Gromnir

if Gromnir was sure that space rangers 2 copy protection would not kill our dvd drive we would probably have already stopped playing oblivion. morrowind 1.2 is ok, just nothing special... surely not greatest-game-in-5-years special. as to the influence minigame... am playing a character with an okie dokie personality and we ain't not yet noticed any difference 'tween dialogues received with or w/o doing the persuade game. we typically save 'fore convos with key personages. *shrug* black & white got some of the wtf kinda reviews... but am trying to think of another game where the weight of critical support is so heavily and inexplicably (as far as Gromnir is concerned) in favors of a game. is just wacky. btw, do they even give half stars at gamespy? if not then we ain't impressed with their restraint... and their review had some odd criticisms. not mind seeing a game marked down for flaws, but some of their "immersion" complaints bugged the heck out of Gromnir. ask 5 different people what is important for "immersion" and you will get 5 different answers. reviewers should never EVER complain 'bout immersion. complain 'bout specific instances of stoopid ai or counter intuitive physics or such, but "immersion" is an absolutely meaningless term. any reviewer who uses such a term looses 10 cred points with Gromnir. bah. HA! Good Fun!

unfortunately it doesn't matter, as starforce is the worst copy protection device we has ever had the displeasure of encountering. space rangers 2 is kinda a genre blending sci-fi trade and combat model with rpg elements and lots o' player freedom. but, as it will never be loaded on Gromnir's rig... *sigh* were really looking forward to this one too. HA! Good Fun!

"took me a while to get it but I can eek out about a 10 point improvement each "round." " to what end? is not like you get more dialogue options or quest choices. am understanding that you can make everybody love you, but why should Gromnir care? HA! Good Fun!

... gotta say that we do not understand the reviews. we can see how people could like oblivion, but the lovefest is kinda... strange. is just too many busted things in oblivion to be giving it a score o' 9+ on a 10 scale... not that we likes numeric scores in reviews anyways. what is Gromnir talking 'bout? example 1: generally we not mind the oblivion scaling scheme, but you can unwittingly really screw yourself with a gimped character. marksmanship w/o sneak seems to be worthless... 'specially once you level up a ways. level up too fast in the diplomatic & thieving skills can also gimp you as you end up confronting super buffed imps and other such nonsense when you not gots requisite combat skills. (side note: at least the FO fans should be happy. seeing such an unbalanced skills offering should be reminding folks of FO in a big way... no doubt bodes well for FO3, eh?) combat sophistication is pretty limited. chances are you is gonna find one scheme and you is gonna use that for almost every encounter in game... gets kinda dull. does the persuasion minigame actually do anything... other than level up your speech skill real fast? the dialogues is really terrible for the most part. started off bad with patrick stewart and has not improved since. the plotting isn't as bad as morrowind, but the writing as just terrible. etc. now don't get Gromnir wrong. is not that this game is complete crap by any means. quests seem much more involved than the fedex overkill of morrowind... bethesda has made great strides in this aspect of game development, and if we were seeing reviews o' oblivion based solely on how much better it is than were morrowind the 9+ scores would be deserved. ... am simply wondering what in the heck we is missing? does other folks playing honestly see this as a game that is head and shoulders better than any crpg released in the last five years... 'cause many of the reviews is giving this game better numbers ratings than any other crpg we has seen in a long time. will do a complete review in a couple of days, but am just trying to understand if we is missing something... something that so many others see in oblivion that Gromnir does not. HA! Good Fun!

"Any of these can change." maybe. we ain't never hade a true global language. latin weren't. english during pax britania weren't. none of the various defacto trade languages during height of mercantilism and empire building came close to being genuinely global. merchants and bureaucrats 'cross the globe not makes a language global, does it? most peoples actually continued to speak their mother tongue, and were unable to speak with the folks in the next valley beyond the hills to the west... or east... whatever. the internet and airplane travel and all sorts o' other devices is making the world smaller, and english is the language that is being utilized as the language of choice during this process. listen to air traffic controllers in lisbon or shanghai. go to a large bank in bogota. correspond on the internet. there is gonna be some kinda critical mass point reached beyond which it is gonna simply become too much trouble for folks 'round the globe to choose another language as the global one. HA! Good Fun!

if you pm Gromnir and we doesn't respond, do not take personal... 'cause we typically ignore/delete all pms we receive unread. we react to pms with as much relish as we does to the flaming paper bag left upon our doorstep. HA! Good Fun!

hey now, maybe some of you should try to be nicer... after all, scientologists is all that stands between you and the dark overlord Xenu. ... over the years we has chosen to defend the rights of some pretty wacky religions. the iskocn and pentecostal snake handling sects and moonies and bhagwan shree rajneesh followers is just a few of the peoples who has gotten help from Gromnir. will defend your rights even if we thinks your religion is kooky. truthfully, we thinks that scientology is a hoot. anybody here feels bad that john travolta and tom cruise got taken by some yutz who , while he may have been a "virtually a pathological liar" 'bout his military record and his education, were no doubt completely honest 'bout his new religion. HA! http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/la90/la90-1a1.html is a fun read. HA! Good Fun!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> What is wrong with turned based combat? It worked wonderfully in the Fallout games. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> did it? from a publisher pov we ain't sure you could say that tb worked in fo. sales for fo was nice, but not great. publishers needs to ask why fo weren't a great seller. fergie was with interplay and bis during the development and publishing of the fo games, and when asked why he weren't developing tb games post fo2 fergie admitted that it were not a popular feature. hypothesizing on reason for lack of tb approval fergie admitted that even the best tb combat could become "soul numbing." toee, as 'posed to fo, were probably the game that coulda' changed the minds of crpg fans. admittedly, even in toee, which did a much better job with large scale tb combats than did fo, tb could become tedious... but taken as a whole we thinks combat were a positive in toee... one of the few positives of toee. initial sales of toee were very strong... but they trailed off fast. we suspect that word off mouth helped kill toee.... bad rpg elements, terrible writing and bugginess were just tip of the dirty diaper pile that were toee, and the internet were full of people complaining 'bout toee shortcomings. but What If remains to haunt us. what if toee had been developed by non arse-clowns? what if toee had become the start of an ongoing series as it were originally envisioned. what if millions of people had been exposed to pretty good tb combat, as 'posed to a few hundred angry fans who were unable to recall toee w/o either cursing atari or troika (though few people cursed both troika and atari... go figure.) did tb work wonderfully in fo? we don

the thing is that the humor we has seen in the dialogues does not appear to be intended. llyranor's pov may be different, but most of the writing encountered so far has a groan factor that makes it difficult for us to stomach. again, we may be jumping to judgment too fast and will give some more time, before we decides. HA! Good Fun!

oh and to add to list of peeves... am not a fan of having to talk to an answering machine rather than a person, but we understands the near necessity in this day and age for there to be answering machines and voicemail and such. however, is a completely different thing when an answering machine calls Gromnir. there should be a special place in hell for the guy who invented the damned auto-dialer machines that call us at 7:00 am informing us that our new platinum credit card from Schlock Bank Inc is only a phone call away from being processed. HA! Good Fun!

the eagles had gotten to the nfc championship game w/o to a number of times previous to his signing with philly. to was injured during the entire eagles playoff run... including the championship game. to did not get the eagles to the superbowl. he also did not win the eagles a superbowl. however, a team with much the same personel as the squads that had reached the nfc title game numerous times fell completely apart when to went insane... and we does mean "insane." http://www.thelaw.com/index2.php?option=co...&do_pdf=1&id=27 am knowing that the linked stuff is long, but it shows you just how cnutters to was/is. this clown refused to speak to coaches and fellow players. a football player who refuses to speak with coaches and players thinks he is living up to the terms of his contract? and to's crack 'bout mcnabb being tired in the superbowl came to light for only one reason, and it weren't 'cause to is some super honest person. to were still steamed at coments mcnabb made to the media when to were injured. mcnabb claimed that philly could still win without to... as if any qb in the league would say anything else. to's comments were his way of getting back at mcnabb. to is just that petty. btw, is some confidences we cannot break, but we had some connections with the sf football team back when to were part of that squad... and some of the stories they still tell 'bout to is hard to believe. we doubt there is one guy who played with to in sf that were surprised 'bout what happened in philly. maybe to has learned his lesson, but it seems like he gots all the emotional maturity of a 5 year old with 0 impulse control. to is a cancer. the only way to get rid of him is to cut him out, and even then you is gonna need a long time to recover from him. HA! Good Fun!

Ok, let us bring focus back... "The material above deals with the primary dictionary meaning of the word irony. (there is a great deal of info in the wiki entry that illustrates the traditional uses and origins of irony, but Gromnir need not repeat 'em all at present.) There is no controversy that the usage above is a correct usage; the controversy is over whether it is the only correct usage. Authority, in the form of dictionaries and usage guides, can be cited on both sides. Descriptivists generally discount such self-proclaimed language authorities in favor of studying how individuals currently use the word. It is currently quite common to hear the word ironic used as a synonym for incongruous in situations where there is no

to is a cancer. HA! Good Fun!

No offence to SS, but this recurrent theme in Bethesda's games lead me to believe that all their own faces are butt-ugly; they model the game-faces after themselves. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> have said this before, but much like morrowind, the faces in oblivion looks as if somebody attempted to paint a realistic face upon a balloon. there is an inhuman and unpleasant distortion 'bout all bethesda game faces. but the trees look nice. HA! Good Fun!

irregardless and irony. both of these words show up in dictionaries and everyday use and they is both making Gromnir

we got it a couple days early and have been playing it... though not necessarily enjoying it... but not hating either. ... half-arsed feedback is worse than no feedback at all. shout "it sucks," w/o any explanation is as worthless as is describing kewlness w/o giving a why. unfortunately, we not have huge time at the moment, and we wanna get a little further into game before we start throwing 'round final judgments 'n such. quick observations: 1) if you didn't like combat or story elements in morrowind, we would not think that your appreciation for oblivion will be much different. 2) the game is a resource hog. got a athlon 64x2 3800+ cpu, an msi neo4 sli mb, 1 gig of crucial's ballistix ram, and a single evga geforce 6800gs pcie, etc. not a Big Dog, but no chihuahua neither. 3) the trees look nice. *shrug* more later. HA! Good Fun!

we always wanted a big brother, but instead we got a little sister. were never able to forgive God for that. HA! Good Fun!

Insider info has revealed that bio is doing a finding nemo mmorpg in partnership with disney/pixar. disney wanted to break into the mmorpg market but they wanted it to be something that family members could enjoy together... both young and old. You will start game as any one of a dozen or so fishie species... with a dizzying number of customization options being possible. You will not be able to start game as a shark or whale and while there will be a combat aspect as part of game, there is a clear emphasis being placed on the development of social and problem skills as 'posed to combats. Almost the entire game will be played in a massive underwater environment. Truly a revolutionary mmorpg is just 'round the corner as this family oriented aquatic adventure is set to be developed by the new bio studio in austin texas. No release date has even been suggested yet. stay tuned for more fishy details as they becomes available. HA! Good Fun!

btw, just in case # ain't been paying much attention, Gromnir refers to all of you jokers as nerdlings and geeklings... and we hardly exclude self from such categorizing. if you somehow takes offense at a particular appellation then maybe you should look to self, 'cause we ain't bothered by it none. HA! Good Fun!

"And yes, Grom. It's an irony because you accuse others of the very flaw you suffer from. " *sigh* that ain't irony... even if it were true. it really ain't. is commonly used thus, but it is wrongness. at least try to learn one thing from this thread. this is one of the more common wrong uses of "irony" and "ironic." try to force the def. to work by finessing is not gonna happen. people confuse "incongruous" with "ironic" all the time... and they is wrong each and every time. is a simple mistake and perfectly understandable... 'less you continue to use wrong after you finds out that you has been using improper. "No. It's trolling because you just make an attack on my statement without actually explaining where it fails. But you already know that and are just playing victim. Bad cess mate... bad form." and yet we did just give a full and exhaustive explanation and yet you still responds with foolishness... so what did we gain? in any event, this is another one of your more ridiculous notions. tank-tops is no longer traditional garb of tank crews, and the naming of tanks is actually the result of an intentional misnomer that ain't never been abandonded. wanna go down list of common items that gots names that is either counter-intuitive or simply a matter of tradition. what is an exchequer? how did the name evolve? why we still call it an exchequer? and since we is on the subject o' soccer, why does they call the playing field a "pitch" anyways. never thought to ask til some loon started questioning the origins of words and ascribing some sorta odd signifficance to those with peculiarity of genesis. "Still better than "oringine"." nope... and you misquoted us. funny too when one considers that you seemed so confused by our misspelling. you ain't drinking now is you? that might explain a few things. hardly an unreasonable assumption if you drinks booze during training. "No, outside the US, football is football, you know, with a ball. If you are going to refer to American football, then it's you who should clarify. I don't care if this is an American or Thai developer, the internets isn't American." actually the term soccer has its origins outside the US. is not solely an American term, and in any event, obsidian is an American corporation (am not sure in what state they has incorporated as it is not unusual for Cali incorporators to choose deleware or nevada as their home o' incorporation. this is an obsidian board wholly owned and maintained with good old American resources. if some employee of obsidian uses his work internet connection to post and surf kiddie pr0n do you think she/he can avoid American anti-kiddie pr0n penalties with the defense that the internet is NOT American soil? welcome to the U.S.A. soccer. ... is so much crap. we skips ahead and then maybe comes back later. "You see, in martial arts, physical contact is the point of the sport. You may get hit, but the idea is to hit the other. Fair game. Getting hit is not an added bonus for your failures." don't be a bigger arse than you is already seeming. of course getting hit is punishment for failure in martial arts. is also just as inevitable that you will be hit in football as in martial arts. the only real difference is that in tae bo you is play fighting. again, on these portions of your argument wherein you is clearly wrong, the best thing to do is to deemphasize. is just another reason why reply/quote hurts # so bad. HA! Good Fun!

keep in mind that pretty much any kid born in the United States after 1960 has played soccer. elemntery and high schools always has soccer as part of their required pe (physical education) programs. is relatively easy to learn basics and it not take much expensive equipment. almost every American who posts on this board will have played soccer many times in their life. now, how many euros can say that they played football, real American football? HA! Good Fun!

a football game cannot start w/o a foot touching a ball... is called a kickoff. and while Gromnir has never gotten the whole buttslapping thing that occurs in football and baseball and so many other sports, we don't think lucius wants to really get going on the gayness issue, doe he? lockage of thread for that kinda stoopidity is a near certainty. "Gromnir, no matter how you try to spin it, saying that "Football is a nice sport...for girls" is an obvious flamebait." yeah? ... didn't know that we had denied such. HA! Good Fun!

oh goodie, we is gonna do the inane reply/quote thing. "You accuse me of having "euro preconceptions" post after post, and amusingly, it's you who's being shown to have his already painfully narrow sights, obstructed by preconceptions and ignorance. The irony is gleaming." why would that be ironic? most people really don't know what irony is. mabe you mean hypocritical? that might work better. in any event maybe you should review the thread and sees just how we gots onto a us v. euro trend. we got all kinds of pre and post conceptions 'bout euros. did the fullbright thing and got a taste of the euro lifestyle first hand. and of course our view o' euros is tainted by our rather unique upbringing... we actually gots dual citizenship btw. "No, I don't see what you mean," yes, yes, that has become painfully obvious. "as there's only trolling and no substance in that paragraph. Maybe what you mean is that your sole purpose in this thread is to disrupt discussion?" of course. anything you disagree with is simply trolling on Gromnir's part. you make a ridiculous sta-tement 'bout how the description of rugby balls and football balls shows lack of imagination or some other such nonsense and you will continue to actually fight on such an issue. bad cess mate... Bad form. "Yeah. I guess there's nothing wrong with giving random objects random names." see, as you not seem to get much you has missed that the naming of the rugby ball and football is hardly random. Rugby evolveds from soccer and football evolved from rugby. to somehow take such naming trends as evidence of anything significant is patently ludicrous... obvious to any, but you will continue to plugs away at a dead issue. heck, you even got Gromnir to educate you further when it woulda' been in your best interest to simply ignore... "No, Grom. We don't use Orangina. We use vintage wine, and camembert." you liquor up for training? no wonder you trips and manages to break things. "That paragraph is based off your mistaken interpretation of what I said before. Again, I meant football with a ball. You fail at reading comprehension." actually our reading comprehension is just fine. your edits is interesting and all, but football and soccer is two different sports. you mean one and not the other and it us up to you to clarify at the time of post. this is an American game developer's board after all. regardless, we not know what possible significance there could be in preaching how tough martial arts makes you compared to soccer. is a bit like trying to claim that golf is a better cardio exercise than is bowling. even if you is right you hasn't really set the bar very high. "You don't know if I have actually competed, you see, you don't need to have a black belt for that. And considering there's a good proportion of KOs in TKD matches due to kicks to the head, I'd say I can very fairly compare that to your American football, or boxing matches." never suggested that you competed. where you get that? Not care. have been to tae kwon do classes more than a handful of times, (though we has more experience with kempo and escrima.) majority of practices is sans padding. football and boxing is much different. in any event, you can gets knocked unconscious falling off a ladder... such rarities not make ladder climbing an experience comprable to football, just as the occasional fell blow in tae bo is rare. "You need to be pretty dumb to want to get hit for no good reason" yes. We can see your point. involvement in a sport where violent physical contact is inevitable is just plain crazy. utterly ludicrous, stoopid and insane. ... maybe you should reread some of your comments wherein you trys to convince us just how dangerous is tae kwon do. see, yet another reason why reply/quote gets some folks into so much trouble. They forgets their own arguments mere fractions after typing them. You get so tied into rebutting single snippets that you loo-se hold of any real central point. Is really tragic when we sees such sloppy posting. "Now you're an expert in football as well? " yeah, we is something of an expert on football. soccer we has only a passing knowledge of as we played for only a few years and then got bored. however, we did date a woman for a couple of years who were a high school soccer coach. as Gromnir were coaching dbs for local jv high school at the time, Gromnir and the soccer coach often compared notes. still, we is by no means an expert of soccer. in any event, as the gameplay in soccer is far more fluid than it is in football, you necessarily has more opportunity to plan and strategize during the course of a game. this should be obvious to anybody with even a passing familiarity with both sports. for you geekling gamers, think of rt (sans pause) v. tb. the cereberal component in basketball is necessarily less than in football, for much the same reasosn... so don't feel bad little fella. "Grom is euro bashing, just because he can't get over the fact that football is more popular worldwide than American foot'ball'?" does that make any sense? Why on earth would Gromnir care if worldwide popularity of soccer is greater than football? is something we is aware of and fully concedes. soccer is much more popular 'round the globe than football and it will continue to be so for a long, long time. when we watches nd v. usc on a saturday afternoon we does not think our enjoyment is somehow diminished by realizing that most folks in cameroon and bulgaria don't give a damn 'bout football. soccer is a very nice sport... for girls. HA! Good Fun!

wouldn't be a fight. *shrug* # isn't really in Gromnir's bracket yet. "Yeah. I guess there's nothing wrong with giving random objects random names. It's the lack of imagination I find amusing. The Brits' first for naming it, and yours now for going along with it. But if you're happy with the limiting of the lexicon, and the confusion it entails, I'm happy too." see what we mean? when you makes a halfwit argument and get caught doing it, the best thing to do is simply let it go rather than add to your foolishness. rookies and some of our slower posters fails to grasp such an obvious notion. and if # triped over an empty bottle of oringina during a martial arts practice and cracked a rib or somesuch we wouldn't be surprised. hardly makes him tough. "And contrary to what you seem to think, martial arts do toughen kids up, if not physically, psychologically. Football doesn't do that." oh sure, 'cause your vast experience playing american football makes you an expert. Gromnir, on the other hand, has experience in any number of martial arts. we has also played numerous sports at a very high level o' competition. however, we ain't gonna be presenting self as some kinda expert based on our experience. not have to. sure, a message board for a video game developer is not the best location to be finding former football players, but more than a few folks who played high school and college level ball... folks who went through two-a-days in west texas or south florida or eastern pennsylvania or chicago or oakland, is gonna be laughing their arse off as they reads your post informing them that they not needed no mental toughness compared to the typical glorified tae bo student. HA! "So? I wore protective gear too in my TKD matches... and not just head gear." matches? just matches? you not see difference? you ain't seriously trying to compare your tae bo classes to american football practices or boxing is you? "And if you want to prove you're fast with a ball, there's football. I don't understand this masochistic obsession with receiving physical punishment." and so we come full circle again. is not just 'bout being fast. is why so many track stars has failed to make it in the nfl. in football, no matter how fast you is, you is gonna eventually get hit. what you gonna do once you get knocked on your arse? playing football requires one to be fast & tough. is the toughness part you euros don't understand, as you so clearly pointed out, and we ain't surprised. football is also far more cerebral than is soccer. simply compare playbooks if you wish. oh sure, your typical American football player not have to be a brain surgeon, but you sit and listen to the average college coach explaining the different coverage assignments a safety is responsible for in tampa 2 v. a base cover 2 and you is gonna have to change some of your preconceptions 'bout American football. HA! Good Fun!