Monte Carlo

Another thread laced with pure, distilled Win. Cthulu was a Communist. Makes complete sense.

Haven't read the books so the WTF comments (altho understandable) pass me by. I still like it. Sean Bean is great, yes dwarf bloke is great too and the vile, horrible blonde queen incest chick reminds me of Keira Knightley's hot older sister. Which is good. The spoilt prince-kid is well cast and a good actor because I already hate him. Mark Addy (fat king) is quite well-known in the UK for his supermarket TV ads so it's lovely to see him acting and doing something decent for a change. The only fly in the ointment is Ghengis-Rapist with the comedy facial hair and his ridiculous blonde wifelet. Hopefully they die. Am tempted to buy the book, bearing in mind I don't really read much modern fantasy, if I feel the need I reach for some old Eternal Champion type stuff. Still hovering a 7.5/10 and rising. Monte approves as, crucially, does Mrs. Monte.

I still haven't bought this game, when it's a couple of quid I will buy it and use it as a fire-lighter, drinks coaster or bird-scaring device.

Bwahahahhahahahaaaaa (deep breath) Bwaahahaahahhahaaaaaa!!!

Oby, could you update us on Tractor Production stats at Farm 54 too plz?

Maybe it's a plot by the other MMOs to attract the most annoying gamers ever all into one place and keep them there?

Sarah Palin can, like, see Russia from her bedroom. Russia is a decaying, fascistic kleptocracy with cool gangsters and hot women. Basically, it's a cool setting for a crime movie but not somewhere I'd choose to live.

What are Apple getting out of this, some kind of geo-marketing data or are they simply as evil as I always suspected they were? I've never bought an Apple product, never will. My next phone will be a Blackberry thankyouverymuch.

Field Grey by Philip Kerr, part of the ongoing Bernie Gunther series. Utterly, utterly brilliant.

Why ruin an otherwise awesome thread by using the 'B' word?

Buffy and Angel were fantasy. I honestly can't begin to articulate my response to this. I was too busy spitting tea and laughing. Joss Wheedon.... FFS? As for the criticism, I understand, but the low-fantasy vibe is good and more likely to draw in new fans. People with names made up of consonents and apostrophes, silly spells, haircuts and CGI monstarz are lame.

Having thought about it today, the basic point is that there aren't really any mainstream fantasy series. Sci-Fi? Yup. Fantasy Nawww. Yet this one is really good, my wife is utterly indifferent about fantasy as a genre but liked this. Am looking forward to an episode with some butt-kicking swordplay and (dare I dream?) some fighting in tunnelz.

^ 'K thanks. That makes sense now.

OK, I've not read the books so I don't have that baggage... ... but I rather liked it. OK, it's Dynasty with greatswords, incest and leather armour but it's fun nonetheless. The bad guy with the blonde hair who pimped his sister to the barbarians was great. Sean Bean played a great Sean Bean if you get my drift. The Dwarf was fun in a randy-dwarf kinda way. The big fat king was cool. The baby wolflets were cute. A question, though... when Queen SeanBean (see how I got all these names lodged in my memory?) gets the message from her sister who does she allege murdered Big Fat King's right hand man? Was it his Queen, the one getting seen to by her handsome blonde brother? Or is it the blonde wierdos hanging out with the barbarians? One thing it does have in common with Rome though... magnificent opening credits, loved the little mechanical whatsits on the map, really well done and gave a sense of geography and place. Monte gives it a solid 7/10 and imagines he'll be getting into it in a big way.

I don't know because I have LoF and Vol on ignore, I only checked in to see some hot elf chicks.

FO:NV Medieval Total War 2 (Custom Campaign mod) The Witcher That is all.

There's a Lawful Evil dwarf dude in Beregost, he's OK and of course there's Shar-Teel the crazy CE fighter up near the basilisks in the NE wilderness region. Adjantis the paladin is crap, I agree, as is Jaheira and her husband both of whom were stripped naked and sent ogre hunting whenever I played BG1. My party was invariably my fighter/thief, Imoen d/c to mage, Minsc, Coran (on more or less pure archer duty because BG1 archery is sick) and the Viking cleric chick, was it Branwen? You can also make a pretty good fun evil party too.

Says the guy from the nation that gaves us Herr Fritzl.

^ K, thx. What happened, did the national elf design council announce it. I can't remember what was happening in 2003, but surely I'd have noticed. Anyhow, it's silly. Bring back normal old fashioned pointy-but-flushed to the side of the head elf ears FFS.

Have only skim-read this, so is that prototype Nazi bankers come from space and like ice cream? Right?

The bot is a really great movie critic.

I could tell you that [all - (typical one in a thousand)] = most, but I think you know that as well as I do. That said, I'll agree that most females, I think I'll even go so far as to say most people, aren't going to emulate cartoonish fantasy characters under normal circumstances due to the utter impracticality of such outfits. And have a rather more archetypical fantasy render: At what point, by Thor's Beard, did elves develop horizontal ears?

^ Possibly. Add to that the fact that consoles have peaked performance-wise for the next three or four years. PC gamers benefit from that and a good CRPG manifestly doesn't need to be a systems hawg to look and feel good. I've posted here before that the future for good, new-old-skool CRPGs might well mirror the thriving and profitable (albeit smaller-scale) computer war games market (check out Matrix Games if you don't believe me). The first generation of elite modders are now in the position to get involved if they choose not to go mainstream. Plus, as I said to Boo earlier, bigger dev houses (and indeed I include Obsidian in this) are still making interesting, different and rewarding CRPGs (I would put both AP and FO:NV in this category).

Where's mudeater land?

August? WTF? Why does Sweden get movies so late?