n0wak

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    “The Video game industry has literally never had a year like 2007.” Next Gen

    "The Most Boring Game of the Year: It’s addictive and absorbing - but unless you’re playing it, Demon’s Souls is staggeringly dull, says Chris Dahlen." Also Next Gen.

    Nothing wrong with Dahlen's quote in the context of the article. I'm sure watching someone play Demon's Souls is quite the boring experience.

    The first one though. Yeah. :fart:

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    I remember seeing a late episode in isolation, and being completely lost. I'd been an X-Files fanatic for the first handful of seasons, then dropped off, just to watch an episode where

    CSM gets exploded by a missile

    .

    Actually, that seems to be the finale of the final season, so no wonder I was confused.

    I was in the same boat. I watched the show all the time through the first few seasons but basically stopped around when they left Vancouver (because Duchovny wanted to be closer to Tea Leoni or something) a bit before Mulder left the show entirely. I watched a couple episodes after that, but they were kinda bad, and I came back for the end only to be lost in the mythos. The whole Anasazi thing? No idea. It was weird.

    Should have ended at five seasons. That seems to be the magic number.

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    Oh, MAC... well, if that's the case. Poor guy :D

    Not really. Never mind the fact that Super hasn't been announced for PC yet.

    And yes, the majority of people I know that play it do so on the 360 and, this might be a revelation to some, you can get arcade sticks (I was mostly using the Fightpad though) for the 360.

    Also: consoles are a bit more transient and portable/sellable than PCs, which suits my current, er, lifestyle.

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    I've never been to England, so I'm curious: what's different about it?

    They look at you funny and laugh at you if you say "garbage" instead of "rubbish."

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    But doesn't that generally fit the context of the series? I mean, apart from Bill, these aren't exactly soldiers. Just regular folk caught amongst the zombie apocalypse, picking up what they can find along the way. Shoot from the hip and GO GO GO.

    I mean, if you're going on about the lack of iron sights you might as well criticize the lack of cover mechanics, squad commands, user classes, and instant respawns while you're at it. But then, that's exactly the type of game that L4D is trying NOT to be. Keep it simple and focus on the action.

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    Let me correct this:

    He does masterful work, especially ...

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    I think Realism versus would be too quickly fatal for the players - it's not backed up by hard evidence, but I suspect you'd have one or two players pocked off by hunter pounces not far from the team, and the others would be overwhelmed by weight of numbers in fairly short order...

    Considering the slaughter-fest we had a week ago, where we could barely leave the safe room without dieing, I'd have to agree. Realism mode might be good against AI opponents, but against humans? It'd be a little unbalanced unless they had very specific and very quick modes (wouldn't really fit the long campaigns). Maybe scavenger mode could work.

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    If there are any other mac users on steam out there let me know, I'd love to share some hot tips.

    That'd be me. I'm running it on my MacBook. You could get it to run in Parallels or Bootcamp, but that requires an entire Windows install+license. What I use is Codeweaver's CrossOver Games. It's not free though. Runs well enough for me. The installation process was pretty smooth.

    If you're feeling more adventurous, you can try using WINE which is the open source Windows emulator on which CrossOver Games is based. That's free. But, obviously, the installation process is a little more hands on.

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    Also, it's awesome when they use the same actor for various different minor parts in the show because it's an unknown guy who nobody'll recognize, only it's Locke from Lost.

    Are you sure they were unrelated characters? He had a minor role in the "end of the world" conspiracy episodes in the show, from what I remember. He was also a major character, if I also remember correctly (it's been a while), on Millennium. So, clearly, he was a favourite of Chris Carter and not exactly unknown back then.

    Funny enough, I downloaded season 1 of X-Files a while ago because of nostalgic and/or bored reasons. Haven't gotten around to it yet though.