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A Scandinavian final?

That wouldn't make them "forum visitors" at all. More like forum family

Salo was a pretty good goalie before his Olympic experience too " Oh please oh please oh please

That's what I mentioned "personnel history."

When you go around accusing people of supporting the development of "crap" software, yes. When your posts give the impression that all PC games are buggy crap, yes. What did you expect? You're on a board of a company with a personnel history of quality PC games, and when you slag on PC gaming someone decides to defend their platform of choice.

You had no problems playing an elemental Druid.

Hmmm....what do you mean by "favours tactical gameplay?"

But you are the one that making the point about how you buy zero PC games because of experiences with broken games. Don't be self-righteous. You make the same elitist position in the skill-based vs class based thread, where you made the assertion that people would be stupid enough to pick the same skills as other people in their group to the point where everyone was the same, and that they have to be forced to pick different skills in order to be different. You have no more faith in human intelligence than I do. And besides, you have pretty much said they all need patches. Especially with your insistence that I only buy games if they have a patch (despite numerous clarifications). It may not be the way you're intending, but when you make extreme absolute decisions such as never playing a PC game again, what do you expect? The only reason why you'd take such an absolute policy is if you felt the problem was excessive. When people take absolute responses, people will read more into those responses. @Darque I italicized "require" for a reason. Recent games that I finished without needing a patch, just looking under my computer at my stack of games: Silent Hunter 3 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Call of Duty 2 Rome: Total War Half-Life 2 Empire at War Civ 4 Well, those are the game cases I have found anyways. I was tempted to put Bloodlines, because I did finish that without a patch, but I know that there were problems with that game. This is true. Besides, IGN felt it prudent to open up this section on their website: http://cheats.ign.com/index/bug.html Bug free games already don't exist. XBOX games can be updated, and I'd be surprised if PS3 owners were no longer excluded, in spite of the HD being optional.

Not sure. I can't recall many instances where dead people had sex with each other...at least enough so to warrant a title.

Nothing stops you from incorporating the same principles when making your character in KOTOR as well. You were the one that started talking about how it was "gimping" your character. It's gimping as much as taking an Elemental Druid is over anything else. This, combined with other (some long ago) threads, makes me think you just aren't a fan of making a choice, or at least when presented with one, are incapable of picking something other than what you think is the best. You've made this distinction in the class based vs skill based thread as well. I'd rather keep my character creation as open ended as possible, rather than supporting lazy ideas such as having characters follow preset paths. I'd much rather the effort go into making the force powers more useful and applicable, rather than imposing artificial restrictions.

If you can't see it, then you're a daft man. VERY FEW PC GAMES ARE BROKEN AND REQUIRE PATCHING You make it sound like they all need patches. I criticize you because you make fallicious claims about the entire PC gaming industry. Why didn't you just buy it right away? Oh wait, you were checking to see if it's a good game. Yes, three. Do you have any idea how common those "crashes" were. It was still easy to play the game from start to finish without the patch, which is in your own words what constitutes "crap."

I'd rather it be good, so that we can all have fun playing it.

I did notice some mistakes. Like the Bone Spider being a Large Construct, and the Iron Golem being a Medium Undead. They're likely just going over it with a comb to make sure little things like that aren't present.

I don't think the bite marks were present at all. Meh, I didn't think it was silly. Who knows how fast those marks heal up once you've been sired.

I don't think Diablo 2 is a very good example (I assume you mean Diablo 2 and not Diablo 1) for distinct templates. How many people actually play Elemental Druids. And the last time I played Hammerdins were coming out of the woodwork. In Hardcore it gets even worse, with every sorceress being cold spec. Barbs were all frenzy barbs. There was no such thing as an assassin. It was much worse to find out that by the time you got to hell, no one wanted to party with you because you were a fire sorceress. Though I guess Barbarians won't ever get to cast spells (though that wasn't the case in the original Diablo). There's no overlap between classes, but is it really much better when everybody of a particular class is a carbon copy of each other?

The patches in WoW aren't "fix game stopping bugs" patches. Many of them are content patches, that actually add something new to the game (which is appreciated given the monthly subscription fee). Given the nature of the game (i.e. millions of people playing it), other patches have been introduced to address exploits that have been discovered, or other subtle balancing issues. So I'm not sure how your friend could have sold you off of it because of patching, unless he was confusing "Hey, there's new stuff in my game" for "OMG they finally added the bugged stuff that was 'missing' from the game" or some other nonsense. Unless he's one of those people that had fun manipulating an exploit to his advantage. And while there may be many patches (actually there really haven't been that many), many of them are tiny, as in smaller than 1 MB. They don't come out with a new 600 MB content patch every day of the week. And even then, it's when those 600 MB content patches come out that make me pick up the game again, since it's something new and usually fun.

I'm not being an apologist. I find your accusations absurd, as you take a small amount of PC games and then say the entire industry requires patches. Most PC games do not have game stopping bugs. The only "fault" here is that you were gullible with respect to Bloodlines. I mean, what the hell were you expecting from a company that had only had buggy releases in all of its previous games. And you use this to stereotype the entire catalog of games. Genius! As for being an apologist, I have already pointed out that I have acknowledge issues of patching (and cost and almost everything else) in PC vs console. The only reason why I'm adamant about yours is because this is a public forum, and your bitterness is spreading misinformation. Someone else might look at your posts and think that PC games all require patches, and all have gamestopping bugs. Not sure how. You've already talked up your game buying habits, while at the same time talk about replaying your old games, yet spend most of your time not playing video games and hanging out with friends. You should get some sleep. Maintenance teams are already getting better. Though you'll likely knock it, Empire at War had a patch out pretty much the day it was released. As for the "hassle," the autopatcher quickly downloads it and automatically installs it. You couldn't even miss it as the game mentions the new patch automatically when you load the game. Having said that, the game wasn't broken upon release, as I was able to beat the game without the patch. The reason why I didn't have the patch at first was because the demo didn't answer all of my questions with respect to how the galactic conquest worked, so I found a pirated copy. I liked it so I bought it. When looking into it, there were some final tweaks and some issues for multiplayer that were missed. But I guess it's a bad thing that they supported their product so well. Too bad you'll never play the game, it's actually pretty fun. I guess I should clarify (again!). I don't wait for patches for all games. Civ4, Half-Life 2, even KOTOR 2 were all bought almost immediately after (Half-Life 2 the day of). I get through the vast majority of my games without any problems, even if I haven't waited for a patch. When it comes to games like Bloodlines though, I exercised patience given Troika's track record. Though I ended up getting the game for Christmas and played it prepatch anyways. If it's a lesser known title, from a developer I am not familiar with, I typically wait. And not necessarily just for a patch, but to see if people think the game is any good. Don't get too comfortable. Patches already exist for the XBOX, and with the PS3 getting HD support, it's going to be possible on that platform as well. I guess you can find solace in the fact that the HD will likely be optional. Though hopefully that still won't stop the devs from releasing a patch for some buggy games like Warrior Within.

No need validating it when I had already understood your point. In any case, I'd rather not support lazy development to the point where they just create predetermined level paths for our characters. I'd much rather they continue to give us the choice, and just make more appropriate force powers, or at least situations for them. It still doesn't change the fact that overlap is easy to avoid, and it does not gimp your characters. Given the insane power of the PC anyways there's not much you can do to gimp him.

As in someone flipped the switch prematurely. Atari can do whatever they want though. It's their game. I don't recall any official announcements that the page was active anyways.

I found a ton of old news clippings about suspected ice on the moon. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_moon.html http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID...4A8809EC588EEDF http://whyfiles.org/060moons/ourmoon.html Though this more recent article is more skeptical. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4378

Is he trying to say that Obsidian copied Bioware's game design or something?

When did I say otherwise. Read what you quoted: I choose to not kill random respawns just for the hell of it. If you were finishing around level 36 every game, well, I'd figure you're lying. I can't possibly see how I missed 260,000 experience in the game when the only quests I had remaining were the broken ones. Not only that, but missed it multiple times (played through the game 4 times, only once exploiting hssiss). What secret level did you find?

The gold that you get demolishes any money you'd make from goods anyways. Besides, the best way to ever get the Treasure Fleet or the Silver Train was always in town, since you could get ALL the ships at the same time. I only ever raided them when they were in town. I never noticed any difference in goods when the silver train/treasure fleet was in town. Not sure why it would be anyways. Selling the goods would also be a nightmare anyways, as you'd have to go from port to port selling a handful at a time since the merchants rarely had much money on them.

Bizarre!

It does occur only if you want it to occur. Then that's a fault of the force power selection. I'd rather NOT be restricted in how I develop my characters. Furthermore, not overlapping your characters does not gimp them in KOTOR 2 anyways. I don't have to "take steps" to avoid overlapping anymore than you have to "take step" in order to overlap. I exploited the Hssiss bug to hit level 28 at an earlier point of the game. When I finished at level 28, it was without a Hssiss exploit.