Corpse dancing will never die.

If it does, I'll dance on its corpse.

Yes, Sam's getting a bit grizzled. But at least he isn't sporting that iron-gray soupcatcher Snake's got sprouting from his upper lip.

The Ritual guy sounds like we need to come up with a Game Industry version of Buzzword Bingo. Oh dear FSM, please don't even start about Peter Moore. I have to stand on the Fifth here. Or we can put him, Ken Kutaragi and Peter Moore in a room for Rock'em Sock'em Marketing Robots.

Conan - I'm happy, too. This means I can whomp the crap out of Assassin's Creed and a couple other things without feeling guilty that I'm not playing it.

Don't blame the 360 for how FFXI was. Blame PlayOnline and it's hideous interface. It was a pure miracle the thing even connected.

PAX... The expo hall is not that crampled little corner. It's six times bigger than it used to be. No one at Penny Arcade wants to turn the thing into E3. Not even Khoo and Fehlauer. This is a game convention for gamers; it's not a pimp-fest.

Fallout 3 - Sounds like a lot of fan-cruft. Like those poor souls who are firmly convinced they're doing a re-make of Final Fantasy VII for the PS3 based on everyone's spatters on the wall from the tech demo. I hope like heck they do move it to the real Oblivion engine. Then the Obliviots and Fellouts who have a two-headed cow about this can go grouse to each other on alt.grognard.rivetcounters and leave the rest of us alone.

As far as games I want, I WANT MECHWARRIOR 5! No ostensibly hot robots slinking around with devastating eyes and messing with people's heads. I want a robot 40 feet tall leaving 2 foot deep footprints that can make 'em dance purty from a kilometer off with a PPC in one arm and a Long Tom in the other.

I want Freespace 3 dammit. And I don't want HEWHOSENAMESHALLNOTBESAID anywhere near it.

Also, you're missing the point Re: Resistance Co-Op. Your Co-Op partner isn't just "Some Black Guy". He's "The Black Guy", and it being a Sci-Fi game, his job, nay, his very meaning in life, is to die first.

Holy cow. Piloting a Viper. Talk about childhood dream comming true...

That looks freaking awesome, and it is free! Thanks for sharing. Also good show guys, enjoyed it as always. Though it might be nice to have a female voice every once and a while.

Certis, there is a game like that of which you speak. It is called System Shock 2. You can play through the game in co-op (I think up to 4 players) and choose different roles (hacker, fighter, psionics). You gain skills as you go through and can choose different paths. You could be cracking a door while your partner shoots down the enemy. You play through the game in a space station (close enough for Demi?). It's got a great story, good action and some really spooky parts.

Why would your friend hump office plants when there's plenty of corpses and cyborg nurses available?

No, I think I can picture this one quite easily:

Certis: "Guys, any of you got any bullets left. I hear more zombies."

Sanjuro: "I'm out."

You: "I'm out, too."

Certis: "If only I didn't drop that wrench to make room for the grenade launcher"

Sanjuro: "If only I put more points in my melee ability."

You: "If only my guns would stop breaking."

Certis: "So I guess we're screwed."

You: "'fraid so."

Sanjuro: "So what do we do now?"

You: "Plant sex?"

Sanjuro: "Works for me."

Certis: "You know, we could try to run back to the elevator...*sigh*...nevermind."

Certis, I am beginning to realize that you just don't have good taste in games.

(sticks out tongue, puts thumbs in ears and waves fingers like I just don't care)

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man"
-- Jebediah Springfield

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Sweet. I made it to Office Linebacker. I am the tortoise. wordsmythe is the hare. I win.

Quintin, are you under a rock? Game companies, movie companies and etc do this ALL THE TIME. They want the cardboard cut out, not the substance.

As pennance, go watch the Fantastic Four, Xmen 3: The Last Stand, and Captain America back to back, and then play Shaman King: Power of Spirit (after you've read the manga). Heck, they didn't even get the names right in there.

As far as deriding the existing fanbase of Fallout, the derision isn't aimed at all of them. It's the Charter Members of the Please Please Please Get a Life Club who have grognarded their way into a sense of entitlement about the series that's truly offensive. I know a guy like this, and he is an utter asshat when it comes to disarranging even one pixel of this game (except for the sweeping changes HE wants that would basically turn it into Final Fantasy with radiation - UGH!). And it also goes for the Obliviots, and the jerks having a cow about the changes in Shadowrun, the friend of mine who hates every Final Fantasy game after VI because they went 3D and changed Black Mages.

You guys made my mouth water when you talked about an MMO where one person was the raging barbarian who walks with confidence down the middle of the road while the other person sat, climbed, leaped and attacked from the outlaying trees, cloaked in the shadows.

I think Planetside was almost there save for the nimbleness of the stealth class. The most interesting thing you could borrow from Planetside is the invisibility bonuses when crawling, kneeling or still.

Agility is something no one has addressed in MMO's. Bouncing from tree to tree ala Ninja Scroll would be a sight for sore eyes. I'm sure this hasn't been addressed due to the fact that the faster characters move, the more intense the burden on the servers. Also, adding more places to explore (n, s, e, w and now up and down) in a single area will increase the amount of potential players in an area and thus, increase the potential server burden. There is a reason areas are typically so spread out.