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Just wondering what it could add to the table that shooters haven't added before?

It can be cool and ridiculous. You just need to watch more Russ Meyer movies.

*Groan* >_ Sometimes the dead are just better left dead. The world really doesn't need more generic FPS games.

Ah yes, those too. After a decade or two, you sort of get used to them and don't even think about them. I feel old now

It's quite common actually. I have a 3 month clause in my contract too. One of the big-wigs at a previous employer had a 12 month non-competitive clause. When he left, he spent the next 12 months finally getting his fence fixed.

1) Bring a pot of water to a vigorous boil. 2) Drop crabs in. 3) When crabs turn red, they are done. 4) Melt a stick of butter for dipping sauce. 5) Crack shells and enjoy. Just a word of warning... is going to take a large pot and lots of curry The crabs that Wals linked to (can get a "leg span" of up to 1.5 meters)

I see that Gamersgate has Mysteries of Westgate for NWN2 for $9.95. Anybody here ever played it or did everybody get tired of waiting for Atari to get their act together? If anyone played it, is it any good (for somebody who liked NWN2)?

Problem is they have become used to scooping up said kids money by the truckload. Once you get used to a revenue stream, it's hard to let go, even if the four rough riders of the apocalypse is telling you, that this is a fickle group with attention spans the size of singularities. No matter how much they try to dumb down the rules (it can hardly get any worse), eventually their current target group will lose interest and find new gadgets/hobbies/whatever. They currently feel the squeeze from the market. It's really weird since they have built this network of retail stores, that for all intent and purposes is geared towards bulk sales of easily digestable commodities, yet they price their goods as "luxury" items and their only answer to red numbers on the balance sheet is price increases. Eventually they will have to engage in some heavy handed cost cutting measures.

I'm an obsessive compulsive mapper. Since Bards Tale and Temple of Apshai I've had this irresistible urge to map out every inch of a level. I still remember the horror that was BG1 when I played it the first time (damn "fog of war")

Damn Romulans. How are you supposed to give them a speeding ticket?

Sounds like non-trivial bad news...

Just speculation on my part, maybe the D&D name still carried a bit of weight in the late 90'es? Whereas the Planescape setting would at best get raised eyebrows and a "say wut?"? I laugh at your funny faces. Real men play with default Shepard (either that, or I just don't care enough to fiddle around with sliders, short of constantly clicking a randomize button).

Muahahah... lazy scientists will have to rethink the universe again. Growing all complacent and believing in the standard model like some kind of religion @Thorium cars: Good thing the material isn't "reactive". Might bring the world one step closer to Fallout 3's exploding cars I wonder why nobody has come up with ejector seats as replacement for the old airbag yet. Just imagine if the car computer could catapult you up in the air a fraction of a second before impact at terminal velocity. Of course, ramming the guy in front of you in a tunnel or under a bridge might still prove a bit of a challenge

Well, I'm nothing if not stubborn. Not sure what made the difference between rebooting my pc, changing resolution, disabling AA and a few other things. Only the great CPU will ever know. Anyway, finished this DLC and found it fun within reason. I don't understand why it needed to be "high level" area, when it completely ruins the suspension of disbelief that a bunch of hicks are harder to kill than combat veterans in power armour Nice atmosphere though. Besides, I love swamps Accidentally triggered Mothership Zeta while going elsewhere. There is probably a special Fallout hell set aside for me for thoroughly enjoying it. Sure, it has nothing to do with Fallout, but I enjoyed the trip. Sort of Mars Attacks meets Plan 9 from outer space.

They are just trying a new approach to a philosophical questions: What makes a crpg? We all know that The Witcher 2 was aimed at the Diablo crowd Nice revisiting the thread though, I hadn't seen the Hunted video, gave me a good laugh.

Isn't that based on the assumption that you want the entire market (and barely ever succeeding) rather than dominating a market segment? The entire market? Hyperbole on my part. The fabled 7 cities of gold for publishers, looking for the most ROI they can get for the expeditions they finance. It's mythical and undefinable, yet they seem to believe it exists and so try to cover all bases. Thats what their market analysis and sales projections are for and why games seems to converge towards some kind of formless protoplasma You can pretty much write a list of what has to be in a game if you want to find X amount of dollars in investment. The difference seems to be in the ability to mix and match the items on the list, but it gets harder and harder to distinguish games from each other.

Isn't that based on the assumption that you want the entire market (and barely ever succeeding) rather than dominating a market segment?

i take it you didnt play battlefield 2? last fun Battlefield game was BF Vietnam

It was even offered as a reward or bribe, i.e. become tyrant of xyz region/province for 10 years etc.

Well, people in their own home gets assaulted by dog that forced it's way in, chased them around and killed kid in front of family. I can sort of understand why they think that maybe some people are unsuited for having some dog breeds in areas where other people live. What you do in your own home is usually your own business, but when it's deadly to your neighbors, people sometimes do take offense at it.

I've got no less than 4 queen bed sized air beds stacked away in a closet. Only used 1 of them the last year and a half while moving interstate. If you had been living a bit closer to my place you could have had a couple of them for the taking

Once you have a population and a country of a certain size, you'll always run into the problem of balancing the protection of the rights minorities against the tyranny of minorities. Short of dissolving the union and creating 52 independent countries, you will always have the issue of how to ensure everybody has a say, yet still be able to actually accomplish anything without getting bogged down. EU has a similar problem, where they try to balance the influence of countries of very different sizes and influence without giving a lot of the smaller countries the feeling that they have simply been assimilated Borg style, yet without letting something like say Luxemburg and Estonia dictate German politics because they gang up on them 2 to 1.

You don't need to look any further than the presidential election in 2000, where the new president was effectively appointed by the judiciary system of Florida. Coincidentally a state run by a relative of the then new president.

The haunted house in VMBL did a good job of playing on peoples fears, building up gradually as you went along. Perhaps it was because it played on familiar subjects (something fantasy and scifi games might have problems with)?