Gorth

Changed? Not much really. Perhaps there is some truth in the saying, that you can't teach old dogs new tricks If anything, WoT amuses me in a way that no tabloid paper, no reality show, no nothing else could. Observing people, reading, sometimes sniggering at the follies, sometimes just offering my monitor an amused smile. I raise an eyebrow every now and then when seeing people losing their temper over things I would consider trivial of perceived insults from people I would consider unworthy of even getting upset about. I watch cultural differences, comparative ethical values, world news that I wouldn't go hunting for on my own and learn some interesting trivia at least once on every visit. My only regret is, that I can't really dedicate any real effort to participating in most of the discussions. Just jumping in and out of threads, reading bits here and there and on rare occasions post something more than a single line. If anything, WoT has reinforced my biases, prejudices and what is most likely misconceptions, not changed anything. A pox upon you WoT!

It surprised me that they (Bethesda) were willing to pay that kind of money for it. They must be very sure of their own PR skills to expect it to turn into a profitable venture. They were also among the least best fits I could imagine of possible developers to do it. Not that I believe anyone could really make those who have waited a decade for it happy. And what would it take to make those people happy? Probably nothing that a company who is accountable to somebody else would be able to deliver (Hey, Bill Gates, you listening? Here is something you could burn some money on for a good cause!). Still waiting for the announcement from Interplay that they now have the money to start pre-production of FOOL

Sounds like entering combat or conversation in Fallout. Possibly. One could also argue that tactical combat in X-Com is a minigame, yet for some reason it didn't feel that way. Feel might be the keyword (for me). Does it feel like a natural part of the game, fine. If not, I'll slap a Minigame sticker on it and make it subject to unreasonable hatred.

So I take it you would also like combat to be resolved with a single die roll? After all, there's an extraordinary amount of player skill required to resolved the combat mini-game in RPGs. Depends on how it is implemented. In most crpgs (that I know of), combat seems to part of the "main" game. Whereas "mini" games replaces your main interface with a new interface and a new set of "rules", effectively becoming a different game. Oblivion was very bad in this regard (IMNSHO). For all their praise of FPP = Immersion, they insisted on pulling the player out of the main environment and do something completely unrelated for Fish knows what purposes. Of course, you *could* just skip the minigames entirely and forfeit the part of the game that was opening boxes and get more info out of npcs than casual rumours about mud crabs. And yes, I am especially biased against minigames after failing again and again at the awful "dancing" game in Pirates!

Uninspired dialogue... Level scaling (partially)... Radiant AI... Minigames... etc. The graphics are different though. They have really captured that retro 1999 look in their artwork.

I am curious about that reasoning... Which country would you suggest is next in the line of those who needs intervention? North Korea (throwing around nuclear threats) ? Israel (constant human rights violations and two scores UN sanctions not adhered to) ? Iran (where even the president is a sick sexual pervert, shaking the hands of women) ? Columbia (so they can finally spray agent orange on anything with the colour green) ? Fiji (ruled by a general and the military) ? Syria (alledgedly hiding all the evidence that the coalition forces couldn't find in Iraq) ? Canada (Killer of baby seals and threatening danish sovereignty over Hans Island) ? China (list too long to even start on here) ? Pakistan (is already in possession of nuclear weapons) ? Etc. I think the US and UK needs to seriously reconsider the draft if you want to carry this kind if doctrine out

Trying to imagine Disciple in the Princess Leia costume...

Struggling to complete a game of Tombraider Anniversary. Perhaps Crystal Dynamics should just stick to making new TR games, they were quite decent at that. TRA was a major disappointment. Small cramped levels, 75% ledge climbing on vertical walls and 25% boss fighting. They seem to have misunderstood something completely (or simply just cashing in on the name, ignoring everything that made the original fun). Also, playing a game of BG1 on my desktop computer, tried the BGT mod, but decided that the game was just too boring without the background music. Playing almost vanilla BG1, just with the unfinished business mod. And finally, playing a game of NWN2 on my laptop when travelling. A sorcerer/RDD trying his luck in the world

Which brings us back to "the selfish gene"

Those are known as critics and reviewers But yeah, been in a similar situation in a different line of business nearly a decade ago. Management lacked skill and project managment was non-existing. Spent better part of 12 months working crunch time (and gave me half of the gray hair I have now) on a system that was in the end a failure and a bitter lesson. Best advice is the one about keeping your resume up to date and start looking elsewhere. Unless they go bust, get bought out and put under new supervision, things are unlikely to improve.

What have you done... :ninja10:

Most of the movie seems to be based on Mayan culture: http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mmc03eng.html Except, as GreasyDogMeat pointed out, they were all dead and gone when the Europeans showed up. The Aztecs were the ones doing sacrifices when Cortez reached their capital. Estimates varies from 20000 to 250000 humans sacrified per year.

Revan is a god, no foilables there. Let me guess, disagreeing is futile? Of course. How can a mere man stand against such logic?!? I surrender

Let me guess, disagreeing is futile?

It does have a familiar ring to it. Only one word needed to be replaced >_

You might as well embrace it. Give up and be assimilated It's part of a natural, evolutionary process. Languages change over time. If not, you would still be talking like a bad Shakespeare novel Just look what happens to language elsewhere. We Danes have to go to Iceland to see what our "original" language sounded like a millennia ago. Americans drop the U of many OU syllables (e.g. colour -> color, amour - > armor, volourn -> volon etc.) When enough people spell it wrong, it becomes the correct new way of spelling it. Face teh reality.

Seriously, if anybody in any way feel insulted buy your posts, they aren't worth trying to please anyway Can we have Eldar back now?

You think Jolee is mentally stable? are you insane?! Yes and no

Use force speed to outrun them. Once you have enough distance between you and them, they will "lose your scent". Not sure how to describe it otherwise. Gradually move closer to Kreia until you are close enough to throw your lightsaber at her. She will not come after you and you can keep throwing it at her until she dies. You can usually beat her with one hand clicking the mouse button and the other holding a mug of coffee that you can sip at your leasure

K1 - Canderous and Jolee (the only two mentally stable characters) K2 - Hanharr and T3 (among the few I could rely on not mutating instantaneously into *&^%$ jedi)

Maybe you are a slave to your genes? A genetic combination that results in the urge to create social structures and "ethics", makes your gene combinations better able to survive than say, a bunch of selfish individualists all struggling to survivie on their own. Ever wonder why you do irrational things you can't explain, it just makes you feel good? Welcome to the selfish gene. It is using stick and carrots to make you do the grunt work for it (which is also "love explained" in The Book of Gorth) >_

True. Sadly the game doesn't tell anything about Visas background before she "met" Nihilus.

We could also discuss semanthics, as to whether Visas is a "convert" or not. She obviously already knows the force and how to use a lightsaber when she meets you the first time

Don't tell me you would tolerate ginger haired people in your neighbourhood?!? Just think of the property values, they would plummet faster than the Zimbabwian currency!