User Information - Bill Borre

I'll play it when the fifth episode is released. I just played through all five episodes of Tales of Monkey Island and was impressed with how well TellTale made a game in a supposedly dead genre. I was thinking of these guys yesterday at the matinee watching Inception. I was wondering why there was no movie tie-in video game as parts of the film seemed to me to have been influenced by video game design. I bet the dev team at Telltale could have taken that film premise and gave us a better game than the film Nolan created. Or the Psychonauts team. The movie reminded me a bit of that, though obviously Psychonauts was tongue-in-cheek.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 19, 2010, 16:39

News Comments > Morning Consolidation

I just got back from the theater. I haven't seen a movie in the theater since Jurassic Park, but you guys all spend alot of time playing these games like I do and I thought if you liked it I'd check it out. I've seen internet comments comparing it to Matrix, but the first movie I thought of was Total Recall. I'd characterize it as "Mission Impossible Meets Total Recall." I thought it was ok. I thought the premise was strong, and I thought that they actually could have made a better movie from the premise.

Re: Meet Milo: Microsoft's virtual four-year-old boy who acts just like a real child

Jul 19, 2010, 12:03

lol

Re: Baskin-Robbins

Jul 17, 2010, 16:15

I remember I used to get apple pie ala mode from the store up the street when I was a kid. I kind of liked that one.

Re: Out of the Blue

Jul 9, 2010, 11:59

News Comments > Dragon Age II Revealed

The cartoonist omitted the principal on the right cartoon though. I worked as a substitute teacher for LA Unified a year and a half back in the mid-nineties and it really felt as though it was a three way gang-up of the students, parents, and administrators against the teachers.

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Re: Dragon Age II Revealed

Jul 8, 2010, 15:48

News Comments > Divinity II – The Dragon Knight Saga Announced

I think DA was more like Icewind Dale than BG. Yah, me too. I liked DA, but I didn't think it had anywhere near the depth of BG.

Re: It wasn't that bad...

Jul 8, 2010, 15:35

I dunno. I just finished Prince of Persia 2008 and I feel like the devs gave us the choice between the bummer ending if you quit when the credits roll, or if you choose to continue playing after that, you get the even worse ending.

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Re: Legal Briefs

Jul 8, 2010, 08:34

News Comments > Blizzard on Real ID

It reminds me of that Star Wars RTS that came out years ago where one of the Empire's troopers states "I'm a soldier not a murderer." I wonder if that distinction is still relevant for the American military or if they're all Waffen SS now with none of the wermacht left.

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Re: Blizzard on Real ID

Jul 8, 2010, 08:14

lol. People tell me they don't believe this is my real name. Not that I'd play WOW anyhow...

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Re: Legal Briefs

Jul 7, 2010, 18:53

The military is a strange organization. It's supposed to have rules, and yet we hear so much of this. They say it's your Duty to obey orders, but how can one have a duty to murder unarmed people? I think these soldiers could learn more about the concept of Duty by watching a performance of Antigone then by watching the American media.

Re: Legal Briefs

Jul 7, 2010, 16:39

News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Monkey Island 2 Special Edition

Yeah, I guess "light 'em up!" just sounds cooler than "murder human beings in cold blood."

Re: Ships Ahoy - Monkey Island 2 Special Edition

Jul 7, 2010, 16:15

I've been playing Telltale's Tales of Monkey Island. It's alot of fun.

Re: Legal Briefs

Jul 7, 2010, 15:11

I understand your comments. What I don't understand is why these soldiers consider half a dozen unarmed individuals including children a valid military target. You would think that these soldiers would get written up for wasting ammo. I don't mean to sound flippant. This kind of behavior makes absolutely no sense to me even trying to understand it from the military perspective.

Re: Iraq helicopter video

Jul 7, 2010, 11:01

News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Singularity

I've never been in the military. I'm curious as to why things like those depicted in the video occur. I don't study military tactics so I can't think of any motivating reason for such attacks. Does anyone here have any insight? Does the American military routinely use terrorist tactics in an attempt to undermine enemy morale? Are the officers in charge simply doing these things to get the soldiers under their command used to seeing human beings as targets? ???

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Re: Ships Ahoy - Singularity

Jun 29, 2010, 18:28

I thought that it would be like Timeshift too, but it's not. The closest I could pigeonhole it would be that it plays like Bioshock with a Soviet time travel motif. It actually shows influences from several games like System Shock 2, Red Alert, Portal as well as Bioshock. I'm surprised marketing has focused on the time travel element though because it only happens a couple of times at specific points in the narrative. You can't do it at will. The TMD can be used as a weapon, but it needs ammo up until the very end, and I basically played through the game with the shotgun and the sniper rifle. The TMD is used for platform puzzle-solving during the levels.

Re: Out of the Blue

Jun 19, 2010, 16:33

News Comments > Into the Black

It's cool you got to talk with Mark an all, but I'd rather be stuffin' Martha's muffin.

Re: Into the Black

Jun 16, 2010, 21:30

News Comments > Into the Black

Where's the BattleChess version?

Re: Into the Black

Jun 15, 2010, 21:39

Actually, the loading didn't fail. The van did not remain where it was supposed to.

Re: Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker?

Jun 3, 2010, 12:47

News Comments > DC Universe Online in November

Yeah, she is. She should go into Porn.

Re: DC Universe Online in November

Jun 2, 2010, 09:53