Wrath of Dagon

Game of the year clearly.

http://www.dorkly.com/article/7916/letters...uty-battlefield

I never found the glowing ghoul with the dog tag.

Make sure you capture all the bounties instead of killing them.

Stumbled upon this, seems pretty credible: http://www.drroyspencer.com/ Edit: This is a great quote from his website:

Gorth Although Krezack's blind faith in scientists is quite touching.

I'm not upset by that, that was a valid design decision, I didn't like how that interacted with the end-game though, also see below. I did try to make an alliance, I just went about it in the wrong way, since the NCR told me no compromise is possible, it generally takes two to come to an agreement. Thus my only option appeared to be to join with Yes Man, who supposedly lets you make your own decisions. Betrayal is not the real problem, the real problem the game assumes that I want the Hoover Dam and independent Vegas, when in reality my motivation was completely different. The way I see it, there should've been 4 logical choices when talking to General Oliver: 1) Attack immediately 2) Demand NCR vacate the Hoover Dam and we can part peacefully 3) (my preferred choice) Agree to let NCR keep the Hoover Dam if they let me keep NV 4) Surrender to NCR and let them keep everything It wouldn't have cost them anything to support all 4 choices except may be a couple of extra ending slides. There's no reason I should be forced to follow Yes Man's agenda if he indeed has an agenda. Now if the NCR then chose to attack me regardless, because they don't trust me anymore or whatever, (edit: or even if Yes Man then attacked us) that's a valid design choice, but the point is I got to make the decision and kept player agency, which is the main reason to play RPG's after all.

I figure I'll repost this from Ellorien as well

Well, if you get detected, it means it doesn't work. Don't think low stealth skill has anything to do with it, since stealthboy always makes it 100. The first guard near the entrance became alerted but couldn't actually see me. As I got closer to Ceasar I would always get attacked though, but it may depend on the patch as has been mentioned. LC didn't get detected even though she was shooting at the Legion.

It's $9.99 for NWN2 Platinum including MotB and SoZ today only, better hurry up. Keep in mind some of the more recent mods require both MotB and SoZ, as I painfully found out.

Yeah, I think AOD is trying to be the ideal traditional RPG, while Dead State is trying to innovate by bringing in some strategy elements like surviving with limited resources, improving the shelter and companion morale, which are also very interesting, but quite different from what AOD is trying to accomplish. I don't think it even makes much sense to compare the two, except in whatever areas they might overlap.

No, I never even got close to the book, it probably had to do with me being villified by then, which is why I tried to use the stealthboy in the first place. Also I have the 360 version, don't know if that makes a difference.

I expect both to be very good. If Dead State actually turns out to be better, it wouldn't be surprising at all since it has a professional developer with a proven track record and the whole team has had a ton more experience now compared to where they started.

NV only froze a few times for me during my entire playthrough on the 360, and none after the latest patch, although I didn't play it for very long. Same as pre-patch Oblivion. Not much else of significance. For a huge game like this, it's pretty hard to test all the different permutations in every location, so bugs are almost inevitable. Of the main stream games, I might try the Dragon Knight Saga once I feel like another RPG. Also DX if reading forums indicates it's any good.

Stealthboy doesn't work if you try to approach the inner room of Ceasar's tent. All I wanted was to take the book for the Great Khans' quest.

I don't think the game supports the 360 controller since it came out long before the 360. There's free software that lets you use a 360 controller with any PC game, you could search for that. You don't really need the controller anyway, since you can pretty much control the whole game with the W key and mouse.

It worked fine on my 64 bit Windows 7 machine except often after combat I couldn't move my character until I saved and reloaded. But there's no way to know for sure till you try it.

NV did look very good, especially for an open world game.

MMO's or NV?

Vince posted something on Iron Tower forum I thought might be interesting to someone following this game:

Well, we're not all as tough and rugged as the Finns Anyway, I'm not against doing things which make sense anyway, like building nuclear power plants. As a matter of fact, Texas is #1 in the country in wind energy. But the same environmentalists who scream loudest about Global Warming are the same ones who stand in the way of any reasonable solutions.

Yeah, and the only people who disagree with it are monetarily motivated, corporate scientists. Between the two, I know who to believe. Of course, it's always EASIER to believe the side that tells you everything is ok, please keep consuming more, right? Objectively, I don't think it's been proven either way. Personally, I think it's a big left wing scam, like Nuclear Winter and Y2K (ok, Y2K wasn't left wing, but consultant scam). Carl Sagan, the leftist wind bag who was most prominent in pushing Nuclear Winter to force unilateral disarmament by the US, predicted that the oil fires in Kuwait would have an effect on climate similar to Nuclear Winter based on their Nuclear Winter studies. He was debating Fred Singer, who is also one of the most prominent Global Warming skeptics. Singer said there would be no significant atmospheric effect from the smoke because it would be washed out by rain once it reached a certain point in the atmosphere. Singer was proven correct. I tend to believe people whose predictions actually came true, like the article I quoted earlier, rather than alarmist windbags who've never predicted a thing, like saying soon there'll be no snow at all. Here's what Time was saying in 1974, predicting a new Ice Age:

I can think of one thing: remove the average joe's unfounded scorn for and distrust of science. It's not the science, it's the politically motivated, leftist environmentalist scientists. Oh, I forgot, the science is settled, sorry. Global Warming - the only scientific theory that predicts nothing and is confirmed by everything.

Global warming - Is there anything it can't do?