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Just for reference, GS gave the original NWN a 85% too, later increased it to 87% with SoU, and another increase to 88% with HoTU.

Gothic 3 is just another example of an ambitious idea that unfortunately exceeds the devs skills by 500%. Great atmosphere or not, bugs of that extend comes close to a totally crippled product, therefor unattractive to me. If the Jerrys would just take so much care making games like they do with their cars....? "

Well I think there're a lot of things to look forward in NWN2, but it's definitely not the 3.5 rules for me.

I already saw G3/G3 Special Edition this Wednesday around my local stores. And you know what? Didn't have the single desire to grab it. Instead I got now the 14 days trial of WoW.

So, besides of Jorian, Grommy, Me and Josh, are there any other Goulash fans around here? " Anybody knows what a Ghoul-Arsch is btw? :D Oh, and for the topic: I think NWN2 will have some good points and some bad points.

So and what's new about that?

I'm now participating this degenerated bunch a little over 4 years now, and I'm still as pure and gentle as I always was! *faaaaaaart* Oh sorry about that. :">

I don't think NWN2 will fail just because Sawyer's the lead designer. I mean from what I gather, he has "just" done rules and interface stuff, but the meat of dialogs and roleplaying is done by no other than MMCATA!!!! (that's Mighty Mister Chris Avellone The Awesome!).

Oh C'mon Volourn, will you now stop your whining?

I hope that after all that NWN2 hype the devs start talking about PNJ or PG. Preferably on their own goddamn boards, though they should keep all the modders at the Bio boards - fits better to the whiny mentality there I think.

34 secs for saving is quite bold, almost enough time to consume an extensive lunch. Oh btw, the first Gothic 3 Euro patch has just been released. Bugfixes only. Clicky

Sounds good, although I don't think my P4 3ghz and GF6600GT will handle it, even in medium details. And who knows when I'll upgrade.... well, not too soon, so G3 will have to wait. Oh well, there's still NWN2 where I can dress-up my mighty warrior like a barbie doll! Let's hope I can also pick up pink as hair color! Because that's teh ultimate RPG freedom I say people!!!!!1111

Oh boy. The face sucks I think, but anything else looks okey dokey. Well, except the girlish color of course. And what's that gigantic p....ehhh thing in front of the mouth?

Absolutely not. That video was total baby stuff.

Gute Nacht Jorian! Tr

Diamond, your avatar causes dizziness to me!

Don't worry, some day you're gonna be a master. Just keep practicing on it.

Well, sure gold comes in different values, but your armor still looks like flat synthetic material. You should play around with the specularity and eccentricity of your material, also don't forget to convey reflection light. That's a medal (Toliman, Roman-Celtic mythology) I've done a year ago for a buddy, and although it's completely done in Maya, it should give you an idea of how much properties a material really consists of.

In NWN the big portrait I post here is only visible when you chose a portrait for your character, and when you open the char menu. In most time (95%) you will see the picture in this size: As you can see the background is quite unobstrusive in this size, but I also checked the Star-N-Sarevok in this size and that was really a problem, thats why I changed that. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Very nice touch-up Jorian! Although I feel the colors don't seem to work together. The yellow of the gold is too obtrusive, besides it doesn't really look like having properties of gold. This is even more obvious with the B&W background. For backgrounds I prefer to stay in a similar color-range, or maybe toying around with the complementary color. I few touch-ups with clouds with the digital airbrush/Eraser-combo often do the trick. And for even more subtly, try conveying reflection lights/colors of you environment.

Agreed, that was the most horrible part of the game, crawling inside a gigantic Steak. And you know what? I once learned from an interview that the Steak-Level was a Programmers idea! I mean come on!?!?! :D

Well then everything is still serene. *wipes sweat of the forehead*

That NWN2 editor looks like baby stuff. Why using a made-for-fans editor when a skillful artist could also realize a digital environment with Maya/Photoshop/Shake? *bragging intended* Btw, what 3d formats are actually supported in the Toolset? Does it also allow to import dxf/obj with material and vertex color options? Like in Source, where you could describe properties with a shader script. Does it also allow to import skinned models? You know, making custom animations and stuff.

Beware of the Aliens! They're now after the Germans to turn them into gigantic sausages..... ...which they'll then probably sell to us.

G3 is now a candidate for the bargain bin, or Ebay article. Bugs or not, reading about the excruciating high system specs still make my arse hair growing inside. :'(

But Call of Duty isn't a CRPG Hades! Well, but at least you can jump there....