Volourn

And, I'm a heterosexual. Your point?

"I think it's a necessary step to making game consoles an important part of the home entertainment setup." Uh... this doesn't make any sense without real context since logistically, they already are a huge number of homes already vierw them as an 'important part' of the home entertainment setiup.

"Well, neither should the Lybians then, according to your logic." that's dumb logic. Just ebcause one groupm can't have freedom another group shouldn't hve it either? I guess we Kanadians should give up our freedom too since it's not fair we have it but North koreans don't have it. That's just... stupid.

NWN2 is their best game. MOTB is their best written campaign.

"Besides encouraging the change into D&D game instead of another RTS game, the contributions seems to be QA, Promotional material, much of the audio related stuff (sound direction, voice record/acting, music, effects etc.), various producers and an unspecified special thanks to 3 people (Chris Parked included)" So... basically what I've been saying all along.. and, basically, exactly what all publishers do.. right? Thank you for agreeing with me. "Feargus Urquhart is the boss of Obsidian as he was the boss of Black Isle/Interplay." He was the boss at BIS which was Interplay's RPG division. "As for the lawsuit, I don't care who sued whom. However, a contract had been signed by both BIS and BIO stating what needed to be done in what matter to what time. And when BIO did take too long, BIS sued. Also, as Gorth said BIS failed to produce royalty payments to Bioware. [i'm not sure if this was because of Herve Caen's involvement or not]." For starters, BIS couldn't sue anyone since theyw ere just a division of Interplay. And, it was BIO who sued Interplay after Interplay cried about stuff andn tried to steal money. BIO's case was obviously strong that Interplay gave up rights to a multi million selling franchise like NWN and all they got out if it prettyy much was the sue of an outdated engine to use on a too late sequel IWD2 that was rushed out the door which didn't exactly do as well as it could have. "I'm sure the only ones that got rich here were - the lawyers." I dunno. The docs seem to have gotten pretty rich. Interplay/BIS not so much hence the whole implosion by that company.m Seems, they were the losing side. R00fles! "I'm not claiming either that Obsidian are somehow responsible for Bioware's (past) succes; I'm just pointing out that BIS did help Ray and Greg (the doctors) to get started in the industry..." No. The docs (all 3 of them) a responsible for getting started, and making the right decision. All Interplay/BIS did was make a business decision to help themselves make money.. surely wans't to help out BIo b/c they somehow cared for them out of the goodness of their heart. No more than LA/Atari gave Obsidian 'help' out of the goodness of their heart. Stop trying to give credit or blame for someone's success to others. It's disgusting!

"Bio and BIS as well as Obs have had a very close relationship in the past, which is why Obs got both KoToR 2 and NWN 2 in all likihood. It's interesting how you like to downplay BIS and Bio's relationship during the BG days." BIo and FU do. Obther Obsioainites not so much outside of possibly Tayllor. BIS was the ublisher as part of Interplay. Read your BG series manual. The number of Obsidianites that play a major role - let alone any role - on the BG series is extremely small. And, JE and MCA had absolutely nothing to do with it so stop trying to give Obsidian credit for it. And, BIS gets credit that all publuishers get - for publishing it. Also, it should be noted that BIS and BIo were 'so close' that BIo sued Interplay to break the relationship when Interplay/BIS got butthurt that BIO was taking 'too long' with NWN. LMAO Again, FU gets credit and maybe Taylor does too if we knew what he helped out on outside of regular publisher stuff. Fu is kewl because it was his suggestion to turn Bg into a D&D game. Other BISers get crap credit 'cause they did nothing worth mentioning. I'm a very angry person - hence why I like the Fos so much. R00fles! OBs got NWN2 and KOTOR2 because of FU's relationship with the docs. That's it that's all. JE doesn't even like BIo let alone worked on any of their games. LMAO

He's too quiet. He needs to speak up more so MCA and FU don't get all the credit. I wouldn't be surprised if people think JE is an Obsidian 'founder' even thoguh he's not.

JE did not work on BIO games. MCA as well. they were too busy working on BIS games. FU, as head of BIS, did play a relatively huge role in BIO games but as the publisher. That's one guy. Like i said, less than 5 Obsidianites played any role in BIO games and outside of bug testing (which all publishers do)) only one Obsidianite I know of played an actual signiificant role in BIO games while under Interplay publishing - again, that's FU. So, don't make stuff up. Want proof? Look at the BG2 credits in the manual. Outside of INTERPLAY QA, only FU, and Chris Parker (is he with Obsidian) likely played relatviely major roles in the PUBLISHING part of BG2. BIS itself has 7 names listed. interplay itself has a bunch mostly for QA,, VOs, & sound which makes sense since that tend to be up to the publisher. So, trying to claim that Obsidian is repsonsible for BG series' awesomeness (or horribleness if you hated it) is just disingenious, a lie, or plain old fashion ignorance. The only guy not from BIO who deserves any real cedit is FU since he's the one who actually played a real role. That's one guy. ONE GUY. Yet, you try to give Obsidian credit for Bg series? LMAO JE and MCA had NOTHING to do with it. NOTHING.

MAD starring Billy Zane. Weird little horror zombie movie. Zane does a great job as I've never seen him in a role this. Humour is offbeat but hit or miss. 7/10

"Well, as long as we are doing this, I'll toss in a Few Obs. games too, since they helped with some of the original Bio games as BI, and I see them as a continuation of such..." OBS had nothing to do with original BIO games. They didn't even exist. And, BIS was just the publisher as part of Interplay. And, the number of current Obsidianites who used to be BISers whoi actually helped with the games probably numbers less than 5, and that's being generous. Stop trying to give them more credit they deserve. Publisher does not equal developer. They did a good making multiple copies of BG series, MDK2, and SS and shipping them to stores. L0L "I don't understand why anyone could put DA2 on their top 10s." Because, thankfully, not every one is Gorgon and theyn don't think like Gorgon and aren't silly like Gorgon.

"1. baldurs gate1/2 2. mass effect 2 3. dragon age 4. mass effect 5. dragon age 2 6. kotor 7. nwn 8. jade empire" 1. NWN1:TP 2. BG2 3. DA & ME series 4. JE 5. HOTU 8. NWN OC 9. KOTOR 10. BG1 11. SOU Also, L0L @ DLC I wodner where all the peeps are who claimed that DA2's 'lack' of DLCs 'proved' that this 2million + selling game was a 'failure'. All silent now. R00fles!

DA2 was just as if not more tataical than DA1. *shrug*

"The records were carefully clarified to avoid any ambiguity. Namco Bandai have options when choosing the priority of our distributor?s version of the Xbox 360. It could use, but not taken advantage of certain preferences. In this situation, we chose the offer that THQ made us." Um.. That sound ambigious to me. I hope the wording in the contract is clearer.L0LZ

Still beats Obsidian forums' 99%/1% trash/awesome ratio.

"Glad you asked. It's because Britain's former colonies include the USA, India, Canada, South Africa and Australia. I can't help feeling your independence was a wee bit premature. " Kanada is still a British colony. They can have the 'legal right' to abuse a power to decide who our PM is no matter what Kanadians vote. "I'm Jewish, by the way" Is this supposed to impress or initmidate us into agreeing with what you say - even if it's complete nonsense? Jew or not, you are still plainly wrong. The briths Empire was the veryd efintion of evil just like the Nazis. Just because the BE didn't specifically target jews - they preferred Africans and Indians for target practice - doesn't make them any less evil and scummy. Stiop being a bigot. I would thinka jew would udnerstand what bigotry does.

And, the Sharks will reach the Conference Finals most like before fizzling unless Thornton is their best player and their goalie steals the series. *shrug*

Stop sucking up to me. If you post over there you sucking up here won't have me show you any mercy. I actually just found out that I have 31 personal victories over there along with 0 losses. That's impressive! As for being hated or repsected.. it should be pointed out even when I got banned by a certain drama inducing crybaby people 9well a sizeable number) demanded I'd be reinstated and some even got themselves banned over it. HAHA! That's rela power. Anyways, enough of this Volournc rap, it's about the Codex is cool. Only people who can't handle strongly voice opinions dislike it.

The onlym thing 'borked' about DD is that it is simply a crappy game.

"Although the brits could have easily ended the War of Independance if their commanders had pushed the matter early on rather than kept trying to find peaceful solutions. " Excuses Amerika makes all the time in regards to wars that didn't go there way. ie. The US dominated the Vietnam wars if you look at pure military might but Amerika as a country didn't have the political will to push through just as with British. Bottom line is the settlers wanted their freedom more than the British wanted to control them in the end. "Comparing the British Empire, even warts and all, with the Nazis is idiotic." You British Empire apologists are hilarious. Are you aware of the evils the BE inflicted on a huge part of the world during their time as THE superpower? Stop making excuses for them like they are some goody two shoes. You are just as bad the people who want to reinvent the indians into some type of passive peace loving hippy passivist group who were anti violence. L0L

Take your British propaganda eslewhere.

It was a WOI fought against a tyranny. The British were master scumbags and got exactly what they deserved. It was most defiinitely an Amerikan War fought for indepdenence. Don't try to change history.

I don't dislike Jimbob but he's not as special as you make him sound. He's just another nobody like the rest of us. L0L @ the above two.

It's been proven time and time again, dude. It's just pure fact that the DS series outsold the early Fo series. Even Codexers wouldn't argue against that. It has little to do with a quality argument 9I prefern the Fos over DSs myself) but the fact is the fact is the fact - DS1&2 outsold FO1&2. It's pure arrogant ignorance to argue otherwise. P.S. L0L at you calling all the readers of this thread children. That's pretty rude.

Sadly, firecrackers on a country's national celebration day isn't just an Amerikan tradition. We got stuck with it too on Friday.

"You're still on about that film? It was crap in 1996 and it's still crap now." ID4 was a great movie in '96, still is a great move in '11, and will be a great movie in '46. HH, btw, is awesome! HULKAMANIA 4 LIFE!!! As for taking Kanadian hockey teams... just recently, Kanada returned the favor and took an Amerikan hockey team. P.S. I wish my country was as free as Amerika. We are still legally obliged to kiss the monarchy's ass and it is absolutely disgusting!!!!