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The new "movies" are just infomercials to support the merchandise.

You might want to check out Motor Psycho, one girl survives in that one

Not really. Didn't like Carth that much, although he was tolerable. Bastila spent as lttle time in my party as possible, so most travelling around was with Jolee and either Mission or Canderous, depending on what I needed (skills or muscle). A shame that neither Jolee nor Mission survived

Depends on the risk involved. If they are gambling their future on the next shippable product from an unknown developer, in a stagnant market they deserve what they get. They are no longer competent (in the publishing business) and have begun gambling, for that is all it is.They might get lucky or they might... whatever it is where Herve is now. I would sell my stock if I had any in such a publisher and invest in a company that split the risk between safe bets (most of the funding) and manageable risks (the gain might be considerable, but the most likely outcome, losses, can be written off without endangering your existence).

I wonder if anybody ever thought about the possibility that Volourn might be right ? There is a subtle but important difference in the success of games and developers. Games are mostly (there are exceptions like Bethesda) a joint venture between publishers and developers, making both contribute to the success or failure of a game. However, a developer is the only one truly responsible for itself (bar hand of god, earthquakes and weird election results), through the choices it makes, the products it develops, the recruitment strategy, the market positioning, the technology it masters, skills, whatever and amongst the most important things the connections it forms to publishers which is a sum of what it has to offer, lobbying, greasing and how it generally sells itself. A successful developer not only makes good products, it also sells itself well and vice versa.

You are now number 64738 on my list...

There are sort of two sides to the thing. If storyline elements gets cut because the schedule was changed, both developer and publisher shares responsibility. It's only my own suspicions, but I do suspect that LA was hurting financially (why else cut their own in-house development) and offered a deal that was pretty irresistable (a carrot and stick combo, make a lot of bucks or we'll make your life miserable for a long time) if the game could ship for xmas instead of it's planned release date. The entirely technical issues is the responsibility of the Publisher, because in this case they are the ones doing both the QA and the decision when it's ready to ship. Probably wouldn't have hurt to have a few more games trying different paths through the game and on a few more different hardware combos. I still liked the game though, although in my replays I stop playing after

(Evil Overlord grin:) *Muahahah* Come to me all ye numbers, unite under my banner... Numbers from all domains and disciplins shall march forth... Integers, rationals, negatives, complex numbers, endless columns of marching primes shall pour forth and the world shall tremble under the weight of numbers... For behold, there is strength in numbers and nothing shall stand against endless numbers...

Erhh... (thinking) It's mostly work and very little gaming these days When I do have a bit of time, it's mostly the "two's". A game in progress of BG2, Kotor2, Jagged Alliance 2 and just recently finished Master of Orion 2 for the umpteenth time :rolleyes:" Before the current games in progress, it was Disciples 2, Fallout 2 and Pirates! (just to ruin the "two" system of my gaming) Once I finish my game of BG2, I might go back and try a new party in IWD2.

Not sure if it was meant as a joke or not, but you do have a point. If the choice is between the two shown covers, B is definitely the "Comic" book cover, whereas A is... dunno, game box cover art from the late eighties. However, if you really want to sell, you do need T&A on your cover and that means some completely unrealistic proportioned red head wearing little more than bodypaint. Sex sells, simple as that

By the same logic, Jennifer Hale is only a half decent actress since all she contributes is the voice...

Most exciting aspect of Episode III is, it's going to be the last SW movie for a long while...

I think I'll wait and hear Visc' side of the story... it just didn't sound genuine :cool:

>_ Ehh... I mean :'(

It might be this one: http://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=12668

Looks great (w00t) What are your release plans (not release dates) ? Are you going to release it in parts as each self contained part of the project finishes, or are you going to release it as one big mod once you feel there is nothing more to be accomplished with it ? (sort of hoping for releasing individual parts as they are finished :"> )

Good question, e would definitely have been a natural number to include. Come to look at it, he does seem like a racist, only positive integers are represented >_

It is sort of a Dungeons & Dragons game...

Some day I might, together with a few friends and some beers. If nothing else, to satisfy my curiosity. I'm unlikely to go watch it on the big screen though. Still, once all three prequels are available as rentals on DVD, I might just give them a try.

You can't really take a number poll without 42 seriously. Besides, polls like this tends to discrimate complex numbers, which I'm sure they find quite offensive, always just the commercially viable mainstream rational numbers >_

Tragic ? Possibly A Star Wars Nerd ? No I watched the original Star Wars (no stupid roman numerals) on opening night in 1977. I loved the movie and was fascinated by the universe. Never imagined that it would get a sequel, but was quite excited about it when I saw on T.V. that a Star Wars II was being made. The Empire strikes back, and I really loved Star Wars at the time of it's (ESB) release (despite it featuring that annoying little gremlin Yoda). The Return of the Jedi happened :'( It started quite OK for the first few minutes... The Droids arriving at the entrance to Jabbas abode. Then the doors opened and it was the friggin muppet show. My enthusiasm cooled from there way down until seeing Leia in that slave costume :"> Still, Jabbas Yacht, the band etc. pretty awful. The real killer was the Ewoks though. The moment one of those monstrosities stared at me from the silverscreen, I lost all interest in Star Wars >_ I did buy the "improved" trilogy on VHS when they were released, I did after all like the first two movies. A number of glitches had been fixed, the roman numeral IV added to the first movie etc. But *why* did they have to change the story and make Greedo shoot first ? I gave the videos away eventually to my then 4 year old nephew. He loved those SW movies. I saw The Phantom Menace as a rental, but didn't quite manage to stay focused on it. Didn't bother with the second one, can't remember it's name. So Star Wars nerd... definitely not anymore :cool:

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So they suck at crpgs... on the other hand, the Sturmovik series is reputedly a quite OK series of flight sim games, so they do know how to do something right. Besides, they can't make it any worse than Homm4, I refuse to believe that.

Then I am a little bit excited After Homm3 I loved Homm4 just about as much as I loved Master of Orion 3 after Master of Orion 2