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Or chew him a bit. DANGER! Leadsuit is not a toy!

Of the year? I think it stacks up well against most films in the violence stakes.

xTreme Foot Washing?

Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if Marcion and co had done better for themselves; we'd probably just have a "Testament" then. [/Religious Textual History Tagent] P.S. Marcion of Sinope

o_O I don't read Slashdot and I do read Penny Arcade...

I might have to start checking Grumpy Gamer as part of my "pre-forum checks". P.S. This site has been wanged (grumped? whatever).

Same with strategy-type games; the computer just fiddles the numbers in favour of the AI players. Very lame.

A fair cop. Maybe there should be reward points?! Win a copyright-infringing t-shirt from the Thumbs Store?

Try calling someone a "Kantian", or just announce loudly at parties "I like Kant!"

Eh? I thought that designers should just stay ahead of the game, so to speak. A lot of games are miserable, depressing, torment-filled, turbidity; making Kafka-esque games seems to be following the trend to the natural conclusion! Instead of making you miserable as a by-product, designers will focus on doing this as a principle design goal! Satisfying games will be replaced entirely with experiences that are harrowing for player AND character. The concept of "victory" will be redefined as "enduring to the bitter end". It'll be great (I was kinda hoping the Call of Cthulhu would be a bit like this, to be honest... )

It's been turning up linked everywhere. Not everyone who reads Thumbs reads Grumpy Gamer regularly, why make a fuss about it? Are there rewards points for linking to something first?

Oh.. good point... er... maybe its some bizarre Kafka-esque thing? (Freaky, I was joking about Kafka-derived FPS games on another forum recently... )

It could start with you, somewhere, seeing a fucking big explosion?

Someone want to throw up a link to the We Love Katamari video?

Neat. I like their eerie menu music too.

I preferred the 'Purple Rain' stuff... I mean... forget it...

Riiiiight. I'm curious to see what the place looks like at night-time, myself. I really enjoyed the "dawn" and "twilight" parts of the day in Morrowind and hope that they have the same impact in Oblivion.

Meh.

Yay!

Yes. This is true. We are also talking about Tamriel not Eurasia. It is possible with their different varieties of plants and, you know, magic, that the inhabitants of Tamriel might have access to dyes more easily. This aside: the only guy we saw in clothes was the Emperor, so even if dyes were as scarce in Tamriel as they were in our history I hardly think that saying "it's too colourful" based on the Emperor's outfit is reasonable. We need more shots of filthy peasants and townsfolk in order to get a good sense of that.

Did we get a lot of "townspeople" shots in the trailer? I figured the colourful clothing on Uriel Septim was because... well... he's the emperor. Clothing colours tend to be based on the availability of dyes, and if dyes are plentiful in the Empire then perhaps a more "brilliant" set of colours is justified? Boy, am I investing too much tihought in this aren't I? Anyway, I sure hope that spellcasting is as fast as it seems to be from the trailer.

I wonder what the basis for your perception of medieval colouration patterns is?

Cool. You broke his brain... or something...

Visors would be nice. All the helmets we have seen so far seem to be open-faced. I assume (hope) this is just because they want to show off the facial art improvements.

I really wanted to like the cinematics of Morrowind... but there just.. weren't any, really. I thought the start bit was a kinda cool idea - but pretty slipshod in execution. The real "cinema" moments I got were from standing on hills watching ash-storms start up; or when I first met the Ghost-Fence.