MrVegetable

Cheers for the review, Tonks. It's such a shame that this had to happen to our series. I was so excited when I saw the annoucement, and it's all just been steadily destroyed over time. I can't imagine that there will be any overbearingly important features added at this point in the development cycle, especially if they're planning to run a beta programme in the next couple of months, so I'll personally be calling it on maintaining any hope of a turnaround before February. A real shame, as Glassbox actually looks like a solid engine. Wrap SC4 around it, and they had a strong start on the game we probably all wanted from the start.

I saw this thread a couple of days ago whilst making a fleeting visit but due to problems with my internet and the repairs on the site this is my first chance to post. It's hard to find words to write really...I had such great respect for him and had great times with him in the chat. Always joking around. One of the people I really looked up to. It's more than sad knowing he's not going to come in anymore with his cheery attitude. Makes me regret my absence from here all that much more, knowing that I never got to share more moments with him through ST. My deepest condolences go out to his family, and I know we will all miss him here and for all the communities he was involved with. Thank-you for all the good times we shared here, Mike. Rest in Peace.

I finshed the game about a week or so ago, or at least one of the endings...was so annoyed when I missed out on the 30 hour completion achievement by 10 minutes... Ah well...I'll gladly play through it again at some point and make different decisions at different points in the game than what I did first time around.

I'll admit, the timing of this documentary being made news is certainly bad! When I saw the report on BBC1 this morning I saw the part with all the penguins in a huge flock like in the above picture and I couldn't help thinking it to look slightly fake...although the other shots certainly were real I reckon... This is all part of the penguins preparations to take over the world! You have been warned!

Originally posted by: The_Dalai_Llama Healthy Lifestyle Is the Secret to Longer Life, Researchers Say "Not smoking, regular exercise, maintaining normal weight, and avoiding diabetes and high blood pressure seem to be the secrets of living to age 90, researchers say quote> Amazingly, they don't seem to mention eating, drinking and sleeping, which I always thought were 3 primary needs of the human body. Everyone has a different "normal" weight and diabetes can happen to anyone, even if the risk of contracting it is heightened by poor diet. But missing out eating, drinking and sleeping makes me wonder how these guys became reasearchers...

One of the best rising actors...gone...Tis a sad day...

Looks like this'll be the first GTA game I get for the Xbox, as I have a 360 and no PS3...I should get a PS3...I love Gran Turismo too and that's a PS exclusive. Really looking forward to this GTA though. Sounds and looks fantastic.

Well I don't remember much of that at all...shows how much attention I paid. 2007 was pretty...boring or just bad. Why doesn't anything GOOD happen?

I don't think I've ever laughed so much once opening the "Best Looking Organic Product" award! I wasn't expecting to see that. But I'm grateful and thank-you to whoever voted me for that! And congratulations to all those who won awards and to all the nominees too! It's been a fantastic year! Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go and have a facial and get my hair fluffed up a bit!

I still am a member of Runescape, and occassionally I'll play it, even though I spend most of my gaming time on World of Warcraft or BETA testing Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor. It certainly has it's fun side, but I've hit the stage now where levellin skills is so tedious I just don't bother, and also at the point where there are not enough quests at my skill levels to help me level up. The only ones I have left are too high for my skills... I recently had the urge to pull out DBZ Budokai 3 (not the new one) out from my shelf. After dusting it off, I remembered it as probably the best side-on fighter for the PS2 (yes, even better than Tekken, Mortal Combat and Street Fighter). I honestly don't think I've ever played a side-on fighter like it! Now after watching a video of the new version (the free-roaming version) and I think that even if you don't like DBZ the games are a must!

Congrats ST on 200,000 members! How long untilwe reach 300,000? At this rate, probably 3 weeks!

You make a fair point, but there is a key difference: In the Sims 2, things such as pets or cars are all very nice and require a few unique mechanics but they aren't the core essentials of the game. The game functions without them. Stripped to the bare bones yes, but functional nonetheless. SC is different. What they've done is taken out the CORE features of what was SimCity and thrown them aside and introduced a whole new core feature. Adding back CORE features that should have been in the game in the first place in expansion packs is absurd, especially as the two systems could conflict somewhat. And if the game does flop, EA wouldn't make an expansion anyway, as they wouldn't waste their resources on it if it doesn't make money. Expansion packs are for new features, not for replacing them.

Illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament? What the heck are they going to do about it? Arrest your corpse and put it in prison for a certain amount of time? What a punishment that would be if you're already dead...It's stupid...

How is Billy and Mandy like Spongebob at all? Spongebob has a plot for a start (albeit a loose one), Billy and Mandy has none that I've ever seen. Billy and Mandy is just gross to the extreme! Why would you want your child to watch it? Most of the CN shows now are overly complicated or boring or just plain stupid. I think I dropped CN after all the shows I watched went over to Toonami (mainly DragonBall) as everything left and all the newer stuff coming in at the time was pathetic. I then dropped Toonami when they went through their readjustment and got rid of the DragonBall series and Code Lyoko and had a more childish theme to it. They didn't last long after that and turned into what is now CN Too. Now I just don't tend to bother. Mostly because the only cartoon (well, anime really) isn't shown here in England on any of the channels I have, and the new Spongebob episodes are rather...terrible. And I always miss Family Guy when it's on too

Pucker up!