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So why are System Shock's limited? It's easily much more of a skill based system as well, as you are not bound by your choice (if you want your marine to develop psionic skills, have at it). Deus Ex also had a classless, skill based system. You could be MeleeMan, HackerMan, StealthMan, and such.

System Shock 2 let you select 3 classes. Naval Marine, Army Soldier, and Psi-Ops Psionic. What classes did Fallout let you be?

Aren't you one that does not consider System Shock 2 to not be a CRPG? I agree that your examples and definitions of "CRPGs" have more in common with TBS games than anything else. And this goes beyond just Silent Storm.

If the game is too easy, I get bored and any game I get bored at is not a CRPG to me. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As a parallel to this definition, any time I eat something, but do not enjoy it as much as I expected, it is no longer defined as food. <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I remember reading up about that format a while ago. I'm not sure what I think about it though. Pfft, they should just have every team make the playoffs. Have a 32 team format, 16 in each conference. But have the 1st place team have a bye for the first round, since there are only 15 teams in the league! :D

Alas I have no camera to take my own picture with. Otherwise: Tobey Maguire 80%

I think "laziness" might be a little unfair of a term. Making the levels larger in the PC version would have introduced the possibility of many additional bugs, plus it's not just like you can go "copy -> paste" to change them. You could argue it was "laziness" but I'd wager things such as money and scheduling would have more to do with it. I'm willing to bet Ion Storm wasn't just "sitting around" being lazy during the last few months of development.

Is it really getting out of hand? Isn't smoking on the decline (at least in North America)?

That's pretty optimistic for you, likely alot of games would never get made and then never be ported over to computer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It would depend of course on the level of investment, as well as how much additional investment it would take to make it work for the PC. If there's already been a huge financial investment, a release on the PC could be very viable, even if it just meant cutting their losses rather than making an actual profit.

I'd like it to get a kick in the teeth pretty much only because of Epiphany

When things started chugging

This is the impression that I had too.

She just said her eyes were virgin.

Heh, yes. You should have zero problems running the game with that rig. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I hope your right. My buddy has the same setup as me, except a 3.2 P4 and a 6800 GT... It's run alright for the most part, but some of the out door areas butcher his FPS (20!). I don't understand it either... Source runs like a dream, but this doesn't. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have an Athlon64 3500+, 1 GB of RAM, and a Radeon 9800 Pro. The only slowdowns I ever experienced were when the memory leak caught up to my memory. Quickly exit and restart the game though fixes this. Mind you, I'm not one of those people that just HAS to have 1600x1200 w 12xAF and 8xAA or anything like that. EDIT: And yes, the Mac-10 equivalent does suck. But having skill 10 (max) with the Kill-o-matic (the Uzi) is just hilarious has you have pinpoint accuracy at full auto. Good times good times.

Just jump into a tank and drive around shooting stuff....it's what I do On a side note, what's the expansion like? It sounds neat!

I was thinking the same thing about the Bruins. Kudos to them for fighting back as well.

Heh, yes. You should have zero problems running the game with that rig.

What would make you say that? I've only seen his two threads, regarding MMOs and this one.

Hey, they always had good waffles. *munch munch munch* <{POST_SNAPBACK}> as well as the best beer and chocolate in the world + we invented fries! damned americans just figured "French" sounded better than "Belgian" <_< <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Perhaps they were just referring to the language??

Sorry, I don't think he's Jodo.

It's just a single player RPG. It does have hefty system requirements, but despite some bugs I really enjoyed the game experience.

Err, surely you mean "let's hope he is an absolute, unabashed bust, that the flames do not realize until he has numerous giveaways that result in losses against the Oilers!

The thing I didn't like about the NW MMO was that there was an insufficient amount of slots for the amount of players.

Don't cross the streams!!

Spaceballs! I would imagine the "balance" IS the lightside. Being all peaceful and serene and non-confrontational and all. The darkside is a horrid blemish!