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jorian: how could santee not be inspired by the one in this movie? nice christmas tree, jessica clearly inspired by those enervating flashlights that are unfortuately becoming popular here too... another question: is it possible that obsidian artists do have an extraordinary tendency to have nieces that draw christmas-cards for them?

heh, no chance in hell the ie is coming back... and it doesn't have to, because the nwn2 engine seen from the traditional angle has the potential to look just as good or better (the latter especially concerning the individuality of characters). and on topic: i find some of the nwn2-related answers quite interesting. for example what feargus says about the pws and the ideas obsidian is trying to implement.

nwn2 by itself doesn't make use of both cores dual-core systems, but is 'dual-core friendly'. see here: http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewt...500057&forum=99

scythe is a company-name, and this is one of the (judging from reviews: quite good) coolers they fabricate.

lim-lim, no question. hth is gizka? that piece of meat being ripped apart by the sweet, green, most courageos insect?

the no avatars, the better... so, bis-web-guys, please ignore people complaining about too small avatars, and let's all have none at all... B)

hey, i found this site about a really promising looking (dark)fantasy rpg called the witcher. look here!

obnoxious hero? however, my d&d bard-character would be a demi-god, what a relief..

kotor2 isn't fine by me - but it's up to obsidian to convince me of their ability to make interesting sequels to general, simple and boring games. i voted for "new, no-dnd game", because that's what i wanted delaware to be

yes, i sure will, after all, its obsidian's first game. i won't buy it happily, though... i mean, great chance for obsidian to start out with commercial success, and even critical praise - somehow, everybody was so excited about kotor1. but, well, i would have loved to see obsidian develop something new and original. 'twas all for naught....

i can't confirm this, as anyone can't confirm any rumor on kotor2... btw, i wouldn't care about kotor2 multiplayer. nor would i care much about kotor2 anyway.

yes, i really love it, too. good thing that if you place your ta-cd in a cd-player, it will play the soundtrack the only other game that i know, which has its music stored in cda-format is outcast, which has a really impressive score, too (composer: bill brown). michael hoenig isn't in game-music business anymore, unfortunately. i can't give you any sources about that, but afair it was some bis-member who wrote that.

man, he's also known as "the imperator" in these parts of the world. happy birthday i. urquharth! ergo bibabmus dum licet esse bene

someone told me that elfan made some simpsons game's music ... strange, but if he does even compose for such lame games (no offense), why not for darker, more serious ones? it might be a question of ... funds, though

not soule again... he's overrated by many and hasn't done half as good as people seem to think... look here , at gojiro's post. do i repeat myself when i say "go for mark morgan!"? it can't be said enogh, anyway... and please, dear obsidian, try and make your publisher continue black isle's tradition of supreme voice-over quality.

then visit a mosque too, one day. it will sure be worth it, considering you as a peron interested in religions. it's good to see that not all religious people are so childishly fixed on their own ("one and only") belief.

interesting questions that you name there, monte carlo. now that al quaida seems to take responsibility, another possible "resason" for the bombing is becoming less possible: german readers follow this link. long story short, it was speculated, that eta (hardcore basque "liberation" organisation) was coming to an end, and the attack was a last sign of life, compareable to the ending of raf.

terrorism isn't restricted to iraq-war supporters. it's not meant to punish, but to destroy lifes in a way that attracts attention. furthermore, the terrorism-theme isn't as hyped here as it seems to be in the usa. there's something about it in the papers every day, mostly about the israel-palestine conflict, but no 24/7 reports. thank god for that, spreading needless fear does no good, as it creates aggression, as seen before...

rock is fun in nfs, but obsidian: please never ever use it in an rpg (unless it's a modern day setting and a rockband is performing ingame on stage, or out of a radio).

without any new information and manny silly and uniteresting threads, i just check all the forums every day, and then log out. no news -> no post, simple as that.

i do consider manga as art, just as western comics as well. while the mickey mouse, superman (and all these schtupid hero-stuff) and - on the manga-side - dragonball or sailor moon kind of comics are much too comercially oriented and lack in style (imo), there are still gifted persons drawing them. owning only record of lodoss war (yeah, you've got to start somwhere ), akira, eden and short stories by hiroki endo, but having read all the available dragonball (see rolw), kenshin, angel sanctury, 3x3 eyes, fushigi yugi (shojo, ayayay ...) and ranma, i am sort of a "manga fan". especially the ones created for a more adult reader (not listed here, we do have younger children on these boards ) are intriguing in terms of drawing furiosity and storytelling, and are disturbingly gorey. the filmlike technique of sudden cuts or slow fades, brutal scenes and absolute idylle make mangas to a piece of art to me.

if that consoles you: my connection was always @ about 3.6 k... it's gotten a little faster now that broadband works (took them guys from cablecom 7 weeks...), at last!

it always depends on developing cost. planescape: torment did come out even, with 200000 copies sold, afair. iwd1 has quickly sold unexpectedly well and thus bis / interplay made profit. don't know about numbers, but it must have been about a quarter of a million units sold?

voice over for pc is imo quite unimportant. the npcs however do profit a lot of characterization an personality. bis had done very well up to now (don't know about lionheart - and don't care, either), especially on iwd1. i've never played ps: t in englisch, but it was the only german spoken game ever whose voice over i've found really enjoyable.

wth are commandos? :ph34r: