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Yes, we agree on that issue. B)

Yup. I agree. Except the *duergar* that continued to respawn there could be a challeneg so it didn';t nesseccarily became boring as you had to either kill them quickly before more came (think of it as running through a gauntlet) or having to kill more before being overrun. I thought of them as basically slaves or fodder sent to the slaughter to distract the would be interlopers (the PC party) from reaching thed row priestess. In that way, it served its purpsoe which is why it mattered more.

Hey now, I didn't say otherwise. First paragraph dealt with U7; second paragrapgh dealt with ES series. Once again, Mr. Llama, I loved the Ultima series.

Nah. Titantic *is* a masterpiece of a film. Thata side, I think since Spaz admitted to it; it was mostd efinitely uncalled for. Of course, Hades over exaggaertaes about it; but I wouldn't call it slanderous since it is basically true that someone who *does* represent RPGCodex sent him gay porn. And, Spaz, it doesn't matter if you think he 'deserves" it or not. That is just silly and childish. That said, Iw onder why no one at RPGCodex hasn't sent me any porn - gay or not. You'd think they would have by now as I'm sure Spaz thinks I 'deserve" it. Oh, I know why. Because I just wouldn't care enough about it. I would justd elete the message, laugh at the fool who sent it; and move on. Internt Geek Message Boards just aren't importnat enough to worry about little things like that.

I find it funny you complain about modern games lacking in these areas yet only name *one* "old sckool" game that has it. Why? Because most old school games are plain and simple dungeon hacks. Ultima series was one of the very few exceptions to that rule. I loved those games for it all the more. The ES series is so overrated it's sad. Those games offer nothing but a huge world. It's too bad that the world is so empty and the characters so bland; I just don't care about anything. There's no purpose at all.

How can you say RT with pause is more passive than turn abse when in both it's just click on what option you want and a click on teh reature you want to do it one; and then the animated characetr does the action themsleves? weird.. They're both "passive" in that sense though I'm alwasy into it no matter the combat style. I find neitehr way boring either if the combat is made to be challenging. The masses of goblins in the OC 8was* boring. The masses of bugbears *was* boring. But, not because they were passive, RT w/pause, or tb; but because they were easy and required no real tatical edge to them.

Hey, the 'I want to be a mod" had a great atmosphere! Don't knock it until you get involved. It was good, clean wholesome fun. There was very little - if any - foul langauage - and we usually polite even as we argued. No one got hurt either so bleh. These baords will rock!

Pulp: imo, No matter how intelligent a mage character is; I just don't beleive they can be that accurate with a fireball on the fly. There is no way a mage in my pnp game could do so perfectly. As for single character vs. multiple character; that isn't at the ehart of the matter. Wea re disccusing turn base combat vs. real time combat with pause. Sure, controlling more characters makes it more tatical; but to me it lessens the role-playing strength of the game as the 5 headed mosnter tends to lack full fledge role-playing. As for the NWN OC; i discussed this old game's strnegths and weaknesses many times. I'm not gonan get into it as it's almost 2 years old and time to move on. I think you go overboard when you say the OC is "crap". I may be a fan; but I don't think the OC is"the best ever" even though others claim I do. I think it's a good agem - espciaily comapred to many others that people drool over. *cough* MW *cough* As for tatical situations in the OC. there';s lots of them; I'll name a few. Any of the dragons are much easier if you plan how you'll approach and deal with them and what abilities you use. If you just walk in you are gonna die unless you are a munckin who carries every single item in existence to be 'prepared" for all battles (this is the sin of every crpg ever created with too much loot around). I personally don't carry a dozen rings or a dozen belts around as I find that plainly silly. I heard how stated they thought the dragons were easy then went on to state that they did one of the following: 1. Carried multiple items ala the three greater damage resistance belts, drank a billion healing potions, or continually used the warp stone (which I think BIo shouldn't have put in the game; but that's another story). If you do one of thsoe of course the dragon don't need tatics; otherwise you do. I found myself using as much taatics in NWN as I did in TOEE (even though TOEE does have more tatatcial options available) as they both had the tendency to just throw waves of melee monsters at you with archers and spellcaster as silly dumb back up. Most of the boss characters in NWN OC had to approcach with caution. Theres' the dire spire in the caves in ch1 that was really hard (or just plain impossible) if you just rushed in; or was pretty possible if you took your time and approcached it withc aution. There's the mage in the Blacklake district who could screw you up big time if you weren't careful (unless you were a fighter who got a lucky crit in heh). All you have to do is read the NWN OC spoilers board to read up on various ways to deal with various encounters to find out the tatatics available. Enjoy. :D

I don't why people say there weren't multiple solutions to quests in the game. There were almost always at least two; and many had more than two. Weird. That, I thought, was one of the games' strength.

Espicially sicne 99.9% of people who post on the Internet Geek Message Board Inc. are super hard headed. he ain't special in that regard.

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IIRC, those cancellations were from the top bras. Feargus was BIS so it probably would have been compleetly out of his hands one way or another...

It's not. He's not a big fan of turn base combat, and he actually likes NWN combat system (though he HATED the OC :angry: ).

Ooo... He actually named someone. The plot thickens... Internet DRAMA strikes again!

Ex: Yes, yes he does.

www.interplay.com www.atari.com etc., etc. However, this is an off topic forum so it's free game to talk about any game company here. Deal with it.

Yes, which is why Ia sked the question. Hehe.

No, Iolo's hence the q was directed at him...

The BGs,a nd the NWN total package destroys PST. They are virtually equal to the FOs. FOs win in the role-playing deepartment; but the BGs win in the story and characterd epartments; while NWN wins in the full package situation. KOTOR is better than PST; but nowhere close as good as the other mentioned though it does, of coruse, beat the NWN OC, and barely sqeaks a victory over HOTU. SOU si below par and is utterly annilated by all except IWD2 which is just plain bad.

No. Morrowind pretty much sucked from the start. :D

Iolo, that has nothing to dow ith interacting with fans which is what I was talking. I agree that Feargus made some questionable businessdecisions..

I'm game for that.

Iolo: Well.. I didn't play Ff so i won't comment on it. That said, NWN OC had lots of good tatical combat despite only controlling one character. Another side q, why you pick that avatar? Sauron: Cool.

Never said otherwise. of course, I could be a jerk (and I am); and point out POR2 which is a tb game and look at all the things it did. so i guess that proves that tb games are awful int hat regard, huh? Like is aid, NWN has the most tatical combat ina rpg this side of TOEE.

That's cool. Allah is cool too. B)