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It did look and run significantly better on a Voodoo-Chip.

Some liked Supreme Commander and Guild Wars (e.g. http://www.gsoundtracks.com/reviews/supremecommander.htm, you'll find other Soule-Reviews there). Funny that someone mentioned Quest for Glory, I had almost forgotten that I loved the QfG V-Soundtrack. My favourite has to be PS: T, followed by IWD1 (while IWD2 was a... sad sounding piece of software), Vampire: Bloodlines (Goth meets TripHop - totally great) and Total Annihilation. Also, BG1 and certain parts of BG2 as well as some of the Battlemusic in Etherlords1 just engraved their melodies in my head. [edit] How could I foget Zelda: Ocarina of time? The only console-game I've ever played through (on a borrowd N64). I was humming some of the tunes for months afterwards

For a 3D-game, some scenes in Prey looked great. So did NWN2 in the right environment when seen from an angle and distance equal to the IE-games or in the Garius-Cutscenes. Enclave was the last game that caused a mental "wow" as a whole, but that was some years ago. Vampire: Bloodlines really looked amazing in some parts, but not everywhere like Enclave. In 2d-games, nothing could beat the atmosphere created by IWD 1's art (even if there are more detailed pre-rendered games). Torment's graphics never seemed beautiful, but interesting and moody - and it had some of the coolest spell-effects and animations of the IE-games.

anathema - a simple mistake :'(

deine lakaien - midnight sun

I always knew I was gay. Thanks for pointing that out. well, I don't think I am (and my girlfriend is of the same opinion ), but I still chose NPC according to sympathy - and interaction can cause that or the contrary, can't it...

witt & heppner - die flut

the pixies - cactus

I'm using these small sennheiser headphones, but never used them for transcribing anything. The reproduce music very detailed (although the bass seems a bit overpowered at first), so I think they should be ok for transcription too.

When I read the title, I thoght of this: Cooking with goths well, but since it's about spam, I mean, SPAM, I'll leave the thread to do something useful. Cooking, for example.

tristania - libre (the whole 'ashes' album, actually, just at the first track good speakers / headphones are key...) [edit] can't type today [edit2] can't stop listening to music... Vast - Free

no longer true. prices of 2900xt dropped about 50 euro and it's currently only slightly more expensive than a GTS, performace improved with new drivers to surpass the gts by some margin (more to come). Don't test it with TSAA (or however the transparency-aa is called @ati), because this is still buggy (too slow) with current drivers. It's a pretty good deal right now (if you don't calculate electricity costs ). [edit] not really good english, tried to fix this...

custom built, two and a half years ago. was pretty high-end then (bougth second best of available parts to get a slightly better price/performance ratio ), and is still usable for nwn2.

that looks... wait, has it been said before?...

Calax: No, I haven't. I heard that a) the game gets less interesting the longer you play and b) it won't work well enough on my computer for me to enjoy it. So I saved my money for a good RPG and only bought Prey from the bargain bin after having finished NWN2, Etherlords and IWD2 (for the third time).

Ah, just finished Prey Was quite refreshing for a shooter an audiovisually well done (except some weirdly blurry textures)... two scenes I really liked: look, it's one of the cool riddles! this reminded me of bloodlines...

very cool news! but: this suprprise is so secret it refuses to play on my system :ninja10: (divx and xvid are installed, what else could be needed?)

My girlfriend's x1900gt is running just fine, too. And very silent, thanks to Zalman I'm looking forward to the next gen of graphics-cards (post 8800 / 2900), because by then, I should have enogh money to replace my computer and DX 10 should be more widely used.

I would have liked more of the positive aspects (because there are many) to be mentioned in this interview, although it's good to see that a Dev sees the truth behind all rants. Well, with new elven heads and the height/girth sliders one more point of critique (that Mr Sawyer didn't mention) is gone and a replay of the campaign is getting near

Official figures would be interesting. I hope NWN2 does well. Two copies of CE here (lawful good and chaotic evil). I had planned to play solo for one run, and the second time via LAN in co-op with my girlfriend, whom I bought the 2nd copy for. Unfortunately, there were a couple of bugs in the LAN game, one of which must be fixed before we can try it again. No regret here, as the LG-Edition cost like 2

What did you like/dislike about it? Taks will benefit from more opinions. If you felt to slow casting a spell, you could "pre-cast" it and store it in a little Icon, so that would not a problem (to me at least )

Tale: I'm not too big a fan of it, I just enjoyed it quite a lot. It has quite clumsy controls and probably looks outdated by now (the main char was visually disturbing even at the time of release, how fortunate it is FP). But: it has quite some interactive elements (catching fish and roasting it on fire, baking bread, brewing potions using a bottle, water, herbs, a mortar and an alchemical toolset etc). The magic system is great: you can find hidden runes to combine to new spells, which you draw with your mouse to create the spell-effect. It has (or had for the time) very good sound and music, creating quite some atmosphere. It is humorous, too, and the story and setting is fantasy but felt still all new to me thanks to twists and interactive riddles, though I heard it was similar to Ultima Underworld which I never played. Hope this helps!

Pointless FF bashing sucks. That it was started by the thread-opener doesn't make it on topic, does it? They said at the end of march:

some threads further down: sega and thq try to compensate for the lack of an e3.

There is an interview on gamasutra with an Ageia Marketing guy. Nothing really new in it, it focuses on gameplay-affecting physics and on the free sdk.