Comments on: Some Thoughts On E3 From Far, Far Away

By: bonuswavepilot

bonuswavepilot — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:11:52 +0000

@Sam:

I stand corrected.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:18:22 +0000

@bonuswavepilot:

We do have a word for 3rd last: ‘antepenultimate’.

And, before you ask, the word for 4th last is ‘preantepenultimate’. I don’t think there’s anything official beyond that case, though.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:42:22 +0000

Ah yes, corrected.

By: bonuswavepilot

bonuswavepilot — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:49:09 +0000

Obligatory grammar nitpicking comment for deletion:
In the 3rd-last para, I think you mean “…look *at* those lovely trees”.
Speaking of which, why don’t we have a word for 3rd last? We’ve got ‘penultimate’ for 2nd last… I nominate ‘trinultimate’.

By: DSX

DSX — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:16:43 +0000

FO3 = Yay.

Since RPS and slashdot/games is the only video game stuff I usually read many of the E3 titles were new and shiny. Perhaps in the minority there, but the coverage is much appreciated.
DeadSpace = game I’d never heard of, shows excellent potential.
I am Alive = Best trailer that makes me want to know more.
DAO = The screenshots sell that game.. not the trailers. Looks awesome.
Mirrors Edge = A whole game of running and jumping through superb scenery with a few kung fu moves. Could be superb. Nagging doubts.
Clear Sky = 100% will be standing in line to buy.

By: mister slim

mister slim — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:26:00 +0000

Aren’t The Read Hierarchy the villains in that game Bungie weren’t allowed to announce?

That does kind of sound like a controlling PR company actually.

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:40:46 +0000

The Read Hierarchy: videogame design principle, or insidious alien race bent on galactic domination?

By: Cunningbeef

Cunningbeef — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:41:38 +0000

Then I spoke too soon.

I love you guys.

By: Dolphan

Dolphan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:28:54 +0000

PC Zone has a very praiseful preview of Fallout 3 based on actually playing it, though that doesn’t make it gospel.

By: mandrill

mandrill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:20:51 +0000

with regard to the invisible walls in Mirror’s Edge. They’re not ivisble walls as I understand them. An Invisble wall as I understand it is like the fences in Stalker, a 3 or 4 foot high obstacle that your character can’t jump over, when in reall life they could, or reall invisible walls which are just bits of game you can’t get to because there literally is an invisible wall in the way.

Unjumpable gaps and locked doors are okay in my book, as long as they don’t destroy the immersion like the above examples and fit into the world naturally and believably then they don’t bother me.

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:18:14 +0000

Clear Sky is must-play, Far Cry 2 is looking damn good (have some doubts still tho), Rage looks interesting, Fallout 3 perhaps least so.

I need a good new SP experience. I’m pretty much through my backlog after I finish Penumbra: Black Plague over the weekend.

I wish they would release Clear Sky a couple weeks earlier.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:11:10 +0000

I believe Kieron is working on a new Dwarf Fortress article at the moment.