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Is it out on the 360 yet? It's pretty tough to put this on Bethesda, I doubt they rushed it in publishing. Oh yeah, I loved the original Sea Dogs by Akella, I don't know what went wrong after that.

Is it Word or World? The graphics look nice. What's the gameplay like? Turn based? 1st person?

I'm not sure why you would include bugs, framerate in a rating about the OC. If you are going to rate the OC alone, you should ignore any technical difficulties YOUR PC had. Those are not OC issues, those are stability issues. Now if you are rating NWN2 as a whole, of course those are important. Music and graphics directly affect the story, and interface is a bit of a gray area. I gave it a 9 based on the OC. I might drop to an 8.5 based on the camera and few bugs I encountered, but those don't affect the story telling in my eyes. The OC engaged me tremendously. For comparison, I give Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and KotOR 10's.

Ah, the PS3, right? How is everything? edit: erm...wait, maybe that's the Wii title...same question if it is.

Someday I hope to read one of these articles and actually see that they understand the difference between a teacher and an aide. There is a humongous difference.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3052074,00.html I actually agree with this line: "We have discovered that some of them are simply detached from reality," a security source told Ynet. " Heck, if you aren't smart enough to keep your D&D hobby quiet, you probably shouldn't be a high ranking officer.

Bondra is only 38, so he should be able to give the Blackhawks a bit of help. edit: I guess he put up 21 goals last year in Atlanta. I'm surprised it took so long for a team to pick him up.

Was that the "Alternate Reality" game that was supposed to be a great leap in gaming a few years back? A nice high concept, to be sure, but it worked better as a marketing tool for serial television than an end in and of itself. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm pretty sure you are thinking of "Majestic"

Act III seems a good deal harder than the previous acts. Or maybe I just became too reliant on Shandra.

Uh, the Wal-mart argument doesn't work because they aren't part of a union, and Wal-mart can just fire them if they bad mouth the company. It also doesn't really apply to the situation AT ALL because the NHL doesn't have a simple employer-employee relationship. It's a complex system of owners, players, and league officials whose job it is to make certain the NHL stays fair and profitable. Obviously that's a difficult job, as we've had lockouts and bankrupt teams over the years. When a player bad mouths the league officials, which refs are a part of, they are subject to a fine. But owners are held accountable as well, and there are times when they've been fined too. Edit: The league cannot fire a player. In fact the Bertuzzi incident shows how difficult it can be to carry out a punishment. It required a committee and all sorts of union work to finally decide to suspend Bertuzzi for one season, but plenty of people think that was too light. Players accept the fines because they are well protected by their union.

I wonder if Volourn knows that there is a player's union, and that fines are all part of the contract the player's union signed with the business owners. Now if you want to argue that union's are like the mafia, that's been done before. The fact is the player's have way more rights than they did in the past, and there is nothing illegal or crooked about a minor fine. If the player has an issue with it, he can appeal it through his union rep. edit: lollers, game over :crazy:

That makes a lot of sense. I love the Western frontier style, but I also grew up in the West and visited numerous towns as a child that had the frontier feel. It's always been of interest to me. I even dig the intro. song. It's got a folksy feel to it that makes me picture the open plains and rolling hills of the Western United States.

I just finished "Clerks 2". I'm not quite sure how to feel about it. It was different...nowhere near what I expected. I expected something goofy along the lines of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and instead I came away with a more "Chasing Amy" feel. It's hard to explain...I guess I liked it. It just really was way different than my expectations.

I'd agree with that, except sometimes I see people who posts with like 1000 posts, but I've never seen them on the forum. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, but we kinda have two communities here, the Obsidian crowd and the Star Wars crowd. Some folks intermingle, but personally I stay outta the KotOR sections and a lot of the "darths" and "jedi's" rarely visit the WoT.

Professional athletes make ridiculous money for the work that they do. I've got no problem with that (well, maybe the 16 mil that Bonds is getting) because they've taken a skillset and mastered it far above the average joe. But there is a cost to that huge paycheck. Players are expected to follow a certain code of conduct. When they step out of line, it makes perfect sense to cut into that paycheck.

I think the fine is fair, but also probably worth it. $2500 isn't too much for these guys, and the point definitely was made. Honestly, hockey does need more personality and players willing to spice things up, and that's what Shaefer was doing.

It's an interesting concept that will more than likely be carried out in a disastrous manner. I don't know who Multiverse is, but a MMO is about the most difficult type of game to create and I don't think it's very promising to hear former Netscape employees are behind it. I'm not saying they don't have talent, I'm just failing to see the similarities. There is room for a decent futuristic MMO on the market, and the western theme could be awesome. The SW Galaxies group needs a home, and Eve Online is cool but not as appealing to the casual gamer. But it's pretty unlikely that this will be it. I smell another Matrix Online.

I came up with Hurlshot when I was about 12. I was looking for a hockey sounding handle for my Wing Commander game. I initially went with "Winger" but a friend pointed out the Canadien 80's hair band that shared that name. I thought about snapshot, but it sounded like a photograph. Slapshot was too generic, and wrist shot just didn't flow. Somehow I settled on Hurlshot...I don't know why. Technically, I suppose that means to throw the puck towards the net. Unfortunately after Wayne's World (which came 2nd!) it became an extremely popular term for puking.

I think most people are in agreement that the combat was superbly implemented in ToEE. But the story was not very engaging. The sales were bad. No matter how you spin it, the sales put Troika in a bad spot. It doesn't matter what the number were or how it did in the long run, it turned out badly for Troika. That's the only thing that actually matters, particularly for the people who made the game.

I watched that game and, wow, talk about bad goaltending. I know there were some screens set up, but there was some bad net work out there. I'm glad to see Boston is putting it together. They had a 4-1 lead, let Montreal tie it. Went up 5-4, let Montreal tie it. Finally, the 6-5 lead stuck.

I actually really enjoyed Republic Commando, and I typically can't stand FPS games. I'd probably buy this if they were putting Battlefront II in the mix. I don't really want to fork over a bunch of cash when there are newer versions of almost the same game out there.

I had to stop reading the Deathstalker series when they all turned superhuman. It's cool to be a studly fighter, but it got a bit ridiculous after awhile. I have the same rouble with the Star Wars books...I mean you can only survive so many close calls.

That is the most awesome response I've ever seen.

I feel like I've been through this before.

I just lost the Superbowl by a field goal in NFL 07. I'm really unhappy with the coaching. We lost a few games because of unwillingness to try on 4th and short. My rookie QB is pretty pissed at the coaching...might be time for a news conference. Also, for some reason my defense can't stop anything. I'm trying to play realistically and only run the O...but geeze!