Nick_i_am

If BiF was Gearbox then they get my vote any day.

This makes the difference between him potentially going to jail or not, so it's basically the same thing.

Waaaaaaaait, was that sarcasm?

Unlike the average Bioware writing.

It's not so much that it's MP focused as much that it doesn't have a single player campain, much like Civ4. Not really an RTS though, more like a 4X game with heavy RTS elements (or rather, options, since you don't HAVE to touch them). Frankly, campains are not easy things for 4X games, so it's kind of understandable, the only one I can think of that really had one was Imperium Glactica 2 (counting out Civ 'scenarios').

As a rabid fan of both Homeworld and Civ4 this game gets the 'want' section of my brain rolling. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/30077.html I remember getting excited about this game a long while back then fogetting it existed and assuming it had died. Demo 'within a month', but given the recent reviews and new videos i'm getting pretty excited even if none of the rest of you jerks care. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28110.html

Except that their skills suck, they lack feats and they have to spread their ability points across more skills than either a fighter or a wizard. A cleric has spells, sure, but they're outdamaged by a wizard (and their reflex save sucks to boot) and outstabbed by a warrior. Frankly I can't see the complaint against pure clerics being overpowered in NWN. In DnD it can be a slightly different issue, espessally with evil clerics commanding undead hordes.

The irony is that scimping on writing is one of the few things you can't accuse Square of.

Actually, this isn't the only issue, as Tale pointed out, the lines are correlating, but that doesn't mean that they're directly affecting each other. Fact is that the games generating the greatest sales are those with an action element. Slower (esspesally turn based) games are, frankly, being phased out due to a market that isn't interested in them, and that includes PC exclusive titles. Take a look at Homeworld 2, they followed the trend set by the later installments of Blizards RTSs and opted for a fast micro-heavy RTS. This was a COMPLETE turnaround from the original and yet, not a console in sight. Look at Nexus, the 'perfect' PC game and yet the lack of sales forced the company to shut down. Again, look at CnC3, they took all the features that made the original great, but then put the speed up by about 300%. Sure, it was released on consoles, but this was really an afterthought and it's very hard to pin any of it's 'new features' on 'simplifying for consoles' (esspesally considering that RA2 did exactly the same thing). Consoles are a much larger portion of the pie than they used to be when games were, in general, slower but the 'problem' is much wider than that and can't wholly be blamed on games being cut down for consoles. I'm not even convinced that CoD2 would have been different if it had never been released for consoles.

Now this thread has two things that arouse me!

Actually, it's a point, i've always been curious as to why NWN2 raises the temperature of my CPU significantly more than most other games.

Memento Mori

haha, Llyranor and I were drooling over that game like, two years ago. Good to see it didn't die.

If i'm understanding correctly it seems to be very miniture focused. That could lend itself well to games. I'll have to read up.

Yeah, Opposing Force was a fairly awsome reinterpretation of a game that left a lot to live up to.

As poorly qualified as I am to build a true community of spirit and purpose based on mutual respect and caring, I hope you will bear with me while I begin this sincere and earnest attempt. And please don't get mad with me if, in doing so, I must reveal some shocking facts about your complaint . In the text that follows, I don't intend to recount all of the damage caused by your complaint's raving strictures but I do want to point out that your complaint's faculty for deception is so far above anyone else's, it really must be considered different in kind as well as in degree. To recapitulate, it's time for your complaint to get back on the reality bus.

Which would be a miricle if you were on the same team.

<3 Architect.

They both have fur, it must be true! They are related though, the same guy who said 'hey, lets give the badarse pilot a pet who's actually a seven foot tall missing link' also said 'and this time we need somthing cute, for the kiddies'. Or yeah, what Tale said.

I'll laugh when this turns out to be a vista exclusive title.

You support democracy, lets take a vote on that.

Blocking me into grenades counts.

Actually, a freak accident means that the words and meanings for 'teamwork' and 'team-killing backstabbing jerk' have been mixed up for him.

Built this. It's meant for an animation, so it breaks and all the parts are fully movable, but I kinda got carried away on the detail. Guess I'll animate tomorrow instead

I'd just get distracted by the girth slider