LadyCrimson

So I'm hearing about this stuff this morning. I was already losing interest a bit with the direction Activision/Blizzard seems to be going in, and this kind of tips me over the edge. I won't be buying the game. Bah humbug. Actually the real-money thing bothers me not too much...no one's being forced to use that trade option (plus I don't trade much personally, anyway). But no offline/always online...boo. Stop pretending and make Diblo3 a MMO to replace your aging WoW then. Bah...I suspect in another decade I'll have quit games entirely. Oh well, by then I'll be sitting around a table drinking rum & playing bridge & tiddlywinks with other aging coots, anyway.

Definitely over-brightened/contrasted in the original ones - the altered ones posted are better. Distant mountains look nice compared to previous games. Armor & indoor floor/wall textures still seem a little blurry/not very hi-res but no biggie. I'm sure I'll think they're awesome while in motion/playing.

The Slayers:Next soundtrack. Some good stuff in it. I just love me instrumental music...

The Warrior's Way. Visually stylistic and cool, but not what I'd call a "good movie." Story/character stuff not terribly interesting or well done etc. Not as action-filled as the ads might make you think, most of the action is near the end. The visuals/camera work tho...they're kind of an eye treat to someone like me. Some parts of the film reminded me of Sam Rami's "The Quick & The Dead" for some reason.

Finally watched all the Slayers episodes available on streaming Netflix. The movies are not available so haven't seen any of those. Wish I could read the books, but the few English translations available seem to be pretty expensive (rare/out of print now perhaps?) so not likely to happen. No game playing at all in a while...just not in the mood. Spending more time on other hobbies. And naps. Between worsening allergies & ever-increasing doses of allergy meds I'm starting to feel almost narcoleptic, harhar.

My impression is that for some reason, the latest patch (1.4) caused the max level to be attainable even if you didn't have the DLC's. At least, for some people. Bug with level capping perhaps. If you level past 50, then it's something else/a related glitch I guess.

Note to self: Remember that Breaking Bad starts on Sunday! ...I hope it's still good.

Pretty much me in a nutshell. Which is why, I suppose, when I do get a new game I like, I play it to death for a long time. So few new ones that interest me & older ones fading. I still love my old games in terms of respect/review/all-timers but it's hard to play them for very long when you know every square inch, every method, every detail, that even a few years of non-play can't erase. But times like these give me time to catch up on all the TV/movies I might've missed, so it all works out in the end.

Eh, it's that generally vague running a temperature, stabbing headaches, aching joints and upset stomach all combined.. Oh ok. I had visions of stuff more male-specific than that. At any rate, glad it's feeling better at least. Looks like we're not going up to SSF, which selfishly improves my mood considerably.

Fighting some minor Win7 (I assume) glitching while playing KOTOR2. I have a feeling I won't finish, since I played it so much I can still remember a lot of stuff even after years, but it's fun nostalgia for a bit. Atton is not quite as cute as I remember. But his voice is still meltingly awesome.

All I have to say is it's very difficult to know how you'd react until it happens to you. The survival instinct is very strong...but at the risk of sounding insensitive myself, after watching/living with someone in that situation, I'm not sure I could personally stand it either. Altho, for me, that just makes me respect those that do, more. *shrug* ...and, ah...hm. Any more news on whether Blizzard is actually going to have D3 in time for Xmas? So many of my friends are all hopped up on the belief/hope that it'll be so. heh

Am I the only one a little bit worried about Diablo3? Not hugely, but a little. There's lots of tiny things with the info coming out that makes me think it will be good, but not great. Then again, I'm probably just being cynical and pessimistic from the way I disliked the direction they turned WoW towards.

That's altered via the "Display popup dialog" option, not the subtitle option. They don't appear at the bottom during the (art slide) movies, for me. However if you mean the actual NPC dialogues...with the wheels and stuff...I just think they didn't separate the 'click wheel option' menu from the 'show dialogue' window.

I'm not sure about no menu options being visible on the raining/statue screen but the lag could be .... I think the game's requirements is a 9800GT...assuming the 9400 is down the chain, it's probably not quite good enough for the game. That is, it might run on low settings but lag may be persistent. Depends on some of your other specs, like CPU, laptop vs. desktop, etc I suppose. Just for more info's sake: what's your CPU? Not a ati/dual card person but have you tried with using just one card/no crossfire?

I'd ask what a "man flu" entails, but I'm not sure I want to know the answer. Woke up early, did a bunch of boring stuff, tried to make Kotor2 run more properly on my Win7 rig (mostly failed), had a piece of leftover pizza and am now wondering if hubs is going to push me into driving to SSF so he can drop off his van/see his fave auto-mechanic (who moved his business up there recently). It's a long and trafficy drive just to get a rattle looked at so the thought is making me a bit grumpy.

I have the 'can't move after a battle' problem too. Sometimes it works ok for a little while but then starts to do it. If there's enemies/containers nearby I can still click on them and the chr. will dash over and keep fighting/open the containers, but once finished she's still stuck/won't walk. Sometimes if I wait a little while I'll unfreeze...but otherwise the only thing that works when it happens is to quicksave the game and quickload, then I can move again. So it's playable, just a pain in the butt having to save/reload all the time, even if it only takes an instant on the new pc's of today. Vsync does nothing. I tried disabling a lot of the funky features of my SB soundcard like Crystal-something (never have EAX on) and that got rid of some sound crackling and some instances of cutscene skipping but the can't-walk problem is still there. Seems more like an issue with the way the game (or the restoration mod which I'm also using) leaves corpses. Seems to happen a lot if the corpse has no remains. No freezes when movies play tho.

No, 1600x1200 doesn't show up in either menu. I can force it in the .ini but then things like menu buttons are cut off. I'm pretty sure I'd need a 1920x1200 monitor to make it work...aren't LCD monitor's max. resolution their native resolution? Anyway, at least I have a 4:3 option so I don't have to live with the "stretched look". Thanks for the patches. Altho the hi res movies never seemed to do anything for me...is there a way to make them play bigger resolution by default, instead of the dinky letterboxed 800x600 or whatever it is?

My father could draw cartoons and art with nothing but his mouth, so I see nothing stupid with playing games using a specialized controller. It'd take a lot of practice, but apparently the guy has that. Whether it's "worth" living with severe physical disability is up to the individual. Some people make it so, some give in to despair and make it not. I guess we know which one Morgoth would be.

So in the old days, with my CRT monitor, I was able to run the game in 1600x1200. With my 1080 LCD monitor, I can only do the 1280x1024. I'm assuming this is because my monitor is 1080 and the game can't adjust for that or something. I can force it to be bigger via the .ini file but then the image gets cut off etc. The question then is ... is there a way to run Kotor2 in 1600x1200 on my monitor? I don't really care about widescreen....but perhaps a widescreen mod is the only way to get it to run at a bigger size? I saw one but not sure I want to deal with that, so if that's the only way, guess I'll make do... Oh and also...I can't seem to find the hi-res audio/movie patch. The nzone links I see are all out of date, it's a different site, tried a Search there but nothing. I thought I had them on disc somewhere but so far I haven't found them...

I definitely like that you have to physically dodge, vs. dodge being just a percentage chance number ala Diablo. But I kinda of wish you could occasionally miss your dodge or something, so you aren't practically invincible via dodging/teleporting.

The humor is really great. Off to watch a couple more episodes right now.

Congrats on the new family addition, vault_overseer. Hope you don't need a lot of sleep for a while! ....We don't have a Wal-Mart. I think this town outlawed them. haha. ....Dusted out the PC again. I don't know how these things collect so much dust in so short a time, especially when they have fans to move the air around.

Eh? I'm not sure what I said that was harsh. In essence my brief statement is agreeing with you...that ammo weight isn't much of an issue in most cases. However, while I don't use energy weapons, there were some ppl who complained about weight of some of the energy ammo...but as I said before, that might've changed in one of the patches. Dunno. ...*wiki check* - according to the wiki MF cells are still .10 weight. So if you like energy weapons, that could be a larger factor, since some of those weapons use 2-5 cells per shot. Many bullet rounds, for instance, only have .029-.060 weight and don't use up 2,3, or 5 per shot. That's a fairly big difference. Nothing insurmountable, but more of an inconvenience perhaps. But like I said, I don't use energy weapons/can't say from experience.

Not a movie but I've been watching some of the Slayer anime series on Netflix. Started because I wanted to see something else Crispin Freeman had done but once I could ignore some of the annoying squeaky voices and certain animation aspects that I dislike it's a cute, goofy series. Slayers:Revolution is more entertaining overall from the get go, but the last half of Slayers:Evolution-R isn't bad either.

Don't know about the one in Gilroy, but the one up here is practically a supermarket. Ok, not quite that huge, and their brand selection is limited, and no deli or anything, but still...quite a lot of stuff. But yeah...no reason to make it a main grocery shop place. Don't really understand the shift, myself.