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Are you quitting gaming press forever?

Part of it is the burned textures, part of it is the doll-like characters. I liked, say, the KOTOR engine for character rendering better than this one. For one, UE3 characters have immobile shoulders, which makes their gait odd. Not that UE3 was ever known for its well-rendered characters. It's definitely set a new standard for environmental destructibility, though. The parts in the demo where you can shoot propane tanks into TVs which fly out and brain people, or shoot out a ledge full of crates onto a gang, are glorious.

Not all at once, you'll burn yourself. You've got to regulate your intake, cool it down a bit before you inhale, lest you end up with a scar on your uvula and an inability to eat solid food for a week. True pain. I dunno if anybody else dropped by the NWN2 blog yesterday, but they released the theme song to MotB (wooooo mp3) and it's ****tacular. Alex Brandon's tenure at our little dev house is off to a good start.

Our mission is clear. Kanye must win.

What about ze villain? Is he a superconstruct?

Definitely a renter. I'm hoping they have more than 4 Tequila bomb "powers". Even though the ones they exhibited were pretty entertaining, they'd get old after awhile. Also, UE3 is ass-ugly.

Also keep in mind that Cant is a member of the gaming community.

I lurv you, Obsidian, but I'm going to have to put HotM above NWN2 in terms of story. Most of that had to do with the villains, which is what it comes down to, for me. I'm looking forward to something good in MotB.

October 28th, last I checked. But considering Rock Band's got the original GH devs, I'll opt for it instead.

It has now.

If there's any example of a scenario that might play out under a jihadist rule (besides, eh, Afghanistan under the Taliban, although they didn't seem to have the lofty ambitions of intercultural domination your average jihadist would) I'd nominate Cambodia under Pol Pot, who succeeded (and I use that term very loosely) in demodernizing his nation in the interests of some nebulous "return to glory" of long-ago empires and bolstering defense against imperialism. Maybe a jihadist wouldn't be prone to use of agricultural communism that caused so much famine under Mao and Pol Pot, but they'd exhibit the same reactionary ludditism and anti-intellectualism. They'd probably be just as troubled (Cambodia nearly cannibalized itself)

For the most part, I think you're right, but I still liked the presentation (the "package", if you will) of the Master and the straight-faced lunacy of the President. I also really liked ZAX, for some reason. Still, there are parts of Fallout 2 that are definitely undercooked, to say the least.

Can't go wrong with Chow Yun Fat.

Details or it didn't happen.

ZOMG First Question: Which Obsidian employee do you believe you could most easily take in a fight? Honestly. What was your favorite aspect of the game as you saw it? Which was your fave CNPC? If you can't talk about it, use pig latin, ikelay isthlay. How much work time did you use to play solitaire?

I thought KOTOR2's writing was pretty well done. Kreia was a good villain. The VOs were generally good as well, although I kind of wished they had got somebody other than Ben Stein for Bao-Dur.

I remember Darkest Day as being the one in which they found ways to port over every single CNPC from BG1 that didn't make it into BG2. If only it didn't include that big, sloppy brawl in the docks with Artemis Entreri that yielded entirely too many +1 scimitars.

I find it mildly humorous that you'd take offense to someone insulting you indirectly, and then go on to insult people indirectly. You have succeeded in amusing me. I'll never understand how you can manage seeming so bitter over this stuff.

Meh. I liked PoP: Two Thrones back when it was called The Suffering. Any PoP game without Jordan Mechner's input is bound to suffer.

I think their Florida park had Shamu, or at least Keiko. Maybe I'm mixing up my whales. There's a really old park in Denver, Elitch Gardens, that Six Flags bought out. So far as I can tell, most all Six Flags are like that. They're amusement parks (think carnivals and such) as opposed to theme parks (Disneyland, Universal Studios, etc.) which extends their novelty a bit longer.

Why don't you quit it forever then?

We haven't gotten force-naked, no.

The Bourne Ultimatum. Better than the book, definitely. David Straitharn makes a great villain, and the hand-to-hand combat sequence in Tangiers is the best I've ever seen. Great chase sequences, too.

It's also got a very high maintenance cost, depending on how deep you go.

Thanks Josh. Whipped up a little crude, utilitarian character sheet.