Gromnir

the lack o' profanity and greater control in this place not seem to be a notable difference to you? however we thinks you did fail to note that the codex posters tends to be a bit more homgenized than the posters at obsidian. folks like vol and taks, while being occasional posters at codex, is clearly outsiders who is threatening the accepted groupthink. bad vol. bad taks. in any event, codex presents self as a news site... and if you suggest they got some kinda bias they go nutters. this ain' a news site. the folks who run this site don't pretend like they is presenting the unvarnished truth to the nerdling masses. is no institutional arrogance whereby the admin makes clear that they is having a monopoly on the truth... save for maybe when josh is posting. is posters on this board acting like they alone recognize the Word of God? yup, but those posters ain't pretending to be anything other than simply message board geeklings. folks who run codex is hypocrites... but amusing hypocrites. HA! Good Fun!

have been busy, but we gotta make time to get back to codex. recently vd were explaining to us how "most people," in context of a fallout 3 discussion, Obviously were meaning (and were limited to,) fans of fallout 1. tried to explain that if "most people" actually is limited to fans of fallout 1 then bethesda is in for some serious financial problems, but vd and the other codexians weren't listening. codexians somehow sees self as the Moral Majority meets the PLO... they believes that they stand for all that is good and right in games (whether the rest of us simpletons get it or not,) and they is gonna use whatever profane, obscene or insane means necessary to be fighting the good fight. the thing is, they honestly does selves a disservice by being so insular/inbred. Fight the Dominant Paradigm kinda stuff is somewhat pointless if you only does your fighting on your own friggn' boards. clowns. if we thought fergie were cunning 'nuff to come up with such a notion on his own, we mighta' come to conclusion that he created codex as an attractive alternative board for all the fallout fanatics/loons that he really didn't want stinking up the interplay boards. but keeps in mind that we too thinks that the codex is a hoot, and if they didn't exist we would have to create 'em. HA! Good Fun!

ther is no mention of pointy ears in lotr. that is the thing 'bout lotr... tolkien describes physical aspects of elves and dwarves and orcs n' such very little. he gets credit for inventing, but recognize at least that without no physical dscription offered by tolkien, his readers seemed to come to similar conclusions 'bout those appearances nevertheless... 'cuse as tolkien expected, those things were already part of the collective mythology o' english speakers. HA! Good Fun!

there is a pnp rules thingie for star wars... those of you geeks who is really interested can look up luke's and mace's and yoda's and vader's and emperor's 3e stats. HA! Good Fun! ps we chose the third option.

and you dismissed our suggestion to go as The King as silly? ironic, no? in any event, congrats on the anniversary. HA! Good Fun!

fallout 2 were black isle's first game development. black isle not develop fallout 'cause there were no black isle at the time. HA! Good Fun!

did Gromnir mention that he dislikes viewsonic? have had some bad experience with viewsonic monitors not purchased by Gromnir. even so, our architect/gaming friend told us that we couldn't go wrong with a g90fb for a 19" monitor. we took her advice... reluctantly. is a great monitor... best we ever had. so then more recent we ask her 'bout 21" crt monitors. sure 'nuff she tells us that not only does she see some of best performance from the viewsonic g220fb, but it happens to be cheaper and lighter than most other 21" monitors. sure, there is some professional class monitors for $1000+, but for gaming use she not thinks that there is a better option available. ... nec fe2111sb is what we got now, but we wants a second 21" and am not sure if we would buy a second nec... is an ok monitor, but nothing spectacular. in particular, we gots some complaints 'bout color sharpness. another viewsonic? HA! Good Fun!

Sorry, it was Chris Avellone. Wikipedia shows Sawyer as being lead designer and my personal copy of Torment was smashed in an accident. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> *nods* some of your posts make more sense now. advice: never rely solely on a single internet source as such knowledge tends to be counterfited and is often of dubious accuracy. HA! Good Fun!

for chrissakes, you even choose songs from ff? HA! Good Fun!

Oh, I know something About the ways of loving And I tell you, baby, I think something's wrong Look to the sky above and the mud below Something drives me crazy, got to got to get away Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye! Without a doubt, I'm telling you I'm burnt out My tank is running on empty for far too long Woah! I need fuel 'cause I'm getting so low Not the kind you give me, it makes me feel so bad Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye! I need fuel, not the kind you give me (it) Makes me feel so bad Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye! I can't believe I'm still around It's getting kinda late Gonna leave For a change of scenery I'm going crazy It's not the same Since you've been around I'm crazy, so crazy You treat me like a dirty clown You're always kickin' my dog around I never get nothin' but constant abuse from you You couldn't care less what I think, or my point of view You're always puttin' the make on my friends, always giving Them eyes and the dirty lies 'bout me and you, well I'm Through, it's the end of the line for you babe, here's a Ticket one way Cincinnati, I'm sendin' you home to your ma And your daddy, so don't try to call me, you'll only be wastin' your Time! Oh, I know something About the ways of loving And I tell you, baby, I think something's wrong Look to the sky above and the mud below Something drives me crazy, got to got to get away I need fuel - but - not the kind you give me Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye! Goodbye, goodbye! Goodbye, goodbye! is actually a pretty upbeat song... in spite of lyrics. the crazy bastard just can't seem to leave. 'course the chances that you can hit notes that elfman does is pretty slim. the guy may be a kook, but he gots RANGE. HA! Good Fun!

don't know... but am sure that nobody could say "make fallout 3," slower than fergie. HA! Good Fun!

in life you can rarely sees the collapses before they happens... get caught off guard. not so with most obsidian threads... you can see exactly when and where they starts falling. HA! Good Fun!

How so ? Unless your refering to availability anyone who wants the game that much will still go to the store and get it. Your still directly competing with whatever ever else is being released at the same time too. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> direct online sales, whenever such thing becomes viable, will change the dynamic forever. why is developers at mercy of publishers? developers spends years of effort to makes a game and then in a week the publisher manufactures and distributes and takes the lion's share of profits. why? obsidian not got manufacturing facilities and they sure as hell not gots distibution resources needed to gets hudreds of thousands or millions of units to stores 'cross the world. obsidian, and other independent developers not got the capital needed to be real publishers. people act likes bioware is big, but they not got near 'nuff resources to honestly create their own manufacturing and distribution facillities... which is why they is trying so hard to push their downloadable nwn modules, 'cause such things is the forerunners of direct online game sales. direct online sales of gaming software is gonna forever change the face of the industry... and we ain't being hyperbolic in the least. HA! Good Fun!

nope. ps:t set somewheres other than planescape would not be the same. planescape, the setting, were at least as important as any single character in the game. all kinds of little details that were unique to planescape would not have worked nowhere else. (in large part due to copyright laws.) nevertheless, in spite of evidence to contrary, we has confidence that the obsidian folks could come up with an original setting that appeased the masses and were a bit darker and more introspective than the typical forgotten realms game. would it be same as planescape? would it have dustmen and lady of pain and the pillar of bones? no... but maybe it would be better. HA! Good Fun!

but what about a siberian tiger v. a grizzly bear? ... goofs. HA! Good Fun!

toee were a great game to be throwing in the faces of troika fans... previous to toee release Gromnir and vol and maybe 2 other folks on the atari boards noted that toee were a pretty lame hack 'n slash module and that maybe toee weren't the best source material. not only does they choose an existing module so that Gromnir already knows where everything is and who all the characters are, but they manage to choose a crappy module on top of everything else they done wrong. the troika fan reply were near universal: the old tsr modules are simply a framework. troika is the dm and they will flesh it out as any good dm should. Gromnir reply: after reading the dialogues from arcanum, we is convinced that the troika writers couldn't author a recipe for toast w/o screwing it up beyond all reason. as expected, Gromnir

"Game over!" well that portion, at the very least, is an accurate depiction o' troika. HA! Good Fun!

ain't got nothing to do with being a yank. park avenue real estate makes most of greater london looks cheap. buy some boggy bit o land in northern england for more or less than what it cost to buy on chicago's gold coast? maybe you is one of the handful of mainlanders that managed to own a shack on kuai...see how much that costs. HA! Good Fun!

convincing a publisher to make your game is not same as doing okie dokie on some high school debate team issue. sure, an argument can be made that there is lots/lost more ps:t fans out there than the initial 2 quarter sales numbers is showing. so what? you got a dead property that wotc does not wanna support and you gotta somehow overcome the crappy all-important first 2 quarter sales numbers that ps:t had if you is gonna convince a publisher to invest millions in your game. those is some big hurdles. ... is tough enough to get publishers to makes the next clone of the current IN title. how much more work it take to gets somebody to make ps:t2? btw, a common complaint from folks on the bis/interplay boards 'bout ps:t were simply that they didn't like the setting. as much as some folks LOVED the setting, it sure seemed like one of the great obstacles to ps:t success were simply that folks did not embrace planescape. so if a developer wanna do a planescape kinda game with planescape kinda characters and planescape kinda themes and the same crappy planescape kinda combat, wouldn't you at least set your planescape kinda game somewheres other than planescape? publishers is idiots, but they ain't as dumb as some folks seems to thinks. HA! Good Fun!

somebody expects to learn something 'bout Gromnir from his desktop? probably not, but if you if you is, you is bound to be left unfulfilled. HA! Good Fun!

proof, as if needed, that the world is not fair. women who is more intelligent or better looking than the average wh0re can becomes a pr0n star. women who is slightly more intelligent or more attractive than the average pr0n star can becomes a trophy wife. nevertheless, there is serious stigma attached to being or being with a wh0re as 'posed to being or being with a trophy wife... in spite of fact that so little distances the wh0re from the trophy wife. HA! Good Fun!

ok, add another to list... ai control of party... 'cause there has not yet been ai control that caused anything save frustration. no matter how good the ai we always ends up wishing bloody murder 'pon the developers... or simply dump party mates. HA! Good Fun!

return to sigil and talk with mebbeth after you has already encountered ravel in maze. *shrug* is culmination of work that went into a wonderfully crafted character... best in a crpg. HA! Good Fun!

From what I've seen (on forums and such) VO is less costly than you'd think. I don't have any numbers, but I've read that it's actually a pretty marginal cost, which is why so many games does it. Personally I love full VO, it adds so much athmosphere. And theoretically it should improve the writing as well (when your dialgoue is actually spoken you have to take more care), although ToEE proved that this does not have to be the case. That's a game that would have benefited from NO voiceacting. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> if it is cheap, then strike it from our list. HA! Good Fun!

we is the sum total of our experiences... so we guess that everything we has seen/heard/experienced has changed us whether we recognize or not. sound like a cheap dodge? a few books from high school and university years: "the hero with a thousand faces" joseph campbell "the third wave" alvin toffler "dubliners" james joyce "the art of fiction" john gardner "chaos in classical and quantum mechanics" martin gutzwiller "richard iii" bill shakespeare "beowulf" "pale fire" vladimir nabokov "the dark knight returns" frank miller bible, the HA! Good Fun!