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  1. I couldn't disagree more. My Raptor has been amazing, the performance is incredible. I have a friend with a 74 and they are about the same.
  2. Do yourself a favor and go get one immediately. I have a 36GB one as my only HD (for now, I didn't have the money for a second when I bought the computer and have lived on years on a 30GB laptop HD previously so I manage) and I've never regretted it. I really, really love it. Here are my specs: Self-built Case: Silverstone TJ06 Silver Motherboard: Abit AA8XE (Intel 925XE) Processor: Intel P4 3.0 GHZ Power supply: Antec Phantom (silent) GFX: NVidia 6600GT 256 MB from Gainward Memory: 2x512 MB HD: 36 GB Western Digital Raptor Optical: NEC DVD burner (slot mounted, silver) Floppy: None (although I do have a USB one that came with my laptop if I really needs one) OS: Windows XP Pro Monitor: BenQ 19" TFT Sound and network card are both onboard the MB. To be upgraded with another HD (probably 300 GB) and another GB of memory shortly. Aside from the aforementioned Raptor, I also love the Phantom power supply. Sleeping in the same room is definitely no problem.
  3. I thought the whole point of the whole consoles-don't-come-with-keyboards-argument was that playing console games with mouse and keyboard would seriously detract from the experience and won't even be possible for many setups. I do not want to have a mouse and keyboard when sitting on my coach with only a coffee table in front. Or when sitting in a couch-chair with no table at all in front of me. In the case of RPGs it's probably the mouse-functionality that is missed the most rather than a lot of buttons on a keyboard (I don't think I use more buttons in any RPG than there are on the average gamepad). So the revolution controller is going to be very interesting indeed.
  4. I did time it. Identical to normal katana. That's why I always thought it was crap and happily sold it for the $200 or so it gave. Until someone pointed out that the difference between it and a Katana is that it deals aggravated damage rather than lethal.
  5. Are there even different weapon speeds? I timed the Katana and the Bush Hook and they were identical. Never liked the axe though, so I didn't time that one (it's so... crude)
  6. Iirc, multiplayer would have been totally separated from the single player campaign. More of a traditional FPS multiplayer where your vampires could square off against eachother. I think skills were supposed to be used in that. I wonder how Celerity would have been implemented...
  7. I think it's simply because most people on these boards had the sense to stay away from that game. It's that or they're denying to themselves that they ever played. That trauma is probably too much for anyone to handle otherwise.
  8. I'm pretty sure there are more than three games. There are three different Hunter games and there was supposed to be a Werewolf game, although I don't think that ever saw the light of day. The Hunter games I think was fairly succesful though. Succesful enough for Interplay to get a bit of money when they sold the rights.
  9. I completed the game unpatched. And I even got the Leopold crash. It wasn't that hard to find a workaround. No, a workaround shouldn't have been needed in the first place, but the game was still possible to finish.
  10. I actually had pretty good loading times (on this computer). All I can say is that I love my Raptor. Although when on a computer that had problems with loading times, it was Downtown and not Santa Monica that was the biggest problem.
  11. They're just being faithful to the source material. Celerity is quite unbalanced in PnP as well (epsecially before revised edition was released). I have no idea how it's like in Requiem though (which is not the same as revised).
  12. If here is truth to that, a major reason for us loyal Troika fans to dislike activision now. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't think Bloodlines sold enough copies to generate money from sales for Obsidian. Afaik industry standard is that developers only see those money once the initial investment for the publishers has been covered.
  13. Ok. Although the alternative story that I heard makes little sense with that version. I haven't seen confirmation on either and as such they're both just speculation. So the alternate story goes something like this: When WW decided to end the WoD completely, Activision kinda panicked. After all, who was going to want to buy a game in a setting that no longer exists. They were about to pull the plug completely, but Troika managed to change their mind. The only way to do that was by promising to get the game out quicker than what was originally planned. I'm not sure on the time frame here, but 3-6 months I suppose. This was told in an attempt to explain why the last part of the game isn't as fleshed out as the rest of it. And in that context it makes sense. I've also heard the Source rumor and it's given support by the fact that Bloodlines was released very shortly after HL2 (a matter of days iirc). The problem is that the first rumor (in this post) makes more sense given the shape the game shipped in. The two aren't exactly[/b] mutually exclusive, but it kinda doesn't make sense to sit on a game for 3-6 months if the devs were supposed to have that time in the first place. Unless it all comes down to dollars of course. So I guess it makes sense after all. How depressing...
  14. I think I had the sniper rifle when facing Bach. He was kinda pointless when I could shoot him just as good as he could shoot me. The zombies showed damage for me. Something like 244 in big red letters. If it's a melee attack I think they just explode though.
  15. Maybe that was it then. I'm not 100% sure. My Malkavian liked to hide far away with obfuscate and take sniper shots at people and did some wicked damage. Maybe it was just the zoom in part, I can't say for sure. I always made headshots. I also think I used a sniper rifle I bouth from Mercurio, not the "Jamie Sue". It's possible that was patched in by the unofficial patch though, although it was only a slightly improved version of "JS".
  16. Do you have confirmation of this? I have also heard this rumor, but I've also heard that development for Bloodlines was cut short when WW decided to end the WoD, thus the ending was kinda rushed. The two may not be mutually exclusive of course (the gmae is finished and then sits with ACtivision for months) but that makes little sense to me.
  17. They do with the Sniper Rifle. Instakills everything but bosses afaik. Maybe not the sewer monsters, never tried it on those.
  18. Because talking about 2e vs 3.5 e D&D has exactly WHAT to do with NWN shooting for 30 hours?
  19. If you can't fight, I can imagine some parts of the game being insane. Other than that, there is no skill that is mandatory. There are some quests that require one skill or another, but none of them is needed to complete the game.
  20. What skills you had doesn't really say anything about your clan though. Any clan can use any skills. Brujahs are as good as Toreadors with firearms unless Toreador use their Auspex discipline. If you didn't see auras, you didn't use Auspex, which is the same power that would boost your Firearms and Hacking skill. The powers the two have are this: Brujah: Potence - Increased strength (in this game higher melee and brawl damage); Celerity - Super speed; Presence - Charm (making people less inclined to hit you, thus making giving them penalties to their attack roles, some more abilities as well I think) Toreador: Auspex - Increased senses (boosts Perception and Wits and lets you see through walls); Celerity; Presence So the only real identifier would be if you had a power that boosted your senses or your strength?
  21. IIRC, NWN has the turns, it's just tha all involved in a fight act out their turn simultaneously. So if swing at your enemy (and only have one attack) you have to wait until the next turn before you can swing again. At least it works like this in the IE games. As for quicken allowing you to cast two spells in one round, does it really work like that in D&D (and I really have no idea here)? I thought you only got one action during each turn regardless? (if you have more than one attack, all attacks combined still count as a single action I guess)
  22. Don't believe everything you read. No official announcement has been made yet and thus anything can happen. I'm not saying there WILL be an additional season, but given how the ratings are shaping up I'm pretty sure the WB execs are at least considering it. Compare this with Charmed last season. Everyone knew that last season was going to be the last, especially when the last episode of the season was revealed to be named "Something wicca this way goes" (in contrast to the pilot which was called "Something wicca this way comes"). And still it got renewed when announcements were made in may. Yes, I know too much about this stuff.
  23. I've beaten him to a pulp with my fists. Go Brujah!
  24. jorian, most of those answers were attempts to be funny. Except the one where I said I was using reason. As for the concept of restrictions I can see where they're coming from. Some races just don't naturally have some professions. If you come up with a character that should be of a class then talk to your GM about it and if it's a cool character concept, just ignore the rules. Of course there can be an elf barbarian if something has happened in his background. But the elven society does not have barbarians. As for gnomes not being an abomination on nature. I've said it before in this thread, all races that are shorter than my leg should be abolished. All of them. That is also why halflings can't be paladins, no one would take them seriously. As for Drizzt... No, I'm not even going to touch that one. Let's just say I'm not a fan of him or his race and leave it at that. (quite honestly I'm not a huge fan of FR or even D&D, although there are some settings I appreciate).
  25. Smallville has no chance to be the top show in it's timeslot. The WB and UPN reach far less households than the big four, so their numbers are always going to be significantly less. As for it's rating compared to other WB shows, as far as I can tell it places third, only beaten by Gilmore Girls and 7th Heaven with roughly the same numbers as Supernatural. Smallville's ratings are considered a success given it's timeslot, so a renewal is definitely not impossible. I'm not saying it will be renewed, but there are definitely other shows in more danger of cancellation. Usually the network don't announce these things until May, so no one will know for sure in a while.
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