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So, you think that accusing people of piracy without proof and posting thrash like 'Guy x <--- cry' is actually useful for anything outside provoking? Because that's precisely what a troll does. It's pretty hypocritical of you to say that because I never call people a troll when they are honest about their opinions, whatever they may be. You have a problem with that, well, you can take full advantage of the 'ignore' feature of the forum. A pity you screwed an otherwise good post by adding that part.

Azazis <--- *troll*

Damn. Just when I was starting to have fun. Oh well, I suppose I'm as guilty as you of derailing the thread. Shame on me.

I find it rather amusing how you associate immaturity with intelligence. By that standard, a two year-old child would be more intelligent than you. Which seems to be the case, but not for the same reasons you state. Sorry, your logic holds no water at all. I don't doubt you may be more intelligent than I am. However you do one hell of a job at hiding it. I don't have to. You just sound wrong without me pointing it whatsoever.

Well, they were corpses at that moment as far as I remember - at least, I only remember that Giovanni only being able to turn corpses of those guards I killed into zombies... That's odd. As soon as I entered the house after beating the outside guards, Bruno came dashing through his conference room's door and started turning the guests into zombies. I may be wrong but I did't attack any of the guests, only the guards. But after a while there were no guests to be found anywhere, only a whole lot of brain-hungry zombies... Anyway, AFAIK Necromancy is more of a conduit to the Underworld that a way of doing nasty things with corpses. I'm not sure it allows to create zombies in any way.

You seem to have a problem understanding how a message board works. If you reply quoting somebody, that implies you are making reference to that particular quote, not a different part of the thread which may or may not exist. Clear up your posts first, and then come see me. That whole paragraph is a perfectly good proof of your immaturity. It's so very nice of you to provide evidence of what you are asking in that very post. Some more proof of immaturity. You are really making this too easy. Perhaps you live in a world where greed is exclusive of Bill Gates? If that is the case, you are in for a few surprises, I fear. Unfortunately for you, being arrogant requires some style, which you and your AOL typing lack in large amounts. And please, don't accuse me of anything! I may have trouble sleeping tonight.

Um, well. I'm no expert on all the possible uses of Necromancy but I'm pretty sure that none of them allowed you to turn perfectly good mortals into rotten zombies in the blink of an eye. And Vicissitude is the 'true' name of the fleshcrafting Discipline used by the Tzimisce.

What kind fo rubbish have you been playing? I have never played a MMORPG that has no point whatsoever. I like to battle with real people not becasue any of the things you say, instead, it's because human players are infinitly resourceful, 10 fold more challenging to fight and you can talk to the guy before and after ( w/o being a f**kwad i might add ). If I want true RP'ing, there's always the PnP. It beats CRPGs anytime. And yes, I suppose MMORPGs have a point. That is, to acquire new levels, better items and kick other people's asses for absolutely no reason other that to get more levels and better items. Not to mention that MMORPGs are full of powergamers which actually take all the fun out of the RP'ing system. Again, if you are a powergamer, that's your kind of game. Sorry, but I ain't buying it. No, you didn't get my point. What I meant is that those friendly, mature people won't care about the player classes as long as the rest of the game is good. Only munchkin kids would settle for nothing less than Jedi. Hence the idea of a MMORPG focused on Jedi would attract untold amounts of F*ckwads. Definitely not something I would like to see. And maybe you should re-read and revise your own posts (not to mention those you are replying to) before frantically clicking the 'Add Reply' button. I wouldn't patronize you if you didn't allow room for it. If you are getting involved in a supposedly mature discussion, the less you can do is act mature. Galaxies is a LA product developed and maintained by Sony. What exactly does Bill Gates have to do with it?

I think it would be extremely difficult to put some Disciplines in a PC game in all their PnP glory. Take Thaumaturgy for example. It was great in the PnP and in BL it's just another lame boss-killer. Auspex is even worse. I don't want to think what they would do with things like Necromancy and Vicissitude. :ph34r:

Why should you expect anything less? Because HL2 took 6 years and >$40M to develop , which allowed Valve the luxury to polish everything to a nice shine. That simply isn't going to happen with many games and certainly not with most PC RPGs (try a fifth of that budget and most often much lower), so it's unrealistic to hold everything to HL2's standard. That doesn't mean lower-budget games can't be polished but they can't do it all - they need to scale down content or find some other compromise. Of course, you may like the idea of mega-blockbuster titles, carefully planned to sell the millions of copies necessary for those budgets, along with the all design choices necessary to meet those goals. That's not a very sound argument, mind you. Let's phrase it another way, shall we? Should we just put up with whatever crap is released just because it didn't take them six years and $40 M to develop? Please. Don't forget that BL actually uses the same engine of HL2, and they were working on trodden road. Besides, unless you work at Valve, you don't know how many of those six years have been wasted on restarting the project from scratch, and you don't know how many of those six years have been spent in the hardware scaling part of the engine. For all we know it could have taken them the last month of the development time, the same time the BL team had after they had 'finished' their product but couldn't release it because of the contract with VU. But it doesn't really matter. Part of making a PC game is hardware scaling, of which BL has none. No, I don't hold everything to HL2 tech standards, and I will tolerate slightly worse products. After all, HL2 is revolutionary technically speaking. What I won't tolerate is a pitiful product tech-wise and then the devs' claims that the game's problems are *MY* fault. Yes, that's what I've heard too. I don't know how getting the licenses for an engine works, but was there something to prevent them from getting the last, optimized version of the code once Valve had it? If there was, tough luck. If there wasn't, then that's just laziness.

Cool! You just made my points for me. Now, seriously. I haven't had serious/stopping problems with Steam. I just don't like to be forced to use it *after* having paid my $50 for it, just like any other game. I don't like Steam popping up and complaining that I don't have a connection to the Internet as soon as I reboot my computer. I really, really hate to be forced to have an Internet connection to play an offline game. It's preposterous, really. And the reason behind all this is...? Greed. It all comes down to it. Greed on Gabe Newell's part, his desire to screw VU after all that lawsuit business, and his paranoia after Valve's intranet was hacked are what drove them to develop and implement Steam. I automatically have a tendency to hate anything that is designed upon greed. That's probably not a very rational argument, but I'm not always very rational. Yeah, you sounded familiar. You are a moderator there aren't you? I used to skim those boards for news but now that the game is finally out I'm not that interested anymore.

I think it was more of a problem with pushing the engine limits than the hardware limits of the Xbox. But even if you are right and the Xbox can't support it, maybe the PC could. It's such a shame that the PC version isn't featuring some nice little gimmicks just because they were cut out for the Xbox version.

Yeah, however I don't recall any items outside armor which provided armor defense bonus. Defense bonuses were usually 'dodge' defense, not armor. Perhaps if an item adds armor defense bonus by mistake, the other bonuses aren't stacking. Am I making any sense here? I found a similar bug in K1 in which defense would not go past a certain number. I can't seem to remember the exact number but it was pretty high. I encountered this bug only playing with some mods so I assumed that had been the cause.

Well, don't say I didn't warn you. I would recommend you read some reviews about it first, before you waste your money.

Yeah, I suppose if you're into games which have no point whatsoever, it must be fun. Nah. People want to be Jedi to feel powerful. They want their cyber alter-ego to be the bully with a bad attitude they can't be in RL. They want to be the invincible munchkins everyone is afraid of and nobody wants to mess with. I have had more than my share of online gaming and I know what I'm talking about. It's called the 'Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory'. Uh, yes, of course... whatever it was you were trying to say. Next time try to make some sense. It really helps when you are making a point.

You trying to use logic? In these boards? I would think you know better... " He probably meant that he's seen the same problems in K1. I don't think his comment had anything to do with beating the game but with being a veteran of the KotOR community. I might be wrong but that's how I understood it. Anyway, if you're feeling witty, then don't let me stop you.

If you had the slightest idea what you are talking about you dumbass, you would know that it is actually *easier* to play a cracked/pirated copy of HL2 than a original one, if only because you don't depend on Steam to validate/decript/activate your game. With all their anti-piracy measures, an illegal working copy of HL2 was reported to be around about two days after release. So much for uber security measures. Next time you might consider growing some brains and getting a clue before you call someone a thief. Different, yes. Better, not at all. The fees are the same. Unless you are interested in getting the craptacular Half-Life: Source or a special T-shirt, the packages offered through steam are worthless.

Such a thing is a mathematical impossibility. ^_^

Looks like you just ran into your first *really* annoying bug. " Sorry for you.

If the only games we are going to get for the PC are Xbox conversions and HL2 & Doom3 look-alikes, I'm going to be buying less and less games until one day when I will quit gaming altogether.

That was most likely due to the influence of Caine.

Sure, ultra-fast acquisition of Valve games, at the same freaking price they are sold at the shop. Only you are forced to waste your bandwidth downloading it, and are subject to data losses, corruption, system malfunctions and other pleasantries. Greed above all things. On the other hand, the advantages are... um... eh, well there must be some, I'm sure. Yeah, digital distribution is the way to go. To hell, that is.

I thought you had been warned by the moderators already. I sure hope you keep doing these remarks on a regular basis, so you will get the ban soon.

Uh, did you actually manage to uninstall it? I had to delete it manually, because after uninstalling HL2, then Steam, the Valve folder would still be about 5 Gb. Neat stuff, this Steam, huh? Anyway, If some other developer ever thinks of something like Steam, I don't think they will be very forthcoming about it. That makes um... well, a whole lot of us.

Not as badly as some of the latest spam that's popping up lately... "