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It depends on your definition of sucky. Stat based wise it takes some serious doing. I think the suckiest character I made was a half orc Barbarian Bard, power based wise. For online role play he was quite the hoot.
A friend of mine made a Barbarian Gnome.
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You haven't played Neverwinter Nights have you?
A player controlled free roaming camera allows you to zoom in and out, and pick various camera angles. Using a camera hack from NWVault you could toggle the camera angle of NWN for it to be in first person view using the free roaming camera.
In the PC version of Morrowind you could toggle between over the shoulder and first person view. Simply put in that function in but instead of a fixed over the shoulder view like Morrowind make it a free roaming camera like NWN.
Ok that makes more sense. It's not a bad idea imo but it's a detail that doesn't affect gameplay much.
Basically what you want is NWN2 in a fallout setting?
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Say no to magic in technology game settings.
Unless it makes it cool
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Because it also includes real time combat and a first person view with a free roaming camera. CAN WE MAKE A DUH CHECK HERE?!?!
How can you have a first-person view AND a free roaming camera?
A free-roaming first-person view? Like spectator view in online shooter games?
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In Morrowind, you play however you want. You can keep it balanced or you can screw it all up. In a few minutes with the construction set you can change entire races and classes to your liking.
The story: You are possibly a reincarnation of the Nerevarine, a Messiah that will rid the world of Dagoth Ur and his following. The game lets you find out if you are the prophesied one or not. A series of events, including dying & surviving a plague, makes you the Nerevarine in the eyes of the people of Morrowind. You will need to learn about the history and culture of the native Dark Elves and "befriend" a few leaders of their tribes by undergoing a rather long series of trials that range from fetching things to killing beasts to escorting people and finding lost tribe members, all of which will allow you to gather the items you need to defeat Dagoth Ur and explore most of the Island of Vvardenfell.
To launch the storyline, you must head for Balmora and find Caius Cossades, a member of the Blades, which is a secret organization working under direct orders from the King. Caius's orders are to help you become who the King believes you to be(which is basically a hero powerful enough to defeat Dagoth Ur). The info you need for this is in your inventory... Or you could just complete quests, join multiple factions and explore the land until your character maxes out all the stats.
Get all the official Mods from Bethesda. This will tweak your journal(also available by getting the first and/or second expansion), give you extra armour, weapons, quests and other ways to move around the land, as well as patch a few other things.
Morrowind has almost become only about mods.
You don't like the combat? Get the enhanced combat mod. Find the visuals bland? Download the Beautiful Morrowind mod. It's all there, including difficulty tweakers, texture packs, buildings, landmasses, weapons, books, anything you can think of is there.
And it's a great game, a RPG that stays away from the D&D stuff(in it's original version, some mods can change that if you want...)
If you have the XBox version though, you are screwed
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***POSSIBLE SPOILER***
Does this mean Baltar is a Cylon or a higher form of human that can withstand a nuclear blast?
Nah, he was just so far away from the nuclear blast, that he could avoid radition and be safe so long as he ducked when the explosion hit.
If he were a cylon, the whole cylon/human offspring concept would be void. Besides, Baltar can't be cylon simply because he represents some of the worst sides of humanity
***END OF POSSIBLE SPOILER***How come when we have scenes on Caprica, only the models we have seen already are present and the last five are not? Wouldn't they all mingle amongst themselves?
Probably because the actors playing the other cylons haven't been cast yet. And probably also because the writers wants to keep it a surprise who they are. A consistent point on Galactica is that *any* of the known characters could be cylons. Well, maybe not Adama... Hmm, could Apollo or Starbuck be a cylon? :D
Are those Centurions something more than just tin cans with guns? Wouldn't it be cool if they were still the "real" Cylons, pulling all the strings?Well, I'm still not sure we've seen who really pulls the strings among the cylons...
Apollo can't be a Cylon because he has a history with humans in the fleet. He's known Starbuck for a long time before the invasion, and his father knows him since he was born... Same with Starbuck. Adama cannot be a Cylon either because he's been known by many humans for a very long time.
The Caprica scenes, I agree with you. It was slight sarcasm since it's a plothole.
***SPOILER***
The nuclear blast at Baltar's home was strong enough to kill Caprica 6's previous incarnation. Baltar is the main villain in the series and I think he is a Cylon, possibly Model #1, pulling all the strings. Or not. Would be cool though :D
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Pink Floyd : Hey You!
"Out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Can you hear me?"
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Um...
Smallville
Mythbusters
The Tonight Show (Laughter helps me to sleep better at night
)CSI
Project Runway
Beyblade
Digimon
(I really liked these two 3 - 4 years ago)
They show very little of these kind of shows here (except for cable), and my dad won't let me suscribe to AXN and Star World, so I don't watch much TV.
My guess is that it would be your dad subscribing, not you. And he probably don't like Digimon too much?
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Firaxis also has a location here, in Maryland. That, paired with the fact that both studios have a pirate game in one form or another could've lead to the confusion.
Bethesda is publishing the new Pirates of the Caribbean game, which is a vast improvement over the first.
It's still based on a movie...
"Sorry about being a nitpicker. I was just worried about you comparing my beloved Pirates! with that thing published by that other company...
Well this latest Pirates! is very good. Addictive to the extreme. Beautiful, fun, simple, educational(!).
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Firaxis also has a location here, in Maryland. That, paired with the fact that both studios have a pirate game in one form or another could've lead to the confusion.
Bethesda is publishing the new Pirates of the Caribbean game, which is a vast improvement over the first.
It's still based on a movie...
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Hey that was a good movie. Kubrick rules when it came to movies, they are hard to understand at times but that is what makes him a genius.
Colors are very important in his movies and that is especially apparent in EWS. They show hidden feelings, things the actors are not showing about the characters. The very last scene in EWS, in the kids store, is very revealing in that regard. You can pick up a lot of hidden meaning in colors in Kubrick movies, like another level of storytelling. It's fascinating.
Oh and E.T. is in my top 5 of all time. Nobody ever mentions E.T. anymore. I for one am proud to say it still moves me. :">
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Pirates! was developed by Firaxis and published (currently) by Atari (AFAIK). At least thats what my game says.
You're right!
I feel really stupid now. Sorry for the wasted space guys. :">
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Many Star Trek episodes are based off classical literature. You can find the same themes in Greek and Roman mythology, as well as Shakespeare and many other famous authors. The writing really was superior, although I don't think it fared as well after TNG.
Agreed.
TOS was fun, TNG was smart, the rest was filler. And R. Berman killed it.
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I meant Pirates! Not Pirates of the Caribbeans.
The game where you buy a little boat, then attack bigger boats, sell things to buy bigger boats, conquer big boats by weakening them with different ammo types, boarding them and fighting the captain using a rapier or a sabre and a couple of moves. Going ashore and walking around to find treasures and clues to your family history and so forth. I'm not sure if it was developped or published by, but Bethesda had something to do with it.
It's not Sea Dogs 2 either. It's something like Tortuga but better. it's rated like 9.5 on Gamespot, classified as Strategy/RPG. it was released 6 months ago, maybe a year.
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An absolute must-- with boss characters and/or Dark Jedi Masters, just don't stop the action to have dialog. Make sure that the light sabers are crackeling and hissing during the dialog. Make the death of the boss characters more dramatic by showing dismemberment (I don't like gore, but come on this is a lightsabler battle limbs will come off). The fights need to last longer with the main bosses!
Yeah, I agree. It may sound gory, but we've seen sliced off body parts in every film. It's sort of expected. And D20 Star Wars rules do allow for it - just implement the Wounds rules. Who cares if the Sith lord loses the hand or even the head once he's down to negative vitality anyway?
They could tie it into "critical hits". Or misses. <_<
It's called an "T" rating. Dismemberment rules would chuck that right out the window.
Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy were rated T and they had dismemberment as an option. No blood though.
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What kind of games had Bioware done before Baldurs Gate?
Stay on topic here. We are discussing Bethesda and not Bioware.
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LEGO Star Wars has just achieve Greatest Status on PS2 so as I am a cheap bastard I bought it, finally.
Took me 2-3 hours to go through it once and now I'm picking up the rest of the small stuff like filling up those Jedi Meters and collecting the pieces foe the ships.
The great thing about this game is that now my girlfriend is completely addicted to it.
I can't wait for #2.
And also, I hope they branch out into other movie franchises like LotR, Indiana Jones, Gremlins, E.T.(ok, maybe not E.T.), Goonies, Last Starfighter, etc. (w00t)
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***POSSIBLE SPOILER***
Does this mean Baltar is a Cylon or a higher form of human that can withstand a nuclear blast?
***END OF POSSIBLE SPOILER***
How come when we have scenes on Caprica, only the models we have seen already are present and the last five are not? Wouldn't they all mingle amongst themselves?
Are those Centurions something more than just tin cans with guns? Wouldn't it be cool if they were still the "real" Cylons, pulling all the strings?
The intro to that last episode was amazing.
At the very end of the episode, a Raptor leaves a ship. Is the woman in the Raptor or still on the ship? I didn't get that.... :">
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Ravenous
It's a story about cannibalism. I don't think anyone else has even seen the show, let alone enjoyed it.
I have. It's with Guy Pierce and that crazy Irish actor who played in Trainspotting, a bond vilain and some other stuff. Can't remember his name. He plays the cannibal of course.
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Not surprisingly, this is turning on the rather particular tastes of this board. Very little that aired more than 20 years ago... Lots of mediocre scifi being ridiculously overrated just because it's scifi... Nostalgia making people believe that the 1980s had any kind of redeeming value... People appreciating Hercules and Xena in a non-ironic fashion...
To go a bit more mainstream, here's what TV Guide had to say on the matter a few years ago (the best link I could find was to CBS news, so all the CBS shows are annoyingly bolded).
Personally, I'd break it into categories:
Talk Shows:
Meet the Press (so I'm a policy wonk...)
Ed Sullivan (before my time, but you've got to acknowledge its influence)
Letterman, pre-CBS
Sitcoms:
All in the Family
Taxi
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
Dramas:
Not a big watcher of these. I suppose the Sopranos is pretty universally acclaimed (I only saw the first 2 seasons). I admire the Law & Order formula-- consistently watchable, but it's not can't-miss stuff.
Miscellaneous:
MST3K (the scifi show I prefer to ridiculously overrate)
Anyone here could say the same about your taste or lack of it.
To each his own.
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Well the impression i have is that their dumbing it down like removing skill based to hit, but then again i don't really pay attention to oblivion. So they changed some things going from morrowind to oblivion, but they didn't really touch the basis of the game. It still has no dialog or strong story(Ok i can't reall know that) nor memorable characters, it still has a first person perspective and it's stil realtime without pause.
Maybe they will do fallout justice, but i'll believe that when i see it.
Qwb,
Do you mean that player skill or character skill has been removed in the "to hit factor"? Either way I think that's a positive thing though. If I am forced to physically connect with an attack, I don't want my skill invalidated by an incompetent character (and vice versa). Either use my skill, or my character's. Regardless, I definitely don't see going in either direction as dumbing down the game.
Also, Morrowind was definitely pausable. I don't remember how much you could do when it was paused, but I know the option was there.
I'm still not a fan of the series and I don't expect I will like Oblivion overly much, but at least they change enough things to warrant me giving it a fair shot.
I don't know the details, as is said it was jus my impression. Anyway it was a move from character skill to player skill, wich for me is not a positive thing.
Most games are pausable, what I mean with "with pause" is that you can give orders while paused.
qwb,
You mean like Baldur's Gate 1&2&expansions, NWN&expansions, KOTOR1&2, ToEE, IWD1&2&expansions?
What about Wizardry, Ultima Underworld, Lands of Lore 1, Might and Magic, Betrayl at Krondor, etc There are a lot of other RPGs that don't have the same design as all those D&D adaptations and that are just as good if not better.
I'm looking forward to Oblivion because it is a RPG, a big one, a good one(all signs point to YES) and those are very rare. It's a single player MMORPG? Maybe but it's a free MMORPG and mods will abound that will allow us to fix whatever we don't like about it, just like Morrowind and NWN.
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Why not? You got something against homo vamps?
I like homo vamps.
I like necrophiliac vamps. Or beastialic vamps. Or doorframe vamps <_<
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Lots of cut scenes (movies) and talks between chars. Also add timed events and maybe random happenings (not encounters!!!)
On another KOTOR forum, me and another poster had this idea about bounty hunting. On most planets there would be either a bounty office or a "shady character" that would give out bounties. Some would be kills, others captures or even scavenger hunting. The good part was that each bounty's location would be random across the K3 galaxy/region so the player would need to actually investigate, look for clues, interrogate witnesses, etc. Some bounties could even be quest related, like starting the game as a bounty hunter and picking up the job to bring in Revan or something...
(w00t)
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Movies you like that everyone else hates.
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Yeah what a waste.
How could Jeremy Irons even conceive a role like that. Oh wait...
$$$ :D