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Wait a minute. I was going to post almost that, but decided not to. I was definitely going to mention the nostalgia of the good olden days. You scare me.

Things are never as bad as they seem at first, but worse. The movies don't actually work. No streaming links and the download links take me to GS Basic signup, though I'm already a member. Now I have to keep refreshing the page, hoping it's a bug that they'll fix any minute.

GameSpot has 4 new videos and another preview. The subject is interacting with street people, I believe. Couldn't they fucking leave me alone? I need a break.

I've never seen one [edit - Lava Lamp:)] IRL.

Yeah, that was cool. And also the best way to get money. If you made the pile big enough you could win instantly I think.

What was this going to be anyway? I never heard of it, except maybe in a list of titles.

Yeah, I was stupid.

Hehe... I just read that they are using Dual Layer (DVD-9) DVD-s for the game. So it should be about 8.5 GB. I wonder though, do the older PS2 DVD drives support those?

I'll buy Somearth only if it has life and three suns (and at least 4 moons).

Can I buy the Earth?

I bet monkeys could post working links, like http://www.overmydeadbody.com/ Spider monkeys have no thumbs on their hands. [edit]If you won't have a monkey smiliee, at least you should have an OverMyDeadBody smiliee

I don't think they're milking the cash cow. If they'd do that, they would have released two games about the same as Vice City by now. I think it is fairly innovative -- it sounds like it will be the largest singleplayer action game there ever has been. And I don't only mean largest that the world is big, but by all kinds of stuff you can do. There are a lot more things besides the eating and clothes and hairstyles etc. I can't even remember all of the things they are adding, although I've read a lot of the previews. It sounds to me that you dismissing all the new things they are doing because you don't like a few of the new features (like the eating, customizing the player character and the world size). That I might agree with, but I'll try it first before I comment. It might not be very annoying if they balance it right. Well, it was the same in 2D, cars didn't exist off screen. You could notice it sometimes, but not as often as in the 3D games.

But the thumbs are kind of like MONKEY thumbs. And that would sound much better than Idle Thumbs. You should really consider changing the name of this site.

Why don't you have a monkey smiley? I voted yes before reading the question.

Jake, you have 18 minutes left... (GMT +2)

Are you saying you wish they hadn't done a new GTA at all or that instead of the new features we've heard about they should have done something else? I think it's pretty exciting that they are taking the genre blending even further and adding RPG elements. If people have fun customizing their hero in Fable, why won't they like it in San Andreas? There are possibly even strategy game elements, but the real estate part has not been previewed yet (that I know of) so I don't know about that. But there will definitely be more of various places you can visit, like driving schools, bike schools, martial arts training, robbing houses, a casino you can own etc. etc. More R3 missions (why do they call them R3?). There is most definitely more interaction with the environment, besides the environment itself being larger. But I don't know if it's 'deeper'. I don't know if they even could do 'deeper' with this generation hardware, where all the cars and people are be random things that exist only in the vicinity of the player (except mission-critical ones).

Have you considered the possibility that he designed the tattoo for the Prince and then liked it enough to do it to himself? Although that's not as likely.

This demo aint so bad once you get used to it. If it was, I wouldn't have completed it 5 times already. The combat is definitely better than in SoT and the boss fights are the highlights of it. I hope there will be lots of bosses in the game. And I hope that the boat level is an exception and the camera is controllable everywhere else. And I don't really care that it's different (i.e. more combat focused) than the previous game, as long as it will be good. And it seems to be... The Godsmack song still sucks of course, as does the art director. But maybe he directs art well? So far I can't really say yes or no. Now we can hope that PoP 6 will be focused on the puzzles and very little combat

SHIT! I just heard that the friend who was supposed to lend me the PS2 has gone to Norway and won't be back for a month... This means I won't be playing San Andreas any time soon...

Finally killed that giant. It was perhaps the best part of the demo (except for the bug). I guess this might be a glimpse of what Wanda might be like to paly (except this was on a much smaller scale). After the giant died, a gameplay movie was played and it definitely showed at least one bright & sunny level and puzzles like in the first game, and there were even new components to the puzzles. So I guess maybe it won't be as bad as the demo indicates. I hope there will be more interesting bosses to fight and that they will put save points close to the bosses (going through the part before the giant 15 times was NOT FUN).

There's one of the nastiest bug ever in the demo. Whenever I fight the big giant guy, he manages to get stuck in a corner at some point and I can't deal damage to him then. So I have to kill myself (thank god that's possible) and restart. Has anybody got past that? But I don't see how it is relevant if the prince has clothing in this style or that. Or if the style isn't exactly as in the previous game. If you read a series of books (or even just one), the characters don't necessarily stay the same throughout. So why must they in games?

Played it now. Yes, the menu music indeed doesn't sound appropriate somehow. And I'm not too impressed with the game. Awfully silent in the times between combat. The sound&music in Sands of Time was much better.

Downloading the demo now... I'm sorry to hear many of you are disappointed by it. But thinking back I didn't like where they were going from the day they announced it or about so. But meanwhile I got a bit excited by it. What do you mean about the music, though? The heavy rock music was very fitting in Sands of Time.

Did you have to remind me, Marek. I could have pretended that only 2-3 games are coming out that I'm interested in. Not to mention the games that have been recently released (Fable, Kult, Evil Genius, Magna Cum Laude, which I hear is crap though, the english version of Westerner).

It did? It will? Why the hell?