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Just hit disc 3 of Lunar 2. Was trying to play some Team Fortress 2 earlier in the week. But a few minutes in my computer would freeze, the screen would go black, my monitor would say no signal, and the last tone I heard would keep going. I dusted my machine, hoping that would fix it, and now the fan at the rear of my power supply has become noisy. I don't think I'm going to use this any more than I have to until I get that power supply replaced. And it sounds like no TF2 for a while. At least not until after I get that other problem narrowed down.

It's not that long and arduous. Doctor Who is the longest running with the longest period of run and number of episodes. However, Stargate SG-1 is considered it by Guiness because Doctor Who supposedly had a break somewhere in the initial run.

What? When did shooting happen? I must have totally missed that.

I bought Condemned 2: Bloodshot yesterday. And apparently they have the worst ignorance of SD televisions so far experienced. There are investigation sections of the game where you have to pick something from a list. It's text and it's unreadable. I should have tried the demo, it's enough to make me think I shouldn't have purchased the game. Because now I'm going to need to get an HDMI-DVI cable and a pair of USB headphones.

Are we talking only about game development teams? What if they have a soccer team?

That's because it's a rule of thumb. Not an actual formal definition. An action RPG is generally one that tries through it's mechanisms to make the player more active in combat. What I previously mentioned is just the most common use of it. The feel is nothing like Baldur's Gate. Baldur's Gate combat is generally pause, set target, forget. Adjust if things go bad or to select spells. Witcher requires active involvement with every single action. The differentiation between the action subgenre and the normal genre is solely reliant upon the combat system. It's irrelevant if it's a mindless dungeon crawl or the Illiad. Action doesn't mean "mindless like an action movie." Action means the combat has a reliance on player skill. It's like Platformer. The defining function of platformers is jumping from platform to platform. Anything beyond that is irrelevant. Videogame genres are generally differentiated by the gameplay mechanics.

I don't really have any interesting stories from Eve, but I did play it. I didn't get around half as much in that game as I did in SWG. But I was voted squad leader of Epsilon squad for a year after I stopped playing. Probably was a sort of voter protest against having formal leadership, but I like to think it was because they miss me.

It's come time. I've been given the go to make an announcement. I have been hired to make KOTOR 3. I'll be making it with paper and stick figures. When you purchase the game, you will be given instructions on how to cut them out and a pair of dice. It featuress an innovative Create Your Own Abilitytm system. This system is inspired by the popular sport Calvinball.

The first time I joined a guild to kill the leader's Jedi, I bragged about it to a friend of mine. Funny thing about that is, that friend was victim number 2 of the trick. Of course, I didn't plan on killing his Jedi. Sure, I picked up the bounty, but I dropped it and it glitched. As for the killing? Well, he was dancing around in a starport without any armor and no buffs. Instinct kicked in. I deathblowed him before I realized I even equipped a weapon.

Commissar Taleroth here. I was one of the most feared Bounty Hunters on a server. Not because I killed more Jedi than than the other hunters, but because I talked like I did. My venomous pronunciations inspired others to kill Jedi. Certainly, I did kill a few Jedi in creative fashions. I joined several guilds just to kill the guild leader's Jedi. Typically the very same day I joined. While the Jedi grinded AFK on top of the guildhall. I once killed a Jedi on a rooftop by sicking a pet droid on him. He triple incapped. Then I went to the nearest cloner and waited for 2 hours for him to get back. I taunted him in an in-game mail. "Even your vaunted guildhall cannot save you." The first thing he did was respond to it "u suck." I knew then that it would be time. His body appeared in the cloner, I said "hello" and killed him again. I needed the deathblow personally or else I wouldn't get paid. If he hadn't been on a rooftop, he only would have needed to die once. Most kills were relatively mundane, though. And like I said, I didn't kill the most. I probably was only in the mid-range for quantity. But I did piss off more people when I did it. I killed friends' Jedi. I killed my own guild leaders' Jedi. I killed the Jedi of friendly guilds. I would not avoid killing any Jedi for any reason ever. Friendly raids? Oops, my finger slipped. The leader of a faction used to tip me off to his own faction's jedi and a little city they built for themselves. In fact, that kind of thing was common. Several people in prominent guild used to love ratting their guildmates' Jedi out to Bounty Hunters. It was beautiful. I saw so many little online communities while playing that game. I joined spying guilds, GCW oriented guilds, Jedi killing guilds, activist guilds (this one was half-lesbian, and by half-lesbian I mean it was a bunch of men pretending to be lesbians over the internet). I helped build, defend, and even attack the longest standing stronghold on the server. I'd been labelled villain, hero, pariah, and spy. Good times.

Still playing Lunar 2: Eternal Blue COMPLETE and I think I'll be going the distance. I have the red dragon to free. I'll be picking up Condemned 2: Bloodshot and a new PS2 (my current one sounds like its about to die) today. But I'll finish Lunar 2 before I unwrap Condemned 2.

Bug hunt.

i'm curious, just how did the Witcher become known as an 'action' RPG? i'm sure folk can quibble over categorization but, in my book, action RPGs are games like Diablo or Titan Quest. Nobody who gets past its prologue could confuse those games with the Witcher. then again, Gromnir and i move in different circles. i'm sure the folk he knows are a rarified bunch. p.s. once i tweaked the graphics settings, Witcher ran far more smoothly on my PC than NWN2. it looked much better and had quicker load times too. Generally, when your character's default attacks are carried out by each individual click of the mouse, then it's classified an action RPG. Diablo, Jade Empire, I presume Titan Quest, and The Witcher. If you find yourself actively clicking the mouse over and over again when fighting an enemy, the RPG is considered partially an action game as you are more active in determining the outcome of combat. To contrast, Baldur's Gate and KOTOR only require you to select the enemy and select to attack. Individual default attacks are repeated without further input until the enemy dies or your character does.

People who ask for advice, then ignore it. I'm not saying people should always adhere to advice, but when someone has difficulty in a situation, asks for advice, then pursues the dumbest option available to them, it's a bit silly. This typically revolves around people asking about relationship advice, as relationships are the most commond scenario for people acting like complete morons. This is why I try to only have single friends. And for that matter, people who define themselves by their relationships. They grind my gears. Because they often behave in the aforementioned idiocy more frequently than others.

Still playing Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete. Man, I miss Working Designs. The 2 Playstation remakes of Lunar games are all I know of their localization work, but they did wonderfully. They're probably nearly as responsible for how good those two games are as Game Arts, the developers.

And then again, Mass Effect sounded more like Gears of War than KOTOR!

If you guys need someone on full time for that, I'm mean with a blackjack.

You still didn't address the fictional technologies that refute your position but are also moot.

Personally, I think this calls for some despair.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/124098 I can't think of anything even remotely witty to say about this.

If they go so far as to have a selection of 3 heads (one ripping off Bond, one ripping off Bourne, one ripping off Bauer), it'll be more than I give a rat's behind about. I anticipate more interest in this as an action/adventure than a roleplaying game.

I hope I'm not seeing the rise of a regular shtick for you... Nah, the novelty will be gone before the day is over. OH GOD! I'm in despair! My fickle nature has left me in despair!

I'm in despair. The failings of the english language to properly communicate to Krezack informally and nonliterally has left me in despair!