Dark_Raven

Playing Tetris online is awesome.

The Doors "The End"

Its a nice way for them to say the prospective male didnt make the cut. LOLZ! We can be friends ok?

Yeah I'll BOOM you big boy. That makes me more sad than mad. My dislike of Bloodlines' combat doesn't have anything to do with Troika. It has to do with the combat in Bloodlines being terrible. Even when it was buggy, I thought ToEE combat was very fun. I'm not equating realism with quality. You're free to do so, but most people don't make that association. I don't think any of the games we're talking about are particularly realistic. I think Fallout's combat was pretty bad in a lot of ways, anyway. BG/IWD party AI wasn't particularly great, but you had full party control. Using full party control, the IE was responsive and the combat encounters, when designed well (over the course of seven-ish games), were pretty fun. The only combat fun I had in Bloodlines was avoiding gunplay and melee to Theft of Vitae (or whatever the BL equivalent was) everyone I came across. You hate button mashing hack'n'slash because it's so boring, but you enjoyed JE despite the fact that it basically tries to emulate the basic combat style of of a pure action game. Bad action games are button mashing. Good action games are pretty tactical and require more quick thinking than quick button-pressing. Action games also vary a lot in their combo structures. The Ninja Gaiden series has pretty long and complex combos that use two buttons, character state, and stick input to determine what Ryu (or Rachel) does. God of War has a pretty shallow system overall. DMC3 and DMC4 actually had reasonably shallow systems, but the ability to switch styles on the fly gave them amazing depth for "pro players". But I think most people... EVEN RPG PLAYERS... could win DMC4 on Human difficulty. A character like Nero is surprisingly easy to play at that difficulty, and they introduce his mechanics quite gradually. Of course, any/all games of any genre that attempt to have fast-paced combat should have a high framerate. Bloodlines had a good framerate, Oblivion had a good framerate. JE and ME were usually sub-25. Bad news. I liked BIS and was some what disappointed to see that in Bloodlines. IWD was the worst when it came to party AI for whatever reason. The other IE games I didn't have a problem. IWD I had to make them force attack the enemy before their AIs kicked in. Not to mention its path finding was bad. I don't remember IWD2 being such a problem so whatever problems there was must have been fixed.

OMFG!?!?! David Gaider is here? Thee David Gaider? WoWsers! How is your role in DA different from that in BG2?

Looks like someone has been taking too many acid trips.

F3 is full of bugs. Plus Bethy don't like Euros.

PST's pseudo-intellectual navel gazing made me bored and fall asleep. It didn't fail that at least.

I think JE is just mad at Troika because they put in BIS Sucks in Bloodlines. Ok lets get nit picky at combat eh? Fallout series. Target shot to the head and especially to the eyes should be instant death, which they are not. If you didn't score a critical it only knocked a few hit points off them. Kotor series, blaster fire at some one who isn't wearing armor should either cripple the target or outright kill them depending on where they were hit. Same goes with lightsabers. Hell lightsabers can cut thru most armor. Enemy AI in most games is not tactical or logical. Don't get me started on party AI. Icewind Dale had the worse party AI in any game I played. They usually just stood around to "think" before they responded while hordes of the enemy are attacking them and before you know it a few of the weaker party members are dead.

I agree. IWD and especially BG2 had awesome trailers.

That's because dwrves suck especially those primates the wild dwarf.

Bite them! No opinion on DA yet. Haven't played anything Bioware since Kotor1. I bite them alright.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhh. Yeah that's what I thought.

I always figured Revan to be a red lightsaber type.

Control panel, Performance and Maintenance, System, Display Adapters (Right Click), Driver tab, Roll back driver.

Because its cold? Probably a corrupted save as mentioned or scratches on the disk. Scratches are bad.

Someone is on crack. Bloodlines has crappy combat? You have a gun, you aim and fire. You have a melee weapon, you slice and dice or blungeon them to death. What is so hard about that? DA will probably follow ME and Jade combat wise.

That spell would be called Acid Trip.

Random encounters are fine, just don't get stupid with it like they did in Fallout Tactics. You couldn't go any where on that damned map without being bothered by an encounter.

LOLZ! You totally suck. Peeps give you advice on mods and than you go off playing NWN2.

You seem confused Grommie.

IWD. HoF mode is a killer.

I thought you were playing BG?

Its an EA thing. Ruin a good company (Bioware) by making it produce lame games and having stupid ideas for future games. Since EA is so sports friendly, they'll make a swoop bike racing game before you know it.

But Carth is ever woman and mans dream.