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We didn't know that at the time.

Not really. Nines repeated over, and over, and over, that there was no point in trying to fight a werewolf. I thought he made it quite clear it was pretty much an exercise in futility. When I saw the zeroes shooting up when I shot the werewolf, I realized what Nines was talking about. It wasn't really all that big of a surprise.

Especially when one stated he was drinking at 10 am in the morning earlier that day as well. Whiskey at that.

I suspect he's unhappy because some people voted poorly on his hot or not picture.

No. Because I don't know why Tavion's body would slow him down. As for Sidious' power....let me write a book. There will be no mistaking he's more powerful.

Well, I figured you yourself were trolling when you did it. So I figured I'd play along.

I had fun doing it. One of the most interesting parts of the game. A big game of cat and mouse, resulting in the destruction of an observatory, as you waited anxiously for the Gondola to come up. It's too bad you couldn't see it that way.

You must enjoy lying since you do it so much. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Were you just stoking the fire with this comment?

It didn't break the consistency of the game, because you don't fight many werewolves. In fact, it's the only one you encounter. If you bumped into other werewolves, and they weren't invincible, then you would have a case. Fun is fun. And the werewolf was fun. It was something different, which is refreshing in a long game as they typically tend to get repetitive (and by that time, Bloodlines was starting to get pretty repetitive with its hack and slash).

You certainly have custom character creation. It's too bad out of all the CRPGs in the world, Gothic is the only one he doesn't like.

I emphatically disagree. Fun is fun. Given the situation with the werewolf, it would have been much less exhilirating if I could just blast it with my current weapons and kill it. Whoop-dee-doo, good thing they sent me up there to meet Nines, time to head back down the mountain. The werewolf part is one of the few times in a game where I actually felt a bit of adrenaline flowing, as he smashed down walls chasing me, ambushing me when I thought I may have lost him. If a story writer can manipulate the arbitrary rules of a fictional universe to result in something that is actually more fun than if the the same situation stuck religiously to the rules, then I say go for it. The werewolf scene was one of the coolest parts of Bloodlines as far as I'm concerned. A break from the rest of the game.

Unfortunately, the original System Shock also sold about 12 copies. The only reason I ever heard of it was because System Shock 2 came out. Even Warren Spector admits he had a tough time promoting it. When he was first showing it off, Warcraft and Command & Conquer (when RTS games were fresh and new) were also out on display. He admits to wanting to leave his own booth to check them out. In addition to having to go up against, Doom and Doom II, it also had the upcoming Dark Forces to worry about. I could see Dark Forces maybe having a bit more of an impact on Half-Life's development, but I didn't follow Half-Life's development so I don't know what games it was compared to.

Oooo Ooo. It's not falsifiable!!

1. What is your age? 25 2. What is your favorite color? Blue 3. List some interests. Computers, gaming, hockey, basketball, software design/programming, sleeping, eating, breathing, blinking. 4. What kind of music do you like? Rock and Alternative Rock. I can listen to pretty much anything, except for rap music. Pop is on thin ice. 5. What genre of movies do you like? Pretty much any movie. If it's good, I like it. If it's bad, as long as it recognizes it's bad and doesn't take itself too seriously, I also like it. 6. What genre of video games do you like? RPG, FPS, TBS, RTS, OPP, BMW, GTO, IBM, GTA, TBA, and Adventure. 7. What quality do you most admire in a person? Honesty 8. What quality do you least admire in a person? Melodramatic 9. Do you think of yourself as a negative or posative person? Definitely a positive person. I still think DNF will eventually be released.

And you wonder why it keeps getting brought up. We all know you can't resist posting something you have already posted hundreds of times before. We might as well have some fun with it.

To each his (or her) own. Fun trumped the XP in my case.

If you'd like, I could ask Rob. Though I probably won't see him for a week or so.

Removing salt from water is a pretty common process.

When I said "that sort of news" I was referring to the technology news they announced. I figured you were referring to their coverage of the dude with the water engine since that's the Fox News segment this thread was talking about.

In later playthroughs I preferred playing cat and mouse and running around. He's too easy to kill IMO.

So the idea that someone may have actually made something that effectively uses water as a fuel source is completely dismissed because it was on an American news station?

Well, I didn't have any problems when he came knocking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_2 I have no idea if these are up to date though.

I would have thought you'd be happy with that sort of news?

I keep a melee weapon handy (and bound to '1' on the keyboard) for the situations where the creatures move too quickly (like those heads on feet guys in the sewers). Once they get close, they are harder to shoot (since they run around), and that's when I'll use a melee weapon.