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Anyone else experience slight graphical oddities? See how the inventory items have a darker background and the inventory bag has that black box around it? Well, floating text also has that black backing to it, such as Irenicus' words in the beginning of BGII. It seems that some form of transparency is gone. I'd wager it's most likely simply a consequence of newer hardware (and drivers) than anything the game was intended for, but I figure I'll ask anyway.

Charisma and Wisdom are the dump stats for my Wild Mage. He's a Wild Mage! If he was wise, he wouldn't have picked the class in the first place. And tossing about spells randomly is likely to make people not like him as much. I like to think of him as a cross between a mad wizard and the guy who juggles chainsaws.

I believe in you, buddy! It's okay if I call you buddy, right?

Isn't that why there is a bunch of belts/gauntlets of XYZ Giant Strength in the game? It just catches me by surprise. I'll always get a weapon or armor that she simply can't equip without the belt. I'll think "WTF, WHY CAN'T SHe... oh... yeah. d'oh" To be so repeatedly fooled is frustrating.

Or simple and quite horrible recouloring of the original portraits. Imoen with horribly yellow hair? http://www.gibberlings3.net/portraits/thumbnails.php?album=4

I really try to.

One thing that is currently bugging the crap out of me with regards to Baldur's Gate I and II is the abysmal selection of portraits. And the even worse ones people have on various sites around the internet. The male human mages that ship are either fruity (I'm looking at you, guy with purple outfit and his hands in the air) or Edwin. The ones online are cropped fantasy art or celebrity faces shopped onto the included portraits.

You just named one Konami series and then a bunch of Capcom games. Konami used to do PC ports of games. That's seemed to taper off.

Capcom would be one the exceptions that makes it "rarely" instead of simply "never."

Hammerspace magazines.

Or Tecmo's a japanese company and many of them rarely bother to look twice at PC gaming.

Real men die when the zombies come. Don't be a real man. Run.

Is it a debit card? Do you use it at the ATM machine?

Do we truly know that's not going to be the case with this game or something similar? I somehow am wary to jump to the conclusion that Obsidian is going into a full-blown third person shooter. Considering that this is a developer whose history is so heavily tied to D20 games, I hold my doubts that this'll play like Max Payne. You've read the previews right? No. No, I have not. I don't read magazines nor do I hunt down scans. I fully anticipate it would be closer to Max Payne than KOTOR, but hold doubt that it'll be all the way over on that side.

Heh, Viconia does kind of piss me off as my Cleric. Every single time I play, without fail, her low strength score will catch my by surprise.

Do we truly know that's not going to be the case with this game or something similar? I somehow am wary to jump to the conclusion that Obsidian is going into a full-blown third person shooter. Considering that this is a developer whose history is so heavily tied to D20 games, I hold my doubts that this'll play like Max Payne.

*is assured*

The only thing ever to get my credit card company suspicious enough to call me was a $60 or $70 charge from the UK. What did not get them suspicious enough to call me was an overseas purchase from Hong Kong.

It's sometimes easy to forget other games we've played with infinite ammo. Did we ever have to reload or stock up ammo for blasters in KOTOR? Can it honestly be said that finite ammo would have brought anything of benefit to that game?

I think he's a tad bit insane. Thinks he's a rock star.

I was intimidated and frustrated with the spirit-meter at first, too. But then I stopped being obsessive and it actually worked for me. I was just terrified of having any hunger at all that I was afraid to progress in the game and was missing out on the new abilities that would help me manage it better.

It's quite silly that Bethesda didn't test what the game would be like if people selected "New Game."

You're overthinking it. Putting weapons into holsters has been done for some time. I've got a PSOne games where characters can sheathe swords. I can't fathom why you'd want or need to get physics involved. There's no need for the holster to actually "hold" the weapon. In fact, there's no need for the holster to even be a seperate object from the weapon when the weapon is holstered. It just needs to look like a weapon in a holster. Which should be more of a modelling task than physics. The complication I see is, how do you actually sling a shotgun over your back? Do we actually have straps in existence that pin firearms to people's backs allowing free use of their hands with another firearm?

I never needed Alchemy for Morrowind. I actually used it, but pretty much exclusively for water walking and water breathing. You explore a little, find a decent sword, and you can cut down anything. Oh, and the absolute brokeness that is Dark Brotherhood armor. 2nd strongest light armor, quite valuable, delivered right to you while you sleep.

I could never enjoy those mods. I tried a couple and ended up finding nothing but poorly balanced encounters. And even they couldn't attempt to fix the lack of any reason to explore. I think it was about the point of trying those that I realized I didn't care about dungeons because the greatest treasure to find at the bottom would be yet another rusty warhammer.