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I also fail to see how Fallout, a game Rhomal used as support for good RPG games, are a reflection of the evolution that he wants in RPGs like Baldur's Gate. I fail to see the RTS/FPS influences in Fallout.

www.gameplay.co.uk told me that they do ship to Canada (and I assume the US), but it's a 4.95 pound delivery charge. I told them I didn't care :D

Considering the assload of songs you can still fit on 4 GB. You could do a full install of Baldur's Gate on that thing!

Reminds me of the Madness series. Very entertaining.

Ok, I just read your entire article (enjoy the free hit), and you still contradict yourself. You cry out for game developers to adapt and chastize those that don't. But then criticize those that adapt.

Linky linky?

Its called fostering discussion and perhaps some interesting/productive debate. [sarcasm] I can see by the recent threads on these forums that such really isnt needed, what was I thinking? Certainly Obsidian was foolish to want to shut these forums down with all the high brow and reasoned discussion. [/sarcasm] I will refrain from posting such in the future, as apparently you people perfer posting comical images and laughing like oblivious teenagers and hurling insults over anything else. My bad. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Still curious what the verdict is on all those Gold Box games that were D&D hackfests prior to all the RTS/FPS games becoming legendary? I think you've deluded yourself into thinking things are different. The old school Sir Tech games were combat heavy as well.

A favourite of mine: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=15849

Editted. Sorry.

Only if you get the Hintbook bundle though. Each game on its own is only $25 however.

Your loss then. It's THE CRPG experience you have been waiting for. And it's a long game to boot. Riiiiiiiiiiight. How's the "1 hour of gameplay for every dollar" idea of game value holding up?

There was no point to read your article because the stuff spouted in the abstract that you presented didn't make any sense. What fantasy world are you living in where games like the Gold Box games didn't exist? Earlier Sir Tech games (and Ultima games and so on) were all heavily combat based. The Gold Box games were power gamer's dreams. I don't recall Eye of the Beholder really being that quality in terms of the storyline. EDIT: My bad.

I'd give you that....if games when Fallout came out all had voice acting. Fallout 1 voiced Tandi, and upon meeting her father or her you would not have known she was an important character (Fallout 1, not Fallout 2). It's a moot discussion anyways, as we don't know what BIS/Interplay would have done if they could have afforded the voice all the lines. Sin City's is artistic because all movies are in colour now. How many would have lauded it's artistic sense if it was going up beside the very first movies that had full colour and the wow factor of the full colour? Wizard of Oz milked this like crazy, starting the movie in black and white, and then going BAM, look at all the beautiful colours. Fallout's voice acting was cool, but imagine your reaction if every line in the game was spoken. To say that you wouldn't care is bogus based on hindsight IMO. Furthermore, since you like to state that developers give secondary characters voices so that you can hear what they sound like, then Baldur's Gate has the same thing. When you initiate conversation with every character they make some sort of audible noise...it's just that their lines of dialogue aren't spoken. You still know what they sound like. But imagine how alive the world would be if every person was voiced in quality....

I usually play on Prince or Warlord, and have been able to wear down armies... At least I'm pretty sure I did, it's been a while since I played.

I think a thing about even if a marijuana joint has 3 times the tar, I don't know of any potheads that smoke 1-2 packs of marijuana a day

Just don't count on Marius for any stellar defensive contributions. Oiler fan speaking from experience

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Unfortunately, I cannot partake in any more fun this evening. Stupid school and "responsibility." Good night all.

When I last posted in this thread I think Darque was congratulating me for hitting 200 posts in a single 24 hours timespan. It was in the aftermath of the great mod party when no mods were in sight. Surprised Fionavar didn't come in and binary code this one up.

Haha, I was just about to post this! Here's a link if you want to see the latest Trailer (Trailer #4). I liked the new trailer, and am probably gonna import this game (I want my DVD and don't care for censorship).

I was a total power gamer when I played through my Baldur's Gate titles. I got a good roll as a Paladin, and was able to put 18 in all my stats except for Intelligence, which I had to drop down to three. But hey, it didn't matter for a Paladin right? With all the Tome's, my Paladin was rock on powerful going into Baldur's Gate 2. Although the crap intelligence made the "Maze" spell particularly bad for me, as it took my PC (and most powerful character) out of combat for like 12 rounds or something goofy because he was too stupid to negotiate the maze. Was less annoying than "Imprisonment" though. Ugh.

I find there's less hard feelings for Weight. It's like we all wanted him to get more money because he deserved it, but we just couldn't give it to him.

I was not a big Tennis fan either. But I was a basketball fan, and they'd always have Tennis commercials on during the NBC telecasts for the major events, and I'd always see "Pete Sampras goes for another major" or something like that. I had respect for Pete because he seemed very good at his sport, and winning his last U.S. Open made me happy for him after age had caught up with him and he wasn't performing as well as he had in the past.