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One thing that confuses me is why ice hockey is more popular than field hockey. It's like having table tennis being more popular than actual tennis, or beach volleyball being more popular than volleyball ....actually never mind the last one, the reason is obvious.

Same for me, fellow fossilbooker. This new-fangled "Internet forum" is as far as my social media comfort zone reaches.

Well technically Fallout 1 wasn't a Black Isle title, so you could say he did work on all the actual Black Isle labelled games. But then again Descent to Undermountain wasn't a Black Isle title either, but he *did* get a credit for it...

Sounds about right. Veloxyll is around on FB. Has he had a haircut yet? :D

Think it was "rubs nads with glee".

Moving boards does weird things to nostalgia. There's a thread here reminiscing about the days of the BIS forums that easily comes up via a simple forum search and is full of familiar names. Yet that thread is from *2005*, so it was created two years after the closure. That thread is therefore itself nearly a decade old, five times longer than the gap to what it was addressing. But because it's here it doesn't feel too long ago at all. The other thing is that I think my post count from the one year the IPLY forums existed is still higher than my total here made over more than a decade...

Hey, if blackmail is what it takes to get you posting again, then blackmail it is.

Also Krez and HKD (and going way back I guess, Rachel). There's a Veloxyll active on Shamus Young's blog comments, how common could that name be?

Thinking back, geez we used to have a pretty sizable Aussie mafia around in the day. Most have vanished now, though I'm one of the early guilty ones on that score. At least I can count four if I'm not mistaken in this thread.

Don't think us plebs would have had the privilege of custom avatars. Unfortunately my only pictorial evidence of the BIS forum just missed it, but it does quote your crimes for posterity. (For context, this was from the time the IPLY forums had already gone up and most of the BIS forums were already locked, we were probably only able to post in WOT or somesuch) EDIT: This was posted a year ago or so, the last time we had a old timey time nostalgia session. Specifically recalling the Lord Jim incident. P.S. Thought I saw Caelis on the Whirlpool forums a couple years ago, but I may have been imagining things.

If you want to change your facial structure you need HGH though. Aptly for the Witcher, it's kind of a mutagen that turns Homo Sapiens into Homo Neanderthalensis.

I'm kind of the opposite, which has sort of been reflected in a couple of rants in the past, most recently probably against XCOM Long War. Trying to replicate realistic military conventions in a setup clearly not built upon realism just makes things less understandable and intuitive, and actively detracts from gameplay. Frankly, unless a game is a military sim, I'm going to outright mark it down for using say, a half-dozen different "real" assault rifles models over the game that just gives you a generic "assault rifle" item.

It is slightly concerning that my first thought after reading that is "What does Brad the Ginger Cat have to do with that?" instead of the obvious joke.

I think his eyebrows are too dark, this is a travesty.

I especially remember Jiles having Angelina Jolie's body. Hmm....

Well, just beat it for the first time with the default wagon, took probably just shy of double digit attempts, getting the double barrel pistol really turned it around. But there's another 15 wagons in the game I haven't tried... Been going with the randomly generated party each time, and the first time it gives me an all-female party I win, there might be a lesson there.

Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is annoying me because I want to use the gamepad for the wagon sections but it's rubbish at controlling the on-foot sections. Blah. Unsurprisingly I also have to run it in a small window, because otherwise the pixels would be 1cm each across.

I know there are old people out there who use "Nintendo" as a genericised trademark in place of "console gaming", like Googling or Xeroxing something. As in "Oh the kids are out the back Nintendoing". Not that it in any way justifies the headline.

Well you'd expect a hacker of all people to be videogame genre-savvy.

Elephant armour DLC.

It'll be separate purchases for each type of mount as well, since obviously there's no way horse armour would fit on a unicorn.

Holy Smoke Barti !!!! That's hectic, do you think a virus caused it? Make sure you do a full scan and confirm your definitions are updated Nah, it's just how Games for Windows Live rolls.

I think the point is that as the number of players/playable characters increases, the omission becomes more noticeable and jarring. In single-protagonist titles it's all rather arbitrary, but with four-player co-op such as in the new AC game, variety becomes more appreciated. By the time you get to larger scale multiplayer games like Unreal Tourney it's an expected feature, and attempting anything else in an MMO would be a ludicrous concept.

Yeah, I'm not down on Sony for this (though in general I am, all the way back to the rootkit fiasco), but I am very much down on Disney/LucasArts, who deserve no credit for it, because the inevitable impression is that this is something that's happened *in spite* of them. I wonder what happened in 2009, which was the first and last time they released a non-remastered version of any of their classic games. What would a policy of only releasing games redone with modern graphics (MI1/2, GF) possibly achieve?

First thing to come out of E3 (well, more accurately, out of this thread, since I'm relying on you lot to give me all the relevant news) I can say I'm unequivocally pleased about. That this is my first post in this thread is probably indicative of that. I mean I saw the headline about Grim Fandango and it was cool up until the guy said it was 'exclusive' to the Sony platforms. While I've since seen Tim hint about other platforms, that was about as big a dampener as could be conceived.