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Maybe Obs will go console-only just to spite some of you.

Hey, roshan took up game journalism!

I usually put Nick's email and personal info when I have to register anyway.

Get Okami, you fork.

Yeah, I usually don't register unless I need it for one reason or another.

If you're going to pretend to like the action adventure genre, go get Okami, you bloody loser.

Hahaha, I could care less about working at Bioware. http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewt...08736&forum=113 Quick search revealed that it's not very that useful at all unless you have no experience with NWN1 or modding in general.

http://www.amazon.ca/Neverwinter-Nights-2-...ie=UTF8&s=books I'd like someone with extensive NWN1 modding experience to comment on the usefulness of this book. I don't need a tutorial for dummies.

............. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreigner...side-214130.php

I like it when some sites rate something as best game ever and then put it on their list of overrated games years down the line. Heh.

No, just expected. We all know, however, that reviewers are credible.

Gears of War has my mild interest. Does it have splitscreen coop? That'd increase it quite a bit. Other than Dead Rising (and possibly GRAW - assuming it IS actually better than the crappy PC version), those are really the only 360 titles that are already out that I could see myself playing. My brother seems to want a 360. I guess he just really wants to play GoW.

Nick and me will be making a mod where you play a time-travelling lizard. It'll be called The Chosen One Must Choose. We might do a second mod called 1001 Creative Ways to Eviscerate Deekin.

I'm opposed to the current pay-to-play games because their content is unappealing. I wouldn't say no to one for a game which I would actually consider worth playing - granted, of course, that the subscription would actually go towards actually providing more actual content on a regular basis. If, say, Obs were to have a subscription system to which they would make new mods on a regular basis, I'd sign up. Of course, since they could charge for individual mods individually anyway just as Bio did, it doesn't really fit the criteria. In any case :crazy: :crazy:

Wait, didn't I murder you?

You do realize Zelda Twilight Princess is coming out very soon, yes?

In an ironic twist of fate, Nick and I are about to crush through France's meager defenses very soon. Republican Spain won

Hey, congrats. However, no one takes the CEO title from me. Prepare to meet Feargus' fate!

Wait, Junior Designer? Did someone get promoted?

I want Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy 'III' with full coop support just like the good old days.

Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday is the greatest strategy game of all time. That being said, I'm not completely sold on EU3 yet (nor have I been on Victoria Revolutions). The wargame portion of HoI2 is what I enjoy so much. I'm not fully convinced that I'd play a similar type of game based more on diplomacy/politics/colonization/etc. If HoI2DD is a good example, Paradox will release a 3-hr demo which allows for the whole game to be played within that timeframe. I'd give EU3 a good test. HoI2DD + mp coop = gaming bliss. I'm still having an Axis session with Nick, with me as Italy and him as Mr. Wolfenstein robot boss. We still technically have an Allies session with Alan, if he hadn't backstabbed us. That freaking backstabbing jerkface.

'people'

........ That's a dwarf.

Combat so far has been fairly standard. Not ridiculously easy, but not actually challenging, either. I'm playing it on DnD hardcore rules. If it doesn't increase in difficulty soon, I'll bring it up to Extra Difficulty, which doubles the damage you take. As for backgrounds, there was a list somewhere. Off the top of my hand, let's see.... tale-teller, flirt, farmer, troublemaker, natural leader, mage's apprentice, etc. They gave you small bonuses and deficits in skills or saves.

The two tutorial NPCs are and . The first real NPC is a . I play a bard. NWN2's implementation is awesome. Rather than an all-purpose song as in NWN1, you have multiple ones as in actual PnP rules. I have countersong, fascinate and haven song so far. In terms of feats, you can get Curse Song (which works akin to NWN1's implementation), Lingering Song (+5 rounds / song) or Extra Music (+4 songs). The bard also has an Inspiration, that acts as a permanent effect on party members near the bard. Basically, it grants you various bonuses depending on which ones you have active (eg. +x attack/damage, +x skill bonus, +x saves, etc). It sounds extremely powerful at first, but when you think about it, it's really (more or less) taking apart the NWN1 bard song into multiple component. Essentially, it's less powergamer-y, and yet gives you more breadth of options, both in inspirations and actual songs. Bards are awesome. You can also equip instruments in the shield slot and you'll actually have a playing animation whenever you activate a new inspiration/song. EDIT: And yeah, like I said, min settings, so I'm not really the judge of anything technically graphical. My main issue is with the performance more than the look. In terms of visuals, I'm pretty pleased with how the game is. For the record, I have a 2.8Ghz, Radeon 9600XT and 512megs of RAM. I can play the game at a decent performance on medium settings, but I always put the settings way down for virtually any game I play unless there's absolutely no performance hit on higher settings. I also take performance over look.