Humodour

Guys, here's how the world will end: http://www.endofworld.net/

So I've got Shadow Magic Missle, Shout, and Cacophonic Burst. All my nuking needs! Soon to get Ice Storm, too! Oh, and I beat the crap out of Lorne within seconds. I died the first time though. The trick was to beat on him for a round or two, then cast Haste and run off till his invulnerability ends then hit him once. Because if he gets 2 critical hits in (each 50 to 60 dmg), game over.

lol gromnir. I'm not sure where that came from, but it was amusing. Anyway guys, I'm about to enter the Blacklake district with my Bard and I have to say, the game is far better once I arrived at Neverwinter. Also, my Bard is insanely powerful. She regularly survives combat that wipes the rest of the party out (including Khelgar) and not only that, she continues on to wipe out the rest of the map while they're still snoozing on the ground. I'm playing on Hardest to boot. I'm thinking bards are as powerful as clerics - perhaps more esoteric. The inspirations are really good, the Hymn will be insane once I get it, and dual-weapons tear through anything as long as there's a little bit of elemental damage on them. Still haven't got curse song, which I will take once I hit 12 - then it'll be like a hot knife through butter. The other songs I'm looking forward to are Legionairre's March and Song of Heroism. Those look insane. Do multiple bard songs (of different type) stack? Right now I'm annoyed because I received Shadow Conjuration at lvl 11 but can't cast it till level 12. Woo, magic missiles!

They weren't nearly as good as HL1 or Opposing Force, but Episode 1 was still pretty fun and it felt more like the originals!

Tiax rules! Make way. Make way.

Ranged fared pretty well in the original.

Um, yes? We will wait. And?

Look in Bruce's eye and tell me you're not lying. I know this is Obsidian and all, but this is starting to sound too good. Like once-in-a-lifetime good. You really are making this game, not bringing it back from the future, or forcing alien slaves to program it, right? Trust me, I was as surprised as anyone. But yeah, thanks to the mission structure of the hubs, some characters you simply won't meet if you skip some of the optional missions. I mean, this is a major character who can pop up in multiple missions and is one of the romance targets, but it's entirely possible to never meet her in a playthrough. Hearing things like this make me really wonder about how all of the seemingly very extensive freedom factors into the endgame. There is no end game. The devs just kind of gave up and eventually Mike is trampled to death by a wild horse in Rome.

Knock knock, who

Your ears receive the sound, not generate it. Thats not answering the original question, is it? Oops. Yes, it does make a sound, even if no one's there to hear it. Does the process of listening to the sound change the observed event? Would the tree have fallen if you hadn't listened for it? Unless you stand where the tree is falling, no. Yes, it would have. Prove it (been reading too much Einstein/Bohr debates recently after Schroedingers birthday a few days ago) On that note, they've made some neat advances in quantum computing lately: http://www.physorg.com/news168791155.html

If I buy these games from the Valve store will they be shipped to me or do I have to download them?

Sounds good. Burn Notice style.

If you get caught drink driving in Australia they generally throw the book at you.

Also, this game looks lame.

Torment only had 3 classes also. Fallout had none.

It was I. Finland is well represented on that list. Ahab, Mystique and Ankara Halla are all finnish. Seriously?

I was just wondering if anyone knew if u could grab arms or legs off the dead guys that u kill and use them as weapons.

OK.

You have to take it to the mad monk living underground in the Elven Shrine of Chaos.

Oh dear. I hope it will have the therapeutic value of the WP grenades in deus ex. Setting a whole squad of MJ12 goons on fire with a single shot... *sigh*

That's fine as long as: the list is not revealed to you, and you don't have some sort of 'achievement counter'.

Maybe if they dropped the price down to about $10, it would get more sales. Just a suggestion. Say the average game sells for $40 and they expect to get 1 million sales with that price. Then if they want to sell it for $20 on the potential of increased sales they need to sell 2 million copies. Now it's quite possible that such a price reduction would end up selling 3 or 4 million copies instead (probably), but how do you model that? So you can see the dilemma here: what's the sweet point for cost that maximises profit? It's certainly not the highest number you can think of, but it's also not the lowest. Unfortunately, I fear most game publishers these days fall on the "as high as you can think of" end of the spectrum.

Not really. Deus Ex was shooter first, "lite" RPG second, while Bloodlines was RPG first, shooter second. Thanks for a meaningless and inaccurate post Morgoth. I rely on you for these things.

You poor little thing.