Deraldin

Personal favourite RTS game would have to be Dark Reign.

It's just not the same without that voice! Also: I... reconsidered, Matron. Your command was the wiser. And for some strange reason, I have this urge to actually run through Irenicus dungeon again instead of just skipping it with Dungeon-Be-Gone for the millionth time.

You may hate it when it's there, but the moment you install the mod the removes that voice, you start to miss it. It just isn't the same playing Baldur's Gate without hearing "You must gather your party..." every five seconds because one of your characters decided to wander off in the opposite direction after getting stuck on a tree. That must be the Stockholm syndrome speaking. The moment I got rid of it was a moment I stopped wanting to stab sharp objects into my ears every 5 seconds. Could be. All I know is that it just doesn't feel like Baldur's Gate until I hear that voice.

You may hate it when it's there, but the moment you install the mod the removes that voice, you start to miss it. It just isn't the same playing Baldur's Gate without hearing "You must gather your party..." every five seconds because one of your characters decided to wander off in the opposite direction after getting stuck on a tree.

It is an excellent card. BUT (isn't there always one?), you should have gotten the 4770 instead. http://www.guru3d.com/article/ati-radeon-hd-4770-review/ Same performance, draws less power and costs half as much. Although the price might not be half since the 4770 is supposed to retail for $99 and the 4850 is supposed to be more expensive. In the real world they're practically the same price. The 4770 is a damn good card, but availability is still not what it could be. I've yet to be able to find one at a big box store and at least half of the listings online here in Canada are out of stock the last time I checked. Considering he went to Best Buy I'd consider him lucky to have found a 4850. My local Future Shop doesn't have anything faster than a 4650.

I need to see if my old laptop is still around after I get some sleep. I'm note sure what it had, but I had that for a few years before I was given my first desktop. I don't recall ever being concerned with the free space on it though.

You're old fashioned. I remember buying a 30GB hard drive many, many years ago for around $200 I think just so I could finally put a full install of Baldur's Gate 2 on my system to eliminate the disc swapping. I think I had a 3GB drive before that. Bos: AP is 12GB though. Also, ninjas rule!

System Requirements as listed on Steam:

It just hit the Steam news. This was waiting for me when I finished my game of Left 4 Dead. Killing Floor and Tales of Monkey Island were pages 1 and 2. It's also in the rotation on the main page of the store.

I quite enjoyed it the first time I played it, but I can't seem to force myself to get through it again. I've tried starting about 4 times since I first finished it and each time I've given up shortly after you get your first gun. It's just really, really boring. I never finished an FPS twice, cuz there's not really a point and you know what's going to happen already, shouldn't really be a fault of the game You could say that about most games really. Why go back and play Starcraft a second time? What about Thief or, Baldur's Gate? You know what's going to happen, but just because you have that advance knowledge shouldn't mean that the game is no longer fun. That's the time where the rest of the game has to step up and provide a level of fun that is independent of it's connection to the story. That's where Half Life 2 failed for me.

I'd have to give Command and Conquer: Red Alert the nod for favourite game, with Baldur's Gate 2 a close second and Thief just behind that.

I quite enjoyed it the first time I played it, but I can't seem to force myself to get through it again. I've tried starting about 4 times since I first finished it and each time I've given up shortly after you get your first gun. It's just really, really boring.

School doesn't start here for another two weeks, but I have to agree about that state of mind though. The first month or so of vacation from all (or most) responsibilities is amazing in the freedom you have to just sit around and do nothing, but sooner or later it loses it's appeal and the need to do something, anything hits you. I've got just under twice the class hours this semester as compared to what I had last year thanks to the number of 3 hour lectures in third year and that 4 of my classes actually have seminars this time around instead of somehow getting a full schedule with none. I wish they wouldn't change the courses around every year though. Trying to figure out what courses I've already taken and what courses I still need to take is a pain in the butt when this 200 level course is now a 300 level and that course has been split into two separate courses. I almost signed up for two courses I had already taken under different names before I saw the list of changes. My 'management accounting" course from last year is now a 300 level course because the financial accounting course has been split in two with the second half being moved up to the 200 level.

I think he mean which one, not what is it.

I'm going through Watcher's Keep right now. Just hit the third level and that damn maze with the really annoying wild/dead magic zones. I cheated when I first picked up Imoen in Spellhold and used Shadowkeeper to make her a single class thief to give her some better thief abilities before I dualled her over, but I've had to go through most of the game now without access to those thief skills. I'm about 100k experience from unlocking those thief abilities again, then it's on to Kangaxx and blatantly cheating a second Ring of Gaxx with the pickpocket bug. After that I'll have finished everything that I want to do in SoA and I can go move on to ToB.

Yeah, but how well did that work out for Infinity Ward? They sold a crap load of copies, but I still remember at least one of them complaining that there was some huge number (1 million+?) of pirated copies playing online.

It doesn't sound serious? Did you see who posted it?

I never laughed so hard in that one as when I polymorphed a certain NPC into a squirrel, only to have that squirrel burst into a 7' werewolf a minute later. Nah. Polymorphing Firkraag into a squirrel and not realizing that he still has all his abilities in his new form was funny. Squirrel: Breath Weapon Squirrel hit <CHARNAME> for 129 damage <CHARNAME>: Death

lol you still buy GI. ... 2. They said Mad Catz makes quality controllers. I have bought two controllers from Mad Catz. Both of them are broken. Doesn't gamestop still give out free subscriptions to Game Informer when you pick up an Edge card or something? I seem to recall them practically giving the subscriptions with every transaction at one point. Many of the older Mad Catz controllers were absolute crap. They've made some decent stuff much more recently.

I hate you. I've got a couple items, but I need to find a working camera before I can share them.

I was so very disappointed by this game even though I never played it. I didn't follow it very closely at the time, but Nexus started life as Imperium Galactica 3. I absolutely loved Imperium Galactica 2 so news of a sequel was most welcome. I didn't hear about it again until Just before Nexus was released and was really disappointed that I wasn't going to get my desired sequel. The Solarian intro is still one of my favourite intro cutscenes ever. The ground combat section was crap even at the time, but I loved the space battles. So glad to see this game mentioned. Imperium Shredders FTW! Infantry? What Infantry? I never really got the hang of the waypoint system, but the AI stances were amazing. AI controlled scouts that would flee enemy units automatically. Hit and run specialists that constantly harrass enemy units and retreat when damaged? Artillery that actually had artillery like firing ranges? Awesome game. As for games that haven't been mentioned, I don't think I have anything that I would really consider criminally underlooked. The closest I can think of would be Silent Storm and that's mostly because it's a squad based TBS. It was an amazing TB squad strategy game with full destructible environments. Sometimes suffered from the "One brick holding up an entire floor of a building" problem, but just the ability to shoot through floors and walls (mostly) blindly saved many, many soldiers of mine. Playing with the optional "Headshots=death" rule makes everything so much deadlier both for you and the enemy, but IMO, much more fun.

Check out Metadigital's profile here. 15,000 posts since he registered. That's still under 9 posts per day and he hasn't been seen in almost a year. If you tried, you could get that in less than 5 minutes every day for however many years. It's a huge number of posts, but when you consider how much time some people have actually spent on these forums, it's not as mind bogglingly huge a number as it might seem.

I never finished the first one (boring) and I finished the second one once. I often wish DnD had started the RPG industry, and then quickly been forgotten. I can understand the sentiment for the first one, like everything thats the first of its kind it lacks a lot of features that you're used to. And its pacing is slower than most newer games. As for the second - one playthrough is not nearly enough to see even the greater part of the games content, or to immerse yourself in the possibilities that it offers especially with the ton of random events/conversations and whatnot. I have to say that when I first played BG1 I absolutely hated all the walking through empty areas, but for some reason, it's grown on me more and more with each subsequent run. I don't know why this is, but I think I completely explored about half of the areas and visited all but 2 or 3 along the right edge of the map.

Saw it on Tuesday and I have to agree. Overall the movie was moderately enjoyable and as someone who really doesn't know that much about GI Joe in the first place, many of the changes either didn't bother me or went totally unnoticed. There were really only two things that bugged me. Cobra Commander was absolutely horrible. I hated his costume for much of the movie and the mask he put on at the end was quite possibly the worst mask design I've ever seen. The other thing that bugged me was Snake Eyes. Did they just paint his face black? What ever they did it looked really weird. I didn't notice it most of the time, but whenever you got a closeup of his face it looked odd.

Nope. Closest I've got it "All I wanted was a custom avatar"