Winterwolf

Incomprehensible rambling: I had a nice day...added Neverwinter Nights 2 to Mobygames, merrily thinking what it would do to my contribution rating. Then watched a wierd Star Trek episode about time and dimensions and stuff, then came back to my computer only to discover that I was rejected, because Neverwinter Nights 2 doesn`t come out before tomorrow. Now this made me really confused, because it`s already 31 october in here. Then I came here only to discover that this place tells me that time is 30th October 2006 - 03:44 PM. I am utterly confused. In that Star Trek episode there were like four Data`s who were in different times and they all talked to each other, and now I discover that half of the world lives in yesterday. I feel like my little head is going to explode. I remember something from my geography lessons about timeline differences but I can`t fit it into my head. It`s like the time when someone told me to eat this funny mushroom, only without the wierd colors and creatures from another dimension. I feel like I am so close to unraveling the mysteries of universe, but still too far from it. Another dimensions, four Datas, different times and oh my! I feel like I almost understand God and yet when I try to think my head hurts. Do I live in the future?

Ohmigosh! That look`s like the best game ever. Seriously what game is that? It feels so Ultima 8. Speaking of Ultima 8, here is a little comparison.

Mike Oldfield - To France

words <{POST_SNAPBACK}> dude, you know her dialog was written by a sweaty 40-year old nerd, right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, I know. That sweaty 40-year old nerd is my idol. Anyone who can up with a character like Kreia, is most probably going to end up as my most favorite writer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Kreia is great villain when talking about games. In literature however, Kreia wouldn't be very special villain. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We weren`t talking about literature. [snip] <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, but you said "Anyone who can up with a character like Kreia, is most probably going to end up as my most favorite writer.", So I with no actual reason wanted to point out that Kreia is not that special. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe he doesnt read. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You are almost right about that. It is true that I don`t read a lot, because I find most books boring. You can`t make any choices in them. But I do occasionaly enjoy Chesterton or Dunsany. That is my taste, be it good or bad...you decide, I don

words <{POST_SNAPBACK}> dude, you know her dialog was written by a sweaty 40-year old nerd, right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, I know. That sweaty 40-year old nerd is my idol. Anyone who can up with a character like Kreia, is most probably going to end up as my most favorite writer. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Kreia is great villain when talking about games. In literature however, Kreia wouldn't be very special villain. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We weren`t talking about literature. But anyway, never thought of Kreia as a villain, imo the storyline in Kotor 2 was even worse than in Kotor 1: travel trough 4 planets, ooh an plot twist, already an ending? But the characters felt so refreshing. But enough about Kreia. As to my favorite villain, I find most of them lacking in computer games, although perhaps this might be because I haven`t played a lot of them (only most of the games from Ultima IV to Broken Sword 4). What I really would like to see is someone really evil. Irenicus, Sarevok, Guardian, von Glower - they are not truly evil, a little naughty yes, but nothing really irredeamable. I would like to see someone who orders his men to rape the wives and daughter before the eyes of their men, I would like to see someone who puts people on the stake just because he is tired of screwing his Harem and needs to find other things to keep them amused, I would like to see a mass execution were the ordinary good citizens clap their hands in joy while the executioner cuts the head of a little 5-year old girl, I would like to see sack of Bagdad type of evil. French Revolution, Mongolians, history is just full of great evil, why we still need to bear with yet another cartoony villain with a bad childhood.

words <{POST_SNAPBACK}> dude, you know her dialog was written by a sweaty 40-year old nerd, right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, I know. That sweaty 40-year old nerd is my idol. Anyone who can up with a character like Kreia, is most probably going to end up as my most favorite writer.

Dude, I disagree with you, and I`ll use my right as a pseudo-intellectual gamer to speak my opininon where it is not wanted. Kreia`s one of the few characters that had a lasting impact on me. She still sometimes speaks to me, even after the game, she still sometimes warns me or guides me when I am about to make a choice, she is still my mentor. I have only played trough Kotor 2 once, and when I checked some dialogue few days ago, I discovered that I remembered almost every word that Kreia spoke exactly how it was written in the game. I fell in love with her. I like so totally connected with her, I understood everything she said. She wasn`t just a character, she spoke directly at my heart. She knew me, and she healed me. I am a better person now, she enlightened me, she cast away the blindness and revealed to me the Light. I know now the Truth. I know and I do not fear. She was the best Master ever.

I remember the first I saw Manny dead there, I drew a very wierd conclusion why he is dead. Remember Monkey Island 1, there was this guy in the bar who wore a sign "Ask me about Loom", and Loom didn`t sell very well. So in order to avoid that Monkey Island curse that caused a box-office failure for Loom , the designers killed Manny there, so he couldn`t advertise Grim Fandango, and therefore they had avoided a box-office failure for Grim Fandango. No, I am not crazy and I do not see conspiracies everywhere, it just that playing Monkey Island makes you think weird.

Well Lorne and Zeeaire don`t sound too interesting, but after one look at Torio`s...erm...clothing style, I feel she is going to be one of my most favorite computer game characters ever....after Kreia of course.

Perhaps Lazarus then. Free, big world, each npc (except guards) is an complex individual with his, her own fears, interests, ideas. Quite okay storyline. Very nice writing. Lot of characters, even the ordinary ones, like shopkeepers or lighthouse keeper`s wife, shocked and surprised me. Lots of grey areas. Companions on the level of BG (although after Kotor`s they feel kinda bland). Excellent soundtrack - especially in this "Jeremy Soule is da master" age we live now, not pompous with lots of trompets and chorus elements that might be technically good but is horrible to listen to, but more simpler and rennaisannce fair like - think Blackmoore`s Nights. The world is not a typical fantasy world, meaning that it is different form what goes around for fantasy today. Nowadays fantasy is almost anything which is freakily colorful, mixes anything together, has elves that are an insult to the elves of Tolkien, has demons and wizards in it, bikini chainmail armor, save the world plots, artistical influences form anime - what goes around for fantasy today is freakish and unnatural, or more bluntly put, fantasy is when the dwarf has a gun and his sex-slave is the daughter of the demon queen Que` Ksah` Mashti form the multidimensional planet Gilius B. Now what I really liked about Lazarus is that it was more natural. You know, it had a sense of wonder, something that is lost in fantasy genre today. It was more like the 80`s Robin Hood show with Jason Connery, it was more like the feeling what celts, misty forests, white nights, white stags and Enya give you - more magical and mystical, more innocent. Although there are some moments (like people`s tendencies to throw to things before you rather than give them to you), that will make you remember that this is a fan game only. And you need a copy of the original Dungeon Siege though. If imterested, then here`s the link. Lazarus

Deus Ex. For the first time in my life. I`m impressed.

Hey, Deus Ex. What a coincidence, I just got this game 3 days ago. So far I have been staring at screen with mouth open. This game is so intelligent. Got so exited after hearing the main theme that I started playing in realistic difficulty level. I don`t usually do that (actually I have never done that before), but so far I have no regrets (I`m in Vandenberg now). Shooter with actual dialogue choices, and even consequences? Never thought to see something like this. Me happy. Many games feel after reaching their 7th year outdated and clumsy - they feel dead. Deus Ex is not one of them.

Quest for Glory 4. Funny. Especially love the soundtrack, it sure beats Jeremy Soule.

Romance dialogue....and it will be forced upon the player. Like Aribeth, only more annoying and senseless.

If I was video gaming industry overlord...I would create a game where there would be steampunk, fantasy, sci-fi settings and the player travelling between them. And for that to it all to make sense, the player later discovers in the storyline that he is really connected to some big gaming system in a dark cyberpunk world. Each of these settings would be deep roleplaying games, with multiple choices in its own right. And since in the storyline these settings are in-game, the characters can be the same. What I mean is this: a character named Jane Doe would be a sexy romancable elven maiden in bikini chainmail in the fantasy setting, in the steampunk setting she would be a teethless whore dying from some sickness and in the sci-fi she would be a... lawyer. The first of these setting changes should be a surprise to the player; the player goes to sleep in an inn in fantasy and wakes up in a mansion in steampunk only to find that his butler was yesterday the king who ordered him to save the world. There will definiately be dialogue that reveals the true nature of human spirit, humanity`s realitonship with God and pink bunnies. In other words except a little bit of Torment, Kotor2, dope, magic mushrooms, Bible and pr0n all combined and mixed into writing that makes Avellone look like a hackwriter. Here is an example: Sexy woman: I want to have wild sex with you. PC: Hell yeah! <A mysterious old woman enters the scene> Mysterious old woman: Do not let yourself be so easily deceived! PC: But..I...she busty...Who you? Mysterious old woman: Ah, I see you are blinded by appearances (points to sexy womans boobs) only and only see and hear what the World wants you to see. What She wants you to see in her. You see lies, hear lies and love them. What does that make you? What are you when you accept lies as truth? PC: What you mean? Mysterious old woman: I will show you. I will show you what she really says not what she says to you. Look deep in her soul and see what is behind the walls around her heart. PC: OK <There is a bit of magic in the air and the sexy woman divides into three sexy women> Sexy woman 1: I am a whore. I sleep with thousands. Lover of all and none at all. Sexy woman 2: Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, la-la-la-la. Sexy woman 3: <looks gothic and stares into darkness> PC: <Awereness> You are masks. Dissappear. <Lots of special effects, epic music and in the end sexy woman 3 remains. She looks the PC into eye> Sexy woman 3: I know you. You called me. Your voice a faint whisper. But I heard. I came to you. PC: Reveal yourself to me. Sexy woman 3: <falls into trance> Winnie the Pooh, you are my best friend. What shall we do today? Lets play hide-n-seek. No don`t go there, that is mommys room. Daddy says she is an whore. That she ran away with evil Antonios. Do you think mommy still loves us, Winnie? <screams> No Daddy, I didn`t mean it. <cries> I am sorry, please don`t hurt me. Daddy please, don`t take Pooh away!!! Mysterious old woman: Do you see now? PC: <awereness> I see now. It was you. You are the sexy woman! Mysterious old woman: I am...in a way. PC: And in a way you are not. You are a mask. You were afraid. You were afraid that I would hurt you like your Father when he accidentally mistakened your teddy-bear for firewood. <tears roll down old womans face(NB! Pixel Shader 5.0 needed to see this effect)> PC: You need not to know fear anymore. <Mysterious old woman and sexy woman 3 transfrom into beautiful wise woman> Beautiful wise woman: Will you love me? PC: Sure Beautiful wise woman: <kneels before PC> I am yours for an eternity. Devour me!