Cyber Rat

Did I mention how I hate analogies on the Internet? I must have, but let me mention it again. One should be required to have a license to make analogies online. If I ruled the world, my second order of business would be to ban analogies.

I actually know people who gave up on playing Magic because of the rule changes. I skimmed through the new rules today (stopped playing before them) and I'm still not sure what the problem is.

1. God Hand 2. Silent Hill 2 3. Morrowind 4. Half-Life 5. Guilty Gear XX 6. Fallout 2 7. Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 8. Heroes of Might and Magic III 9. Chrono Trigger 10. Sonic 3 and Knuckles 11. Resident Evil 4 12. Champions Online 13. Tetris 14. Shinobi 3 15. Sonic 1 (Sega Master System version)

Silent Hill 4 and Oblivion.

We are often reminded that the game industry is composed of people, but I rarely see the mention of consumers being human beings. Was it not this very thread that mentioned a few dozen times how gaming is a luxury and service, and anything but a right? If it is a service and/or product, it competes on the market with other releases. Games are expensive, you can't buy them all. When a product lacks basic functions like advanced video settings, when it is a step backwards from a previous installment, a consumer should talk with his wallet. You know why people keep saying Crytek stained their reputation by moving to consoles? Because everyone expected the PC version to suffer to some degree from being multiplatform. Did it need to happen? No. Did it happen? It did to a certain degree. (And I am not even considering the fact that Crysis went to a more closed environment since it's better to handle on consoles.) So wait, they have mouths to feed so I should just forgive them and go with whatever they release? I'm sorry TN, but I don't get some of the stuff you say. When someone points out how fucking unfair EA's Eula is, you say "That's business." But when someone says how they've written off Crytek because a platform which got them started was given a port treatment, you try and go with feelings saying how Crytek has mouths to feed? It's businees. You release something that makes consumers unsatisfied, you don't get consumers to buy the game. Developers don't owe you anything, but you sure as hell don't owe anything to developers.

By doing a console game? Or by doing a bad game? If the latter, then, I know we shouldn't put too much weight behind review scores (and I'm biased) but, it's received generally favourable reviews. Yes it's streamlined / linear / dumbed down (delete as necessary) but it's not (in my opinion) a bad game and certainly doesn't suggest to me that they are incapable of making a good PC exclusive, more that they (perhaps) overreached in going multiplatform. Most reviewers didn't even play the first and just knew it had shiny graphics. Look at the Crysis 2 thread. It's obvious they treated it as a port. No advanced graphics options, lower texture resolutions and initially having aim assist? And the shoddy lobbies (which I hope was demo only)? This is a studio that tried to push the limits of technology and then they started throwing around piracy as the reason the PC platform was bad (this was somewhere when Crysis 2 was announced for consoles as well). I did not realize that the more money you earn, the larger the mouths of your families become. Then I think all the developers should go indie so we don't use up all of Earth's resources.

Yea, that's what I'd like to know. Also, you can use each plainswalker ability once per turn, I assume? And if, for example, Jace has 5 Life, and somebody hits him with a Shock, he stays on 3 Life just like a player, or regenerates like a creature does toughness? I stopped playing MtG after the third set in the Ravnica block. Despite only playing Kamigawa before that, it was too financially exhausting for me. And the community here was full of shitheads.

The "epic trailer" music was just plain bad. Seriously, if you want to get a message across, just stick the image and add the computer voice. No music or "mad video editing skills". Sheesh.

No need to be rude. There are more decent ways of talking to other members regardless of whether you like them or not, so let's keep this thread civil.

Those are some nice blog entries. I especially like this part:

Silent Hill 2.

2D fighting games.

But we can promote it. Nice posts you two, saved me some typing and looking up all the sidequests I did in ME1 and ME2...

I have an exam this week, so you folks are free to add any new suggestions until Sunday. After that, I'm gonna start going through the list, eliminating stuff and compiling a Top "somenumber" (haven't decided yet how top). Check the first post to see whether your suggestion has already been mentioned.

I doubt any terrorist group has the intention of spreading fear and terror for the sake of fear and terror. It's a means to a goal, whether they are "noble" or just out for profit. Your opinion: Your quote: Your initial post makes it sound like terrorist organizations are some G.I. Joe villains. Cerberus uses radical and terrorist means to achieve whatever goal they have set. Whether the goal is one that would benefit humanity or not is irrelevant. A human organization trying to advance human goals at other races' expense is not unlike a country-specific organization trying to advance their country's goals at the expense of the rest of the planet. And in both cases, you'll have humans and countrymen disagreeing with the organization that fights "for their benefit".

Your opinion is wrong.

List of things my brother/roommate broke over the course of 7 years: Countless glasses, including my favorite Jack Daniel's one; A few dozen coffee mugs; One awesome beer mug; A few plates; 2 windows; One antenna holder on the balcony; The front of my PC case (reset button and front USB ports don't work anymore even after I put it together); One wardrobe door; A Bart Simpson bust; 2 Genius gamepads (Mortal Kombat and PES were the "reasons"); 3 or 4 mirrors; One bed (mine, of course).

http://news.deviantart.com/article/147425/ DeviantART, you have reached a new low.

Apart from my brother, I usually had good roommates. Technically, I don't mind my brother or his friends, aside from his anger management issues which always break something (phone, door, glass, cup, etc).

James Sunderland from Silent Hill 2 and Ky Kiske from Guilty Gear.