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Dark Raven really knows which buttons to push, doesn't she?

Only if you can prove that Eldar is still alive and not dead and buried somewhere in Cantousents basement Now excuse me, time to make the glass half empty

Whoa! In that case, it will soon be empty

Even if they make a nice shiny installer with all kinds of checks built into the install script, there will be people whining about the complexity and bugginess of the mod because they can't figure out how to properly agree to a license agreement, select install directory, press next a couple of times and then press "finish" (I would prefer a simple zip file, maybe with a patch file if any existing files needs their binaries modified, but thats besides the point, I'll gladly take what I am offered)

Nobody has convinced me that there is a glass yet. Once that has been done, we can talk about the purpose and current state of the glass.

Having fond memories of games like Archon I&II, Adventure Construction Set, Mail Order Monsters, Bards Tale I-III, Heart of Africa, Hard Hat Mack, M.U.L.E., Marble Madness, Neuromancer, Racing Destruction Set, Skyfox, Realm of Impossibility (one of my all time favourite games) and Battlechess. They also published a game called Wasteland, which I unfortunately never found in a store What have they done lately? Battlefields 1942. In New Zealand, they are also the distrubutors for a number of overseas companies. Kotor2 had an EA logo on the shrink wrap as well as an EA Direct contact card inside the box Edit: I haven't played them myself, but I've been told that there are people out there who likes Dungeon Keeper II, Max Payne, Medal of Honour, Freedom Force, 1503AD, Delta Force, System Shock 2, Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri and the Lord of the Rings games (I cheated and looked at a list of games for the last 4 years)

That would be all two of them Still, looks interesting. Might just sneak itself onto my "games I look forward to" list.

831 issues in total... how many bugs can you squeeze into one game? And it's 28 now.

Having fond memories of games like Archon I&II, Adventure Construction Set, Mail Order Monsters, Bards Tale I-III, Heart of Africa, Hard Hat Mack, M.U.L.E., Marble Madness, Neuromancer, Racing Destruction Set, Skyfox, Realm of Impossibility (one of my all time favourite games) and Battlechess. They also published a game called Wasteland, which I unfortunately never found in a store

Plus, you have to work so damn hard to get the invitation

Lets see (jogging memory), last Christmas, that meant buying myself a nice bottle of wine for dinner and then getting back to work, as a client had sent out a RFP to us and a few of our competitors More a nuisance than anything else. A couple of days off at a time of my own chosing would have been nice. I loved Christmas until I turned 8 (or 9 or thereabouts) when I realised that it was all about pushing as many units as possible over the counter and that businesses actually had Christmas as an important part of the annual revenue on their budgets. When I was 10, it was more fun trying to identify the different marketing mechanisms applied in order to try to convince me that "stuff is cool, you want stuff, you need stuff!" Yes, I was a cynical young man

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?