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I finished Jade Empire - it sustained my interest for three full plays through, so it must have been doing something right. Sure it was short, but it wasn't so short that this marred the quality of the game. The combat was OK once you got used to it (thanks again, Mkreku! ) and I found the setting quite enjoyable, though spoken Chinese with English subtitles would have added something. I'm now playing Sam&Max. I'm on to episode 3 already, and finding the experience very satisfactory. If adventure games can be revived as short little episodes in series (as may be planned for Dreamfall as well), then count me in!

Done, and I still have -3 new messages. :sad:

Yes, still at -3 for me.

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

You can most likely find a map over at Gamebanshee.com that will show you the exact places you need to stand to trigger the laying of the charges - four in all, I believe. However, you could also just keep running around, especially into dead ends. That's where they are, I think.

On the internet, every day is April Fool's Day.

Kotor 2 was not designed to run on Windows Vista, and some people have reported serious problems. Many others have managed it though, sometimes with a bit of tweaking. First of all, make sure you are running Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. Microsoft included some compatibility upgrades in the service pack that should help run KotOR2. BassGameMaster

It's really hard to think of a Darth name that doesn't sound incredibly lame. Revan and Malak were both pretty good, much better than Tyrannus and Grievous. None of these five options is particularly good or particularly bad, in my opinion. Is Jacen Solo some relation to Han Solo?

The Ebon Hawk, but I'd need to get a toilet installed first.

Sort of. I know this activity as 'the N.A.S.A. game' - you and your team of astronauts are stranded on the moon a hundred miles from your moonbase and you have twenty items which you have to rank in order of usefulness for your survival (oxygen=useful, matches not so much). This variation looks interesting too - I might try it out with my students.

Isn't that screenshot from the RPGCodex fake interview? Or was it a genuine screenshot?

In true forum style I'm now going to diss your favourite band. The Berlin philharmonic kicks the London one off a high balcony into a shallow swimming pool. I've never had the opportunity to hear the Berlin Philharmonic live, though I'd love to. :sad:

Not new enough, I'm afraid. I agree that if the UK were looking for an excuse to go to war, this might just about cover it, but it's not. We're about to have a change of Prime Minister, and Gordon Brown has watched Tony Blair's popularity and credibility being shredded over the issue of Iraq - and various allied issues. He's not about to start his term as Prime Minister with another foreign adventure arm in arm with George Bush. It would be electoral suicide.

Interesting site. From here behind the Great Saudi Firewall, there are a number of sites that aren't blocked exactly, but are on a delay. The BBC News website is a good example - it's usually a few hours behind the real time, presumably as someone in an office checks it for unfavourable news stories. Fewer sites are blocked than in the past - youtube used to be blocked in its entirety, but now individual videos are blocked. This is creating a lot of jobs for Saudis, I think. And a lot fewer UK sites are blocked since the Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation into corruption and British Aerospace.

Puppies are cute. And expensive. I hope you have a healthy bank balance.

I saw lots of trailers and it seemed like an interesting idea, but I wasn't really in the right mood when it came on so I decided to leave it in case it's good, rather than spoil it for myself. So you liked it, then? It seemed like another of these series with a fine balancing act to do between over-explaining and over-complicating the mystery.

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If you buy the collector's edition of NWN2, you get NWN and its two expansion packs on a very handy single DVD. I recommend getting the expansions, as the stories are better than the original OC, or even skipping their stories and going straight to the user-created modules on the Neverwinter Vault. I'll admit I was a little uncertain at first as to whether humble gamers could have produced anything that didn't look poor by comparison with the efforts of professional developers, but it's true. There's some really worthwhile stuff over there, to suit all tastes.

Vrook was a really good character, made even better in Kotor 2 - you just love to hate him, and ultimately to kill him. But Bastila's my favourite, probably because you travel with her and so get to know her a bit more. The goody two shoes Jedi is so easily a stereotype, the character needs some screen time to overcome that.

They could do the training game that Luke does on the Millennium Falcon, with a blindfold and a Wii controller, and you have to sense where the ball is. I suppose you'd need surround sound and to make the ball hum, unless there really are force-sensitive people out there.

My favourite ever comment on George Lucas' film-making abilities came from a British comic just before the release of Revenge of the Sith. It went something like this: "Don't go and see this film. Instead, rent and watch Episodes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 in a single sitting, then eat a big block of cheese and go to bed. You will dream something much better." I think Star Wars fans should probably forget George and go with the cheese.

Have they fixed the overall feel of the graphics as well as the distance textures? You can get mods that really improve the environment so the world just feels warmer and a more pleasant place to be. After running those, you really appreciate how bleak the original Oblivion environments were - landscape and sky combined, I suppose.

Not a disappointment at all. Despite its technical problems, Kotor 2 was a brave and interesting game. I don't know many other developers that are prepared to explore ideas in that way. I found NWN2 to be beautiful, aesthetically better than some technically superior games like Oblivion (pea soup, anyone?), though I'm glad I had a new PC to run it on.

Band: The London Symphony Orchestra Movie: I've often said Before the Rain, but it's been so long since I've seen it now. Maybe Fargo. TV Series: The Muppet Show Animation: Bagpuss Play: The Mysteries I saw a production on Channel 4 when it first started over 20 years ago, and I would kill for the DVDs now. Comic Book: Anything by Aimo. PC Video Game: Quest for Glory or Gabriel Knight

Right there with you. Isn't that what has happened anyway with the overly-aggressive intervention in Iraq? The US had broad support and/or acceptance for its attack on Afghanistan, which it had squandered by the time it invaded Iraq. The US promised it wouldn't let Afghanistan degenerate into a tribal mess, yet for many places it did so. Some of us who opposed the Iraq war did so because the US has form.