ShadowPaladin V1.0

I used to just stack Kreia with force lightning worked a little too well in some cases.

No one ever use the queu orders system?

You still in class?

Havnt come across anyone who hated it yet which is unusual.

My fondest memory of RE was this. Q. Define a hebrew A. A teabag of the male gender. Unfortunately my teacher was not amused.

The attack had come suddenly , the yelling of goblins and the steady beat of drums was the only warning as the horde poured out of the night. Yells went up along the walls and bows twanged in unison as the front line fell to the arrows of the defenders. The archers screamed as they were envoloped by fire and a section of the palisade walls burst asunder. Recovering quickly from her debriefing and the healing of minor wounds incured fighting the reluctant iron collar, Talia snatched her weapons from the rack,incanted a spell that made her skin as hard as the thickest bark and raced out into the darkness. The recruits were being cut down like wheat under the scythe of Cheantue, no match for the feverish goblins driven on by their leader Cabalis and those unholy beating drums. The goblins spotted her as she emerged, arrows thudding into the frame where she had stood only moments before. The wolves were first to reach her, she called on her gifts of animal calming , but like the goblins the wolves were in a frenzy beyond reason. Raising her hands skywards, and calling on nature the sky was rent with thunder. Lightning crashed down onto the lead wolf sending it spinning into the goblins that followed. Outnumbered Talia snatched the flasks of burning oil from her belt , these had been a gift from Isherwood for the timely resuply of his archer company. With practiced ease she tossed the flask into the horde and watched in satisfaction as 5 of them collapsed to the floors rolling in agony as the flames melted their green flesh. In the light of the flames she could see a goblin, larger than the rest and mounted on a giant wolf.The wolf leapt for her as she desperately twisted to avoid both spear and fang. Her own small dagger seemed an inadequate weapon against such a beast,even blessed as it was by the tears of the spirit of Viera. The spear and fangs of her foe nicked her flesh, the bark keeping the worst of the damage from her. Even so , she knew she was outclassed. Such close quarters fighting was not suited to her small halfling frame. All she could do was hope to keep the wolf and it rider at bay just long enough to... ....Once more the sky was rent by a bolt of lighting it struck uneringly tossing the goblin from its mount , a look of shock and suprise on its face. Without a rider the wolfs spririt broke and it bolted into the night. Talia's breathing was heavy and ragged. But her respite was short lived. Another wave of goblins had broken through somewhere to the north of her. Still, now she had space they were on her terms. She spotted the goblins about the same time they spotted her. They pointed and snickered. What threat could a lone halfling possibly be after they had dispatched the heavily armed defenders of the wall. Whizz! Thwack ! The foremost goblin fell clutching his face. Without waiting for response,Talia darted off out of sight. The goblins cursed and gave chase but even a horde of goblins are no match for a swift halfling in the dark. Before long the last goblin fell and Talia smilled to herself. That had been fun. Her moment of mirth was shortlived as the gates of the Palisade crashed inwards. At least she thought, whoever was breaking the gates was wasting those spells on wood and not her tender flesh. She was desperately low now, on both spells and flasks of oil.But there was no time to regroup, the fate of Targos hung in the balance. She spied the leader, Caballus. She recalled the name from Koluhm's conversation with the dead Goblin. If she could just kill him , it might break the spirit of the horde and set the running. Throwing her final flasks at the advancing ranks she gripped her tiny knife and grimly charged forward. Caballus saw her! Weaving his hands,a split second later a wave of coloured light sprang forth, knocking her to the floor. She felt the sting of an arrow. It was enough to rouse her from dizzied state. Spinning on her heel , she deftly planted her dagger through the eye socket of the goblin that had thought to finish off the helpless halfling. Cabalis screached in rage and Talia screamed in horror as her world went dark. Deprived of sight, her nimbleness did her little good. The goblins seeing her panic advanced bashing their axes and promising her torment. Using the sounds she unleashed an arc of cold from her fingers, her final spell, but she was determined if she was going to die, she would sell her life as dearly as possible. Arrows thudded into her and it was only a matter of time before one found a vital. Sure now, that this was indeed the last of the goblins she played her trump card. The small halfling body expanded, growing thick matted white fur, her delicate features melted into a snout, framed by two goring tusks almost a foot long. Relaxing into her new form , she let the spirit of the Boar take over, even blind as she was. It's animalistic rage gored goblins left and right. Arrows stuck into the thick fur ,but the matted coat provided layer of protection that the goblin archers could not pierce. The Fight with Caballus was long,the matted fur of the Boars body could not fully protect her from the stinging blows of his stave.Knowing she was blind he made no noise, her only warning being the sting of his stick.One lucky lunge caught him a glancing blow, he grunted in pain and that proved his undoing. Lunging forward Talia caught him on both tusks,goring him into the ground until he hung lifeless and broken. Resuming her natural form , she wiped the blood from her mouth and spat into the snow.... When her vision finally cleared she could see that she had indeed won the day. But the price of victory was heavy indeed. Scarce few of those who she had chatted and shared stories with remained alive. In the carnage , she found Isherwood, surrounded by at least a score of punctured goblin bodies. His bow lay broken beside him, one half of it still protruding from goblin skull. With a sigh, she turned and headed back to the guard post for her "reward". Somehow the thrill of wealth and riches didnt have the same allure that it had only a week ago when she had left Luskan aboard the Wench. Perhaps Shawford had been right. There was more to this and her part in it than money.

I've got one of each (and likely will have this generation too). I reckon the PS3 is slightly more powerful out of the gate and it's potential is far greater than the 360's. But that dosnt mean I hate the 360. Since its likely that Obsidian and Bioware will at least start out developing exclusively for the 360 (just a guess) most people will say 360.

They may, but it's always been because they doubt technology. Now there isnt much room for the graphics to go because they are almost photorealistic. It's not quite the same scenerio.

Yes but you have to have somewhere to go... I mean the graphics upgrades betwween this gen and the next are a no brainer. But can you really see another jump like that possible? Of course it may well be a good thing. Once you cap on the graphics front you then have to seek otherways to immerse the gamer.

Er... Really wish I could answer that but its a toughie. Fantastic games the Xcom games. Tuesday 7th March Arrival. Everything here screams organised chaos. Agents, scientists, equipment to be billited, checked inventoried and assigned. Work crews scury about like mechanical ants, building new instalations as fast as they can. More than once I've run into a wall that I swear wasnt there five minutes ago. Not much point in that floorplan I was given. Swung by Biotech. The science boffins are hard at work on a device that will allow live alien capture. If the previous alien wars have taught us anything, it is that our only chance of victory lies in turning the aliens own technology against them. This means that in every situation we will be outgunned and outnumbered,or at least those agents will. Wonder how many of them will see this through to the end.. I wonder if I will see this to the end..

No, I wouldnt change what I did even if I didnt get LS or DS points. I never play just to get points. That would depend entirely on the quest and character. If it was a quest that my character felt strongly about I wouldnt override their desire to do it.

Is that why it was called -X ?

You do need a fairly significant improvement to launch a new console. It's much different to just sticking out an upgraded vidoe card every 6 months after all. 10 years will be twice the lifespan of the PS and the PS2 which is a pretty significant increase. And on potential the PS3 wins hands down across the board. IF , and it is only if that can be tapped then the 360 is a totally obsolete machine that wont even be able to run PS3 software because its HDDVD cant handle the capacity. So unless you want to spread the games over 4 disks (you probably recall FFVIII quite well). Then its stuck for the duration. Unless MS introduce another new console earlier which would be a costly move.

Tell you what. If that isnt done in real time the coreographer should get some sort of award.

It's possible, but unless something drastic happens on the technology front or unless the generation after this has some sort of total immersion there isnt that much room for improvement which will mean a longer lifespan (kind of goodnews for us anyway). I meant it in the way that the dreamcast went.

I got Project Zero II this morning (UK name for fatal frame) not really worth playing that sort of game in daylight though. Kind of ironic that today would be the longest day.

"I have more men in the med bays than I do in the barracks. Things are looking bad. It's no longer a case of rotating squad one, two, and three, but scraping together enough people to go on a mission". "More UFO's attacked but we can do nothing but hide. No craft in production can match what we are up against. So we hide, we wait , and we hope for a breakthrough that will turn the tide". "Yesterday was a quiet day. I'm glad.This constant pressure is starting to show on the squads and on me. A break from combat is just what we need. Money is running low and I still have no solid air defence. This puts extra pressure on the ground troops as we are unable to thin out the inevitable landing parties. This is a viscious circle that must be broken if we are to win". "This will be the first field trials of the Toxgun. Have made important discovery alien shields only appear to absorb energy and explosive damage. The toxgun and possibly other thought obsolete projectiles will cut right through killing the alien. But more importantly leaving the shield undamaged". "Previously the only option was to overload the shield leaving it and the alien destroyed. A few of these shields will give us a major advantage and have been declared priority one aquisitions". "Research on the personal energy shield is complete. The element of suprise is ours". "These shields are superb ! Given time they recharge and have the added benifit of preventing accumulating minor wounds. If this keeps up I'm going to have to fire the med staff. Med bays been empty for a week now. The war is starting to turn in our favour". A few from around the low and high points of the game. Damm I'm feeling all nostalgic now and I want to play again

Eternal Quest <shudder> Games which have a lot of projectile combat suffer from the over head view. Not enough vision range to make guns like they should be.

I was digging around in the cupboard and came across the the diary of my Xcom game. Charting the ups and downs from inception to victory. Wonder if any game will inspire me to actually write a diary while playing it again.

I'm still not sure where the survival bit comes in. It's kind of a requirement.

No dont think so. I'll make an exception for Zelda but I loathe platform games.

Er.. Nothing I can really think of sorry. It's JRPG like but you have about 6 different endings and character relationships which are outside of the main directed plot. Only you dont get the usual pick from a list stuff you have to work out what motivates each character by action. It's also a sci fi game, but it mostly takes place on class 3 planets with fantasy tech.

Good people dont do things for the reward after all. I made most of my stuff. I like making stuff :D Making in stuff in Star Ocean was more fun though, especially filing the patent and then getting royalties.

So it does, I always thought that was for online play for scremaing orders at other people.

That still qualifies it as innovative. Maybe, but it's still an innovative feature in a handheld and it's being used to add a new aspect of gameplay. Cant think of any games on the PS2 or Xbox with voice recognition... Only ones I can think of are on the Cube.