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Oh, hey Bluestrike! I bought the game this afternoon on Steam and its downloading. I've been reading and hearing a lot of great things about this game so I could no longer resist. I think I'll have quite a good time with this game tonight.

For a second I thought this would be a game much like those old shady Nintendo bible games, where they took Wolfenstein 3D and replaced the enemies with animals from Noah's Ark and replaced the pistol with a slingshot, etc... Just watch the Angry Videogame Nerd if you're unsure what I'm talking about. However, what Bible Navigator X actually turned out to be proves to be much more disappointing as a gimmick. I can see its purpose, however. In fact, I think its even an interesting method to segway an Xbox into some Christian families, where a console just for games might be frowned upon, I don't know.

I always like the idea behind such websites. With the tutorials, spotlight and member portfolios it reminds me a lot of Interlopers.net. Have you thought about the future and scalability of your website? Right now everything is created with iframes and tables in plain HTML pages that have their entire CSS structure in them each time. I can see this working for a simple website of a few pages, but if you want your website to grow with new content added (daily, weekly?) you will probably run into so many problems and headaches. It could be a good idea to give this some thought before going further with the website? It would also be a good idea to look at the information you release about your members. Mr. Happy's page for example has his email written right out in the open. Of course, I don't know if he wanted it this way or not. However, will all future members be happy with this? A good idea would be to look into image based solutions, or simply formulating the email addresses in a different way to prevent their email addresses from being picked up by additional spam. Good luck!

Heh, I thought you hated Anime? Well, it looks like Alucard (read: Dracula) from Hellsing to me. Its not a bad drawing at all. To really display Alucard well enough, his pose should probably be a lot more mysterious and frightful, though. His eyes could have a different shape as well, small peering eyes for example as opposed to neutral big round eyes.

Awesome job, Quakis. While I agree with the stuff mentioned earlier in this thread (that some things could have been improved) but you obviously recognize this, so no worries there. I'm sure that if you ever make another one, all those flaws will be ironed out. For the rest, I fucking enjoyed some of the fight scenes and the female character. It must have been really tricky getting some of that stuff to work right.

I'll be at the Belgian GameJam in Antwerps together with my colleagues. Considering its in our office building and partly being organized by us. Nysuatro & Punky, be sure to bring your own laptops or something. Since I don't think we have any available desktop machines for the participants to use.

Seriously, whats wrong with a hobby of collecting things? What does a woman even have to do with it?

South Korea is seriously advanced when it comes to technology. They've always been ahead of the EU & US in that department. I'll see if I can ask some of my Korean friends if they know if its being used already or not (although, I guess the military wouldn't really be advertising the use of it publicly I suppose). Love the token South Korean female voice on the turret as well, which asks soldiers for a password.

Of course its a number. Zero indicates that you have no items. "1 apple is 1 apple, 2 apples are 2 apples, 0 apples is nothing, nada, zilch. You can't give someone 0 apples." You can't give someone 0 apples, sure. But that doesn't mean its impossible for someone to have 0 apples. Numbers aren't about "possessing" something, numbers can be both positive and negative. For example, its perfectly possible for the weather to be 0 degrees Celsius or below. Your logic about 1-1=1 apple doesn't make any sense to me either, sadly. If there is one apple (1) and you remove it (1-1) then there are no apples (1-1=0).

Haha, I like the Super Mario cartoon.

That is awesome, I grew up playing that game along with Duke3D. Where did you find it, eBay?

Your score: 4 Gender: Male Age range: 20-29 Best score for your gender and age range: 0 Highest score for your gender and age range: 1440 I should give it another go on my MacBook Pro, which has a proper bright LED screen compared to this dark LCD screen. Even so, I'm happy with a score of 4.

Must be all of the gold chains, it blinds his vision. Congratulations on winning that computer mate, it looks like a beauty. I'm guessing it runs Crysis pretty well?

Pretty cool. You should give Blood+ a watch. Its got a similar theme and style to it.

Yeah, DELL can be pretty annoying when it comes to that. Another company that would seem likely of doing these sort of things would be Apple, but to be honest ever since they went Intel everything is pretty compatible with each other. I suppose the Mac Mini is a perfect example of a Mac playing nicely with PC hardware. I guess you will have to get a new monitor from DELL then? It would be a nice excuse to increase screen size real estate. Or maybe you can find one of those converter boxes or whatever?

Ah, that album is great. I've had it since 2003 or something, I think you could get it for free back then from his official website.

Yeah, Minotauro made a good point. I did the same thing, worked a full time job and still went on to get an education at the same time. While I didn't have flexible hours, both my work and education were design oriented so I could do stuff at work for school giving me more free time where I needed it. It sounds painful but its really not that bad once you get into it. Regardless, best of luck with your endeavors.

Eh, what? I'm pretty sure there is a huge amount of PC gamers with systems that aren't even as strong as the 360 or especially the PS3. Its what developers tend to do, make their game playable on a wide range of systems. But yeah, the game still looks pretty shitty graphics wise. It looks a lot like Call of Duty 3.

Living in Belgium, the iPhone is a pretty weird situation. I still have the first generation iPhone which a friend imported to me from the U.S., personally I'm not sure I want to switch to the new ones. The first generation still looks better to me and a lot more sturdy, the 3G version looks a bit too glossy to my taste and even easier to scratch and smudge. Then again I haven't actually seen a 3G up close so I could be totally wrong about this. The black ones are pretty sexy though I admit wholeheartedly. GPS would also be a nice addition to my iPhone... The weird thing is that sales tying is illegal here in Belgium. Tying for example is selling a phone along with a contract. So the Belgian iPhones will be sim lock free (which is awesome). Yet on the other hand, stores are actually trying to sell the iPhone with a Mobistar contract. I'm not sure how they're doing it but if I go pick up a new 3G iPhone and they try to hook me up with a sleazy contract I'm going to throw a fit to be sure. Apple partnering up with the Mobistar network was a really stupid move. The only reason being that Mobistar is part of the Orange network in Europe. Funny thing about that partnership is that Mobistar barely has the 3G network up and running while all the other cellphone carriers do support it. Now I play the waiting game for the 2.0 jailbreak! Super Monkey Ball get~! ^^

All your hate with wanting to make Diablo 3 a darker game has manifested itself into your Windows explorer. Heh, seriously though, I don't know. This usually happens on the desktop if you use a PNG image for a wallpaper. But I've never seen it happening in the explorer windows before... Did you change anything recently that might have to do with this? Have you tried rebooting or force restarting explorer.exe?

Haha, like that Uwe Boll petition. Good stuff, can't believe people always think it will make a change or something. Well, Blizzard is a pretty good developer and much like Valve, they listen to their community. What they might do is keep it in mind to make some of the areas in the game even more gloomy than the one we already saw with the Barbarian. But to completely change the style and colors? No way, never.

The thing is, people haven't even seen the entire game yet. Sure, the entire style displayed so far is rather special but the dungeons in the gameplay video looked pretty damn mysterious and foreboding to me. Which is exactly what Diablo is about, right? The sudden contrast change when going outside was a bliss. People everywhere are moaning that games these days are all gray and colorless. Blizzard does exactly the opposite and people are still not satisfied. Its impossible to satisfy everyone, which is also exactly why that petition won't come through. I'm pretty sure this game will feature beautiful outdoors where you can feast your eyes for a while and then change to a nice dark and gloomy setting again to get into the real Diablo business. Who is to say all the outdoor environments will feature beautiful forests anyway, I'm sure there will be a lot of variation. A whole lot more variation than Diablo 2 anyway (which is possible through this art style).

Eternal Sonata, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Ninety-Nine Nights, Ninja Gaiden II... If your into those Japanese kind of games. Eternal Sonata is probably my favorite game on the 360.

Hahaha, not sure who from Mapcore posted that, pretty funny though. I've been following this story since I read about it at work early this morning. Its just sad really, because I understand these kind of values were different back in the day but they have to get with the program. It seems to me only one person in their team was capable of doing some 'old fashioned' 3D design and animation which explains the low quality models and animations used in the game. The other development time was seemingly used for importing content from other games into their (stolen?) engine. Sure, its quite a feat obtaining all that content but that doesn't make it good. And yeah, seeing that game getting published while other independent developers struggle so hard makes me feel sick.

I see you added the Gears of War stuff on your portfolio Dux, nice one.