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As you're on a budget, I think you should go for it. It will help your performance with other games, too. Although, I'm not very familiar with ATI cards and there are other X1600 models that may or may not be better than the pro version. Your motherboard has a PCI-Express slot, right? Edit: I was taking a look at the other options from that site, and that card does seem to be the best budgety choice.

It would be better. Just don't expect to run NWN2 with everything on. By the way, before buying anything, have you tried do disable shadows and water detail? Edit: For someone on a budget, I'd say that's a pretty good choice, actually.

You need a new graphics card. Yours is pretty awful.

NWN2 is apparently selling very well. http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewt...08206&forum=109 Can I get a (w00t) ?

Also, the way romance development in BG2, depended on how long you had been playing the game, and where your characters were at any given time, worked a lot better than just making the development dependent on what level you were on.

It seems to me that that stems from a design policy rather than the writing itself. Perhaps developers should approach romances more as a secret side quest, rather than a main feature of RPGs. With this in mind, romances should be made easier to screw up (you say the wrong thing, and you're done), and also, the PC should choose who he/she wants to romance. This should make things seem a little bit more open-ended and not as scripted as they usually are. The problem with this approach is, of course that a lot of development time/money is spent on something that in the end, won't be experienced by most players of the game.

@Josh: Do you think the writing for CRPGs' romances is worse than everything else that's written for CRPGs?

I just saw Sweet November on TV. It's like Love Story only infinitely worse. I felt like screaming "DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!" at the TV while the movie was on.

Have you ever seen "Tru Calling"? It's so bad that anyone involved with it should die a long slow death. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364817/ And that's an awful picture.

I hate Dushku with a passion.

Have you ever seen Cat's Meow? She's most impressive in that. And likeable, too.

And what does that have to do with her acting ability?

It does have a modern feel to it, however you should brush up on your history, as Marie Antoinette has, of course, precisely bugger all to do with Victorian times. Oh, and watch out for the All Star!

It's the story of a teenage girl who's forced to live with another family in a foreign country, and deal with problems that are above and beyond anything anyone should ask of such a young girl. And Kirsten Dunst is a pretty great actress. I've never really understood why some people dislike her so much.

But in the second paragraph he says that NWN2 lacks storytelling and character development because of D&D, and I assume that when referring to "better alternatives" he's talking about this two specific areas. Oblivion, however is kind of lacking precisely in those two areas. It makes no sense.

Marie Antoinette A pretty awesome teen movie.

What alternatives was the guy talking about?

I have about 200 megs free on my C drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYPhtNy0o9Q Carla Bruni - Le Plus Beau Du Quartier

Try holding down "Z" Thanks, will do. You should thank me. And I don't even have the game yet.

Actually, FFT is a pretty superficial game compared to Tactics Ogre. In fact, it probably was designed specifically as a dumbed down Tactics Ogre to appeal to the bigger FF crowd.

A little? I was waiting for the guy to say that NWN2's better than sex.

There hasn't been any for a while. I'm guessing Irrational will stay more or less quiet at least until Christmas.

Hey, what about that PnP game you had scheduled!?

He's having a PnP session. I'm not a stalker. :ph34r: