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MP3 and Hunters are the only Prime games that are FPSes. In any case, get Metroid. It has no multiplayer and the only online is some simple point exchange system, but you won't regret it. RE4 remake and CoD5 too and you should be set.

I'll do it. Time to flex my pixel muscles.

The colors and everything are looking great, well done. But the perspective is still really goofy. You did a good job with the road leading straight to the Emerald City, but it still looks like the forest is right next to it. My suggestion is this: Bring the forest a lot closer and have it fill the left side of the pic. You can try squeezing the road in or leave it out, but I think leaving it out would be the best option. That way you have the dark and gloomy forest in your face on the left, and the Yellow Brick Road on the right leading to the city way back for a nice contrast. Keep in mind not to split the composition in half if you do this. That looks bad. And since I have no idea if it would work that way at all without seeing it, save it as a separate file. That way you won't screw it up utterly and I won't be to blame :P

I'm surprised that nobody was disturbed that they were about to do it when Elle had a recent gunshot wound on her hip. Elle is a masochist and Sylar has a fetish.

There's nothing wrong with the actual pixeling, as a matter of fact it looks really good. But the perspective is really off. It doesn't make any sense for the road to make a giant U when the city is right there, or at least appears to be. It needs a sense of depth.

It's a guy. Duh. More exposition is required to explain why this girl is so mentally unstable as to jump off a cliff over some guy she had a fling with.

You really did miss the point.

I don't think Sylar actually killed Elle. For one thing the cut didn't look as deep as it usually does when he slices skulls off, and for another he had a kid in the future. A blond one. Granted that might not happen anymore, but I still think he stopped himself short of killing her. He has her ability already after all.

Seriously? It honestly doesn't look that hard. Not TTFAF or TDWDTG-hard in any case. Maybe Raining Blood-hard.

I completely made up my path on Re-Education, screwed it up twice, and ended up in 17th overall for the Wii (if I had a SH that is) and a lot further down but still up there on all systems. I know a better one if I can be bothered reduxing, it would probably get me 15k+ more points. Never looked up a SP path in my life :P

Well until this gets locked I'll go along with it. My favorites are Sweet Home Alabama, Love Spreads, Never Too Late, Our Truth, Mr. Crowley, BYOB. Probably more but it's not easy to remember 86 songs.

Lol, oh give it up. If i didn't know any better, i'd almost think it was as if you were jealous of Edward Cullen. A fictional Vampire. : Oh we are...every guy wants to be as perfect as Edward Cullen, but unfortunately it just isn't humanely possible. If only I could be a vampire so my skin could sparkle like his! :twss: I tried putting glitter on my face but the girls laughed at me :(

I'm still waiting for you to explain to me why you think said parts of the book are good. Agreed, you can't say the argument has gotten tedious when every post has brought something more or less new and you haven't said anything in direct refute to the vast majority of it. And being a bestseller doesn't mean crap anymore, if it ever did. Anyway, just got back from seeing the movie. Overall I can't say it was horrible, but it was still bad. It was a great improvement over the book in two areas: 1. The plot was introduced earlier and made it seem less like a meandering pseudo-suspense and then never-ending cuddle scene. If only slightly less. 2. Edward was actually enjoyable, because Pattinson portrayed him as a completely socially awkward depressive instead of God with sparkles. I agree with the A-S article here, it's something Johnny Depp would do. I swear he almost laughed when he said the "I like to watch you sleep" line. But then there's the bad . . . - SFX: Really bad. Speeding up the camera for the super speed? Is this a joke? - SPARKLES: They kept them in. Blah. "This . . . is . . . theskinuvaKILLER!" I had to suppress a laugh and it came out as a weird snort. - If you couldn't see it in the book, it's extremely obvious in the movie: Bella's friends are absolutely negligible. They disappear totally after Bella gets going with Edward and are reduced to a cameo or two apiece for the rest of the film. - Acting: With the exception of Pattinson, most of it was varying degrees from meh to awful. - The theater going experience. Not nearly as bad as I expected, but there were still a bunch of eighth grade girls there that shreiked every time a slightly sexual joke was made. I swear the row in front of me [bleep]ing exploded when Bella's mom was like "Are you being safe?" Plus there was a constant undertone of giggles that started zoning me out, much like white noise. - Still no point whatsoever in the whole thing But we went to get ice cream afterwards so I feel better now.

She Likes Cloth. That's my band name on GHWT. On GH3 it's UnicornForce.

Forgive me if I mix up the sequence of some of the events in that train wreck that was Breaking Dawn. Even the fans were unhappy with that book. She couldn't have gotten bruises if she was a vampire . . . What an interesting thing to say. That means SM included the rough abusive sex with the goal of giving Bella physical injury (done at the hands of Edward, so really aquariusman has a pretty solid argument), and also highlights the utter Sue-ness of the vampires and, of course, Bella once she inevitably becomes one. How can anyone regard these books as anything but screwed up? Regarding aquariusman's points . . . Don't mean to steal an argument, but you've trespassed on the domain of a writer. First, the plot statement. There is no plot whatsoever for the great majority of the book, and yes, there is a bad damsel-in-distress one tacked on at the VERY end as if to justify writing all those pages of sexual fantasy slop. How you can say that the plot is 'toward the end of the book' in near the same breath as saying that this qualifies as a piece of literature is beyond me. It fails the test already by not having any sort of coherent reason to exist other than to indulge in the fantasies of the writer and unfortunately a crapload of teenage girls. Then, the characters. Bella Swan: the very NAME screams Mary-Sue before we even get to the fact that she has no character flaws whatsoever, is showered with attention from every damn boy in the school despite being 'plain', and is purposely juxtaposed with her 'immature' friends in order to seem above them. To head off the argument, no clumsiness is not a flaw. It is portrayed as endearing and is entirely physical in any case. Edward Cullen: He's a 100-odd year-old vampire, refrains from feeding on humans, is incredibly sexy, sparkles in sunlight, is hot, has superhuman speed and strength, is hot, is adorably overprotective, and is hot. Doesn't even deserve to be called a character, unless you interpret him as a total creep and not the pinnacle of awesome boyfriend-ness that he's supposed to be. And there are no other characters. Well, maybe Jacob, and he's arguably the only decent one. The rest are so negligible they could be cut completely and not change anything one bit I'm going to stop this here as there are too many distraction at the moment.

Oh hell, the continuation of another vampiric line. Fan-[bleep]-fantastic. I suppose that she caught vampire-AIDS and turned into one during one of hers and Edwards HAWT-HAWT-HAWT Vampire Sex! scenes. Actually she becomes an immortal vampire and gets married before they have their first night of bruising sex. The Christian values are upheld! Then she has a vampire baby that will grow to maturity in seven years and be the consolation prize for Jacob. Agreed with aquariusman, this should be toned down a little in general. I confess my irritation has gotten the better of me a few times, but I still hope that there will be a coherent argument that doesn't boil down to not-so-slick dodges or general flames. I'm seeing the movie tomorrow, so you can be sure I'll have something to say about that.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18851 Quite a revealing article, it answers a lot of questions. Referring to the confusion over whether Sylar lost all of his powers from the Shanti virus, apparently he did. He was able to keep his intuitive aptitude, being his innate ability, and his telekinesis, because as we now see from the Elle situation his ability is connected to emotional empathy. He felt guilt over his first kill, so he kept that ability but none of the others since after the first kill he became a psychotic killer.

Seasons 1,2, and 4 of Lost, some Stephen King books, The Belgariad by David Eddings, Runaways Volume 1 and Dead End Kids (Marvel comic), couple other things that I can't remember. I actually made a list this year because my grandma likes to bug my cousins and I about what we want. I would sacrifice all that for a working broadband connection and not the crappy 3G one I'm using now through our single shared AT&T card.

I don't see how you could say the industrial revolution was bad . . . Unless you're Amish. It was a great leap for society and while it brought new problems with it it put an end to old ones, and as a whole I think we're better off. It was inevitable anyway.

To clarify what I said earlier . . . I don't mind the fact that some games like GoW and L4D are just suited to the excessive violence (hell, the upcoming Wii game MadWorld looks hella fun and the only color in it is the red of the blood.) But I find it interesting to note that the reason people get worked up over this topic in general is because so many games fit the criteria. It's like a game isn't good unless it has mass blood and gore and the fanboys can rave about the ESRB and crazy propaganda.

1. Okay, cool. I still hold that an argument is not automatically dicredited simply because the presenter hasn't read the books, because that just leads to stupid strawmen paradoxes like the example I posted earlier. 2. All I'm saying is that you never made a mention of any other book that you actually liked, but I guess since now you did I am disproven. Though it was a rather careless use of "every" on my part. Also, many people would associate these books with "awesome" simply because they're classics, without having read them. Consequently I'm not a fan of bringing them into a debate about a more modern book. 3. Another bad use of an all-inclusive . . . I'm not really trying to prove that every girl wants an Edward, only to bring to point to some people's attention that there ARE girls out there who are disturbingly obsessed over him and they aren't a minority. Which was the implication from the post I quoted.

When did I say I never read the books? Oh . . . I didn't. The only book I have criticized and not read is Brisingr, and I've read the first two books so my general complaints should withstand even the lame "you haven't read it so you can't criticize it" line. As far as the articles go, the ones from A-S are quite familiar to me seeing how I've been a user on the site since summer. Yay, you've read the classics. Good for you. Mentioning them now as an attempt to discredit me in what I said in response to the only books you had previously mentioned is a poor way to go about arguing. It also doesn't work to name drop what many see as literary gods by pure name association. Google. There are thousands of pictures of girls just like them. For the sake of forum code and my own time, I posted one example.

I would love to see you explain exactly why LOTR and HP are bad. Instead of labeling every popular piece of literature as sucky, back up your claims. Also . . . They disagree.

CONTRADICTION. STOP. This is not arguing, it is pure pettiness. Instead of sticking your fingers in your ears and throwing up strawmen the size of a [bleep]ing Titan, actually respond to the arguments made. You just played right into that spoof ad. Don't worry, Edward is just so AMAZINGLY beautiful and Adonis-like that anything resembling a problem in a real relationship is completely fine when he does it. All relationships are healthy with Edward Cullen! The van was a blatant plot device. You can argue that it is an example of how perfect and sparkly-awesome Ed is, I can argue that SM showcased some bad writing. Woohoo.

I don't get why so many games have to involve blood and gore anyway :| You can't make a good game without making heads explode? Obviously there are plenty of good games that do this, but it's almost like a prerequisite. And then Nintendo gets slammed for making "kiddy" games.