Lord Tingeling

I just read this thread from start to finish. Between Baley's incessant spamming, rampant console-whining, and Darque's "The End is Nigh!!!" spam regarding computers, I think what little is left of my sanity has taken a blow from which it will never recover. All is woe. ...That said, speaking of Civ... am I the only one who has problems with the new 3D look of Civ4? A 3D civ is just... wrong, IMHO.

Other. Wile E. Coyote is the most accomplished villain ever. The plastic pasha known as Vader has nothing on the archbaddie of archbaddies.

Well, at least none of us had any tactical bombers left...

Icewind Dale has no place whatsoever on a poll on TEH BESTEST GAMEZ EVAR!!!!!1111!11.-shift++on!!e!

Overkill indeed. A fleet of millenium-class cruisers was quite the nice sight, as I recall. Oh, and AoE (and AoE II) totally, utterly sucked. Sure, I've had a lot of fun with it on quite a lot of LANs, but in the end, archer rushes became boring. There's no strategy at all in that game, really. Reminds me of this weekend, actually. Me and a few friends got togheter, reinstalled TA, installed a mod that raised the unit limit to 5000, started a game of Seven Islands and then all hell broke loose. One of our naval skirmishes took ten minutes from start to finish, I think. Milleniums, warlords, crusaders, subs, sub hunters, torpedo bombers... we really threw everything at each other. The seabed was littered with shipwrecks afterwards, to say the least. Haven't had that much fun in quite a while, really.

Dunno the status on TA (Total Annihilation), but it might be abandonware by now. If so, I definitely recommend it. Get the mod that raises the max unit limit to 5000 and then go play Seven Islands for terribly silly, unbridled fun.

I'm rather curious as to your views on this old (but still highly playable!) strategy game. Have you ever played it, and if so, how does it in your minds compare to newer strategy games such as Empire: Rise of the modern world, Warcraft III, C&C generals, and so forth?

It's never happened to me.

World of Warcraft.

Yes, it's true. I remember that much from the beginning of HL2. Weeks, you say? Ouch.

No. I forbid you from changing your sig. That old one you went with might've been a valuable antique in just a few years..

I thought that even if you sent her away, she was still killed in the Sabbat HQ just the same as if you 'adopted' her. The only time I sent her away was my first playthrough, so I could be wrong, but I remember watching her die and thinking 'Hmmm. Who's that? Oh, her. What's she doing here?' <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm rather sure she only dies when you've taken her in. By the way, if you give her blood, you cannot send her away at the time you two meet (outside LaCroix's) regardless of what you say (or so I recall). You'll have to return to the hideout and kick her out. That might have been what you missed on your first playthrough.

How so? I don't think she's mentioned at all in the game after you send her away. :/

Well, what can I say? I did it all for the wookies.

No real reason. The name of the quest is "The Missing Diplomat", but as previously noted, you're really searching for the king of stormwind. Just thought I'd point that out. Very nice quest, though, and one of my personal favourites.

You're welcome.

Actually, the "diplomat" you're investigating is Aundinn (sp?) Wrynn's father. Ergo, the true king of Stormwind.

NOLF2. The style, the wonderful graphics, the hilarious enemies, the very good assortment of weaponry. This game had it all. Blood. My favourite "old skool" FPS. Sorry Duke, but Caleb is just a wee bit more cheesy than you are. Blood 2: The Chosen. Not as defining as the first game, but still very good. Perfect Dark. Best console shooter ever, no contest. The multiplay was superior to Halo's, too. Duels with only sedative guns = hilarious. Truly "perfect".

Chiyo-chan, how can you fly? Oh, and I hate you now for stealing the recommendation *I* was going to give out. Ah well. Other than that, I'd say that Blood: TLV warrants a buy (if you find it cheap) only for the fact that Saya is the coolest character evar. Out the more recent series I've watched, I'd recommend Witch Hunter Robin, Great Teacher Onizuka and (maybe) Happy Lesson. It depends on what you like, but I found the above series ranging from genius (GTO) to very good (WHR) to entertaining (HL). Oh, and I kinda liked Chobits, too. The story was somewhat stupid, but the fancy intro music made up for it somewhat.

Baley is a noob.

I don't like any of the armor from KOTOR2. Save for maybe Handmaiden's deafult DS clothing, which probably doesn't warrant being called "armor", anyway. Gimme back the not-so-gay robes from K1, plz.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> If I posted two smileys in this post, would it make my post more profound and thorough than yours? :darque: :darque:

Sure, but DoA just goes over the top. The lack of subtlety just gets irritating, frankly. I'm here to beat some ass, not look at it all-day long as that ninja girl does backflip after backflip after backflip.

Well, DoA, as fun as it is, sucks on one count: Team Ninja are a bunch of perverted bastards, and it shows. And the 360 sucks. I hate it, because M$ is the CabalCo of the real world.

I must admit that I haven't played Virtual Fighter, so I have no idea wheter I would agree or disagree with the above. However, this raises an interesting question of wheter more "depth" as in attacks, combos and so on really translates into a game more conducive for competitions and the like. DoA might be the most shallow of the above games, but that's not to say there's less room for improvement in said game. CS isn't very deep when compared to, say, Flashpoint (though I doubt Flashpoint is played out competitively on the internet to any large degree)- that's not to say that one can master CS enough to face off with the better players in the field any faster than you can master Flashpoint to do the same. I played TTT for quite a long time with my friend (his level of skill was rather close to mine through the whole time so the difficulty was always adequate)- then we switched over to DoA2 once I found it cheap in the local store. Personally, I like the rock-paper-scissors system. It might be a bit too simplistic, true- but at least DoA2 shifted the focus a bit from King's and Nina's overblown combo-fests. That I fully agree with. I live in the outback, so I have no means with which to play, sadly. There's not even any fighting game tournaments in close proximity to where I live (no wonder, really, the only place I can think of that would possibly house such tournaments would be Stockholm)- well, apart from Nintendo's annual nintendo tournament featuring the odd bout of Super Smash Brothers. Online gaming seems to be a promising venture as far as giving fighting games the longevity they so desperately need, but as you said, lag continues to be an issue. If the PS3 can resolve these issues and if I somehow happen to actually get online using the thing, it'll be a sure purchase as far as I'm concerned. Fighting games are very good fun, really. I found the PS2 controller to be adequate for fighting games, and from the look of it, the PS3 controllers will keep some of the design of its predecessor. Never could stand the XBOX design, though. I had lots of difficulties with DoA3- even though it was basically the same game (nearly identical control scheme) with slighly improved graphics.