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Huh... WTF, he annoied me in ways I didn't actually think a character could annoy me... Well, Bastila was stiff competition for Carth, in terms of annoyance levels. Hmm... with Carth I wanted the option to leave him back on the ship at the very beginning. Wasn't a competition really. I wanted to give Bastila back to the Black Vulkars, but they wouln't take her off my hands I guess my "look forward to" list looks something like this at the moment (in no particular order): Jagged Alliance 3 (although my hopes for a good game sinks every month), Disciples 3, Storm of Zehir, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, Alpha Protocol & Aliens (Obsidians).

I did have to use the space bar every now and then to pause the IE games. I am weak >_

Where were you initially from? Certainly not australia right? Denmark No self respecting Dane would be so rude as to ask a complete stranger how he/she is doing >_

How could you do this to the poor guy? He might be completely lost if you don't follow the script. Nothing like the unexpected to throw people off. Reminds me a bit of my very first phone conversation with a guy from London over the phone: He asked me "How are you?" and my gut response (which I luckily suppressed by biting my tongue) was "None of your business". I mean, how dare he ask for details about things he doesn't need to know about. We were not that familiar after all. Later I found out that it is common courtesy thing in English speaking countries and you are not even expected to give a sincere answer to the question.

Girls with tails Horns are optional. Nice if they have them, but not essential >_ Apart from that, a sense of purpose in a believable world. By believeable, I don't mean real, but a system where things acts according to the natural laws of the setting.

Use the biggest hammer you can find Sorry, I am not at home right now (where my Vista machine is). I'll see if I remember this thread when I get home from work tonight, or better yet, somebody else chimes in with the answer

Not really. Most (if not all) the "loot" in the game is randomised. Odds are, if you were to reload an earlier save of the same game, you would end up with different stuff in your inventory.

Erm... Guess I'm just lucky then, cuz I've never had any problems. Actually runs better on my laptop then my hubby's desk top computer. Also ,(doi) with Vista. I think it might be an impression that people get because of the number of laptops with Intel gfx chips out there. People with ATI or Nvidia gfx in their laptops are better off as a rule of thumb. Even then, there are some quirky laptops out there when running the old Aurora Engine based games

Makes you wonder what the young ones do at school these days...

Somewhere on the Bethesda forums a poster noticed this, too. As for the music you have to remember that Fallout 3 is based on the 1950's versions of the future. To me, it therefore makes sense that the music used is from the 1950's in the game. This means there have been no hiphop, no breakdance, no house or dance music. Only the 1950's music - like a place frozen in time. Oh, I know it is a tribute to the setting of the originals. My problem with the 5 movie clips was, that it was the only thing "50'es" about them. The had that retro "90'es" feel to it (hence the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. reference)

BG = Baldurs Gate. Combat System... I think some refer to it as "phase based", some as RTWP (Real Time With Pause). It is basically a continous turn based system, where a real time engine is used to emulate 6 second turns or some such (I was never Pen&Paper player). The emphasis in the game is/was on tactical combat and decision making rather than hand/eye coordination (also called "twitch based" combat )

Game over man! Game over!... Continued here

Start of old thread End of old thread Nothing much to add since last thread start. Played a few xbox games at work, never seen an xbox360 outside a retail store window (yet)

Europa Universalis (III) is about as much realtime as the Infinity Engine games. I.e. not very much

The mudcrabs looks like they put up a bit more of a fight in this game Otherwise, it looks like a western version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. with bad combat. I almost expected that sheriff to grab a guitar, sit down and start singing in Russian. The pipboy and music felt completely out of place in this game

"We ballern us the way to the weapon Dealer freely. " That is way more fun to read than the original German text "Do we shoot the rogue? Or do we take it prisoner? Do we let it run and extort it? All these options bring consequences for the further play process with itself" That sounds outright naughty.

Phantom drawing of the real Walsingham: Few have met him and survived to tell the tale...

Great game. Too easy to win the infantry battles though. And I never found out how to win a sea battle consistently, not to mention the chariot racing

Hence my original question, what are the differences? That one has more friends doesn't really count. I'll refrain from cheap shots like "Georgia is a strategically important ally because of the oil pipeline running through it" Edit: And no, it isn't a trick question or bait, I am honestly curious about what those differences could be.

Well, the "thousands of casualties and tens of thousands of refugees" are from a paper from the US Library of Congress, not my invention (I think I posted the link previously in this thread, or was that at WW? Thats possible). Blame them if they are fiddling with the numbers. Mind you, this was in 1991 when the Georgians wanted to wipe out any sense of "Ossetian" cultural integrity. Yeltsin was the one that mediated the ceasefire back then. The recent casualties may be much less, but the Ossetian desire to become "Georgians" hasn't really improved since those early years.

I agree insofar that it is *possible* that there are differences. Not necessarily that I am able to see them

I am curious, different how? You have a union (USSR/Yugoslavia) that disintegrates. You have an ethnic group that ends up on the "wrong" side of a border and don't want to be that particular nationality. The country (Serbia/Georgia) that holds "ownership" of the territory uses violence against said ethnic group trying to force them into submission. Outside forces intervenes, acknowledging their right to self determination. There may be differences, but there sure are a lot of similarities too (including the hypocrisy involved from whatever major geopolitical power had a stake on the losing horse).

Yes, they haven't been repeating, after KOTOR they've been getting progressively worse. Sorry, couldn't resist. Worse how? Mind you I haven't played JE (seemed like more action than roleplaying for my taste) nor ME (too much DRM, had nothing to do with the qualities of the game). Is it just because they haven't done any more SW games?

Just a friendly reminder that those very same young ones frequent these forums and possibly even this very thread