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btw, if any of you don't have a Tivo or equivalent contraption by this point, you shouldn't even be watching television. There's way too much on.

The chaos = evil thing in KOTOR seemed pretty consistent to me. Mainly just because SW never had much in the way of complexity when it came to its moral universe. Altruistic, lawful, pacifistic and good embody the jedi. Egoistic, chaotic and evil embody the sith. Jedi are trained to control impulse and emotion and always act with the consequences in mind. Revan and his followers were on their way down the dark side path as soon as they disobeyed the council. Anakin was on his way to the dark side as soon as he fell in love and thus, began to place his own wants and needs and that of Padme above others. That's the way SW works, expecting more is expecting too much. Even when KOTOR's designers attempted to cast some doubt on whether the council's decision to abstain from conflict was wise, they couldn't really get around the fact that none of the jedi devoted to pacifism ended up as sith.

Question for Josh: Are you planning on perhaps making the entire TBH trilogy? How does that decision factor into the gameplay itself? (as in characters that don't reach full development into the second game in the trilogy, etc.)

Are these in any particular order? Mine are: 1. The Shield 2. The Venture Brothers 3. The Colbert Report 4. The Daily Show 5. Late Night with Conan 6. The News Hour with Jim Lehrer 7. The Mcloughlin Group 8. Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann

I think the best idea would be to not really cap levels, but balance the XP rewards such that a character can get to level 9 if he tries hard to do so, but if everything is as it should be then they'll ideally hit level 8. Actually, that's something that I've been meaning to ask Josh about. I don't know if item creation is something he's willing to put into the module. It's a whole other aspect of the game that has to be balanced and tested. Geek that I am, I'm reading up on the 3 Dales in the FR core book and I'm seeing a lot of potential for intrigue and plot there, including the Thayan / Harper / Sembia factional stuff. Hopefully that wouldn't pan out to just Evil / Good / Neutral in terms of quest paths, but going that far I'm assuming a lot about what TBH is going to be, and how much it's going to rely on what's in the books (probably not a lot). I'm stoked. Now I just have to wait a few years I wonder if Josh will include the FR surface drow in his module. They are threatening Battledale from Cormanthyr " Seems a bit too big of a challenge to low-level characters, though. I'm just hoping that this "Black Hound" is not, in fact, the Pariah Dog :D

It's a Tom Petty song. Sounds familiar. But, on topic (heh) I've found that I generally like music that died out in the 90's. Post-Industrial and IDM. I also like actual industrial music that isn't being made anymore, TG, Coil, Nurse With Wound, that kind of thing. But since none of that music is really being made, at least the way it used to be, I'm listening to a lot of post-post-punk and electropop.

Threw in a bunch of stuff from the zoo.

He's not working off of NWN1. NWN2 didn't have such a ridiculous loot system, and in the core campaign you weren't running into good +1 weapons until 5th or 6th level. I think it's reasonable to assume that Josh knows how to do this right.

So has anybody who's played the game out there shagged the bunny woman yet? Christ, it's like they let 4chan design a character. It's creepy.

And now she's Uwe Boll's Bloodrayne. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There's another film to be released... Bloodrayne: Deliverance. Its set in the old west and Billy The Kid is recruiting vamoires to take over the world. Oh and it has anew chick as Bloodrayne. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Apparently Boll kicked Loken off the project when she broke up with him. I can see it now... Interviewer: So how is your professional relationship on set? Uwe Boll: Oh, it's phenomenal. Our intense passion for each other really fuels our passion for the project. Kristanna Loken: I have no idea what he's talking about. Uwe Boll: You're fired. And so it was. Oh well, now Loken can get back to the things that really matter - making out with Pink.

And now she's Uwe Boll's Bloodrayne. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Watched Alien / Aliens back to back the other night. I still like the original better.

When I was a kid I had a computer and I had a Sega Genesis. Nintendo never appealed to me. My favourite toys were - Commander Keen - Raptor - Biomenace - Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure (!) - Rise of the Triad And other assorted Apogee games. They're all dead / freeware games now, ahem. On the Genesis, I had: - Toejam & Earl - Soldiers of Fortune - Desert Strike - Streets of Rage 2 (!)

Was playing GTA: San Andreas, but I got to the part where learning to fly is required to further the game, and I just can't get the hang of it. Otherwise, I'm trying out the first NWN custom module (Tragedy in Tragidor?). Noticed a few bugs here and there, and a lot of bad punctuation, but it seems to be designed relatively well. Last part I played was the goblin caves, which were exceedingly difficult for my 6th level barbarian. They don't stop coming.

As long as this isn't an "epic" written by a teenager, I think we're set. Wait, you went to see Eragon?

That's a beefy-looking vampire.

It was never a good idea to take James Cameron seriously. At first he made pretty good B-movies, and then he started making Summer blockbusters like Aliens and T2, but then he made Titanic, and he was "an important filmmaker" all of a sudden. He hasn't directed anything since, but he's produced a few documentaries and IMAX things. It was just announced the other day that he'll be returning to action epics. Avatar or somesuch. Starts in April. Anywho, without Cameron T3 wasn't bound to be any good as a "fun" movie. But it did pretty well for itself, all things considered. Arnie didn't even want to be in it without Cameron attached, but he asked Cameron what he should do and he said "ask for a ****load of cash", so Arnie asked for $30 million fully expecting them to refuse, but they didn't, and he made T3. It was a big deal, back then. There was talk of possibly replacing him with the Rock. Personally, I find the Rock to be a better choice, if not just because he's not nearly as much of a **** as Arnie IRL. But it's perfectly reasonable now, having seen Cameron's super-expensive CG phantasmagorias, to see T1 and wonder why it got as much love as it did. Nothing from the 80's will ever trump Christopher Lambert's excruciating accent from The Highlander. Plus, the badass villain listens to Queen. You can't beat it.

I guess if it's animated, it could be okay. The less said about the live action D+D movies, the better. Still, having never read any books beyond a Salvatore compilation, I don't think I could watch this unironically. B-list cast hooray! Can't go wrong with Phil Lamarr.

Should've named him "Rock". If you can throw people through the walls of shacks, does that mean that the shacks can collapse? That destrection looks exceptionally clean. Destructible environments have been done before in FPSs (Red Faction 2, which I'm still embarassed to have played all the way through) but not very well. I'm guessing they just marked a specific place on the wall that could be destroyed with flying bodies.

I could throw guys through walls all day long and not get bored with it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe that's why they didn't make you The Hulk instead of David Banner. You wouldn't have the same internal conflicts. Damn it all, now I can't remember if it was David or Bruce Banner that was the original Hulk.

That'd be a gamble, though. Most players would have no idea what radiant AI is or what it entails. Given the supposedly drastic difference between having it on and having it off, and given Bethesda's desire to make their games as relatively accessible as they can be, I don't believe they'd institute a permanent toggle that would no doubt greatly affect the difficulty of the game. At the very least they'd have to have an option down the line to turn it off, after the player has had an opportunity to explore the full ramifications of the difference. Maybe the risk of people using the AI to metagame is acceptable enough to make it something that can be changed at any time, like the difficulty slider.

I've used Gamespot since I was a kid, for reviews and patches and such. It has an ever-so-slightly shorter grade curve than IGN. These days, I get all my news/rumors from Joystiq and dedicated fansites (DAC, NWVault, etc.) and still use Gamespot for the odd patch or walkthrough.

My first thought was "If the PC is competing with NPCs for loot and such, wouldn't a toggle for radiant AI mean that a player could turn it on, wait for the NPCs to clean out a place for all danger, and then turn it off and take the loot that the NPCs are now uninterested in?"

It is. And on that note, HD-DVD has just won the next gen format wars. HD-DVD has support of the Porn industry. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's weird, I thought Blu-Ray had also gotten porn support. Worked for DVDs and VHS. We'll see how this does. Who wants expensive porn in high def when there's plenty of free, SD porn on the internets? Amirite?

Seems they didn't learn from Apple either. Whne you make bad design decisions, you pretend that they don't exist, and then build a scrappy counterculture around your "perfect" product.

If it is indeed a trilogy, it could work as 1-8, then 9-15, then 16-20, perhaps allowing for prestige classes. But that's going a bit too far into the future (I'll probably be out of college by the time the second module came out, if it gets made).