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Wow, were you watching that and though "I totally need to tell the internet about that!!!" Way to go, Rambelina

What I was taking issue with was your association of socialism with evil. All hephelants are grue, but not everything grue is a hephelant. on another note

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Wheh? Did Cliffy B eat your baby or something? He's a decent guy with a talent for level design and woirking with the graphics side of engines. I don't think he claimed the choice to go third-person was based on any creativity on anyone's part, just a pretty justifiable decision that allows you to show a lot of nice animations on something that's going to be onscreen all the time. It also works well on consoles with the control pads. Also, it was made pretty clear from the start of those UE3 techdemos that a lot of the resources used were pulled from the (then) unnamed not-unreal game which ended up as Gears, not the other way around. No, Gears isn't original, but it is very pretty and may well be fun to play. What's a bear-gun? A gun that shoots bears?

Kind of an argument for bypassing publishers in the future, like valve are sort of doing. Obviously it doesn't work with an xbox game, but it's perfectly viable on the xbox360 with live and the HDD and everything. Exposure would be good that way too, you might be reading some reviews or something on live and you could hit the "buy me now" button, and have the game on your computer within an hour. Psychonauts doesn't have enough blood for our primitive american cousins. There aren't any guns, what the hell is up with that?

I hope this guy is a robot. That would be a pretty cool robot.

He can play Dungeons and Dragons with Vin Diesel in his Mom's Basement. One of us! One of us!

(hypothetical figures) You may be using 40% more cycles or whatever, but you're getting 60% more cycles per second (particularly if you make use of the multiple threading options). With regard to AI, I can't see the speed being a problem when you can run the intelligence routines in any one of 6 (or 8 or 10) threads. There's also the fact that the consoles are pretty specialised for games or video; modern x86-style processors are very flexible and tend to be good at running numbers and heavy-client OS stuff as well as having to put up with the substantial overhead that this implies. I don't think the gap between current PC hardware and the console hardware is very much different to that between the original XBox and the pentium 3's of the day. On that note, Moore's law rears its head (not so much in CPU power, but currently one the graphics processors). We generally give consoles a life of 4-6 years (with some overlap between generations), while graphics cards are somewhere nearer 8-16 months. With each generation, the game between a 5 year old console and a current graphics card is going to be greater and greater. Are we likely to see shorter lifecycles as manufacturers launch their next-gens earlier and earlier to keep up with the cards or are we more likely to see a slowdown in graphics transistor density like we see with consumer CPUs today?

This sounds a lot like what microsoft did with the xbox last time. In that case they made it back on game sales. It's not as if sony can't afford it.

AWESOME. The implications are ASTOUNDING. That cryogenics malarky could actually work now, also, space travel. Please alter my pants as fashion dictates.

It must be nice to live in a country that isn't regularly given the shaft by publishers. Seriously, how many japanese rpgs were released on the psx? How many were released in europe? I will buy a game if I can actually buy the game; in which case I generally do.

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I've still got some fairly strong Magic the Gathering skills, though I don't really play seriously anymore (Once a year maybe). Sometimes we get big multiplayer games going though, 5/6 people and that can be terribly fun, especially seeing as you don't need to keep up with new sets or spend all your money on cards for multiplayer games. My university has a games convention every January for just this sort of stuff, it's pretty cool. RPGs, wargames, LARPs, cardgames and so on. It's a pretty good weekend, trying games you've never played before. Also: PIRATES

The Bear will win because it can cast Demoralizing Roar and Fairy Fire. Also, if the fight isn't going so well, it can move back to Druid form and cast healing spells on itself.

This is pretty much in line with their statement that "in time" all the back catalogue would be compatible. Hooray for nVidia for being such good sports. Sneaking the patches in on the harddrive is a rather canny move; not everyone is going to be happy about going online to get the patches. Not that we mind. We're all getting mod chips anyway, right?

I don't like choosing one, because the most important games only have very minor overlap with regard to the games they influenced ADVENT; in there with the first computer games, it's a humourous adventure game. Being the first text adventure (and available on networks), it can also claim the MUD as a descendent. An argument can be made for it as an indirect ancestor of the MMORPG twice removed. Doom; Cry Wolf if you like but it's this that made the FPS scene the beast it became in the following years. Dragon Quest; I don't like this series at all, but without it (arguably) you wouldn't have any Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Lunar or any other of a hundred other japanese rpgs. Street Fighter 2; nuff said.

I tell you what you can call it though.

They don't call them laptops anymore because they don't want you to put them on your lap. They overheat if there's no air under the bottom of the computer, they want you to put them on tables and stuff.

Man, his twat-ometer reading has rocketed off the scale; like he just performed his first "righteous hack". Seriously though, is this the direction game-making computer scientists are heading? Suddenly I feel like I'm on a ship and all the rats are jumping off.

Here's a fun experiment: ban them both and everyone else with that IP. whichever one of you losers it happens to be. I think it's deadworm

Nobody wants to be in a coalition with YOU

You're flying in the face of everything that makes this industry what it is!

Hey, Bandai Japan actually does a half-decent job of video games. They also pick the best names for their handhelds.

Gordon's Alive!!!

I agree, I was also a bit disappointed by that as I was expecting there to be a choice between sides (KOTOR style) though I put that aside while playing the game because it's just too good and over-rode my expectations with tenfold awesomeness.