Drowsy Emperor

Pretty much, those are just organized protests for PR purposes. I can't prove that of course, but hey everyone's going to believe whatever they want to in the long run.

That is also how you'll create another Breivik. Europe doesn't work like the US, only the native population is really ever considered to belong to the "nation" (and lets face it, even in the US an african american isn't looked at the same way as a white protestant or catholic). The law may consider them all citizens and hence equal, but she can no more be Norwegian than I can, even less in her case because of the crucial difference in religion and culture. This course of action will of course be lauded by proponents of multiculturalism but the potential for it to blow up in everyone's face in a few years, or decades is huge.

Was it much trouble to get it running on Win7? I use XP on my netbook. You will need to crack the game with a fixed exe, the copy protection completely breaks the game on newer OS. The standard problem is the game locking up when you try the "resume" and "options" menu options. Expect to load the game by starting a new game, skipping through the cinematics and loading your previous save through the (F1 accessed) menu. Expect game breaking continuity bugs and infrequent crashes (both avoided by religious saving every few minutes). Apart from that, everything is peachy. You could also wait and hope for a GoG version. I think the game is worth playing even so many years later (and I don't often go back and play older games I haven't played before).

Casual gamers will be the death of us all http://www.lazygamer.net/xbox-360/without-clues-dishonored-was-too-difficult/

Finished Discworld Noir. Great adventure, even if the last act and the outcome were a bit of a letdown.

Discworld Noir. This would have been one of the best adventures ever made if not for the horrible game breaking bugs that allow you to proceed without getting everything you need later. I'm currently playing it for the second time because I had to restart halfway when a crucial dialog option wouldn't apper.

I guess the great secret of the gods is that they're using the better souls as cherries in their martini.

This american superiority thing you have going Gromnir is tiresome. I guess the only way for to make thinly veiled imperialism as a systematic policy and a way of life acceptable is to drill ones population into believing they're superior to everyone else. It certainly leads to amazing feats of logic like "We're bombing your country into dust but we're doing it all for your own good".

Btw open world elements doesn't = actual open world game. It could just be a large non linear segment in a linear game.

I trust nothing I hear from Valve until I have the game in my hands.

No, they are not. In any way. Take the "romance" out of PS:T and what do you have? The same game minus something completely innocuous, minor and unimportant. PS:T had romance? I would call some small dialog choices with Annah and FFG romance. ...that and...oh, say half of the main theme / motivation of the whole game (Deionarra). No biggie. Deionarra is not a motivation or even a major part of the plot, she's just another casualty of TNO. There is no romancing to speak of, its just a non interactive story/quest the PC goes through and can give an outcome to. Its very well done, but its got nothing to do with BW style romance.

Its a sort of misconception that seems to spring out of thin air and wishful thinking. Of all the Infinity engine classics only Baldur's Gate II had romances, and it would have been just as fantastic without them. And frankly, even though its my favorite game I can't help but notice that out of the 4 romances it had, only one was decent (Jaheira) the others were simply bad (Aerie, Anomen) or practically comic relief (Viconia). In the end, it didn't matter much because they were a tiny insignificant speck in a huge game. So no, romance is not an integral part of the classics Obs is trying to revive.

It may not be as unique as PS:T but it doesn't sound like its a generic fantasy setting either. Which has resulted in a lot of outcries of its own, I've noticed. So far the only new thing I've seen is the vaguely described matter of souls. I don't consider extending the timeline beyond the usual middle ages to the renaissance a significant change.

Baldurs Gate 1. Baldur's Gate 2. Planescape Torment. See you in a month. PS Don't try to play these games like a Korean

Which just leads me to the conclusion that the BSN are not game related forums but a form of collective therapy.

I must admit I'm disappointed they decided to stick to include the standard Tolkinesque races (although this may apply to an earlier update), I was hoping for something more outlandish or at least not having to see Elves and Dwarfs again. Apparently another game with a setting as unique as PST is too much to expect.

Nothing is a must, and romances especially. Torment is easily one of the best RPG's ever made (personally it stands alongside BGII as the ultimate RPG for me), and it had no player led romances to speak of. Let me list what it did have: a) One love story you could give a resolution to by the time you reached the finale (Deionarra) b) Two attractions that were not about the PC romancing anyone but more about pointing out the strange power of his condition (Annah and Fall From Grace). And the latter was not explicitly stated , just hinted at. All of these combined had maybe two dozen lines of dialog overall. This proves you can have both a good RPG and a great story without Bioware style romance minigames, leading us to the obvious conclusion that romances aren't necessary at all. It also proves you can successfully include love as a theme in the form non interactive storytelling (there was no real player choice regarding Deionarra, just one that gave a conclusion to the matter - towards the end). If the designers feel that love is a part of the story they want to tell they should include it. What they should not do is throw some half baked minigame consisting of a few lines of dialog seemingly lifted from a hentai adventure just to meet the expectations of those who want project eternity to be another Bioware game. Dragon Age 2 shows what happens in this regard when you let unreasonable player demands run the show instead of the designers following their own vision, so lets not have another DA2 hmm?

Rats leaving a sinking ship. Rich rats at that.

Maxis wasn't killed, just fully assimilated. Same now will happen to BioWare. A fate worse than death?

The outcome of EA owning a studio is really more predictable than the outcome of stage 4 cancer. Besides, its time for Bioware to go, they're well past their prime.

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Avellone and Sawyer have produced a game before, chosen to include homosexual characters and successfully done it without having it detract from the story. They chose this and did it in a way that everyone agrees was perfect. I ask again, has anyone here even PLAYED New Vegas? But it's barely story relevant. It's no more story relevant than a guy saying "hold on, let me ask my wife, she'd know. I'll meet you back here in an hour." It's no more story relevant than some guy being black and that's that, with his skin color having no plot relevance or story importance other than it just being who he is. So why have it? Really, such homo correctness terrorism is hilarious. Same exact concept here. Homosexual characters should be included because this is the world we live in. We don't live in imaginary fantasy worlds and they don't have to correspond with the real world in regards to anything. The argument is nonsensical. Should we put in George Bush then? That's also the world "we live in"

Besides, who would be so shallow that their sexual identity is the most important defining characteristic of their person. If I'm gay that doesn't mean anyone else has to be? jesus

A gay person can't relate to heterosexual notions of love? What are we, a separate species?

Did you play Planescape Torment? Exactly how many characters there were similar to anybody on this forum?