Maybe for realism, they should have thrown in the Navi putting IED’s in their own villages, killing off each other while also killing the Corporation troops. Or how about beheading each other and hanging the bodies on bridges? Better yet, how about showing the Corporation building wells, soccer fields, schools, hospitals for the Navi while the blue people continue to attack them?

Quaritch 4 Life tho, man. The guy may be cardboard, but he is the most awesome stack of badass cardboard to grace the screen. He needs his own series pronto.

The doujin is only dangerous to the economy of Japan, because I’ll be talking all their money home to the US. Women will be buying multiple copies.

Also that doujin sounds most dangerous.

What is the song the end of the podcast?

All of Scott’s thoughts in the game never actually lie to you; they are just smart double entendres. Note that he never says something like “I will get closer to finding the killer”. If you analyze his thoughts carefully, you will realize that he always means something else. A good example might be when he thinks about Lauren in Manfred’s shop, “She thinks she is going to find the killer. She will be disappointed”, this is a perfect example. He knows he is the killer and as such he knows Lauren won’t find anything because he is there to sabotage things.

Madison is a journalist, Scott Shelby used to be a cop, and you don’t know what happened in the past. Also, it seems that Scott was well known in the police, (if you had played the game more than once and took different paths you would know this) so maybe he was a pretty popular cop and was known by a lot of people in the past.

They can’t call the cops because Scott has cameras in some of his trials and the police would not be able to complete the trials by themselves. All the trials imply that something dangerous or ‘against the law’ must be performed. Besides, the killer wants the fathers to prove their strength; it is more than obvious to assume that he doesn’t want the police involved. In the shark trial, do you really think the police would kill anyone? Or do you think they would drive against traffic? I think not… And they can only find the address if they complete the trials… And Madison doesn’t call the cops because she was also being wanted.

Play the game again, please… They have a lot more against Ethan than what you mentioned… His wife’s statement, Dupres (his shrink) statement, the origami figure… Were you sleeping during the game?… And Mad Jack was never a suspect to begin with… And they shoot Ethan in the end because he makes a sudden and dangerous movement… And Jayden selected the 2 individuals based on the evidence he gathered… All of it makes sense…

Ethan’s blackouts are perhaps the only really unexplainable event. Not because he blacks out, but how he ends up with the origami figure is a real puzzle. But then again, we don’t really know what happened when he blacked out.

The town where this game takes place doesn’t seem to be very big. Every cop is awarded with a gold watch when they are promoted. It made absolute sense to assume that the killer was a cop. After that, he checked all active and non-active cops in the area. A dumb detective would only search for active cops. A smart detective like Jayden would search all cops, retired, out of service or active. And with all Jayden knows, the victims are always kept in open areas, not inside houses, so he went to the warehouse of the cop. And he works in the FBI; he has access to a lot of data.

The problems don’t really disappear… Play the game again please…

The shoot-out at the Kramer villa could have been more refined, it is true. But you don’t know what pistol Scott is using, and he might have even reloaded during any of the scenes were you don’t see his gun. Why the cops aren’t called? Doesn’t Kramer try to kill Shelby too…? Calling the cops would be bad for both. Besides, Kramer is rich; he can easily dispatch this situation on his own. If he is dead, his crazy son would deal with things. It’s true someone can’t really get away with killing people with ease, but there is so much room for what could be done here… And don’t forget that Kramer’s son also killed a young boy. Everyone wants to stay out of trouble…

Buy a HDTV? It’s about time… And if you can’t really afford one, you can configure the game settings to match an SDTV easily by adapting the screen and decreasing its size.

The English cast, for me, did a competent job (except the children’s voices) but here it’s about everyone’s personal tastes. What you may not like, others may love it.

If you played the game more than once and with different endings you would know that Scott WOULD NOT shoot Ethan. He would in fact hand the gun over to him. What happens here is that Jayden or Madison arrive and start a fight with Shelby. If Ethan arrives alone, then Scott gives the gun to Ethan and gives him the choice of killing him or not. If you arrive with Ethan and someone else, when Scott points the gun at Ethan, he would be handing the gun over to him but the other character would assume he was going to shoot Ethan and so he/she intervenes.
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So as you can see, all that is said here can easily be countered. After playing the game a few times, all falls into place. Maybe playing the game at least more than once before writing all this in the future…?

Don’t want to hate anyone here lol, just stating information. Thanks. Keep up with your work.

Yes, Sony has been working on the Eye Toy for a long time. They were working on motion control tech, but not with an actual controller like Nintendo, more like Natal in a sense or Natal is like the Eye Toy, you get the picture. Nintendo truly brought out the motion control/controller interface to the people. Sony brought out the Eye Toy. Without the Wii, the next “Eye Toy” would not have been one with a controller strikingly similar to that of the Nintendo Wii. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that the console market wants to capitalize on Wii’s successes.

And while were at, Nintendo has been working with motion control since the 1980s. It’s called the Powerglove. NEXT.

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In short I hated this film.

Hoes before Bros.

Vuvuzela’s make everything better, yo.

@John Greenweood

You’re the dick.

But Platinum…that was a truly amazing experience.

Personally, I’ve actually grown disinterested in the series myself, but that’s only because of the direction that Pokemon itself has taken. I’m one of the scant few who tell you that Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald were the peak of the series and the following Diamond/Pearl/Platinum games were boring. Maybe it’s because it didn’t expand on the absolutely gorgeous landscapes Ruby provided, I don’t know. It just didn’t capture me.

I think Black and White look great, though. My only real compalin is that I don’t think the new Pokemon designs, sans the awesome legendaries, look very good. You think Nosepass looks bad? Take a gander at that gear one.

In the meantime, I’d better get back to playing Soul Silver…it’s been like a month.

Also, fuck the pyramids and desert zone, I sucked horribly at that level.

I do think I went in more depth than would be expected for a child’s survey, but I think people tend to underestimate their reasoning or opinions. I asked some very specific questions to get them thinking about things they might not have. It was surprising how some were very opinionated on which publisher they preferred.

[Yeah, I said this on Twitter, but others might have been interested too]

@Lothos

Yeah, I sent a link to Yen Press. I know the survey’s scope is small, but it could mirror a larger poll to an extent.

@Kate

I am always interested in seeing how others perceive the medium. I also am glad to get to introduce children to one of my favourite things ever.

I made the cover black and white to save on price, and was bummed at first. Once I start designing it though- I really like it this way.

(by the way, I got here by way of Rackeyboy’s forum )

“How FFIX was a return to form, the Squareness of SMRPG, the creative enemy/boss design of YI”

If I come up with anything I’ll let you know.

PS: Yoshi’s Island ties with Majora’s Mask for my favourite game ever.

pardno my tyopes. I’m typing one-handed while loading the warhead onto my mecha. That’s a good excuse, maybe.

WAIT. I can, and will rage about Shadow the Hedgehog. That’s hard fail.

That’s really interesting! I never knew that.

“The general impression was that the characters “looked weird”- I was the only one I knew who found the character designs very interesting and was excited to see Digimon in higher quality animation.”

I noticed that the animation was different, but I kind of just attributed it to the series upgrading to the big screen so I never thought about it. I dug the movie, too.

I haven’t paid attention to Digimon in an incredibly long time (I used to be really into it until the third series and it only pops up in my mind every now and then), though I’d like to watch it again in some form. Have they ever released any DVDs?

I recently(this week) went back to the Sonic games, starting with the first one and playing through all of them. They’re all good, but the best one looking back at it now..

.. is Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Awesome power ups, Sonic, Tales AND Knuckles as playable characters. 6 Emeralds and 6 Super Emeralds. Super AND Hyper Sonic. Not to mention the longest “campaign” in the series. (But then again, this is pretty much 2 games put together -literally- into 1 “campaign”)

But basically what kills the overall speed in most situations is how you can’t start spinning when standing still. One of the major downfalls of the game, but still quality game none the less.

The underwater levels is always what I dislike the most.

And always a fan of the Robotnik battles.

Regardless, I was wondering what you thought about taking the whole thing out of the courtroom. I thought it took away much of the series’ intensity there being no Doom hanging overhead or nearly as much objections as there should have been. But I guess that is the whole point of calling it “investigations”.

I do think I went in more depth than would be expected for a child’s survey, but I think people tend to underestimate their reasoning or opinions. I asked some very specific questions to get them thinking about things they might not have. It was surprising how some were very opinionated on which publisher they preferred.

[Yeah, I said this on Twitter, but others might have been interested too]

@Lothos

Yeah, I sent a link to Yen Press. I know the survey’s scope is small, but it could mirror a larger poll to an extent.

@Kate

I am always interested in seeing how others perceive the medium. I also am glad to get to introduce children to one of my favourite things ever.