Judge_Death

'Even though Iran is huge, just like Pakistan, a lot of land is not accessable. Iran has a pretty big population (70 million, I think), but we'd only need to take major cities like Tehran.' Most of Iran is made up of mountains and rock, an ideal location for gurrila warfare. Its like Afganistan, when the soviets invaded it they grabbed the cities, but the fighters just spread out into the mountains and launched raids on them. The Coalition made the same mistake in most of Iraq, you have to take the whole country lest you provide your enemy with a safe hiding place. 'I thought Saudi Arabia were building good relationships with the West.' The Saudi royal family cut most of their links to the west after they found out that their people actualy really hated the west and Israil, too worried that an uprising due to the iraq war would give them the boot. I wouldn't say we are likely to go to war in Iran anytime soon, but the secret invasion of Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam war proves the US likes to lash out when it realises its a hopeless situation.

The other night I was sitting down with my dad when we began debating why his generation of video games were better than mine. It ended up being the usual argument of age and culture difference, but one of his answers really struck me. He pointed out that his generation of games were much more difficult that any of ours, and I realised that he's right. When I talk about his generation, i don't mean pac-man, im talking about cannon fodder, chaos engine, syndicate and worms. Each of those games required hours of attention untill your hands bled to advance through even half of the game. They required jedi-gaming skills and hours of your time to find the correct wepons, stratagies and locations. Taking this into mind, I looked at my 360's collection of games. Gears of War, Dead Rising and even Battle for Middle Earth. Each of which can be completed in under a day if you just sit down long enough. The skills no longer require careful thought as much as holding down the trigger button long enough to leave nothing left in your way. Rather than fighting and shooting being there to slow people along their way, games now focus totaly arround killing. Even Battle for middle Earth revolves arround building as many men as possible untill your opponents are overwhelmed. Where has the exploration and the thinking gone? The other consoles have little better in this respect. PS3's endless line of racing games and hack em ups ask nothing more than button mashing, and the wii's pick up and play formula has left the console with an endless stream of brainless party games. Im not saying there are no exception to this new rule. Viewtiful Joe and F-zero GX were both two of the hardest games ever created, but again these are exceptions to the trend. So what do you think, Are games just too easy today? Is it the developers or the gamers to blame? Has graphics over gameplay already set in without realising?

'Just got an american account, wheres all the tv shows and stuff, it aint so impressive as i imagined....' Its all under the media and entertainment options. Speaking of which, is there any way to downlod any of the free clips etc without it blocking you off for being in the wrong place?

Hmmmmm, its telling me that creating new xbox accounts isnt available at this time. Anyone else get the impression theres a room full of crying Microsoft techs trying to sort out thousands of new accounts from 'child account' people wanting to get on messenger?

'I no longer count as a child since I'm 18, so why the feck can I not access Messenger? Pain in the ass.' Im havin the same problem, you think Microsoft would have worked this out by now, anyone know a way to update your windows ID without having to restart your gamertag etc, at all?

I picked up oddworld munch's oddysee today for a couple of quid, when I played it on my 360 though it keeps cutting out the dialogue. Ive had similar problems plying other xbox games on my 360, but im not sure if its because the disk is a bit scratched or because of ANOTHER lazy emuation (for shame microsoft ). Anyone else had the same problem?

The PS3 looked massive on gamer.tv, probably a hell of a lot bigger than 360. Its funny really concidering PS fanboys attacked the 360 for being big, I just got a cd drive for the mac, measured it up as being the same size as 3 dvd cases, could that be the revolutions true size?

I have heard its coming, but when, whats new, and how good will it look, any info will be much apreciated.