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Yeah, Revolver is da awesome. Though Abbey Road is their best. hehehe David Gilmour - Terrapin (Live) Great acoustic cover of one of Crazy Diamond's best tunes

MGS4 is basically fan product - if you're fan you love it, if not...well, you might still think it is great but plot nonsensical. Or then you hate it. I'd recommend MGS1 (psone) and MGS3 (ps2), they're best ones in gameplay. I have special place in my heart for MGS2 but it isn't as great game as those two. Try MGS3 and see if you like it. If you like it get MGS1. Then MGS2. Yes, you must've played all 3 before MGS4

The Beatles - She Said She Said Best song on Revolver

R.E.M. - It's End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) yay

Juice Leskinen - Ei El

I made it into Temple after Moathouse, Nulb and the beginning town. Can't remember how far though, propably not too because I was already utterly bored with game. IWD2 is vastly superior game though (and I have never before heard rule change was forced in IWD2 - and I've never heard ToEE was going to use 2E before either) And why should I cut it slack just because it used new engine?

oh, sorry Is hell no firm enough answer?

yet at the same time utterly newb team manages to make IWD1 even in clearly shorter time, game vastly superior to Troika's big title in every possible way. Game's failure was Troika's fault just like vanilla NWN2's shortcomings were OE's fault, not Atari's edit: heck, IWD1 team alone annihilates all excuses from Troika's part. They just sucked at designing that game.

ouch pwned

I could copy paste my answers earlier on but I prefer this: L0L

Yeah, there are great jRPG's with great turn based combat systems - being jrpg doesn't equal to crappy FF7 or 8 gameplay I really mean what I said about Troika and ToEE. It is entirely Troika's fault game was such POS. Atari had already planned out franchise from ToEE and its engine. That's how much they trusted Troika's skill and turn based combat as great system in modern era. And yes, it means we might've got load of TB combat games merely from Atari. If ToEE had been success (and reason it wasn't had nothing to do with it being TB) we'd see nowadays a lot RPG's with turn based combat because reverred and succesful games tend to be influential, so others would've followed. By screwing up ToEE they spelled doom for TB combat in mainstream CRPG's for years to come - up to this day, really. Everyone claiming TB games can't be succesful in modern era obviously have intentionally or not excluded millions of people carrying their money for DS titles and jrpg's. Here in Finland Silent Storm was picked by people AND critics both as GOTY (we did that for JA2 too, lol). It seems to be only America with problems to respect TB combat

coz developers thinks it lacks mass appeal, ToEE had the bestest combat of all DnD computer games released (evvar), on second place you'll find the old gold box games. Problem is that a trailer featuring this kinda combat just doesn't look very cool lol no See the difference between combat system and actual combat. ToEE has best combat system*, but combat itself wasn't anything special. IWD's and BG's had easily better combat as did even Fallout 2, PS:T, NWN1 HotU and some other recent titles in some places. And that's sad remembering the awesomeness of system. Troika deserves all the blame for ToEE's failure. In fact the so reverred Troika should be nailed to tree for destroying the once in a lifetime possibility to revive great TB combat in RPG's. Thanks ****ing a lot, Tim Cain *though crappy interface did its best to screw it

Syd Barrett - Dominoes

This is how taxes should be. Go go Obama! It is just fair increasing taxes of very rich people

I'd say memory is important for game like MTW2, so maybe 1 gig over 512 mb would make world of difference.

I remember reading official finnish PS2 magazine (whatever happened to it anyway, one day it just disappeared from stores...) about the game and vast hype about its revolutionarity and depth of system and how you could blow up nearly any wall anywhere and advance through levels however you wanted etc. Come to think of it, NWN1's and Bethesda games hype gets a lot flak around here and elsewhere, but Red Faction hype contrasted with what we got may be worst case of bull****ting ever Well, there's Daikatana of course

I wonder to what extent we can destroy our enviroments I've been bitter and skeptical about that aspect of games ever since Red Faction came out

Ehh, the expansion pack is winrar Main game is better version of R:TW but too similar to make it exciting to play after Rome.

I'll write answer here tomorrow, but it's not that I think you're snobby because you don't like ps:t's philosophising. It's just the overall dismissing and narrow attitude you channeled on anime, modern art and what not But more on that tomorrow edit: btw, it is kinda alarming if I tell someone he shows snobby characteristics edit2: and snobby might be bit off, let's just say dogmatic in bad way

HotU had some great encounters such as Lich Dragon in Act II. In the fundamentals, it's a bit like taking one KotOR, removing melee combat, seasoning it with Pohl and Reynolds and adding lesbian sex. That sounds really fcking awesome until you realize how silly a game K1 was. edit: Last time I played HotU was about two years ago though and I was a lot worse D&D player back then. But I remember combat being rather good in that expansion pack, easily best in NWN franchise with some tough fights. Who knows, maybe HotU would be breeze now

practically all people I know who've played ME has said "It's kinda like Kotor 2.0 without lightsabers"

dude, no just no

Yes, they are crushing, so many people without any taste. I'd understand this if you'd raise MotB, PS:T, Fallout or something on the pedestal instead of ME, but when one raises Kotor over Mass Effect it's just silly. They're very much same thing Sorry, I've noticed that too. As soon as people quit attacking me, I'll get off the subject. It's not attacking, it's questioning

judging by amount of people really liking the game - even those who hate everything Bio spew out after BG2 or alternatively HotU - compared with those who liked kotor but didn't like ME like you...well, numbers are crushing

WoD, did you consider the fact circumstances surrounding you playing K1 shroud your judgement? I personally only started to dig in RPG's in 2003 and K1 was one of the first games I played. And it was just pure awesome. However, more I played games and esp. older RPG's Kotor's status started to drastically weaken. Game that was for quite a while my Number One Game Ever doesn't even make it to my Top Twenty anymore, even though I have many of my fondest memories gaming memories with that game. Playing K2 never was such "OH MY GOD WOW" moment like K1 had been, but nowaday I consider K2 to be hundred times better game. Mass Effect from all I've seen, read and heard just can't be worse. It actually has more than one important decision to make, better combat system (kotors one is horrible), better graphics and production values etc. Only thing Kotor 1 seems to have over ME is the setting, because Star Wars in kotor era still retains the magic Original Trilogy Star Wars had. But as a game it should be inferior in every way. By the way that mission comparison wasn't fair at all. Kotor missions were chockful with simply killing crap Korriban was awesome though