Judge Hades

I lost my job, penniless, and no girlfriend. I decided to take a more up beat look on life. Over the last few months, okay years, I have been way too negative. A new year is coming and its time for change. In the midst of tragedy like this you just gotta know it just couldn't be avoided. We are nothing but specks of dust when facing the awesome power of nature. Sure we can take precautions but precautions can only do so much. Draakh, you are right and good to hear you mother is okay. I know they have a system of detecting earthquaks in the Pacific so warnings can be issued but warnings are only as good as those who follow them. Hopefully they will put such a system in place in the Indian Ocean. A ten minute warning might not seem like much but that is ten minutes more you have a chance to find cover. I saw some of the footage and people were taking pictures and video taping as the tidal waves were coming in. That is just plain stupid in my opinion.

I have 256 mb VRAM and 512 mb RAM.

I don't care about profit. I care about getting my money's worth out of a game I buy. That's not going to happen with MMORPGs.

Aribeth? That two dimensional character was worthless. How the hell can you influence her? No matter what you do she still betrays Neverwinter. Killed her for that. Imoen? That is a laugh. She pretty much stayed the same through out the game and Sarevok was a simple minded oaf that only cared about one thing. Himself. There was no influence with those characters. You are strenching it, Volourn. Stretching it alot.

You just need to know a Jedi's weakness and exploit it.

I haven't seen how Revan did any sort of influencing in the first KotOR. The NPCs did what they were going to do regardless what my character did or said. Except for that force persuading Zaalbar to kill Mission.

Its a new mechanic, Volourn. Can't expect perfection from a new game mechanic, you know this.

Well, I hope they are putting the influence system in it.

Sorry, but I refuse to pay a monthly fee for a game I already bought just to play it.

What we need to do is setup Midway that we can get all these designers to do one project, make it a CRPG, and for the PC. Hmm... Sounds like a Mission: Impossible scenerio. Dammit, where is tom Cruise when you need him.

Well, from what I hear we will have quite a number of possible NPCs that can join the PC and you can have a party of four in NWN 2. A four person party is standard.

It was your pants that brought him back.

I don't care about the history, just the bottum line.

Even an awesome game needs to get its bugs fixed and developers need to make sure bugs are a minimal on a console.

I am not saying higher level enemies. I am saying they need to put in smarter enemies. Also I am a role player, and I role play my characters on how they would act in a given situation. In a given situation that I am going to storm the enemy base and I can only take a few people with me it would be stupid not to take the most capable people with you. The problem here is the uber munchkinism is already built into the game mechanics so the only way to make the game a challenge is to role play your character stupidly and I do not role play stupidly.

This is a relatively new system and its not going to work perfectly. From what I heard of it, it is better than not having it at all and allwsy greater role playing for the single player. Is it perfect, not yet, but if Obsidian continues developing the Influence system, which I hope they do for NWN 2, it will be very rewarding. It can only get better.

WHy should he handicap himself artificially. If there is a role play reason to go alone, sure, but if there isn't why should he do so? The game should be difficult even with a party of your strongest peeps.

There is only one person I trust and only one person's opinion I follow when it comes to games. Mine. And do tell me how am I going to buy the game WITHOUT A FREAKING JOB!

Possible, yes. Plausible, no. Lets keep the games in their proper genres, okay. When you start crossing genres like that you will only end up with crap. Case in point, FOPOS and Demonstone.

But you won't know for certain till you buy it. Personally I like to try before I buy to make sure I am getting a product I really want.

He is acting civil. Do you want an example of what being uncivil is like?

I think so. Sucks, doesn't it.

Yeah, but will the conversion be worth playing. From people I talked to Halo was a kickarse X-Box game but when it was ported over the PC audience said it was piss poor.

IWD 2 is defintiely a challenge. I should try to go through that game again solo.

Its time to wake up!