Diogo Ribeiro

Maybe I'll turn you into a commie as well. I am looking into buying the Hammer and Sickle since I've heard good things about it, stuff that most reviews out there didn't seem to notice.

I agree. The Panzerkleins were a great twist to the WW2 formula presented in Silent Storm, and in a way reminded me of Gear Krieg's take on a similar alternate timeline and universe. Only problem is you get them so late in the game that the novelty barely has time to set in, and combat outside them is actually recommended for later portions of the game.

The game is somewhat of a mixed bag for me but for some reason I really liked it, mainly because of the turnbased combat, the very good physics engine and destructable environments, and the general feel of it being a WW2-based dungeon crawler. There's a couple of issues I had with it, but I can't help enjoying it. Right now I'm thinking of buying the Sentinels expansion, but I can only find Silent Storm Gold which has both the original (which I already have) and the expansion. I suspect I'm going to purchase it anyway, but I'll be trying to sell off my copy of SS too.

Very true. Although, if the idea is to come up with puzzles as a challenge then they could be made to provide random elements or winning conditions. Still, you could also apply this to a basic framework of a detective scenario for a character in a roleplaying game to solve. Set up a given number of characters, a handful of motivations and clues, then randomly kill one and randomly assign motivations to some of the other characters and randomly place the clues somewhere in the location. While the reasons and clues will eventually be fully revealed and possible to be listed, finding out who has them and why won't be necessarily as easy, and can be made to depend on character skill. Sure beats asking riddles we all know the answers to.

I applaud this move if it means Molyneux's overhyped games becoming XBox exclusives and getting off my PC.

Just finished Silent Storm, both the Allies and Axis campaigns. Probably will replay it some other time again. The engine is great; wish I had the time to mess around with the editor to make a mod for it.

Ctrl+Y.

But Volo will redeem himself with this mod. Not only that, it will permanently remove any penalties he has for being Canadian

You could make it so at the start of the story you're in East Harbour. :ph34r: In the second part, there's an invasion of the extra-planar fortress by village people and the whole fortress pushes them off. :ph34r: And eventually you discover they were there for you. And they were there for you because when you were just a pudding when a big riot happened in East Harbour between the Communist Party and this Ninja Pirate. At the end of the riot there was a giant explosion, and what had happened was that the glass eye of the leader of the Communists basically shatters. And shatters. And not just shatters so there's a piece underneath the desk... but scatters across the planes. What you find out is that there's a piece in you, which is why these people are all after you.

Then again, Obsidian. KoTOR 2. I still have hopes

You could make it so at the start of the story you're in East Harbour. In the second part, there's an invasion of the extra-planar fortress by village people and the whole fortress pushes them off. And eventually you discover they were there for you. And they were there for you because when you were just a pudding when a big riot happened in East Harbour between the Communist Party and this Pirate. At the end of the riot there was a giant explosion, and what had happened was that the glass eye of the leader of the Communists basically shatters. And shatters. And not just shatters so there's a piece underneath the desk... but scatters across the planes. What you find out is that there's a piece in you, which is why these people are all after you.

Dak'kon was a Githzerai. And a pussified one at that.

Quiet or I'll spinepunch you, fool. And it wasn't the storyline, 'twas just one small aspect. Then again, are histories with characters who have hallucinations that original anymore?

Let's avoid Eldar's thread going to waste. Stay on topic, please; much as I don't care for Oblivion I still want to see other people's experiences with the game.

Lack of time seems to be the bane of the free mind. At least for me.

Yeah, not even Lovecraft's tales can strike as much horror into a man's heart as a midget trying to bite you to death.

Yeah, Feargus stole my storyline. What's up with that?

Blessed you are, my child.

Just saw A History of Violence. Great movie. Not sure how it compares to the graphic novel since I never read it, though.

Strange... Thanks for the correction, nonetheless. The Gamespot servers were pretty slow; I downloaded the demo off of ActionTrip.

Half-Life 2. Just passed the whole Ravenholm sector. I think just the sheer ambience of the place makes some survival horror games out there pale in comparison; that and the environmental interactivity which, while sometimes predictable is nonetheless enjoyable. Reached Highway 17... And the buggy. But I'm reserving that thrill for tomorrow

Currently playing Half-Life 2, going trough Ravenholm. Being ambushed by those faster zombies

Go here and start downlaoding the singleplayer demo of Rise of Legends.