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You want a picture of a drop-down context-sensitive menu? (Hint: right-click with your mouse now ... anywhere ...)

I take it this won't be PG on general release ...

And now, the end is near ...

I couldn't possibly say. "

It's a tough call, though. Bethesda obviously prioritized wanderlust above over-achievement in their design phase, and Oblivion is the result. By that I mean the ability to play in the sandbox, to go and do any quest at any time is a fundamental design decision that was taken before a line of code was written. The scaling isn't perfect, but what is? I can see the people on the fringes gnashing their teeth because it wasn't quite enough like Dungeon Seige for them to bemoan Oblivion as a clickfest in that image, too. I think the simplest way to fix/play the game best is to level up a lot less often than the PC is eligible: after a plot point, say, and only ever one level at a time. A lot of the complaints are players who have worked out how to metagame (even by accident) and are complaining that they can ... like a fat kid suing the cookie company for making the baking products too tasty!

Imagine everything is backwards. Minor in skills you use all the time and major in skills you hardly ever use. :D That way you level up really slowly, but maximise your levels. Another way is to do what I am doing which is to level up when you feel things are getting easy. Although breaking a couple of gates and making yourself a couple of vampiric weapons will have the same effect. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> OR level up when you complete a goal, rather than as soon as one of your primary attibutes clicks over and the PC is eligible. Think of it as a brake: a disincentive to level fast, so that the system is working to help the player enjoy the gameplay, rather than obsessively and compulsively ticking over a little number on the stat screen.

My rat had a septim.

Not anymore. Everyone, please do not post SPOILERS in this thread without the [ S P O I L E R ] tags! Thank you. Whomever the author, they have an intimate knowledge (carnal, some might say:D) of the hidden cogs, gears and discombobulations and urges of the psychopath ...

Shakespeare would indeed be pleased with the scope of this particular narrative, as I have never played either Dungeon Seige. Actually I think he was more moronic than malevolent.

That's an Ettin, isn't it? "

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I dunno, I played the demo (Dungeon Seige II it might have been) and it was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Everquest.

And what's wrong with that? :cool: That was my first computer! Loderunner was awesome! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Indeed. Many days lost playing that game ...

That is what I feel as well. It sucks having to manage your skills just to get those +5s at level up. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well you dont really need those +5 skill ups. But I agree that having to manage your levels is not a good thing. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I ... I can't help it! :">

I think he turns up at odd times ... I'm looking for him, too ... (I even went to the other town looking for the other, previous "vampire" victim, but nothing there).

Post details so that we may advise and ridicule you, please.

... And a rat.

Ah. *polite nod as meta realises Eldar is talking about pixies, presumably at the end of the garden*

The uses for oil go beyond fuel for cars. Rubber, clothing, cigarettes, etc. Rubber is an amazing product by the way, used in a great many things, not just tires and superballs. ... I have no references, only what I've been casually reading and watching. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong or disillusionned. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You forgot plastic. I have it on good authority that the revenue generated for Saudi from non-fuel oil products is > $USBillion a day. Plastics are HUGE. Try living without plastic. For a day.

Thanks for the tip to do the quest ... damn: that's what is so annoying about freeform, there is so much to do with no cohesion at all ... (Fun!)

You're pants happy?

Except that Iraq was a nineteenth century construct, and the culture and people of Iran have remained constant. (That's why, for example, President Bush II addressed the people of Iran in his last State of the Union speech.) Bear in mind that the theocracy is only a generation old (there was a Shah up until the revolution of 1979) and also the population have suffered attritional war for a generation, so that half the population is under 25. Also, the last election (yes, they have a democracy) the hardliner doing all the screaming was elected partially because of the large voter abstention: only 60% of those eligible actually voted. I'll leave you to make up your own mind as to whether they didn't like the slow progress of the previous moderate, or just want to hide behind the rhetoric of a hard-liner (as one is likely to do in times of high stress and uncertainty).

Just up on a random ledge of the remains of the castle battlements, in a chest.