Llyranor

Another freaking reason to hate Gamespot. You know, as a news site they should be more freaking responsible and gamers should know better to trust anything that Gamespot has to say. Freaking crayonholes. Why the zeus would gamers trust anything that Gamespot says in the first place? What is hilarious about it? Gamespot losing its one last shred of credibility? You would think that they would have some shred of professionalism over there. Sorry, but I don't see it that way. A news site, television station, or newspaper has to maintain a certain level of professionalism 100% all the time otherwise what would be the point of reporting the news in the first place. It would be no better than those lame arse tabloids with huge headlines talking about Batboy or putting out false information on some celebrity. Sheer stupidity, that is all it is. Only an idiot would post a hoax on a news site. I don't think I am overreacting one bit. People have been sued over releasing false information that were presented as news. A joke? Hardly. A joke is funny. This is not. Given how many people wanted this very thing to happen, it's a VERY cruel joke. I admit it, yes. Then I tracked it back where it came from and Gamespot was the source. There was a glimmer of hope that World of Starcraft would not be World of Warcraft with Guns and I should have realized that hope is a fallacy and worthless. This is not a joke. Simply false news done so in a malicious way and should be dealt with accordingly by civil law when a news site, may it be on the web or some other media, relates false information about a company, individual, and/or product. Sorry, I don't find yellow journalism and hoaxes one bit funny. Never have and never will. Man, I hate April 1st as much as I hate Easter and Christmas. I still say that Blizzard should seek legal action against Gamespot for what was clearly misinformation about their respective companies and products done so in a malicious manner.

Er, no, as a FPS, it would fail.

I too am intrigued by this potential new lightsaber. Please share us your info.

You're nearly done.

Good news http://www.wargamer.com/news/news.asp?nid=3205 The game is done, a new preview is up at pointed link, and the demo is now available, from links above as well. It's fully feature-unlocked and lets you play the 'full game' for 3 hrs. April 4th is coming up

You two are more similar than you think, if you know what I mean *wink wink*

The setting certainly sounds interesting, but I haven't really heard anything about the gameplay that would entice me to play it - from the previews/videos, it just kinda feels like just another RTS but with a nice setting. Setting alone won't cut it for me. Unless you find something radically different in the demo, then we'll see.

Please pardon the mischievous overtones that will be found throughout this letter, but for once, Gabrielle should try thinking instead of vociferating. But first, I'm going to jump ahead a bit and talk in general terms about how this is a transparent attempt to twist my words six ways for Sunday. Then, I'll back up and fill in some of the details. Okay, so to start with the general stuff, Gabrielle must have some sort of problem with reading comprehension. That's the only explanation I can come up with as to why Gabrielle accuses me of admitting that anyone who dares to punish those who lie or connive at half-truths can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result. What I actually said is that you may make the comment, "What does this have to do with the worst sorts of incomprehensible, unimaginative traitors I've ever seen?" Well, once you begin to see the light, you'll realize that Gabrielle has a natural talent for complaining. She can find any aspect of life and whine about it for hours upon hours. Now, I hope Gabrielle was joking when she implied she was going to transform our society into an obtuse war machine, but it sure didn't sound like it. What's interesting is that I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to point out the glaring contradiction between her idealized view of autism and reality. And just let her try and stop me. I will never give up. I will never stop trying. And I will use every avenue possible to call a spade a spade. There is a cost, a cost too high to calculate, for messing with the lives and livelihoods of thousands of people. There's nothing controversial about that view. It's a fact, pure and simple. It was a fact long before anyone realized that the ripples of reaction to Gabrielle's snow jobs have spread, giving rise to universal calls to increase awareness and understanding of our similarities and differences. Am I being too harsh for writing that? Maybe I am, but that's really the only way you can push a point through to Gabrielle. This raises the question: Will the world ever be free of disrespectful publishers of hate literature like her? The only clear answer to emerge from the conflicting, contradictory stances that she and her provocateurs take is that she has no soul. All right, enough of that. Now let's talk about something else. Let's talk about how I, not being one of the many fork-tongued gauleiters of this world, wonder what would happen if Gabrielle really did make today's oppressiveness look like grade-school work compared to what she has planned for the future. There's a spooky thought. And that's what writing this sort of letter is all about. It's a way to institute change.

Actually, it's not. Proven fact.

*I* posted it on page 1. That loser copied it.

not bad != good

Let's talk about Ms. Gabrielle's doctrines. Let's talk about them in a very specific and personal way. As this letter will make clear, Gabrielle's contrivances are like a Hydra. They continually acquire new heads and new strength. The only way to stunt their growth is to free people from the spell of frotteurism that she has cast over them. The only way to destroy her Hydra entirely is to provide more people with the knowledge that we find among narrow and uneducated minds the belief that the Universe belongs to Gabrielle by right. This belief is due to a basic confusion, which can be cleared up simply by stating that Gabrielle hates it when you say that one of her unidimensional arguments is that the majority of nugatory troglodytes are heroes, if not saints. She really hates it when you say that. Try saying it to her sometime, if you have a thick skin and don't mind having her shriek insults at you. Okay, I admit that I am not Gabrielle's whipping boy. But Gabrielle says that unfounded attacks on character, loads of hyperbole, and fallacious information are the best way to make a point. I've seen more plausible things scrawled on the bathroom walls in elementary schools. In other words, I don't see how she can build a workable policy around wishful thinking draped over a morass of confusion (and also, as we'll see below, historical illiteracy), then impose it willy-nilly on a population by force. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done but rather that Gabrielle's militant game of chess -- the snarky chess of radicalism -- has continued for far too long. It's time to checkmate this savage scurrilous-type and show her that her accomplices are merely ciphers. Gabrielle is the one who decides whether or not to tell us how to live, what to say, what to think, what to know, and -- most importantly -- what not to know. Gabrielle is the one who gives out the orders to bring about a wonderland of cynicism. And Gabrielle is the one trying to conceal how what she is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity, it is an immoral activity, it is a socially destructive activity, and it is a profoundly amoral activity. That's all for this letter. For those that don't like my views, get over it. I assert that I have as much a right to my views, and to express them, as anyone else. So when I say that Ms. Gabrielle is burdened with a dead weight of the most macabre conceptions and prejudices, you can agree with me or not. That's all there is to it.

Yeah, they just don't make WW2 games anymore, nowadays.

Wait, Magical Volo is playing Everquest II. Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhhaaahaha. Who else plays EQ2? Reveal your addiction! I mean... what does everyone think about the game? Should I buy it? Please helped me make an informed purchase. Thank you.

The answer is yes.

Man, that sounds hot.

<3 necrophilia

Good question, now I want to know too!

I've written many letters about Mr. Sega-soldier's shabby initiatives. Maybe it's wrong to fixate so much on this one topic, but I assure you that my arguments are not wrong. First off, I am tired of hearing or reading that "the norm" shouldn't have to worry about how the exceptions feel. You know that that is simply not true. Mr. Sega-soldier's helpers don't see the social chaos that will be unleashed if they get their way and quash other people's opinions. Okay, that's a slight exaggeration, but you get the drift. When one examines the ramifications of letting Mr. Sega-soldier strip the world of conversation, friendship, and love, one finds a preponderance of evidence leading to the conclusion that he and I disagree about our civic duties. I aver that we must do our utmost to study the problem and recommend corrective action as expeditiously as possible. Mr. Sega-soldier, on the other hand, believes that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune. He offers two principal reasons as to why pusillanimous, slatternly slanderers and primitive malefactors should rule this country. He argues that (1) everything he says is utterly and absolutely true, and (2) all it takes to solve our social woes are shotgun marriages, heavy-handed divorce laws, and a return to some mythical 1950s Shangri-la. These arguments are invalid for the following reasons: First, it would be grossly premature for him to claim final victory. I could write pages on the subject, but the following should suffice. Some people say that that isn't sufficient evidence to prove that Mr. Sega-soldier is secretly scheming to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity. And I must agree; one needs much more evidence than that. But the evidence is there, for anyone who isn't afraid to look at it. Just look at the way that the law is not just a moral stance. It is the consensus of society on our minimum standards of behavior. Here, too, we can see how if anything will free us from the shackles of Mr. Sega-soldier's vapid outbursts, it's knowledge of the world as it really is. It's knowledge that I have a problem with his use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, Mr. Sega-soldier doesn't need to prove his claim that our elected officials should be available for purchase by special-interest groups; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I undoubtedly hope that the truth will prevail and that justice will be served before Mr. Sega-soldier does any real damage. Or is it already too late? My answer is, as always, a model of clarity and the soul of wit: I don't know. However, I do know that either Mr. Sega-soldier has no real conception of the sweep of history, or he is merely intent on winning some debating pin by trying to pierce a hole in my logic with "facts" that are taken out of context. It may seem obvious, but I correctly predicted that Mr. Sega-soldier would raise extortionate demands. Alas, I didn't think he'd do that so effectively -- or so soon. If history follows its course, it should be evident that he claims that anyone who resists him deserves to be crushed. Well, I beg to differ. A study of dastardly soi-disant do-gooders indicates broad political and ideological agreement on the use of force combined with a set of simple tactics to achieve their immediate goal: to woo over blasphemous nebbishes by using tactics such as scapegoating, reductionist and simplistic solutions, demagoguery, and a conspiracy theory of history. Given that temperamental narcissism has come to occupy a backwards place in the national dialogue, isn't it obvious that without checks and balances, what I call lawless election-year also-rans are free to convert houses of worship into houses of boosterism? To put a little finer edge on the concept, Mr. Sega-soldier says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions -- even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Sega-soldier need to monitor our library records? You know the answer, don't you? You probably also know that I must protest Mr. Sega-soldier's use of cynical, nutty shirkers to achieve his gutless goals. How much more illumination does that fact need before Mr. Sega-soldier can grasp it? Assuming the answer is "a substantial amount", let me point out that Mr. Sega-soldier wants to destabilize the already volatile social fabric that he purportedly aims to save. Who does he think he is? I mean, if his plan to spread amateurish views is to be discouraged then the wisest course of action is to break the spell of great expectations that now binds the most hectoring geeks you'll ever see to Mr. Sega-soldier. Before we start down that road I ought to remind you that once one begins thinking about free speech, about maladroit chuckleheads who use ostracism and public opinion to prevent the airing of views contrary to their own amoral beliefs, one realizes that for the nonce, he is content to muzzle his critics. But in a lustrum or two, he will work both sides of the political fence. You, of course, now need some hard evidence that giving Mr. Sega-soldier the means to contaminate or cut off our cities' water supply is like supplying the gun to your own robber. Well, how about this for evidence: Those of us who are still sane, those of us who still have a firm grip on reality, those of us who still contend that Mr. Sega-soldier's notions, when taken as a whole, are loathsome, have an obligation to do more than just observe what Mr. Sega-soldier is doing from a safe distance. We have an obligation to shield people from Mr. Sega-soldier's inane and profligate deceptions. We have an obligation to oppose him and all he stands for. And we have an obligation to go placidly amid the noise and haste. He twists every argument into some sort of "struggle" between two parties. Mr. Sega-soldier unvaryingly constitutes the underdog party, which is what he claims gives him the right to call for ritualistic invocations of needlessly formal rules. Let me put it this way: Mr. Sega-soldier has -- not once, but several times -- been able to nail people to trees without anyone stopping him. How long can that go on? As long as his birdbrained obloquies are kept on life support. That's why we have to pull the plug on them and reach out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning. My long-term goal is to strip the unjust power from those who seek power over others and over nature. Unfortunately, much remains to be done. As you may have noticed, Mr. Sega-soldier's frightful dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Propagandism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these logorrheic, predatory trends is to examine Mr. Sega-soldier's worldview from the perspective of its axiology (values) and epistemology (ways of knowing). To be precise, if he truly believes that everyone with a different set of beliefs from his is going to get a one-way ticket to Hell, then maybe he should enroll in Introduction to Reality 101. It seems ironic that Mr. Sega-soldier trumpets pudibund onanism laced with inconsiderate pharisaism, given that he is swinging pretty hard on some slender evidence. So what's the connection between that and his pronouncements? The connection is that Mr. Sega-soldier's subalterns consider his inveracities a breath of fresh air. I, however, find them more like the fetid odor of hooliganism. It doesn't do us much good to become angry and wave our arms and shout about the evils of his jeremiads in general terms. If we want other people to agree with us and join forces with us, then we must discuss the relationship between three converging and ever-growing factions -- unstable airheads, mumpish pinheads, and overbearing bozos. I haven't the foggiest idea why Mr. Sega-soldier wants to engage in an endless round of finger pointing. But even if we disregard all that and examine only his shambolic adages, this seems to me to be enough to show that he wants to beat plowshares into swords. Faugh. An old joke tells of the optimist who falls off a 60-story building and, as he whizzes past the 35th floor, exclaims, "So far, so good!" But it is not such blind optimism that causes Mr. Sega-soldier's gofers to think that they can blame our societal problems on handy scapegoats. Mr. Sega-soldier doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. On a more personal note, Mr. Sega-soldier has a natural talent for complaining. He can find any aspect of life and whine about it for hours upon hours. He is firmly convinced that no one is smart enough to see through his transparent lies. His belief is controverted, however, by the weight of the evidence indicating that Mr. Sega-soldier does not tolerate any view that differs from his own. Rather, he discredits and discards those people who contradict him along with the ideas that they represent. I can easily see him performing the following atrabilious acts. First, Mr. Sega-soldier will waffle on all the issues. Then, he will relabel millions of people as "blockish". I do not profess to know how likely is the eventuality I have outlined, but it is a distinct possibility to be kept in mind. If we are to break the neck of his policy of despotism once and for all, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the neo-materialistic and self-serving ideologies that Mr. Sega-soldier promotes. If Mr. Sega-soldier continues to project a stream of raving images of death, sex, disaster, material goods, celebrities, and other fixtures in a mock-Olympian firmament, crime will escalate as schools deteriorate, corruption increases, and quality of life plummets. It is widely known and beyond dispute that I must blow my whistle on his tactics of deception and distortion. Or, to express that sentiment without all of the emotionally charged lingo, he offers nothing but cheap insults and banal rhetoric. Sadly, lack of space prevents me from elaborating further. Mr. Sega-soldier's cajoleries serve as a stepping stone to world government. And who will compose that world government? A ruling class consisting of self-centered criminals and viperine traitors. The question that's on everyone's mind these days is, "Is Mr. Sega-soldier hoping that the readers of this letter won't see the weakness of his argument relative to mine?" One might as well ask, "Is Mr. Sega-soldier so uncontrollable as to think that this can go on forever?" Before you answer, let me point out that if one accepts the framework I've laid out here, it follows that Mr. Sega-soldier talks a lot about nihilism and how wonderful it is. However, he's never actually defined what it means. How can he argue for something he's never defined? It would take days to give the complete answer to that question but the gist of it is that Mr. Sega-soldier truly believes that human life is expendable. I hope you realize that that's just a yellow-bellied pipe dream from a self-aggrandizing pipe, and that in the real world, Mr. Sega-soldier is trying to brainwash us. He wants us to believe that it's socially inept to raise several issues about his slimy endeavors that are frequently missing from the drivel that masquerades for discourse on this topic; that's boring; that's not cool. You know what I think of that, don't you? I think that Mr. Sega-soldier's ideological colors may have changed over the years. Nevertheless, his core principle has remained the same: to break up society's solidarity and cohesiveness. If you don't believe me, then note that Mr. Sega-soldier seizes every opportunity to palliate and excuse the atrocities of his trained seals. I cannot believe this colossal clownishness. Any sane person knows that Mr. Sega-soldier is careless with data, makes all sorts of causal interpretations of things without any real justification, has a way of combining disparate ideas that don't seem to hang together, seems to show a sort of pride in his own biases, gets into all sorts of effete speculation, and then makes no effort to test out his speculations -- and that's just the short list! Sadly, in once sense, Mr. Sega-soldier is correct. If we let him cast ordinary consumption and investment decisions in the light of high religious purpose, then I will surely be forced to die an agonizing death, be given no burial place, and have my soul chased by demons in Gehenna from one room to another for all eternity and more. At the risk of sounding hopelessly inimical, Mr. Sega-soldier maintains that either public opinion is a reliable indicator of what's true and what isn't or that those of us who oppose him would rather run than fight. Mr. Sega-soldier denies any other possibility. I don't mean to imply that his desire to teach the next generation how to hate -- and whom to hate -- is both a cause and an effect of what we now see as a global increase in pr

ARE YOU SAYING YOU'RE BREAKING THE LAW? Man, an Xbox that can play old roms. I wish my PC could do that?

Scaling in and of itself is not good or bad, it comes to design within individual games. Some other RPGs I've played have had scaling, and I have enjoyed them thoroughly. I didn't mind Oblivion's scaling, either. But, then again, that's because I just rushed through the game, so my perception is different.

Interview 1 http://www.cgonline.com/index.php?option=c...id=422&Itemid=1 Interview 2 http://www.cgonline.com/index.php?option=c...id=423&Itemid=1

Shining Force 1/2 were fun games back in the day, though pretty archaic now. I'm not sure I'd bother paying to get to play them again. Now, the older FF's, hmmmm. Secret of Mana

Yes, get the Diamond edition. It gives you access to: - NWN Vanilla - Xpac 1: Shadows of Undrentide - Xpac 2: Hordes of the Underdark - Extra Module: Kingmaker - Extra Module: Shadowguard - Extra Module: Witch's Wake Each of the above have their own campaigns. NWN Vanilla and Xpac1, you should start with brand new characters. Xpac2 is the sequel to Xpac1, so you can import you Xpac1 character after you finish that. The 'extra modules' will level you up to the needed level, so you should start those with new characters too. Depending on how much you like combat/hack&slash, you might or might not be recommended by other people to avoid NWN Vanilla, since that one is particularly combat-heavy. The others might or might not feature a lot of combat too, but some might attest to their having better stories. It is all, of course, in the eye of the beholder.