aspro said:

What is beyond beleif is how they've managed to have a closed society, I mean, it's like 1984. Can you imagine the social anthropology you could do in that country?

The idealist (naive and stupid) part of me thinks that the democractic nations of the world should get their shit together and "sort out" the bad regimes around the world once and for all.

Of course it will never happen and it wouldn't work anyway. (naive and stupid)

We need the world police force. Its team would look something like the cast of the original Star Trek.

Hey, where's Sulu? Probably behind Kirk somewhere.

ASK_Story said:

Cool news on Elder Scrolls sequel! I expect HUGE improvements. I thought the jump in quality from Oblivion to Fallout 3 was huge. The character models backgrounds, art, everything looked far more professional if you know what I mean.

Hopefully better horse controls, a tougher horse with armour, horseback combat like Twilight Princess. Custom caves and dungeons, screw this procedural generation nonsense. Perhaps a bit more humour and more Dark Brotherhood missions plz.

K, okay. Bye.

Justin Calvert (reviews boss at gamespot) was on their podcast today. He said of GT5)

= You can advance through the game without doing the licenses. The licenses add greatly to your characters XP though (XP unlocks tracks/cars).

= AI is "better than it has been" but is "not good".

= Reviewers have not had access to multiplayer either.

= Car damage "doesn't seem" to affect driving and is minor where it is. He said it will impact the formula one cars more, but he has not tried those yet.

= NASCAR is "pretty neat"

= Rally is perfunctory.

= Top Gear track is included and has a bunch of challenges.

= There are Challenge Modes that are "kind of fun" -- racing "camper vans".

Not sounding like a 10 from gamespot. He had to be kind of vague because of the embargo, so it's hard to tell where they will come down on it, but it's not a 10 on their scale judging from his reaction to the game.

aspro said:

Not sounding like a 10 from gamespot. He had to be kind of vague because of the embargo, so it's hard to tell where they will come down on it, but it's not a 10 on their scale judging from his reaction to the game.

I'm curious to see what'll happen if this game doesn't get spectacular reviews. For a game that's spent as long as it has in development I've got to believe that reviewer expectations will be very high, and maybe unfairly so. Regardless though unless the games see's scores in the 8's I don't think anyone is really going to care.

ASK_Story said:

Final Fantasy XIII comes to mind since it took so long. Can you belive FFXIII Versus is taking longer than GT5 and FFXIII!?

FF XIII had a lot of other factors against it though. There were some drastic changes to the gameplay that turned a lot of people off.

Preview

http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1136346p1.html

Screw that, I want a new Goonies game.

gamingeek said:

We need the world police force. Its team would look something like the cast of the original Star Trek.

Hey, where's Sulu? Probably behind Kirk somewhere.

Funny that you mention Star Trek. Does the Prime directive ring any bell? It is not really democratic to go and sort out other regimes, because you deem them to be 'undemocratic'. 'Sorry for throwing the bomb at you, but we are doing it for your own good!' It is not just stupid and naive. It is totally insane and retarded. How about we stop meddling with other countries business? Because it worked so well in Vietnam and Iraq.

aspro said:

gamingeek said:

WTF is up with North Korea? South Korea is pretty cool aside from the dog eating. Mega super, ultra-fast broadband on toast and some kickass movies too.

Let's say it escalates, do you think the US would support the South and China or Russia might support the North? Do we have another world war on our hands? And would North Korea on the brink of defeat use the nuclear bombs?

Since NK has nukes its a stand-off issue.  China won't get involved anymore than they currently are (which is propping up NK ). They can't afford to piss off their customers.

This is why Iran (and everyone else who hasn't got them) wants nukes.  It's the ultimate license to do as you please.  If Iraq has actually had any WMD there is no way we would have entered a land-war with them.

Three months ago, rather then escalate things the US and South Korean made up every possible excuse for the sinking of that South Korean ship before they finally had to admit NK did it.

I think you'll see some airstrikes, tighter sanctions. If NK responds poorly to the airstrikes, then who knows.  Hopefully a landwar, uniformed army against uniformed army -- those are wars the west knows how to win -- and it would provide a good rationale to exit wars we aren't good at (insurgency).

Hopefully a land war?! Great let's fight a army that is armed with nuclear weapons. Yes, who cares out Seoul, or Tokyo?! Small price to pay for victory. How about not fighting any wars for now, because God knows the USA can't afford one. For God's sake even China fears North Korea, these guys are scary armed and motherfucking hungry.

aspro said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Hopefully a land war?! Great let's fight a army that is armed with nuclear weapons. Yes, who cares out Seoul, or Tokyo?! Small price to pay for victory. How about not fighting any wars for now, because God knows the USA can't afford one. For God's sake even China fears North Korea, these guys are scary armed and motherfucking hungry.

          I don;t want any form of war, but not wanting wars doesn't stop them.  Go back to listening to Imagine. War is here forever, better that they be ones that don't go for 10 years and end in an unresolved mess forever.

China does not fear NK, it just doesn;t want their poor swamping their borders.

aspro said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Hopefully a land war?! Great let's fight a army that is armed with nuclear weapons. Yes, who cares out Seoul, or Tokyo?! Small price to pay for victory. How about not fighting any wars for now, because God knows the USA can't afford one. For God's sake even China fears North Korea, these guys are scary armed and motherfucking hungry.

          I don;t want any form of war, but not wanting wars doesn't stop them.  Go back to listening to Imagine. War is here forever, better that they be ones that don't go for 10 years and end in an unresolved mess forever.

China does not fear NK, it just doesn;t want their poor swamping their borders.

Not starting wars would be a good start. I am looking at you George W. Bush.