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Hades is just bitter because he refuses to create one. ... he's scared! "

Plug in the surgical peripherals ...

Yeah, there weren't any silly categories or titles, just fun games. I don't remember when people started referring to them as RPGs. ^_^

No fun being killed for real.

OTOH, I was just commenting on how stupid, pointless and gratuitous Hades's comment was.

Dunno, I didn't play the later Ultimas. :">

What was the question, again?

I'm sure someone is already working on it ... (I liked Mr Ed better).

I believe the main constraint on historical accuracy of Rome was that it didn't add to game play and the fun quotient. It's not meant to be a history lesson, after all, but a game. That's what the Total Realism mod is all about: taking the fun out and making it more accurate. :D

... They ain't gonna be in a position to get upset, though, are they? :D Also, if I call someone an idiot, their IQ is highly questionable ...

Special status? No, just a place where they can be free from persecution, which is rife in the general community.

Try Rick Burton's Paladin "trilogy". Twilight Midnight at this point Mr Burton got a real job and we are all still waiting for the last instalment ...

Volo ≠ Logic

And yet you still play them. I think you just like to play them to complain about how bad they are ... Did you play the Dreamcatcher series? How about Demon? Tortured Heart? (100+ hours, with day and night scripts for NPCs, passage of time, real consequences of actions, like alignment penalties.) Rick Burton's modules are so good, he was hired by Bio. ^_^ Methinks the Hades protests too much.

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I would point you to the Hall of Fame. Perhaps try some of the award winners? ^_^ You also seem to have conveniently forgotten just how awful SoU was; especially that dire final act. And the latest modules being sold are actually Hall of Famers. So that is just your own biases clouding the facts.

Thanks for that. ^_^

Sound conflicts can sink any game. (Off hand) one does have to unload the onboard sound drivers, before loading the new ones. It's in the BIOS: Goto Onboard Peripherals and change the Audio Chip to disabled. Goto Advanced Options/Chipset Settings and change ICH Audio Codec to disabled.

... because it is bigoted and wrong.

The mod community did better expansions for NwN than Bio ever did, so I wouldn't be too concerned if it was left to the community to carry the torch (assuming the engine / dev tools are suitably advanced / easy to use / fun).

Which would mean Obsidian has a customer base of 5000000000000000000000000000000000 people or 1000000000000000000000000 Earths. Not bad for a studio that released one game. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sssshhh! No numeracy here, this is North America where numbers are evil and spawn of the devil! Seriously, all those complaining about rideable mounts need to take a chill pill. As I have already posted, it was eminently possible to ride a dragon in NwN. It's a shame that the first campaign probably won't have horses, but I assume development is such that it will be possible, if not in the following Official Campaigns, then by individuals in the mod community. I would rather good writing than niceties like mounted combat.

Yep. I didn't feel like following the story, either. Which is a shame, because the whole steampunk setting was interesting. I didn't like the perplexing array of stats. Not that more is bad, just that there were too few ways to begin a character. I started a dozen characters trying to get one that I wanted. Birthsigns, innate talents, magic versus technology, etc. And it took so long to see how these parameters mattered in the game. I tried to start a character who was uncommonly comely; fat chance. More chance for a lamb in mint gravy to escape from a lion's den. That was probably a case of Troika putting all their eggs in one basket: having spent so much time, money and effort on Virgil's development, they didn't want the player to skip him. Me too.