Volourn

Oh SNAP!

1. Working on my NWN module. (LOL) 2. Playing a paritucvlar NWN PW. (not as much lately) 3. Playing my 8th season of MVP Baseball. (possibly the best game ever). Trying to avenge my WS shullacking from last season,a nd taking it out on my opponents and am 45-18 with a current 13 game winning streak. It's the best my record has ever been this late in the season. Of course, the stupid Angels are actually 2 games ahead of me overall. LOLLERZ! And, it seems opponents really fear my created player as they now seem to be giving him the 'Bonds' treatment in walking him with nobody on in close games late. I might actually reach 100 walks this season when my previous record was around 45. WOWSERS! 4. Tinkering (or trying to) with the NWN2 pre release toolset. It looks cool; but can be really annoying. Floating buildings about to tip over is NOT cool.

NWN2 is the only game I'm planning on getting for the rest of the year. I *might* get FF12. Next year will bring a few more goodie title like ME, G3, JE2, and *maybe* if it's under $20 Oblivion... plus, the regular sports titles...

Purchasing shouldn't be a form of support group. You should preorde rgames for yourself not to help a company. That's NUTS. Thankfully, I have no plans to buy G3 'til next year so heh, I win again.

No. It was a lot easier to understand the basics of the NWN1 toolset. Much easier. Heck, I still can't get hills right. I want to build a hill and have an important building on it yet my building is currently have floating in air. LOL And, the brush is annoying. Not to mention the camera control which simply literlaly does the opposite of what you wnat - if you want to go right you got to move the mouse to the left. VERY unituitive. Don't get me wrong, obvious the NWN2 toolset can do a lot more than the NWN1 toolset (lol, sequel, it should do better); but Obsidian could could have made it more user friendly and still add all these new functions. They've actually admitted this and the first patch will liekly help here. With NWN1's toolset, my biggest setback was/is scripting. Here it's trying to get the land the way I want. P.S. Of course, since I haven't quite finished my NWN1 module yet (lol); one cna't tkae my complaints too serious though many others ahve said the exact same thing. The problem is the toolset is not as intuitive as it could be, and it could add this 'intuitiveness' without losing it's power, imo. P.S. I dislike ideas for certain previews including this one to pimp features as being 'new' when they were in NWN1.

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Welll.. maybe. But, I just finished the article, and there are soem things I didn't realize about the toolset that i didn't notice in some of the other tutorials I've read as theyeither didn't coevr it or I missed it. One example, are the added things to spawns. And, it'[s not late as it's still a preview (as it's not released), and tthe screenshots are still exclsuive to NWN2 news since they're likely different than other sites.

I give you a B for effort for trolling an innocent thread Diamond.

"have a sneaking suspicion that this average will fall once the big ones (Gamespot, IGN, 1up and Gamespy) gets their hands on it." Nah. G3 is a big tiem release. None of those sites will rate it less than 75% at minimum and most likely somewhere in the 80%s.

I hope it makes things clearer as the toolset looks cool; but it's a mess to use. Also, welcome back.

TK?

"They didn't have a way to localize it to just an area effect." Then they suck. "The Timestop stopped everything within the game. If someone casted Timestop in some dungeon area clear on the other side of the continent, so to speak, it would effect a town miles away. It is one of the reasons why PWs hated it." I have played on many PWs that have scripted TS to only effect the area it is cast in. Heck, I've played PWs where TS only effects a certain range of the wizard. If that's the reason why TS isn't in TS then they obviously didn't try hard enough. Time Stop is a premiere level 9 spell. And, it's not overpowered. That's a myth. Nobody has died because of TS being cast. P.S. deekin is overrated much like Minsc. *puke*

Magic missle is a solid level 1 spell. however, it's not as useful in 3./3.5 to disrupt spellcasters because they'll likely laugh at the concentration check unless they been ignoring it. Still, a cool spell. :cool:

Spoilers for what? Bg series stuff? Those games were made in '98, and '02. OMG Darque: Too 80s? That's what makes that scenario good. Besdies, it cna't be any 'chessier' than the PC being one of many bhaalspawns of many races including DOGS. LOL Child of the Bhaalspawn is a decent starting point, and it can gof rom there. PS was good setting. Dark Sun is overrated. Spelljammer was fun but 'out there' (lol). GH is a wannabe FR (yeah, I know it came first; but it tries so ahrd to be popualr but fails). Dl was ok. Ravenloft was awesome. FR is a STRONG fantasy setting. Best FANTASY setting ever except my world. And, oh, the Buffyverse (though that mixes in the real world so it doens't really count). Muahahahahahahaha!

That's the best you got? Come on. Give me some REAL flames!!!

Use the search button on this site, and others. Otherwise, use YOUR imagination. There are TONS of ways that BG3 cna be made to continue the story. Another thing I find hialrious is that the people who sing the loudest against a BG3 would be amongst the FIRST to scoop it out if it ever gets released. LOL Bah, fine, I'll give an example so you can say 'it sucks'. R00fles! SCENARIO: PC chose to marry Aerie. Years later, that child starting showing signs of having inherent Bhaalspawn powers, and odd things start happening. The PC - like their father before them - goes on a journey and learns dark secrets tm that may lead to a discovery taht will change them and Faerun forever tm. Not for the better either. SIDEBAR: This could even lead to the child being forced to confront their father (the original PC) who is the unwitting key to Armageddeon and the true return of Bhaal (through the influence of the still existing Myrkul, and the always intervering Bane). SIDEBAR: Yes, there's holes here; but it's two paragraphs. LOL The holes cna be filled out. P.S. I don't care if you played a female, the devs can select this to start. Or to be 'choice friendly'; it cna be simply changed to female original PC + Anomen. R00fles! Flame away, BLANKS!

"ToB proved the story was over." No, it didn't. TOB proved that someone with imagination could continue the Bg saga NO PROBLEM. "Not much to do with this. You either live happily ever after or you don't." You don't need to play the PC from BG1 or BG2, and still continue the BG saga. Game over.

"rumor has it that Obsidian owns the rights to IWD outright and" A more solid 'rumour' is that they own some art assests outright. "No BG3. That story is over and done with." No, no it isn't. The lack of imagination in this thread is really, really sad. There's more imagination in POR2's forced feat lineup than in this thread. "Maybe we're not the one who's wrong then." Please reread that post again. Not everyone disagreed with the ideas. The ones who did disagree simply lack imagination so I ignore their opinions as I only pay attention to imaginative opinions.

"Hold Person will only affect lower-level opponents" LOL "Still, the NWN2 spell list is much better than the old NWN one" It's basically the same spell list with some new ones and some old ones cut. It's not subtsantitally different that's for sure. "Fireball is the best 3rd level spell there is." No.

"I didn't think Fantastic 4 was too bad. It was much better than Daredevil." F4 was pasable; but Daredevil is much, much better and is liekly the mnost underrated superhero movei ever. once again, the MASTER OF ALL, Ben Affleck kicks butt! LONG MOVE BA!!! Anyways.... Click - WOW! This move was really good. If it took away the cheap dog humping and farting jokes; this movie would be one of the best ever. The ending, I'm kinda iffy on. Thee nding worked; but the stronger ending would have been the 'false ending'. WOO HOO!!!

I have millions of times. I get the usal repsonses like 'dumb', 'stupid', 'unneeded', 'sounds good', 'possibly fun', 'fantastic', *shrug*, etc., etc. Those responses are boring to read now so I'll pass. I'll let YOU use YOUR imagination to imagine what a Volournian BG3 would be like.

I don't. Only the unimaginative cna't figure out a way for there be a fitting BG3, and sicne were talking about a fantasy game; if you don't have imagination perhaps youa re interested in the wrong genre? Again, there's LOTs of ways a BG3 cna be handled and do justice to the previous games. I weep for my unimaginative co posters. I weep.

"While I tend to agree that fireball is often overrated it can be very very good against certain types of targets like undead and trolls in the right circumstances." Oh, i agree. I never said it was useless. As for the manual, it's so out of date; it's not even funny.

"of course volourn finds all spells useful." False. There are useless spells; but most ar enot. Heck, sometimes on line, I find others using spells I thought useless and making those spells awesome. "You can twist it whatever way you want." If you think fireball is the most useful spell than you are the one lacking. The only situation that fireball is the most useful 3rd level spell (or its counterpart lightning bolt) is when you have a mass of low level enemies like goblins which btw, are no threat anyways to begin with if youa re capable of casting fireball. LOL Fireball may look pretty; but only those with limited experience with D&D would claim it's the most useful spell. "lightningbolt; okay, it's fourth level" Unless its changed in 3.5, both of these spells do the same damage (1d6 per level max 10d6), and both are level 3. Lightning bolt is only more sueful against fire resistant enemies or against enemies lined up in a neat little row. Otehrwise, fireball > lightning bolt.

You are wrong. For one, I hardly ever use fireball in CRPGs. There are TONS of sueful spells in the game. Deal with that fact. Perhaps, certain people just lack the imagination to use spells properly and know which ones are the most useful. TIP: Fireball is amongst the least useful 3rd level spell in NWN. Game over.