deanb

Not really.

I'm curious as to what history kids in18th century america would be expecting to learn. Not like there was much around if you avoided teaching global history. There's nothing at all that stops you teaching about global history and "making your destiny". Also The Patriot would be the film with Jason Isaacs (fine British actor) and Jayne Cobb on the British side and the two Australians (part of the Commonwealth) actors on the US side right?

Galaxy S Advance. Kinda like an SII..but not. It arrives on Monday n I get 14 days to play with it n decide if I want to keep or not. (It'd come tommorow, which shocked me, but we've got a day out with relatives). I'll see how it goes, if not so well then on Thursday I'll swing by the row of phone shops in Darlo n see what can be done to get a SII in my pocket (since that's definitely got ICS n dev support n such, whereas the S advance is "maybe". Don't really want a gingerbread phone for next 2 years )

http://pressxordie.com/2012/07/06/review-gravity-rush/ Review up on PXOD

edit: I should maybe point out for those not in the know is that this is a picture of Rhys Ifans in Notting Hill. He also plays Curt Connors in Amazing Spiderman.

An "aww yeah" for EU sure, but as it notes there's still many nations yet to vote on it and lobbying groups seem to thing that these countries won't take the same "disappointing" route as EU has. Also it's not fully dead in Europe, as noted at the bottom of the article there's some that still want to force it through regardless of this vote.

Yeah Windows n Android work the same in that you have a desktop/homescreen with which to dump icons on for quick access (and a taskbar/action bar for constant access..depending on launcher settings), and a app drawer containing all of your apps in a big jumbled mess. It's nice to have. The lack of a homescreen is one of my pet peeves with iOS. Having to hunt n peck to find what you're wanting in amongst tons of crap you're not wanting.

Yeah I'm gonna guess they're showing off what's simple enough to pull off and keep within a controlled environment for the purpose of showing off the gameplay. Some of the other techniques might require a bit more finesse. And also spoil the surprise of people discovering things on their own. Like the slow-time-shoot-bullet-at-self technique.

Oh god, lightening. I've a surge protector tower thing. But atm my PC, TV n PS3 are wierd up to a shitty normal extension plug. And there's been a ton of storms of late. I should really swap them around to use my tower, but it all runs behind a super heavy wardrobe.

So the only reason you'd learn another countries history is to assemble products for that market? Damn, here's me all trained n equipped to be making roman exports. Also don't forget american history is and was british history. People didn't suddenly end up in America, they didn't pull their laws from their arse or coincidently come up with names like "New York", "Washington" etc. I'm most likely never going to visit Rome but you still learn the history (especially since Roman history is British history too). It'd be nice if it at least attempted to have some mention of the templar versus assassin war playing in it instead of just focusing on the overt revolutionary war. In all the other games the wars, the crusade, etc were just the backdrop to the Assassin hero tracking down the Templars. It's part of why I always disliked the suggestion of setting it in times like WWII, the allure of focusing too much on the history instead of on the plotline of Assassins Creed.

FFS. Added it in. This is why I have an internal *groan* each time I see Yantelope has made a poll. To be frank, he sucks.

btw the link you gave is something I assume you have a subscription to, cos it's just a headline and single sentence for me.

That assumes it plays exactly like the older games, which up to now what they've shown n hinted at isn't the case. "Guard" type enemies aren't, or shouldn't be, so cut n dry as to them being one or the other. Just within the recently release Revelations you didn't just take on Ottomon guards, but Byzantine templar units, and in the flashbacks both crusaders and assassins. Given red coats aren't going to be guarding forts and towns captured by the continental forces it should mean that the "guard" types would be equally distributed between both sides. Unless the Red Coats are made out specifically as a tempalr guard side, and the continentals as filling in the roles of the thieves/companions/mercs of previous games.

Well go ahead.

Yeah Revelations seriously suffers from "Feature Creep" or as close a game can come to it. It's not terrible but you do any up gong through a bunch of unrelated sidequests, doing a mainline mission, unlocking more sidequests, doing them, then doing the next main mission, and so on. Bombs are neat, though largely uneeded. Also kinda sucks you can only sell them at one spot, makes it a bit of a pain if you're into selling surplus to fund buying buildings.

So you're going to point out how silly the lore/cannon in the game series is in order to point out how it's silly some of us have issue that up to now AC3 doesn't seem to be following the lore? (I'm now trying ot cast my mind back on which side of the ME3 ending fence you were on, I'm gonna guess the "be an ass" side) Or maybe it is following the lore strictly; of only killing templars (and killing innocents nets you a de-sync) And while templars n assassins might be somewhat evenly distributed in previous games, especially with AC1 (which'd be the biggy with adding in the disclaimer), in AC3 it seems up to now the only templars in America at the time of revolutionary war are red coats. Which is a bit :/ For a game purported to be made by a team of multi-cultural developers it sure seems the team marketing it is very america-centric.

Dan is UK, so the ban doesn't apply. Doubly so given just yesterday a UK judge called Apples slide-to-unlock "obvious" http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18709232 Which is pretty much what's going on of late. Just like in the PC world their foray at leaser is shortlived as cheaper open devices bleed into the market. Making it so they're the only one allowed to use their software is always going to be a killer for them in the marketplace. Surely their billions are better spent than getting brief bans on phones? Like on some proper R&D instead of eyeing up random Android features n trying to mash em in. Like the Twitter/FB intergration, notification shades etc. Kinda odd though that they lose in the UK for the same patent they won on in US. Different patent laws I assume? Is it first to file in US? So even if this swedish phone had it years before iPhone if they never filed/filed after Apple in US it won't count? http://imgur.com/a/sRiLs In other news, I'm starting to lean towards Galaxy Note again. Though the SII is a bit less Trigger Happy TV, but still decent enough that this could work. The Boulder is conflicted...

This the gameplay demo where he hung the redcoat, hatcheted the redcoats, blew up the redcoats, etc etc?

As in people that declare "Day one" after seeing a trailer/screenshot/title of a game. Guess it'd be nice to splash out £40 on something without much to go on.

That's cos he killed a shit ton of crusaders, which composed of a variety of European nations, and the indigenous Muslims n Jews. It was true to the original game aim of: Assassin take on Templars no matter which side in the conflict. And that's what Ubisoft are still trying to push in their interviews despite all the marketing materials up to now (even after people have questioned the aim) showing Connor just taking on redcoats (and bears). In fact I don't think any of the marketing materials have even pushed the idea of connor taking on Templars within the red coats, instead of just indiscriminate killing of redcoats.

The extra downloads are included in the license that is sold. Which means they apply to the second customer as much as the first. Yes in retaliation Steam, Origin etc could go back to the olden days of single downloads, but it'd kinda kill one of their main selling points. And as I said before, their pricing take into account the multiple downloads (don't forget many games sell for the same price as physical copy, without the cost of disc printing, logistics, delivery, shelving and other overheads) Given that the distribution company isn't part of the second sale how would they know to be able to charge a fee for the second company. I'm pretty sure the ruling would actually say that's not allowed too. Especially since charging a fee to allow people t5o sell their games on would be getting in the way of the process. Pretty much every game sold is "forever" on services like Steam. Even when the publisher pulls the game, like EA with Crysis 2, it's still available to the people that had already bought the game, so it'll still be around for the second purchaser too. Also the ruling doesn't require the companies to do anything except not ban people from selling their digital products on. If they wish to provide features that facilitate the sale of games then it's up to them. Thrusday is also a lawyer too. A VG lawyer. (I think Ethan is in property)

Yes it's dependent on the situation. Something ironic can be unexpected, but something unexpected isn't always ironic.