paragongrid

Wow. I just came to the Obsidian page for the 1st time in like..a month? Awesome that they finally released it. I STILL haven't finished KOTOR 2, because I was waiting for the patch (I bought into their whole "should be released in a few days" spiel), and then went on to new games. Going to have to reinstall now! But I just got World of Warcraft 3 days ago. Much to do and see!

Final Fantasy VII Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past Ultima VII I'd jump on the Deus Ex bandwagon, but I've only played the PS2 version. Controls, graphics, and load times brought it down.

Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy Tactics (all by the same Japanese composer, if I'm not mistaken). -edit- And I am mistaken. The FFT composer also did Vagrant Story's soundtrack, which was also great.

I'm going to KILL THEM! They finally decide to bring it to Europe...starting with part 2? We're not going to know what the hell is going on!

Probably PS3. Specs look great, and it looks like they have the largest commitment from Japanese developers.

And Square are STILL being lazy with sloppy conversions onto PAL, with that infamous "black border" surrounding the screen. Might want to try Front Mission 4 for PS2. I played part 3 for PSone, and thought it was very cool. Strategy/JRPG with fully customizable mech-armor. Final Fantasy 12 is expected 1st quarter of 2006 in the West.

Here's a little bit of info from the May issue of Wired magazine. Lucasarts is moving shop to a public park by the Golden Gate Bridge, along with Industrial Light and Magic and the Lucasfilm marketing,online, and licensing units. The new facility is called the Letterman Digital Arts Center, and the move is expected to finish sometime in July. Sounds like they're a bit busy! Might be the reason why they're taking so long, but that's just a guess.

Dr. Kleiner is by far my favorite character. He doesn't have that many lines (well...no one really does, truth be told), but from what is said, he has a lot of personality. Here's a little comic tribute I made for him http://www.facepunchstudios.com/forums/sho...ead.php?t=23009 It was made using Garry's Mod, which you can find at http://www.garry.tv

Your graphics card is bordering on obsolete. Does the game play normally with the CD? Why not just use it....it doesn't take THAT much effort to move a CD around.

Why don't you just pick up a PS2 for dirt-cheap? It's built up a massive library of Japanese-style RPGs which are very different than the RPGs we get for PC, and are in the vein of what you'd be looking for. I know the Dungeons and Dragons purists scoff at things like Final Fantasy, but that's how my love of RPGs started way back in 1989. When I 1st got a PC, I got Ultima 7, which was a drastic change from what I was used to, but I still liked it. Now I play both types.

Valve has turned into the George Lucas of videogaming.... .....ooooh the irony.

Good stuff, can't wait for it. Anyways, PC Gamer UK has oodles of pages dedicated to the modding community, and I'm sure they'd print and publicize something like this. You can send a link to mark.sutherns@futurenet.co.uk when it's all good and ready, and give em the details. I'd say the same about PC Gamer US, but they only have 1 measly page for mods and updates. Meh. Still, that email is extendedplay@pcgamer.com Once again, this is just a heads-up, as both mags only (usually) respond to finished work.

Why recommend Nvidia's crappy FX series? If I wanted to go for an FX 5900 or 5900 XT, might as well go for the 6600. They are about the same price. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed. I got a 5950 FX Ultra, and I now curse the day I got this PC. As soon as the 6800 falls in price a bit more, I'm gonna swipe it up. The FX series has serious performance trouble with DirectX c, and recently I've heard, causes reboot problems with the newly used Pixel Shader 2.0 (Act of War, which has recently come out and uses it, has problems on the FX)

Sounds like a problem with the UK (or other international versions) of the game. If you are using one of those, have you patched with 1.0a first? That fixes the manual.pdf. (Unfortunately, 1.0b goes and screws it up again).

Hopefully Atari won't be breathing down their necks to get it out, as Lucasarts was with this one. Although, Enter the Matrix (developed by Shiny, published by Atari) was a biiiiiiiiiit buggy due to that.

I said European versions, not continental European versions. Regardless, try the same trick.

I think this problem only happens with the European versions of the game. Anyways, once the autoUpdate downloads the whole file, and it says "Download Finished", disconnect from the net, without exiting the autoUpdate program. Should start patching immediately.

It IS gonna do something else. For some reason, it has this amazingly long "freezing" period between download and patching. You can either wait for it to start patching (longer than 20 mintues), or you can try another tip which was mentioned in these forums, which is to disconnect from the net once the download finishes, but do NOT cancel the autoupdate program. Apparently, this kick-starts the patcher to start patching with the already-downloaded .zip file.

A lot of people seem to be having this problem, but I, too, have the UK version, and the autopatch went ok (except for a 20 minute pause between download and actual patching). I'm wondering what the differences are. I patched over the 1.0a patch. Do you have that installed? Could that be the variable that's screwing everybody else's patch?

Yeah...and the weird thing is, after it said "Download Complete", I opened up Windows Task Manager to check the network connections, and nothing was coming in or out. Then, 40 mintues later, I saw the autoupdater going through the actual patching. I didn't get to try out the trick of disconnecting from the net after the download was complete, so if you're gonna give it a second try, might wanna do that.

Had the same problem. Try Azuth's tips here My UK version started patching itself waaaaay after it actually downloaded. Total time was 2 hours and 30 something minutes, but I am on 56K.

Has anyone managed to patch the UK version of the game? The autoupdate on mine downloads the whole file, but it won't actually patch the game. I'm not using a no-cd .exe either. Unfortunately, the self-installing patch on the website is US version only. Any help? -edit- Nevermind, I just read Azuth's advice on page 7. They should really post that somewhere, though. BTW....cool new Startup music on the menu screen.

awww....I got the UK version, and gotta wait a few days. Dammit. No matter. Good job Obsidian and LA.