I never really saw the Empire as being all that great, but rather an attempt to show them more balanced than the usual extremist personality we're often shown; there are after all a lot of people in the empire just through circumstance, as is true of the Republic - people who would prefer perhaps to see the opposition…

That's really interesting - most notably the idea that it can absorb their intelligence, but it does again point up one bizarre issue: How can it keep its victims alive for so long when it is dissolving them without a paralytic? Not to mention the lack of clean air in its stomach, or the lack of food leading to very…

It's not technically impossible, no, just immersion-breaking for anyone who wanted to RP - the issues with the Chapters I see is that you'd have to have had numerous different one combine into an overall larger one to compete fairly, and in do doing would be difficult to work out who's on what side.

My parents bought ours from Toys 'R' Us. The very first Playstation we brought home didn't have all the ports in the back that the first versions did, but rather the ones that the as-yet unreleased one was going to ship with. Needless to say this was an unusual thing to find. Worse still, it wouldn't accept any…

I agree completely. It's just not worth them caring about people who buy exclusively pre-owned. The only way Microsoft (and Sony) might change their mind about second-hand is if the bricks and mortar stores start to offer a deal where companies recoup some money from pre-owned sales, though I doubt there's any…

I never thought the Sarlacc a particularly effective consumer of still-living prey anyway, given how long it takes to digest something. So even without the further books detailing his escape, the acid would have to be so ineffectual as to be better of for the sarlacc to just regurgitate Boba (and any other still…

I messed about a lot in GTA III because the idea of such a big world was so novel at the time (I'd played Driver, but no other 3D games that allowed me to go where I want, and never with so much freedom). By the time of Vice City, I was finding it more enjoyable to find interesting ways to be killed by the police.…

A literal 'Joy Stick' then.

Only thing I disliked about Rival Schools was that the UK version had no character creator so just had something like 20 or so random pupils and teachers to play as, which only annoys because the previews I'd read before then were of the earlier Japanese release where you could use the mini games to train up your own…

I guess it's just something that's always bugged me in RPG's. I even find magic a bit annoying in things like Baldur's Gate. I don't know if there's ever really a practical way to make magic work in a game to be as powerful as it should be compared to a weapon attack. Having said that, considering the lack of realism…

If they were going to give people their own chapters there's even more reason it'd fail. Space Marines are popular amongst a lot of people, but as it's always the faction we play as, as well as being arguably the least interesting, they'd have lost a lot of fans. I also think that it'd pretty much prevent any PvP from…

The typical Romero ''Zombie'' is undead. In this game, the developer has gone to lengths to point out that the hosts of the fungus are actually still alive, essentially prisoners in their own bodies. Much like in 28 Days later, they're infected by a rapidly progressing form of rabies (more or less), so both…

Bindo was fantastic, if only because he felt really well developed (much like a ton of KOTOR characters, really).

I thought her as well. I'd never heard of Kate Upton until looking here (definitely her pose, but the face is Strahovski, I'd say).

The only way I can see a 40k MMO working to be like a more conventional MMORPG is if it was based around something like Dark Heresy where you have a game based around a more controllable faction system and classes. Actually doing a full-blown space one would be incredibly difficult as I can't imagine they were ever…

When I quit WoW, it was the January after Cataclysm released (Not long after the expansion was released). I had five level 85's and that was primarily because there were no longer people around to do instances with. There'd been some serious arguments between guilds on my server that lead to entire ones leaving. As…

The Guilds I was in were all somwhere in the middle and the issue with that was a lack of progress in raiding. We had decent numbers of very good players, but if we didn't have the best of the guild in the raid, we simply wouldn't manage (we could probably do okay with just one or two less established raiders, but…

One of the Prism Rangers in Disgaea speaks in Engrish. It's rather daft. There's also one that speaks in English not unlike the Kebab seller in Broken Sword. You buy kebab? Kebab good!

The Zero Wing quote just reminds me of A Mighty Wind, which isn't a bad thing (to me at least).

I agree with you in theory, but I tended to find myself ignoring even the buff magic just because things die so quickly and do so little damage (and if you have Haste as well as Wall the latter degrades far faster than is practical). I definitely agree about the classes (or lack thereof) though I'd also have loved for…