Gorgon

Dude, Dungeon Keeper was boring as hell.

I though combat was the better part of TW (compared with the horrible NWN2 combat), the journal wasn't either better or worse from other games, just a bit different. Anyway, good luck to CDProject for the console SKUs. Hope it sells well, and although they're one of the more competent RPG developers out there, I'm really not hot on a possible TW2. I hope they move on with a new non-TW project. It's all mouse click attacks, no parries or dodging. I would expect something a little more when it's one character. NWN is a whole other bowl of wax, controlling an entire party and entirely based on stats and rolls.

I like the game, don't like all the things the engine can't do, but it's alright. It's not Mask of the Betrayer, but what is these days.

Me too, bad time to be out of pocket, but what the hell. I never gave a **** about Christmas and I don't have any kids, so.

I don't see how the combat could get much dumber. The journal is a mess, not complicated just poorly arranged.

Gothic 3 is unplayable though, the combat mechanics will drive you gradually insane.

Ok so it's 'weakness', so what. Is the knee jerk reaction here to exorcise all weakness and distance yourself from it. A bit cold don't you think.

The Witcher has very console friendly combat, tone down the needlessly complicated journal and you're good to go. Alchemy was needlessly complex anyway, you can create your own new potions, but how many people did anything but use the recipes.

Why are progressive supreme court judges automatically bad. I mean I remember a little thing called segregation, Jim Crow etc. I can only surmise that in the same breath you are against forays into undermining Roe vs Wade.

Ideally I would have a party of just two, three at the most, that way player input would matter a great deal more. A bit too hard probably, since you need a skill specialist like a thief or ranger for moving around on the world map.

Most of the time the caster AI does just fine without any input from the player, with one major exception, they are extremely stingy with healing spells and can't cast them outside of combat. There is no need for buff spells, as you will only ever need them on extended dungeon crawls, and most of the interiors are very small, and they take too long to cast. The Mele AI, however, often seems content to just stand around and do nothing. Also very annoying for those who picked several of the two weapon fighting feats, they shift back to one weapon constantly, defeating the purpose of the feat purchases. Then there is the 'rubber banding' issue, causing the party to do anything from teleportation to moving off in the wrong direction. Please note that none of this is unique to SoZ though. I'd wager the most effective group would be an all caster group of two healers and two damage dealers, all with some carefully picked summoning spells to provide the meat shields.

Anyone know why my Eldrich Knight can't use the prestige armor. Do I need at least one level in fighter.

The Jewish race isn't determined by genetics, you can become one through conversion, although in this instance 'pure bloods' would have preference.

'Jewish' I think is unique in both designating a race of people, and a religion. Putting someone on the fast track for immigration for either reason is what would be called discrimination anywhere else. I don't think the Arab, or Christian Israelis care terribly much about avoiding these 'undesirable' non Jews, now do you.

I see, and yes.

I suppose we could call them giant space hamsters instead to avoid any unpleasant connotations with their history. Or, one could grow a pair and not worry about the appearance of racism so much one starts to see it where it isn't. Since you seem to need it, here goes http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jews Now tell me where that says 'Jews' is a racial slur. It's funny how these things go, the innocent sounding 'Jap' is one though http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jap Go back a page and read what this is about.

The Chinese are practical about these things if nothing else, after the firing squad the organ harvesting teams move in.

Both true for every NWN product ever... although you could argue NWN2 vanilla was broken out of the box for a few people. But then, so was NWN, when the engine first graced millions' computers. In my experience the NWN engine worked just fine. No half hour waits, no camera battling you for control of the action at every turn.

I don't know it seems to me after going through all that there might have been a lesson about exclusion and discrimination. Don't confuse humour with straight bigotry and stupidity. What are you lot on about. As far as I am informed, 'Jews' is a perfectly acceptable plural. What else would you use.

A life sentence usually isn't, that's why they have the designation 'life without the possibility of parole'.

Doesn't the irony run rather thick when Jews are discussing implementing a racial purity benchmark.

It's strange how strong a hold fear and terror can produce. I mean the children could have run off at any time and told their story to the police, and that would have been that, there is no way they would have been let back in the house.

Knights of the nine is just a series of quests, Shivering Isles is a proper expansion. I mention a suit of armor because they have actually done that, not because I think that's what the new module is. A new quest line wouldn't make me want to play FO3 again.

The proper Oblivion expansion, Shivering Isles, was miles better than Oblivion. IMHO.

The game is good, the engine is crap. Just be happy they have now given up trying to polish that giant turd.