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Now you've got me thinking... How about other possible places to get a new(ish) computer? Places like pawn shops, bankrupcy auctions etc? I know this might sound obvious, but here in the UK people are starting to re-learn about stuff like that. A second-hand electronics store in a rich part...

My main rig has XP pushing the physcial limits of the OS. It did come with 7 pre-installed, but I found the backwards compatability simply awful. (I'm a retrogamers, from 16-bit era onwards. The only games I found hard to run on XP was Panzer General and C&C / Red Alert I. Too much RAM, it...

Trying to anticipate games more than six months ahead is trying to catch a ghost in a net. That and games do seem to get even more bloaty and stuffed with candy as each day passes. I've run your specs through a semi-random selection of '11 releases. You're right on the fringe, though your...

Personally, I'm suprised that Fallout ain't been Retcon'd to make those evil Koreans the enemy. Or Cuba. Or Iceland. I miss the days then Washington/Hollywood told their people to be scared of a nation worth fearing *sob*. Making them the enemy gives them waaay too much credit. Then again, I...

Ah, the Falklands A cold small piece of rock more wanted for reasons of nationalism than actual worth... but wasn't a load of oil discovered in the vinicity? Oh dear. Hopefully the stuff won't be able to get extracted due to being too far down. Yes, I'm a Brit - but I frankly don't...

There are worse games to play. Much worse games to play.

Hostility? Moi? I was actually in a generous mood when I wrote it. Anyhow... Am I the only one who liked the Brainbot? It's a fair shot with the best brain - which I natually managed to get for it. Good compainion for a anti-social sniper.

She taught me one thing in life - some people are never happy. Rule is, just deal with them as little as f'ing possible. I never needed her explicit permission - citizenship was enough. I love it when a game which has NPC's giving wrong infomation... either due to stupidity or sheer evilness...

I'll defend the 'skip' option. I mean, how many times have we seen the same dammed intro screen on our fave games? If a games linear as shit, once you've seen it once, you know it. You'll only watch it again if you either a) like the scene or b) you're attempting to play it like it's your first...

Yeah, it's a bitch. I remember that KOTOR did have the 'return to Ebon Hawk' option, which was removed for 2. If you could tag one place (naturally a 'safe' place) which I could jump back to, that would be cool. I suspect most people would tag their home. Better NPC combat control would be...

True. But that often only happened with some quests. I liked it that way, because it felt like a real epic adventure that you'd have to spend an hour fighting your way through shit just to get to the place where the quest starts. Between most of the fast-travel types, nearly 80% of the map was...

Actually, Morrowind did have fast travel - to a point. How about Mark / Recall? or either Divine / Almsivi Interventions? By judicious use of them, you could slingshot around the map in no time. Though the three strongholds were out of the transport network. Which was a bitch. I ended up...

Just finished watching both Night Watch and Day Watch. They were alright. That genre ain't my cup of tea, but I did like the books. But the ones who said it was 'based' on the books should be strung up by their heels. I would say the films were inspired by the books, not actually based on it...

If you'd asked me this five years ago, I'd have argued that the market was big enough for both to survive. Now I'm not so sure. The mass of multiplayer only games seems to be sucking more and more talent from the single-player ones. My nephew recently bought a PS3 game for £40. He liked the...

7/10 Though I'm not exactly sure what that is. Finally bothered uploading my avatar.

From my reading of both human nature and history, it's often the bastards, the shysters and carpetbaggers who do the best in situations where 'civility' has collapsed. Genuinely 'good' people don't really thrive in places of anarchy. I've given this some fair thought. How many of us actually...

That's what Clancy books are. He expects you to know the maximum range of a Su-24 (fully loaded) or the different variants of the T-72 series tanks. What's worse, I do know. It's not like I planned to know these things, it's just I remember around 90% of what I've read. Though that does make me...

I wish you good luck in writing this, whatever you decide to pick for your story. I'm currently writing one of my own, mainly as an exersise. What I would say is... 1) Make the world the story is set in 'believeable'. I don't mean it has to be 'realistic' (ie like the world we live in), but...

As I once did a summer job doing this, and if it ain''t too late. 1) 2 (I'm Just a real cynic) 2) 3 (Look at their track record) 3) 3 (People can just create a new one) 4) 3 5) 2 6) 2 7) 2 (Or a variant of the RL in which is most 'acceptible'. Some of us have dark secrets which they...

As a experienced Civ player (I discovered Civ 2 way before F2) I can tell you that somebody actually made a Fallout-themed scenario for Civ 3 eons ago. It did play quite well, but I lost it when my old hard drive went to electronic heaven. I went to the trouble to find the thread...ain't I...