LadyCrimson

I find the longer you have money to throw around, the more likely it is you'll end up doing so....it's not that you don't still think of yourself as cheap or practical, it's just that the higher the dollar value becomes before you start thinking 'that's too expensive to waste money on.'

Patrick Stewart - a far cry from Shakespeare...(plus now when I think of him I think of that King's face in Oblivion...scary). The trailers make the movie look like fun eye-candy, I might check it out. I liked the first one, didn't like the 2nd much.

I remember coming home from school and watching the Transformers for a while. Every episode was exactly the same... Does 'live action Transformers movie' translate into 'mostly blue screen' movie? Hard to picture actors playing robots who can change into a vehicle. heh

Stronghold Crusader...love building castles. If only those blasted trees would stop growing so fast.

You can never have too many gatehouses!

To stop myself from turning this into an Oblivion pic thread, most of mine will now go here. The one of the Khajiit smiling is for LoneWolf.

Maybe because they've always been funny-looking? I thought it'd be whitish with visible dark stripes or something, but no...I'll probably go back and change her to mundane tiger color.

I wanted a white kitty-thief...the face looks fine, but put her in the 'sunlight' and she needs Sublock9000....

What do you think of it? I bought that when it came out, hoping for a DungeonKeeper type fix...it wasn't even close. Interesting game, needed more refinement tho, so it's not on my replay list... I was playing Oblivion until my PC freaked out in one spot and crashed. So I think I'll play some Stronghold:Crusader for a while....

Since (PC) games these days have a save-almost-anytime/reload-anytime feature, dead should be dead and either require spells/temples whatever, since if you don't like something and want to do it better, well, just reload. If you haven't saved in 3 hours or don't want to take up inventory/skill space with res. spells etc. that's your fault. I do, however, like it when the dead can be automatically 'carried' around till you trek to a temple, ala the Might & Magic series method. That's for the more detailed RPG's. Action-RPG's are totally different and I don't really care how they do it in those. Edit - actually, in M&M, party members did fall unconcious, but they could also take more damage (radial dmg from spells say) while in that state as a fight continued around them, and then die even so. I kinda liked that aspect. But being unconcious forever w/no chance of dying...eh...worked in Kotor2 but it's not very interesting.

Myst series.

I bought an Audigy2ZS not too long ago, I really like it, sounds even better than the SBLive I had for years. I don't really notice a performance hit in games, but guess that depends on your rig and how observant you are, heh. During one computer build, it came with onboard sound (some kind of realtek) and tried it for a while. While ok for general usage, I thought it sounded muffled, like there was 10 feet of foam rubber around the speakers, and went back to the SBLive. I definitely notice a difference in games. Footsteps, echoes, effects, all sound better/richer and at lower volumes, treble is less screechy, monsters sound scarier, all that. As mentioned, if you have the speakers (or even a good pair of headphones) I'd get a seperate card. I'll agree that many cards are overkill for the average person tho - doesn't cost much for a basic one these days. Just my 2cents.

The National Zoo of Extinct Wonders Presents The Gweat & Terrible OZ...

Ok, I did the starter town and first main quest. Feels more like Sacred to me...and by that I mean, it feels awkward control and viewpoint wise, even tho it's a familiar 3/4 top-down perspective. Visually not that impressive IMO, but not horrible either. Dont like the limited camera controls, can't evn rotate your view, this is 2006 not 1996. Gameplay - eh, not enough to really tell, but certainly the typical action-rpg with skill points/skill trees etc. It would appear that you do not have pre-defined character classes ala Diablo but rather choose masteries as you lvl up and that defines what you are. From that it seems like maybe you could kinda dual class, if you picked one Mastery the first time and another the 2nd oppurtunity, but maybe that would gimp a character too much. I'm not that impressed with the little bit I've seen so far.

Ah...I apologize...checked the web reciept, it was $37. It's Hypersnap that was $20, mix up. See that phrase under my avatar? Yeah...that's me. :D

Here's an old thread that's actually better for user-discussed info about the cut stuff. http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=30726&hl=

About the ending: From people digging around the files, it appears some of the original conceptual ideas dealt with a lot of those questions. Not completely of course, but the seeds were there. For example, IIRC, there's unused/cut dialogues that have the characters arguing about whether or not to go after you when you go off by yourself after the crash - and Atton was supposed to go after, get caught, and be tortured by Mr. BadSkin. Read the Restoration Project thread and/or their website information for more on some of those. As to personal interpretations....well, others can discuss those, I don't really have any.

I find Mothman's avatar rather mesmorizing... On topic...if this is true, it's a good thing. Course, I'll probably be dead by then and won't notice. I want a time machine so I could see what the planet looks like 1000 years from now. Then again, maybe not...

There's a seperate interface icon for every individual unit when you can have that many? That would drive me a little insane.

Hmm...thanks for that review of the demo. That's pretty much what it looked like to me from the website/screenshots, but if it's done well, it could still be fun. One gets tired of playing D2 every time you want a hackslash fest. Btw, the demo seems to have some pretty high system specs, just to let people know.

Discounting some early generic brands from years & years ago... A couple Voodoo cards (still have the VooDoo3 2000) an early geforce2MX (it was crap & taught me not to buy 'MX'...) geforce ti4200 geforce 6200 geforce7800gs (just bought) maybe one or two others in there somewhere, I forget.

http://www.fileshack.com/login.x?fid=8790 (you can do the non-registered download, it's twice as slow but you don't have to register) For an action-RPG I like the setting and stuff, tho it looks pretty much like all the rest of it's genre. Downloading now but it's an hour to finish on the non-registered...heh

Bah...eventually it'll all be Matrix-like or Multivac-like anyway. Did you know you can currently get yourself 'chipped?' Personal info in a scan-readble chip implanted under the skin!