SteveThaiBinh

The more projects George has on the go, the less he can directly interfere with (and thus ruin) any single one. So go for it, George. Give us another series of Ewoks while you're at it.

If you're fighting with two sticks and your opponent puts all his force into pushing the stick back, it will just rest on your body and you'll be able to hold him off. Your stick won't cut through your own flesh like a warm knife through butter, which I think is a major flaw of the whole two double-bladed lightsaber idea. Unless you're wearing full body armour made of - oh, what was it called, cortasis weave or something? - that lightsabers can't cut through.

Vader, but with a redesigned mask that wasn't so scary and black. Something in beige, maybe.

I think one of the devs called them 'combat fidgets' - a character's animation when, thanks to the d20/turn based system, he's got time to fill but no attacks left. I'd definitely like to see them, and combat as a whole, become more realistic - you should be able to watch a character fight for a minute or so and make a reasonable stab at what his skill is with his current weapon, because it's reflected in the animation.

That's odd - I thought I still had the remnants of that Civ4 game we tried to do last year. I guess I must have deleted them at some point. So now I have nothing. 0Mb. Zilch.

:sad: The new ones had better be good.

Fresh orange juice with added sugar. Why do they do that?

I can't get the 'No Mafia here' song from Sam & Max Episode 3 out of my head.

I'm happy to chat any time about Saudi culture and life, though I'm no expert and only get a view of one segment of society in one city. There are stories that do the rounds about how dangerous it can be for a foreigner who strays off the beaten track in the countryside - villages where you're likely to be shot on sight, and so on. It's all 'a friend of a friend told me', so who knows how much truth there is in it? An official email went out from my employer a few days ago warning of a foreigner in Riyadh who'd given a lift in his car to a Muslim woman, not his wife. He was arrested, imprisoned, beaten and ultimately deported. You can't share a care with a woman you're not related to, unless her husband or father is also present. But then we all knew that. We wonder if there might be more to that story than they're letting on. Taking students into the computer room (which has internet access) requires constant vigilence. Yes, they do try to download porn from time to time, if they think no-one's watching. It only takes one muttawa to see one student looking at nuddy pics to get the school closed down for a year. There's a huge variety of people here, as you'd expect. Plenty of students from Egypt, Syria - all over the Middle East, and a great diversity of views. Some of the most open, tolerant and respectful-towards-other-cultures students I've met are Yemeni. That certainly doesn't fit the Western view of that country. If you have a view of the Middle East as backward or ghetto-like, do a google image search for the Dubai skyline.

The peculiar problem with young Saudis is wealth and joblessness, rather than poverty and joblessness. For many and for the students mentioned in the article (mostly university age or after), they have excellent paper qualifications (degrees or masters degrees), but these correspond to almost no practical ability because the universities are so corrupt and chaotic they just keep passing students regardless of their achievement. They won't do the jobs that they are capable of doing because they think those jobs are beneath them. They can't get the jobs they want because there are millions of guest workers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines who are more skilled and will do the job for less money. So they're stuck - bored, demotivated and with DSL internet access paid for by daddy. The Saudi government is, I think, genuinely trying to distract the people from Islamic extremism - since al-Qaeda hates the House of Saud as much as it hates the West (more perhaps), but they're doing it after years and years of ignoring it or exploiting it. I don't think the environment or general public attitudes will change overnight, and of course, when Iraq is finally 'finished', all the Saudi extremists will hop back over the border and start making trouble here.

So the (briefly) forced NPCs in the Prologue are likely to be the surviving companions from the original campaign, right? I vote for Khelgar, Sand and Grobnar!

An interesting article about racism and extremism in Saudi Arabia from the Times. The author was here in Jeddah, though a little before my time, and most of my colleagues know him. Much of what he says confirms my own experiences here, though as I

As many as you'd like. Kotor2 was five years after Kotor1, so any time after that, I guess.

The Daily Telegraph is in a nose-diving, tail-spinning panic about it, yes. Myself, I'm worried, but then, I was always worried. Putin has been doing pretty awful things - and allowing his military to do pretty awful things - for many years - in Chechnya, for example. But he was fighting terrorism, so you can't worry about niceties like freedom, human rights and respect for life when you're fighting terrorism, right? Except legalised abuses like that contaminate the whole system, and begin to poison the body politic, as we now see. I really wish the US would close down Guantanamo Bay. :sad:

I've just finished Sam & Max Reality 2.0 - the best yet! Only one more to go, and then hopefully a second series next year?

Congratulations!! And a very pretty name, too.

I thought the magic system was OK, worked reasonably well and was fun. The game just felt very small. The whole big epic intro suggests a much larger gameworld than actually exists, and that for me destroyed the mood before I got to the end.

There's an article over at Gamespot about SEGA's new Marvel-related games. It may be a different company from before, but it doesn't seem to be short of projects or lucrative franchises.

Thanks for that. I think it's the first time that's been posted, so I'll add it to the FAQ.

I'm sorry to hear that, and I wish we could be of more help. :sad: All I can suggest is that you keep checking in here and in the LucasArts tech support forums, and if you ever do find a fix for that, please let us know and I'll add it to the FAQ for everyone to see.

First bugs, then small mammals, then humans. It's a slippery slope. I like the expression on the first bird, too.

Not at all. This problem was addressed in the latest Slayer upgrade v7.22 (i.e. the last episode of the last series).

Does he work in food processing and storage?

Surviving companies only: 1. Obsidian 2. Bioware 3. The Neverwinter Nights modding community (creators of more quality content than many professional developers) 4. Bethesda 5. Lionhead Studios (Fable had a few good points, and Fable2 might be better?) Sierra, creator of one of my favourite RPGs, Quest for Glory, still exists, but might as well not. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what Planewalker Games will do, but could hardly put them on the list before they've released anything.

Those walls are a really horrible colour.