alanschu

He's finally accepted that it's a CRPG "

Fair enough, the dialogues and plot could be done either way. I suppose you could argue that that is the most important thing. Though that doesn't make things much better when looking at the situation. I wouldn't say that Morrowind nor KOTOR were shining examples of story elements and dialogue. And I agree, PC RPGs have been lacking in their complexity and whatnot lately as well.

Yeah, that one was the biggest what if. He did answer it with just a "yeah" and if Erwick had his mind elsewhere, it's probably not too big of a stretch to assume that he didn't think much about it. He was obviously expecting Rossler to pick it up. It's the biggest concern I had this season as well. But isn't wholly unreasonable IMO. It isn't like they had a full on conversation

Hehehe, I had noticed that too.

*taps foot eagerly in anticipation*

Yeah, I'm not sure what the name is. I'm fairly certain it was just made up though. I guess Syntox works as well I think it'd be risky to use VX, especially in the manner that they are using it in, as VX was used in The Rock, so some people would already have some sort of idea on how it works.

I don't recall it being called VX gas, but rather Sentox. If it IS VX gas, then the mask is irrelevant and is no more cheesy than him thinking the mask will work. Considering casualties are limited to probably around 10, it's clear that an exceptionally small amount of the gas is actually in the area. Especially if it's VX (which I don't recall it ever being said it is). Logan's character is inconsistent because he is inconsistent. It's the whole point of his character. I learned this by watching him "deal" with the situation in the previous season.

It's one thing to express your opinion. It's another to continuously regurgitate it in a discussion about the game. Hades has repeatedly made simple "I hate Diablo" posts whenever the game comes up. Often times it's not because someone is saying that Diablo is the pinnacle of computer gaming, but just a discussion about the game. It would be more akin to me coming in and saying how I feel AD&D AC is less intuitive than 3rd edition, in response to someone merely commenting on AC.

How much of a speed boost do the Raptor's give?

I think it's a testament to just how little he played the game.

Ah, so you're finally admitting that Diablo is a CRPG? Good for you.

What if it's evolving "

If the hardware is inadequate for a complex RPG environment, how do you make it more attractive to the console gamer? It could be the best game in the world, but if the controls are awkward, it's not going to be an attractive option. IMO, someone is going to have to gamble with a default controller type that makes these game experiences more possible. I'm don't have a huge amount of ideas regarding it though, because I don't really think it will happen....no matter how much I want it to. I think that the Catch-22 has stymied it, and will continue to. The other alternative is for the XBOX 360 to perform really, really well. Even though I found them to still be "simple" RPG games, KOTOR and Morrowind have demonstrated that perhaps we can make a push in through there. But in my opinion, games such as Jade Empire seem to indicate that occidental RPGs are the ones adapting to make themselves work in a console environment. In the end, I doubt the game type that you or I want (the Torment/Fallout type experience) is what the end result will be. Except I had mentioned that, in my opinion, your solution is a weak situation at best. You talked about a squad-based strategy RPG hybrid working. The thing is, that will still require an acceptable control scheme for it to be popular, which will only reinforce that the current control scheme is working. In the end, I don't think it makes much progress at all with respect to getting occidental RPGs on the consoles. At best, it serves to continue to redefine occidental RPGs in the not so positive trend they've been going down. Creating the controller is not the problem. It's getting the controller on the market. And that step has to come first. Creating it is easy. But tons of neat ideas get created in the world. They don't mean anything if it's not economically viable to implement them. Also: If there is sufficient demand for a product, that product will be made And it comes down to developers breaking into the market by creating console RPGs that console gamers would play..That is their job and my hope is that they will be successful It's the catch-22. Which is why, IMO, the market for console occidental RPGs is ****ed. I don't see games such as Oblivion really helping things out that much, and I wonder how well a game such as KOTOR would have done if it didn't have an exceptionally popular license behind it. It's clear we have have a difference in how things are going. I don't see creating RPG-lite games as providing anything more than RPG-lite demand.

I don't really understand it either. The picture is from a movie called Full Metal Jacket where the Drill Sergeant flips out when he finds a donut in someone's foot locker.

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A donut:

If you don't like the show any more, stop watching it. Furthermore, it sounds like the Nerve Gas used in the show (Sentox) is actually made up, so they can have it do whatever they want it to do. As for how you save someone that has breathed in nerve gas, you inject her with atropine, which is exactly what they did. And also what YOUR link to Wiki mentioned as a cure The whole 24 series has always been a stretch. Clearly this is a type of nerve gas that needs to be inhaled to be deadly. Given that 99.9% of the people in the world have no idea what most nerve gases are actually like, it's a moot point. Furthermore, there's no indication that Jack was not holding his breath when he took the mask off. As for the President bouncing around on his decisions.....welcome to Logan. The whole point that went over your head is that he is a piss poor leader, and doesn't want to make the big decisions. He tried to pass the decisions off on to CTU for the nerve gas release, and he screams about any bad thing that might go wrong. He is a crap president, who cares more about his legacy and presidency and really isn't fit to run the country. The only reason why he became president is because the other one was incapacitated in the previous season. To reiterate, Logan is making moronic decisions because he is a moron.

I tend to be a big fan of hard drive quantity.....are the Raptor's really that much faster to warrant picking up something that is sub 100GB for more money than a 250 GB SATA I can pick up?

Alanschu, you are not rebutting my points at all, you are merely repeating them from slightly different angles and re-stating the obvious. Which is fine, that is if you have a lot of time on your hands. Circular logic, if you will...And for that I grant you the title of... *drum roll please* <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Interesting...you call me captain obvious when I had already repeatedly called you that in this "discussion." The reason why I'm not rebutting your points is because you aren't making any. You're just talking about this magical utopia where suddenly your game genre of choice survives. You haven't bothered to explain why or how this will happen, and when people mention possible obstacles, such as hardware, you claim that hardware will just take care of itself. As such, you come off has having a gross misunderstanding of the way industry works. It seems you've casted the magical "lalalala" spell because when people try to address issues and obstacles to what you would like, you simply proclaim that the issues or either insignificant (with no real reason), or that they don't fall under your unique classification of "issues." Don't call me "captain obvious" when you were the one making a claim that if occidental RPGs had more market penetration, they could become more popular. The circular logic parts of my posts was when I was trying to figure out what you were doing, and reiterating how you were the one using circular logic.

The D&D armor abstracts DR into it as well as far as I'm concerned. Your Fallout example should be convincing enough, as the heavier equipment still improves your AC.

I didn't follow the game too closely until I played the demo. Are you referring to the name change Eldar?

No. SWG proved that SW mmo's suck. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm less inclined to make such conclusions based on such a small sample size. If there was a Star Wars MMO that really appealed to me, I'd probably get it. I wonder if they'd be better served focusing on the space aspect of the universe personally, and make an MMO more like Eve.

That certainly was...bizarre.

Heh, I didn't read so much into the game that there was a political agenda.

Ummm.. says who? There are many other games that consumers could have purchased on the Xbox. If an XBOX owner wanted to play an RPG, what selection did they really have to choose from? I didn't mean pump games senselessly without any regard to the size of the target market or financial resources. As the demand for console occidental RPGS, pump more and more games to keep up with the growing market. JRPGS pump tons a games out and their companies seem to be doing just fine. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is assuming the magical "market growth." I mean, I could say if suddenly adventure games had huge growth in market share, we could start pumping them out. My post (that you were replying to) made no indication about an increase in market share, and basically stated that suddenly increasing the amount of occidental RPGs into the market could hurt it, to which you replied "start pumping away." JRPG developers pump out tons of games because it's what the people want. If the people wanted occidental RPGs, then they'd be making them. And I'm not buying that it's because there is a lack of occidental RPG games. You said yourself that Sega had plenty on their genesis. If those games were successful, we'd still get them on the consoles today.