ChristopherLeo said:

SteelAttack: If you don't mind me asking, in your professional opinion, are the doctors being overly cautious? Is 10 days the average time for someone to heal from something like this? I can't see him being cooped up like this for that long. His last majpr injury to his head like this was much worse but over a decade ago. His sister and I want to make a realistic plan on how we're going to help him thru this.

It's hard to say without knowing the full extent and nature of the injuries he sustained on that past event, and especially without imaging studies to evaluate. His doctors are probably much more willing to err on the side of caution right now considering that because of that prior event and the seizure triggered by the concussion this time, his risk of further events like this is definitely increased in the near future. He is probably going to feel much better in less than 10 days, but areas of cortical irritation can persist even without any other symptoms, and such areas might be susceptible of triggering new seizures when the circumstances are conducive (great physical exertion, intense visual stimuli, and the such).

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Hey there, Christopher.  Enjoying Bulletstorm?

ChristopherLeo said:

Oh boy, Dvader, he's been waiting to hear from you all day. I don't know if I should wake him now or not. He's been dying to hear about your first day in New York City. Are you going to be around here for a little while?

Let the man sleep, I am getting off now. Nice to see you around.

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So am I the only one playing Dragon Quest VI? Well if so then here are my impressions after 8 hours.

Thus far I'm not overly impressed, though it's pretty much what I expected. It is an unquestionably a relic of the 16 bit era, despite the graphics upgrade. Very standard 16 bit RPG quests; go to this dungeon to find a key, take the key to unlock a tower, take the treasure in the tower to the king, and boss fights inbetween.  The story is kind of convoluted. It's slowly being explained, but it's a mess at first and almost kills interest in the story.  I do see it improving though - the last hour was pretty strong (at least in comparison to what I've played so far) and really slow starts are not uncommon to the DQ universe, so I'm willing to write it off if things really start to pick up.  I'm dying to get to the class change portion of the game so hopefully there will be a little extra strategy and planning.

The most surprising thing though is how incredibly similar it is to DQ7. The dream world/real world parallel is very close to the present day/past parallel of DQ7's storyline. Combined with the class changes it almost seems like DQ7 was a xerox of DQ6.

phantom_leo said:

For Aspro.

Not available i my country so presumably not his, sadly. Though who knows where he is now!

robio said:

From the Kotaku review of Bulletstorm comes what may be the greatest sentence ever crafted by man:

If these pissmaggot fucksticks are the most highly trained soldiers in the space army then we're talking about a galaxy full of shitbirds that could be conquered in a day by goddamn Melmac.

Easily the best sentence in a review.

I'm having a blast with Arkham Asylum. Impressive game, with tons of stuff to discover and see. Combat is actually pretty good, despite a somewhat unfavorable first impression that might paint it as shallow. Voice acting is really, really good, and the game is very well optimized. 8 hours in.

I'd love to go to NYC during winter.