alanschu

Yeah Hellgate: London was the first thing I thought of too.

I wonder if it's a presumption by credit bureaus that canceling credit cards (which for me any, cost nothing to keep even if they have no balance/use) is a sign that the user anticipates an inability to control his credit spending, or an inability to pay for it? Grasping at straws to say the least haha. It's possible that simply having less total credit available to you reflects poorly.

Yeah I see that. Cost is still the biggest issue haha.

Fair enough re accessibility of The Force Unleashed. Still impressive sales numbers. I was meaning to borrow this from a friend for the 360. Maybe I can find it cheapish somewhere. Any idea what the breakdown is? I can't imagine many units selling on the N-Gage haha.

I may have seen this for a guy I wounded up, only to be distracted and have to shoot elsewhere, and then having to shoot the other guy up a fair bit more still. But hard to say definitively. Most of the time they drop quickly.

Wow I didn't realize that TFU was the best selling SW game of all time.

That's nice. I'm unaware of any actual reviews for the game though. Who gave it a final review? Anecdotal and biased. You're interested in the game and would therefore be more likely to notice ads for this game. I only remember ever seeing one ad for Halo ODST. I have a feeling that Halo ODST was more marketed than that though. Now that you mention it, good point! This is a game with console versions that was completely devoid of any television marketing campaign. There is doubt in my mind. Who wins? What if what if what if. What if the game actually isn't polished enough to the point that Obsidian would be essentially releasing their third buggy game in as many attempts? I'm sure we're all a fan of KOTOR 2's final state. I understand you really want the game now. But unfortunately it's not happening.

Yes, that's exactly it I mean, it's just good game design to permanently handicap the game player, undoubtedly rendering it frustrating for some to the point where they either conclude that they can't make the choice they want to make in the game, or just give up on the game entirely. A more astute summary would be that the people here are just upset because rather than forcing others to play the game the way they want to play it, they are forced to play it the way others want to. They die. Figured this was obvious but I guess not.

I'd be much less critical of it happening if the Urn event happened right at the end of the game, since then it'd be one fight (like Sarevok turn, or the turn of several characters in NWN2). To have to proceed through possibly half the game with a level 12 character that has level 2 NPC party members would be really freaking difficult. Unless combat was balanced for this situation, which would make it really easy. Sure you might be okay with slogging through that difficulty, but others aren't. And when they get frustrated, rather than continue to play the game they'll just drop it.

I'm suggesting that it's a better solution to have NPCs at camp still gain some XP, instead of having the Players Actions lead to NPCs getting pissed at you and leaving your party or attacking you resulting in your playthrough becoming severely handicapped (read: impossible to proceed) because your best NPCs are no longer an option and you didn't bother playing with other NPCs. In other words, the player would be left with no other option but to reload prior to the NPCs abandoning/attacking you, and make an active choice in the game that is NOT the choice that the player actually wants to make.

Meh, I have no issues with the regenerating health, either in MP or the SP. Here's another one before I retire for the night (couldn't sleep so I made COD 4 videos instead haha)

I didn't realize there was TWO guys at that first choke point haha. But I think being wounded by the shotgun makes my final push more epic. Like I'm bleeding out/wounded and I still pop the guy in the head haha.

Why post a picture when I can post a video?

There's already released gameplay footage of party members turning on you at the Urn. Imagine if those party members were your highest level. Now suddenly the game player has to decide "do I do what I want my character to do, or do I metagame and not do it, because I can't afford to be without those party members lest the game becoming too difficult?"

It sounds like you only need to activate it if you get it early.

VATS also gives you actual numbers that are a lot easier to compare.

What money? It's a feature they've implemented before in their previous games, which should be coded exactly the same and work exactly the same. The dedicated servers are then managed by experienced people who've been running servers for years, know what they're doing and need little to no support. If dedicated server support was just "use the last iteration" then how come virtually every game doesn't have the exact same netcode? How come Dragon Age isn't multiplayer? They could obviously just latch on NWN's network mode and dedicated server support, right? If it was as costless as you claim it would be, they'd do it. UNLESS.... they felt it nipped into their bottom line by doing so. Either way, I see a motive for making more money. Unless you're claiming that Activision and Infinity Ward have actively decided to not included it, so that they will make less money on the game.

So the game should be equivalently challenging no matter what? The difficulty should scale if you take different builds, as some will undoubtedly be more effective than others? Or is it a complaint because the game might be too difficult to solo?

It doesn't require money to be spent on it.

First off, I didn't say he paid off his credit card full every month. I said he aggressively paid it off. This means payments far exceeding the minimum required. As a personal note, I believe that your situation has nothing to do with your credit rating, but the credit card company specifically. They don't extend your limit because there's no reason for you and the potential to make money is limited. The reason they gave you is quite simply bull****. They extended your sister's credit because they saw a potential to make money. Your sister's lack of fully paying off the credit card absolutely does not demonstrate that she is capable of paying off more, but it is making the credit card company more money and the fact that she was (presumably) able to make some payments made it less risky but particularly fruitful for them. The same thing happened to me with my credit card. For the first couple years I had a $1000 limit while I hardly used the thing, and the very first month I held a balance they upped it to $2000, and it slowly made its way up to $8500. It's only go up though, if I was close to the limit. The credit card companies report your payments (or lack of payments) to credit bureaus and are exceptionally diligent at doing so. This was explicitly told to my roommate for someone NOT working with the credit card company, but rather a financier at a bank (not even his bank, nor the one that the credit card company was through) when my roommate expressed his disbelief that he had good credit (since all he had ever used was a credit card). No offense, but since I was there with him when this was explained, I'll take their word for it. The funny thing was, when I had a full time job and decent income, I was routinely denied a credit card. When I became a student, and in my application up front stated I was a student and unemployed I was suddenly able to get a credit card. I was not getting student loans at this time either, so my source of funding was purely money I saved up. The credit card companies have some reason for setting up a whole load of kiosks during the first week of school enticing students to apply for credit cards and even ensuring application success. I'd be surprised if it was that they believed we were all capable of immediately paying off any credit card debt we may have incurred. Your credit rating is not correlated with your credit limit on your credit card. My credit rating is worse than my roommates, but I have twice the credit card limit than he does.

Their statement is still fine. They didn't say it was the first merging of the genres.

You aren't locked into a certain size or composition. (aside from the 4 person cap)

I can understand insurance (you're a risk), but the employment one surprises me.

He says his plan is to get a dual boot system.

Yes, while you're in camp (or after you leave camp with a different party member), you can level them up the way you see fit. It is pretty much exactly the same way they handled it with KOTOR and Mass Effect, if you're familiar with those games.