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Playing epic music? Looked a bit like when Hells Angels and Bandidos were having a go at each other a few years back in Denmark.

Those guys have nothing on the Gurkhas

I think most companies would kill to have a money printing machine (WoW) in their backyard like Blizzard has, but that is probably Blizzards strength, yes. Few other companies can develop a game for years and toss it in the bin if it doesn't feel right. My point was whether the co-op thing was a focus or a feature (and by extension whether it is being sold "correctly")

Weren't dragons on the endangered species list in DA:O, having been hunted to extinction by Navarran dragon hunters or something to similar effect?

Haven't played the demo yet (PC user), but couldn't care less about co-op/multiplayer. Wasn't it Bioware who once actually went through the trouble of doing the market research and concluding that resources invested in multiplayer was an indulgence as the market was tiny compared to the single player base? Not really a fan of the entire hack'n slash and "arpg" genre, but quite curious about seeing the Onyx engine in action.

It's been a long time since playing Kotor2... I seem to remember some other older games having success with a few tips and tricks. Some of them involved changing core affinity (to simulate running on mono core cpus), disabling audio hardware accelleration, running the game in Windows 2000 compatibility mode (for some reason, some games like that better than Windows XP compatibility) etc. Of couse, I'm a pack rat, so I actually have an old P4 computer tucked away somewhere for playing old stuff on Edit: I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to play Kotor2 on VirtualPC?

Google images is your friend

The Black Watch was proud Scottish infantry regiment and there are no kilts in DA2. Probably just as well... Might grab this one day when at half price and all significant DLC's included. The combat in the demo really was a major turnoff

Pick up some Jaundice and you can proudly proclaim to wear your national colours I don't think people get blue feet from snakebites where I live. Got myself a new tumble dryer. It was an impulse buy while walking along a road looking for a furniture store. It's nice to have though.

Never underestimate the engineering prowess of the Germans. It's the country that brought the world things like Einstein, Werner von Braun and Bullet Proof Bra's If they want to change focus towards sustainable/renewable energy, the more power to them I say (unintended pun). It's not like they are going to go 100% windmill electricity overnight (if my Google skills were correct, it's still "only" 29% of their current energy production they are looking at alternatives for).

Man you are fast

Hmm... two years at New World Computing? I wonder what titles he worked on there (lots of great stuff coming out of NWC those years).

Use your manliness and take one of those self shots you always seen in facebook. Slightly unrelated, but Nepenthe's occupation reminded me of an amusing example of advertising/product placement. The bus stop outside the Queensland Police HQ has this big advertising poster that says something like, 'Been to court? Need a lawyer?' (with contact info etc. underneath it).

I think that has more to do with Obsidians animation department lacking in general a bit. Maybe it was a decision of priorities? I.e. focusing on a certain rendering distance, where the camera is presumably going to spend most of it's time. I remember the grotesquely oversized weapons that characters in NWN2 ran around with (their ridiculousness would have made a Games Workshop miniature green with envy), yet when zoomed out and using the isometric view, they looked "normal" and you could tell from a distance what you were wielding. There are only so many texture sizes and LoD's to go around on the various platforms. As an amusing anecdote, it wasn't until my second playthrough of NWN2 that I noticed that rooms and caves had "ceilings", always zooming out to the max distance. Same thing in DA:O

Use your avatar

Looks like the 1.1 patch from GOG fixed part of my problem. I can at least start and run the game without changing desktop resolution every time Registration and Settings screens are still fubar when useing medium or large Windows fonts. But hey, at least I can play the game itself without hassle now. Virgins and villains beware!

It's been a long time since I played Kotor2, but I seem to remember the dark side been more of a Quentin Tarantino kind of dark side rather than the Dr. Evil kind of Kotor1 villainy. Time may have coloured my perception of course and your mileage may vary

Aussie Student finds the universes missing mass during summer break Not too shabby i suppose, considering that I feel challenged just by having to find two matching socks in a drawer

I started a game of The Witcher 2, but I think I'll wait for a patch that fixes the issues with running on high resolution desktops and desktop font sizes that aren't exactly 100% Continuing my game of Fallout: New Vegas, discovering new and interesting ways of dying

Me too. I don't know if I would go as far as calling it "love", but I definitely liked it. It's just that it was a bit of a bumpy ride in places (and NWN1 had coloured my perceptions, so I started the game with negative expectations).

I'm not familiar with various "portable" devices, anything that is all the rage these days (only thing I can think of that makes good use of 2D art these days)?

BG3 on the Infinity Engine... It could of course also be a new Pac Man. The original dungeon crawl, slaying enemies and finding powerups that allows you to face your enemies while gathering the loot on the level.

Same here. Haven't seen the TV show yet, but it was the only title I recognised in the airport book store

Truly the battle of the giants...

Once Duracell launches its 200 petawatts per hour battery?