I loved the elevators. Sure, they got old, but at least the conversations were a Hell of a lot more amusing than staring at "Now Loading" for just as long, and was a lot less immersion breaking since at least the uber-slow elevators were in-universe, not "bathroom break time"

If you want a taste of this, try Nitronic Rush (be patient with the link, it loads slowly). It's what Distance is based off of (created by the same team) and is still a fantastic game to this day. Plus, it's free.

Was about to say you're sounding a bit harsh calling some guy a fool, and then I realized it was you. Oh Totilo you are no fool :P

Hah! I never knew there was an actual warning on the cartridges.

I never expected that it would be free. I don't even have an xbone, so the point is moot. I just choose not to buy the same thing more than once.

At least they didn't put this changes in the original game so you have a choice between new and original. not all devs would bother with that.

Ha! I've been saying for weeks that there is no way Twitch was bought by google. Just the fact that Twitch started using Audible Magic (rather than Google's own ContentID) was proof enough for me.

If you're getting bought out by a large mother company, it's just make sense from both an infrastructural and monetary…

well if this is true... I'm not sure how I feel about it. And I don't mean that is a bad way I mean I genuinely have no feelings about this whatsoever. I don't have any hate towards amazon. You don't hear too many complaints about them as a service.

Oh it's art. It is failing entirely to evoke anything else from me but "what is that cluttered amateur looking mess". But it's art...

Combat wasn't automated, you chose to attack or not.... which is the problem, as your hit chance was based on stats and a dice roll. As for the main quest, the TES ones are all pretty bad. At the very least, Morrowind was subtle about it. Basically, your examples are the two worst parts of the game.

The reasons why…

came here to say the same... maybe compositionally SOME of them, but even then they all look like game images with decent graphics...

Funny, isn't it? Chris was clearly trying to elevate the material by referencing a more "legitimate" kind of art. But the point of these shots seems to be getting "war photographs" only possible in a videogame. The scope and composition are great, but they emphasize the gaminess, not the drama of war.

We've been…

If you keep the robot legs off, you can call yourself a Gecko.

Agreed.

As a howling Chrono Trigger fanboy since release day on the SNES (I'm old), I was -stoked- when the fan project that was trying to bring the game up to PS2 graphics and presentation came about.

Then Squeenix issued their C&D letter, and I thought, "Oh shit, they're going to do something with the property," and I…

Not only fangames, but independent ports/updates of their games. Assuming no attempt at profit is made. They don't even complain about emulators; they'd rather just use the things for their own products. (See the SEGA Smash Packs for PC and Dreamcast; they're built on open-source emulators.)

Stanley was confronted by a ghost. He had seen the ghost before, time and time again. Stanley had long since lost his fear of the ghost and just wondered why he couldn't grab the keys by the front entrance and walk out of the house. Stanley stood there and pondered this for a moment and decided to reset the hallway…

I'm not a Madden fan. But I'd be lying if this I said this didn't make me want to at least consider for a second that I wanted Madden... for some reason.