Tale

She apparently has a degree in Psychology from Harvard. If she wasn't 37, I'd find that a turnon.

Yeah, reading the forums I've seen a few mentions of "short adventures" alongside a toolset attributed to the developers.

I want The Witcher 2 now. It may even be in development.

So, to those who've finished the game, it should be blatantly obvious that the Grand Master, Jacques de Aldersburg, is in actuality the little boy Alvin. Apparently this isn't quite so obvious if you chose Shani as a romantic interest as Shani won't mention that Alvin can time travel. There's even some argument on the official forums against this position, but it seems limited and I won't give it any credit. I'm hoping, for those who have finished, we can explore how he changed based upon on our decisions. I notice that we never see or get any detail about him until Chapter 5 starts. Does his appearance change? In my game, he dressed up in full armor. I presume this is because I encouraged Alvin to become a knight. What happens if you encourage him to become a Witcher? Another question I ask is what happens if you don't tell him to stop playing "Kill the elf?" Does he justify the Order's genocide as more than simply a means to an end? The game supposedly touched on racism, but for my game, the racism seemed the traditionally immature facet of racism being the result of manipulation of a higher power, as opposed to it being the result of culture clash or competition for limited resources. But perhaps siding with the racist view might actually present a more mature understanding of racism from the Aldersburg.

Okay, then it's Festivus!

I hope Fallout 3 to be a gigantic financial success, regardless of whether it is a good game or not, just so I can taste fanboy tears.

It was a drug raid on warrant. It wasn't based on a "tip." Most likely the address on the warrant was written wrong. As for shouting that they've got them surrounded, that's usually when you end up with hostages taken and disposed of evidence. A warrant should be more credible than that, however. This should, and from the article it is, cause them to reevaluate their procedures when conducting raids. They may be putting in some sort of verification steps in there, if they don't already have them and they just weren't followed.

I went neutral. I also chose Triss because she seemed more capable. Lol at those who think they couldn't stay neutral. I thought it was far better. It actually took into account your actions instead of being a very straight script. However, I'm only theorizing on that point. I wonder how much of what I said previously effect that dialogue.

Just beat the game. I'll try to minimize spoilers. Quite frankly, I think it's a novel worthy story. That is to say it's that good. Of course, that's also ignoring the poor english localization. The overall story is just good. To compare it to Mask of the Betrayer, I'd say MotB had more interesting characters, Witcher had a better story. I thought it did very well what it set out to do, as well. Blur the lines between good and evil. Sometimes it did fall short, at one point a character tries blaming Geralt for all the bad things that have happened so far, which is a point easily defensible against. At least in my game. However, the ultimate villain of the game was a sympathetic character to me. His position isn't entirely new, as I'm sure I've seen it before, but the way they presented it along with my realization of who he is had me feel sorry for him in some ways. Another flaw in the game is that it's uneven in a way. Chapter 2 and 3 feel like just one long chapter. When I hit 3, it felt repetitive. But once I was done with that, smooth sailing.

Near the end of Witcher. Getting closer. Have some nice badarse armor, badarse swords, and am tearing the enemies to shreds. Except that last unique monster who nearly reamed me like I was a hooker and it was jack the ripper, but I found a way.

Actually I mean chips, but that's because I wish I were British.

Really? He's seemed a bit of a one trick pony to me. Luckily that trick rests perfectly on what was needed for Batman, Equilibrium, and American Psycho.

I have two things to say. One, the forum automatically *s swear words. This is what Xard was conveying. It's not him doing it, it's the forum. As an example. ****ing. It should show up with stars and ing, even though I did spell the word out. Two, CATFIGHT! ROWR!

Took my mother to Red Lobster saturday, my treat. Had the Lobster mixed seafood grill or whatever. Included scallops, shrimp, and a maine lobster tail which had been split in the middle. The scallops and shrimp were good and while I rarely find lobster tails to be as big as I expect, this one seemed even smaller than usual. Probably because of how it was cut. It had a very good butter sauce over it. Also, I can not recommend Red Lobster's french fries. Their Lobster Pizza is delicious, however.

Am I really the only person with an XFire issue in NWN2? Nobody else comments on it.

HACHACHA! I like the Xenosagas, but they're some I can't recommend to everybody. Serious flaws, but incredible if you can look past them. They're for RPG gamers who really enjoy a nice pseudo-philosophical story. If you're a big Xenogears fan, like me, they're doubly nice for all the little throwbacks to that old game. Never played any of the Tales games, but I think Symphonia is the one I've heard most recommendations for. If you're looking for a Final Fantasy, I would recommend XII before I recommend X.

If Wals starves to death, I call dibs on his moderator status!

It took me a while to catch on to this. In Chapter I you see several characters with what you think are unique models. Chapter II comes along and they end up on every street corner. I'm in the last chapter and I want to say I can list the unique models, but I just know that I'll turn a corner and find an army of clones.

One thing that bothers me is the translation is pretty terrible. Many conversations are disjointed and other times they're just jumpy. And it seems like there's two Geralt voice actors. One's good, the other sounds like he might be an intern.

Dont do it! Because then she'll win!

Morrowind? That had a brilliant story and was completely open ended sandbox play. If KOTOR was ever made like that then that would be the best game of Star Wars ever. The story of Morrowind was throwaway. The story behind Morrowind was quite good. The characters and progression were thinly veiled attempts to make you travel from location to location with no sincere plot or character development beyond ever increasing revelations about a single interesting event in the backstory. A very interesting event, but not exactly a meaty story.