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My solution is a painful castration, without the benefit of an

This was very apt and funny, btw Kaftan, says metadigital in a statement of retropective respect. :cool:

I don't think it is impossible for the audience to identify with more than one protagonsit, unless they are in a direct confrontation, in whcih case they would necessarily consciously have to make a choice. This doesn't rule out the subconscious identifying with both of them, or indeed every PC and NPC in the game (to a lesser or greater extent).

... and the games are more often than not released on the PC as well as any other platform ... if they can meet the specs. "

What Fugging Role Play

Wow, are those Gobots from the seventies? Man, look at those flares!

It does if you are a transformer, though.

That is ... an impressive feat of research, scholarship and writing! (Aside: so that's where Fionavar has been lately, editing RolePayer's post!) I was about to add the Wizardries, when I realised you said "PC" ... AFAIK Wizardry 1, 2 & 3 were only released on the Apple ][, but I might be wrong ... certainly you don't have the recent Wizardy titles there ...

Another enjoyable aspect is that the game goes a long way to restoring the Axel F tune to its former unsullied status, too.

Following on from a bit of research I completed, there is some breaking news for all you Transformer fans out there in MMO land, as I first posted in the correlated Way Off-Topic (<{POST_SNAPBACK}>). There is a MMORPG, scheduled for release in Autumn, called Auto Assault. "massively multiplayer online isn't a fantasy game: it's a technology, a technology for putting lots of people together in the same game. ... People see the 'MMO' tag and want to make judgements. ... It's one of those perfect game ideas: post-apocalyptic road war online. Mad Max with bigger guns, Carmageddon with clans. NetDevil [the devs] should be pleased that they got there first. It was only a matter of time before someone took up this particular guantlet. Auto Assault is, in NetDevil's own words, an action-RPG. ... "... As excursions to alternate worlds go this is one of the most vibrant we've seen. Trees catch on fire, footsoldiers attack with flamethrowers, motorised mutants and motorcycle cyborgs duke out their differences on wasteland highways, while in the background a colleague's giant truck transforms into a towering stompy robot. Oh yeah. You heard me right. Stompy Robots. ..." PC Gamer, issue 150,, July 2005, p44-5. "

I was wondering if anyone would read that ... It is either that they don't believe the US winners would be able to pass the skill test, or some other reason

Yeah, what Nartwak said.

There is a MMORPG, scheduled for release in Autumn, called Auto Assault. "massively multiplayer online isn't a fantasy game: it's a technology, a technology for putting lots of people together in the same game. ... People see the 'MMO' tag and want to make judgements. ... It's one of those perfect game ideas: post-apocalyptic road war online. Mad Max with bigger guns, Carmageddon with clans. NetDevil [the devs] should be pleased that they got there first. It was only a matter of time before someone took up this particular guantlet. Auto Assault is, in NetDevil's own words, an action-RPG. ... "... As excursions to alternate worlds go this is one of the most vibrant we've seen. Trees catch on fire, footsoldiers attack with flamethrowers, motorised mutants and motorcycle cyborgs duke out their differences on wasteland highways, while in the background a colleague's giant truck transforms into a towering stompy robot. Oh yeah. You heard me right. Stompy Robots. ..." PC Gamer, issue 150,, July 2005, p44-5. "

Civ 2 Half-Life/CounterStrike/Half-Life 2 Deus Ex in no particular order

FPS Graphics have for a long time been the cutting edge; the very best available for our technology. This was not always the case, years ago the flight sims were the best, and now, with games like Age of Empires III and Rise of Nations 2: Rise of Legends the RTS genre may perhaps take the crown. There is no reason why role playing equates to second class graphics, other than historical imperative. In fact, Age of Empires III borrows heavily from the RPG genre, taking ideas like mechanics and progression. For example, experience points granted for winning battles that can be spent on buildings in your home city; each of which, in turn, grants a unique bonus in future conflicts, resulting in custom culture "characteristics".

Though apparently the Visas introduction movie is an exception, and you can download a mod that plays it with the game engine instead of the movie. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A lot of other movies are obviously made with the game engine then compressed in ugly .bik : * Visas introducing. * The betrayal of Sion and Nihilus in Malachor. * All the movies on Dantooine during the mercenary attack. This could be done with a mod I think, unless the content patch decides to release. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is because all crucial plot points must not be movies, otherwise the people with movies turned off (because they are so buggy) won't know what has happened.

If you play his speech backwards it says "George Lucas is the anti-christ", and "Star Wars is god's way of redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich".

Maybe Kashyyyk, in the first KotOR? :D

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I should like to express my gratitude to one Mr Baley for all his excellent work in researching and providing this utility for the OE members and their guests. Well done, I can only echo the sentiments as expressed by my colleagues, above. That was very cathartic, I was best pleased with the Wile E. Coyote lever-boulder-over-the-cliff technique. Once again, many thanks. PS U R teh r0xx0r!!11!!11one1!

1. This was a candid internet interview, with appropriate disclaimers, not a forum post. 2. Mr Avellone did not impugn anybody directly; he was very careful to protect the alleged guilty party with anonymity, which is not the form of an forum post by its nature. 3. Did it ever occur to you that the "person" he is referring to may not even exist? This is a creative person writing, after all, and there is no evidence other than heresay. 4. Mr Avellone is obviously a creative person; this was a well signposted peice of creative writing that appealed to his target audience, so it appears to be a well executed vignette. 5. Mr Avellone, in addition to the above, was perfomring a public service to the gaming industry; now the existence of another games industry sycophant has been entered into the public domain for the use of the workers within.

That is a ridiculously biased and foolish article. I'm a big fan of PCs. I love my Athlon 64 system. The best Athlon 64 processors on the market can't touch the Cell processor. The best ATI and NVidia graphics cards on the market currently don't touch the GPUs for the PS3 and XBox 360. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I am afraid you are mistaken. For a start, my current pc has 1GB af RAM. I have only got 128MB of VRAM on my GPU, but then again my vomputer is nearly 2 years old. Right now, I can have as much RAM as I want (but even 1GB is more than the next gen consoles), and there are video cards with specs of: 256MB+ VRAM, PCI Express faster bus transport architecture, and SLI/Crossfire allowing dual video cards running in parallel. See the nVidea 7800, and the ATi X850: which is more powerful and can also be used in parallel with almost any other ATi GPX. Of course the article was biased; it was from a PC Format magazine! That said, every comment posted on this topic is biased; and I was being larconic (something I do quite often); still the fact remains that the next gen consoles will be using the GPUs released to the PC audience in the last few weeks, and pc users are able to configure them to higher specs. Don't forget that a console is restricted to a TV, and even HDTVs are only 1080p resolution; the nVidea (which is the Xbox's GPU, and so is only 1080i) supports QXDA (2048x1536) on a monitor. But then again it all really comes down to software; the games. 1. they will rival gaming PCs, but not beat them. Quite often the gaming mags have articles to build a PC for under

Tolkein wrote the LotR as one book. The publsihers wanted to divide the manuscript up into three "books" for their own reasons. Tolkein was not happy, and he was horrified when the publisher suggested "Return of the King" as the title to the third part -- giving away the whole point of the book! If you can't be bottered to research this stuff, watch the videos supporting the features on the Kackson films: they have interviews with the publisher's son (who was a friend of Tolkein). The point is that it is patently obvious that the plot has no conclusion. Call me names if you want, but you haven't shown any evidence to the contrary. PS BaSS update: I've just got access to the store room (Joey just did his Dalek impersonation!) and it's FUN!

Jeff Wayne's Album has been re-released ... piggy-backing on the tsunami of marketing hype that is a Speilberg/Cruise film ... (so at least some good will come of it ...)