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160 at spread 24 I must be getting old Thats an all time low...

Have you ever played "Archon" (an old EA game by Westfall/Freeman) ? For those who don't know it, it's a chess game where the pieces fight it out in real time, the winner of the battle keeps the square.

Memories... My first "real" adventure game, that I managed to complete was "The Hobbit" by Melbourne House (mostly known otherwise for "Exploding Fist", best karate game ever) The Hobbit made me read the book that came in the box... I was hopelessly stumped by something in the darkness that kept killing me. In the end, I gave in and read the damned book. One: It got me into reading a lot more of Tolkiens books and Two: I managed to complete the game (so I needed that glowing sword to light up in the dark when goblins were near, go ahead and bash me for the spoiler). Lets see, that would have been around 1984 (give or take a year) :wub:"

You think Bethesda is buying a new development team for an new project of theirs ? :(" (just fun speculation, nothing else)

Kotor 1 had too much action and too little brains in it's combat

He must have been a Magpie in a previous life :)"

Good old Magnetic Scrolls Did you also play The Pawn ? Wonder what became of them

isnt vampires considered a sure fire hit? i would have thought vampires is just as much a "household name" as kotor or nwn. Ask 50 random people on the street. How many of these names do you recognise ? 1) Star Wars 2) Dungeons & Dragons 3) Vampire the Masquerade. My bet is, most recognise Star Wars. Many will have heard of Dungeons & Dragons. An insignificant few will have heard of Vampire the Masquerade (probably saw the TV series)

I saw that site a long time ago. I seriously thought it was just a satire site, with some outrageously bad jokes. Are you saying that guy was actually for *real* ???

They're GOLD Say... nice nice Mr. Morgan... Does your NDA (if a such exist) also include things that your colleagues do (hint, hint!) ?

:D Actually, it is.

Low Karma ? No idea actually. I seem to have missed that part of the game too. Damn, now I have to try again

That tail...

That would explain the weird garbled messages about Kotor3. LA did plan to do it themselves, hence the rumours that it would be made, but the team got the kick while Obsidian was busy making Kotor2, hence, it's not currently planned and thats the most likely status now. How many "teams" does Obsidian currently have, one ? Just curious.

Battlefield 1942

I ended up slightly "south" of Stalin... I need to work on my diplomacy again.

If that is the kind of guys hanging around in the mod forums... makes you wonder why 99,9% of the mods out there are less than entertaining. :cool:

Depends a bit on their capacity too. They almost had two teams working when Kotor2 was finishing and NWN2 started, but they might be down to one full team again (NWN2). They might play it safe (as safe as anything in the VG industry) and go with that for a while yet, keeping themself entertained for the next year. They probably do have more than one idea for something they would like to do, but they also have to get aquainted with the various publishers out there, while shopping for investors. While there is no chance of them ever saying something outrageously bad about LA or Atari, they are bound to get some impressions of how these two companies would behave as potential publishers for a third game. They might just want to try a third one to see if the shoe fits better there (Activision ?). It was easier when they were BIS, for good and for bad they had exactly one possible publisher. Odds are, they might follow the Bioware strategy and do the easily digestible stuff (action oriented, short game length, munchkinism, newest technological buzz words, some kind of sex appeal for the 14-17 year olds etc.) for the widest possible market. Few, if any developers can do the work they want to do, whatever that might be, but the work they can get. The better developers might have some influence on the what they get, but free hands ? Don't think so.

Games I really looked forward to, but failed miserably: From top of my head... Master of Orion 3 (where is my flail, I need to flog myself again) Lords of Midnight 3 (how could they do that after Lords of Midnight and Doomdarks Revenge ???) Carmageddon 2 (whats with suddenly putting time critical showstoppers in the game ???) Doesn't include games that were just plain disappointing, as I might not have looked forward to them the same way as I did the above Now, I've stopped to really look forward to games, I just watch, read and occasionally get a nice game.

*flames Eldar*

But then, there were also people who liked NWN's (OC) story... weirder things has happened.

Thats OK, you are forgiven Oh, and the explanation: It's subject of much debate, but the general concensus seems to be, that the C in CRPG is the very same C as you find in PC, i.e. Computer, not to be confused with the C in Console. CRPG type games on Consoles sometimes uses the J designation (JRPG) easy to remember as the the J in Console... Confused ?

My Malkavian guy would have sold his soul (well, he already lost it, so the point is moot, but anyway) for the Fortitude discipline... On the other hand, using Bedlam in a crowded street in Hollywood was hilarious. Watch those pedestrian taking it out on each other, some of them getting whacked and flying 50 meters through the air :D

Which clan are you playing ? I played a Malkavian male in my first game and ran into some nasty obstacels towards the end because Malkavian disciplines are next to no good against non-human enemies... Had to go way back to an earlier save game and pick an alternate route through the last part of the game. In my second game, I played a sexy Nosferatu female in fetish wear. Had a way easier time towards the end because of the disciplines available and took the bulls approach to problem solving (headlong charge).

You might also want to give Jagged Alliances 2 a try. Especially if you don't appreciate fantasy, but like strategy and tactical combat.