LadyCrimson

Ewww, rye bread. I guess he's made his decision already, but I would have voted for the 2nd one. The 1st one is too generic face-wise, the 2nd's face is more interesting in a creepy way.

"You must download a plugin to view this video." I don't have to see it, anyway...in another 30-40 years I'll probably be her.

That alone are words that will make me buy a game just to check it out. heh I like strategy games, but I'm kind of a turtle gamer and many strategy games are too hurried in pace for my liking. Is there such a thing as smart game AI? Even AI that seems pretty good at first surprise ends up being predictable and easy after you sense the patterns.

Not that anyone cares, but I cleaned up/altered my directories, hence most pictures I posted in this thread are now missing. Here's a new one:

No, realisitcally, there's probably not much difference, but somehow I find them to feel more individual. At least the ones I played. It's probably helped a lot by the sprite character/npc drawings for me. I've been noticing in Stronghold2 how every army unit feels generic looks-wise, even with different 'costumes' - because they have the same polygon structures and in 3D you really notice it - whereas in Stronghold1, somehow they all looked vastly different, creating a more game-unique feeling environment. I dunno...

re:Total War - hmm, looking at other screenshots, looks like the battles would be awesomely fun...might be a bit too hc-strategy for me tho. I might give it a whirl. re:Setzer's pic - hehe, I remember that spot in the game.

I agree with Dark Raven on the 3D thing, but not only for characters...many look really great scenic wise, but I'm getting a little tired of seeing the same trees, rocks, building pattern textures, etc. that all 3D games seem to use, it makes all 3D games look the same and thus kinda boring. At least Oblivion made decent character hands. :D As to the original post - if you really didn't like MW, I personally don't think you'll find all that much to change your mind in Oblivion. If you sort of liked MW but wished there were some things changed, you might find Oblivion more to your liking. I haven't played Oblivion anywhere close to the hours of some others here, but IMO it's pretty and has a tigher, smaller 'world' and is more immersive than MW because of it, but gameplay wise, it's still much the same, even w/better quests.

Musopt, what game is that? It looks like a Braveheart game or something.

Interesting. I've always liked 40-50 pages because I find people tend to be intimidated by really long threads and it's easier to make new ones. But the really long ones I've seen haven't caused me any loading issues. I suppose some laggy boards are because they have hundreds of too-long threads rather than just a few now and then? Anyway, thanks for the info. P.S. I find these boards to be the fastest-loading forums ever, consistently, btw. I figured it was their server power...

I guess that was my question...of course it's up to the board administration, heh, but I was just curious if there was an actual tech reason to avoid huge threads. Sounds like there is, at least with some software.

Is there some rule about a thread being too many pages or something? It's only 24 pages on my settings. heheh And I'm still playing the Strongholds...all of them. Edit: I ask cause since I believe only the viewed page is loaded at one time, length of the entire thread doesn't impact loading for people? Does it affect the server somehow? I've seen threads 300+ pages long on some forums.

Attched cuteness...I get tired of clogging up my own servers w/tons of tiny pictures... :D

I'm still getting used to XPPro. I won't be switching anytime soon...and by that I mean years. But it's nice of Hades to be a guinea pig for the rest of us. If he can find the change for a DVD that is. Look under the couch yet? "

omg the dancing kitty one is hilarious...

webuser: Jennifer Aniston sternest: Fine in torn jeans.

@ Launch - not on digital, and my cheap scanner is terrible with slides.

Alas, no...the closest I get to wildlife beyond squirrels, ducks, and stray cats is in the zoo where bored animals sit behind cages and the biggest challenge is to minimize the cage-wire lines, like this one from years ago.

I love jumping spiders...I was going to post a pic of one the other day but couldn't find a good one. They're soooo cute. :D So are these.

Well giving it more time I like Stronghold2 better than initial impressions. They use a lot of the same music, so that helps as far as I'm concerned. Some of the clunkiness remains but most things I'm starting to get used to. I definitely like the castle structure options a lot more, as well as the more detailed and abundant little worker animations. The better realisim of melee units not being able to bash down castle walls is frustrating when you're used to them being able to do so, yet adds to the strategic aspect of the game so overall that's good I guess. Not as addictive as the originals but not too bad.

Apparently the Lord's Lady likes to take baths with the windows open. I felt like I was watching the Sims take showers, and it was rather disturbing.

Why am I not surpirsed Hades liked that one?

@mkreku --

Yes, gay marriage should be legally sanctioned with all the same legal benefits and such of hetrosexual marriage. It is unfair and unjust for a goverment to recognize one and not the other just because the gay couple doesn't produce 2-parent, genetic, biological off-spring. Heck more and more hetro couples choose to either not have children or adopt exclusively. I suppose if there were only 200 people left on the planet, procreation might take some precedence as far as legal rights encouragement-to-mate goes, but that's a whole nother story. Adoption: Being adopted myself, I can only say that if the parent/s have the means (income) and seem a good parent risk when investigated, I think it's far better to give a child a home, with a sense of belonging and family, than to let that child stay in an adoption center, get older, and have no one want to adopt them cause they're not a cute baby anymore. So yes there too - parenting skill is not determined by sexual orientation.

"Get to the top of the Keep within this hilltop tower-fortified castle with laddermen and your peasants, archers, nd spearmen who can't even kill a bear one on one!" Uh...ok. "Charrrrrge!" ........... I suck.

I disregarded some lukewarm reviews and bought Stronghold2, thinking for $20 hey maybe it'd at least be fun to free-build castles in 3D. Let's say so far I'm not very impressed. Mostly a very clunky interface...sometimes you click stuff on the menu and it doesn't even respond. The worst tho is that peasants turn to crime & desert their job randomly, no matter how 'happy' they are overall, and it's easier to just delete their empty work building and build a new one for a 'new' peasant than to wait for the original to be caught by the guards, spend time in the stockade and go back to work. Just stupid. But it is prettier. Somewhat.