LadyCrimson

Thought I should mention that apparently tweaking the backpack setting in the ini can cause problems in multiplayer in that if the host has his ini set to a high number, everyone else who joins will get the same. Also, that once changed, any chr. you load w/the changed ini will be stuck at the high inventory number...and you can't downgrade the slots again even if you change ini. Have you found this to be true at all, Matthew? From someone on another forum: "I think how it works is... you change the setting, load/make a new character, get the change to occur on him, then change the setting back before you load/make any more characters. I think that will allow you to have a single character with a broken backpack without messing with anyone elses." If you like to MP, perhaps to be super safe should edit ini, create/load new chr. you'll only use in SP, leave game and change the ini file back to default.

Yes, Hunter's are snipers...I use mostly sniper rifles, the combat rifles, and pistols. Can use all the others, but even the rocket launcher didn't help me too much against Roid. But I am admittedly terrible at dodging/strafing. I haven't been using the bird skill too much because of the long recharge...next time I'll try running in circles and just using it all the time, maybe. heh Seriously? Awesome, I love you. Thanks for the info. *goes off to Google for it*

I guess I must too. The main quest bosses are pretty tough as a Hunter & for non-expert FPS players, tho. After dying repeatedly w/no weapon taking more than a sliver of health off him, I had to use a very cheap tactic to take out Roid Rage dude and I'm not sure how I'm going to deal with the next one. Maybe if I level up to where the quest is grey...everything else has been a very nice, consistent solo challenge but not "impossible."

I looked into Linux/Wine myself a bit ago. Hubby has all kinds of Linux systems in his den so I fiddled with those a bit. While the desktop interface/UI is fine getting everything to work the way you want is far too complicated for a non-techie/programmer person like myself. I mean, hey, I get annoyed just when I have to copy-paste long lines of code into a game .ini to get a 'feature' & t hen have to figure out why it's not working. Plus from what I read, it wouldn't do for "serious" pcgaming at all. If you don't game a lot or care about latest releases much, it'd be ok but.... ...still I understand not wanting to use Windows. That's why I looked into it myself. Good luck, and hope it works for you.

So with much tweaking/research blah blah hubby has the Mac OS working (kind of) on one of his PC's (he was technically curious....). He left it open for me to fiddle with if I want. I clicked on the "Safari" button and the "thinking" swirly mouseicon has been stuck for ages. Is there a cntrl+alt+del type option for Mac? It's Leopard (not Snow Leopard, just Leopard). I have no idea which machine he has it on so I can't just press the reset button

A friend posted that elsewhere, and I'm just getting around to checking it out. Most of the 'console like' UI that seems to bug a lot of people doesn't bother me at all...but what I was eager to try was the 3rd person viewpoint. It takes some getting used to for the aiming but after that it's just fine. For me, the game has suddenly become a lot more appealing. I don't know why, but I really can't stand the 1st person, more-restricted-than-in-real-life game PoV. Going to tweak with it some more... The single-player gameplay, for any loners/non-FPS experts like me who might be wondering if they'd like it, is just fine. It may shine the brightest in social-giggles MP (I haven't tried it, don't plan to) but it's still a very fun single-player game. Skill trees are boringly simplistic but if you like item-grubbing/hunting + fast action + humor, this game has it...and it all works fine in SP. Had a nice firefight that was a challenge & got some great loot...for when I'm 6 levels higher. Now I have to carry it around w/me in my limited backpack. Edit: (typos, I'm tired, plus...) At 1st it did feel a lot more like a shooter than RPG/Diabloish, to me. But now what it reminds me most of is Tombraider games...that is, in terms of the singleplayer gameplay pacing/action and such. Except w/out puzzles/tombs, and w/gazillions of items.

I'm still hoping someone eats a hamster.

I'm always sequestered away in my office w/headphones on, gaming or something, and always forget it's Halloween... Hubby's installing Leopard on one of his PC's as I type. He heard you could, so after some tinkering, he is. This amuses me somehow.

I'd assume even if you got to him, that he doesn't do anything, so no point. Still, a great little dev. quirk or whatever. I like it. :D

Today while bug spraying the borders of the house, I rescued an earthworm who had apparently made a home in a crack near the foundation. I rinsed him off with water and put him back in the dirt. I also cried when I 1st saw Bambi.

I'm beginning to find SG:U has a lot of amusement value. Altho this might have something to do w/watching it with my spouse. For instance, every time someone asks Robert Carlyle a techie question, I want to holler "I'm giving it all she's got, Captain!" ala Scotty on ST:OS. It must be the accent.

So do any of you know if the little green robot in the 1st tutorial town is just scenery for explorers or eventually does something? If you jump on garbage can on one side of the gun/ammo shop and then up on the roof, you'll see him waving hello at you in the rocks. A friend who's lvl 42 says no quest he knows of, so my guess is scenery. If so, charming part of the game to reward explorers w/little sights like that.

Ahahaha! Thanks, that had me in stitches. It's true they ran out of cigs a bit ago, but I'm sure the writers can think of something else. Like...twinkies! Someone was hoarding a backpack of twinkies and a riot ensues over the last one.

I don't see the big deal about the graphics. Once you start playing, it really isn't that bizarre. Not that I've gotten very far, mind you...but the cut-scene bits at the start are the most cartoonish...gameplay isn't that funky. To me it's just as if it all has sort of chalk/charcoal filter over color tones and certain lines, I don't know what you'd call the effect. The purplish-blue night colors are pretty. Like the gameplay so far, even if it does reinforce how truly awful I am at 1st-person shooting, haha. My only quibbles so far are the save system - I don't mind not being able to save 'whenever' but it doesn't always seem to save my questing progress accurately...and the other is rate of monster respawn - respawn is fast enough that it's a bit annoying when you're playing alone. Just minor things tho.

So do you guys bother with the fishing in this game? It's fun to make your pet into something else for a while, and occasionally you fish out a cool item, but my eyes go buggy watching that fishing indicator. Also, that first Brink guy, it's weird how he literally follows you half the time and doesn't the other half. I wonder what that's about, guess I'll have to google.

Just got home from buying it, installing now. Assuming I like Borderlands, between it & Torchlight, I'm all set for the winter. :D

The Proposal was terrible. I was expecting at least a passable romantic-comedy with the always (to me) endearing Ms. Bullock, but no. No chemistry between her and the male lead and the romance aspect was so mildly developed that the inevitable coming together was unbelievable, even for a romantic movie. Rewatched Music & Lyrics and While You Were Sleeping, which are two romantic comedies that work. Much better.

The offline mode does work once you have the game installed...but I still need Steam to run it. Also, here's another issue that I have (maybe there's a solution I'm unaware of?)...if you play in offline mode and there's a patch, you go online and it'll patch things automatically, correct? But what if you don't like the patch? Either because of gameplay changes you personally dislike or because your hardware for some reason doesn't like the patched aspects. You can't downgrade the patch on Steam. If you uninstall and reinstall, Steam will install the latest version w/the patch, and thus you can never get back to the original version again. Has this changed?

On torchlight itself: Played some before I took another "nap." Very much like Fate except with Diablo-ish inventory and such. I love the better looking cat/dog pets, the shared stash and sending the pet to town. Very nice. Started on Normal and as noted, it's been too easy, so I'm going to restart on Hard. Altho, if you end up choosing to continue the 'endless' dungeon grinding w/a chr once finished w/the quest/plot, it could get harder. It did in Fate, a little. So far my only minor quibble is I sometimes have a hard time clicking on the monsters to attack. I wave the cursor over a clump of baddies and either my pc is so fast it doesn't pick up on them or there's lag and it doesn't pick up on them. Also, my 1st chr., the guy (Bink?) you find in the dungeon to help, he followed my chr...in the 2nd, he acted like I didn't accept the quest and ignored me. Bug I assume... Oh? Is that still in there? You could do that in Fate, too. Interesting.

No...it's because I need Steam, a 3rd party, to run it. If I don't have Steam installed, the games don't work. If Steam goes belly up one day, it won't work. If I don't have online access for some reason, at the time I want to play a game, it won't work. I'm renting the ability to play the game on Steam. I don't mind (too much...) paying online, downloading a digital .exe file to my hard drive and clicking on it to install vs. inserting a DVD disk in a drive. I mind a company controlling how and when I can use what I've paid for. And despite what the more hardcore gamer community might think, retail sales of games still far far far beat out pure digital, so I don't think I'm alone.

I gave up and made a paypal account just to buy the game. As much as I dislike PayPal, I dislike Steam even more. Either way, it's another place where I have to dole out the money info for an internet 'service' I'll likely never use again and forget I even have one years later. At least I don't feel like I'm renting, lesser of two evils. Even if it's only $20, I better like this game at least as much as I enjoyed Fate. :D Off to play.

Don't have a Paypal account either. Altho looking at the buy-torchlight link, maybe I don't need an actual PP account to just buy the game. Maybe. Sigh.

Since I built my own instead of buying prebuilt I'll list it here I guess. ASUS p6T motherboard Intel i7-920 6GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 RAM (bought 6 for when I get around to a 64 bit OS) GeForce GTX 275 (decided it'd do until the new geforce comes out/I install Win7 etc) Corsair TX750W power supply 500GB SATA 7200 HD (too cheap to do SSD yet..for the core pc parts, yes...for a HD..no) SB X-Fi extreme audio (it was cheap...) Some big blue neon fan case (whirlwind or something) Maybe I'll get some more cooling later. These new gpu's certainly run hot, even w/6 fans. The last PC I built was over 4 years ago, and this new one better last at least as long. Minus the video card & other minor pieces. I expect to buy new vid cards/drives once a while. ...still have my old Pentium 4/AGP/always XP system as my backup/storage and for crunching/running multiple older programs/internet while gaming on the new pc at same time. That's important, you know. It allows me to pretend I'm intelligently multi-tasking instead of just wasting time playing silly games. Plus, I'm not sure Dungeon Keeper would even run on Windows7, once I get that.

Maybe the problem is there was no Bruce Campbell and the cheese was not over the top cheesy enough, nor satirical enough to amuse me. The gypsy slobbery gumming just made me go "ewwww" and feel slightly queasy. Not funny.

K, thanks. I went to their forums and did a bunch of reading myself. It does sound a lot like Fate, only refined. for 20 bucks, that seems acceptable. Still can't make myself buy from Steam tho...changed my mind, making a Google checkout account. Edit: After reading icky stories about Google's checkout I'll skip on that, too. Guess it's Steam after all. :/ One thing about Steam I don't like is it really makes me feel like I'm renting a bloody game, not buying it. Ah well, again, for $20 I can live with it. Once I stop playing Torchlight I'll probably never play it again and can uninstall Steam again. heh