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    Feed Dump: Nightflight to Venus

    It doesn't really seem fair to rag on El Salvador like that. My home state of Arizona had about 400+ murders in 2010, and out population is equivalent to El Salvador. I don't know whether or not any of those days were murder free, but the statistical average for us is still more than 1 murder a...
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    Skyrim just got released 10 hours early in Australia

    Oh Geez guys. Are you seriously so mad at Valve, creator of many of the world's best games and the INCREDIBLY useful service that is Steam? The company set a release date and Valve honored it. How unfair. Anyway, it's 11:27pm here...got about an hour and a half til my Steam download unlocks...
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    What's so great about Elder Scrolls?

    Again, I never said I didn't like it. I said I had a lot of fun playing it. My point was that I thought people might be excited for Skyrim based on their affection for Morrowind, which was in my opinion a better game than Oblivion.
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    What's so great about Elder Scrolls?

    Honestly, Oblivion was not that great, and Skyrim looks like almost exactly the same game. I think most of the excitement people have/had for Oblivion and Skyrim were due to how great Morrowind was. Don't get me wrong. I played more than 140 hours of Oblivion. I was a badass black chick with...
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    Your Gaming Capital Sins

    I have two: 1) I love Final Fantasy 12, and consider it easily the best game of the series. 2) I think Okami is the ugliest, more boring Zelda clone I've ever played. People are shocked when I say these things. OPEN YOUR EYES, PEOPLE.
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    Ask a Voraphile (possibly disturbing)

    I have no idea why this thread is on the Escapist at all...but for people who are still confused about what the general idea of soft vore is, there's a furry artist out there by the name of MamaBliss that pretty much nails the genre. Not linking to it...but she's quite findable.
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    El Shaddai: Quintessential case of "overhyped"

    Hey, Halo's not my favorite game or anything, but there's a reason so many people still play it. It's a very good physics-based fps, if you like that sort of thing. I'm not saying we've been saturated with ads for this game more than any other, I'm saying that I just don't see El Shaddai...
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    Poll: Are you getting Silent Hill: downpour?

    Bah! I don't need to wait for anyone to review it. The trailer looks fantastic. Silent Hill 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, but I haven't played one since Silent Hill 3. Well, okay. I played Shattered Memories, but that's only cause I found it for $% in the bargain bin at my local...
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    Which video game villain do you think has the best death?

    My favorite of all time is probably Dom's death in Grim Fandango. Absolute gloating, cocky, self-assured asshole from the moment he steps onscreen. Continually gets advanced above you the whole game until you're basically his office whipping boy and he's a god, destroying the afterlife for...
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    El Shaddai: Quintessential case of "overhyped"

    I usually find that when previews for games say that something is the "most anticipated", what they're actually saying is "most heavily advertised". Who's anticipating this? Is anyone actually excited about El Shaddai? To me it looks like Poser 3D meets Epic Mickey (another case of...
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    Escape to the Movies: Atlas Shrugged

    This movie wasn't made earlier not because of a lack of interest, but because the guy who held the rights has held them for years and years and wouldn't let anyone else have them. He finally decided to produce it, even though he didn't really have the money, because he would have lost the rights...
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    Extra Punctuation: Building Sequels Badly

    Touché, sir. And that includes Yahtzee as well, I suppose.
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    Extra Punctuation: Not All Sequels Suck

    The Buffy scenario isn't really a sequel. It's a reboot, which I think is more in line with what Yahtzee is saying is a better idea.
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    Extra Punctuation: Building Sequels Badly

    Final Fantasy 12 was the best of the series by far more than a factor of 10. It's smoothly paced, very well-written, and wonderfully balanced in its difficulty curve. The world actully makes coherent sense and the plot makes sense in the world. I was extremely pleased that you did not end up...
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    Trying to convince my friend he's not a paedophile

    The correct term is pederast. Problem solved.