Redwall

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    It's not new per se, Rusian characters have been appearing in games for years, like Vlad in Max Payne. Even so the grittiness often imparted from a soveit bloc focus seems like a popular direction at the moment; I dont think this particlar zeitgeist wave has broken yet.

    Hmm... what does that mean for Half-Life 2 and its post-Soviet eastern Europe setting? Valve's just way ahead of the curve?

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    I love Heroes but the finale was very anticlimactic. I realize they wanted to focus on the characters (which is admirable) but the plot really demanded a colossal special-effects-laded multiple-powers death-match between Sylar and Peter. (Niki beating on Sylar was great, though.)

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    Am I the only one thinking that what Blizzard is doing right now with Starcraft 2 is engineering a game that is a 100% responding to customer needs? To me, they are crafting a product the way any other software company outside of the game industry would : they are matching the demand without going further than needed.

    Should games really be compared with software tools, though? Aren't they more akin to movies or novels in that they are entertainment (and perhaps art), and therefore catering to customers' desires is not what's best?

    Talking about iterating games like it's the next version of Word seems utterly alien and, to some extent, abhorrent, personally.

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    I think that most of the Halo fanatics aren't really gamers in the traditional sense, they're just preteens/teens for whom the Xbox was their first console, and Halo was their first FPS. The one thing the Xbox did right was attract that crowd of pubescent boys who are concerned about appearing "hardcore"/"cool" but are still conditioned by conventional morality to not be comfortable playing, say, GTA, but are fine with killing aliens to save the world. (Of course, the Xbox turned off pretty much everyone else, so...)

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    A lot of people seemed to have disliked the New Caprica and Cylon base ship arcs (moreso the latter than the former), which turned off the first half of the season for them, and then the second half obviously faltered (as did the second half of season 2).

    I didn't think it was that bad (I actually liked the base ship stuff...), personally.

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    Toblix, did you never play Pokemon when it was all the rage, what, eight years ago?

    It's basically an RPG (old school, top-down, tiled backgrounds, turn-based combat, etc.) where you get to capture/pick your party members yourself. And every monster in the world is a possible party member. And your player character can't fight.

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    I'm SO burned! You must be proud! Now go off and do something more useful with your time.

    While that post may have indeed been unnecessarily trollish, it wasn't my intention to "burn" you. Just to point out that, as I think you yourself realize, for every insightful comment you make, there are as many examples of you just being a crazy bitch. Often times in the same post.

    Also, I don't actually have a problem with the sentiment of your original post (though I might dispute some of the details).

    And, therefore, my second contribution to this discussion will also bear no relevance to the topic at hand.

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    Lord only knows why Adama and Roslin were acting like that.

    I actually didn't mind Dirty Hands that much (perhaps because only due to the episodes that came immediately before it), and I think Roslin is written fairly consistently, despite (because of?) being sidelined. Her slow descent into autocracy, while painful to watch, seems plausible. ("One of the interesting things about being President is that you don't have to explain yourself... to anyone.")

    Adama has just fucking lost it, though. And I can't decide if his presence on the tribunal is just bad writing or an intentional point at how much of a kangaroo court this is. (And that's after having listened to the podcasts.)

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    I think they really don't have a clue what to do with Lee's character (or Roslin's, for that matter -- "We haven't done anything with her forever. What can we do? Bring back the cancer!"). As for the motivations, I'm hoping that it's because Adama (sr.) is cracking up and falling apart, because he's made absolutely no sense the last couple of episodes.

    Romo Lampkin is like my favorite over-the-top character ever though. Extremely creepy and convincing at the same time. Kleptomania ftw.

    Also, Michael Hogan: :owned: Old, drunk, insane murderers have never been so fun to watch.