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Of course, nothing a woman writes would be worth publishing, so, problem solved! Score one for the men!!!!!!!!!

I suspect it's neither a matter of being first person or third person, but whether or not the game is shit. Having things hidden just off camera and requiring you to reveal them by moving is in both third and first person horror games. You can turn around in first person and look behind you only in first person games obviously, but that doesn't mean there is no equally effective (if slightly different done) equivilent in another style of horror game.

Lets talk about adventure games instead of the subject of the thread! Also Psychonauts.

I don't know, that conversation seems to fit in perfectly well in Stereotypeworld to me. Aren't all girls level headed and rational or something, and all guys pigheaded jerks who hate to be told they're wrong, especially when it comes to things they've made? That's obviously never the case with anything, but "creatively" I thought that's vaguely how the stereotype went.

As rumored like 80 billion years ago...

He was also working on "American McGee's Oz" which was "like Alice but Oz instetead." The game got put "on hold" and I guess he's trying to use the design stuff so far to pitch possible TV shows, movies, other ideas in hopes that one of those will catch and fund the game... Or something? Only the Internet knows for sure.

"Bad Day LA?" - "A new action game in the style of smash hits "Metal of Honor" and "Call of Duty", Bad Day LA brings a new twist to a well established genre of games." That or "The Streets" mentioned here. "Info coming soon."

Yeah you've got to be joking.

Oops right that's the other type. Um that was um implied, so thats obviously why I didn't include them in my talk-downey lecturefest. Yes. Regardless I'm totally right. Or wrong.

Kolzig you know Raven is doing Quake 4, not id, right?*¬ Are Quake 4 and Half Life 2 really in competition? It seems like there are the people who will buy Doom3, HL2, and Q4 (die hards with money), or there are the people who will sort of randomly just pick one or two out of the bunch based on the box art and some screenshots (the few remaining casual PC gamers), and then there are the people who will only look at the id games, or the Valve games, and have mysteriously sworn a life debt to one or the others (the 11 year old fanboys, and their older brothers who forgot to grow up). I'm probably wrong - the Internet is especially good at lying about this sort of thing - but it seems that that second group, the casual folks who are actually going to judge based on who has more magazine space, is the smallest group. I suspect the "buy everything Quake/Doom/HL-branded" group is the larger one at this point... maybe not but whatever. I'm sure I'm totally wrong. Hooray!

I hope not.

He's channeling post-weight-loss-ego-emo Mercatfat, I just know it!

That's a good point. I like that the id arsenal is really visually separate gun to gun so you can tell which is which from a mile away. Fortunately Quake 4 itself is presumably longer than an 8 page preview, so don't close the book on that one yet.

I don't think it looks nothing like Quake 2... what would make it look like Q2? Applying a brown filter to the whole thing? That's the real difference. I am disappointed that the humans look 1000% like the humans in Doom 3. But its nice to see some outdoor areas, and nice to hear that the multiplayer is being approached from a wholly Quake angle.

I suspect PCG has the US "exclusive?"

No, this isn't a bitter rant about how bitTorrent sucks for small-traffic files, even though that is true. Instead, I must point out that while www.consolevania.com claims CV4 is out, the Consolevania download page only goes up to three. They are apparently liars. Miscreants. Swindlers of hope. Where is my new episode?

http://www.game-paused.com/cvepisodes/cvtype4.avi ! ...a(n) HTTP download for those who can never get the CV bittorrent seeds to properly ... seed. The filesize is a bit smaller than the torrent copies but it's stlil very enjoyable. This is a great episode.

As a confirmed Lutheran I don't recognize your authority.

Happy birthday!!!!! * *gift reused

It's apparently all about the hot hot hot, but don't ask me.

I heard Psychonauts exists? I heard the guy who made Grim Fandango is making it? It's his newest game or something? I wonder if anyone is excited about Psychonauts? ¬

A decent handful of words: Chris, as cool as Halo multiplayer is, I don't really see how it's relevant to the thread?

I did that at one point and a huge HUGE dead spider fell out. I have no idea how it got in there, or how it fell out come to think of it. It was gross and super freaky. Now I live in denial and just let my keyboard get really nasty.

That picture of Raz concentrating that 1up is using for the box art is an old concept art piece that was on Microsoft's Psychonauts page. It's probably not going to be the box art.

I suspect it falls more under the "they're destroying themselves to get the game done" category than the "large fruity drink with half a ********* and 3 paper umbrellas sticking out" category ¬ It would be sad if they were in the Bahamas