Tigranes

It's krazikatt! Yeah, the BIS site hadn't got a news post for weeks when you left, too.

Urrrgh. Tucows is incredibly annoying for downloads, for some reason every time I go to a new page it takes ages. <_< the google search will probably require you to filter through dozens of phony sites and popups, though.

Cakewalk Pyro, but that costs money. Maybe Nero Wave Editor.. there are programs that do this, you might get something by trial period.

Hey, Wellington #3 here.

I think the feature would instantly divide this forum into several.

Oooldie.

Hehehehe... my favourite subject. I'm just looking to milk some scholarship money out of it. I don't even remember the olympics, I was born 5 months before it (talk about luck )... but it's great to know you had a good time there. In fact, lots of people who do go seem to have a great time, despite all the wrong kind of media exposure the country gets. :/

Heh, 15 years ago? I'd have been down at Busan then. Pity you'd have missed the olympics by a year. I've actually been in NZ for 7 years, but it's good to hear someone likes visiting Korea. It's sometimes a very inconvienient place for foreigners. What was that about the literature, though?

Heh... after a little while I totally abandoned the radial, 36 hotkeys were often enough (or a little short for spellcasters) for me. Radial sucked because yes, it took you so long to find things (and i'd often click out of the menu by mistake), but I thought the symbols were relatively easy to learn. You can't play a wizard through the BG saga, for example, without learning most of the spell symbols.

Unfounded rumours again. Don't believe gaming sites, stores, catalogues, anything about unannounced games, only stuff from the devs/publisher.

We do seem to have a disproportionate amount of NZers here. *blink* of course, i'm korean, but still...

I knew it. He's here! *packs bags*

How ridiculous. We've just gone through a Karzak vs. that axe-avatar guy phase, we don't need a flame war. Buns, no point jumping in here to criticise, let them live how they want to. If you can't resist yourself from leading yourself into places you hate then have to burn about it, that's just too bad for you. It's also amusing to see AC - WW thing's still not dead, though I left AC modship a while ago. Everyone's right, it's basically two same forums... now don't you go hacking at nz just for that.

On the other hand, this could facilitate the sale of certain engines, licenses and possibly unfinished games in the near future.

VB had some twenty members, I think. The exact numbers may be wrong but I'm very sure it had more than 9 people on it. Also, as a company the 105 or so staff would involve marketing, management, secretaries/clerks, their console game development divisions, public relations, etc. Actual game makers would not be more than half of the staff count, I imagine.

Fallout 3, selling at Irvine! Come and get it while still hot, dirt cheap!

Then making a blundered move to consoles when it was already too late, after having BIS waste a good few years on Torn and IWDII. Dark Alliance was the only gem out of Caen's prospects, really.

Maybe he wanted some fun, with money, just felt like doing some silly simpsonish music.

If KOTOR2, probably the KOTOR engine (which was heavily modified aurora, wasn't it?) If not.. who knows. I find it unlikely they'd want to make an original engine.

Happy Birthday! How old is he now?

Yes, but the Junction did get very tedious. Besides, levels mean next to nothing in Final Fantasy - nobody bothers to check what happened when they levelled up. It was all magic/equipment/materia/abilities/whatever.

Soule has done way too many games recently, and it's starting to show. Repetitive, and generally boring. Surely he's not the only good composer for RPGs out there.

I wouldn't trust a passing preamble to a jade empire article from a commercial gaming website.

Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but Irenicus is vulnerable to the Vorpal Sword, and SOA can end with a right hit from it. I always find RPG end bosses - especially Final Fantasy ones - depressingly bad. Writing and personality varies from game to game, but the actual fights are nearly always crap, and even the best RPGs don't save themselves from this seemingly inevitable design failure. Let's see. Irenicus has the power to cast spells seemingly without rest for prolonged period of time, throw out powerful death spells for sadistic enjoyment, construct amazing magical equipment, and when you face him all he is is a mage that has speeded through the SOA level progression, with a few extra gimmicks stuck on. Where are the unique spells, special equipment, etc? All he has is defensive contingencies, annoying mazes and a few high level mage spells. Blehhh. Sarevok wasn't any better; all he ever did was swing a sword and be immune to magic (which was, yes, verrrry annoying). The battle was improved by traps, Sarevok's allies and resulting chaos that emulated a proper battle, but it was depressing to pepper arrows into the endboss till he dropped on his face. I can't think of any examples that are better; in fact, Sephiroth of FF7 comes to mind (nearly a God? he can't do anything.), and Ultimecia of FF8, Necron / Kuja at FF9... they all are ridiculously weak, reduced to a beefed character with one or two extra gimmicks.

Very many, alan. Maybe if he cut his hair (or grew it), dyed it, changed hairstyle, put on lots of cosmetics, shaved off his trademark moustache, then held himself differently.