Roderick

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    I think it'd be wise to just make formulaic review with a twist. If you go all avantgarde on their asses they may think you're not fit for their magazine. In that case it shouldn't be too difficult: just look well at other reviews to notice a general make-up of positives, negatives, little details and a conclusion, and you're off. Think well what you want to say, what aspects of the game you want to stress and what the dominant theme of the game is. Mention who will enjoy playing this, and maybe what other games resemble it.

    I don't know, just some tips.

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    The cars trailer was awful and the Starwars teaser looked more like the Flash Gordon Returns-teaser. It started kind of well but then they lost themselves in generic footage. I'm not the one to scoff at campy movies but I'm cringing because I want this movie to be good and dark and evil.

    The horde of Wookie fighters was kinda cute though.

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    Frustration! I just went to Blizzard's and ploughed my way all through the registration process of the World of Warcraft open beta, only to find that the final link to the download was BROKEN! Real anger! :frusty::frusty::frusty:

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    This was the most interesting thing from the PSM article:

    "While at lucas Arts Schafer first presented them with a design document detailing 6 games he wanted to make. The first was full throttle, the second was grim fandango, and the third was psychonauts...three more to go."

    I didn't know about that.

    They shall be known as The Schafer Six.

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    I'd like to share the most remarkable dream I had this weekend.

    I was sitting in a car on a holiday trip to England (disregarding the fact that there's a span of water between the Netherlands and the UK), and accompanying me on the back seat were two girls, both of whom were very cute. Then I suddenly recognised them as being the Bush daughters. I began to flirt with one of them and that sure was a fun thing. Then it appeared that daddy Bush himself was in the car too, and he was just the most pleasant, homely fellow ever. He really seemed to me like a good father and a swell guy in my dream, in that car there.

    Stupid thing being that when I woke up, I couldn't shake the feeling anymore that Bush is actually a pretty nice guy. In fact, even now my feelings are tainted by that dream.

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    I agree with you completely that the world feels so very flat, regardless of the mountains and hills. If you play Fable, you'll see a game that's completely un-flat. Morrowind HAS been hand-designed though... ah well, we'll just see what Oblivion can do for us. Hopefully they'll make the landscape more of a 'character' than it is now. You know, with more strange places and unique landmarks.

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    Siesta's are supposed to be napping times when the sun is so hot that it's impossible to get some work done, right? Well, just let yourself be absorbed by the heat and you'll soon whither. And if you can't go to sleep, well, you don't HAVE to have a siesta you know. Us hardworking Netherlandic folk carry on all day long without a nap ;)

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    A friend of mine went through several flipflopping stadia when he played Fable. He had high hopes for it, and even though I warned him that there was much division over it, his enthusiasm never waned. When he got the game, he was enthralled with it for a short time, a week or so. After that, he seemed to be bored and disappointed by it. It was at that time that I saw him picking it up again, and he began to get into it some more again. But then he finished the game, and he was severely disappointed with the ending, and in retrospect the whole game. He seems to really dislike it now.

    Now I can't vouch for these opinions, but it's just what he told me. In his own saying he just 'had nothing to do anymore' once the game ended, which in itself appeared to be crappy and ill-done.

    But, hey, those graphics, ey?

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    I can quote a pretty good Herman Finkers:

    In een café klinkt een mop; het bedenkelijke werk:

    ,,een Jood een neger en een turk zitten samen in de kerk..."

    ,,Die grap is niet fijn,"

    zegt de kastelijn,

    ,,hij is kwetsend, en bepaald niet sterk...

    altijd weer die grappen over de kerk!"

    Translated:

    a guy in a bar tells an iffy joke:

    ,,a Jew, a negro and a turk are sitting in church..."

    ,,That joke isn't funny,"

    says the barman,

    ,,It is hurtful, and not particularly inspired...

    always those comments on the church!"

    Man that falls flat on its face in English and without musical score O_O

    Can I get a demo anyway? :P

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    In a September poll by the University of Maryland, majorities of Bush supporters expressed support for multilateral approaches to security, including the United States being part of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (68%), the International Criminal Court (75%), the treaty banning land mines (66%), and the Kyoto Treaty on climate change (54%). The problem is that most of these Bush supporters weren't aware that Bush opposed these positions.

    Incidentally, the initial reason for me to despise Bush was, when way before 9/11, he said: ,,Fuck the Kyoto treaty." and turned his back on the environment. That's it right there. That's what made me turn MY back on him.

    Coincidentally, I think Bush would be a huge hypocrite if he'd accuse Iran now for neglected the nucleair treaties or somesuch. After all, he didn't make a big deal out of fucking over international agreements, why should he be bothered if everyone else did it? Fine example he set there :shifty: