IncredibleBulk92

You misunderstand Zero, I'm not suggesting they integrate it into the storyline.  I'm suggesting a whole new storyline, maybe Nico arives at the dock to find it empty and finds the city infested with zombies.  I don't know, I got bored of the GTA IV storyline, it was good for a few hours but after the irish family fade away its gets bad fast.  Its probably a bit unrealistic to expect them to basically make a whole new game but hell, I'd buy that.

Don't you think that would be interesting though?  A huge detailed open worl like that and they waste it on a story mode that really trails off about half way through.

OK I've marked this as a rumour for good reason and so has Joystiq.

Why are people even excited about this game, like at all? Seriously now, we've seen 2 videos, zero gameplay, nobody has played it or even claimed to have seen it.  The article is pretty comprehensive with everything we know about Alan Wake, fuck all.  To top that the only thing the developper has made is Max Payne as far as I can remember and the sequel to that was pretty flawed.

I totally apreciate this technology, if its optional.  It really starts to annoy me when in games like Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 when, if I kill somebody in a way the don't like or maybe if I kill them too much in multiplayer I'm immediately subjected to screams of abuse and racist/homophobic remarks.  Its just not necessary, I doubt any of these guys would say it straight to my face so why should it be ok over Xbox LIVE?  Its shouldn't and its not quite simply.  I'm not somebody who is offended by swear words and I use them regularly in everyday life, but they're never directed at people in a hostile manor.

Yea, I never would have known unless I played the beta, it just makes no sense that they wouldn't tell you about stuff like that.  I hope the full game has a decent tutorial and maybe the advanced system by default.  I just cannot get over how silly it is so have half to commands disabled by default.

Well i didn't actually see the map[ itself, I saw the thumbnail when your searching for a new game, I'm not actually saying that the map is in the Beta but the thumbnail certainly is.  Its likely a bug that caused it to appear.

Just playing a quick round of the beta before I leave for my driving lesson and I notceid a new level called airfield.  It poped up when I searched for a game, it was only up for about 2 seconds and I was so shocked I didn't even consider taking a photo.  I was just wondering if anybody else had seen this.  I doubt that they'd add a new level to the beta but it definetely poped up.  Also does anybody know how long this beta will last for?  I'm hoping it'll be online at least until Fable 2 ships next week.

When you play Fallout make sure you give it the latest patch, it fixes a few game killing bugs and removes an annoying time limit from the game.

Yea Zeth has got it nailed there, its useless in the skimish modes but in the campaign and percistant online mode there'll be huge benefits to having units survive battles.