Wintermute

Absolutely true, Zircon. I knew what it was like to be a kid too, but those peer pressures and outside influences you're talking about were just that: pressures and influences. None of them shook my faith in anything, and I ended up making my own decisions. I would say its incorrect to think that children somehow will automatically choose the wrong path simply because the wrong path exists. They can make good choices and bad, just like anyone else, and eventually the hope is that they'll grow up into a complete decision making machine (e.g. human being). I don't think we need to spend too much time worrying about the outside influences on our children, as long as you have faith in their ability to make decisions. In my opinion, it's much better to try to tell parents that their kids need to be taught how to make correct decisions, rather than to fight the fantasy novels.

Agreed Aarow... I always find it odd that people need to defend their faith from ANY source, as if their faith were as easy to destroy as throwing a brick through a glass house. You'd think that they'd be more resolute in it, and thus wouldn't have to worry about it being shook by some fantasy novel. If your faith doesn't hold up to that, you don't have anything real there to begin with.

Rest in piece, Reuben. You will live on in your music.

And Angelus Laminarum wins the prize for first poster who didn't bother to read the original post and has fallen in line with all the other Nightwish fans in telling anyone looking for a female vocalist to check out Nightwish. Great job, smile for the cameras.

Team games are silent as far as strategic communications go. I mean, if you turn to your partner and say "Hey, let's beat up Fox together," then you've let the cat outta the bag anyway. Unless you make up code words for various maneuvers, like "Delta V Triangle Hyperforce Monkey Technique, GO!" And let's face it, that's gay.

*laughs maniacally*

King Dedede pronounced: King Day-day-day. Emphasis on the first and last, so it's kind of like saying "Day to day" very quickly, with the 'to' being a middle 'duh' sound, i.e. DAYduhDAY. Hope that helps. edit: Just to clarify, this is my (slightly informed) opinion, and may be incorrect. Best results will occur when we hear the smash bros. announcer.

CRY SOME MORE!

How...informed and intelligent of you. =/ IMO, Valve is pretty much the best in the business now.

Hm...am I the only one who thinks this might not be so bad? Bioware gets tons of money, support from a huge publisher... Course if EA starts to butt in on development, that could make for a nasty headache for the Bioware guys, but with any luck they're just looking to make profits off of Bioware's hugely successful products. Not to mention that Pandemic, who I am not entirely familiar with, could probably use the money and marketing push as well.

Super fun, but a bit on the easy side. I have died a few times, but its extremely rare. A lot of fun stuff to do tho, but I wish there were a few more sidequests...perhaps I just haven't found them all. Oh and powering up by finding gems is awesome. Go go fire sword!

It seems like the only negative comments are from people who have never played it. Oh and to the guy who said something about long respawn times: you know those are server dependent right? And also each map can be custom tailored... so like on Dustbowl the offense spawns faster or whatever. Regardless... It's amazing. I've been playing Team Fortress since, well, Team Fortress (Quakeworld ftw!), and this is by far my favorite take on the game yet. Removing grenades was a great balancing act in my opinion: It makes demoman and spy classes very essential for taking out sentry guns. The medic class is super fun to play now (their bone-saw melee weapon is fantastic, and uber-charging a heavy and getting like 8 assist points when they bust into a room and own everything is very satisfying). My only potential balancing concern is that scouts fricken pwn now. Their shotguns are, in my opinion, too powerful. However, this is just but one small complaint.

Congratulations!

Watching him literally click the notes himself one at a time in such a repetitive song was a lot like being at the dentist's office. Sixteen times in a row, for the same tooth.

Two words for TF2: Ridiculously Awesome.

No shit. I need to get my Crystalis on.

While I do not usually approve of threads like this... Megaman gets my vote anyway.

Well, real impact on the world doesn't necessarily mean real impact on other players. Even having the ability to have any impact whatsoever on your own character has been denied to MMO players.

How about an MMO that doesn't suck? Seriously though, our MMOs are lightyears behind other game genres in many ways. It would seem that the MMO would be the ultimate playground for developers experimenting with cutting edge design like truly persistant worlds, robust NPC interaction, etc... but they're being largely ignored in favor of a design decision that I can only refer to as "Retard Roleplaying" in which not only do you have no effect on the world, you have almost no choice in character design. *smacks forehead* I mean, seriously, RPGs were supposed to be about creating a custom character and experiencing stories in a different world, right? Not being exactly the same as every thousand other players that selected your class, differentiated only be equipment, and grinding mobs or doing raids to get gear? Editing this post in response to the comment above which was not there when I started typing.. It doesn't help that there's nothing better to do in an MMO than that, either. MMO designers should follow a few rules when designing their games, I think... first of all, the client is evil, never put anything of importance on the client, my god the client is enemy numero uno protect the game from anything that isn't serverside like right now. Second of all, try to make your game fun. Fun? What is this blasphemy? I thought grinding boars was fun!

I too am having a hard time figuring out exactly what this is. A PNP RPG played over the web? What?

Wow. That trailer looks really, really bad. *sigh* at Blizzard sucking so much recently.

My thoughts and prayers to everyone involved and those who know anyone in that area.

Knuckle Joe looks pretty sweet. Little Mac would make an excellent assist trophy if he isn't a full on character. C'mon! His one two one two uppercut punch combo is pwn.

But it may be worth it in general to see Mrs. Weasley calling her a bitch, in all capital letters. Like this: BITCH! Besides, Neville got to kill a horcrux and ended up basically in posession of the sword of Godric Gryffindor.

And we find it suspect that you don't like R-Type 3.