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THat's probably the point I remember reading about it in a PC Gamer, but I don't remember the details.

I never played it. I did play Super Star Wars though.

The suspense of waiting in Fallout was, quite literally, killing me. It looks like the poll question, and the thread title, conflict.

They did have interesting ideas. But the thing is, I agree with Volourn that often times the bugs weren't "minor." Having said that, I loved Bloodlines and it sounds like I got lucky. I did hit one gamestopping bug at the end, but fortunately I enjoyed the game enough I actually didn't mind restarting the game.

There's something phisiologically different about them, that lets them process something (Adam I think it is called) that the others need to survive. Unfortunately for them, only the little sisters are able to process it. Biological experiments gone wrong!

Kinky. If only those new emoticons were available!

Eric Lindros and Owen Nolan better be able to score against junior and minor league hockey players.

You seem surprised by this. I've seen screenshots and concept art for quite a while that depicted the "Big Daddys" as people inside the old deep sea diving suit. As an aside, the fact that they can walk around out of water in them is actually a remarkable feat of strength.

Here come the IQ statements again...

Meh, I continue with my ninja abilities. Though I have hit level 25 in restoration. I am about 20 in Illusion I think too.

Certainly all combat systems are different. I thought Dungeon Siege was pretty boring myself. To eahc their own, I suppose. I don't understand this concept of "waiting as a flaw" or whatever some of you seem to be saying. In a game of turns, you wait your turn. Its not a flaw; its the rule. Or a rule anyway. If you don't like the rules of the game, it doesn't mean the game is flawed. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The wait when fighting the regulators was nearly unbearable. What should have been an exciting part of the game had me not playing the game for 3-4 minute intervals at a time.

Looking forward to this one. I can't watch the video at work though, and I don't have internet at home until tomorrow.

Speechcraft is a pointless skill. Level 25 Illusion allows you to make a +100 point charm spell on a 5 second timer. Disposition is automatically 100 when you use it. The game wasn't balanced. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe Illusion is just overpowered!

Hmmmm. That is VERY surprising. Most people still have those annoying things like lives and responsibilities that get in the way of doing stuff for free. Too bad it's hard to verify without some sort of official source.

That link doesn't seem to be commenting on the latest Bloodlines patch being made for free.

I thought Atton's conversion, especially as darkside, was the best conversion out of all the people you can make a jedi.

You think either Carth or Atton is the most popular Star Wars character?

Well, raising your speechcraft will let you raise your personality, which as far as I can tell, gives you a higher threshold for the rating of someone. Much of the dialogue options are related to how well a person's disposition to you is. I'm noticing that now with my recent playthrough as I didn't make speechcraft a class skill (mostly because I recognize how pointless it is, and how easy it was to level up).

I believe they had already significantly downsized. IIRC they officially closed up shop once the patch came out.

I'm not making any suppositions about the reasons behind them "sitting" on the game. Just the fact that it's possible that there was little to no actual work being done on the project. As for having "nothing to do," I'm not so convinced, given the game wasn't released in pristine condition. I never implied that they actively decided to stop working on it, despite being able to work on it.

Well, Mercantile is still "useful." It just levels up so slow that it essentially has no point.

I wouldn't have picked you to be the type to have FEAR.

Hahaha. Whatever, keeps you busy I guess. In both Windows 98 and Windows XP, I was slow to make the transition myself. I used Windows 95 at least until Windows 98 SE came out (since i never used non second edition win98). And I know I had Windows 98 SE still installed when I moved into the city just over 3 years ago, so that'd put me into 2003. Once I started having issues with Win98 not really being supported, whether it be via drivers or applications, is when I made the transition.

That's the one.

Germany didn't lose because of a second front in WWI. They lost because they didn't have enough people to be soldiers, as it was a war of attrition. (Not to mention that yet again, the RN reigned supreme). I'd wager that Germany was doomed from the beginning, and if Russia hadn't even been involved, they'd still have lost the war. The Russians gave a laughable challenge as the Germans smacked them around. They were out of the war for over a year before Germany surrendered. But it's tough to match up with the manpower of France, UK, Canada, and eventually the US. This realization is what resulted in the doctrinal shift to blitzkrieg that the Germans employed in WW2. They needed to win decisively otherwise they'd lose. Which ultimately happened again on the Eastern Front in WW2. As for your statement, I still disagree. I find I would study about the history, and as a result of my studies of history, I'd look into geography. People can learn a lot about the history of World War 2, without knowing precisely where any of the countries are. But once you start hearing about the encirclment of the Maginot Line and the initial U-Boat campaign in the North Sea, if you're interested you'll look that stuff up. The history of Brunei is rather inconsequential in the world of international history. But if I wanted to look up the history of it, I'd probably be more interested in learning about it's geographical location. Not knowing the geographical location of Botswana prior to this thread, does not hinder me learning about Botswana. I'll learn about it in the context of geography as I learn about the country itself. I'm not going to commit all the countries in the world (and in particularly their geographical locations) to memory, as it doesn't serve any purpose. If there's a situation that arises (such as the war in Afghanistan), I can learn about the details of Afghanistan's geographical qualities when I study it. Prior to the war I had a vague idea where it was, but that certainly hasn't stopped me from learning about it now. I agree with the concept that learning about the history is going to be hard if you actively decided to not learn about the geography. But if someone had virtually no knowledge of Africa's geography and became interested in the crisis of Rwanda in 1994, then they'll probably look into the geography (among other things). Have you been keeping up with the latest historical dealings in Federated States of Micronesia? Better yet, had you actually heard of the country before I mentioned it just now?