Yeah, me too. I remember trying to explain to my grandparents what it was after I bought it. "Yeah, it makes everything a lot faster!" Couldn't very well describe the way it made Quake look like hot shit, could I?

Already been tried, already been foxed.

http://www.modtheater.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-20064.html

Never would've expected to see a demo for this before it came out, except maybe for consoles. Pleasant surprise - hopefully it's good.

Longstanding bug with the board system; sometimes you hit reply and it gives you a random header for your post from another topic.

I, for one, really liked ToEE, especially after it was patched. Hopefully this will be as fun as that. No problems with it not having multiplayer - I generally don't bother with online RPGs anyway.

From reading that, it doesn't sound like it'll be SS3, but perhaps it'll be some new property that plays similarly. I believe the rights to the SS franchise are still stuck in legal limbo.

I really wish I had asked Andrew if he knew what this was today. Maybe I should've bought him lunch.

Eight new vehicles? Now that's a patch.

Networking seemed fine in the multiplayer demo.

I really liked the singleplayer in the gold version I got (work for a game site), but I haven't had a chance to try the retail multiplayer yet.

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Man, they would have to release this just after I packed up my computer in preparation for moving.

And since when do expansions not require the original game? That's pretty much the status quo for computer games.

That is a nasty-ass flaw there, MS. The old jpegs-can-run-malicious-code thing has been an urban legend in certain newsgroups I visit (all family-friendly, of course); I guess someone finally figured out that it might be possible.

I know some people were disappointed with it. Myself, I liked it, but the length was definitely an issue - you can get through the entire game in four hours or so. I've heard the maps in the expansion are bigger, so hopefully it'll be a bit more substantial than the original title was.

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/longreviews/56.html

I've had this bluesnews account for over five years now! Crazy.

Ah, sweet. I is retarded. I'll have to give this a rental when I start my Gamefly subscription.

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I'd be much more likely to play this if they port it to the Xbox in a timely fashion. My PS2 and Gamecube are getting sold before I move, but I've ripped too much music and have too many savegames on my XBox to part with it. I'm considering trying out those Fatal Frame games, I've heard those are pretty scary.

24th century is Next Generation-Voyager, right?

Gonna be interesting to see how they implement the Starfleet command structure into the game. It'd be ridiculous for any random joe to start up a lvl1 character and immediately be flying around in a Galaxy-class starship, but so what, are you going to have to start as an ensign? Go through Starfleet Academy? Will you need an entire bridge crew of players to run a ship?

I think it'll also be interesting to see how they emphasize Starfleet's desire to explore space and contact new civilizations, along with their philosophy of non-aggressiveness. It'd be kind of weird for everyone in starfleet to continually seek out battle as a means of personal advancement, which is what 99% of MMO's come down to.

If you haven't seen the preview movie (I think they have a nice long one on Gamespot), then check it out. I'm sure they'll have puzzles galore, but the combat was really what drove me up the wall in SoT. I just did the jump-off-wall attack over and over and over again to get through the fights.

But the combat in this game looks really neat. Akimbo swords, you can throw swords, you can decapitate people, there's blood, it's violent, etc. It looks really cool.

Say what you will about WWII being a stale setting for games, but I had a lot of fun with the single-player in COD. I'll definitely pick this up at some point.

Did anyone even really like this game? Most of the internet comments were fairly withering.... I played it, and I'm not quite sure why it deserves a sequel. Some extraordinary balance problems in that game.

I think Blue might be the only person I've ever encountered who had a positive opinion of Tarantino's acting ability. Whenever I see him on screen, it's generally an occasion for groaning.