Monte Carlo

Pah, I had a ZX81 mit text adventure game.

I loved the Deep Roads in DA:O, one of my favourite parts of the game. I like Fighting in Tunnels, it is a core part of being old-skool. Fighting in swamps? No. Fighting in tunnels? Yes. I accept that others found the Deep Roads grindy and repetitive, however for me they were spot on. This is one of the many reasons why I am looking forward to Diablo III. That will involve epic amounts of tunnel fighting. Anyhoo, don't get me wrong, some bits of The Witcher annoy me. And I will never really be comfortable with playing pre-defined characters. But the game gets far more right than it gets wrong, Geralt is Elric of Melnibone meets James Bond.

The Witcher wins the Monte seal of approval.

tunnels > swamps r00fles!

Also, a key difference is in days of yore you'd get multiple fix-packs / mods by fans (Kevin Dorner, anyone? Baldurdash?). There isn't a bug-fixing modding scene around DA2 AFAIK, nor is there likely to be. I posted a few weeks ago about the death of modding, the death of fan-based, superior, bug-fixing is also probably here too.

I think 300 is completely brilliant, BTW. But that's down as much to the source material as much as the style and art direction perhaps.

:: shrugs :: The only Bio game I bought since NWN1 was Dragon Age: Origins and Awakenings. Meh Effect passed me by.

Isn't it amazing the way that the gaming fansites / community treats a patch like it's the second coming? A patch is just common courtesy / good customer service, not a priviledge. It's not just a Bio / EA thing, I honestly think that across the industry the pressure on releasing patches with alacrity has diminished. I suppose it detracts from the time they could be spending making DLC.

Er, me?

Alternatively, hire a tax lawyer. He'll just go and negotiate with the revenue to avoid the thing getting to court and take a cut of whatever you save. See? Occasionally lawyers have their uses.

OK, in a sort of gaming purgatory at the moment so I made the probably epic mistake of listening to you lot and am installing the super-epic-special-extra-boobies-Witcher-Redux. Will let you know what I think.

LOL Serrano wins!

I know Karl Marx wouldn't approve, but hey, "Taxation is Theft."

FFS this thread is dull can somebody post some hot elf chick pictures plz. Tx.

Apparently Snyder might lose his gig directing the new Superman franchise off the back of this disaster. I hope the whole comic-book / geek influnenced direction of big popcorn movies dies down for a bit, let the gene pool refresh.

Tx Malcador, I think I scrape it.

What are the recommended system specs for this? I'm running on a Intel Core 2 Quad CPU, 2.66 GHz with 4 GB of RAM and NVidia GeForce GTX 260 Anybody like to suggest what upgrades I need? This rig is now 3 years old.

Fabulous. Bravo.

We get it on Sky (Atlantic) the day after. I've not read the books but I like Sean Bean so I'll give it a go.

I'm currently enjoying a Killers retrospective (Sam's Town), a genuine case of "I preferred their older stuff" (esp. Mr. Brightside, one of my favourite Killers tracks).

See that just breaks the immersion for me since I know for a fact that medieval people didn't bathe. Hell I don't think the bathtub was even invented until the 1600's King Arthur had a hot-tub, so did the Romans.

It's pretty easy to understand. Sadly, the east still stands for absolutism and the west the least-worst route of democracy. China / Russia et. al will always side with the dictator. Why? Look at their system of government. Defending Russia is hilarious, I'm not going to even entertain it. Were it not for it's nukes it'd be a pariah state. Is "West Best?" :: shrugs :: I'll go out on a limb and say I think so. Ask all the people from other places who choose to come and live here that question, we must be doing something right.

So, I take it you've been to Russia? *sigh* You know, you could make an effort to expand your knowledge of other countries beyond BBC World News. This aryan supermacy thing where US+UK+western europe+liberal democrat ideologues are the sole proprietors of common sense, best form of government, Justice, Morality and Goodness is getting really really old. Please don't patronise me, and as for the Aryan BS... I'm Jewish. Or is that really scary too?

Hmmm. Is it twitchy?