Volourn

"I think I'd be silenced for eternity if they allowed me not to save the world once, with REM's "Its the end of the world as we know it...", playing in the background." Been there done that. It's called JE.

Wrong. Both The Postman & Waterworld are underrated. Awesome. The very defintion of epics.

"Everyone's gripe with Bioware is not that their games are rubbish, its that they are not what they could be. They're fun, just not very memorable. I treat them like a quick fix until something better comes along." That describes some people here; but not you. Go back and look at your last 100 posts about a BIOI game then come back and tell me seriously you don't find BIO rubbish. You speak like you speak for 'everyone' but you don't. There are others here who criticize (heck, I critcize them); buit it's obvious they actually enjoy BIO games. Your posts do ntohing but trash them and make it clear that they disgust you and are 'worst games ever'. Now, back to topic.. why waste money on games from a company you believe makes utter rubbish that ar eonly worth trashing non stop en masse on the internetz? Seems a waste of money to me. "If you're not Volo, how do you figure that?" Cause it is true - espicially if you are a TRUE RPG fan. No way no how can one argue that BG1 and even BG2 are worst *role-playing games* then the ones that came after. NWN, KOTOR, JE, ME, and DA are all superior games when it comes to role playing. This is fact. You may like BG2 more (BG2 is tied as my fave campaign along with DA still not counting NWN:TP); but it definitely is a product of its time as I seriosuly doubt it be as popular if it was released now since it lacks role-playiong wise. Not to mention, combat, writing, and C&C wise.

"The don't buy their games card doesn't really work since the number of story driven RPGs that are released each year is countable on the fingers of one had... if you cut off a few fingers. If you ignore Bioware, you're left with Obsidian and CDProjekt Red for story driven RPG's. The first one has only a few games of varying quality to their name, the second - one. Gothic, Divinity, Drakensang etc may be good games, but they're not the same type of experience. " Nonsense. Why buy a game you gonna hate? The fact there is a lack of story driven RPGs as ane xcuse to buy a crappy game is nonsense. To buy/play something just because it's there even though you hate spending time on it is the ultimate of foolishly wasting money. If CDProject was the last RPG story driven company lived I would NOT buy their games just ebcause because their one game I did play sucked. Why waste my money? Illogical. Also, I'm a sports game junky. I loved EA's MVP series. The last version of it in 2005 was awesome. However, their competition got an exclusive deal with MLB so no more MVP series. I tried that otehr company's baseball game. It sucked. I haven't bought a baseball game sense. Why would I buy a baseball game I know will suck just because it's there? ILLOGICAL. I spend my 'fun money' on thing I believe I will enjoy. I thought all people did that? I was wrong.

"I don't buy their games anyway, I bought their last two games," Let's rephrase this quote.... I DON'T BUY THEIR GAMES ANYWAY I BOUGHT THEIR LAST TWO GAMES ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- Jigga wut?

Their priorties is making enough profit to keep themselevs in business and they do so by delivering a product that gamers want to play, and not just a handful of nerds in their parents' basement either. And, since almost everyone here (except potentially the mouse man) have scopped up mainstream developer BIO's latest game you really looks silly whining about their push for mainstream success when you buy their games anyways. *shrug* If BIo doesn't make your style of game, then don't buy them. THAT'S the way to let them know their games aren't working. Why should BIO follow in Troika's foosteps as all that does is make everyone unemployed and begging your former employer thats crewed you to work on their fake MMO or basically pushes you of the entire gaming business. Espicially since all 3 of Troika games - even the ones I personally enjoyed - have major flaws anyways and aren't to be looked up.

ST - espicially STTNG - is awesome. of coruse, you pick the most overrated one to pimp. *shrug*

Not surprising. ATL is a decent team. TOR just plainly sucks.

"Trying something different and failing isn't that much worse than trying to do the same old and succeeding. " It's 100% worse. I want a good, and fun game. As a player I don't feel the nedd to pat the dog.. err.. developer on the head and 'Good boy... At least you tried." That's silly talk. Oruiginality is overrated. Goodness is all that matter. Besdies, you can't do better than the origins which were pretty cool additions or the dialogue wheel. While neither fo these are 100% truly original they are different and better enough to matter. Then again, none of the aformentioned Troika games are 100% original either. ARC - FF did the tech/magic mesh before. Tons of other games too. Steampunk is not. TOEE - It's a D&D turn based game based on a very popular pnp module. NOTHING NEW HERE. BL - It's based on pre made IP, and is basically a semi (but not really) kinda sequel (but vastly superior) to the other BL game. NOT NEW but outside of the crappy combat, a pretty awesome game. "Hey, it's sci-fi. It's not "save the world" it's "Save The Galaxy!" DAMN YOU! You beat me to the obvious retort! L0L

Useless as it doesn't even include his most recent game. L0LZ

" I wonder how he landed that role. " He auditioned, and won? That's how it tends tom work unless you are a big star and the movie is made around you. *shrug*

Stop being such a Troika fanboy. Seriously, none of those are original. "but it was well made in many parts." It was crap. Only thing made well about TOEE was the character system which they copy pasted from pnp. Heck, they couldn't even do a pre made module right. LMAO ARC + BL are good games but are not original. Deal with it

"Yes and that's my major gripe with them, because that was not my impression of them and their goals after playing through the Baldurs Gate series." BIO always intended to go for blockbusters. "I'm a sucker for unflinching dedication to either giving something fresh each time (eg. Troika)" Nope. Doesn't describe Troika at all. I enjoyed ARC and BL just fine and even TOEE had some good things but none of them were 'fresh' or 'original'.

Post the topic. Not the volourn.

Edwin is overrated. I liked him a lot, and he was one of my fave npcs of all time... when I was 5. As an adult, he is a nodboy. He has absolutely no depth, sould, or heart. Seriosuly, his greatest path to fame is he gets turned into a girl. Big deal. That's bnoring and it happens in RL all the time. *yawn*

By, definition, that's exactly what they are. Whether one likes them or not is irrelevant.

"The Postman and Waterworld" Both underrated. True epics. Then again, I didn't see them when they first came out so I probably didn't overhype myself like others did. "they ruined the story with the new ending." I agree that the ending was too light and fluffy (and seemed too tagged on); but those last 5 minutes don't destroy the 95 minutes before then filled with great action, drama, atmosphere, and fantastic acting. P.S. Screw the book. It is useless, and cant match Will Smith and the dog's awesome acting.

Nah. It just be boing much like these trolling flames. R00fles! Obsidian forumites are so concerned for me. It's sickening. I'm irrelevant. Deal with the topics. L0LZ

"Actually you can't" YOU can't; but I certainly can. It was completely obvious how each spell/talent works. You don't need to kno that it does 2.2 damage exactly or last exactly 3.476546895847834 seconds. Gah. Why do people feel the need to be forcefed EVERYTHING!?!

INDY vs NYJ - This won't even be close. Colts will win going away. MIN vs NO - This could go either way, and it will be interesting. Petersen is the one who decide this game. He has not been the ASP of old this season as he's been legitly overshadowed by Favre this year. I think Minny and AP will put it out but...

Book is irrelevant. This is the movie thread. The book was likely rubbish. I probably read books when I was 5 that were better.

The Departed - Great movie with great acting. I liked the twists for the most aprt; but near the end they just got dumb and it almsot felt they were just throwing twists for the sake of it not for the story. If I figured out the end, and I think I did, we're supposed to be that Whalberg's cop was a plant as well? Or did he just go rogue out of anger? K. 300 - This movie was way more entertaining then it had the right to be. Gotta give credit to Butler as I was all set to hate his character but he actually managed to bring some humanity to the over the top role. The plot with thw ife was interesting, and weird, and fun though not really needed. I did like how she handled things, though. The voice over was absolutely not needed as it just annoyed me. I Am Legend - Great movie. Ending was too over the top perfect; but fine. The part with the dog was incredibly sad, and suitably dark. KAW - WTF WTF WTF Lake Placid 2 - Not as good as the original but fun horror movie nontheless.

You must be using a different defintion of scrub.

"You really can't tell what's useful and what's not just from the description." Yes. Yes, you can. Barring a couple. *shruG*

"Even Volo doesn't disappear without attempting to incite a flame war." Troll. Don't ASSume to knowm my motivations. Then again, you are the one who thinks a rodent is the best npc ver. Dunno why I keep taking you seriously. L0L