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Currently, Lucas Arts is working on a game in the Star Wars series (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed), taking place somewhere between Episode III and IV. For this game, Lucas Arts has taken a long jump into computing technology and developed DMI - Digital Molecular Matter. Basicly, it simulates how the objects (stuff aswell as humans etc) react to the world around it, such as throwing stuff on it (which is demonstrated in the video). Also, it is a great simulation between AI units, they behave as they were actually thinking creativly. A real blast to watch, can't wait to get my hands on the game.

Indeed, very true. They should implement an "Ignore all"-button.

Wikipedia says "United States et al" and as opposing forces "Al-Qaeda et al" in the War on terrorism-article. Whatever that means.

That's because it'd be boring. Wait for the arty to stop, get in line, charge, die. Exactly. That was the reality, but as for a game, I think you would get bored pretty quick. Though, I think if the correct atmosphere was captured without making it a "war-is-glorious"-game, it would be mentally a cool game. Not something that would hold for multiplayer, or even a few hours of singleplayer, though. But if you get bored with a game showing it, what do you think the soldiers felt after 4 years of doing the same thing? That's the feeling you could capture, but it would not make for a game. I would say medieval, but I still miss any game that actually simulates it well. I want to be one of the men storming towards the enemy with my sword/spear/whatever and not just have alot of combos that I can do and with ease kill the enemy. So for a mod or alike - go with Modern Day, but don't be afraid to leave desert/mid-east, any non-IRL wars would be cool to play, as mentioned before in this thread, ie Russia/China vs US/UK/Europe etc etc

Play it online. The SP-mode is worth jack shit. Multiplayer is awsome though

Yeah, my TV/Internet/telephone-company has EuroSport in the TV-package whichs shows Dakar live (afaik).

Maybe open a APC/IFV- and MBT-class for next years Dakar? Nah, really too bad. I think it's kinda fun to watch it (atleast summaries, way to much time spent watching live). A really awsome race, would be a great achivement to actually drive it once in a lifetime.

Yay.. Just drove past the building with their offices and a little DICE-logo (along with an EA-logo, but meh) on the outside, hehe. Cool vids, gonna put this game on my purchase-list

Nah, maybe it shouldn't be, this discussion could also turn into a (intelligent) "Are we a part of a Lucas Arts-game"-thread But all points above are very wierd, but could also be true, when you think about it. A bit scary too. Maybe we just are a part of a huge simulation - maybe God actually is a 11 year old girl that tries to redecorate every room with pink wallpaper - just that the game is default set to "free will", so she can't control it. I remember a episode of Star Gate (SG-1, I belive) where the crew found a rom, which they thought was some sort of controlroom, but after a while they realised it was just a gameroom - with a worldsimulator game for 2 people to play. The doctor/professor and another guy from the crew started playing and created 2 worlds, which after a while started to meet eachother, war on eachother etc etc. Later that episode they actually find the country on an actual planet (they find a flag which were created by the doc/professor for his country ingame), with actual people and actual hate towards the crewmans civilization. Maybe this sounds ridiculous, but what if it's true? What if we are just going a loop where this evolution makes a simulation, where another world is created, and that world goes on creating their own simulation and so on and so on. Seems thought that the evolution above us doesn't have internet - if they did, wouldn't we have met "aliens" by now..?

Just gave this a few thoughts yesterday - what about SimCity or something where the people actually are aware of their existance. What happens when people want to explore and hits the edge of your area, and realises that they can go further. So then the gamemakers links all worlds together in a big multiplayer-game, so sims can travel between users community. What if the communities now are so well aware of themselves that they start to like and dislike other communities. We'll get the stuff we see in everyday life - racism, prejudiction, crimes (not scripted ones) and even war! That would be cool and at the same time usefull, since it probably could be used to study how people behave when different things happens, like seeing how well prepared a simulated community would handle a nuclear-strike or something like that. Maybe a door into a new evolution of AI... Maybe rename it CI though - Creative Intelligence

Stand above or below your screen to get a bit of distorted angle of view, where the screen goes darker. There you'll see it

Yeah, looks a bit as a monkey face!

Wow, yeah. That would be really wierd - thinking of times where you have pwned all AI with a machinegun. What if it goes so far that you actually are killing something living. Wierd. A bit scary too. Nevertheless. If the Stormtroopers decide to keep my out of the game by killing me, I'll just mod the game so I will be invincible!

Ok, well, I didn't see a thread here (I've been a bad boy - I didn't make a search), so I went ahead to spread the info I think it's really cool and I shall definitely buy the game!

A quick search finds me the info that if you patch over 1.08, you can choose english instead of german in the option menu - unless you have the russian version. Source

Looking very good, WWII theme is always nice Keep up the good work and hopefully you'll get the members you need

Now that's some effective camo

Yeah, grenades can get a bit off, but if they are used properly, I "give people credit" (they can't hear me, but I think it's a nice kill). I hate grenade-campers, which I call people that see enemies on the radar and starts just throwing 'nades all over the place. I usually throw in a flashbang/stungrenade in a building if I know that a few campers are hiding. So fun once, 3 guys up a building, one window each. My team was kinda' noob, so no one killed them. I ran around, throw in a stungrenade and knifed them all :P By the way, test to play the Hardcore-mode games (they are unlocked after a while). That rocks, no HUD unless you got radar, no crosshair, I think the auto-aim is off (doesn't really matter for me, I don't use it) and you have less health/die easier, whichever it is. Fun game, could recommend it for anyone.

My friend told me that there was no hardware-modding needed to mod the 360, only a software run through the 360 itself (or maybe a connected PC, can't remember, not of great importance though). Not too good to do it, as you said, since it messes up the Live. I would put my money on a 360, just cause it's the same as a PS3, but half the pricetag and twice the games (double the fun, ey?), and since the whole style of Wii doesn't really fit me. Although, Wii is a cool gadget in itself

I think you must categorize the 3 main consoles right now. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is in the same category, Wii on the other hand is in another. The games on Wii are very different, and so has most of the Nintendo-games ever been, differing from previous Playstation and so on, going on more mainstream games. Wii, with it's special controls is also a different sort of gameplay. It doesn't work for all games, but as it was mentioned above, Wii Sports for example is really fun. Even if the game does not show how controls work perfectly, it was more of a demo, getting to know how to use the Wii properly. And the boxing is great fun, I played with my friend, and half an hour passed in 2 seconds, hehe. A con for the Wii is that (almost) only Nintendo makes accessories and also that it cannot play DVDs. Although, all GameCube-games are compatible with the Wii. When it comes down to either the 360 or the PS3, I would definitely choose the 360. Not just because I own one now, but Xbox Live (even if it costs) is seemingly way better then PSN, as placebo mentioned above. Alot of demos, videos, games etc etc to download via Xbox Live. Not sure how PSN will be, but I've heard from others that the systems seems to be a bit bad actually. Also, I don't want to pay twice as much for the PS3, just for the BluRay and teh 60GB HDD, I mean, even with the 120GB HDD for 360, it's still cheaper. There don't seem to be to much of a difference in graphics and sounds etc, so the BluRay seems a bit unneccessary, pushing the price up. So, the 360 and the PS3 are basicly the same, except for the pricetags. And also to the 360s favour, it has been out longer then the PS3. So, either you get a Wii, or a 360, in my opinion.

Here's a good graph, the 8800GT beats the old GTS-card.

Yeah, killing the dogs is pretty easy, you just have to keep your cool and wait for the "Press Melee to kill the dog" or whatever it says, then hammer melee, and you snap then dogs neck. Even rewards you on the 360; "Down boy down" and 10G or something. MP is fun too

Oh, yeah. Forgot :P

According to tomshardware, 2 8800GT in SLI beats 1 8800GTX (can't find wherever they posted that, but anyways), but 2 8800GTX should beat anything, although, the price tag is very high. Here is some reading Cheers

lol, that was me in the white pickup, i had 18 kg of marijuana in there before terp landed on me Ouch! That has happened to me a few times in good ol' Nogville (for OFP). Looks like a cool concept, I'll try it out when I get my hands on ArmA...