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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.

1)14 2)2 3)1 4)7 5)4 6)15 7)13 8)9

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

It shows up on the bottom-left of the screen and makes an annoying ringing sound. When you use it, text rolls on the bottom of the screen telling you where more survivors / psychos are.

Walkie-talkie. You know, that annoying thing that you have to press right on the d-pad to use, and prevents you from attacking. That's probably the biggest flaw the game has, in retrospect. You have to take the calls. It's a serious pain in the ass.

He calls in on the walkie-talkie he gives you at the beginning of the game. I was under the impression you couldn't get throught the game without it

Once Otis phones the mission in (I don't know exactly when that is ) otherwise, I don't think so. You should try to get in there, though. If you've got shotguns to give your survivor friends, they stand a much, much better chance of surviving to the security room. In fact, if you've got 1 person you've got to carry and 1 person you can give a shotgun to, you've got yourself a nicely moving little train. Pretty cinematic, too.

Watch out, if you go there at a certain time there are 3 survivors there who shoot you. Apparently there's some way to get them on your side, but I never figured it out when they pin you with their fire, you're pretty much beyond help.

*coughthemastercough* A lot of people hate me for it, but I thought the sociopathic President Richardson (that was his name, right?) was also adequately awesome. Moving further into geekdom on the TV, I think Lt. Kavanaugh on The Shield is a very compelling villain.

EA made the Burnout series, which were dumb, awesome fun. Especially 3. That's still fun, and it has no story at all, which means they did something right for me :D As for Troika... yeah, I grew to really like Bloodlines, Arcanum was alright (really the epitome of RP in a computer game, though. Most every character played differently) and I couldn't get past 15 minutes of ToEE. Anybody know what the big 3 devs from Troika are doing?

Hmm, I must have been about 9 or 10 when Fallout came out. See, unlike some of yous, I had stolen the demo CD from a PC Gamer magazine (ah, the delinquency of youth), had installed it because I didn't know what it was, and was hooked on the combat. Being 10, I thought it was wild and awesome that you could shoot somebody in the balls. So I begged my parents for it, and I got it for Christmas. Started at 8 AM, played till about 10 that night. I almost beat it, but got whacked by the Lieu. Nowadays it takes me a little under 4 hours to beat the game to my satisfaction Fallout 2 was definitely different. I screwed up the first couple of times I played through, until I realized that I could get away with killing the merchants in the Den. It was harder, less focused. Still, I loved the whole MKULTRA-esque Vault conspiracy, but was put off a bit by the introduction of "tribals". New Reno was hot **** in a champagne glass, as was Marcus, because obviously being a kid I wanted a mutant "on my team" since the first game . I could definitely see how people were less impressed with F2. For a long time, I thought 2 was better than 1, but in my advanced age (10 years on these games!) I realize how at fault I was. Fallout 1 was absolute magic in action.

Somebody stop the madness!

Hey, they made a BG cellphone game that was apparently pretty good :\

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