Gromnir

re-take? only place we ever heard of re-take for exams were stanford, where they figure that if a student fails a course it must be the professors fault. wacky, but we guess if you is paying as much as you is for a stanford degree, you can demand some minimal learning from the institution... or not. is this your first semester? Gromnir recalls our firstest semester. 'tween football and full course load and labs n' such, we managed to get a couple of marks that we were less than proud of. thought we were really good at managing our time... up until we gots to university. we got back on track after semester one, but our firstest experience in college were... humbling. HA! Good Fun!

dunno. when people lists the bestest sw games evar, we almost always see tie fighter at top of the list. battlezone and warhammer: dark omen is also on our list. is two of the more innovative and well crafted strategy games of the last decade... games that it seems like nobody save for game developers has played. lots of NEW stuff we see in recent rts games were things we seen in those games a long tme ago. HA! Good Fun!

I don't think you understand the point. Simply because one likes or dislikes a certain novel does not imply that they believe that everything about that novel is perfect, or that they believe that all works should emulate that novel. For instance, I think Lolita is one of the greatest books ever written. That does not mean that I think games should include long sequences where the characters travel across the story's setting with little or no conflict. I enjoy aspects of the novel and the fact that I like it doesn't really mean anything as to what kinds of games I might want to make. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> what point did Gromnir not understand? we wrote our response to gabby before we read josh's most current response... which is why we replied to him separate from our response to gabby. oh, and we ain't sure 'bout your nabokov comments. we weren't limiting our comments 'bout silmarillion to applicability to games. maybe a bad analogy. the silmarillion, as a piece of literature, were brain numbingly tedious. as a work of mythology we can appreciate... maybe. as an academic exercise in myth building on a scale previously not thought possible... or at least not plausible? but as literature? is not good lit... period. however, Gromnir is willing to accept that josh can appreciate silarillion for more thn well crafted stories and character. HA! Good Fun! ps for the tolkienites we has no doubt offended... we likes tolkien's work on beowulf and gawain very much indeed, but if you is gonna try to convince us that he were a greate writer of literture, you is gonna be wasting your breath. save such stuff for off-topic threads so that we can keep this one 'bout obsidian writers and writing.

I do, but I like it more for how and why it was made than for its stories. It's a piece of literature that I find fascinating, but it isn't full of events that make me go, "Oh man, that part was so great!" or "Oh man, E

if Gromnir could error we might give it a whirl. in any event, josh is a history major, and the silmarillion reads more like some crappy and antiquated history text than it does like a modern prose novel. the writing of the silmarillion is even more tedious and tortured than tolkien's lotr works, which is saying quite a bit. prose eddas were a major influence on tolkien... and so were beowulf, but that is no excuse for copying the style of those works. HA! Good Fun!

as bad as kotor2 were at times, we do not thinks it gets 'nuff credit for what it did well. not long development time, but chrisA gave us kreia and her view of the force that were more complex and compelling than any we seen in a star wars game or movie (and as we ain't never read one of the books or comics...) we got jedi who, w/o being dark, were unscrupulous and less than honorable... though they were doing so for greater good. in other words, we had some jedi that were actually human for a change. atone/atton and scion/sion is the kinda names for characters that one would maybe expect from a harry potter book, but with some notable exceptions, the joinable npcs and main villains had stories that were, if not always compelling, then at least they were intriguing. in point of fact, the combat and stories of kotor2 were usually better than those of kotor. unfortunately, the quests that went nowhere and the characters who seemed pointless, and the dialogues that were just gawdawful and the ending that was almost criminal all conspired to makes kotor2 understandably under appreciated. HA! Good Fun!

we thought our snowflake answer were pretty kid friendly. shucks. HA! Good Fun!

agreed. some writers gots this notion that they gotta surprise a reader, and to a certain degree this is true. unfortunately, they achieves this end by coming up with ever more implausible "twists" rather than some more subtle or deft method. even so, we did not mind the kotor2 twist as did many... did not have us rolling our eyes, and for the most part, we liked the kotor2 main plot (save for how it concluded.) "Bio has improved up to BG 2. Neverwinter Nights and beyond they have stagnated in their story design and writing. We still get the predictable plot twist. We still get the same betrayer scenerio. We still get "role play" options that mean very little in the scope of the game. We still get very linear gameplay." don't be a yutz. you took writing classes and yet you pretend (we hopes) to be ignorant. following a broad formula ain't where these games thrive... ain't where they live. main plot can be archetypical and clich

bio games, and particularly bio writing, has improved over the years. they seems pretty close minded at the moment, but they has shown examples of improvement. on the other hand, chrisA and the other bis refugees... you know, we thinks that maybe chrisA would benefit from checking out the boards on occasion. doing so seems to have helped the biowarians even if it has aggravated them. the obsidian folks, on the other hand, has not really made strides since ps:t. the same flaws exist... the same mistakes is being made. sure, we liked ps:t on the whole, so the things needed to be improved is less, but kotor2 were quite rife with all those things that were bad in ps:t... some of the hokie dialogues that read like strung together fortune cookie responses just being a single such example. compare bg1 npc character development to kotor. compare fallout and ps:t npc character development to kotor2. if vis is honestly suggesting that bioware has not improved, then he is a fool r a liar. we know he got an axe to grind with bio, and cannot be objective, but even he cannot possibly makes claim that bio writers have not improved. bis/obsidian improvement... *shrug* honestly, we not know who the obsidian writers/designers is getting critical feedback from, 'cause we is honestly amazed at just how little they has changed. they is still so damned cose to being good... w/o improving much at all. tragic. 'course the real point of this response is to again note that vis has a real problem when it comes to bio. weren't no mention o' bio direct or indirect and vis gotta get in his shot anyway. maybe vis should takes a pilgrimage to vancouver, (barefoot in snow

not care how chrisA came to realization just so long as he did. sure, folks has been pointing out the various useful ways to approach clich

alternative answer: God likes his scotch on the rocks. unfortunately, when he first made ice that was as dense as liquid water his ice cubes would always sink to the bottom of his tumbler, and that just didn't sit well with the Almighty. ice cubes is 'posed to jingle-jangle nicely as one gently jostles their scotch, and cubes is 'posed to cool the scotch at top from whence one is actually drinking. so, late on the sixth day God made ice less dense than liquid water, but as it were getting close to quitting time he had to scrap the unicorn and dragon projects... and he did a half-arsed job on the platypus. HA! Good Fun!

explanation we got were related to the shape water molecules. when temp hits freezing, water molecules line up in a hexagonal prism pattern... thinks of snowflakes but on a really large scale. instead of flowing together, the molecules is held apart. *shrug* never really spent much time learning 'bout crystallization... that were more of a chemical thing. in any event, gets a nice picture o' a snowflake and show a child just how much empty space the snowflake takes up with it fancy design and ice is sorta a mass of lots of really tiny snowflakes. liquid water molocules flow together and gets less space than snowflakes crystals. is probbly wrong, but that is how it were explained to Gromnir way backs in early chemistry classes. HA! Good Fun!

reply/quote... how quaint. a mod helping a thread die. we will temporary spare the mess, but no doubt you simply reply/quote again. ain't it lovely how people is willing to label one occupying force "peaceful" and another "illegal," based solely on their politics. sure, the folks who is being occupied not think that the occupation is legal... and we loves strategic use of the word "most" by bw. oh sure, 'course clinton did nasty stuff and killed poor innocent people abroad, but he didn't do as much as bush. HA! and the notion that clinton didn't use the military for blatantly political reasons is so delusional as to not need a response. somebody had better go back and read some newspapers or maybe takes a poli-sci class or two at the local university if they is believing that clinton's use of the military were solely for humanitarian reasons. and as to the panic that terror alerts has caused... they ain't nothing compared to what most of us were feeling as we watched planes slamming into the wtc buildings. the anger we felt as we saw those buildings burn and crumble with thousands of civilians inside is what you is comparing to terror alerts? honestly, you should be ashamed at making such a suggestion... embarrassed. you can take this opportunity to apologize for making such a suggestion... maybe salvage some dignity. how many euro countries support terrorist regimes? yup, the u.s. did too, and when they tried to do something 'bout it, the euros balked. but most of your responses is like this. is not even pretending that your beloved fellow euro hands is clean... but you seem to think that as long as you can point to some American governmental institution as being worse, then you and yours has your sins washed away. hallelujah. life don't work like that son. btw, is lots of games wherein players can control european military force, no? oh, and is more than a few european companies that continued to supply military weapons to iraq in spite of sanctions. the frenchies had mr. claude and lura and the bulgarinas used jeff co, and russian arms dealers were even more blatant 'bout supplying arms to iraq in spite of those sanctions you seems to love so much. yeah, blame the US, but ignore the crap in your own back yard. and one of these days somebody is gonna explain to euros and liberals tht perjury is a bad thing. politicians lie. clinton lied 'bout military and economic activities, just as bush has. politicians speaking half-truths and failing to give full accountings is pretty much par for the course. they get caught and usually their reputation suffers (clinton being a notable exception.) perjury, on the other hand, is illegal. perjury carries with it some pretty serious penalties, and perjury is clearly grounds for initiating impeachment proceedings. As to taking pots out of context and not needing to defend bush

"you can be religious and scientfic it is possible " did we ever suggest the contrary? go down the list of nobel prize winners for physics and pick out the atheists. ain't many. Gromnir is religious. Gromnir has a bs in physics from Cal. there is no tension for Gromnir. HA! Good Fun!

don't be such a fool. why not check and see how often clinton used military power overseas before you make such ridiculous comments. yeah, we has seen some o' your more delusional posts in the military thread... if America throws away it guns then the world will suddenley be paradise, right? HA! blame the terrorists maybe? they is the folks who whipped up a majority of Americans into a frenzy. maybe blame some of the euros? they tollerated and even supported terorist regimes. maybe blame hollywood? heck they makes movies that romanticize war. blame obsidian? they makes games that encourages combat. "Far worse than a generation of kids who think that war is a good method of politics, killing is a justified meaning for improvement, thinks the army rocks bigtime" so, how is this generation different from any other? "and lying will be allowed and can help you forward... " they didn't pick that up from the clintons? bah. bush is an arse, but some o' you clowns is exactly why bush gets so much support. Gromnir ain't a bush supporter, but even we find ourself defending him from your kinda nonsense. HA! Good Fun!

am still posting infrequently at bio, but recently we has noticed that the developers has become... intolerant. as to the board nazis, folks can clear those up in short order. a few weeks o' serious posting by Gromnir and others and the board nazis become much more meek. nazis only thrive if they is allowed to. and truth to tell, this board is little different. looks at the various "newbie" threads on this board. us v. them nonsense. HA! Good Fun!

the last movie Gromnir saw were the newest harry potter flick. the first 1/3 of the movie were a complete mess... disjointed. the rest o' the movie were more coherent, but it still seemed as if Gromnir were getting snippets of story lines that seemed to trail off into nothingness... a bit like what happened with kotor2 as a matter of fact. emma watson (sp?) were horrible. the other kids seems to be competent if unspectacular in their roles, but the girl were just laughably bad. maybe Emma Thompson can sit her down and explain to her 'bout subtlety. on the positive side, visually the movie's dragon were possibly the best movie dragon we has seen since Dragonslayer way backs in 1981. very few complaints 'bout any of the special effects. we get the feeling that this were a movie made for folks who read and liked the book, and unlike previous harry potter movies, it did not stand well on its own. HA! Good Fun!

"Sorry, but if Clinton can be impeached for lying about a blow job, then Bush should surely be impeached for all the danged lies he has perpetrated on this country, and on the world." clinton perjured himself. is a big difference than failing to follow through with campaign promises. don't let your dislike o' bush cloud your better judgment. vote out Presidents you dislike. impeach Presidents that involve self in criminal activity

psuedoscience? there ain't no science 'bout it. not deserve even pseudoscience label. there is a school of thought that mankind brought Gods into existence simply to explain away the unknown. what cause the rain? what cause drought? what is the stars? why does we have fall follow summer, and spring follow winter? for every question we could not answer, we imagined Divine explanations. is intelligent design any different? can't explain the evolution of platypus with science? must be God's will. *shrug* not science. am a religious person, but is insulting to even Gromnir's limited intelligence to be trying to convince us that intelligent design has any scientific basis. HA! Good Fun!

some of you fellas is so full o' crap. am not a fan of console gaming, but even we gotta admit that the graphics improvements 'tween xbox and xbox 360 is major. get similar graphics from our pc? gotta spend at least $250 for the graphics card alone... probably more. on our big lcd hi-def tv these games would be looking fantastic. 'course, if you not got hi-def, then we agree that an xbox 360 probably ain't looking better than your old xbox... and that purchasing a next-gen console would be a waste. response: but Gromnir, its just the graphics that has improved. huh? what did you expect or want from shooters and racing games? graphics is the main thing that the industry has been seeking to improve. as were the point of the initial post in this thread, folks in the know recognize that the differences 'tween ps3 and xbox 360 is not real. the tech superiority of ps3 or xbox 360 that some folks is buying into ain't based in reality. however consumers will eventually have to make a choice twixt hd-dvd & bluray. unfortunately, the current incarnation of the xbox 360 not got the hd-dvd. w/o purchasing a console, we now got 2 xboxes and a ps2. next year at this time we fully expect to have at least one of the next generation consoles, but we gotta leave the choice up to the whim of the fates... as we have done in the past. on a side note, the upcoming crpgs not look any better than the upcoming console rpgs. for the first time, Gromnir cannot say that the pc rpg menu looks like it is offering better fare in the near future. HA! Good Fun!

folks buying an xbox 360 now are getting screwed. next year hddvd is gonna be standard on the xbox 360... is analogous to bluray. "Well, so far I haven't seen anything on the X Box 360 that marks it clearly superior to the X Box 1 for the price" really? Gromnir has seen some xbox 360 displays at local best buys... the games in hi-def look mighty purty to us. sadly, they is all shooters and adventure games. nevertheless, we don't buy consoles. eventually, somebody will buy Gromnir an xbox 360 or a ps3... is just the way our universe works. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, compared to what they get at bioware... and compared to what bis/interplay got at similar times. dead. HA! Good Fun!

one of these days, people is gonna realize that message boards is for advertising games more than anything else. these boards is dead, and even when kotor2 were released there were only a few posters in this place. so, what publisher wanting to maximize exposure of their game would want these boards to be the home of a major release? and the notion that bio wanted nwn2 moved to their boards... is highly suspect. HA! Good Fun!

each person's experiences will differ. Gromnir had some nasty bugs in iwd, but no ctds. toee, on the other hand, were far worse for us. having a pretty clear recollection of both game's message boards post release, we would say that the complaints 'bout toee bugs were far more numerous and... aggressive. in any event, even if bugs weren't a factor, iwd were a superior game on many levels. story and character development in iwd were far better. artwork and music were better in iwd. iwd combat were a improvement over bg. sure it would have been nice to have the tb and options of toee available but the enemy ai in toee were so gawdawful that the options it had were largely wasted. never finished toee nor iwd2. slowdowns and boredom killed our enthusiasim to finish either of 'em, but iwd were an excellent game, especially when one considers its humble origins. HA! Good Fun!

Hahaha, Ive been a member of this forum longer then youve had pubic hair boy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> a few more posts and Gromnir might suspect that krazy were back. is suitably offensive and crass... but largely accurate too. HA! Good Fun!