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Meanwhile, nbc's community is well on it's way to cancellation. :( Guess people really like the laugh track. To actually add something to the discussion though, Big Bang Theory is like comfort food. Few mind-blowing sensations, but you know you'll get at least one laughter. While I...

Two FPSes that are *more* overlooked than Black, but also way better: Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter(Well, for some definitions of good. The graphics are much worse.) Operation Snowblind(For any and all definitions of good.)

Also, this is on topic! http://nonadventures.com

I always wanted(and by always I mean ever since the new costume came out) an updated costume to be more like, I dunno, hoplite armour? I was never bugged by the old costume, but then again, I read Witchblade growing up. You get jaded, dammit*! I never saw Diana as sexually appealing, and I never...

I am sorry, but neither of those count. Spyhunter started out as an arcade game, and Clive Barker made an original storyline for undying. edit: Sorry if I came across as a jerk. The reason I made the caveat was because well...I'm sure this forum has had "describe your dream game" and "what is...

As I was reading through the news archive yesterday, I managed to, for some reason, combine Let's Retire the Reboot [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/writersroom/8382-Lets-Retire-the-Reboot] and No More Movie Games for EA...

What was it Goethe said? "Genius shows itself when restrained." Something like that. Crytek should, in fact, be thankful that they are being held back as that forces them to make a better game than they otherwise could have gotten away with. The true heroes of this story is in fact sony and...

Actually, the original Mortal Kombat gave me nightmares. We can't just point out how unrealistic it is, we have to take into account what it looked like at the time when it was released. In 92 I was ten. I had never seen anything as violent. And these were real people. The thought that all...

Another possibility for the most famous one: How about spinning coins? They are so incredibly stylized that they don't compare to many real world currencies, but they were used all over the place in the eighties and early nineties. Beats the Triforce, that's for sure. Less sure about whether...

This, but I assume it doesn't count because it is simultaneously a real-life symbol. Most well-known? I'd say that the generic arrow shapes are more well-known than even pac-man. My favourite, however, is undoubtedly the Shenmue mirrors.

It is a bit more complex than that, and we cannot put the whole blame on cultural differences. Japanese culture has room for strong women, and they are not limited to "tomboy" roles. You can find strong-willed housewives if you look. The issue is not merely that Samus has aspects that relates to...

I call that an example of game critics setting the bar too low when it comes to the quality of storytelling. In the same way that they roll over and is impressed when War FPSes give lip service to the tragedy of war for a few minutes before turning right around and being all "War, F**k Yeah!"...

You know, there are, or at the very least there should be, a way to avoid Gears of War's machisimo *without* making Samus into a Stepford Housewife. M:OM does not make Samus into a character, they reinvent her as a Yamato Nadeshiko archetype, putting in all the traits that *they* find...

I haven't read the entire thread, but I think the "overanalyzation" in OP's post is actually pretty close to spot on. While the consequences of Samus' speciesism becomes a plot point at times, she never actually learns. Metroid 2 really *did assume* that it was a good idea to kill an entire...

*AHEM* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAJ7ogpcsj4] OSARE (Open Source Action Roleplaying Engine) is still in its infancy, but it is shaping up rather nicely! It is free, Open Source, and what you are looking for. However, it still have a long way to go before it is as good as commercial...