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Yikes. Serbia 84-56 over Brazil?!! Wondering if Vlade Divac and Oscat Schmidt had a wager going.

Gabriel Knight has a release date: October 15. http://m.pcgamer.com/2014/09/09/gabriel-knight-sins-of-the-fathers-20-anniversary-edition-launches-in-october/

One of the best covers of Stairway to Heaven. Made Robert Plant cry and even Jimmy Page got emotional. More classic Heart. Ann and Nancy Wilson really rocked it back in the day. They're still badass.

Full VoiceOver really only should be used in games where a cinematic presentation is at the forefront of the game design. Obvious examples are KotOR and Mass Effect. With an isometric perspective, our imagination is already at work, as we subconsciously play out interactions in abstract form. Just like a book.

http://www.thescore.com/nba/news/573118 Australia under investigation for tanking against Angola in order to avoid potential USA matchup.

Curse of Cespedes.

This Oakland meltdown is really irritating.

Yikes. People actually will pay MSRP $120 for a dressed up strategy guide?? Dragon Age Inquisition: Prima Official Inquisitor Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101898216/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_x9qdub0N9HRR1 My Project Eternity pledge seems so much more reasonable now.

Well, I wouldn't use that game as a gauge of how the Niners defense will hold up until they start getting guys back. I don't think you can count on other teams emptying an entire clip into their own foot, reloading, then emptying the next clip into their foot. That's exactly what my fantasy football team is relying on. (Niners Defense)

USA is already pot committed with this style of play. Hubris won't be USA's undoing; it'll be the lack of offensive sophistication as they essentially dedicated whatever practice and prep time they've had almost exclusively to their high risk, his reward, hyper-aggressive defense. As alluded to above, their offense essentially is predicated on the transition fast break (as fueled by their defense) and when in the half court -the classic two man game, and Splash Brother trey. A team whose game plan is to negate their own turnovers and to slow the pace down has the best shot of knocking out USA. They just need the mental fortitude to not cave in and panic when they are blitzed by the Americans. Then they need to make mortal sacrifices and hope USA goes on an extended shooting slump. ...Which could happen because their lack of ball movement won't generate too many easy scores if the defense is effectively denying the middle.

The ball movement of many of these European teams is outstanding. Certainly prettier than the pick n roll, ISO, and post up sets of the Americans. But then again, why bother with finesse when they can just bulldoze through the squishy competition?

Is MCA's 80's High School RPG idea still alive?

For Feargus, re: Sensuki. http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/E2en.pdf

I only need the voice over to provide a baseline of characterization to get a sense of the character. My imagination will handle the rest. The old Infinity Engine games was perfect in this respect. Besides, this game will have a lot of words. A lot. Seems like a waste of resources if most people will just cut off the dialogue after skimming over or reading the text and waiting for the audio to catch up.

Then again, Planescape: Torment had 7 companions, and Obsidian is targeting that level of character depth.

Despite having played the least amount of hours into IWD2 Among all the IE games, I occasionally find myself randomly humming this along to myself - like I did today when I went on a quest to the Post Office. I never really considered the soundtrack for IWD2 all that great, but yet this happens. Only IE track that can do that to me along with the heavily Conan inspired BG main theme. Serious Inon Zur propage for the Tagos theme, Skeleton of a Town. http://youtu.be/9iLKjspPj_k

This is correct, player portraits are kept separate from companions to prevent those awkward moments in your travels. This would also be the case for non-party NPC's as well, I assume?

It'd have been more intimidating if it came from the All Blacks, rather than the Tall Blacks.

"I'm sure there are more. But those are all bugs that I have experienced not once, but every time I've played the game." That's actually a good thing. Easily reproducible bugs are much easier to squish. I'm not worried about the bugs. These are fixable. There are however, legitimate concerns regarding content and design. Those are harder challenges as these will involve additional internal play testing and iteration for balance and polish with each significant change. Content and design? Hard. Bugs? Squishy.

Gromnir is ubiquitous. Gromnir is eternal. Long before these boards, there was Gromnir. Ever heard of Galactus? Gromnir is Galactus. That great bogeyman and devourer of worlds that exist as a force of nature. Neither good nor evil. Just a necessity. http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2011/04/06/the-trial-of-reed-richards/

Jade Empire's RPS combat was actually pretty fun and the animations were believable. I wouldn't mind additional Wuxia RPGs - especially if they contain badly dubbed English dialogue. Re: Europa Barbarorum 2. It's a Medieval 2 mod? That's a little disappointing.

LoF was the gay communist right? Yep, I think he was also Krezack. He really put his heart into his drivel. Wait...Krezack or Karzak? Or are they one and the same??

Part of the problem is not the volume of portraits available, but the lack of variance between racial, culture, and class diversity. It'll be addressed in future updates, but at the moment, I can't create a swashbuckling Valian pirate pistoleer.

Kaz's portraits gives me hope that PoE will bump BG one rung further down on my favorite portrait pack ladder.

Start a new game. Corrupted saves is one of the major issues anyway.