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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network

More like real "people". Whether they could be called actors or not remains to be seen.

He's also a Rubble. AND isn't the name of the security guy in Blue Shift Barney?

Wasn't Tintin French?

I'm all for a story-centered adventure, but I can still enjoy Myst... the puzzles are fun.

Real-time, but that's more because of an obsession with Command & Conquer than an actual preference. In the name of Westwood! Westwood lives in death!

I don't think anyone who plays adventure games would say the thing they like about them is gameplay. I think most would say story. However, there is gameplay in adventure games - otherwise they wouldn't be games. The gameplay is the puzzles. And there are lots of adventures where the story is used to advance the gameplay - they're known as "Myst-clones", usually. Anyway, I think adventures shouldn't be considered a genre but more of a style, which more befits the word itself, of games where the gameplay advances the story. I have no idea what you would call the traditional adventure games though.

What's with these telepathic insects?

Talk about a living hell. I didn't know everyone assumed you were drunk. I assumed you were insane.

You windows need to start in the same place, like Jake's.

http://www.idsoftware.com/ "id Software"

Apprentice II http://herculeaneffort.adventuredevelopers.com/

There are a lot of strange organizations out there. Just yesterday I met part of the Swedish National Disc-golf Team in my local JC-Penny's. Nice guys. Funny accents.

Hehe, that site is funny.

Yes, the geisha is important. Watch her in the kitchen. The M4 is the carbine version of the M16 and arguable the most powerful weapon in the game. It's really not very useful, but it's fun to play with. The reason I was asking is that some variation of getting Silent Assassin on all four St. Petersburg missions gives you the M4.

Have you been in the kitchen yet? (BTW, did you receive the M4?)

I beat most of the missions in H2 on my first try, just taking a crap load of time on each one watching all the guards (on the map) and planning my route. I thought they were easy as long as you were willing to wire/pistol a couple of guards. The only really difficult ones from H2 I thought were the Japan ones (all of them) and the last level.

Not to mention James Earl Jones must have been pretty expensive to hire...although Joe Kucan, the guy who played Kane, was just a Westwood tech guy.

Completely off-topic, but the third was Tiberian Twilight actually... EA Pacific was going to make it (and had a bunch of concept art done) but they shelved it for Generals instead. And the original Red Alert was a prequel to Tiberian Dawn... (from the Soviet ending at least) RA2 was made by a different team (Westwood Pacific, which became EA Pacific, which became EALA) and thus sucked.