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The game theme or the movie KMFDM theme?

Same here. It seems to be stopping and going intermittently :\ I'm also trying to find a good curry recipe online.

IThat doesn't make a lot of sense. It's not like developers test their games solely for reviewers. Developers' interests in making non-buggy games extends beyond reviews. A developer that says "let's go half-assed on this and fix it later" is a pretty ****ty developer. Wouldn't we also have to recognize the constraints that a developer is put under that might hinder a game's performance? I don't see any problems with reviewing patched titles, just so long as you indicate that the title's been patched. It's the version most people should be playing, anyway. Reviewing an old version is reviewing a game few people will play.

Yeah, well, you try being 7 years old and thinking Metallica is just about the darkest thing ever and not being scared by Doom <_<

People who play the original hard-copy version of the game when patches are widely available have no right to bitch about that which they could fix if they actually tried. I'm not shedding any tears over anybody who has a rig capable of running the game but incapable of internet access. CD burners are common. Get a disc with the patch from a friend. Go to the goddamn library. Thank God such people aren't able to come here and moan about their plight.

But any discussion of bugs is irrelevant until the game is patched. So far we haven't heard exactly what this patch does, so we have to assume it's going to fix some if not most of the bugs present that people are complaining about. We can gripe about bugs when nobody's working on them, and the fixes aren't possibly within reach.

Did you actually read the article? Seriously, did you read it? So either they didn't bother to patch or they couldn't. Are you going to make me hold your hand like this every time an article is posted?

The perspective was tight, so enemies would often sneak up on you. IT WAS SCARY ALRIGHT JEEZ

Looks like they didn't get the final version either (that or they didn't bother / weren't able to patch)

Yeah, well, being a counterphobic type 6 with a 4 wing on the enneogram, I can be hardly faulted for ruffling feathers. They don't call us Devil's Advocates for nothing. But getting back on topic, I fully expect to be underwhelmed by the appearance portion of character creation. Damned if I'll care all that much, though. Hooray game!

I can make a mean (yet mild) vegetarian chili. I'm no vegetarian (mmm dead animal flesh) but this is srsly good. 1 onion, thinly sliced 1/2 green bell pepper, diced 2 tablespoons butter or margarine (or vegetable oil, for the pot) 1 clove garlic, minced 2 tablespoons chili powder 1 can of whole tomatoes, crushed 1 can corn 3 cups cooked / canned beans (kidney or black) 1 1/2 cups shredded cheese (I discourage using strong cheddar) As much brown rice as you please 1/2 cup green onions, chopped (optional) salt / pepper to taste (1) Saute onion and pepper in butter until tender but not brown. (2) Stir in garlic and chili powder. (3) Add tomatoes and beans and season with salt / pepper as much as needed. Simmer 10 minutes, adding the corn about halfway in as to avoid overcooking. (4) Stir in rice (you can also pour the chili over the rice, but I add the rice into the chili to create a mixture) add cheese as desired, stirring to distribute. (5) Serve. Mmmm, I want some right now.

Exactly. Don't make me break out the jpegs of people crying, people.

Yes, this is a thread to rant about the missing dial to adjust the boob size on female avatars. It seems to be of ultimate importance for young male players. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not the point of the thread, the point that complaints about spoilers at this point are baseless.

I think you're all missing the point. IT'S A SPOILER FOR THE TUTORIAL. Why don't you all come back and see me when you've dried your eyes and had a ****in' nap.

Best bard. He's more than capable of beating ass in melee. He did invent stage diving, after all Just got my $60 in cash that I will use to buy my copy of the game in 15 hours. I have a problem in that I'm going to buy it before I go to school, and I'm going to be at school for 3 1/2 hours, which isn't that bad, but it's certainly going to feel excruciating with that brand new, packaged game that's going to be sitting in my car the whole time And I already ditched class once this week (there are 2 classes a week)

It's the tutorial is it so heinous?

I don't see you with a working copy of the game " For the next 24 hours, D2D users pwn the rest of us.

I bet you a TON of ideas make it in nwn2 from bg3 Wasn't the ability to burn down a church full of monks from BG3? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You may be right. Going through the Van Buren design docs, I found some remarkable similarities to KOTOR2 :ph34r: nothing overt, but a lot of the same ideas (for example, the restoration effort on Telos is not unlike the Nursery in VB)

So did the guy end up looking bad, or was the selection just bad? or both?

Depends on how they balanced the game. Seems to me like most of the classes in NWN were "de-edged" so as to not make them reasonably equal (arcane spellcasters remained weak at early levels, still) but I remember LN monk-druids being pretty potent. The animal companions got less powerful as time went on. Their AC didn't go up fast enough, such that high level enemies could easily whack them before they became useful <_< Shapechanging could be pretty uber, though.

Gogol Bordello - Not a Crime! Zero 7 - LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations I wish I was a gypsy vagabond

You are such a reactionary fogey

So are we going to be able to have a gay love affair in NWN2? That'd be pretty progressive, at least relative to most game romances out there.

The Hotel escape in Call of Chtulu was what made me give up on that game. It wasn't scary, just unbelievably frustrating. It's my werewolf... :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heh. Call of Cthulu is basically a FP adventure game. There's usually only one way to go about beating a certain challenge. The trick is figuring out what the trick is But I gave up when I got to the Shoggoth. God, that was hard. By that time the game had devolved into an exceptionally difficult shooter, but it had its moments (particularly in the sewer levels) I think you all are just trying to be macho about DOOM. When I was 8 years old, the Pinky really was freaky :D that roar it made when you were in its vicinity was pretty harrowing in Sound Blaster. I didn't find Resident Evil to be especially scary, but the remake for the Gamecube was amazing. If you didn't scramble to find a lighter and gas to burn the zombie corpses in time, they'd come back to life as 28 Days Later-esque superzombies when you approached them. That was pretty harrowing. They also added this indestructible, shackled, hooded monster-lady that was pretty creepy, especially when you figured out exactly who she was. That drawing from Vampire was pretty ****ed up, I must say.

And is there some reason why this face/hair issue can't be resolved through the community / additional patches? Somebody's bound to at least attempt it, and plenty of people are going to succeed. If the gripe is that the engine itself makes everybody ugly, most of the people in Oblivion were pretty ass-faced. You get over these things, else you're just fussy