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I tend to agree with my nordic friend here... I know the thread title says "feedback appreciated", but I suspect that was feedback regarding the Engine itself, not the comparative merits of 2d and 3d engines

...yea, I's too...fer the 14th, methinks, time... One time you awoke obsessed with the idea that *I* was your skull and chased me around the Spire trying to shatter and devour me. Luckily, you were crushed by a passing cart in the street. ...ahh, good times... ...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!... Yeah, those were good times indeed

Sorry Krezack, no matter how hard I try to wrap my brain(s!...) around the concept, I run into an image of Grim Fandango and my line of thought doesn't get any further. Time to do some "Free your mind" exercises

Yeah, calling it "a spoiler thread" would be a bit of an exaggeration, wouldn't it?

The only drink I've gone out of my way to get, was the Singapore Sling. I went to the bar at Raffles Hotel in Singapore to get it

I don't know if Mass Effect is sci-fi (I suspect so), but there hasn't really been a lot of genuine sci-fi crpgs released the last two decades :sad: Edit: Buck rogers was just a much a space-fantasy game as the Star Wards games.

It signed up for the early retirement plan Rolling Stones - Paint it Black.

This thread seems to reached the end of it's natual life span... Continued here: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=48920

Start of previous thread: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=48589 End of previous thread: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?sh...0&start=480 Currently listening to The Sisters of Mercy - Some Kind of Stranger

I liked the system in JA2. You get damaged in combat, you start bleeding to the point of death if first aid isn't given. You can't "heal" during combat missions, only stop dying. Recovery can be a very long and slow process with characters missing out on a lot of the action. Only way to speed things up is in a proper hospital or with a character with medic skills dedicating their time to "doctoring" you (i.e. putting both patient(s) and medic out of commission for a while). It does of course help that you have a lot of characters to choose from unlike fps games.

I now see why this series is called "Lost"... No, I haven't actually seen any of it.

If the programming was done right there wouldn't be a need for QA. Okay, you've officially just dropped from 'hooting peenhole' to 'jibbering idiot'. He does have a point you know. Problem is just that he places the cause of faulty programming squarely on the shoulders of the programmer. Programs can have bugs for a number of reasons, errors in the logic on a design level, poorly written specs, sloppy programmers, simple accidents (misread specs, typos etc.), poor QA procedures, bad time constraints (a management problem), unskilled programmers, poor task coordination/project management... a long list really It can be the programmers fault, it can also be any number of other people involved in the process' fault.

Yeah, she probably misunderstood the weird noises you were making while looking at her... As a small act of sympathy, I decided to catch a cold today. Not sure what to blame really. Time to resort to the good old tried and tested remedies, like hot camomille tea and xo cognac

Boo?

They sure are. And it looks good from the developer diaries so far.

well, I checked and it just doesn't say....apparently, the firm he is with is like a subcontractor of NCSoft, the makers of Guild Wars, City of Heroes, etc. I wonder if it is a pre-existing title like that or some new deal.... I was being sarcastic. I meant MMO's in general, no one in particular. Never played one because they sound incredibly boring to me

Europa Universalis: Rome Europa Universalis III (covering 1453-1789 AD) quickly became a favourite of mine. Looking forward to what they do with the roman era.

A bit of JA2 (1.13) and Europa Universalis III (as Muscowy, now unified as Russia). I think Paradox Interactives next game (EU III with a roman flavour) is very much on my look forward to list

I keep hearing about this MMO game... I should look it up on Wikipedia some day

Wouldn't the pc term for "gypsies" be the Roma/Romani? Similarly for "Indians" addressing them by their "nation", e.g Cherokee, Oglala etc. Apologies if I got any of them wrong. Not really my specialty.

He has a crush on the nurse... thinks she is a vampire

In many ways, I found STALKER too hard for my liking (I haven't finished it yet, currently at Pripyat), but it sure has a lot going for it. Not at least it's post apocalyptic athmosphere, even if it is just on a local scale Which reminds me, I better go take a look at that "Clear Sky" prequel.

Alien 4 Resurrection - Directors Cut It could have been so good... :sad: Cool characters, interesting story, decent production values, aliens, Sigourney Weaver, Ron Perlman... how can you possibly go wrong? To whoever did the casting and added Winona Ryder to the cast: "ARGHHH!!!! What the heck were you thinking?!?". She was so completely out of place in that movie (with all the acting skills of a dead fish), that I think she singlehandedly managed to ruin it for me. The casting person should be sentenced to 24 months of forced labour as an assistant to Uwe Boll. No less can do it.

Thread pruned a bit. Lets try again from the "Serious response welcome" part