Nolan

I remember hearing MW2 being described as the most realistic shooter ever....on a commercial.

Halo: Reach does not count as a new IP.

There is a board game based off that now. It's quite fun actually.

That is cause for concern. While I can't say yet if I'd want Bungie's next game it's likely I will, unfortunately I don't want to give Activision any support for the fact that they've generally been shitting on the industry in recent times. A similar situation with Ubisoft as well.

Please be an April Fool's joke.

The original is actually really short to play. A couple hours on Easy/Normal with a few gameovers. Then you can start unlocking Hard mode, and Turbo mode where everything is Twice as fast.

It still shows smooth shadows though. Just look at the girls arm, the light is coming from behind and the arm gradually gets darker toward the front.

There are two specific elements of Cel-shading that this is missing though. The hard outline border (which can be added or removed regardless of Cel-shading, Wind Waker doesn't have it), and the lighting of the shadows. In Cel-shading shadows don't appear naturally in a smooth gradient, instead they are clearly defined levels of darkness. Hard Shadows. http://marctenbosch.com/npr_shading.png http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/aun_devanum/Cel-ShadingExamples.jpg Amd to really make you guys think I'm crazy, Borderlands isn't cel-shaded either. While I don't dislike Cel-Shading, I think I enjoy the look of the game more as it is.

Definitely just you. Doesn't look cel-shaded in the least to me.

As much as I enjoy the idea of the Hellboy Universe, the way they ended The Golden Army just pisses me off. A lot.

Well: Shadows of the Empire (96 and 97 depending on version. All the Rouge Squad/Leader/Squadron games, starting 98. Those are the only ones around the same time. Later on though there were RTS's (just not the same feeling though) and the Battlefront games and and so on. So really just those two, but the battle has definitely become more prevalent.

Relevation? I think most Star Wars games that involve flying/vehicles also have the Hoth level.

I doubt it's coming to PC, or at least not anytime soon. Halo 2 took 3 years, and no such plans for Halo 3 have been mentioned. Likely since Halo 2 wasn't terribly well received. Reach coming to PC is a longshot.

If those are all in-game, really nice may be an understatement. I won't commit myself to saying that just yet with just being scans.

Lies, my Infernape on Platinum is terrible, it seems that practically everything of a comparable level can one shot him. I'd never beat the Elite Four if I didn't have a Gyrados.

That gif would be complete if it had Grape Drank.

I saw it typed out as F.E.A.R 3 in Gameinformer today, so I think they did truly change it.

Concuss has always been one of my favorites, and I couldn't think of it earlier today.

Ampersand or Guesstimate

I tend to just call it as I see it(A Gorilla is not a monkey, true fact), which can tend to rub people the wrong way. Even when I'm just joking. In all honesty, it's been too long since playing for me to be able to pinpoint anything in particular. I'm likely being rather unfair since when I did last play I was rather young and ignorant. I'll even quote myself from this very thread: Oh, and I always figured that convoluted beyond understanding and poorly written went hand in hand....unless convoluted is the goal.

Ping test isn't working for me either, so don't go by it just yet. It may be something with your DNS http://pixelsmashers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2727&hilit=DNS. As far as NAT issues with Vuze, I've never been able to purposely get rid of those myself. Although, my new router never had an issue, but even with the old one it didn't seem to affect anything either way.

Why do you take this so personally? You attack anyone who doesn't have glorious praise about FF VIII and XIII in such a way that you remind me of Choze.

Not me and many many others as well.

I never said it needed to be black and white, I said it's too obtuse. There's a difference between convoluted beyond understanding, and convoluted within...reason(?). The best example I can think of is MGS, the story is plain insane, but people make sense of it relatively easily. Is the same said about FF VIII? Has anyone made sense of the story?