HoonDing

But it's sick and wrong. This injustice must not stand! Are you gonna cover the Playboy Mansion & Vatican City in toilet-paper or something?

I learnt a nice new English word today - "paeans". Simply beautiful. As for the thread, as always: live and let live.

Book-Geralt was quite the opposite of the man-ho he is in the game. I hope the amnesia runs off in the next game. Might open some interesting possibilities when Geralt suddenly realized the sorceress he used to love was not Triss at all.

The random encounters in SoZ never bothered me much... I had hired the Ranger from Samargol and boosted her hide/move silently/listen skills so high that I could detect & happily avoid every single encounter in the game. It made the game much more enjoyable. What did bother me was how trivial it became to make gold in the game once you set up a few trading posts here and there... then I bought/crafted some uber equipment and simply breezed through everything (including the last bosses). Yeh... that guy really kicked my butt when my PC misspoke and made him hostile...

Really, man, do you have an entire library on your computer with those hilarious pics or something?

There are followers available in FO3 in fact... you can even glitch the game into having all eight followers at once.

That's possible in Drakensang. It's one of the many little things the game did right. As for DA, if the magic mirrors Baldur's Gate it should be fun. Maybe I'll play as a mage, take along Morrigan and petrify her, followed by smashing her to smithereens. Or drain the life out of every follower that starts about his/her childhood.

... What game are you guys on about?

Those never-ending dark metro tunnels were real fun, especially with mines, bear traps & pressure plates strewn about. There was even a special one infested with those rambo mudcrabs... urgh.

Hans V does appear in the end of the first game... outside the resort in Aralbad. Granted, though, it's a very short meeting & disappointing for anyone who expected some epic climax.

I saw this in one of the episodes of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

I should try & play that Deus Ex thingie too, now that I'm back on my old computer. Never got to it.

The only game where I can think of where you don't play the hero is Dreamfall. You have to save April Ryan because April is the hero. I wouldn't consider Zoe a Lancer through. It's never really explained why April needs to be saved. It seems more of an excuse to cram April in the game and make it connected to TLJ than anything else... I'd say that every playable character in Dreamfall is a "Lancer". They all just bob along without knowing what's going on. I'd pick Syberia as an example: you have to find Hans Voralberg because he is the central figure the story revolves around. Or even the Myst games, where the player character is & stays nothing more than a puzzle solving errand boy/girl for Atrus & Catherine.

The trick about Oblivion is simply to not level up and do everything at level 2... bandits/marauders stay in fur/iron armor & one can become stronger by improving skills while the attributes remain the same, keeping the game challenging... while at level 30 the game is simply tedious when even the smallest goblin takes ages to kill because of the scaled amount of health.

George RR Martin = Robert Jordan + Charles Bukowski

That reminds me, Brandon Sanderson's "Mistborn" is one of the most creative/original fantasy that came out in the last decade, regardless of the ridiculous "BioWare"-like contrived romance. Brilliant setting & magic-system. I still have some books of Robin Hobb lying around to be read (apparently she's brilliant) but haven't had time to read some of her works.

I just renewed my love-hate relationship with Mr David Cage by playing & finishing Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy... still a playable game, despite one of the most horrible plot-twists ever in a video game... and I still think Carla Valenti is the most bad-ass female character ever in a video game, just after Cate Archer.

The only time I remember playing online was Quake back in the day, and I got my ass handed to me every 5 seconds or so... but I did rule on the local Duke3D LAN in my secondary school. That said, most likely I will give SW:TOR a try -along with a possible TES: Online (lol)- and see how that goes. I never gave WOW a try because the gigabytes of downloads were a bit too much for my paltry internet connexion.

I've seen the amount of 100-120 hours bragged about. Would surprise me, though. Then again, as a retarded casual gamer, I probably spent more than 100 hours on Mass Effect, so who knows?

Hilariously enough, and mayhaps on a slightly completely unrelated note, the hawt chick from NFS happened to be the girlfriend of David Blaine. I never liked, nor never were particularly good, in racing games myself. The only racing game I have fond memories of, is Super Karts (as pathetic as it sounds).

Spent most of the day reinstalling NWN 2, MOTB & paches.

Indeed... certainly one of my favourites as well. I didn't mention it because I didn't want to be remembered of the many times I've been dumped.

Fantasy: The Fionavar Tapestry & Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay), Lord of the Rings & Silmarillion (JRRT), Earthsea Series (Ursula Le Guin). To a lesser extent: Michael Moorkock, Feist's early works, Robert Jordan's first 6 Wheel of Time books. And oh, Jacqueline Carey & Elizabeth Haydon's books. Sci-fi: Dune by Frank Herbert, Hyperion cycle by Dan Simmons. For the rest, mostly Stephen King books.

They took out the hawt chick?