Gorth

My pet peeves are small (microscopically so) linear levels, killing any sense of exploration, spending 75% of the time hanging on walls (she has a nice butt, but not *that* nice, that I want to watch it zoomed in all the time), Quick Time events, horrible boss fights: T-Rex, Centaurs, I made it past the centaurs through sheer stubborness, not because it was fun. After those two "guys" I shelved the game and couldn't be bothered to give it a second try. It was a pathetic excuse for a TR game that had only the words Tomb and Raider in common with the original. After that, I installed and completed the original which felt just sooo good. It really made Anniversary look like the bumpkin that didn't get the joke by comparison. Underworld so far seems to be a completely different ball game. Edit: So Anniversary gets to share the honour with NWN1 being games that I bought and never finished. I took a gamble buying Underworld hoping that it would at least continue the interesting story of Legends.'

How to solve a problem by not creating it in the first place

I'm doing a training course out of town these days. Raided the hotel minibar and in a few moments time, a bottle and I are going to hang out in the Jacuzzi for a few hours (or until I melt, whichever comes first)

"The boy vomited". There, problem solved

Tombraider: Underworld A pleasant surprise. I had very low expectations after the pathetic excuse for TR title that was "Anniversary". It is almost like they took "Legends" which was a mixed experience and separated all the bad part out into "Anniversary" and all the good part into "Underworld". No stupid boss battles so far, no constant ledge climbing, even the stupid "Quick Time" mini games has disappeared, sort of. At least the current implementation makes in-game sense and lost it's mini game feel. Disclaimer: I've made it to Mexico so far, opinion subject to change.

Hi there internet message board member! You know that you can work and occasionally look into forums? It's called multitasking, kiddo. Otherwise, I'm not interested in reading Comics. Why are people so pissed about that? Go get a life lol. so... if you have no interest in comics, why even bother posting in a comic book thread? Uh, may I not? Besides, I love seeing these hilarious reactions everytime I disagree with the tide. Is that to be interpreted as intentional trolling?

Moved to the game section. Yes, the core engine (Aurora) is getting a bit on the old side. When was it designed and development started? Around the time Baldurs Gate 1 was released? Around a decade ago? Edit: Not sure which part of the combined package had a negative impact on performance of the originally released NWN2 though.

Curses! Now I can't the Ketchup song out of my head >_

Who added thixotropic to my Ketchup?!? I'll never touch the stuff again >_ Now I have to look up the word I suppose...

Same thing in Denmark. Stuff aimed at kids too young to have learned a second (and sometimes third) language yet results in dubbed versions being released. Both movies and games. I think most aimed at "teen" and upwards gets original language with optional subtitle versions.

I was just waiting for that one I still confuse a few English words every now and then because of English not always being English. Like the Boot/Trunk of a car. It doesn't matter if I ask people for the Ketchup/Tomato Sauce anywhere here, somebody will suggest the other name for it >_ Otherwise, I probably share Tigranes position, I prefer the traditional spelling of words.

This one prefer games (just like movies) in their original language. If the original language is English, then yes, the English version is the preferred one. I played The Witcher in it's original language (with English subtitles) too.

Um. You do realize I'm American, right? Um. You do realize that you're not the only person in the thread, right? I was somewhat thinking of Gorth when I made my comment, but since he's thinking of revoking your voting rights, I'll withdraw my comment. You've piqued my curiosity... where did I accuse Americans of cultural arrogance? By calling a remake inferior to the original?

Um. You do realize I'm American, right? You are apparantly not "American" enough. Prepare to have your voting privileges revoked There are countries whose culture, ideas, humour etc. that you "get" and there some that you don't. I can e.g. usually relate to British humour but not to American humour. Not because one is necessarily better, but as a Dane I have more in common with a next door neighbour and can relate to the things being poked fun at much easier than something that has the gulf of an ocean between us. Sometimes it is as simple as that. As another example, no matter how hard I try, I'll never understand Anime, that is just too alien for me. Hundreds of millions of people disagree though, so I'll just consider it *my* loss, because I don't understand it... and so on and on >_

That's because she wasn't a dwarf. Everybody knows that dwarves are the ones with Scottish accents. dwarves is scottish? we always imagine 'em with a brooklyn accent. Maybe brooklynsque descended from scottish? I couldn't tell you, since I've never been to Brooklyn. I have no idea if they speak "dwarven" or not At least the Scots have dwarf tossing as one of their national oddities (together with whiskey swilling and caber tossing), so that might be why I made that connection first Pointless US remakes... *shiver* I had the misfortune of watching an episode of Stephen Kings version of "Kingdom Hospital". It was a great little Danish miniseries that should have remained dead and buried after 1994 >_ There are some things that just doesn't translate well to other languages, because the entire cultural and social context is missing for the reader/listener.

I must have the world edition of that atlas. It really sounds like a badly designed fantasy world!

Grabbed Tombraider: Underworld down at EB Games today. Got to play a bit this evening, making it past the giant squid and looking at Thors left glove. Good fun so far

Have you seen "Final Destination"? Sounds like he had it in for you no matter what.

That's because she wasn't a dwarf. Everybody knows that dwarves are the ones with Scottish accents.

Ok, thread pruned. My apologies to those posters who meant well and lost posts as "collateral" damage. Lets just repeat one important thing: Let's see if we can do this without me having to call in the firing squad?

There is indeed. Sounds like somebody needs to take a break and relax. Lets give this one a time out for a short moment...

Tried his signature too: "Pure Gorth. Pure Power." Good to hear that you are getting that stuff out of your system taks. I would hate the thought and suspicion of not being in total control of my mood, emotions, feelings etc. and always wonder if it was me or the chemicals thinking. It would probably drive me nuts. Hang on in there

Congratulations on your new rig I did wonder what that WEI was about when I got my own computer assembled, since my Vista wouldn't let me as much as run solitaire without doing that silly speed test first. I wonder how high they can go?

NWN2: Storm of Zehir is NOT out!... Well, not down here. 11th of December said the guy at EB Games when I went to check today Maybe they are shipping it on a raft, drifting on the Pacific currents >_