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The advantage of handhels games are that theyre simple enough to be developed by a very small team, no more than 10 people (and thats for a very advanced one, some sloppy timewaster for the DS could be done by 1-2 people) But CRPG's as a timewaster you play on the subway on your way to work? Nah, bad idea.

Well, seeing that my RPG rules system is universal (like GURPS) and all Id need to do is add a few spot rules for shifting etc. then it's done. ..that and assembling all the pages of incoherent notes Ive made into something readable "

How come you guys are watching all the new cool shows here? Im still thrilled about "Monk".

Dont they have Anticimex in the Forgotten Realms? I mean, what's next? A sidequest to cook and do the dishes in an old folks home?

It wasnt me! "

Maybe in 10 years from now, this kind of crap will be as gone as the Comics Code. Its very strange that something like the very casual and natural nudity of comics like "Y : The Last Man" merits them being hushed away from the mainstream news stands.

I have deekin tattooed all over my butt )

I played a Wizard and got smacked in the intro fight cause I only had lvl1 spells memorized "

Joe was saying that Marvel could not publish a series starring a gay character without it being labelled a MAX - the same label used for comics featuring extreme swearing, extreme violence and explicit nudity. Thats just rubbish, MAX comics arent more explicit than the average hollywood film. But I think that its a great hypocrisy to brand the same type of story to be "Rated R" when its heterosexual counterpart is considered PG13. It is understandable though, Marvel probably dont want the Christian right on their trail.

As a Swede, I have the following advice regarding IKEA; they make cheap rubbish. Do not buy from IKEA: -Chairs -Lamps -Tables -Anything that will be used/sat upon Ok to buy: -Cupboards -Cabinets -Closets IKEA stuff is ok for things you just use to store stuff in and that can be painted or otherwise covered up to hide the cheap masonite+fan

Not even one rotten photo to document the event?

All our experienced and really devoted politicians often bail the sinking ship of domestic politics for the UN. And they used to be a popular target for assassinations, Folke Bernadotte got murdered by the Israeli and Dag Hammarskj

And are the US and Israel the only non-evildictatorshipjuntarepressive countries where people badmouth the UN? We Swedes are very proud of it, from Dag Hammarsk

Damn straight! Except we would have legionaires with plumes and large shields.. itd be like the Roman empire all over again! ) Pax Unitas Nationes and everything

We shouldnt forget that the UN is not an independant body capable of arbitrary action. Most of its failiure to act is because one or more of the members vetoed the resolution or kept it from ever reaching the voting chamber in the first place,

What are you talking about Hades? Its a fanmade module, BioWare was going to sell it through thei premium system but thats all they had to do with it

They're not worse, theyre just as bad as NWN1 and the KoTORs. I know its easy to forget it if you play alot or Aurora games, I didnt realise until a friend of mine asked me if his GFX was broken because KoTOR stuttered so much. Theres ws nothing wrong with the hardware, just the way the engine handles switching between animations.

Wakey pakey, Gabs! Youve been here too long not to know this Theyre using Electron, which is completely new to about 90%. Unfortunantly, what it does retain from Aurora is the combat mechanics and animations which seem to give it that same jerky, ultra-low-fps feeling. One thing I notice is that the PC has no in-between animations for going from standing completely still to walking or running. It looks a bit strange, it just hops from one animation straight to another

I guess we'll just have to get Silvershadow... no uhm.. Silverstrider.. something.. and beat it out of him.

Lies. I mean, seriously where did you hear that? From my end of the rumourmill, Bethesda's FO3 will be an FPS/RPG hybrid thatll run on a slightly modified Oblivion engine.

Im playing the original now but its scary because the FAQs say SPQR and the other two houses will declare war on you, resulting in the civil war once you control 25 provinces. But I nabbed 27 and they didnt do diddley squat.. so now Im fearing Ill have 40 legions of Praetorians knocking down my door when I least expect it What do you have to do to trigger the civil war?

The only thing which concerns me is that they still dont seem to have gotten the "clunkiness" out of whats left of Aurora. I suppose its due to the realtime-turnbased mechanics behind it but every animation seems to be really jerk and start-stop. Not even walking or even scrolling the camera is flowing smoothly.

When you use a heightmap* to contruct the landscape, you tend to get these very smooth hills and valleys. Soil errosion emulation is something Bethesda invented to get more rocky, jagged surfaces on mountains etc. * A heightmap is a greyscale image that you use to make the engine distort a flat piece of 3D ground. Grey areas will not be effected at all, but white ares will generate hills and black valleys. The whiter/blacker an area of the image is, the higher/lower the terrain will be simple example.

Bethesda should really focus more on hiring good designers and writers, and less on soil errosion

Agreed. Frankly the option would be to not hire anyone who'd been to college. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How are they supposed to check if youve smoked pot like 5 years ago anyway? All traces sunstances disapear from the urine in days and the blood in weeks.