Duncan

Oh man, that's a great title.

When you get to a fountain you just need to drink from it and it will prompt you if you want to save or not.

I find it funny that Halo 2 is a candidate for Best Shooter and most Disappointing Game. Also, didn't they invent a Most Pretentious Game category last year? I think they like to slam specific games just by making up one-time categories (like the Baditude thing).

The enemy utterances are continuously off the mark. There's this one enemy who's made out of crows or something that you have to kill three times, and each time he dies he materialises someplace else. When I killed him the first time and then ran off to kill him again he was yelling things like "Defeat does not suit you, prince!" even though I just killed him. I didn't have any problems with sound effects, though.

There are some water fountains scattered through the levels that you can drink at and save your game.

Man, you took the words right out of my mouth.

Ew. It's especially worse when you think of them having the same expressions as they do in that photo.

That is an awful picture. Contrast the sleazy, satisfied guy on the left and the kind of dead-eyed, emotionless, almost comatose girl on the right. You can really tell who wants to be there the least. Also: Dammit, Romero, button up your shirt.

I don't think a lot of people put that much faith in Gamespot's reviews anymore (I don't, at least), but their KOTOR II review is up, with a score of 8.5. http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/rpg/kotor2/review.html Man, I tried to pick out an outstandingly interesting paragraph, but the whole review, I thought, was pretty dull. Anyway, it seems to be just as good as KOTOR, with the lower ranking apparently being because the graphics aren't any better than the first one. There's also some apparent technical glitches, which will hopefully be fixed by the time the PC version comes out.

Oh, I just noticed the Gamespy review is also up, but in my quest to be up-to-date and relevant in bringing you this information, I haven't read it yet. http://xbox.gamespy.com/xbox/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-2/571503p1.html

I watch it whenever it's on here. I'm not into cars at all, but yeah, it is often strangely compelling.

I don't see how anyone can seriously use the term varmint (no offense to any possible Varmint Hunters here - and I'm really astounded there's such a thing as the Varmint Hunters Association) without sounding completely fucking stupid.

Holy shit, people actually use the word 'varmint' outside of western movies?

I hope that Ubisoft's apparent policy of listening to their critics above their fans on SOT will extend to this game as well, resulting in less shitty games after this... but I really, really wouldn't bet the house on it.

Man, I hope in the next Prince of Persia you can steal cars. The Eurogamer review Tycho links to in his post is one of the better WW reviews I've read (better than Gamespot's, certainly). Also, apart from the unlockable concept art it refers to, there's also an 'Weapons Gallery' for you to unlock. Other random points of interest: 1) It's startingly easy to decapitate people, even when you don't know what you're doing. 2) For those of you who were holding out hope that Godsmack wouldn't suck, you are wrong. That's the smart bet, yeah.

...shut up. Trust me, it's not like I make a habit out of pre-ordering things, there isn't any kind of arrogance on my part which makes me feel like I need the game right now, and if I did feel that it would certainly be for a game other than fucking Warrior Within. Well... a free game, in this case, one I actually want and one I think I would like. Well, you're right about this, I pre-ordered Warrior Within back before it was confirmed that it would suck. Still, I am playing Sands of Time now, so I don't feel too fucked over. FUCK YOU TREP FUCK YOU

Well, it actually worked out better than I expected - I went in today and it turned out to be a situation where one guy was stupid rather than the management making a concerted effort to screw me. This one guy (not the guy who screwed up) actually went to another branch to get me a copy of Sands of Time, which was ultra cool of him, thereby restoring my faith in the store and also humanity. Oh, I played a bit of Warrior Within, and the 'mature tone' is, indeed, pretty lame. On the other hand, the line "I am the Prince of Persia - and the king of blades!" is clearly hilarious.

I don't know if anyone saw this, or cares, but these are TIME's ten best video games of 2004, apparently. The only thing I was really struck by was how (with the possible exception of #4) bland and predictable the choices were. Also the first line is "It's no secret that video games aren't just for kids anymore." Yeah, thanks for that. Anyway, here's the list: 1. The Sims 2 2. Rome: Total War 3. Half-Life 2 4. Katamari Damacy 5. San Andreas 6. Battlefield: Vietnam 7. Halo 2 8. Burnout 3 9. Fable 10. Pirates! (is that even out yet?) Shocked? Confused? I know I am!

Stores stock games that are widely known to rock anyway, though, right? I mean, with something like Half-Life 2, I don't think any stores needed to be aware of a pre-order demand for them to order more than a couple of copies, and I wouldn't have thought anyone would have needed to pre-order it either. I do see where your example would work in the case of something like, say, Psychonauts, which clearly has a pretty devoted following but isn't that widely known. Also, I too have no idea how this works, so this is possibly irrelevant. Thanks! :tup:

Man, do I want Katamari Damacy, but living in a PAL country apparently means that won't happen soon. Honestly, I don't understand the whole pre-order deal. I mean, unless you want Halo 2 or something, you can still buy the game the day it's released, right? Lame indeed.