HoonDing

I finished the Dragon Knight Saga. I'm not too keen on the re-mastered version of Ego Draconis, since it streamlines the original a bit too much (albeit for the better), but the expansion Flames of Vengeance is fantastic overall. Excellent quests, writing & music. There's even some choice & consequence in many sidequests that may prompt me to replay the entire expansion and see what difference it makes. The only thing I disliked was the arcade-like Dragon shoot 'em up in the final sections of the game that nearly made me ragequit. Overall, DSK is the best game I've played this year, even before River of Time. Now hopefully Two Worlds 2 will swipe me off my feet again..

I still hear the cries of Harold, set ablaze by my flamer, in my dreams.

There was a French RPG in development with a very unique art-style (it was either canceled, or vaporware), but I forgot how it was named. Druillet was probably involed in it as well.

Is there a use for all the radioactive rockets in Novac, beyond using them as Rock-It-Launcher ammo?

Yahtzee hit the nail on the head, for once.

TW2 better come out here tomorrow. I've just started the expansion content of Dragon Knight saga and it's fantastic. In the beginning you're kinda stuck in Aleroth, but pretty much every NPC has lots of dialogue, not to mention there are dozens of sidequests, some of which even influence the main quest or other sidequests without you knowing beforehand. Mindreading is also worth it almost every time, but at a very steep experience cost (but I maxed it out before ending Ego Draconis, hence it costs me 0 XP to mindread). There's also a couple of new tunes from Kirill Pokrovsky, which alone is reason enough to rush out to the stores and acquire the game.

The unknown Cryo adventure game Salammbo has the best fantasy art design of all time. As for RPGs, Morrowind's the best by far. I'm also quite fond of the Witcher & Drakensang, whose art styles are perfectly antipodal, i.e. grim & dreary vs whimsical & fairy-tale like.

I can't wait for TW2, even it means I'll have to juggle three games between TW2, River of Time & Dragon Knight Saga.

Zork may be longer than Black Ops.

People forget that Morrowind came with a huge, very detailed map of the game world that included 90% of in-game locations. There's really no excuse for not finding a way from Seyda Neen to Balmora, even if you don't talk to the scout who gives you a scrap of paper with detailed directions. Not to mention, you can buy two scrolls of Almsivi Intervention that immediately teleport you to the temple in Balmora. Oh, and there's even a silt strider just outside town.

I'm guessing the white-haired Chantry chick that's interrogating the dwarf is going to be the Miranda of DA2?

Imagine not getting any XP for slogging through all the combat in the Deep Roads.

Being smart has nothing to do with gaming. People that gamed in the 80s or beginning of the 90s aren't generally smarter than people that game nowadays.

Not necessarily. After al many people still manage to praise FO:NV into high heaven while still calling FO3 a piece of crap... even though it's just FO3 with a few bells and whistles.

Let's put it this way: there's only one game that has a "Bible".

Reality Pump > CD Projekt.

I would've posted some Larry Elmore art, for irony's sake.

I'm still baffled why there is no [Cherchez La Femme] dialogue with Veronica. There is one with Cass, but it just leads to an awkward moment.

Two Worlds had instadeath spells as well, they were just all very high level and you had to combine a million magic cards for it to work. Pretty sure it's something like that again. Also, amusignly in FO:NV I one-hit-killed Legate Jackass with the Anti-materiel rifle.

Moar like BG2, amirite?

Without XP, one might as well go play STALKER, which does both survival & shooting way better. And atmosphere. And AI.

After playing FO:NV, how you can even complain about animations... Two worlds rocks, and The Witcher 2 better has a similar combat system instead of all the QTE nonsense.

This baby will be mine on Friday. Hopefully the English localization won't completely suck balls.