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So, how much do we have to bribe you guys to keep quiet, so everybody else (i.e. *ME*) can get to play it?...

It's that time of the month again... In slightly chronological (if not entirely accurate) order: Lords of Midnight That and it's successor "Doomdarks Revenge" are for me the ultimate hybrid of free roaming exploration, role playing & wargame. Forbidden Forest The most athmospheric "Survival" type game I can remember. It is still the only game that can give me goose bumps when fighting it out with Demogorgon. Elite Give me a Cobra Mk III and the rest of the galaxy (galaxies) can take a hike. Nato Commander My first "real time with pause" strategy game from Microprose (released in 1983, I got a year later). Ultima IV The C64 version, mind you. Had way superior sound and music compared to the PC version. My second great experience into the world of crpgs (the first being Temple of Apshai by Epyx) Mechforce A Battlemech combat sim. An old shareware program by Ralph Reed and the best of it's kind. Combines roleplaying and tactical combat in a great way. The AI is still able to outwit me every now and then :blush10: X-Com/UFO Enemy unknown Got that one for my Amiga when it came out. Awesome squad combat game and enemies that felt like a real menace to humanity. Just listening to those sounds and screams in the dark, when civilians gets butchered... Fallout The game that made me retire my Amiga 4000 and join the world of PC gamers (I am such a sellout). Kind of ironic after having ridiculed PC gamers for years for being the source of all evil, dumbed down games and designs that caters for the lowest common denominators. Those PC owners should just lay down and die or buy real computers (Amigas) to use for gaming instead Planescape: Torment I lliked the cover art. I had tried BG before, but didn't really like it. PS:T was love at first sight. It made me buy BG2 unseen when it came out and later I went back and revisited BG again (even completed it). No self respecting fantasy crpg should be without a hot girl with a tail (literally) What can change the nature of a man?... Jagged Alliance 2 Picks up the gauntlet from X-Com and in some ways beats it at it's own game. The kind of game that probably never will be again :sad: I've probably forgotten some. Maybe the next list

So why even try to make a sequel to a game that sold fewer copies than some NWN1 crappy community efforts were downloaded (i.e. a Stefan Gagne or Adam Miller module)? Name/Brand recognition? Even if it wasn't an impressive seller on release, it has been dragged out of its coffin and put on display so many times the last decade, that the gaming press knows about Fallout, even if they don't know jack about what it means.

I don't know the magazine, but it is kind of sad when an era ends. The only gaming magazine I subscribed to was Zzap64 and my first love was "Your Computer". The latter giving me many of my first games (not as reviews, but program listings/source code)

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I've been trying to make up my mind what brand and model of plasma tv I should go for. I've got my eyes currently on a 42" Samsung or a 50" Panasonic. The last one is a bit more expensive. Tips and tricks what to look out for and which questions to ask in the retail stores would be welcome. Edit: I am a tv nub. The last TV I purchased was a Sony 15" Trinitron for my c64 20 years ago.

Priceless.

Stardust It looks interesting enough. Why is it leading such a life in obscurity?

Arghh! I won't have time to try this before the weekend I am very much looking forward to this title. Thanks for the impressions and the heads-up

Good luck Going through resumees today, looking for new developers.

Yay, we've got undeads and orcs. All we need is elves now

Carmageddon 1 Best racing game ever When I've completed that, I am going to install my Splat Pack expansion for it.

Just finished "Legion" by Dan Abnett. Seventh book of the "Horus Heresy" series, which has quicly turned into my favourite fiction series. The ending of the book was a genuine surprise...

You can change everything except the haircut and the sneakers The pictures look Ok. I mean, what can you do short of cheating and add an Eiffel tower to the Canal Grande in Venezia? As long as there are no elves and gnomes, I'll be happy Some video clips of the in-game action and scenery would be nice.

Some old games are notoriously unfriendly towards multicore processors, Kotor2 in particular. I don't know if the trouble would carry over to the gfx, but you might want to try changing the program to run on one core. Not having a dual core myself, I can't remember how it goes though. Something about starting up the game, then going to the task manager and change the affinity to a single core or some such.

Thread pruned... Sheesh some people are hard of hearing.

Now I feel like playing Fallout 1&2 again

I would be surprised if that wasn't covered by some kind of NDA SEGA probably wants most of the thunder for themselves. As for the game... all we need now is Terminator armour and we have a game of Space Hulk (which I wouldn't mind) The game sounds promising so far.

Not really. If its intended use is to retrieve reliable information and If you don't know when it is reliable or not, it doesn't work. Edit: Quote added. Shees, people are quick posters.

That sort of depends on what Fallout 3 turns into... [/despair]

Maybe Pol Pot's Cambodia? He might have been an improvement over Ian Smith once, but the last 15 years sort of voids any good he may done.

(a single post pruned, hoping this minimalistic approach gives the thread a longer lifespan) Lets stick to discussing Fallout 3.

Where is the "No" option? Ah well, once they admit to being witches, we can burn them. Whatever happened to the research into chemical solutions?

Mo-Caps for Alpha Protocol anyone? Edit: Or maybe the QA guys misunderstood the "stress testing" the software part when trying to make things crash?

They made us do it in high school. Can't remember the justification they gave us for writing it on paper. So when you do cut and paste code, you literally use a scissor and glue?