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Turn-based combat is on its way out, except for the odd tactical game here and there. Personally, I prefer turn-based combat because I have a comfortable background in PnP gaming, and while I've never tried LARPing, I imagine it's more difficult than plotting everything out. Besides, for RPGs it's easier in general. Has anyone noticed what a cluster**** team combat is in Oblivion? You hit your companions as much as you hit your enemies. Perhaps more streamlined continuous-turn-based systems, ala KOTOR, are better suited for the future, unless we plan on omitting CNPCs altogether.

IF you're going to know history, and thus learn from it, you'd damn well better know your geography. Access to a sea is very important, economically. And the reason Germany loses so many wars has less to do with their battle prowess and more from the fact that they're in the middle of two fronts

Black Jenny Flint, yar!

No no, I think we got our time zones wrong here. It was 9 o'clock PM when I posted that. Also, Fallout PnP is proceeding nicely. I had earlier implemented a "Search and install" mission for my PCs to undertake, but that turned into a big bore, so as soon as they finished that up I sent them out to fix a power station in the middle of the waste, and had them get ambushed by Slavers. Golden. One of my PCs now has critical groin wounds. Now all I need to do is implement some mysterious insomnia, and we'll have an interesting game going. ON TO DENVER!

Quick general NWN2 question: Is there going to be a demo? I haven't heard anything about one

YOU'RE NOT TALKING LIKE PIRATES. Bah, there are 3 minutes left in the day here, anyway. I just got the whole Mew album. Funny, the production on the singles is different than I remember...

Uh... yeah. Always check the url. This happens with a lot of password-protected sites. I believe Myspace has had a lot of problems with this. I don't really understand why you would willingly explore the email if you knew it was malicious. It could be loaded with teh warez!

Aye, and from an artistic standpoint Fallout is pretty impressive, not in its engine but in its design. I really think they made the retro-future idea work when it could have fallen flat on its face.

Intl. Talk Like a Pirate Day! Yar, today be a good day.

I'd reckon you'd be able to reclaim at least half of them through the wonder of bittorrent and zomg stealing! If you don't mind living the pirate life, that is Besides, it's not illegal if you've already paid for it. It'd be no different than if you burned extra copies of CDs you owned. *edit - That reminds me, It's intl. Talk like a Pirate day! Yar! I spies me some booty o'er the starboard side, I do! Shiver me timbers! And I'm listening to the Hunter Hunted soundtrack. It's an old Sierra PC platformer. It's basically KMFDM-lite. I dunno why I thought this was so rockin' when I was a kid.

Can we not advocate Kant on this forum? Please? Thankyou.

Gamespot had a feature awhile back about running old games on Vista. I remember Fallout 2 worked fine, but none of the Infinity engine games they ran worked. I'ma go find it. *edit - Found it. Looks like my initial summary was a little off.

Now, we finally have the means to fight back against the aliens. Seriously though, this is important work being done. Especially for amputees whose limbs were destroyed above the elbow / knee joint, regular prosthetics are difficult to utilize. My mom's high school b/f is now working on a bionic eye at Los Alamos Wonder how that's coming along.

Or rather, lightsabers and melee weapons, if you've got the force power.

Handhelds tend to lend themselves towards traditional RPGs. I could see Bioware getting into that. Hopefully they don't let that spill over into their PC ventures. I hate traditional RPGs.

I've encountered far more game-stopping bugs on the console version of a certain game ( " ) than I did on the PC version.

Wha? Blizzard's "chest" games (Diablo 2 and Starcraft) are still available pretty much anywhere here in the US. Pretty cheap too.

Heh, I can generally remember countries with obvious landmarks and coastlines. Beyond that, I'm useless.

My desk Desktop_2.bmp Well, that kind of works.

I think NWN2, given NWN's success, should help Atari along. Dunno if it'll save it, but it'll help. It's a shame, I was hoping for more Indigo Prophecy games they were so much better than Shenmue!

It would suck to have a buggy game. Obviously at this stage any content that might have been cut is a done deal, but what kept KOTOR2 from being more well-recieved were the glitches. Hopefully these delays will ensure we don't get that again still, I want it I want it I want it.

Amen to that. The overall quality of the BG2 romance plots were exceptional, and they came from a D&D game It's not inaccurate to say that most D&D romance is all about... living vicariously through the character. Remember the Fear of Girls vid? Bastila-Revan has one tangible advantage over Padme-Anakin, in that George Lucas didn't write it. It would have been better had it not culminated on the Star Forge, imo. Wouldn't it have been more dramatic if Bastila and Revan had fought after their feelings for each other had been made clear?

Well, what general level are you at when you get on the yacht? I usually take Visas and Kreia, so I've got plenty of Destroy Droid and Heal capabilities. Then I take it room by room. Sometimes it's tough, but you'll get through it eventually.

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Well, balls. That's really all I can say.