To Forza to Forza! Time to build our own!

Oh man. Deus Ex: HR deserves to win the Original Score. Bastion's is good, but man, from the title screen the music in DXHR pulls you in.

I had an Epiphany about the speed/ distance thing last night when riding home. In relation to my #5 suggestion I noticed that people merge/ change lanes worse when it's dark out. I think the reason is because it's harder for most people to tell how far away/ how fast a pair of headlights are as opposed to when you can…

Ug. Back when I had my Miata I hated those tracks. It Was OK the first few days because they were small enough to roll over without banging on things, but after a week those ruts were a good 4-5 inches deep, and I only had 4 inches of clearance.

And now for the Portland Edition!

Agreed agreed 10x agreed!

By highly annoying on a motorcycle I assume you mean so annoying that you can't get a grin off your face?

Merging. I don't know about the rest of the country/world, but failing at merging is the #1 reason why traffic sucks in the morning for me.

Here in the Great North West we are slow to adopt such advanced things such as Traffic Circle. We my have the Silicon Forrest to the north and the dream of the 90's in the middle, but we have rain 80% of the year and people still don't know how to drive in it with your standard traffic controls.

Man people here never get the hang of those. They just creep and creep and creep. I get blank stares as I just charge on through.

Ah yes! I forgot about that. It is a key feature to some. I know it doesn't do anything for me, but for some it's a plus.

My problem is less with Ezio himself as a character. As a character in and of himself he's not bad. Its more the setting that is rubbing me the wrong way. Colorful guards with puffy shirts and tights aren't as menacing as the guards from AC:1.

I am intrigued by the Altair stuff. I really enjoyed that fleeting moment in AC:2.

In animus probably not. Out of animus: Yes yes yes.

Yeah that's part of the Title Update for Reach.

I'm not an audio engineer, I'm a Pixel Pusher; so my understanding of audio file types/usage is vague and somewhat dated. I always understood MIDI's to be like full layered PSD's and wavs/mp3s to be like bmp/jpg respectively (which fits more or less since WAV's tend to not be compressed, and MP3's are a compressed…

But they've used the same song for all those three years yes? It's still consistent and that's the key.

No no no you don't understand. Contained within a MIDI file is notation. You can essentially extract sheet music from a MIDI. As I said, 343 did not have access to any of the original score files or sheet music (why? I don't know); so a team was set up that painstakingly listened to the game audio files and…

That's why I said they had to re-write the score. They didn't have access to the original MIDI files, all they had was the in game audio. So every note had to be transcribed, by hand.

I'm saying "NO" for right now. I like the series and will play it eventually. But, Like Brotherhood, this game appears to be more of an extended expansion pack than a fully new game. Part of that could be my annoyance with Ezio and the location. I really enjoyed AC:1 and AC:2, but was ready for a new "ancestor" after…