Colrom

Really, Roshan. I thought the Fellwood was kinda innovative and fun. I liked Dragon's Eye too. Maybe I'm too easy to please.

Lucas Arts and Obsidian should speak clearly about the problems that have been reported - or find somebody who can - and fix whatever problems it makes sense to fix.

I too find it irritating that they have consistently refused to give a straight answer to questions about problem fixes :angry: - or perhaps they are saying what they seem to be saying - that they have chosen not to work on the problems. That seems like the most logical interpretation.

I liked IWD and IWD-II. They were alot of fun. Completely linear, lots of hack and slash - but lots of fun. IWD-II had a good story - and did an especially good job with the mechanics of spells. JE Sawyer was too critical of his work, I think.

Hey, why don't you guys start your own thread!

I agree that if you haven't found a bug in a computer program you just haven't looked hard enough - but these folks are almost definitely talking about obvious bugs that were at least annoying. It's not in the nature of their reports to even mention subtle bugs.

I'm happy to see the game made by Obsidian this time around.

He said "we've played through only the first location in the game" and "we didn't see very many bugs" - which means that they did see some - which isn't really a good report, considering.

I know what you mean. But I'm coming from a different place. I had Robert E. Lee in the list for while, since he was my boyhood hero, but decided that, although he was a great general and a basically good man, he was not sufficiently influential and was after all a traitor.

Ben Franklin George Washington Abe Lincoln FDR Martin Luther King Jr.

Nice post ATB. Chris Avellone is a fine writer. After reading your comments I'm even more psyched for the PC release.

The XBox version has been out for awhile and there have been lots of reviews and comments. Some praise has been given. Some bugs and storyline deficiencies have been noted. So, is anybody at Obsidian paying any attention? " Would they care to let us know what they think about the feedback. What they have in mind to do about it - or not to do about it? I haven't noticed much comment. I'm beginning to think they have an attitude about the game - which doesn't bode well for the PC version or the future.

Seems like restraint of trade to me. :angry: Microsoft pays money (?) or offers other considerations to delay release of the PC product (since we know it would otherwise be ready, as previously planned, at the same time as the X-box version). This damages their PC based competition. :angry: I wouldn't be supprised if this is illegal - besides being immoral. But someone who is effected and powerful would have to file a lawsuit. I wanted to buy the game before, but now I may actually not buy it after all. I understand that MS may have conspired with Intel to withhold operating system improvements and damage AMD. Seems like this may be just business as usual for them. Colrom

I agree with Adrea. What matters is the quality of the experience - of the relationships. Non romantic relationships are also important - especially relationships with mentors and sidekicks. []

Yes. It is Yale after all. But nevermind that. George Bush seems smart enough. But smart is not good. He does bad things himself and encourages others to do bad things also - like lie, steal, torture, and kill. :angry: He is a bad man. And thats a more serious fault than being from Yale.

How can you say such a thing! Didn't he say, "I don't appreciate being called a bigot." He got alot of votes 'cause of that. Every bigot in America knew just what he meant! :D

Vol, There *have* been at leat a thouosand Iraqis killed in and around Fallujah. We know of about a thousand already. More will be found as they dig out the rubble. The US has been using some very large bombs there - even before the recent events. The real issue is that we are engaged in a race/religious war and our soldiers are acting as one could reasonably expect soldiers to act when they are given that kind of mission. If you doubt that we are engaged in a racial religious war then I challenge you to go to your local bookstore and compare how many books have good and bad things to say about: Arabs or Islam, Christianity, Judaism. I challenge you to compare how many quotes you can get from George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, and most anybody else from American society that have good and bad things to say about the same. It is a clue and guidance on expected behavior for ourselves and our soldiers when most speakers who include the words "Arab" or "Islam" or "Muslim" cannot finish a paragraph without also including words like "Sept 11", "terrorists", "radical", "war", "extreme", and so on. The sometimes expressed premise that we need to teach Arabs and Islamics how to live and govern themselves is also rediculous. The post that started this thread is a fine example of propaganda work that could just well have been prepared by Doctor Joseph Goebel talking about the fine work of Nazi soldiers in Poland or Russia or any nhumber of other places. The fact is that we cannot make good from evil - and this is somewhat more evident now, when truth is more revealed, and our fantasies of conquest and occupation are destroyed by undesired evidence of reality.

The real question is whether any of the Interplay stockholders will think they have grounds for a lawsuit - perhaps claiming Herve milked the real value of Interplay to his other holdings in exchange for overvalued debt, essentially sucking off the investments of the minority Interplay stockholders. I'm not saying that is what happened, just that some people might think so.

Two bits I'd like to comment on. 1. Two plus two does equal four, complex numbers notwithstanding. 2. There is no contradiction between free will and predetermination. In fact the whole concept of judgement and will depends on a belief in determination. The concept of predetermination is usually associated with God or perhaps Fate as a surrogate for God. The argument is that since God knows all things for all times, of course he knows all of our choices and the outcomes of our choices and all other factors for all of our lives. Anything less makes a demi-god rather than a God.

Examples of beastiality mostly haven't been reported in English speaking countries. But now occurances in a Muslim country are worth international exposure. Hmmm. What could be behind this new interest in keeping us informed? Do you think we are likely now to be bombarded with a timely spate of stories about the twisted misbehaviors of frustrated Kansas farm boys?

Isn't that also the claim of George and the other rightists? A strange position for those who claim to be Christians.