of years after FO2's release (around 2001, I believe) I can say that there are a lot of things in the game that aren't obvious. I needed help to get out of the Temple of Trials first time through just simply because the graphics were visually muddy and I often couldn't tell where I was supposed to go or what thing I was supposed to click on to move forward. EDIT: Then again it could just be me - I do remember spending about 5 frustrated minutes trying to figure out how to move the edges of the screen in Baldur's Gate...

I only played Dungeon Seige (not the sequel) but it doesn't seem to be much like that game. It didn't really feel like NWN either. It felt kind of like an older RPG with a 3D engine. From the little I played the Demo.

There was a demo released (haven't tried it myself). Several gaming sites seem to have it, I found this one at GamersHell: http://www.gamershell.com/download_20769.shtml As near as I can tell this is Jagged Alliance 3D renamed & reworked after GFI & Strategy First parted ways.

The ending is dumb in general, yeah. But in the end it didn't matter, I had a blast running around and shooting things and hitting things in the head with a bat and stuff.