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Looking forward to "Obsidian 2: The Succession Wars", when all the owners kids vie for control of the company. Speaking of which, where is the birthday kid ? Not even a "Hello"... He doesn't love us anymore... :'(

He's a bloody peasant. He doesn't have the spine to stay true to any which way alignment. Haven't seen that movie yet. Let's see... getting fried by palpatine... crawling on his knees... pleading his dad for help... even his dad thought he was so pathetic he had to save his butt... Oh yes, He really showed them! Lucas don't know much about Star Wars, only about business. And I'm just teasing you a bit... :D

I remember reading somewhere once in some D20 rulebook/sourcebook, that the Mon Calamari cruisers were actually luxury cruise liners, converted into warships at the time of the founding of the rebel alliance. They sided with the rebellion and handed over what ships they had, then added weaponry and other military stuff to them. Since it was somewhat old stuff, it might have been replaced with newer canon though, you never know. Besides, on-topic, I like the good old triangular star destroyers

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1) Wrong forum (expect it to be moved). 2) It doesn't have to happen after the Red Eclipse incident.

What is that background picture you used as background... looks disturbingly familiar, yet unknown. Is it a Dantes Infeno illustration ?

Interesting. What's next, a cross between the blue whale and the killer whale ? Like a 100-150 tons intelligent predator :p"

Is that even legal ?!? :ph34r: I mean, the proper authorities ought to remove those kids.

S: 5 Average (I don't work out, but still manage to move the washing machine to where I want it to) P: 5 Average (When I'm focused, I notice everything, when not, I ignore old friends who greet me at the super market) E: 6 Average (Survived getting run over by cars, poisoning, electrocution, pneumonia, falling into ice water, falling down cliff sides and my sister in laws cooking and people still say I look 10 year young than my age) C: 6 Average (I hate responsibility, yet people seem to follow like sheep...) I: 7 Slightly above average (according to Mensa) A: 4 Average (I never did manage to dodge a car trying to run me over...) L: 6 Average (A lot of exciting things happened in my life, still not sure if I made good choices though. Sort of balances out) Tag skills: Speech, Repair, Science Other things: Good Natured (I'm not inclined towards physical aggression)

Never got around to it. I even got it as bundled software a looong time ago, when buying a soundcard. Unfortunately, the rest of my computer wasn't up to it back then. Forgot about it when I did get some decent hardware

Which "muppet" do you remember in perticular? I have a vague memory of some big blue elephant thing playing a keyboard...wasn't that in Jabba's palace? This could even be a new poll... Come to think of it, could have been his Yacht, it's a long time since I saw that one the last time Edit: It was a band and a singer, very much like the Muppets and IIRC, Jabba had a pet muppet too, fondling Jabbas tail or whatever.

Not a fan of the Unreal engine, I take it? Oh, I love a good shooter I played Unreal 2 several times as well as Pain Killer and Red Faction, a much under rated game. I would just like somebody to make crpgs too, not only shooters with a bit of story and rpg elements thrown in for good measure. For some reason, Doom was never my thing and never got into Halflife, so I can't really say why some of them catches my interest and why others don't.

In order of suckitude: Ewoks, Jar Jar and Hayden Christensen... Honourable mention: The muppet show in Jabbas palace, droids and gungangs in general from Episode I onwards.

Let LA have it themselves. I would prefer Obsidian to use their time on other new things, if not completely new setting, then at least some relatively unexplored one (as far as crpgs go). Of course, reading that their next game might be powered by an Unreal engine, I did lose interest in whatever they might come up with next, so... Back to playing PS:T and BG2 again

It isnt a wussy, annoying one? Hmm, now that you mention it. Yes >_

I didn't even visit the NWN2 forums when they were located here :ph34r:

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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

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