LadyCrimson

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 The nzone links I see are all out of date, it's a different site, tried a Search there but nothing.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.

Target sure has a lot of food in it's stores, nowadays. Not that I want to stand in huge lines behind ppl purchasing 20 pairs of cheap pants, towels, home decoration and mega-pack candy bars to buy some meat & fruit cups...I'll stick to Lucky/Nob Hill thanks. I've been reading about the South-Western drought that's plaguing the US farmers at the moment. I expect cereal and other food items to go up in price in the next year.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the new patch. Then again, perhaps no one but Lucian has been playing since the patch. I know I haven't. I've pretty much decided I'm going to stick with patch 1.3 until all the DLC are out and I'm convinced no more patches are coming. I get tired of starting a new game and/or needing to download a new GECK, NVSE, readjusting mods, blah blah each time. Which is fine...by the time it's finally all done, I may feel like playing it obsessively again.

Certain ammo was actually fairly heavy, but I think they may have changed that now. Anyway, unless one likes to wander the wastes for hours and hours without ever going back to/walking by a town/merchant to restock, not usually a big issue. I'm not a fan of HC mode personally, but I understand why some/many are. To me it adds nothing to difficulty of the game, it's just more time-micromanagement and I do enough OCD things in non-HC as it is...much more and I'd never actually be shooting/questing. lol

I have no problem with the idea that not everyone likes top-down only games. No one has to like it. But it's not obsolete at all, for this genre of game in particular, for the advantage C2B already mentioned. Titan Quest (2006)/Immortal Throne (2007) Torchlight (2009) Grim Dawn (indie being made by some of those from Titan Quest) (still in production) and of course... Diablo3 (2011/2012?). In fact, from the videos of D3, I'd say it's going to be pretty similar viewpoint as DS3 is...perhaps a little more zoomed out. And those are only the pc games I've personally played/looking forward to. I'm sure there's others, whether small indies/not well known to medium size to the occasional bigger title. As for: I don't play MP either. Having the camera a bit more zoomed out would actually allow one to see farther "forward" - a bigger radius field of view - and thus see enemies sooner, if that's one's complaint. You don't have to have an over-the-shoulder 3rd person type of view in order to just see "farther" - zooming out achieves that as well. It doesn't, of course, give you a pretty view of skies or whatever, but that's different than wanting to see enemies sooner. I'd like to mention that the way the game is designed, seeing too much "farther" could actually make the game too easy. If you can see enemies long before they can see you, you're going to approach the situation differently. There's no surprise factor (the 1st time anyway). You'd see enemies milling about unaware of you when you can see them, and that starts to look silly in this type of game, imo. Akin to when Diablo2 gave us 800x600 resolution and suddenly the Fallen were just wandering around aimlessly in the corners of the screen, and you could attack them before they noticed your presence, which made things absurdly easy. That's easily solved by not allowing the weirded out super-close up in the zoomed out option, but allowing it in the closer zoomed in option. My objection to the "wall/zoom" is that when it occurs during combat, which can happen now and then if you're rolling/teleporting madly around in the tight spaces, it can be very annoying.

For me tossup between Kotor2 and FNV, but I had to vote for FNV since I put in way more hours with that one overall. I like DS3 quite a bit & admire that they tried to do something different with the genre, but it's not a game I see myself replaying for 200+ hours, haha. I never did play NWN2....I started it when it was released, but didn't get far. I think at the time I was still very burnt out on the whole 'story rpg'/large party/D&D type game. Alpha Protocol - not my kind of setting, but I do mean to try it someday.

And he's still writing them! (wiki)

Yeah, I loved Magician. The rest...not so much. Piers Anthony's Blue Adept series interested me for the same reason - magic world (Phaze) and non-magic world (Proton).

Some of you seem really picky about your books. Of course, a lot of these books (Shannara, Xanth) I read when I was 10-15, and they were great then but not so great now that I'm 40+. I loved the first few Xanth books (when I was 12)...the puns amused me. He's a simplistic writer tho, and the Xanth books in particular were just meant to be light humorous reads I think. That series went on way too long and became horrid tho, I'll agree to that. Except, I did like the one with Jumper the spider. Jumper was awesome. Piers also has a tendency to write an ok initial book (Incarnations of Immortality) but then the rest become auto-pilot works. His Blue Adept trilogy wasn't bad...but I haven't tried the more recent new trilogy set in the same world. I imagine it to be ... not as decent.

For some reason I can't see that, but I'm assuming it's probably the same one I've already seen, which looked like great fun. Side note: there's this one image in the vid I saw that instantly made me think of KOTOR2/the Ebon Hawk. (it's not exactly the same, just reminds me of, heh)

Watched a doc. on Red Sox legend Ted Williams. Good show. I want to do some more yard stuff, but today it's so windy that it's "raining" fine tree/plant debris back there...enough where your glass of water would become polluted in 10 seconds. 20 minutes of that had me sneezing and coughing so much that I ran back inside. All those maple and other trees on our street/in the backyard are pretty to look at, but sure are a pain sometimes. Especially the maple leaf "dust". So I'm "stuck" inside for a while. Not in a gaming mood; kind of twiddling my thumbs. Thinking about running to Best Buy to increase the DVD movie collection again.

Nope. Friends/family, if I'm not interested, nothing makes me read something. Teachers forcing me to read some it in classes was annoying, but usually after the first irritation of having to get used to reading obscure old styles of writing passed, I'd at least kind of enjoy them. But now that I'm thinking on it, there was one book that I hated and kept reading for almost the whole thing....Jean M. Auel's The Shelters of Stone. I loved Clan of the Cave Bear when I was a kid, and have bought every book in the series since then, even after it largely became a romance novel series describing the exploits of 'most amazing & gorgeous cave woman evah, who invents everything known to modern man'. But then Shelters of Stone came along, and in the first 50 pages the writing was so atrocious I was ready to toss it on the fire. It was as if Auel had been secretly ghost-written for all these years and she finally decided to get rid of the ghost writer, and Auel herself couldn't write for crap. Grammar, sentence structure were all abysmal. But I and many other fans kept reading anyway, hoping it would get better. It didn't. I haven't bought Land of Painted Caves yet and I think I probably won't.

If I hate a book, it typically means I tossed it across the room after about 150 pages and then burned it in the fireplace. ...it's rare that I truly hate a book. There are some that I find too boring for my tastes and don't quite finish or finish and think "meh", or others where I love the story but dislike the author's writing style (Drizzt novels) but grit my teeth and keep reading them because of the characters. But if I even come close to finishing it, I didn't hate it.

And which would those be? The very last two of the MISC section? Because those are the only two in the list that I haven't seen/acquired in the single-player.

I'm in agreement. People have personal preferences that can block them out of enjoying things, tho...we all do. Still, I have a difficult time seeing the general viewpoint of a game being a gamebreaker...and it's certainly not a bug/technical issue that needs to be 'fixed.' More zoom out for MP would be useful tho, and it'd be nice if the camera didn't swing around to give you a close up of your chraracter's nose when you run up against a wall or something, but other than that...

I have no idea what you mean by "you can't complete the quest" - you'll have to be a lot more specific than that. What area, what quest, what is happening to prevent you from completing it. However, enemies in general areas will stop giving experience once you've leveled to a certain point. That's just the way it is ... I'd assume to prevent you from reaching max-level before the end of the game, or just to prevent too much over-leveling in general. This happens in most games of this type, actually. Less & less exp. from the same kill fields. But in DS3, instead of forever getting 1xp by killing even weak-arse enemies, you get 0 exp. Lvl 25 appeared to be the "max" for the Glitter Mine/Queen area/quest and possibly the entire Stonebridge area as well - eg to start gaining experience again, you have to move forward in the game plot past those areas/quests.

They don't show up in any of the .ini files. I'd guess it's embedded in one of the EO/GO .opt files. It's possible you could use the config.ini to override them but not sure and I wouldn't know how. I'd guess it's a glitch/integrity thing too, they're working/sticking fine for me.