Gorth

Well, I was raised on strategy games and turnbased crpgs, so... I could just about hold my ground in the old Unreal Tournament, but I'm no Gorth the Slaughterer when it comes to FPS and twitch games, I'll probably bring a gun or two

With a few Lower Resistance spells you can kill Firkraag with the humble Chromatic Orb Edit to add: Nope, that was exactly the one. A blessing against all the magic resistant critters you run across

Single spell? Whatsitsname that lowers magic resistance. It meant that most other spells had a chance of working (like Chromatic Orb)

I wonder how people around here knows the epic fight between Eric and the Dread Gazebo?

I think my next pet cat in a crpg is going to be called "Schrödinger"

This. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense to start development while the base game is "wrapping up" and you can get the same artists, writers, coders etc. to work on the expansion to ensure that it feels coherent with the base game, including placing whatever hooks needs to be in the base game.

Although rumour has it that Zaeed makes a bigger appearance in the upcoming "Omega" dlc... Also, I have to admit I liked the change of pace of Kasumi's mission (at least , the first section which wasn't run n gun). Really? I haven't been following. Bigger chance of being surprised when something does get released, I guess... Well, I better stay clear of too in-depth spoilers regarding the DLC's but I got Kasumi, Overlord, Lair of the Shadobroker and Genesis for ME2. Since I had my CC out anyway, I got DA2 (Urgh) and Mark of the Assassin and Legacy anyway. Somebody needs to tell Bioware/EA that their online store is lacking. Why Can't I buy an arbitrary (or just a larger number) of their in-store currency??? Didn't get to play any games yesterday as it was all work (so my computer was just left downloading my purchases).

This 'Dishonored' thing is starting to intrigue me. May have to keep a closer eye on it Regarding reviews, I stopped taking them seriously when C64 game reviews were still printed on paper. Usenet (and later forums) turned out to give me a better overview of games.

I don't understand people who play COD. Maybe it's just as well. Give me something like Quake 2 or Painkiller for the action bits

Finished the demo. Left me rather unenthusiastic. Ah well, you can't win them all

Gunpowder. The great equaliser

I vote no to polls... Somebody mentioned Xenophobia. Always a good source of conflicts. How about conservative versus progressive factions? Cultural imperialism (my gothic arcs are superior to your roman arcs, therefore you are an inferior being only suitable to live in mud holes, since you can't make a proper building)? Fashion fascists... Those who wear nose rings are superior to those who have nipple rings, kick the bastards with bad piercing taste outside the city walls. Somebody mentioned class struggle. I liked the way DA:O portrayed the caste system amongst the dwarves. Arranged political (and economical) marriages. Millennia old family feuds. Urbanisation versus hunter/gatherers and the "taming of the land" ("civilization" encroaching on fiercely independent people). Natural disasters and mass migrations. Incurable plagues (of divine origin?), cursed lands... Lots of issues to provide conflicts. In fact, the world is full of them

Kasumi... that's an NPC, right? I might just grab that one too. No idea if it's anything like Shale or Jervik in scope, but how bad can it be (famous last words)? Edit: For the other two, I'll look up some more information on them. Is like Zaeed, the free NPC, except that she's not free. Differs from regular companions by not having a recruitment mission (loyalty mission only) and by not having a dialogue system ('interact' just cues the next line in a linear series of lines) Well, that is Ok. I liked Zaeed. He was a regular on my missions

US politics is hard to understand for us outsiders sometimes WoW

Off topic, but I wonder if Bobby Null is his real name... sort of cool being able to write geeky stuff like "$62,$6F,$62,$62,$79,NULL" (null terminated string) on your business card

Maybe some signed posters with some of the artworks? A2 size like some of the old Boris Vallejo posters I used to hang on my wall back in the 80'es Not that I'm going to change my pledge, having maxed out, but a nice thought anyway. Just imaging if you could've had some of those Justin Sweet portraits for IWD2 in A2 size.

Kasumi... that's an NPC, right? I might just grab that one too. No idea if it's anything like Shale or Jervik in scope, but how bad can it be (famous last words)? Edit: For the other two, I'll look up some more information on them.

The Marshmallow God works in mysterious ways.... That's all I gotto say^^ Gozer: "Are you a god?..."

You know the saying "a picture is worth a 1000 words" (or something to that effect), I always find music to be the same. 60 seconds of perfect ambient music is worth a 1000 words trying to describe a location and a situation

The latter (speaking from experience, so yes it's anecdotal)

Slightly unrelated but one of my pet peeves, "rigging the competition"... When you beat the snot out of somebody and the game tells you, sorry I can't let you win this fight and has unilaterally declared you a loser. Almost as bad as the scripted "magically pull everybody out of their hiding place and put them in the big bulls eye in the middle of the field where all the enemies can have a go at you despite you ambushing them" mechanic.

I miss my pet golem from IWD2. I was very disappointed that I didn't get to keep it for the remainder of the game *MUST PROTECT MASTER!*

Not necessarily. It's all guesswork though without knowing the specifics of the economy and resources available. More money means more people to throw at the project. As any developer worth his salt will tell you, that's fine up to a point. It's a "curve" where you can get more done until you reach a point where throwing more people at a project gobbles up any benefit due to overhead. So to a point, the difference in time is marginal. Beyond that point, managing the increase in resources and overhead means pushing the planned date. Edit to add: Got ninja'd... post was a response to OP

We shall flood the market with cheap DVD players!... Oh, that wasn't what you meant Yeah, I'm going to be stuck at home over the Christmas holidays in December and January (the long holidays here down under). I hope to pick up on some of those "time sink" games.

I might have to investigate those options. It has quickly outgrown the 200gb partition I had allocated to it originally. I should have doubled or tripled the size while I was at it. Or try one of those fancy tools that claims to be able to adjust partition sizes dynamically without destroying the content.