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I think I'll add one aspect that most people seem to forget. A console is a fill it shut it forget it device. A high end PC is an enthusiast device which is usually driven by games. Back in the late 90s, early 2000s when gaming started to really push hardware and games came out saying ok you need a T&L card to play this game or you need to have more RAM or something or the other it generated a culture where if you had to be an enthusiast gamer you needed to have at least a high mid range spec of machine. Most PC gamers gladly bought the games since it pushed their devices to the extreme and it also was closer to the visual vision that the game developer had in mind. Mechanics were tested out on the PC, since consoles were and still are closed markets and they were always the safer bets. Things are changing now with devs saying games do not good graphics and need more innovative gameplay. Well guess what, it was like that for years before devs and card manufacturers decided to push the agenda to get more people to buy hardware. Obviously a lot of devs got money from the card manufacturers (you could games that were less than 1 month old with most new graphics cards, which is increasingly rare today) and this was something that also pushed these standards. Now people aren't suddenly asking for something new, they were built and raised on these promises. I think a lot of people forget how simple gaming was. I had prince of persia 1 on 10 floppies and that's pretty much how i played that game. I don't even know now if it was authentic but I believe it was since I had the box for it. Games were simpler, they weren't pushing hardware they were just trying exist in various gaming spaces. Later with the differentiation of graphics and sound as separate processing units outside of the MoBo the market changed and grew. Standards came to play. You know, you can't just kill them in a day because devs decided they wanted to cut down on costs and water down what had become the acceptable standard. It's not right. There needs to be some sort of balance and the thing is we are in a stage where at some point soon they will stop pushing hardware as such. For instance currently Sony likes to believe that VR is going to make a comeback and you know, it's quite possible. A good head mounted display running a game engine like the next Unreal one for instance can definitely deliver on that as opposed to the blocky 3D pixels that we had in the early to mid 90s. Each time someone 'innovates' they bring about standards due to practices and you can't expect them to change. The real problem is that we all forget that it's a business to make money and the consumer is almost never the most important factor. If you really want to say something is good or bad - the best way is of course to vote with your wallet and there may be interested experiences but moral ground or entertainment value is where the thing lies. After all it is an enthusiast entertainment media. The other thing that needs to change between both gamers is the fact that both console and PC gaming are two different experiences. Yes they are games and they even play similar games in a similar environment. One is controlled and limited and the other is limited by your choice and selections first and the DRM and company practices second. However it's like comparing watching a film on DVD and Blu-Ray. It only matters to those for whom it matters. At the end of the day, enjoy the games on all platforms. I for one have mostly been a PC gamer despite always having owned consoles. I did buy a few games I could on the PC on the console in 2009 because my PC needed an upgrade and I couldn't afford it at the time. Now I'm back to my usual self. I like my games to have settings and features and I like to mod and edit my files and cheat and fiddle with the game engine so for me PC gaming is what I like. However some games even if I've got a sweet gaming rig I do end up buying on consoles because of the community and that's purely the fighting games. My gaming choices are pretty much PC, PS3, 360, Wii and for handhelds PSP over the DS/3DS. These are my preferences. I have issues with the DS and 3DS because having worked with footage for hours I do see the pixels and it pissed me off sometimes, I see it on the PSP too but the screen sometimes is blindingly bright and I can't play some games like BBS for more than 30mins since I value my eyes. I will be honest and say that I haven't read everything, but what we really need to do is actually educate people about the crappy practices in the gaming industry and stop being sheep. PC, consoles whatever - that's all fine, play how you want, where you want. But keep your ethics if it means a lot to you

Bacon butty, definitely. I'd also use it for a fish finger butty. I probably wouldn't use it for much else but I'm pretty sure I've heard people refer to all sorts of sandwich as a butty. Could be a Northern thing. My bad - forgot about bacon butty (i don't eat bacon or any other meat like that - at best beef so that's obviously not crossed my mind, however the fish finger thing is a bit rare, haven't come across that) but you generally don't call the Butty a butty without something in it usually buttered too .

If you're buying something from the steam sales I'd recommend the paradox fantasy pack which actually sells for less than the elven legacy pack and is a good deal for £5.something Got that and TLJ+Dreamfall since I lost my cds. I should be getting VTM:B today.

No offence but this thread title is literally asking for 'you are the controller' Regardless I loved the atari 2600, mega drive 1 (not too fond of the megadrive 2 since that was small), Dualshock. Now this is something I need to ask people who say the 360 controller is better for big hands, my hands are huge like 227mm by 120mm (well it's much bigger than the average male hand) but I find the 360 controller to be painful and I've used all controllers from the era when keyboards(as in c64) where the controller (and still are btw, can still finish legacy of kain and dmc with a keyboard) to the modern ones and I really dislike this weird thing where people just say the 360 controller is better for huge hands. It really isn't for me and I find all those weird gifs showing the dualshock as a terrible one weird since it's actually comfortable. I think it's more to do with the shape of the hand and how much curvature you've got. Flat hands might have an issue but having flat hands itself is an issue and more likely to have carpal tunnel so what the hell is all this weird fuss about big hands and 360 controllers - I'm just asking cause it's the most common thing that people who say one is better than the other. As for the triggers it rarely matters to me, all i really want is games where you can remap the keys (like resistance 3, yes you can remap each key in the demo and I thought that was great). I play fighters with an arcade stick and I could play a regular controller like an arcade stick with the exception of the 360 one cause the buttons are too raised and hurt my fingers (that's cause I do not have fat fleshy fingers and them being bony isn't good for hard buttons).

I'm kind guessing it won't be released. I mean the Portuguese company that owns the rights to the name have asked people who enquire to visit their site. MS is avoiding an answer and I'm sure DF just won't have the resources to do much really. So it really is in the publishers (MS) hands to see if they deem it worthy a release. I guess the sales in the US will determine that.

You know I've a lot of business associates I constantly have to communicate with and despite being able to switch accents the pronounciation always stays the same. I mean there's no way I'll start saying ferdil instead of fertile as an example (also it irks me for some reason, irked me when Nolan North as the prince did it in the Prince of Persia game). As for bread there are differences ask any kid who ended up working at Sainsburys in the bread aisle. My kid brother's friend worked in one and I know a few myself. So without further ado the various types of buns Bap --> It's bigger, about 6 inches. The dough has butter or something similar to make the dough soft. The shape can vary depending on region and in Scotland they aren't sweet and in Ireland they can contain currants. Butty ---> Now you don't call bread or buns butty without chips. It's a chip buttie or nothing. I've not come across anyone calling a bun a butty without chips. Bread Roll --> Everything here is generally a bread roll. It's the quadrilateral amongst bread. Baps,buns, cobs, stotties, manchets, etc are all various bread rolls. Cob --> Round bread roll. It's crusty in some parts. Stottie --> thick fat round loaf. Leavened and tastes more like dough. Barm cakes have hops and it's also barm-leavened. Cakes generally contain more sugar but it need not be sweet (when we refer to the bread roll cake i.e.) Sometimes in some parts bread rolls are called muffins though we do have a different muffin as well. TN you made the error in say they're all the same bread roll when in fact they are different types of bread rolls. You really need to run int some breadies or head to a proper bakers XD. There's a lot more. Also Blaa is also a type of bread roll. I think you guys generalised the various types of bread rolls. It's like say it tastes like fish when each fish has a different flavour, here it's different ways to prepare it. Bread isn't all the same really.

If anything that makes me more interested in the dialogue because from the demo it seemed like it was borderline ridiculous and thus entertaining in its own right. I plan to pick it up once I get some more skrilla. I played that demo to death and now that it's at $20 it's doable. There's a scene in about the middle of the game where... Well, amazingly someone put it on YouTube. (No spoilers) It's like I can understand what was meant, but it comes out ridiculous. Vanquish is a fun game and something that I'd highly recommend. You know if you don't shoot first when you come across enemies you might find them doing all sorts of odd activities before stuff happens. Sort of reminded me of all the dumb dialogue from the NOLF games and the professor segments from MDK2. An aside note the VA for Sam is Gideon Emery (the guy who voiced Balthier) and oddly enough he sounded a lot more like Steven Blum.

Hey H_H looks like trenched will be indefinitely delayed for most of the EU. There's a board game that's currently trademarked trenched and so they can't release the game as trenched. I'm guessing we'll see delays and a rename and some other factors before it can actually come out.

Fitting with the whole closet theme.

Getting back to the topic like what are all the oddities you notice in specific regional dialects. Things like Fink, aks, exasctly, fought (thought actually) and so on. Btw these aren't all used in the same place or by the same people.

There you go. Absolutely no problem then.

Well in my case, not many can place where I'm from based on my looks which helps (in several ways if i might add). So no one's going to take offense. My skintone ranges in colour depending on season. You know 'well spoken' is quite difficult to place. Do you mean people consider you well educated, posh or just you talk like you're from a good background? Honestly though well spoken is an asset, most of the speaker's opposite sex like it that way.

I'll only sound like a Londoner for the most part when speaking to my parents.

You know the price is gonna drop in a few. All boxsets are highly priced at the start. Right now i'm just waiting for proper crystal storage and then I should be set. One miniscule crystal could store a few TBs with ease. Come on future!

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How do you think the Star Wars prequels got made? Plus, I think Shymalan's films had problems long before the stage that any crew would see them and be able to remedy them. Honestly, there's a lot of things that went wrong for the Star Wars prequels. See the main issue there was the fact that he actually did write the stories out a while back but no one bothered to tell him the ideas were crap. As for Shymalan the issue is that he does ask around and they tell him it's good. I mean really why would you blatantly lie. With Lucas it's the fact that he wouldn't accept criticism. I know people who've worked with both and the issues are quite different. Ridley Scott though is the biggest dick and for far too many reasons that I can't be bothered to explain tonight. Another time

Tempest didn't have a codename really. I mean her real name is Angel Salvadore so she just used her name and that was that. At least it's not gotten to the point where we have two hawk-eyes running around in the live action MU. Personally I didn't like First Class as much. It was alright. Fassbender was good but man did Vaughn not tell him that his accent was switching towards the latter bits of filming. He distinctly started to switch to a more Irish lilt and it was pretty obvious to me. Considering the actor is German and Irish he probably didn't notice it at the time and he was doing a variety of languages in the film. However it's the director's job to make sure the performance is on par. Vaughn seems to frequently miss that and he's guilty of nepotism in some films (not this though). It's becoming common that people in the industry don't point out obvious mistakes. For instance Shymalan actually asks some of his senior crew if he's done anything wrong and they tell him he's doing great/fine. Seriously if they were honest I'm sure he'd make better stuff (he has the potential). Kinda sorry to hear that and it's pretty much the same source who told me about Nic Cage's financial troubles back in 2005. It's there in many films and gets quite annoying. Fortunately I've not worked on sets like that.

Dark Sector is 1.86 on GMG Hydrophobia is 75% on steam Bioshock 1 for £3.74 Bioshock 2 for £3.49 both on gamersgate There's some more deals on Game.co.uk as well. I forget.

Does anyone here have a 'mutable' accent? As in someone who can switch between multiple accents regional or national depending on who they're talking to? It's been brought to my attention that depending on my company my accent varies. I speak in semi RP when I speak to my English friends (that's most closest to my natural accent) and when I speak to my American friends it just slips to something that's close to So Cal (it's all due to constant exposure to some of my good friends from there consistently for a few years in my life). Apart from that I can pick up on European (Franco-Belgian), Asian (Indian- Subcontinental) and Middle Eastern ones. It's just weird to realise this. It's almost like I'm subconsciously adapting to everyone I meet and talking in a way that's comprehensible to them (It isn't an instant thing, it takes a few conversations and then these people are like wtf I didn't get you 2 days ago and now you speak in an accent that I can understand perfectly...) Does anyone else have this weird issue?

Totally agree about VG247, thing is it was better before the new website redesign as well. What is it with people enforcing Web 2.0 and that godawful vomit website. As for the bickering yeah, it's almost always the same few people but at least they are passionate I suppose. I frequent it a lot less lately mostly because the articles seem a lot less game news and I really don't care to read what a gamesite thinks of 'hackers' and 'hacktivists' mostly because most sites don't do enough due diligence and well often don't give a neutral viewpoint or just give them the attention they want badly. Generally I just visit community websites for news, andriasang (because Anoop's usually good. He was with IGN a long time back and with 8-4 play (good podcast btw if you're into games from Japan) and things like supererogatory (twitter) and the official ps blogs, major nelson and nintendo communities. I do participate on gaming forums from time to time for more info.

I wish I could, I'm working more in July but every month I do intend to finish off my backlog which I never really end up doing. I hope to finish Alice and Shadows of the Damned soon (doing the hard playthrough first and then the easier ones [trophies do not stack and I find it enjoyable enough to do more than 1 playthrough]). Possibly AC:Brohood and some DLCs aside from that and Outland. Maybe Nocturne.