Bartimaeus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpuaKICh4lM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aCeY8i3Fto

Good for you. Contempt? Insulated thinking? So because I'm not strolling across the flower fields happily embracing anyone who talks to me from above like I'm some uneducated child, I'm "insulated"? Because I don't immediately agree with someones theories, I'm "refusing to even cosider it"? Must be nice in strawman land. Heveans forbid anyone even dares to contemplate different possibilities. You don't have to agree - I don't necessarily agree with either of you or anyone else in this topic, as I don't really have an opinion on the actual topic at hand either way, but merely find it interesting to read the opposing arguments. However, if I were going to attempt to take a stance here and state an opinion in direct contradiction to someone else's position - and you were the one that initially picked out Bruce's post and stated it to be wrong, without backing it up at all besides *opinion* - you can sure as heck bet I wouldn't be "refuting" their forthcoming arguments by replying with them not being worth reading because I already "know" I'm right...because I'm pretty sure that's a stance anyone can take regarding virtually anything at all. Should he have actually made some points himself instead of attempting to make you do (most of) his work for him? Absolutely - unless you're super interested in trying to make him see your point of view and perhaps agree with you, I don't think you had an obligation to respond to him at all, as he didn't actually do anything himself for his argument, and I think it's pretty poor etiquette to just post links and make the opponent construct their position for them. But maybe it's just me, but saying something along the lines of "neener neener, I don't need to read what you're posting, and I feel obligated to tell you not just that that, but also the fact you're still wrong *and* now additionally deluded, based on *opinion*!" seems a bit worse in comparison. But hey, the good news is that my posts are based mostly on opinion and/or a disturbing amount of subjective ethics, too, so I guess I'm hardly one to talk, eh?

Most of the gameplay mechanics mentioned have disappointed me - or at least the sounds of them has, which, I admit, isn't really giving them the full benefit of the doubt, but nonetheless - ...and honestly, while I'm still glad this is being made, I can't really say I'm actually too interested anymore...at least not for the gameplay mechanics already mentioned. On the other hand, the more character/story related stuff, I am still fairly excited about. Hopefully, it'll be enough to pull me in and still give it a try.

Wow. I'd never seen or even heard of a capybara before now. They look a little bit goofy, but completely adorable! (P.S: Chinchilla picture doesn't work for me. ) Ack, why are you so mean, :<

I don't need a lesson. You can keep your opinion, TrashMan, I'm not interested. Arguing against people who show complete contempt of what you're saying and refuse to even *consider* your point of view seems like a total waste of time on everyone's end to me, but maybe that's just me. What kind of crappy discussion/argument involves people just ignoring the opposition's supporting details/arguments? What's the point of even saying your piece when they could retort with the same exact cop out thing you just said? Hurray for insulated thinking.

Same here. I feel cheated. P.S. Much better than the other "attractive" threads,

I was kinda stunned by the 10% of men countries...but 50%? Good golly, that's seems actually really scary to me... (edit) Are there any similar statistics on Western countries? I'm kinda curious...

Have you considered any theories for the event "Project" is actually a verb, Osvir?

I adopted this name about 6 years ago after I read the Bartimaeus trilogy, (now the Bartimaeus Sequence, since another book was added). Still love the books, but...I mostly use the name nowadays because all the people I know know me by it, and it's too much of a hassle to change. Alternatively, BartyMae, which was semi-silly derivative on Bartimaeus a friend made up on the spot for me that I started to use because it was completely unique and I didn't mind it. Avatar: a friend made it at my request...though, admittedly, they would've made it eventually anyways, as it was part of an awesome project they were doing at the time called Banjo-Cutie, which was basically to take all the characters of the games Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, (and maybe Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts...it's been a while), and render them in their "cutie" artstyle. Nowadays, they're making an awesome (PG!) webcomic called "The Fourth"...

I will say "Neverwinter Nights" had "good" companions, and Torment had the best. But really, Neverwinter Nights only gets good because of Mask of the Betrayer - okay, maybe the OC a little, too - but actually, if it was on its own, it would make it hard to vote between it and Torment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsuvFo-cvo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1haiDBdm9c Haven't listened to this guy in forever...heard the following song...five years(?) ago. Not quite as good as I remembered, but still enjoyable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DcfXVL0mh0

I never thought there would be a time to post this, but the title makes it necessary... Sorry if this is juvenile. :D

My sister had me watch this, because she found it creepy/horrible...and I have to agree: even for crappy pop music video standards, this video is pretty gosh darned weird/stupid. And also awful, (particularly the actual music), but that's just me. Tsk, tsk. Oneiroid Psychosis - I Am the Totality

Play a straight Kensai in ToB: You get hit every single attack from pretty much every enemy, so those Potions of Extra Healing are usually a good idea. No consumable use also implies rest spam abuse. Yeah for the harder difficulties. I guarantee normal will be easier than BG2 normal because then it will appeal to a wider range of people. Now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever had my main character be a fighter, either. If I was soloing as a crappy class, (crappy being defined as "not a particularly great choice for solo"), I'd probably use consumables...but I typically only solo as a Mage/Cleric, so... Define "rest spam abuse". Is it abuse if you do it before every major battle? Or after clearing an area? After every battle? In the middle of battles, (which is possible, but hard and also extremely cheesy in my mind)?

Depends on exactly what the difficulty settings do. If all hard mode does, for example, is increase damage taken ala IE games, and/or reduce damage dealt, then I'll probably just use the normal difficulty. If it makes them more intelligent, or adds additional monsters, or makes select characters (bosses, mainly) harder, then I'll probably use the hardest difficulty setting. I probably won't touch any of the extraneous ones to begin with - but maybe Expert. Are you implying that normal/core difficulty (or even hard) in IE games require consumables? Don't think I've ever used a consumable ever in an IE game.

Read Ender's Game. Surprisingly really good. Should've read it years ago when I was actually recommended it.

For me, it's not about listening quality; it's about using a lossless data container. While I may not be able to hear the difference, I can definitely see it when examining the raw frequencies, (which, by the way, would easily show which of yours were upscaled and which ones weren't). I just don't...listen to music in lossy containers, (such as .mp3). Not entirely sure why. Probably an OCD thing. Doesn't really matter on the actual game for me, but having true .flacs SOMEWHERE, I think, is a necessity. Also, .ogg vorbis is superior and free, so if we're using a lossy format, we should probably use that instead of .mp3 garbage. Is it necessary to watch your audio? No...but it is nice to know it's actually a relatively "whole" recording without having thousands of pitches in the upper human hearing frequency range cut off, (not to mention the "optimization" of the lower frequencies...).

Now that you mention it, that would be completely awesome. Someone should mod him in when the game is released...

Honestly, playing through BG2 again, I have >300,000 gold, and I haven't even joined Bodhi or the Shadow Thieves yet. I feel like there's a problem here, but I can't quite put my finger on it...I like the idea of creatures having actual equipment, (as opposed to NWN2's not very fun system), but goodness gracious, I already have more money than I could possibly ever need for throughout the entire game...