I can imagine – you can virtually feel – Berry and Matthews having a fantastic time creating ToL.
Those experiences will breed different expectations, resulting in consumers in key growth demographics who might not be all that excited to see what kind of ultra-realistic water effects a next-gen console can reproduce, even as those of us who grew up dreaming of in-game fog you could virtually feel on your skin eat up whatever Sony wants to sell us.
Maybe one day we'll get that, maybe a time will come when you can power up a game which lets you virtually feel yourself getting more and more crushed in the queue for a drink before sprinting outside and hammering X for a hastily smoked cig.
For the first twenty years of my life I'd felt virtually voiceless.
Benita, after several attempts to have a baby, died in childbirth in 1927, and Guggenheim writes that it was her death — "I felt virtually as though I had been cut in two" — coupled with her husband's heartless attitude to the loss, that brought her marriage to an end.
When I started cycling in London eight years ago I felt I was virtually the only one, battling for space with taxis and buses.
And surely "I was like", which for many English-speakers under 40 has virtually replaced "I said" or "I felt", deserved inclusion.The fifth Shorter Oxford was the first edition compiled entirely from a computerised corpus of English citations, a rapidly growing monster with 100m entries (including 300, mainly economic, from this newspaper).
I felt I virtually had to grovel to my employer for giving me a job paying 300 Euros a month!
"By me passing on all the campaign information – everything that the family was planning and organising through Youth Against Racism in Europe – I felt I was virtually reducing their chances of ever receiving any form of justice to zero.
"I felt awful virtually every time I've had one of my on-court meltdowns".
No, I remember it really well, I can still remember the nerves were virtually identical to what I felt in the Olympics or World Championships.
