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Yeah, yeah. You rock for fighting the good fight and all. Just answer the question.

Yep. It's really cool to be the pseudo-intellectual elitist **** on a games dev forum. I should know, I do it all the time. On the other hand, it could be argued that you're a bit of a loon for demanding that games, the McFood equivalent of intellectual stimulus, are held up against those standards. How many gamers read Sartre on a regular basis? Or ever? You're out of luck.

When everything else fails... lower the difficulty? edit: oh, and do buff your party and don't let them standing idly around the level entrance while you take on several mobs that focus on flanking/backstabbing all by yourself.

In FO2 it's never really explained what the GECK is or how it is supposed to work. But seeing Vault City and how utterly useless Citizens are, I'm leaning more towards the "magical" interpretation in FO2 as well.

Hahaha. Fundies are always great fun. But fundies wrt trivial stuff... that's just too much. At least do it for God or something.

Hm. I do believe I said "end of thread", didn't I? Anyway, it's not like we're talking about a feature that changes gameplay, affects mechanics in any significant way or requires a heavy modification of the engine. It's simply pushing the XP slider at the start. It would require testing, but really... how much testing would it really take to see if a feature that is applied at the very beginning and does not affect the rest of the game at all works? Okay, I exaggerated before. Make that thirty seconds. It's possible that a few problems could arise if there are scripted, reward-only skills or similar, but simply disable those/make the bonus redundant and you're good to go. At any rate, this is irrelevant (and speculative, so I'm going to shut up), as any efforts invested on this are pretty much wasted - cheats can achieve for the player the exact same result. This game does not have a MP component where you can benefit from grinding in SP, so what's the point anyway?

I guess you would know better, seeing as you are in on the biz and all - that could, on the other hand, make your argument suspect, if I were a wee bit cynical (). But even if I didn't want to believe that it's not financially viable for a developer to make a game with a branching ad infinitum plot... why would they want to put in much more work for the same money? Who the hell does that?!

This is a pretty silly thing to discuss. It would take a whole 15 seconds to program the option to have the game start with X skill points instead of zero, based on savegame X. That is about as much time as you would conceivably need to cheat up your character to the same stats, should you want to blow game balance to smithereens. So it's not so much "to cheat or not to cheat", but "to take the featured shortcut to cheat or not". End of thread.

That's SIR Jorian to yu0, n00b - I mean, peasant.

Hehe, yeah. I'll take pre-made faces over "the emperor sports the same hairdo as 3/4 of all peasants you meet"-style customization any day.

Yeah, I hear that to play games, you need this odd device known as a "kom-pyoo-tarr". A piece of paper and a pencil is all you should ever need to game, I tells ya! Consoles get more than their fair share of exclusive titles.

Haha, Sarko is the man. "Chauvinist pig!"

Demon plz.

I suppose the very notion of an intimate relationship with some guy that feeds off your life force to keep going and bends your will like he isn't even trying is necessarily "creepy". I don't think Darth Nihilus is the kind of guy that picks you up after work, takes you to the movies, buys you popcorn, etc. He's more like the dark brooding type, y'know? I'm still waiting for Obsidian to get their high school dating sim out the door, anyway. They could even recycle some of the work done for Crucible, such as the atmosphere of uncertainty and dread. And the pouncing animations. RAWR

I can't wait to remilitarize your Rhineland!

Yeah, the campaign in RA3 often felt like a skirmish game, and unless the mission had very specific objectives, the allied AIs performed relatively well. Hopefully they will improve on that formula and allow the player to choose whether they want an annoying co-commander for the mission or not. And the Scrin were not bad as the enemy, but the playable campaign was total balls.

Lol, 40 reps on the bench @ 225 lbs is some pretty heavy ****. I don't think mkreku meant that as a serious rebuttal, though. It is the first (and second, and third...) result you get when you google for "fat football", after all. Chill.

Is that a mod? I dont remember weapon degrdation / breakage in any of the BG's. Due to the iron crisis in BG1, normal weapons have a chance of breaking in combat. There is a mod that gives the enemy a chance to have their weapons break as well. If you never experienced it yourself, you must have simply gotten lucky.

<pic> Dammit, where'd you get that pic?! I've lost a few pounds since then, I swear! proof

Looks ****ing awesome. Never played a MW game before, but I'm keeping an eye on this. Thanks for the heads up man!

Once you try Italian espresso, you'll never want to go back. For them brewing coffee is something of a ritual... and it shows.

You aren't big on sports, are you? -Boxing: two dudes beating the crap out of each other. -Golf: some guy trying to push a ball into a hole using a stick. -Weightlifting: fat bozos squatting and making funny faces. -Track & Field: running and jumping around and these guys don't even have a ball to kick! Really, give me any sport and I'll give you an inane simplification. Except Curling. Curling rules. Interestingly, pro football players are some of the best conditioned athletes overall, barring gymnasts. I guess that must be just for show.

For all intents and purposes, it is. Read Hades' original comment, and read my reply. Read it as many times as you need, understand what kind of minority Hades and I were talking about, and then get back to me. Because the Pope and Cardinals are, in themselves, a minority, silly! Whatever power they have over the Catholic Church is something even you can't seem to get straight. Further, being anti-gay is nowhere near being part of the WBC. Discrimination of any kind is against the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution (cue Enoch). You don't need legislation targeting specific segments of the population if you apply the law as it's written. In fact, you are creating further inequalities if you do. "Durr". Lol. Is that worse than a bunch of black kids beating a black kid to death, and how so? "Hate crimes" are bull****. You don't gangrape, torture and murder somebody out of love. Either make punishment harsher across the board, or don't bother. You are just arguing for further social division, as Gorth already pointed out. You are losing your touch chum.

fatty Perhaps. But can I dance or what?

Nope. You're the one trying to place everyone in the same camp. The burden of proof lies with you. And I guess you know this for the same reason you know that every Christian must be a Republican bigot. Okay. What does it have to do with what I said, anyway? How is that specifically pro-gay? And why should it be limited to gay people? Tsk tsk. Hate crime legislation IS positive discrimination. Sorry if you don't agree. You're right about DOMA, though. But, how is it linked with the alleged bigotry of Christians as opposed to Americans in general? We have gay marriage over here, and Catholics are a majority. *shrug*