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Laser Squad Nemesis - a game that REALLY needs to be on the iphonepad.

Coincidentally, Julian Gollop is considering making it free to play (and is looking for help with hosting):

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/07/13/gollop-may-make-laser-squad-nemesis-free/

Man, the hours I poured into ...

Zzap64! wrote:I bought it last night. And I love it! Can you really complain for 9.99?!

I can complain about anything!

Srsly though - just kidding

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Was looking forward to this when it popped up on live (had seen a trailer ages ago and forgotten about it) but really turned off... so tell me guys, what am I missing?
Everything apparently. :wink:

Just accept that you don't like this game. :)

I love it, but then I can't ...

What am I missing with this? Played the trial game on Live and thought it was utter gash! The combat was completely lacklustre... My gripes:

1. Combat: "Press any button to attack", didn't seem any reason to use any different attacks (apart from the crossbow), no combos I could determine ...

I didn't get this at all! Bored beyond belief after 30s.

It does get bonus points for being possible to fail by ignoring the instructions.

Edit: What an utterly fucking stupid "game".

What exactly is going on here? Is that Richard Branson?

*edit* Apparently yes it is... lifestyles of the rich and famous eh?

Malf wrote: ... I can hardly wait to start screwing in some nails...

That's nothing - just you try hammering in some screws

defsdoor wrote:Eventually they will just grow meat.

In a factory farm, never allowed to see the Sun. Shocking!

... Food pellets go in, out comes milk, beef and shit which can be used to generate electricity...
This is cattle farming. (Why couldn't I help thinking THIS IS SPAAARTA! while typing that? :D)

Obviously there is a debate to be had about the ethicality of using animals for our own ends in the ...

And some more context for you, quotes from the linked article above.
Animals

Animals would be farmed more intensively. At Nocton, cows would have been kept inside in a "zero grazing" system, and fed artificial feed rather than being allowed to graze pasture during the 10 months of the year when ...

I grew up on a small dairy farm run by just my parents and it makes me very uneasy too to think of cows in doors all day and not grazing in the fields. That's the way it's always been done and it seems right to me.

On the other hand, consider that dairy cows spend all winter in doors anyway when ...

Brilliant!

Love how whenever the shaman falls off everyone else looks at each other for a moment, then mass suicides!

I like to stand up, walk around and stare out the winsow whilst on the phone, something I've yet to try in a face to face interview.
When I wasn't in the car I did this too - it's kind of a habit of mine, I don't like the phone much so I tend to wander round! Quite liberating actually not being ...

Make sure you know who you are going to be talking to (might be several people in a conference call). Write the names down on a piece of paper as well as basic company info.
This.

I'm terrible with names and with no faces to attach to it's even worse, so jot it down at the start, along with their ...

I've only had a couple of phone interviews, but they do have quite a different feel to face-to-facers.

I think it's fair to expect less depth than a face to face interview, but don't be surprised if it's still wide ranging and quite testing. My main advice would be:

1) Make sure you can guarantee ...