ThunderPeel2001

Did I already post on here? If not, it's (inevitably) ThunderPeel2001

Very nice. I wish I had that much space! If I post pictures, I've got to tidy my desk first...

Anyone figured out the supposed "good" endings?

What are you referring to?

Right, which I believe is why they didn't invest in releasing a Blu-ray add on in 2008 -- something you seem to feel is controversial?

Good gravy. I can't imagine what stuff I might miss when I get back to reading this series.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Remember, this only applies to games people wish to sell. I personally can't imagine it will extend down to indie games, in reality, though. It's impossible to realistically enforce.

That's all well and good, but I see why the system couldn't or shouldn't be improved? Isn't it more important that adult content isn't sold to minors? According to Joystiq, if your game's budget is below $250,000 you only have to pay $800 to have your game rated by the ESRB. That seems well within the reach of anyone who's seriously hoping to make money off an indie game.

He's an AWESOME director... I just hope he doesn't get too involved with the script.

That's how I solved the Knight's quest, too. I presume it wasn't an oversight? I wish there was some sort of "Teleport to Character X" feature. All that walking does become tiresome.

What's wrong with TFOutpost?

I believe it's been proven, but I can't remember where I read it.

Weird. I thought they developed it natively inhouse, I didn't think it was a port. And my old PC couldn't handle Crysis at all -- but it handled BioShock at max settings, with anti-aliasing and v-sync, and ran perfectly smoothly. I remember hearing complaints about judderyness on the 360 version...? Very weird.

I completed the Knight's quest using the Time Traveller's and the Knight's powers. (I didn't even use the Dragon Key -- so presumably there's multiple solutions.)

Oh man, I feel like I need to watch the entire series again before May...

Any proof of that?

Snoop Dog...! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0kRAKXFrYQ4

I picked Knight, Scientist and Future Girl.

It makes perfect business sense. They didn't do "nothing", they didn't support the format and then tried to grow their own online video marketplace -- and created the second biggest distributor of online TV and Movies after iTunes. Their plan to dominate online is still apparent. Having lost the studios, their only option was to go after consumers... and that's exactly what they did. I've no idea what you mean about "muscle in" on Blu-ray. How exactly would they do that? As for "short-sighted" -- simply not supporting BD, with no eye on any sort of larger strategy, is extremely short-sighted for a huge company like MS. You really don't think they have a long-term strategy?

Lol.

Me either, but then I'm not a fan of especially violent movies or video games.

I'm really enjoying it so far. Definite from me.

Agh. To be fair to this mystery person, they then went on into detail about how much my stuff was worth, and offered to help in the future. But apparently I was had AGAIN

The only other explanation I have is wanting the format to die, so they could try and muscle in on its replacement. After throwing literally hundreds of millions (maybe billions?) down the HD-DVD drain (a drain of their own pig-headed creation) trying to strong-arm everyone into using their VC-1 codec, so they could corner Online in the future, I feel like they'd rather die than help their competitors by promoting their format. Indeed, that's the side of MS that was shown during the Anti-Trust case (where they literally faked video evidence in court) and from the nasty FUD/misinformation they spread in communities during the HD format war. We're talking about Steve Balmer here, the guy who threw a chair across his office and swore to "fucking kill Google" when a member of his staff left for Google. You know, .So, yeah, it doesn't seem all that surprising that they'd pig-headedly refuse to adopt the industry standard, using whatever leverage they could to try and kill it, in favour of something that they did control -- Although I admit you could be absolutely right, and it was simply a cost-benefit analysis that I don't understand (e.g. "Unit A will cost X to manufacturer and will likely only sell Y amount"). That seems extremely short-sighted of a big company like MS to me, though. Microsoft seems to have changed lately, doing things that I wouldn't expect of them, and not stupidly trying to create a whole new format for Durango could be another example of this.