Nope, the two games are seperate story-wise.  The only mention of the first game is through some newsclipping.

In fact, the second game is probably better in that they fixed a lot of complaints players had from the first one.

Bloody difficult.  Now, I finished DMC1 with little fuss, some segments took some time, but all in all it was smooth going.

Now in DMC3 it's just tough.  I think it has to do with how the enemies just aren't as forgiving.  The upgraded basic mook has this long range run forward and slash attack that has little or no warning ahead of time, whereas in DMC1 they had his loud spinning sound they made with their weapons before they did any sort of special attack.  Not to mention that this slash attack can come from off screen.

The bosses still have patterns, but you have to be a lot more precise with your moves to avoid getting hit, although they do give decent warnings.

Even on easy mode I've replayed the second boss about 10 times now before I beat him.

I seriously could not play this game for long stretches, way too intense.

Although it's a great spectator game, as my sister enjoyed watching the whole creepy setting.

They need to make a movie from the series.

Email the Valve/Steam people.

The license transfer should only apply to transfering the license to another person, if they don't buy it, raise hell and try to get higher up in the chain.

My tip is to not get started at all on CCGs.  You'll almost always need to buy into more and more cards to stay competative.

Instead, ask your friend if you can use any of his other decks that he's constructed.  If he's a player, you know he has several decks.

There's also the A Game of Thrones board game that you can try.

While I'm sad that the comic series isn't getting a game to go with it, I'm not surprised that no one picked up the game itself.  The setting had a great deal of potential as a game, but the demo I played wasn't all that good.

Wow, they really learned how to use the PS2.

Yep, considering Monolith is the developer, I'm not surprised that the netcode is bad.  They were never very good at netcode.

However, to make up for that, their single player games are usually top notch.

I'm renting the Xbox version for some weekend split screen coop, then I'm buying the PC version to play through.

Frankly, even if Nintendo makes another portable system, there's more games for the PSP that I'm interested at launch than Nintendo's whole GBA and DS library.

Ah good, now that the button issue is fixed, I'll be buying the system.

Actually, it may just be that our wester society would simply not thing of the name Herman as a name, but turn it into an adjective that everyone understands as huge.

edit:  Wow, that butchered sentence is what I get for posting at 3am.

Actually, I thought the combat gameplay for Arcanum to be abysmal.  I ended up cheating through any combat because it was really poor.

That said, the character interaction, gadget, magic, setting, etc... was all quite nice.

That was pretty much Troika's signature, truly inspired games that are fatally flawed.

How is the square button issue?

Actually, the main problem with the movie was that for the cost at which they produced the film, they could have just hired good live actors and made the movie that way.  It bankrupted Square to make that movie, so they had to merge with Enix, which was having troubles of its own.

While I wouldn't do it suddenly, after I graduate I'm planning to live overseas for a few years.  About a year in each country.

First Japan, then probably the UK.

Anyone know if this will have split screen coop/MP on the Xbox, or just Live?

Interestingly enough, she's got a role in the Sin City movie.

Coincidence?  I think not.

Or Obsidian.

I think the next SW thing they do should involve the whole war of the ideologies thing Obsidian set up in KotOR2.

I'm pretty sure they made her look deliberately boyish to fit in with the whole mechanic thing.

Being Vietnamese myself, and somewhat good at telling some the general (is very slight) differences between Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc...  I can say she doesn't have many of the normal Vietnamese features, but then again neither do I.  Probably some French blood in the mix.

My friend and I refer to myself as a mutie freak, but maybe I'm a cylon in disguise.

Oh dear, I let that out now didn't I, now I must kill you all.

Actually, there's a good reason why you, as an adult, can eat some things dropped, yet your child should not.

Adults have a better developed immune and digestive system.  Out stomachs can kill off germs and our immune system handles any that escape.

In the worst case scenario of food poisoning, an adult can recognize that there is a problem and seek help.

A child is just developing his immune system and all those chemical reactions that allow him to deal with solid food, let alone contaminated food.

Any fans of the comics care to get me started on a few of the graphic novels?

I read a lot of graphic novels, since I plan to become an illustrator myself.

The Hellblazer anti-hero story seems pretty interesting, but for such an established comic I'm not sure where to start.

Heheh, actually, the Obisidian guys are the guys that made Planescape Torment, they left the company to form this new gig.

Even as an MGS fan, I'd have to agree about the gameplay to cutscene ratio.

However, I disagree about the amount of game time.  Unless they changed things, only an absolute pro could go through the game in 3 hours of gameplay.  It'll take longer, although a good lot of that might be waiting in dark places for a guard to pass by.  

Anyone see that advertisement/minigame where you use the mouse to kiss Brad Pitt up in the top right of the site?

I doubt Mr. Pitt knows his image is being used, but for you copyright lawyers, wouldn't it be against the law to use his image in what is clearly an advertisement without his permission?

I've only caught a few episodes of this, and then stopped even trying to watch after season 1.

Then I read another post here and it basically says the show now has Vampires in it?  The show already had some mysticism in it with the whole prophecizing thing, but Vampires?

Can someone quickly sum up all the shenanigans that have been happening since Season 1?  The last thing I remember was Garner's character finding a clock and much later that whole section getting wiped out by CIA and some members moved into the real CIA office.

How the heck did they get to Vampires?  From what I remember it was a nice action/drama about intelligence operatives.

I know some are against cheating, but I didn't have time for a reloading and whatnot with a rented game, so I managed to find a conversation loop in the Xbox version that gives you as much influence with her as you want.

You will come to both love and hate Kreia.  She's such a wonderful character, a lot more passionate than many other characters you see in games.

Okay, so I think this one isn't the kid's fault.  I mean who knew drinking too much water could kill you?

However, some other deaths, were just as much the dead guy's fault as the frat.

I bet you the first mods that start appearing on the net are ones that move the square button over a bit to line it up with the detector.

If it weren't for the button problem, I would buy it at $250.  Right now, I'm just going to wait for them to fix the damn thing.  By then, it will either be $200 or have a larger selection of games available.

Any newz on whether they fixed that button issue, or is it still a problem for the US release?

From what I heard, it was an underlying circuit board manufacturing defect and they just needed to alter the board, not the whole design.

He thrashes around for a bit, then sinks slowly into the lava.

I'm not sure if he gave the thumbs up though.  I was too busy running for my life from the other one.

From what I gathered, they are legit.  Like others, I can't confirm how good they are, but they do charge a lot of money and it seems like they have some good equipment and people there.

However, I'm a believer in getting a more general degree.  Right now I'm working on an Illustration and Animation dual major and all my instructors say not to specialize too deeply.  Job markets shift, especially in entertainment related jobs, so having as many skills as you can along with a specialty is better than.

For example, I know how to animate in 2d and 3d quite well, but since the market is tough for an animator right now, I can easily do some illustration to support myself.

I dunno, I found the squad controls too arbitrary.

For instance, there are only certain locations where you can order your squad mates to, these are glaringly obvious concrete barrier things or objectives.  Otherwise your squad just follows you around until you get into a fight.

Luckily, when you do get into a fight, your squad is smart enough to take cover in less obvious places, like nooks in the sides, or around corners, which is really nice to see.

Still, those glaring concrete blocks detract from the game somewhat, you know there's a fight ahead and can judge its difficulty by how many blocks there are to hide behind.

Whisperwind isn't as crowded as most servers, but it can get packed on weekends.

The major cities can get pretty laggy, along with some more well travelled areas.

That said, we haven't had much of the more serious problems that other servers have had.  Just small lag and population problems.

Just a heads up for those of you that were interested in Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow's unique Spy vs. Mercs multiplayer mode, but didn't want to buy the game just to try it.

Fileplanet has an open beta going on, just sign up and they'll send you a cd key for use during the beta and the download link.

http://www.fileplanet.com/betacenter/sc_chaostheory/signup/index.aspx

For those that don't remember, the Spy vs. Mercs game is one of the few stealth based MP games that actually worked.  There are four players to a server, two spies, and two mercenaries.

The spies must achieve their objectives, depending on the map, and the mercs must prevent them from doing so.

Both sides have very unique play styles, with the mercs getting the classic FPS view and some gadgets, and a flashlight to light up dark areas.  They also get rifle and various melee attacks.  They also get two special vision modes, EM vision, which can detect spies when they use their electronics, and motion detector, which detects fast motion across their screen and highlights anything that's moving quickly, even in dark areas.

Spies get SC's third person view giving them more situational awareness, nightvision, thermal vision (can see through walls and detect traps), and some other nonlethal gadgets.  Their lethal abilities are limited to up close grapples, and are quite fragile if detected.  They also have a wide variety of moves that allow them to go places that mercs can't.

Anyway, give it a try.

Edit: Oh, and a word of warning.  This multiplayer game has a high learning curve, but stick with it, the gameplay is very rewarding.

If anyone wants to, I'm willing to meet up with people online and run a tutorial game where I can coach people through the game.  They had the foresight to implement a "Tutor" server option that allows both teams to talk to each other.

Not only is she het, I'm just glad to see an Asian on one of these shows.

One that's not a token character.  

It doesn't have the same amount of content.  Just the endgame areas, which are decently big, and all the extra side games you get when you complete the game.

Yeah, the character animation technologies they used are just top notch.

I'm working with the engine, trying to use it to produce a short scifi film.