Things look pretty simply
....y'know, rereading what you write before you post it is pretty simple, too. ;) #corrections
You may also want to check out what Tonner's doing on the high-end doll front. I mean really, REALLY high end. The Avatar figures are probably in the $800-1000 range, but damn. Facebook links here:
TRON Legacy: Gem and Sam, and another shot of Sam and Quorra.
Avatar: Both figures together, and closeups: 1 and 2
You have no idea how many times I've wished I could go to that place..... ;)
Mark Meer is.... awfully good at lecherous, actually. ;) This is him. Watch and be scarred. Or amused. Or amused and scarred....
It is a trick to get anything terribly decent looking out of the sliders. I tried creating a custom male Shepard because I wasn't a fan of the default, and the kind of face I wanted I could never quiiiiite get. He turned out okay, but it's not an exact science. So if you want to play a male Shepard I can see the appeal of going with the pre-built, higher-res, better-detailed default. (and seriously, don't even TOUCH the hair options. My male Shep's bald for a reason, and it's not that I actually would have chosen to go the Bald Space Marine (tm) route.... ;)
The last time I heard a designer complain about how much of a pain in the ass it was to develop for Android, he included this link, and I suddenly had a lot more sympathy: [developer.android.com]
Here's a question. What IS the policy if the person wants to preorder a game for which he/she WILL be of age to play by the time it comes out, but isn't at the time of ordering? That might account for a few of the otherwise dumb-sounding "can he still preorder?" questions.... (or possibly I'm just trying to give people too much credit. ;)
I note, however, that according to that graphic, you STOLE the thing....
Reprobate. ;)
"Perhaps Lucas should of hired them" - should HAVE.
Getting tired of posting #corrections, folks. Either you start copy editing or I stop reading.
I just wish Ellie were the playable character, especially considering she was the viewpoint character in the trailer and now it's all "no, sorry, you will be playing the burly man with the gun, AGAIN," but, well, what are you gonna do. :\ Still looks awesome.
I know this doesn't count as science fiction, but I just want to hang out and jam with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. (And if you don't, you have no soul.)
drwaings? #corrections
When the game was first announced with 3-6-12 in the trailer, I had to look it up to make sure I knew what they were talking about, because I'm so used to NOT having American-style timekeeping in the game (your save files are all day-month-year and a 24-hour clock) that I was wondering if they meant June. ;)
Lending out books always made me nervous. I ended up instating a simple rule: if the book is signed, it doesn't leave the house. People tend to understand that one, and I go to enough readings that this ends up guarding a disproportionate percentage of my library.
It's a little harder to do that with games, although I guess that old autographed copy of Welltris I have kicking around somewhere is safe.... ;)
My violence threshold with games is a little weird, but I can describe it as "the further away from reality the whole situation gets, the less twitchy I am." Take, say, Final Fantasy games. I really don't have a problem killing a 50-foot flan monster with fire. In Mass Effect I turn the difficulty down as far as it can go, live my life in the ability wheel, avoid the guns as much as possible and stick with killing people with my brain if I have to, and then I get back to, y'know, having conversations and mucking about with story choices. With Uncharted 2 (the first game in the series I played) I decided I'd give the whole thing a go, and I got through it on the strength of the game experience as a whole, but I admit I had points where I felt desperately, desperately uncomfortable and started complaining aloud, "Can I PLEASE stop shooting things? I don't want to shoot things anymore!"
I feel like my threshold's eroded a little in the last few years and I'm not entirely happy about that, but I still have my limits. Suffice it to say I still stick with fantasy situations as much as possible, and you couldn't PAY me to play any kind of even-vaguely-realistic war sim. And while I'm not quite sure I have the patience for pacifism runs in games that weren't really designed for it, I have to give a HUGE thumbs-up to the folks that do. Someday, I'd like to see a whole lot more story-oriented games where combat isn't the sole focus. There's just got to be more to the medium than GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS, you know?
You left out the two most offensive problems I've seen described yet: the character who apparently just got over her autism and the gay character who turned straight.
There's lore nitpicking, and there's WTF, and I think this book falls under both categories. Color me unamused.
Absolutely. I don't mind the folks who know what they're doing and aren't there expressly to be "hey, look at my booooooooobs, come over heeeeeeeeeeeeeere." Costumes, even if they're skimpy/slinky/whatever, can be just fine if they make sense for the product and -- again -- if said person knows what he/she's talking about. Chances are they're the type most likely to be enjoying themselves at the gig, too, which makes a big difference for everyone involved.
Personally, my very favorite "booth babe" ever was a guy in a t-shirt and jeans who was demoing Dance Central at the Kinect booths at PAX a couple years ago. He had every demo routine at every difficulty level down so stone cold that he could do it facing the player, not the screen, in order to help them out. I remember nudging a friend at the time and saying, "Hey, can I have one of those?" ;)
We're none of us immune, I suppose. Just... y'know....be there for a reason.
Will you watch this show?
In a word, no. In slightly more words: September 11th is rapidly turning into the same kind of cheap-shot backstory device as rape is for female characters: INSTANT AAAAAAAAANGST without actual effort in character development. It's getting kind of old.
*facepalm*
I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. BioWare regularly writes better female characters than they design, and it's getting a little old.
Agreed. At the point where I realized that your choices amounted to "giant rack, giant rack, giant rack or giant rack," I sighed. A LOT.
