Drowsy Emperor

Samuel Jackson is really the only option for Drizzt.

Oh I do want to play a decent RPG but I'm hungry for something that's not out of Bethesda's or Bioware's kitchen. Its just been one doughnut too many and I WANT CAVIAR!

If you're searching the tenets of any religion for complete structured logic you're doing it wrong. Any educated believer will tell you that there are countless contradictions in the scriptures. In fact their existence is perfectly logical - because of man's inability to sufficiently grasp the subject that he has an active inner need to explain. Imposing scientific methods on religion is thus erroneous to start with, since they deal with separate realities and the tools of one do not conform to the other. As someone who comes from political sciences, and has been exposed to much philosophical/sociological though I'm always struck by how inadequate and piecemeal it all seems. An endless barrage of classifications and typologies that have only vaguely anything to do with reality. Religion, by comparison offers a much more complete world view, and its easy to see why most of the people on the planet today are believers. Its not irrational, in fact it has a perfect rationality in itself, because it accepts that the ultimate knowledge lies beyond our grasp, something that most people regardless of era or level of education would agree upon. But at the same time it doesn't say anywhere that you should stop searching for it using whatever means are at your disposal.

How very strange then that most of the men science venerates so much today as its pioneers were fervent believers. The idea that the two are mutually exclusive is a naive atheist fantasy and stems from not understanding the role of religion. While religion used to explain physical reality (in ways appropriate to the times), which science subsequently took over the true core of religion as an exploration of man's inner being and a quest for meaning remains untouched. Science doesn't offer meaning or purpose it just gives quantifiable facts. And its good at it because that's what it was created for, a grand bookkeeping of reality.

The totality and meaning of religious belief both for the individual and for society as a whole goes far beyond something as simple as dogma. Besides, there's no conflicting evidence, because you either believe or you don't, its not a debating contest. For some people the existence of God is as self evident as the fingers on your hand. Isaac Newton was one of those people by the way.

The futility of trying to think about God through science. Science is just a tool. And its still a very blunt tool for everything that relates to the human condition. Having such faith in a tool that tends to reinvent itself and discard most of its previous knowledge every so often is really more akin to a religious belief than the rational discourse it masquerades as.

Well at least you get to choose the dialog... Oh, wait

Talislanta 4th edition, easily obtainable via Noble Knight. Best rules ever with a setting that puts most other epic fantasy to shame. And all in one book. Also, original pdfs made available free by the creator on the official website. Print and play.

Dark Heresy is a bit bloated for my tastes. Too many tables and unnecessary stuff, while the setting is rather limited. Of the lot I think Rogue Trader is the best. Fading Suns does everything Dark Heresy can do in a much better fleshed out and much larger universe. The rules aren't all they could be but there's a third edition coming in Q1 2012 and it will be GLORIOUS.

I didn't have a single bug, crash or anything of the sort until I switched to XP. Even then, only the single, most common XP bug gave me any problems.

I hate to point out that BGII was practically bug free upon release whereas I've had to use the console to fix a game breaking bug in both Bethesda games I've played. What usually happens is that the play-testers find bugs and point them out and get memos of the sort: "we're not looking for that, we're looking for xyz" or are just ignored and the game ships anyway. The management doesn't care about bugs but about meeting schedules and profits, so **** the customers who're they anyway. If you don't like it, don't buy the games from Bethesda, buy from Relic or Blizzard or Bioware instead. They all had their slip ups, but its quite obvious some developers take a more serious approach to quality assurance than others.

I imagine they'd use a few cinematics, scripted events and the like to spice up the usual MMOnotony. Anyway, that's all very nice and good but its still Star Wars and that got old about twenty years ago. Right now its at about the same stage of putrescence as DnD. Wonder how many generations it'll take for those two to finally kick the bucket, so that the piles of other great films and RPGs get some deserved recognition.

Don't worry, you still have your red stapler.

Until Raithe brings his sister over, nothing interesting is going to happen

If you're going to complete every quest on in an MMO area, good luck to you. They're little more than randomly generated xp bags and can generally be classified more as work than adventuring. At least that's how every MMO I ever played worked.

The notion that they're not in control just makes it all easier to swallow. I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Fire and Ice rules if you're familiar with Frazetta's art and accept it for what it is. Wizards is silly but fun.

Congrats Krezack, you made a douchebag of yourself, all by yourself. How many magic mushrooms does it take to reach your level of enlightenment?

Yeah, BioWare Victory might taste some blood in case Xcom sells well. Crap, I forgot EA has the rights to this one.

Here's hoping we might see an Alpha Centauri sequel or remake.

Planescape Torment is gaming's best attempt and probably sole success at art. Honourable mentions go to: Shadow of the Collossus, Homeworld, Baldur's Gate II. I'd pay good money for a collectors edition bundled with a real book and the Planescape campaign setting. Something to proudly display on my shelf instead of the embarrassingly ugly game box.

Can't wait for this to come out, as its probably the last half-decent game Bioware will ever publish. It'll be amusing to see which corpse will EA management force Bioware to dig up next. Descent to Undermountain sequel or DA3? And, better yet, does it matter?

Its right up your alley. Minus the occasionally clever social commentary.

I love South Park so...."Screw you guy, I'm going home" Good, I'll be waiting to hear the opinion of the game's oldest player when it comes out.