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Uh, dunno if this has been posted by anybody yet (I'm a little noviced with the Star Wars forums) but the VP of Lucasarts says, in effect, that KOTOR 3 will in fact be deveoloped. She doesn't use those exact words, but she says they won't "leave that franchise behind" ^_^ let's go Obsidz!

I'd reserve that one for Goldeneye.

The movie was. The game underutilized its fear system, and not a single party member ended up uninfected. Lame. Had some nice moments, though

DO IT URSELF

2nd edition. They also had a hilariously low level cap. Gotta love 2nd ed. I've still got friends who swear by it. If anything, goblins would be expanded in 3+

I've run into a quickslot bug, seemingly relating to the newly implemented dual-wield slotting. I'm a warlock, so I quickslot my eldritch blasts. The problem is, each slot will hold two different blasts, like I'm dual-wielding them the spells cancel each other out. I can correct the slots, but they seem to rearrange themselves from time to time, and it's a little peeving. Has anybody run into this problem with vanilla spellcasters? It might just be a Warlock thing.

He's given the chance to. My impression was that if you got him to regret killing Shandra, he becomes defect-proof. I think the Obs writers were hinting that AJ had made so many moral compromises in the name of defeating the KoS that he was truly evil by that point, and he was simply rationalizing his actions, such that if you don't get him to regret killing Shandra, he'd be capable of a complete idealogical 180. Heart of Darkness and all that. But I've only gotten to the ending once, that might not be the case. Seemed odd that Garius would even attempt to persuade AJ, but he did. Maybe there were other defect-proof NPC-Garius dialogues that got cut. It would have been great if a PC who paid no mind at all to influence ended up on the wrong side of his entire party. As for Fallout, the bad Killian ending was not implemented, but the idea was seriously considered (Interplay may have nixed it, if they had such power) Originally, siding with Killian resulted in him becoming an iron-fisted frontier tyrant, hanging people left and right, eventually dooming the town and siding with Gizmo resulted in Junktown becoming a prosperous but dark (it's Fallout) New Reno-style free market casino town.

It made sense to me too, since (I'm assuming) both characters are supposed to be of advanced age and versed in the obscure lore required to fight the KoS. But even then, it didn't make a whole lot of sense to make their character levels equal to the players' That seems to be the major problem everybody has with AJ (myself included) because by the end you realize that hey, you really didn't need him, and thus he becomes a forced NPC and most players don't seem to like that. But by the same token, if they had required the web of purity, the game would be unbeatable (or at the very least, much harder) if you had no means to protect / resurrect him. He died at least twice during my KoS battle. They also wouldn't have been able to give him the chance to defect. Certainly that's a good way to go about it. Being between a rock and a hard place is much more effective dramatically than scripted events or even obvious good/evil choices, even when the consequences of either are not clear cut (I'm reminded of the original planned Junktown endings for Fallout, where the "good" outcome came from siding with Gizmo and the "bad" outcome came from siding with Killian) even better is that difficult choice that could result in a no-upside conclusion. Maybe by choosing to save your betrothed, both of them die. Still, what would they have done? Make the player choose between Shandra and AJ? For many, that would have been no choice at all. Shandra and Elanee would have been better, but then you're deprived of one of the two clerical spellcasters.

A developer talks about how his upcoming genre game is different and more ambitious than those other ones? Color me dazzled

No Bloodrayne? Not only was it a terrible game (and even worse movie), the ludicrous jiggle effect was its major selling point. Ugh, God. ****ing Bloodrayne.

Played Gears of War for a few hours, total Halo flashback (checkpoint, fight, checkpoint, fight, extraction), got bored, took it back to the BB, got the new Splinter Cell. Quite a bit like MGS, without the comic book-y talkiness and fantastic powers, but lacking in the cinematic qualities that MGS pulled off so well. Mission-to-mission, I prefer Splinter Cell. If SC had the great villains MGS has and managed to avoid all of MGS' hamfisted melodrama, it would be a better game. Good but not great as it is. The ending sucked. But still the best Tom Clancy game I've played. Micheal Ironside ftw. I'm settling into Fight Night Round 3 again. Nothing quite like beating the **** out of virtual boxers in HD. Some of these guys just don't understand how to duck.

NWN2 definitely has a more KOTOR-ish feel to the way the narrative hurtles your through the game. As for NWN's diablo-ness, I'd much rather play Diablo

I've done both, but I still need a key.

So, I'm well past the point that I got the Collector's Mansion quest, but nonetheless I decided to undertake it, seeing as how I didn't get the chance my first playthrough. Trouble is, the mansion door is locked, and I don't have the key do you have to track down the key, or must I have dropped it somewhere, or what?

Allow me:

What. It's not even worth it to respond to this, but here I am, putting off an essay, so I'll indulge. It makes not a goddamn difference in the world what an RPG n00b thinks when comparing Oblivion and NWN2. The merits of NWN2 and the deep flaws of Oblivion reach much farther than "accessibility". That's not how you judge the quality of a game.

Stop the pouting, kids. See, LadyCrimson already uploaded one song onto the forum gallery, if I'm not mistaken. I'm sure somebody can be arsed to convert the rest, and then nobody else would have to work for it!

There's a broadcast "stand your ground" command that causes all party memebers except the one you've selected to sit and do nothing, if that's what you're after. Just right click somewhere, it's on the list.

That works. I'm a bit backed up with postage obligations at the moment from another forum, but into the new year, sure. In the meantime, I seem to be the sole proprietor of this gallery deal. Moar people should partake. Early, soundscape-y Autechre, from Incunabula to Tri Repetae, I dig. Their later stuff is a little too obtuse for my taste. MOAR Buck 65- Strong Sam The Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me

New uploads to the gallery. Autechre - Bronchusevenmx24 Nine Inch Nails - Maybe Just Once 13 & God - Men of Station

Michel Gondry made it in spite of Jim Carrey. If only real memory loss could be so glamorous.

It's not really mine to take pride or shame in. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A Developer working on a game is much like an Artist working on a painting. It's never perfect, there is always ways it could have been improved, its never exactly what you pictured in your minds eye but eventually you have to know when to leave the hell enough alone and take what lessons you can from the experience. An artist is always there worst and most brutal critic. I think it is refreshing to see someone being so brutally honest about something there poured so much of there life into. or so I would like to romanticise <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If a painter views his art as labor, a commodity to be sold, that doesn't make the art any less important or good, nor does it diminish the effort put into it, nor does it reflect badly upon the artist. We can't say that Mr. Sawyer should feel a certain way about his work. I can't comprehend why this is even being discussed.

Of course I'd take one if there was some trauma I wanted to forget. I can't tell a rape victim that they're better off knowing what happened to them. That's assuming we dismiss the whole Freudian Id deal. I doubt a psychoanalyst would accept that a pill can wholly rid someone of a memory. Then again, we have to take into account possible abuse of the drug. Would a child molester be able to drug his victims and thus be able to destroy eyewitness testimony, which is so important in prosecution of said crime?

Yeah, there was some serious sitcom potential in those cutscenes. Duncan could become Jerry! Elanee could become Elaine! Khelgar is George! Grobnar is (non-racist?) Kramer! And Bishop is Neuman! I use those characters cuz I don't remember Cheers ^_^

The illustration of Loviatar in Faiths & Pantheons is particularly... interesting. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I love how Loviatar's clerics throw parties amongst the noble class that's so wrong.