Dvader said:

phantom_leo said:

Here Vader, put this in your pants and repeat after me:

"Juarez."

One more time!

"Juarez!"

Oooo! This just might work!

Have another drink.

Dvader said:

Oh I forgot to give my Finals prediction.

Celtics in 6.

Celtics sweep

/has not watched basketball since the Jordan-Bulls days.

Alpha Protocol.  This is a game by Obsidian.  I know/knew a guy that was working on this game.

They did a big ad-buy last year in all the magazines, and then had to pull the game for more dev.  Here is what one of the devs has said (story above).  Sounds like a bloody nightmare:

“There was a ton of work put into this game. The problem is that it was a ton of undirected work, or work on things that were just stupid. The Executive Producer for the game, Chris Parker (also an owner of the company), seemed to think he was the world’s greatest designer ever, and created all these absolutely shitty systems and wouldn’t listen to any of the real designers or devs about things that just didn’t work. And you can’t exactly argue with one of the owners of the company when he doesn’t want to listen. He basically took over the game and dictated exactly how everything would work (or not work, as the case may be). The other producers realized this early on and just gave up, leaving Parker to micromanage all the designers and programmers directly.

“Sega also was a factor, because they kept changing the design requirements (yes they had heavy influence there), which never gave the producers and designers time to actually decide on one set of features to make and polish. The blame is still mostly Obsidian’s because the execution was absolutely terrible, and it was obvious 2 years ago that this game should have been scrapped. Instead, though, they focused on adding still more features and never fixed the ones they already had. That is a recipe for tons of bugs and no polish… as is obvious.

“This game was just an absolute failure of production, and it’s no wonder that so many of the developers left the company, even after the 40% staff layoffs. I am still happy about some of Obsidian’s other current projects, New Vegas included, because they are going pretty well. Their big unannounced project is looking great and is already much better than AP ever was, and that may end up being the game that everyone was looking for with AP.

aspro said:

I'm half way throgh Halo Wars, so I figured I'd start another game to trade between.  Batman Arkham Asylum.

So far so good.  It's pretty high quality, that's for sure.  Bit easy (I'm playing on Normal).  I'm sure it will get more complicated as I advance.

Good luck with that.

hamzik said:

I wasn't planning on buying another game before SMG2 comes out in less than two weeks ( I even skipped Red Dead) but here I am itching to get out and buy No More Heroes 2. I know how this itch usually ends. Must resist!

Oh, and how about that NMH2-store. Realy cool. Too bad I'm going to London only a week after it closes down.

I've been playing all weekend. Will post impressions in the thread.

robio said:

For the record, if you're not playing Trauma Team you're a fool and a communist.  This is such a ridiculously good game that it's just. . . ridiculous.

I must have this.

aspro said:

Story from a few days ago Ancel rumored to leave Uhbisoft.

Then GAF says the rumors are false.

Now others are reporting that it's true.

What's the latest on this huge story?

*lostshrugging.gif*

Dvader I have a 0.24 mb connection at the moment and the Lost gifs and hitting the page loading speed like a brick wall in my face. No more, please.

Agnates said:

Grrrr. Finally getting my Wii replaced. 70 euros. Warranty extended just 3 months, I thought Nintendo normally extends it a year after a repair or whatever other issue. And they said no to replacing it with a black one. Now waiting to see how long it's going to take them to actually send it after confirming replacing procedure...

Ouch.

Played almost 4 hrs of this at the weekend.

It's oh so sweet. The opening had my jaw on the floor, the music, the directing, the cutscenes, the graphics.

More impressions in the thread.