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Results are in. Vampires are cheesy and crap.

I stand corrected. And that's my new thing learnt for today. Thank you, good sir!

Because they're journalists and this is newsworthy. MS has no legal sway over their right to report on this.

Code names are always place names because they can't be trademarked. It's not a signature Microsoft thing :)

Why. Why does he have his hood up. Take the hood down. You look like such a douche. Everyone hates you. Why why why. Please. You're better than this. Take the fucking hood down. Come on. You don't need that hood up. Even if it was raining inside (which it isn't in this case) the way you're wearing that hood would not…

Branching narrative exploring the psychology of motivation with multifaceted characters combined with absolutely gorgeous music and artwork? Sold. I will definitely be giving the demo a go over the weekend.

I agree about Skyrim but... Shivering Isles "too grey"?? You need to load that shit up again! Shivering Isles had the landscape and half the characterisation that Oblivion should have had in the first place! Next to SI Cyrodiil's bland as anything!

Don't mind me. I'm cranky from incessant hayfever and exams and well aware that I'm being an absolute douchebag right now. This is rare for me. I've let off some steam. I'll stop now.

Fair enough.

I've been trying to make this case on the Elder Scrolls boards since before Skyrim was announced. They're... not receptive to the idea. To say the least.

That's the point bro. Would you prefer an animé version? Because that's not what Norman Rockwell did.

Is the full version of this talk anywhere online? I can't find it and it's quite an area of interest to me.

This game was made in seven days by two people. This fills me with hope that scrubs like myself could give programming a game a reasonable stab.

Let's break that down for, say, Mass Effect.

You really, really cannot compare Valve to anyone else in the industry. They are in a unique financial situation with Steam providing ridiculous amounts of no-strings revenue. Everyone else in the industry is beholden to their shareholders who - understandably - want a return on their investments.

You sound like a nice guy Peter. I'm sure the vast majority of people working at EA are, individually, nice people. Unfortunately you are a massive company beholden to shareholders and you will always corrupt true inspiration for the sake of appealing to the lowest common denominator and making as many sales as you…

Is... is that canon? Because if so there are some pretty important ramifications to consider about the ease with which Anakin beat Windu.

True I know. Wishful thinking never gets anyone anywhere as usual.

Aw. This is good but I foolishly got my hopes up that some monumental development meant that publishers would no longer all fall in line copying the current Big Thing trying to accrue its eye popping profits for themselves.