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Then video game RPGs probably aren't for you.

Doomsday. Poland just fell. Von Rundstedt became and Urban Warfare specialist after the assault on Warsaw. Preparing to crunch France.....they don't stand a chance

Really? I could have sworn I found spells in those schools to cast to improve my skill in them.

I think this has a lot to do with nostalgia. While playing it, you are reminded of the fun you had when first playing it. As an anecdote, I have no problems playing the "great" games of the NES days, as long as I had played them before. Other "great" games (like the original Zelda) that I hadn't played, I just cannot get past the generation gap. No problems playing A Link to the Past though, which I played growing up.

Just finished watching Days of Thunder. I laugh at people that think that is what NASCAR is all about.

It's still the anniversary of D-Day. The day's been taken in my opinion. Next

I know the idea behind tangent timelines, and I know what you were saying. Something caused you to form this opinion (and other people, since I didn't hear it first from you). I made the exact same rationalization when accounting for paradoxes while watching Terminator 2. But I was 12 and just pulling stuff out of my behind. I am very interested in the idea behind time travel, but some of the relativity courses I have taken lead me to believe that the only way you can "time travel" is by exploiting time dilation...and that only takes you forward. I eagerly await the links.

This is a thread about a game that doesn't exist. Not surprisingly, like other threads this thread evolved. It moved to a discussion about games made for both PC and console, and Oblivion is a recent example. People made a reference to it, citing the interface as an example of why console games and PC games made together are a bad idea. I feel the interface for the PC version of Oblivion is fine, and you chimed in stating you had no intention of buying the game. If anyone went "off topic," it was you, as we weren't interested in whether or not you were planning on buying the game.

I disagree. I felt the ending made perfect sense.

Then why comment?

I guess I'm one of the few that finds Oblivion's interface straight-forward enough to use.

I ask because Fallout's "ending" can be viewed in different ways. You mention HotU and JE (which I haven't played), but TOB also gave a "recap" of your characters as well. Though, you could still simplify it to only really having two choices: Join Mutants, Don't join Mutants. In the end, all the other stuff is just a recap (which is nice), but could also be done in other games as well, including Torment. Because of little deviations like that though, a game like Star Ocean 2 can claim over 80 different endings, even though the way you play through the game is relatively static.

You mentioned Fallout as being the apex. Why?

What are the endings of the Baldur's Gate series?

Do you by any chance have a link. Doing a search for "Parallel Universe Theory" on Google resulted in no academic sources, and just references to Fred Alan Wolf, whom after What the Bleep Do We Know left me somewhat skeptical about his research. Even then, it was just talk about Parallel Universes, not tangent timelines.

Tangent to what? This would imply that if you went back in time, you were actually altering a tangent timeline, rather the original timeline you were in.

Creating quite the paradox.

Not that it looks bad, but I don't think the graphics of Guild Wars are all that impressive that it's surprising it has good performance.

Winner! I see you have a low post count, so in case you are not familiar, Volourn would be the resident troll. Welcome to the gongshow forum.

What??

As, I'd say, MOST PCs in video games are. Maybe JRPG games have changed recently, but they certainly never had "many" outcomes that could be changed. Though I haven't played one for quite some time.

No need for the insult.

Yet no way to really express those characters in the game. It's still much more free than many other RPGs. Pretty much all of the JRPGs are a write off in comparison, but there isn't too many on the CRPG side that let you go off and express yourself in your own way either. I don't consider choosing different aesthetics of your character to be "making my own character" either. Just choosing different variations that the developer provided for me. Which is the classic limitation of CRPG games.

This reminds of of the people that hated Howard Stern when he first came on the air.

Oh, I think someone needs to quit obsessing over Jefferson " I kind of hope it does come out, and is absolutely horrible.