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I've just got it, havent tried live yet so I'll give it a go. Is it 'proper' races, not racing against ghosts? If so how does it work, with the different routes and all?

Can you name rooms on this?

Working on a sex farm...ploughing through your beef field...getting out my pitchfork....Cant remeber these lyricssssss...

He's definitely set himself the hardest challenge so far: to follow up a trilogy of films that have existed 20 years+, and take the story forward without destroying what has already been paved out.

I'm trying really hard to avoid the obvious 'Star Wars' connections here...

Don't you mean Why have the two most recently hyped Games had open endings? Because you dont have much of an arugment otherwise. A lot of game endings are shat, always have been, and there are only a few classics which have pulled it off to great effect (which you mentioned in your post).

You expected conclusive endings, you got 'To be continued' endings. I can understand why this dissapointed you, but I loved them, both of them. It just left me incredibly hyped for the next game in each respective series.

'Finishing what I've started' gave me excited goosebumps, it amped me up for a project years away.

'Tiiiiime Mr Freeman' will go down in history. Brilliant.

As someone said, the answers for nearly all your Half-Life 2 questios are in the game, you just haven't picked up on them. Thats the storytelling style,theres no exposition besides what exposition you pick up for yourself, and the ending follows this perfectly.

Surely it's not financially smart to release as CGI (aka 'uber-expensive') film straight-to-video? Unless they do cheap hack jobs.

Oh God, they're doing cheap hack jobs...I doubt they'll even get the voice cast back.

It was indeed funny and dark, but obviously too dark for Nickelodeon or whatever it was shown on. I vaguely remember Zim eating someones eyeballs in one.

That's a fair point, but there's still the Obi-Wan fiasco. And the fact C3-P0 isn't funny or charming any more, his ATOC scenes (and I loved ATOC) felt shoehored in, and he almost spoiled the final battle with his 'comedy' head-misplacing.

Gotta love R2D2 though, that beeping is as good as ever.

John Cleese not belonging in the Top 10, what the fuck? He should have won it.

IMO etc etc blah

Well Ch4 have a documentory on about him now, and a drama about him with Rhys Ifans playing him later in the week, probably tomorrow. Wouldn't mind watching that.

Or vice-versa.

Ooh, right you are. Now that is the least subtle TV scheduling I've ever seen.

Havent Ch4 got a drama about Peter Cook on this week?

Conspiracy you say? It's a fix!

He's offensive at least, which they aren't letting him show.

Oooh, Peter Cook.

They've got Leslie Neilson giving so many interviews, and he wasn't even in the Top 40? Put him in Peter Kay's place.

How reined in is Jimmy Carr on these 'Top ....' Shows? Ch4 get him to present loads of them and they don't give him any chance to use any his signature humour, it's a waste. He could be hilarious, but instead he gets standard dialogue they could get anyone to deliver. Why bother with a comedian if you're not going to use him?

Darkplace was good though.

Ah well, I'll respect you for that.

Fawlty Towers is overrated, lets be honest.

Outside. Now.

Nooooo!!! Second place for John Cleese, bastards.

But who's left? Seinfield you say? Gah, I dont find him funny in the slightest, or his show. Too American for me.

Eric Morcombe I can repsect that, but off the top of my head I can only think of John Cleese that's left. And he'd better fucking win, he's a genius if there ever was one for me.

EDIT: Woody Allen, can't believe I forgot such an obvious one.

I have, but to put him higher than people like Spike Milligan and Micheal Palin is ridiculous, he's a flavour of the week.

What the fuck is Peter Kay doing so high in a list of comedy greats, higher than people like Rowen Atkinson, Rik Mayall and Ricky Gervais. Disgraceful.

I dont think they make the Castlevania games anymore, I can only find them second-hand. Really cheap on eBay, though.

Didn't see any of these make it in: http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/c4_xmas/

'Booby Ladder'. Heh...heh.

It's not the fact that the kid made thr droid, it's the fact that he made C3P0 of all droids. It doesn't makle any sense, he doesn't recognise or reffer to C3P0 at any point in the original trilogy, so having him be his creator was just a stupid and ill-conceived plot-point. Same goes for him being friends with R2, I hope they don't pull anything simillarly ill-judged with Chewbacca in EP3.

I thought the AI was spot on, I'd go prone and crawl through the grass, let off a few shots and they'd look around, fire in my direction, then I'd crawl somwhere else...and they would still be searching/firing at the area.bush I was hiding at until I fire a few more shots and they advance on me again. The AI depends on how you play it really, but I'll say this as far as the enmies are concerned, headshots count, firing clips will hit nothing unless you're close and you really need to burst to control you're recoil.

That's weird, I got a release day copy and I've never had any issues with it, frame-rate aside. Love the game though, love it to bits. Didn't 'feel' overly Star Wars, other games have nailed the atmopshere better I feel, but it's definitely the most well made SW game of the lot.

Buggiest console game ever? Ummm...how about Driv3r or maybe The Getaway (ok maybe they were just awful controls, but I count them as bugs for being so unresponsive).

Before you slate the CGI in the prequels, consider that were wasn't a single real Storm Trooper in EP2. Not a single costume was made or used for the movie, I had no idea until I saw the DVD, I would have sworn they had at least some actors.

The best CGI is like that, you can't tell it's there. It's like everyone slating the CGI in the Matrix Reloaded, oblivious to the fact that every onscreen skyscraper was CGI, you simply don't notice.