LadyCrimson

@ StillLife If you don't understand why people like certain games, that's fine...I don't understand why some people like brie or fish eggs. But I don't tell them what they 'should' like instead, or that they don't understand the art of culinary pleasure... The same people who like Diabloish games can also often be fans of things like Baldurs Gate types and table-gaming, I've met many who love all three, because they find all three fun in different ways, whatever those ways are for them. I am quite positive that any of those people I've met - some of them who've been table-top gaming before video games were even really around - would be very offended by the notion that they don't understand that 'gameplay should move on,' or whatever, simply because they happen to (still) enjoy one particular game/genre. There are many very old (non-video) games that are all very simple and repetive games rules-wise that are still hugely popular and widely played. Just because time marches on people aren't going to stop liking or wanting certain genres/stuff, assuming they still personally enjoy them. To quote from Star Trek's Shore Leave (groan away...) perhaps sometimes, for some of us, "The more complex the mind (or work/living environment), the greater the need for the simplicity of play."

3rd person combat in Oblivion isn't stupid, you just lose the guided aim cursor and have to sometimes guess where you're swinging because your 'back' can block your forward view a bit. It's not hard...just something to get used to. I use it a lot because, with the enemies being able to hit you from farther away than you think should be so visually (a big game cheat IMO), 3rd is less misleading to me for judging strike distance. As long as you don't pull back the view too much, it works fine.

**Billy Crystal voice** "Have fun storming the castle!"

Like this one? http://www.mi.uib.no/~ingeke/anagram/index_eng.html But then your response list can be miles long with many of them making no lingual sense.

webuser: I am bored sternest: Die rambo webuser: LadyCrimson sternest: Randomly sic ------- webuser: myself sternest: that's boring, say something more webuser: happy sternest: I can't anagram something short

Advice: avoid caps-lock in your post and people may take you a bit more seriously... :D As to your question, my response is the same as the others...no, there's no such language conversion patch.

The music from both Strongholds...I'd forgotten how good it is...if you like flutes, mandolins/lutes and drums and things, that is. :cool:

Lions and tigers are just big kittah's...

Ok, I'll stop now.

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http://crimsonkeep.com/downloads/movies/ev...dance-small.avi (3.2MB) That's about as shruken as I could make it as a quickie .avi w/out totally ruining it, it's long. It'll be pretty fuzzy at media players default 100% cause that's bigger than the actual resolution size I made it (and the original flash is already fuzzy), put it at 50% zoom if you want. Edit: the music in some media players might sputter a little, dunno why..MediaPlayer works fine tho Should be fixed.

For those on slow connections, it's just this comedian doing various dancing routines to their popular tunes. I made a hard copy for myself...hehe...I really liked it. (especially the Brady Bunch reference)

Depends on how drunk you are?

World Poker Tour proves poker can be a fun visual medium...if they made that an Olympic sport I'd watch....but as anyone who's watched a friend play a game knows, it's never fun to watch someone else play a video game.

omg that was funny...and sadly, quite true.

My Arcanum is collecting dust on a shelf. I installed it, played it for three hours, uninstalled it.

I suppose avoiding combat as much as possible in order to beat a game while still lvl 1 doesn't count? (aka Might & Magic's) lol..that was fun running through some of the most heavily populated enemey areas invisible, trying to complete quests w/out being seen/detected. I agree tho...games should at least have an option to play/win the game with a non-combat method. It would make things more interesting.

Yeah, I saw that 1-eye kitten story. Sad, fascinating and disgusting all at the same time. More kittah.

I liked Might & Magic 6 and 7 too, finished those a few times each. And Wiz. 8, liked that one, but to me it was similar enough to the M &M series (but prettier) that I petered out on it before I finished. I bought it maybe half a year ago for $20...it's no longer on sale eh? And it ran on my XPPro just fine. I'm one of the few who didn't like PS:Torment, but I think I was just burnt out on that rpg style/look after countless hours of BG and IWD. As fun and pretty as Oblivion can be, I don't think Tarna would like it all that much, but that's just a guess. I'll also second The Summoner, if you can still find it. It's a quirky strange little game, with a clunky interface but I was surprised how much I ended up enjoying it. Like many, I haven't been very pleased overall with the current crop of crpg's...most fall into the been there done that category and you lose steam pretty fast, even if you kinda like it at first.

I do believe I shall endeavour to never make tarna mad at me...

You can probably find a list of such book locations somewhere on the web by now...save time that way. Really, there's so many useless books that if there are .00000001% that do something, and they're not a part of a quest or in special chests etc, not worth the time. My memory is fuzzy but I seem to recall there a few like that in MW too, but they were parts of quests..like in the process of doing the quest you'd run across them. Dunno tho.

That dog pic Silver posted is hilarious. Meercat, in couch potato pose.

More Ram might help a ilttle. And far as I know, no, you can't disble that smoke. I still lag a little (FPS goes way down anyway) when standing right over 'smoke', with 3ghz 2GB Ram...that's at 1600x1200 tho.