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The game will be much cheaper if you just wait until launch. Kickstarter backers who only opted for the game, but not beta access only had to pay $40, instead of $75. I'm sure the price of the final release will be somewhere around $40-50, like what the backers paid for it.

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Swedish Touring Car Championship > STCCand Touring Car Racing Championship: STCC

Swedish Touring Car Championship 2 > STCC 2

I guess Unreal Tournament is the one that's the most likely to turn out alright, but I'm looking forward to see what the new Doom and Rainbow Six games are like.

Oh, right, and that Space Hulk game seems kinda promising. I really liked Divine Cybermancy, as well as the Space Hulk FPSes in the 90's, that new game has pretty good potential to become great.

Huh, I thought I had posted in one of these threads years ago, but apparently I have no previous post in this 5 year old thread. I really haven't watched a lot of movies in recent years, but these would be my favorites, in no particular order:

• The Thing
• Das Boot
• Stalingrad - this 1992 movie and the 1981 movie above are two fantastic German anti-war movies, depicting WWII from the angle we aren't usually shown. They could certainly have gone farther, as they both have protagonists that don't identify with the nazi ideology, and still kinda depict the nazi believers as the same kind of monsters as most US WWII movies do. I'd love to see something that tries to make us identify with the accepted antagonists of the war, maybe described how they were indoctrinated with nationalism/exceptionalism in schools like how All Quiet on the Western Front does, because if the vast majority were like the protagonists in these movies, I doubt Hitler really could've gotten as far as he did. I guess the only movie that really comes to mind that tries to do something like that is Der Untergang.
• The Battle of Algiers - this is a fantastic movie depicting the Algerian War from both the French and the insurgent side, with scenes of everyday life and atrocities commited by both sides, and the movie was shot on location just four years after the war ended. There was somewhat of a remake a few years ago, set in Haditha during the Iraq War, and titled Battle for Haditha. It was pretty alright too, but certainly not on the level of the 1966 movie.
• Hardware - post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk robot slasher movie from 1990 somewhat in the vein of the original Terminator. It's got an amazing atmosphere and soundtrack throughout.
• Robocop
• 2010 - OK, 2001 is an amazing movie, and I originally had it on this list too, but because we're cutting this down to 10 movies, and I kinda think 2010 is underappreciated, I decided to keep this instead of 2001.
• Threads
• The Day After - this and Threads above are drama films about the direct aftermath of a nuclear war. Both were released around the same time - Threads in 1984 and The Day After in 1983. Threads goes for a more documentary style, and depicts the lifes of a few families in Sheffield, UK as the cold war escalates and people start preparing for the worst. The Day After is thematically pretty similar, set in Kansas, and was directed by Nicholas Meyer, who also did the two best Star Trek movies to date - The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country!
• Stalker

Other movies I kinda wanted to list: Dune, Strange Days, Blade Runner, Alien, Cargo 200, Event Horizon, Johnny Mnemonic (I kinda love that movie despite it's glaring flaws)

Of these two options, obviously gameplay. On the story vs gameplay thing I have a much harder time to decide. I can certainly give some leeway to a game with poor gameplay if it tells an interesting story, especially if it does it in a way no other medium could. Fuck, I can even take some poor gameplay if the music is amazing, but graphics don't do a whole lot for me. Unless it's Amiga era pixel art, or early 90's untextured PC polygon graphics, because that shit is great regardless of how bad the games are.

I'd love to see that, but neither Jeff nor Dan strike me as people who are into CRPG's. Could probably be a better fit for Vinny or Patrick.

Sounded like Dave was kinda planning to do something with Wizardry or Ultima when he was still there, but that never happened. :/

Hey, you've been awfully quiet recently. I enjoyed reading your blogs.

Yeah, I think they should skip stuff that has already been featured in some form on the site. Maybe Rorie could do a quick glance at the steam page before putting stuff into the poll to see if it seems to be a joke entry or not. There were interesting poll options like Exodus from the Earth, Verdun, Paragon etc. in there, but the joke entries won every time.

Diablo III, I guess. I wasn't a huge fan of Diablo II (absolutely loved the original Diablo though), but at least I managed to finish it. Diablo III's story was totally unbearable, at the start of Act III I just couldn't take it anymore and gave up on it. Duke Nukem Forever kinda managed to surpass even my low expections on how poor it could be. Had it felt like a game from 1997 that had been delayed far too long I'd have been somewhat alright with it, but instead we got a game that looked like it was from 2005, but had all the mechanics I hate about modern FPSes, with all the "hold E to do X" prompts and the two weapon limit.

Other than that I'm not sure, I usually am able to find something I like about most games, including stuff like Daikatana and 7th Legion.

@doe3879: Generally I do a google search with the site:giantbomb.com filter (just add it to the end of your search query, like Doom TNT site:giantbomb.com), which will make it only display results from Giant bomb, since GB's own search engine is really bad. For videos made in the past couple of years they usually link to the games they played though (this TNT was linked as a video to the Doom 1 page), but some of the older stuff isn't linked, assuming you know specifically what games they played.