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I have no idea when they go on sale, outside of the September 17th for October games. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the 17th, give or take a few days, for the next month all the time. Meh.

It's a pretty good series. Maybe it might satisfy those that want a more "real" "CRPG" experience? Surely it's cheap enough that Hades will find it a good value.

Props!

I knew he played for the devils I think I was actually thinking of Bill Guerin, who we did get from the Devils.

Gromnir failed to take the first shot on Swordfish. Or did he?

We got Smith from New Jersey. I think he even won a ring there, though I'm not sure if he was on the active roster or not.

Just curious, with respect to the graphics discussion, how many of you have played Geneforge?

How so? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, the very title of the thread is basically telling twitch gamers to stop messing with your CRPGs. This immediately gives the impression that you are unhappy with the current changes to the CRPG market to have more twitch like qualities, whether or not that was your intention. But then you criticize Sir Tech for not adapting, while at the same time criticize SSI for trying to adapt. Given what I thought you were talking about from the title, the the way your post went, I had a hard time figuring out what your point was. Maybe if I had clicked on the link and finished reading it would have made more sense, but what you posted here didn't seem to make much sense.

Corruption gets pretty intense. Here's hoping Civ 4 r0x0rs the kazbah though. Sounds promising.

Somebody should notify the people that made the Best Selling Games Wiki. Somehow I doubt Planescape: Torment selling more than the original quake. Otherwise we'd have Planescape: Torment 2 and Planescape: Torment Arena as well.

I didn't know much about Datsyuk, but this certainly doesn't move him up my list of favourite players.

Which was just a clarification from my "I don't think anyone should be denied care" post. I never thought it wasn't clear to begin with, but whatever. I do think it's unfortunate that you think it's fine to deny the fellow service however.

I actually never really got to play Civ II as I was a kid and couldn't afford it I did play the crap out of the demo I had though I did really enjoy the original though, even if I did hate the fact that the sailors in the tririemes for the CPU were miracle rowers. I could have sworn that the AI still received extra units and whatnot on higher difficulty levels in the original Civ however. I certainly don't remember it being tactically smarter, just that when it attacked it somehow had 400 unirts in 20 turns! :D

I did ask if it was legal, given all the discussion about whether or not someone could be "left on the road" if he didn't have insurance. I knew that the guy was hypothetical, I was just confirming whether or not it was in fact illegal to do so.

There was nothing to discuss. In fact it sounds like you contradict yourself at times in your rant.

I never said this happens. It was stated in this thread, as part of a discussion that you were taking part of. Not as something that happens, but as an idea. In fact, it was you that mentioned the idea. I'm sure it was an exaggeration, but I was putting in my two cents.

Emergency medical treatment is what I was talking about. I bring it up since people were discussing checking someone's insurance after a bad car crash and "leaving them on the side of the road" if they didn't have insurance.

Were you hoping for an open-ended game still Karka? Perhaps you start out as a lowly underling pirate and work your way up? Or would you prefer a game with a more strict story line? How would you make it RPGish?

Isn't it against the law in the U.S. (I pick the U.S. because they always have the hoopla about their healthcare system and whatnot) to deny medical service to a patient that needs it for money (i.e. insurance) reasons?

I fail to see where the rules comes into effect for why FR:DS was a flop. You don't need a D&D ruleset to play in a D&D setting IMO. A setting is a setting, and if someone made an RPG that was unequivocally the best, most diverse and open ended RPG with a tight story and tons of roleplaying options and variety, I wouldn't chastize it if it didn't strictly adhere to the D&D rules. If the game's fun, it's fun.

I don't consider the cheating in Civ 3 to be any worse than the cheating in the other civ games. I remember removing the fog of war and watching Triremes of the other nations in the middle of the Atlantic exploring the world. On hard difficulties you got more easily penalized for unhappy citizens, and they would start with more guys as well too IIRC. That's usually what difficulty levels consist of in 4X games. The only way for them to have appropriate scaling levels of logic would be to, as far as I can see, set up giant neural nets of testers playing the game in smart and dumb ways so that you have a suficient databank of "smart" and "dumb" strategies for the AI to incorporate at various difficulty levels. You could simplify it to simply levels of aggressiveness and whatnot, but if you want them to play on an equal playing field as you, you'll still be able to exploit it. Because if the AI is going hardcore for expansionism and building military units, then you know he's NOT worrying about city improvements or anything, and therefore won't be at much of an advantage. What sort of "logical" differences would people realistically like to see in a 4X game for various difficulty levels? Would you like the AI to just not expand on the easy difficulties or something?

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I'm rather glad many of the D&D setting games don't specifically adhere to the D&D rules. It makes for a less tedious game, and opens them up to other markets. I see no reason why a game set in a D&D setting must adhere to the D&D rules. I don't recall Drizzt rolling any d20s in his books.

Apparently people are quick to forget that Bioware had to redo the dialogue in KOTOR. It was mentioned in roshan's other thread I believe, where originally they had a limit on the amount of words due to voice acting, but then had that limit removed when Lucasarts realized the dialogue was stupid as a result.

Very nice. Now, did you need to find an ascii converter? EDIT: It's actually: you know it!!! As a part of the simulation, I still award you 10 TOMBS points however.