DanJW

Yes, it took me a while to get fully sucked into Oblivion (heh) but I did eventually, mostly through the Thieves Guild quests and the Dark Brotherhood quests. The main story is indeed very dull (an excellent reason to be fast and/or invisible is so that you can run through the oblivion gate levels without stopping to fight anything).

Talking of this game again: Give this man a medal.

They probably will, given how he's been insulting and threatening the judge and storming out o th courtroom and generally throwing a childish tantrum.

Quick everybody, look over there! It's something distracting that may distract you from any arguments you might have been starting! DISTRACTING! I've been finishing my art foundation. The show opens in in a couple of weeks, but I'm pretty much done. Woot!

Happy Birthday dude!

I'm sure it's OK, but I despise genre skipping. It was the hop from pirate ghost story to fantasy that ruined the Pirates of the Carribean movies, for instance. They may as well have had a sequence in which Indiana jumps of an increasingly large sequence of Sharks. Mutant alien robot zombie sharks.

Yes the director also sucks. I reckon we can look forward to the same kind of treatment that was given to I, Robot.

Happy Birthday to your sexy ass!

Who would have thought the secret of creating philosophers' stone would be avilable by mail order?

Heh, found this version too. And a member list. I'm not entirely sure what happened to it. Most likely all the members became too busy to post regularly and so activity dropped (it was a small select group), and eventually spaff chose not to pay the server fees, or couldn't or something.

Heh, despite your attempted necromancy, nothing much remains of the corpse. Its probably the way it would have wanted it to be.

I watched Diary of the Dead the other day, and I too found it very disappointing. It was billed as "documenting" the events of the start of the outbreak, but in fact we learn two things about it: Jack and Shit (and Jack just left town). The cast spend their entire time on freeways avoiding the outbreak itself, experiencing it only second hand, whether arriving in already decimated hospitals or by watching other peoples outube videos (the downloaded videos being the only interesting parts.. why couldn't those characters have made this movie?) So, we learn absolutely nothing new. But the actual horror movie stuff must be OK right? Wrong. I've seen real student zombie films that have better zombie horror in them. Oh and the dialogue is appalling. Oh and none of the characters are interesting or likeable. Oh and the cameraman is the worst of the lot. At one point he films as he chases a zombie chasing a girl, claiming he is "trying to distract it" when he is pretty clearly just waiting to film her get eaten. In contrast the proffessional news cameraman in the prologue actually gets involved and tries to help. This film bites.

Yeah I think you're right, the pacing has suffered. This was a much slower, low-adrenaline episode. I don't think it was bad though... with the possible exception of the totally predictable new president choice. Looks like Adama might be in for some up-close action soon. Go Husker!

The World Ends With You although in typical Yahtzee fashion it is more of a comment on JRPGs in general.

That sucks, batman

I just finished the short demo. It has potential. The 2D art is great, the 3D - well it's not the best cell-shading I've seen, not sure why they didn't try for something closer to the actual comic with that. I got used to it though. I like the lovecraftian steampunk type setting they've gone for. The sound is good, although I got a bit tired of the narrator. Seems he's only there for the tutorial though. The writing isn't Tycho's best, but perhaps he gets warmed up futher in. Also the narrator (above) made it difficult to appreciate the heavy irony in the, um, narration. The little pop-up notes from looking at objects made me laugh though. The gameplay... well it's nice and smooth. The adventure game exploration part works fine but sometimes slips into pixel-hunting (that brought back memories!) The combat is pretty nice, they seem to have hit the right level of streamlined final-fantasy style turn-based RPG wossname, with some kind of integrated quick-time events for special moves. The enemies and their animations promise more amusing fights to come. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with boss fights, All in all, looks like it could be a thoroughly pleasant diversion.

Like Nappi I just use it as a sort of link suppository respository. Although Brian Ashcraft sometimes makes me chuckle and the quality of comments has slowly improved.

Yeah, I reckon the half-season finale will end with the unboxing of D'ana

27, and pretty much.

Yeah, the weird thing is that as a result the British airings will now be ahead. Next episode airs over here on the 27th but I can't see it because it's on Sky 1 and Virgin digital won't let me watch it the big fat

Yes. Yes I do mean that. Thankyou.

Hayden "I will dumb down your scifi" Christensen. Hmm, was the protagonist in Neuromancer a whiney little bitch? If so Hayden may be perfect! Wow, the producers must really not know their market. Do they not realise that all the fans of the book are also fans of beating Hayden Christensen over the face with a tree branch? This film is ruined already.

tbh I'm really glad that Tycho and Gabe don't have voices. Whatever they sounded like, it would sound wrong.

How about you post your MSN to me? Then I can get you banned from that as well as from this forum. If only you weren't a mere spambot, I could make you cry. Can spambots cry? I want to make you cry. Or die. Either is good.

I agree with Vimes; nice directing, but the art style sucks. It looks like the Saturday-morning cartoon version of 50 Cent. Come to think of it, that's probably their target audience. (Reminds me of the story of the director at Climax who asked for the cutscenes in one of the ATV games to be made to look worse, so as to match their target audience expectations.)