Judge Hades

Fine, but does that give you the right to impose your beliefs on others. If someone of your mentality gets in my face I will punch his. I have no problems following their religion as long it doesn't impose on the rights of others. Your religion does therefore it needs to be removed from state politics. Separation of church and state needs to be absolute. Practice your religion on your time, not on mine.

What's messing the whole deal is the fact that marriage is being treated as a legal and religious matter. Make it one or the other, not both. Either the U.S. government (and those following their lead) need to abolish marriage as a legality and keep it wholy a religious matter. Separation of Church and State needs to be complete and total.

Once the human element of a belief has been institutionalized, processed, and placed in a beauracracy then it is time to move on to something else..

The belief themselves don't earn my ire, but the people who practice those beliefs and try to force those beliefs on others do. So I pretty much agree with your assessment, Fionavar. :D

Stereotypes? I am not going by any stereotypes. I have studied Judeo-Christianity, Islam, Bhuddism, Hindu, and the social dynamics of each of these religions and have come to the conclusion that I hate religion.

You should know by now that I don't use logic.

I don't emulate him. If I did we would be hating the same things, which we don't.

Yes, but Icewind Dale 2 peeps are all pretty much gone from BIS and Interplay so that doesn't count. Also it uses an outdated engine and rather creative rules implementation in representing 3e. I might like IWD2 but it is still nothing innovative or spectacular. BGDA 2 is nothing more than another hack and slash like its predecessor, again nothing inovative or spectacular. Play one Hack and slash and you have pretty much played them all.

Okay, let me rephrase this then, what have they done worth of doing a good game?

It works for George W. Bush so it can't be all bad.

I hate religion.

What has Interplay done in the CRPG market lately? 2 console games and neither one I consider CRPGs. Atari? Have they got ToEE working right yet? No they haven't. They decided to short change yet another game. So tell me Volourn, what have they done lately that is worth noting?

Who cares abt **** and Atari? What have either one done lately? Nothing worth noting.

Yes. I have been in the Pacific Rim area, ranging from Hong Kong, Singapore, and northern Australia. You would be surprised the amount of piracy that goes rampant there. Its also the same in Bahrain as well.

Well to follow up then ... which one? The original.

Law and Order of course.

Man, they need to cancel Smallville before cancelling Angel. They are doing something stupid if they cancel Angel. Its the second best show on right now.

I wouldn't mind a good d20 System game, but not fantasy and especially not Forgotten Realms. Can we say "over used." I am not particularly looking forward to another d20 Star Wars either. Just more fantasy crap.

As for software piracy, I am pretty much against it. Back in the days of the Commodore 64 I was a major software pirate here in the Midwest. At one time I had $250,000 (adjusted to today's dollar value) worth of pirated games, utilities, and applications. Then I stopped. I ditched the Commodore 64, erase and destroyed all my discs, and moved on. I realized that piracy was wrong and if I want people to respect my intellectual property I have to respect theirs. Software piracy is pure disrespect to the software publishers, plain and simple, though I might be tempted to download Pagemaker or the latest version of Acrobat off Kazaa I have so far been able to quell that temptation.

The key word here is balance. Character creation options and multiple story paths aid in replayability but at the same time does not promote good story cohesion. Games like PS:T and KotOR have great story cohesion and focus, but at the same time lack character creation options. Morrowind on the otherhand has a wide range of character creation options and such, but lacks any sort of focus. Now KotOR does sport multiple story paths, namely 2 of them, but while a game like Fallout had multiple paths that led to quite a number of endings. Fallout, though graphically lacking in terms of today's games was a good balance of character creation options, multiple story paths, and story focus. If Obsidian can achieve this, yet have a story on par as PS:T, then they would have a game worthy of being titled Game of the Year. Of course that is a very big "If."

I would like to see a game carry the same style and themes of PS:T, but not the actual setting. I wouldn't mind to see such a game to have the same character creation options that Fallout 1/2 had over PS:T. PS:T was a bit too constricting on that part and one of its weaknesses.

I would vote for hard core science fiction. There have been too many fantasy games as it is.

Also add the fact the game had no story to it as well has major design issues. ToEE is one DnD game I wished that I didn't purchase. It had good combat, but thats about it. Good combat doesn't make a CRPG.

Zorrelak, I think that the boyos of Obsidian would be smarter than cut any deals with Interplay. Hell, Interplay hasn't even paid Reflexive off for Lionheart. Interplay would be one company that if people are smart would stay away from.

You never know til I have. I would be a stickler on the rules and most probably curb my own eratic behavior. Wouldn't want too a bad influence.