Gorth

Depending on how nostalgic you are feeling, you might want to have a look at Ultima IV, Wasteland, Lords of Midnight and in a pinch even the xcom games and Jagged Alliance 2. While not necessarlily purebred crpg's, they have some qualities that might appeal for one reason or other to people who like Infinity Engine games. Others have already mention VMBL, Fallouts and Torment

Hi, my name is Gorth. Pleased to meet you

Too many trees in the forest. Makes it hard to find your way out without that one skill you never thought you were going to spend points on I kind of liked it once I figured out how it worked But I probably also belong to the minority who liked IWD2.

From memory (so I might be wrong, I'm not going to argue it): Wasn't both Wildfire for JA2 and Battlefield Vietnam mods that made it to retail and received lukewarm receptions from the buyers ?

Nothing exciting really unless you are into that kind of stuff. Got myself a senior developer position in an Australian company. Flying down there on Tuesday (and Wednesday and Thursday). Looking at the bright side of it, you get to see the world

Perhaps Sega will buy Atari. Them all being old console game makers and so Pacman meets Mario...

Heh, a schizophrenic dog

At $39.99 dollar a piece at Amazon, that would be approx. 698,174,543 Oblivion games (rounding down)

Translation: We made some poor business decisions and are now the laughing stock in the mobile phone industry. Perhaps it's just payback time for ze germans. Didn't they lose astronomical amounts of Euros when BMW tried their hand at taking over english car manufacturers ?

Perhaps Bioware and Atari are no longer best friends ? :lol:"

Reminds me of an incident in highschool way back... our biology teacher had brought some kidney with her into the class and cooked it in some kind of gravy over a bunsen burner and served it for us. Since there were some similarities between her and Ilse, the Shewolf from the SS, nobody dared to object. I've never eaten kidney since that day

Should BG1 and ToTSC become available on a single DVD, then I would definitely buy it. The one game I'm missing in my Infinity Engine collection

Blame it on my european heritage, I'm only superficially familiar with north american sports :">

A group of individuals who share enough hereditary traits to be classified as a group of their own. Two. Man and Woman Indianapolis 500, Silverstone, Le Mans...

Ok, so Kotor is space fantasy, but to call it a D&D title... Infogrames is just following the old tradition of the french buying american publisher names and running those companies into the ground while working on D&D titles "Atari" must have been hurting for a long while, having had a few suspicions since they shelved BG3 after having ripped the license from Interplays cold dead hands.

Even adding that little information, that there is nothing revolutionary or things worth keeping secret is worth keeping secret, as it gives the competition a target they need to beat. I.e. what is the minimum they need to invest of time and money to make their competitive product better, in this case, just a little. No need to pull all the plugs on their wallets then, which can be spend on something else that increases their profit for maximum ROI.

It may not be much of a comfort, but from someone who has had plenty of birthdays, they are much overrated. Still, Happy birthday young one

Amongst all the unrealistic ones, I gave myself two "achievable" goals as a teenager. One of those was to own a Ferrari. Condition of said car is less important.

Perhaps sharks instinctively worry about cholesterol numbers ?

No best turnbased strategy category :'( Railroads! was the only game I recognised on any of those lists Ah well, still got HoMM V and Tombraider Legends on my shopping list. Perhaps I should try Google on some of those best PC game titles

Thanks guys My best birthday present today ? My work permit (w00t) Watch out all Aussies, here I come :D

While it's not exactly state of the art, my old SB Audigy2 with a 5.1 speaker set is sort of nice. But then, I also occasionally use my computer for watching DVD movies, TV, playing CD's besides playing the odd game with good sound/music, so I couldn't really imagine having a computer without at least "good" audio capabilities

...it wasn't even fully paid off yet!...

I wouldn't trust a civilisation that didn't have the number zero (thats like 50% of all binary figures missing)