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Ive read Bilbo and LotR but not anything else even remotely fantasy-related. What is this talk about High, low and regular fantasy? We play WFRP and that is described as low-fantasy. I have no idea what that means though.

That does undermine her credibility somewhat. Growing up in the US is a bit different than the ME

Bethesda: "Sorry, thats just not what we do well"

I think a lot of peoples lives would have been better if the only fantasy available would have been a 1300 page brick novel that no geek would have the patience to read. ...on the other hand, that might have caused more people to become trekkies? Hmm..

Another famous female muslim critic of Islam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsi_Ali So many muslim extremists want her dead that they had to pull the whole Salman Rushdie treatment on her. Her partner in making the short film "submission" Theo van Gogh refused protection and was murdered.

..with GURPS rules would be awesome

I read a review of the Olbivion beta in Play today. It praised the graphics and the way the world comes alive with NPCs scripted to go to bed or eat etc. but otherwise its completely similar to Morrowind in every way.

All lies. Tolkien is the sole and only inventor of what would later be raped and molested into the crap kids like to read today. If Tolkien had died during WW1 it would be quite possible that all geeks would have been Star Trek fans.

We did successfully manage to play Vampire vefore with Ender so it can be done. You can count me in, Im even thinking about GMing a few shorter Call of Cthulhu scenarios myself.

The only game that scared me(in modern times) was the first Aliens vs. Predator when playing as a marine. The terror of making your way through a dark complex and hearing your motion sensor give off that first ominous "bee-beep" ..huuuh, still gives the the creeps.

What does this actually mean? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's all to do with quantum entanglement. Basically two "paired" quantum particles have a direct effect on each other, as if they are connected. So, for example, one can add energy to one, and the other might give off energy as a photon. No-one understands how this canhappen, at present. And, in fact, it doesn't correspond to any existing laws of physics, because it is possible to seperate two such quantum particles and have them act on each other instantaneously, i.e. FASTER THAN LIGHT CAN TRAVEL BETWEEN THEM. What does it mean? Not sure what the full ramifications are (yet), but it probably indicates that our space-time universe is warped and stretched, but someforces can act THROUGH the fabric of the universe. Best example is to picture a M

I dunno, I've heard such fantastic claims before of other games, only to be dissapointed later. This just might be more "shadow hype". ::shakes fist:: god help you if it's shadow hype <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think this is what an interview with Beth devs would be like: ME: -Ok, so Oblivion has horses and soil erosion and shading.. BETH: -And Patrick Stewart! -Yes, and Patrick Stewart. -And a huge game world. -Ok, but in no interviews or articles have you spoken of the actual gameplay, story or roleplaying features of the game. Now, why is that? -Im not follwing you, here. -Story, roleplaying. Oblivion has those, right? -Mmm.. no, not really, no. -But I thought it was supposed to be a CRPG? -You know.. we uhm.. think its bad to put labels on things. We think of Oblivion more as a roleplaying-game-fantasy-simulator-action-adventure.. with soil erosion. -And Patrick Stewart? -Yes!! precisely. -Isnt this just you trying desperately to hide the fact that your game will completely suck? -Hey man! I mean... uh.. you knowm theres good games and not-so-good games and we.. you know... good games... thats just not what we do well here at Bethesda. And time has proven us right, there is a huge market out there for not-so-good games! I mean, good games make up less that 20% of sales today so why should we try and make a good game? huh?!

Back in the early-mid ninties there was a team of scientists who experimented with creating randomly generated AI lifeforms which would move through a 3D space using whatever means of locomotion they had evovled Its seems very much like Wright took that and made a game out of it. But I find myself asking the same question as people did when The Sims came out; ok this is a cool set of features but where is the game? Hopefully, Spore will prove us wrong again.

Well, it depends on your definition of "turning off" is. If you send signal A through device X and you get something out of it, then device X is by all logic turned on/active.

So a game whose makers make more money the more people play and the longer they play it, is encouraging players to invest a lot of time in the game AND to get your friends to play it too? Hmm...

That record was released in 1964. If you would go out and try to find a contemporary Jazz record that was as good then youd fail.

I think both musical styles suffer from a severe case of 'having existed so long that all ideas were squeezed out of the genre 40 years ago' The saying that a thousand mokeys with a thousand typewriters will sooner or later have written every book that can be written is reality in music. And the narrower a genre is, the faster it will run out of fresh ideas and die out or be conservated, stuffed and put on display like jazz.

If you buy Oblivion untested, youre either an idiot or a Morrowind fan... which is kind of the same thing " I like Gothic2 a lot more than Morrowind and that is saying something.

Jazz can be so boring its like watching wet paper dry. Blues on the other hand has what we call a "blues twelve" meaning the very typical chord progression used that was carried over into another vile from of music, honkey tonk. So between hearing a blues twelve for the 6789023208987th time and still feeling physicly ill from the experience, I have to say jazz. That can atleast be easily ingored.

Maybe we humans all look alike to SkyNet " -Hey! Havent I seen you before? -Negative. -You look so familiar... now where could we have, ah yes. You look just like that guy who just showed up over at outpost B just before someone went ape and killed everyone with an 80w pulse rifle -Yes. I am his cousin. -Oh, ok. I guess its safe to let you in then.

What I would want Bethesda to implement(which they most likely wont since "its not what they do best" to quote them) is Real dialogue not the keyword or topic variety they did with Morrowind and have continued in Oblivion. Without dialogue, there is no roleplaying. well, except deciding wether to shoot generic enemy #957 in the head or chest or wether youll collect mushrooms for generic NPC #48 or find the lost FedEx parcel for generic NPC #92

Advantages of CRPG's and Tabletop RPG CRPG Provides the players with actual graphics of the game world and their characters Prewritten dialouge is usually superior to that which most GMs come up with on the fly Pro voice acting and 3D models makes NPCs truly come alive Combat is completely rigid but allows real tactics through the "battlefield" being completely illustrated in real time. Whereas using miniatures and hexmaps in tabletop tends to make it more like a game of warhammer than an RPG You dont need friends to play it Tabletop Lets the player use his imagination Allows limitless improvisation for both GM and Players Lets you hone your acting skills Doesnt require a 10million dollar budget and 3 years of development to let you play a measly 20hour campaign ..and thats about all the listmaking I can muster for now

Theyre just as tricky to find "on the lists" I managed to save myself $100 by locating "Empire in Flames" the other day but not noly is that the final book in the campaign but its also the not-so-good-one

110$ for Shadows over B

I used to play the old WFRP years ago and now weve taken up the new second edition of the game and its a wonderful game but weve been trying to get used copies of the legendary "Enemy within" campaign for the first WFRP. It cosist of a series of separate adventures that were boxed initially but then reptinted as books Shadows Over B