Gorth

Have you tried running towards them yelling "Butt kicking for goodness!"? The Drassen counter attack is indeed scripted and a good challenge for experienced players Have you tried a fighting retreat and then coming back with reinforcements? Edit: It is also possible to disable it in the configuration file, although I don't know if you have to do that before starting the game.

You might as well try and convince people that the earth is round...

Gorths simplified science: Bash it with a hammer. It breaks? Try new theory It doesn't break? Good enough, lets keep it Can't really say I've experienced anything of the sorts from the thread title. The things that has scared me has been my own over stimulated imagination. But man, can your imagination play tricks on you. Perceived things can be as convincing as real things where the mind is concerned.

Getting a bit long in the postcount this thread is... Here be dragons

Oops, sorry Alan... Same topic Yeah, I know, you beat me by 30 seconds

Start of old thread End of old thread Wow. Wow indeed. Where did Malak leave his artificial jaw? From what I have heard of the Dwarf Noble, definitely yes. There is one choice in the Dwarf Noble story that I know will play out a bit differently when you return to Orzammar in the main plot. It's not a huge difference, but for me it's the little details that are different that I still enjoy I could see the mage having some as well, and probably the City Elves. Changes/decisions in the origin story usually aren't too significant. It'd be awesome if there was more significance, but the game still needs to steer the player along towards the main plot at some point. The big thing that I really like is that the rest of the game does make acknowledgments to your origin story. I only played through with Human Noble, so I imagine most of my origin story can only be acknowledged somewhat superficially (there was some bigger impacts at the end game though, due to my noble heritage), but I would think that the Dwarf stories, as well as the Mage and City Elf stories, have much greater potential as you actually revisit the areas you were in in your origin story.

Hey, that looked pretty interesting. Alpha version... sounds like that is for a new campaign after the current one

Not sure what would qualify as 'classics'... Probably some arbitrary thing as game that will be remembered more fondly in the future than in the present So, what would they be remembered for? Long time spent playing? Stunning visuals/audio? Funky game design/mechanics? Innovative features/concepts? Looking back at the past 5 years, I don't really see what would make the current crop 'classics' (disclaimer: I probably haven't played a lot of the "popular" games the last 5 years either)

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I've never heard anybody complain about Lara Croft being a woman in Tomb Raider. It would just feel "odd" somehow if the next installment let you play as Larry Croft

It seems like the point of no return for this thread has been reached How about a recess, a cold shower, a deep breath, we are after all talking about video games, not infant mortality in Africa or some such?

VTM: Bloodlines. Ouch... That game is horribly unoptimised. I used to have a P4 2.8Ghz / Nvidia FX5900 Ultra / 2Gb ram desktop, and it was sluggish on that one. It might be possible to get it to run, but I doubt that it will run at a playable speed, i.e. it might not be fun.

Edit: After that, it would probably be Battlefield 1942

Did a bit of background check on "Tali" in ME. Sounds a bit like a Battlestar Galactica season ripoff Machines created for menial work rebels, wage war on their creators and oust them, creating a migrant fleet.

Listen to the expert. Shryke, you should give dating lessons Just to be on-topic: ... (impending doom deadlines, i've got no life at the moment).

I wonder if there are keyboards with built-in force feedback around too...

Shooting a bow and arrow takes skill and practise/training. Any peasant can be given a crossbow and told to point it *that* way while pulling the trigger...

It would be nice to go to PAX... but its a bit of a geographical challenge

I prefer to play without the traditional lucky nations... Busy building up my Byzantine Empire so I can get back at the Franks and get revenge for the infamous crusade. There is a way of removing pirates once you get fed up with them (if you don't mind fiddling around a bit with your save file)

First I'll see if pruning the threads from this page onwards helps. If that fails, then indeed ponder whether or not this thread (and topic in general) has outlived its usefulness. It did after all start out as a communication thread. Nothing much useful information to communicate anymore by the looks of it. (pruning started)

Maybe we should start talking about The Black Hound. That always seems to take Ramza's mind off other things

One of the greatest shocks of moving "down under" was seeing how much of the stuff on the shelves had "Made in China" on them I had never seen something like that before, thinking that the Aussies (and Kiwis too for that matter) had completely forgotten how to manufacture anything but red wine

Ouch, never touch a dwarfs beard. In Warhammer, one of the most famous (and devastating) conflicts was known as "The War of the Beard" >_ @Amentep: Syringe of Vampire slaying?!?...

...and I think that is enogh cross forum arguments for one thread >_

Not to mention, that it features some great swamps >_