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Stupid NHL. I know one thing; not too many businesses could get away such scott free in stealing money from their employees like sports leagues for such asanine crap like this.

The footage looks great, and had no hang ups for me. My biggest beef was the annoying voice the girl had. Argh. Combat looked like it was a lot fun. Sure beats the KOTOR series. Not hard to do that though. I'm hopeing for a more refined version of G3/BL style combat. "dialogue system still confuses me" How is it confusing? I thought it's pretty clear, and any questions of how dialogue actually works should have been answered by this footage. I'm with Llyr, and it does seem to be not as crappy as I first feared. We shall see... I'm still on the fence. "considering this is still in early stages" Early? It's due out supposedly in March, or April. That's about 6 months, and it's probably been in development for 2-3 years. Not exactly early. Good stuff.

Meh. Gothic is very near being crapcanned by me. Word of warning: If you played the demo, and then bought the game thinking it was cool to use your demo saves which was allowed; DON'T. Or else, you will eventually see major game ending crashes bugs thata re unavoidable. I had to reinstall the game even though I had reached level 17, and was going well. I'm not even sure if I'll end up bothering to finish the game. Hoepfully, I can get back into the flow of things. Hmph...

KOS was evil. No matter his original intentions, he fell to evil. This should be undisputable. Like the 'ol saying goes and works even for non religious types due to the meaning: 'Good intentions often lead to lead to hell". Not exact quote; but the meaning is still true.

Why wouldn't the game (combat or otherwise) be stat based when the game has stats, classes, races, skills (talents), and the like. What you spekaing about Willis? Even ME and JE whciha re both Action RPGs have stats that effect combat to a degree... so, why wouldn't DA which is supposedly a 'full' RPG? Hmmm.... :crazy:

Why is Grom so hung up on the BIOwarians weight or athletic ability? They're game designers. Geez.

Red the TOEE boards. They couldn't even get the identification rules correct. R00fles!

"to be fair, it don't take much to get banned from bio these days." Simply not true. "nothing the obsinaties or atari folks do now will impact sales o' nwn2. can't rebuild game through patches in hopes that some huge number of non-purchasers will hear 'bout improvements and buy. foolishness." O RLY? Proof? I don't think it should come to a big surprise that NWN was a prettyd ecent seller even well after after its original release.

Awesome movie!

R00fles! Tileset tab in blueprint window has vanished! HAHAHA!

"I take it you have never played a D&D before?" Yup. Never in my life. Not once. "the first rule of d&D is no matter the cost, kill the mages first, then the clerics." Nope. The number one rule of D&D is that there are no rules; just guidelines. As for rules of D&D combat, no, the number one rule is to eliminate the biggest threat as soon as possible. It doesn't matter if that threat is a mage or a warrior. If the mage is jerking off; but the warrior is killing your buddies off quick; you better target the warrior first. Period. "because it pretty accurately reflected" So accurate that the game was littered with HUNDREDS of rules changes. R00fles! "why TOEE was the best d&D game" Not even close. In all my never playing D&D; TOEE is not even the top 10 D&D games. It doesn't even come close to capturing the feeling I could never feel since I never played D&D. Ever.

The funny thing is I don't recall finding any bags in the final dungeon. once again, you are accusing me of things I never said. Why? Bottom line is there are enough bags in the game, there are at least 3 (yoru number) in ch1, and they ARE reltaively cheap. 800gp, and about 2k (again, YOUR numbers) is still cheap in ch1. The ph@t lewt in this game is unbelievable in this game even in ch1. In fact, espicially in ch1 , since there's no keep expenses to worry about.

Except I don't believe I have ever claiomed there wer emore than 3 bags in ch1. Nice try; though. I don't recall the number of bags I've fouynd in cfh1. Just the full game. So, keep up the good work claiming I claim soemthing when I made no such claim. *shrug* My only claim was that there were at leats 10 bags in the game if not closer to 20. And, that the bags found in stores in ch1 are actually rather cheap.

"You should check the sales chart. TOEE did do well" Define 'well'. "However i think the TOEE's are better games than the BG's and the planscapes" I disagree. While it's combat system was really good, and definitelya rguably better than Aurora or IE combat; the combat itself was not that impressive because it was very simple, basic, and pretty boring. Look at that. A bugbear! And, it's going striaght for the mage that's like 6 rounds away way in the back and it charges through the front lines. Look at that. The poor bugbear was chopped down before it even got half way to the mage. R00fles!

"Thieves, Bards and Warlocks can get good use out of him also." Ok. You got me there, Sneaky One. "is these like vol's imagined magic bags?" The funny thing is I'm not the only imagining these magic bags. *shrug*

"then buy stuff from deekin gets real expensive real fast. additional buy a handful of spells and some heal kits" Unless you are a PrC, most of what he sells is junk. You use heal kits, and actually buy them? I used maybe 5 the whole game and only bought some +10 ones later on though I don't know why I bothered. There's enough healing potions including unlimited heal types starting in ch2 I believe as well aqs 2 npcs that can cast healing spells inclduing oen that comes relatively early.

The best example of 'too much fluff' was when the one npc gives the history of the Blood War. Most of that was unnesseccary word vomit that added nothing (or very little) to the story that was being told. In fact, i'd wager that even those who actually like PST (like me) probably skimmed a lot of that dialogue because the fellow was just regurating word vomit which is very gross.

"These are facts." Not really. Circumstantial evidence at best.

"in act 3, i finally got my first 100% bag." Only found one actual bag of holding myself too.

Gothic 3 is the best Gothic/ES style game ever. I have played for about 15 hours thus far. I am enjoying myself for the most part. however, it has TONS of problems that aren't neccessarily bugs; but simply poor design. I could see very easily how it is getting poor reviews despite enjoying my play through. *shrug*

"the only other "Gross-ly" over-rated QB in the league is Eli." Nah. I don't think Eli is overrated. He is exactly what he is - a good QB on a (usually) very talented team (when they aren't injured). I've never considered Eli the 'best of the best'. I don't think anyone truly believed he was going to be as good as his brother. A few maybe; but not enough to say he's 'overrated'. And, no, I watch Vick a lot 'cause not only is he very good; he's also very exciting to watch. He's a greta player on a crappy team. If he were on the Giants, the Giants would be doing better even with their injuries. P.S. Heh. Go Garcia! A guy whose taken way too much undeserved abuse in the past several years. I like TO; but he the was the jerk who started it too!!

Jorian > Gromnir Game over. And, 800gp Grom? And about 1600gp for the others? That's rather cheap even in ch1. You suck at finding treasure even in a ph@t lewt game! R00fles!

"there is only a handful of shopkeepers that got bags... vol is, as usual, full o' crap. many of those shopkeers that does have bags is not available until relatively later in game... and yeah, in chapter 1 even the magic pouch (smallest bag) were relatively expensive." Wrong on absolutely every account. Why are you sprouting crap? What do you define as 'reltaively expensive', btw? A few hundred gold pieces? R00fles! I've seen shopkeepers with as many as 3 bags, or so themselves. L0LLERZ

No wonder you don't see lots of magic bags. Unlike what Grom says, theya re pretty cheap and there's quite a bunch. Just talk to the SK.

It also had 3 more talkative HENCHMEN in SOU, and 2 HENCHMEN in HOTU that were talkative with both you, and eahc other. The OC had EXPERT HIRELINGS whoe evn told ya their life history and gave you quests that they would reward you if you successfully did so. Game over.