HoonDing

How was that bad? It's been a while and I can't remember feeling anything negative about it. Beat Boss. You win. Kthxbye. Which reminds me that Dark Messiah's ending was pretty horrible as well.

Rivet City was self-sustaining. There's a point about the lack of crops & farms, though. After all, Morrowind and even Oblivion had plenty of those... must've been due to the giant radscorpions & deathclaws running rampant everywhere once your character went over a certain level.

Bethesda came up with that ending to rattle the fans enough so they would be easier inticed to acquire Broken Steel (and other DLCs) later on. As usual, it was just a brilliant marketing ploy.

Best: Loom Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Prince of Persia: the Two Thrones American McGee's Alice Syberia, Syberia 2 The Longest Journey Divinity 2: Ego Draconis, Divinity 2: Dragon Knight Saga Worst: Drakan: Order of the Flame Drakensang Heavy Metal: FAKK2 Dreamfall Arx Fatalis Risen

And 20 years from now, Baldur's Gate 2 will be regarded just as the Goldbox games are nowadays. Sic transit gloria mundi. That said, though, I could never finish Death Knights of Krynn because that blasted Lord Soth just kept resurrecting himself and I never found a way to counter this, being in the pre-gamefaqs age.

Gray Matter

What I really miss in FO:NV is the really long-range VATS headshots with Lincoln's repeater.

Point Lookout (post-apocalypic Deliverance) is the best DLC by far, despite the cheating enemies. Decent main quest and some excellent sidequests. Mothership Zeta isn't bad for a corridor shooter. The samurai's outfit & katana (aside from the other overpowered loot) alone make it worth playing.

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My Preciousssss....

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.