LadyCrimson

Sounds hilarious! I think the 1st & 2nd one is on GoG too...I'll have to try when I'm done w/Two Worlds.

Bought hubby a new van! It's hard to find one in good shape for a good (read:cheap) price, we've been looking off & on for a few years. His old one was a '94, had 2 bench seats, more of a passenger/bus feel, going on 200K miles I think. The new one is same brand/model, but a '97/different package. It was almost always garaged by an old lady until the person we bought it from got it. But he had MS & they decided it was too big/not right for their needs, so now we have it. Has only 43K and 4 captain/bucket seats+back bench. All kinds of little features & stuff...great shape...slightly bigger than our old one but not by much. Only six thousand. Pretty sweet for the mileage/condition. ....I know, it's not eco-friendly but hubs needs a van cargo space for work at times, so tiny little cars won't do. Also, it's good for camping/crusin' trips. Pimpin'!

He has gained weight, other than that he kind of looks the same. The weight plumped out his face (some are more prone to that w/weight gain than others) which does make him look different. Kind of has that shiny surgery-lift look a bit, too. I don't think he looks horribly old or anything but not the picture of robust, natural health like he was at one time.

Outside of a few days very early on, there is no summer this year. Just a prolonged late fall or early Spring or something. Temps in the upper 60's/mid-70's most of the time. I like cooler weather so I'm not complaining, but it's usually a little warmer on average here. Maybe we'll have a late burst of 90 degree heat in October. Haven't had one of those in a while.

I don't think my backlog is quite that bad, but I've probably got around a dozen or so games that I haven't finished yet. I have several I never came even came close to finishing. I probably won't, either. Tho a couple I still mean to go back and try to play more, someday. ...After all the bad reviews of Two Worlds (which is why I didnt' get it when it came out), I'm surprised I like it as much as I am. Course I am playing the patched/updated version, no bugs problems so far. I thought it would be a more 'serious' RPG but despite all the quests it's really very action-rpg. Diabloish+Oblivion-landscape indeed. Plus it looks pretty w/all the bells whistles on.

Played a little Two Worlds last night. After being pummeled, knocked down, killed & reborn countless times, I can now finally .... kill a Young Grom without dying in 2 seconds! Yay! ...horseback riding is very awkward & I probably won't use it much, the combat is awkward feeling (to me) and yet...yet....I think I like this game. Something about it.

I would be playing Two Worlds (from GoG) but the darn site won't let me download anything lately. Click on the download links and it just hangs and hangs and hangs....it's been like this for a few days - I tried re-downloading Divine Divinity too & same thing. Edit: Well I tried downloading from my other pc, which is using an older version of Firefox. It seems to work there. Strange. Doesn't like FF 3.6.3 maybe?

Oy, thanks. Scrolled down his list & 1st one I clicked on...hilarious in the first minute. Plus I love his accent. lol Definitely one of the entertaining/charismatic ones. ....in other stuff...I'm reminded today of another reason I haven't yet bought a modern console. Arthritic thumbs + controlpads. :/

Not what I'm playing but...one thing I like about the YouTube era is the "Lets Play" videos. Both useful when wondering if I want to buy a game & if the narrator is fun, occasionally just plain entertaining. Not too many made by females, tho. The ones I have seen, interesting to hear the different verbal approaches vs. average male. I'm tempted to buy a mic & make some myself, but I bet it's not easy to make a watchable Let's Play vid...

Yeah, I'm sure it's tough to try to do all of those things/all those changes from the norm. Stats/level ups/points give a sense of satisfaction that's probably hard to replace, as far as character building goes, for example. Sigh. I'd be happy enough if it just had some elements/areas that deviated away, combined with some of the average methods, but prominent enough to make things feel different.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say...same here. I don't mind some combat/conflict (a few bosses, say) but after years & years it's really old when that's all there is. You don't walk through a forest and have every single creature you encounter try to kill you-every 5 feet, no less-either. I don't like action/shooters because without something else to go with it - unique item hunting, alchemy tweaking, raising skills or whatever - to occupy my mind, I get bored very fast of killkillkill. On the other hand tho, for me at least, a RPG that's too sandboxy/open is difficult for me to story-progress because I'll spend so much time on the sandboxy-tinkering aspects that I'll get sick of the game long before I've gotten very far in the actual plot-quests. Experience could be gained in a lot of other ways...or even, perhaps, get rid of the whole experience-bar thing altogether. Skills via schooling (that costs lots of gold or reputation or something else more complex) instead. Edit:the obsession with stat points gained -"I can now wear this armor because I finally have 210 in strength!" - in videogames is boring too, imo. I know it's tradition in rpg's but...

I'm fairly impressed with it. Obscure/not widely popular stuff would be hard for even a human to guess, imo. I only stumped it with less known actors & such, maybe because of my answers, too. Some of those questions are pretty odd. I was thinking of David Ortiz & with all the other good questions (real person? sports? associated with NY? linked w/color red? etc) it suddenly popped out with "Does your chr. travel in a flying saucer?" btw, it always asks all 20 questions when I do it. Reading back in this thread...it's supposed to do less if it thinks it's right sooner?

DS1 solo MP...completely forgot about hidden-til-you-walk-by ambushes like these. Ran out of pots. Died. Hah. SP campaign: Just taking a break. Sadly, I can't drown them.

Maybe it's not so much difficult to make, so much as difficult to appeal to (majority) gamers. To be clear, I'd be all for a rpg set in modern day times, with non-fantastical enemies & weapons. But perhaps if you make it too non-fantastical, even with a good story, it's not compelling enough to play thru (vs. just sit & watch like a film). ie, not escapist enough. I also wouldn't mind a RPG where the main focus didn't have to be on ratatat combat for progressing through a storyline. Some combat, yes, but not every single encounter being solved/reached by fighting thru hordes of dudes/almost everything is an enemy worlds. A mystery type RPG might be interesting.

Cybercafe Gamer Powers, Activate!!

Hubby's been living in the garage again. Every time I go in there he yaks about his stuff & I pretend to understand. He's been trying to photoetch a pcb circuit or something. Not hard apparently, but does take some practice I guess. Red light/develop, etchant fluid, drill the tiny holes, solder. One try had a hairline crack in the board he didn't notice, another he messed up in some other way, and then he got it right. Kinda cool, even if I have no idea what it's for. Maybe with more practice, he can make me a computer!

Shots of rum, headphones, The Police, and the funky chicken.

Hehe, true enough. Can't believe it's been over 5 years for me. Seems like yesterday I came here all full of Kotor2 fangirldom. Wonder if this forum lowers post count when forums/threads are deleted. If so, combined with OT posts I think my true count would be a lot more. *grin*

I just noticed that despite the fact I've gone for long off and on periods of not posting at all - as well as posting a lot in the OT section - I'm still on the top half of the 3rd page of 'all time top posters' on this forum.

@'Krezack - I have no idea how many total people comprise Runic Games or Flagship Seattle (wiki says 14 from Flagship Seattle went to Runic) but anyway...yes it's very influenced by Diablo ppl, was just saying Runic Games is not Blizzard North reincarnated. Especially after so many years for those people to get different ideas of what they like in a game then they once had. I can understand disappointment from the 'it's Diablo ppl' perspective, tho. I remember when Peter Molyneux, one of the main guys for Bullfrog/Dungeon Keeper etc. made Lionhead Studios, I was all excited. But....

I know...was just saying it'd be interesting if you could use a combo of such + skill trees. In any action-rpg game. There might be a way to do it that would be fun/cool/effective.

I don't think I'd say it's 'most of the team' behind Diablo 1 & 2. It's most of the founding members/executives of Blizzard North...(who used to be another company before Blizzard bought & renamed them) they went from Blizzard North to making Flagship Studios (Mythos & Hellgate: London) and then teamed up with the guy who made Fate (which is what Torchlight looks a lot like) to create Runic. Or something like that. So it's not like you're taking Blizzard North wholesale & immediately dumping them into Runic. Different team and minds. I don't know if you ever played Fate, but Torchlight is basically Fate but with a lot more Diablo/action-rpg touches. The pets, the fishing, the cartoony look, the item enchanting method (complete w/ability to over abuse it, lol) etc...all Fate.

There's a thread in the Gearbox forums, started yesterday, about a new Borderlands DLC 4. They released a new game update patch and within it some people found all kinds of files/dialogue info etc. that made them think new content...so the (wildly popular) thread is all speculation based on this. Two gearbox staff replied in the thread, saying neither yay or nay, but they sounded "teasing" so I'd say...good bet it's true. If so...awesome for me! Now, if you want to read the thread, go ahead, but be warned that info in there is #1, very spoilery, and #2, possibly inaccurate. http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=108873

Not funny just interesting (to me). Most vids I see of one-hand clapping, the person is shaking their forearm like a spastic madman. But this guy can do it keeping his arms/wrists pretty still. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooj1noUU2NM ...I can't do it at all...