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Hmm... Clarify. PS. I saw you edit your post, Mr. "no-edit-notice".

Hades just loves attention. 90% of his posts are aimed at drawing attention, and, if possible, steering the conversation into a debate about him. I'm surprised you hadn't noticed.

Yeah, it'd been cool if they had released the demo a little earlier, though. It would have eased the craving of some of us. :D Good game, by the way. It has everything that made Silent Assassin great, and a few more things.

Amusing as this may be, I don't understand why he chose to waste his time like this instead of getting his money back. He had Amir's banking data after all, right?

No. "Mental" differences only appear due to circumstancial incidences during a person's life, provided there's no neurological damage or genetical predisposition to mental disease. Twins (as in identical twins) are genetically identical. Therefore, from a biological standpoint, which is all that matters here, they are identical. Spiritual and moral concerns have no place in a scientific debate such as this. And if there are greater physical differences between you and (close) members of your family (provided there's no interracial breeding), than there are between you and a member of a different race, you might want to consider undergoing a genealogical DNA test...

If you ask for proof, the least thing you should do is provide your own evidence to support your own claims...

Well, right now it looks like their focus is more on destroying law and society, in fact. And with the amount of ethnical, religious and social tensions in the area, I don't think they are going to be "creating" anything anytime soon.

Well, they're also getting their asses handed to them systematically, so it's of little consequence in the big picture... be sure to remind the "fethwits" of this next time they go on an apologetic rant anywhere near you.

Also, AIDA32. It's an excellent system monitoring program. I believe the site closed down, so I'm not sure if the thing supports the latest hardware, though. Should be pretty easy to find the last version in download pages anyway. Right now, my CPU is running (burning?) at a potentially dangerous 63

Huh? What are you talking about? How are some broad facts going to spoil your game? All right, maybe telling exactly how many major areas are there could be a spoiler, as after a while you could suspect you were reaching the endgame (in the unlikely event that you couldn't tell because of plot gimmicks). But otherwise, telling that there may be about X relevant NPCs (not necessarily joinable), over Y word written dialogues, and around Z sidequests gives a much better idea of the scope of the game and its complexity without actually giving anything away. It's such an effective teaser method, in fact, that you can see comments of that sort printed on the back of the boxes of many games. Don't you read those either, for fear of being spoiled? What do you rely on to make a decision then?

If you say so. I'd rather have information regarding the number of sidequests, their complexity, number of NPCs with something to do, how many major areas are there going to be, etc, than something as vague as "you'll beat it in 30 hours". 30 hours of filler are still 30 hours.

Never said otherwise. But giving out very unspecific and rather subjective info isn't the best way to address the issue. I think I already admitted that, no need to keep beating that dead horse. The difference is the "ZOMG U LIED!!1" crap that will pop up everywhere if the game can be completed in less than 30-40 hours. That's not a matter of complaining based on personal impressions and dissatisfaction with the game, but on unfulfilled expectations that were raised by the dev team to begin with. But whatever, it's not like I'll be the target when the mud starts flying.

Hitman - Blood Money Having a barcode tatooed in the back on your head never looked so killer. Okay, you can ban me now.

Actually... That's the censored version, btw.

Well... there's this very small possibility that you may survive, it wouldn't be the first time. No need to take risks. :D

Well... that incident also involved a fair load of vagueness, right? If so, read above. If not, oops.

Agreed. I'd much rather die of multiple large caliber gunshot wounds to the head and torso.

Criticism about the lack of devs posting here at the OE boards or lack of posting about NC's previous comments? "

Porn.

I've seen devs put out "unofficial" and "beta" patches out before, when publishers refused to fund any more patches. Those were basically direly needed bug fixes, though, not content patches. I doubt BIO would risk that when the game doesn't actually need more patches.

Good point. Can Atari actually prevent BIO from continuing support of the game, even if it's BIO that will assume the expenses from now on (this assuming it was Atari that funded all of that until now)?

They lifted the NDA before making a public announcement themselves? WTF? Anyway, this is a problem why? The premium module part I can't talk about, as I'm a cheap bastard that doesn't purchase those anyway, but does the game still need to be worked on in form of further patches? Honest questions, really. It's not like they are planning on shutting down the MP central server, right? Not a surprising move, anyway. From what I read, Atari isn't doing too hot, and they'll use any excuse they can find to cut their expenses. Not that NWN support and premium module release would really interfere with NWN2 sales but a great portion of the modding community is going to migrate to NWN2 either way. Not to mention the player base. "

My point exactly. But posting in such an unconvincing manner and about stuff that can't very well be verified even after the game goes out (but can easily be "proven" false) only gives more material to criticize, without actually providing any reliable information on the game.