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At a reasonably price for a trustworthy seller? I just checked ebay for your claim and I've seen everything from what looks to be ripoff machines that look nothing like an NES to $300 for a console. Finding old hardware that works is harder than being able to make old software work with new hardware. What they heck does that have to do with anything? Buying a select few old games equates in some weird way to preserving all your already owned old games? It's nice that they have some, but that doesn't really factor into it, unless your library consists of only those. It's too limited. The PC has compatability issues you can resolve. Consoles have not being able to play issues you can't even touch. There's nothing you can say that downplays the fact that PC games are more reliable to preserve than console games. In fact, console games are easier to preserve with a PC than with a newer console. Which one? I have the first and third, I think that's correct, in a backup CD at the moment... All of them except the last one. There an id super pack on Steam I had to snatch up. Source ports of Wolfenstein 3D and Quake are fun.

If this was in response to me, I didn't say it was impossible. I acknowledge that. I just am incapable of seeing how it could be done reasonably. If it can be, I dare it to happen. A well written history created more for the story than to justify rules could be better than Forgotten Realms quite easily. The problem is keeping it well written for such a scope.

I can get a copy of Windows 95. It may not be legal, but I can get it. Further, there's always emulation (hell, we've got Dosbox for Win 3.1 and older games) and fan patches. I have a working copy of Commander bleeping Keen on my XP box. A game older than some of our forum posters. Hell, I've got Zork on that machine. That game is older than I am.

The main thing I like about the PC is I can still play Baldur's Gate and Half-Life on it. Suck that down, Xbox 360! I hate the idea of my games being "lost." My NES cartridges are useless to me since my NES is dead. I'll hate the day when I lose my SNES games and my Dreamcast games to those systems dying. My PS1 and PS2 games are preserved for now because the PS2 slim is still available for purchase should my PS1 and PS2 both go out. My Gameboy games are preserved because I can get new Gameboy Advance SPs. It's part of what I fear from consoles. A lot are making a focus on backward compatability, which is definitely good. But, sometimes its not always feasible. The DS has no backwards compatilibity for pre-advance games.

The NWN2 module I'm working on, indefinitely on hiatus, got positive responses when I put together a description for feedback. This description included the phrase "traditional fantasy from a nihilist." That said, I think I'm liked.

Nobody has to buy a new graphics card every year. Unless they're Bok.

DnD Bards aren't literal Bards. They're not just "some tosser standing around playing a lute." They're supernatural beings, akin to Sorcerers, who express their magic through music. I think the concept of some tosser standing around yelling "OH GOD HELP US" while the party fights a monster to be pretty ludicrous too. Until the god comes in and decides Mass Heal is appropriate. The class is flawed. But only because the class is Rogue/Sorcerer with music being thrown in just to justify him being his own class, and if DnD treated such combinations better he'd be redundant. I'd like to see a Rogue/Wizard turn out as well. If you're having trouble with a Bard being viable, talk to your DM. If you are the DM, talk to the player of the Bard. See what the precise problem the Bard is having is. A Bard always seems to me to be a highly social class. I personally can't justify putting a Bard into a position where he has to fight a Wizard or Warrior alone. That's the kind of situation a Bard should talk his way out of.

Why not drop the Spirit Shaman altogether? DnD epic isn't friendly to hybrids.

One thing I'm hopeful about for 4E is that hybrids will be more useful at later levels. Especially looking towards Epic.

I don't see why teens are brought into the discussion. Alcohol and cigarretes are far more destructive to teens and we sell those at Wal-Mart. The only reason the game was censored for the US is the fact that the major retailers Wal-Mart and Target won't sell an Ao rated game. It's an interesting circle. Wal-Mart and Target won't sell it because they feel the culture is against it. The culture is against it because they define themselves by what they see. Since they don't see it at Wal-Mart and Target, they think it must be wrong. I personally reject the notion that beer is more family friendly than boobies.

I've never seen a single Godfather film.

Phoenix Wright > Madden

I want to give a lot of credit to my handhelds of late. My DS has been the system I play the most and my PSP is my system I use for travelling or anything where I spend time waiting. That said, when I get a new PC game, I'll put off Phoenix Wright to finish that PC game. As with Witcher. So, for me, what it comes down to is that my handhelds get more playtime and I spend more money on games for them lately, however my PC gets higher priority.

I'd like to see more Faerun. Nobody else has nearly as interesting, or even active, divine powers. From Baldur's Gate to Mask of the Betrayer, it's the best of the realms. I can't even imagine original IPs bringing the drama that FR gods bring. You'd have to introduce too much.

This is what my Google-fu is coming up with: http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/commu...gardingFaerun4e If The Orc King is revealing aspects of 4E, I might get it. I'm not a PnP gamer, but I do enjoy the drama of DnD's cosmology. Heck, I'm dying to know if they'll ever reveal where Deathstalkers get their powers from. Some suspect it is Cyric, others that it's Set, and some suspect it is indeed Bhaal. I'm reading a bit about the clearer division between demons and devils. Devils are scheming and trying to obtain souls, demons are engines of neverending destruction. But... this is new? I thought that's how it had been.

The Witcher's loading times aren't bad. It's the save time that is bad.

A Baldur's Gate MMO would be neat. If everyone got to be Bhaalspawn, it'd be like the Highlander! Even though it didn't actually work that way.

One and the same. But, those aren't text based. Text based refers to games like Zork which are all text.

I recently heard they're jumping the timeline a century or so. Anyone know what changes they're making to the cosmology? I hear they're even getting rid of the bloodwar. None of what I read seemed reliable.

Yes. Triss1 isn't very revealing.

You guys know what The Witcher has that Mask of the Betrayer hasn't? I mean beyond nudity and foul language. Something very important that all games should have. Official wallpaper. I want you Obsidian guys to think that over. Real hard.

Is it the one with the brunette who happens to be holding a chicken?

Poor Townswoman card is gotten thus:

I knew about the lesbians in Witcher, but Vampire sex? Hot damn!