Hot Heart

Maybe he just wanted some new boots?

He learns fast.

I didn't say they'd take it back. Just wondering who would be funding all this. Unless Shepard's probed the galaxy dry (in more ways than one)...

Interesting, because I'm pretty sure my Shepard told The Illusive Man to shove it. Who is pimpin' Shepard's ride now?!

Some ME2 food for thought: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9073321

Catch 'em all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GGaspTm-s

Cool. Very interesting. Looks like Makos designed by Audi in the mining planet one.

Oh, I forgot to say. This is quite a handy site for folks in the UK. I don't think it covers digital releases but can be good for finding the best price on a lot of games. http://www.gamestracker.com/

Beautiful song

Yeah, I think that does make things a little obvious. But I think it would be interesting if even though the choices were obvious, the consequences were not always so clear. I think the voice-acting thing is a good point, but I've said before that ME is designed in a specific way (Zeschuk and Muzyka said it is deliberately that way, compared to DA:O where you are making the character's 'origins'). It's a 'space opera' and Shepard is the Big Damn Hero. Rarely would you seem him actually make a mistake in judgement; his choices usually pan out well enough for him in the end (except if you die in ME2...).

I'll redraft this for PXoD closer to The Witcher's release, OK?! Stop bugging me.

Love that song, but it was the original version by Hello in GTA IV. Loved seeing all the views of the city during the credits with that playing.

Agh! It took me forever to get that out of my head already. DAMN YOOOUUU!

Part of me would love to be able to pay 800MSP to change someone else's gamertag...for the rest of their life.

Oh, you've reminded me actually. Got that a bit wrong.

Wasn't necessarily a questionnaire, Gigawings, but thank you.

Some good stuff so far. I think some of Heavy Rain was pretty good and while it's not exactly a karma meter, it has some good examples of how to include narrative choices in games.

I think it's perfectly fine, but I always tend to overthink things and it just seems odd that there's always an exact moment where you can be good or evil. And a lot of people tend to dislike the fact that there's no advantage to being a 'shades of grey' character; not that ME is the series they refer to (because that has a more defined character and purpose). Red Dead Redemption seems to get the most hate when it comes to its 'reputation' meter or whatever. Such a foolish addition.

I figured I would write a piece on 'moral choices' or Karma Meters in games; so I'm going to see what you guys have to say about them as well. We can chat about whatever comes to mind, obviously, but I'll put some suggestions to get things going (some are probably pretty obvious): - First game you ever played that featured what you would call a 'moral choice system' - did you like it/think it worked? - Do you like/dislike any particular games with karma meters? - Do you like/dislike any particular instance of a moral choice? - Is it something you think certain games could/should start incorporating? If so, which? - How would you improve upon the typical karma meter system? I will join in later but for now I will just say that the system in Mass Effect, while far from perfect, was a step in the right direction; in that it was not necessarily good/bad choices you were making. I think The Witcher does some interesting things with its choices too.

Not to be confused with hobnobbing (is that term familiar to Americans? Sounds frightfully British.)

It can also be a verb pertaining to intercourse of the sexual variety, as in 'I'd knob Lil' P's friend'.

I used to get freaked out by those things that crawled up your screen in Duke Nukem 3D. The sounds of the eggs hatching and that moan freaked me out too.

Yeah, considering it's Joe Cornish you might expect it to be funny and I'm sure it'll have some laughs but I still think it's aiming for a young audience so might not be that clever in its humour. I could be wrong. I wasn't expecting Dead Set to be a comedy but I was hoping for something a bit sharper than a British, played-straight rehash of zombie film tropes and satire (nor would I have wanted to see something like Shaun of the Dead). Something akin to the 'sketches' Mr. Brooker is currently doing on his new BBC series (or had occasionally done on Screenwipe proper).