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... And the fingers dropping off ...! )

I want hooded robes.

I'd like to confirm your research.

ALL THE TIME

If the PC is compiling it can take an annoying amount of time, too long to sit there waiting and too short to do something constructive ...

Mr King said that there were some hard core fans of his that wrote to Bachman telling him they KNEW he was Stephen King. Fan(atics), eh? Scary. No-one like that around here, is there ...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> :Darque:

No.

I feel so old.

Don't forget Heartbreak Ridge!

Yeah, but did ypu play it on the PC? NO! That's right!

It's a console-button-mashie-type thingie. I didn't like what I had to do with my keyboard. (Also I may have been trying to configure my gamepad ... :">)

What do you mean? No it's not. I tried the demo. It sucks. (The girl is pretty, though.)

The game isn't console-only ... and it is the next System Shock

Well said. ^_^ Rampant demagoguery ..!

Except the pesky Carmack, he made Doom RPG for the 3G 'phones for a few bottle tops and burnt cigarette ends.

I read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and the two sequels. I refrained from making any statements as to the veracity of their conclusions or the solidity of their researched papers. The first half of The Messianic Legacy deals with what is known about the historical figure of Jesus, twin brother of Thomas (an Aramaic word for "Twin") and eldest brother (heir apparent) in the family. What I find saddest, though, is the loss of Judas and his role in the great drama that apparently played out two millennia ago. Jesus said to Judas, his youngest brother, that he wanted him to do what he couldn't: be the bad guy. Not in the story. But for all history and for all time. Jesus apparently someone he could trust to deliver him to the authorities. Judas voluntarily took on the role. (The main crux of the series of books is that Jesus didn't die on the Cross, which was apparently placed on private land (Peter's, who was pretty rich) where the body swap was made: some poor sap who became the anonymous subject of a snuff drama. Not so astonishing to any Muslims, though, as this assertion is confirmed in THEIR book of DIVINE TRUTH, specifically Book 4 (Women), near the end. But I digress.)

Ah, the wonders of the sick-minded. " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It is not my fault that the greek alphabet is not represented as it should be in all fonts. (That wasn't n, an integer, it was π, the lower case Greek letter Π.)

I'm staying away from that game. :ph34r: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm being a little harsh. It is the final part of a three-part epic mini-series (Wizardry 6, 7 & 8), and I didn't play the first two, so my tolerance for the combat was at a low threshold. I did like the first three (Wizardry 1, 2 & 3) on the Apple, though.

Not sure if your conclusion is sound, though. Given NwN2 is a good "concentrated professional effort like BG/BG2", AND the Toolset is as good as I hope it will be, MY conclusion is that the RPG genre is in the pink of health. Even given a re-run of NwN OC in NwN2, if the toolset is good then it doesn't matter. In other words I think the critical point is the toolset. (The campaign will help establish the toolset as a viable platform for people to replace NwN for RPGs.)

... Hopefully the experience is mutually positive ... :ph34r:

"Good art" ... hmmm what about Schlock? Plan IX from Outer Space, for example, is so bad it's good.

Haitoku, may I introduce Wizardry 8. Wizardry 8, Haitoku. I actually LIKE random encounters (gimme gimme more XP), just boring combat is the death knell of any game, for me.