Nameless One

Anachronox...has some of the most memorable charcters, a very good story (set in cyberpunk-sifi), is extremly funny, and has the most entertaining cut-scenes ever (a machinima-film was made out of them, which won some awards at the machinima film festival 2002) gameplay-wise it's more a japanese-rpg in the way combat and charcter-building works but I never saw this as a problem but there are some: you have to patch it to enjoy it (with the latest unofficial-patch) you have to find it to buy it to play it some of the gameplay-mechanics will peeve you (but that's nothing in comparison with the joy you will have) and now some direct-linky-right-click-and-download-propaganda the trailer of trailers...when you don't like this you are probably a bad person this is a gameplay-trailer this one will show you the world (and parts of the world that got cut through, what is part of the never ending struggle between a publishers needs and and developers ideas)

Psychonauts...the guy behind Grim Fandango, which is the last adventure of the good-old-lucasarts-days (which are now replaced by the we-here-at-lucasarts-suck-days) and some might say (I do) the best, made this extremly funny, original and not-mainstream game...buy it...make tim schafer happy...make yourself happy (without feeling dirty afterwards) Beyond Good & Evil...that is a good game...good story, good characters, it's funny, in a heartwarming way, it has a soul...buy it, you can't go wrong with this one Anachronox...one of the older ones...but pure gold (with the latest [fanmade] patch, to be honest)...this game has the best character-attachment-ability (right behind planescape), one of the coolest storys (cyberpunk-filmnoir-craziness) , and the best cutscenes ever...and it's one of the funniest computer games the first one is a mix between action-adventure and adventure (some say it's a jump and run, but I think action-adventure is more fitting)...the second one is kind of akin (but more gameplay-wise) and has a camera...the third one is an rpg (charcter development and fights like final fantasy...but the story, charcters and the humour are western-style) all of them belong to the category to-original-to-get-sold...and it's a shame

These are very strange people to read about. My "prussian heritage" just laughed it's ass off (this is so ridiculous...this forum...they actually have a sister called Dresden, which is, you know, a town; like in "oh look, Nashville got her first tooth" [not to mention the trigger-happy-they-will-see-and-regret-attitude all around, their uncommon sense of history and their bewildering way of using the word "propaganda"]). My knowledge (or should I say "knowledge") about Nazi-germany and the Holocaust shuddered and had to sit down because of a feeling of dizziness caused by the smiley and all the other craploads of crap. My sense of german-history-responsibility had to blame the first one for laughing and then sat down next to the second one. not that it's something new, but, hell, there is some stupidity in humankind

just read about him on the internet and wondered why it all (seems to have) stopped some years ago or does it still happen but I don't know where to look?

I think the Gigabyte 6600gt with passive-cooling will be the lucky bride...I hope the internet didn't lie to me about it's eventhoughpassiv-stability (but internet stopped lying last monday I heared, so, no problem) just one thing: this maybe-to-slow-processor-for-monkeycard-like-this-issue...anyone? but nonetheless thanks so far

I'm currently playing System Shock I for the first time...and now I begin to wonder why there was such a fuss about half-lifes story-in-an-ego-shooter-thing...SSI made it a few years earlier and better one of the greatest so far

thanks for the replies...problem one solved...so the GF6600GT some runnerup-questions: is there a really quiet one out there? ...a certain model which is preferred? is an AMD 2000+ to slow for a card like this? (I remember a time when it was said, that processor and video card should be same generation [/performance level] so that not the one couldn't run as fast as it could because of the other one...is this still a thing to think about?...do you even understand my broken english?) there is new GF7800 thing...should I wait just some weeks more for another pricedrop? (I know it's computer-stupidity that there is always a new generation so you could wait forever...but this time it's close, isn't it?)

I thought about updating my computer (gosh, not again, this isn't a ****ing hardware q&a...what, who said that?) to the glorious days of, say, yesterday...means: some kind of little(/cheap)-inbetween-update is planned with last years good stuff...or todays low(/mid)-end stuff problem: I have no idea what kind of graphic card to buy (my knowledge in this field stopped to grow with buying my GF4200 two years ago) neither what would fit with the other parts in my computer (AMD 2000+, soon 1024MB...AGP-port) 180$ is the limit (when you would be like "there is this exellent piece for 200$ which is two times better then twelve shaved monkeys for 180$" the limit would be alterable...) I would prefer a GeForce because I heard that ATI-stuff is strange and something about virgin-blood (and I have even lesser an idea of the number-lineup-is-9800-better-then-x800-**** then I have with nvidia...but you could tell me) oh, and a silent one is a good one but it don't have to be to specific, some inside in the last two generations (the ones after the GF4 happend) of graphiccards and other tips would be highly appreciated

I'm on Dhruins side when it comes to divine divinity...it's one of the good games the combat is diabloish (and better then that...they took the goods and added some...the interface is really well thought out) but you don't feel cheap and dirty (like it happend with diablo II when I realised with what a mindless game I wasted my time with) after playing because of the lots of dialoge and quests (which are sometimes so-so but most of the time pretty ingenious) and funny things on the huge outdoor map you have plenty of things to explore (lots of little hidden stuff to enjoy between the killings...and even more monsters to kill...btw: they don't respawn like in diablo II) it felt like the developers put a lot of creativity between the lines and didn't took their game to seriously buy it...it's cheap and fun

hearing mixed things about the sales of the excellent game psychonauts (majesco just released some nice financial results but whether they are "in spite of" or "due to" psychonauts I don't know...internet [the filthy liar] said something about 13.000 copies sold in america in the first 11 days which sounded terrible) I just hope it's going good enough so the little two headed baby stays that lucky and healthy

thanks for the info metadigital...I'm still curious what happend between the greek-dramatist/philosopher thing and and the itineraries/stuff you talked about/and later shakespeare (just the amateurish categories I think in)...in the western world, I mean...what was the "must read" of the 8th century...what led the nytimes bestsellerlist in 650ad?

"naught"...like zero copies...haha...very funny you are indeed (now I'm joking) I got my copy yesterday and it's as good and funny (a lot more fun in that then in you, it seems) as they say...on second thought, they are morons, it's even better beyond good and evil + grim fandango + dfac + alot(and I mean "a lot" in capitals)more post-nuke...it's good, isn't it?

dead authors books...mostly because I would be swamped by trying to figure out what's new but not crap with books which are older then, say, fifty (more likely hundred) years it's easy...if they are still around (or at least the names of there authors) they have to be kind of good...but I still have to make it past the 300 years...I have very little idea what happend on the book market around (?) 1000ad (+-700y)...is there some knowledge around here? and, at the moment, I prefer books from europeans...the big old russians, some frenchman, and german authors (thomas mann...he is my favorite writer)...most of what I read is naturalism or realism (or the borderline-mixture-stuff) currently reading: dostoevsky - The Idiot some tolstoy novellas but I constantly try broadening my horizon and read something further away from the canon on the shelf: a yoram yovell book for which I don't know the english title banana yoshimoto - amrita Griboedov - grief of mind the hole new world canon african/south american literature ...

maybe some (or all) of you postapocalypse-monkeys (or any kind of other monkey or not-monkey) allready know this falloutesque (it's not that falloutesque, but the theme...so fallout came in mind when I first...) internet-comic (oline-graphic-novel), but how should I anticipate...I like it (oh, by the way: buy psychonauts, for the sake of originality)

I just wondered whether this is going to be one of those games nobody buys because of to much...mh...originality it gets the press (not the monkey-press like, say, some gta or hl2 but still around the nineties) and I heard it shall get the ad (at least in america), nevertheless I think it won't sell that good (are there any numbers?...or news?) some (gamers) may say it's a platformer and that's not their thing or like...or the people who buy games selected by the look and read of the packing may be swamped with all the colours...i don't know...we will see

did anyone allready bought it?...is it really that amazing?...gamespot gave it a 8.8...(I just mentioned that to show that it's at least to some degree brilliant [not that gamespot is "the authority", but...]) I couldn't play the demo because of some lame internetconnection-thing and I couldn't buy the game because of some lame internationalavailability-thing, so I'm, even more than gamespot, not the one to tell you, but I think "Grim Fandango" and "Day of the Tentacle" are masterpieces in the field of entertainment and Tim Schafer (who was the/a head behind the both of them) is a genius (not like einstein, or chaplin, or dostojewski, but in the small world of video-games...) and so psychonauts must be...mh...excellent...so buy it...I will

so...where do you come from?

Dostojewskij, Puschkin, Tolstoi...they are (were...i mean the books they wrote are) cool...i mean good...uhm...extraordinary

http://www.doublefine.com/news.htm this is the (i mean "the") masterpiece in the field of news about a game...even if you arent interested in this game or company (actually schafer doesnt talk a lot about the excellent game psychonauts...its more like...comedy) you simply have to (okay...that isnt true) read and or bookmark this link...hilarious...and for free...this obsidian news thing is in comparison with that just...

he is way to slim for that job...on the other hand he appears uneducated and he wears cowboy hats...so the answer is: kind of yes...but fatter

maybe there's a connection between that and the exceptional high results...maybe...

mmmh...time

for the rhyme man, it was done for rhyme

maria...vowels

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