Gromnir

remake a game that didn't sell the first time? seems like a great way for a developer to be spending their time and resources. no doubt bunches o' publishers will be scrambling to get a chance to be doing another planescape game real soon. HA! Good Fun!

I'm curious...how do you define "police state" in your book? Despite having local yocals from Houston spouting off about Camaera's in homes, the overwhelming majority of Americans, including our politicians, would never allow that to happen. As a nation we have our shortcomings, as does every nation, but to say we're anywhere near a "police state" or a "true totaliterian" state is ridiculus. I also find it interesting that the comments of a local Police Chief somehow become represenative of the federal governments feelings on the issue. That's like assuming how I feel about the death penalty if indicative of how the Governor of the state of Maryland feels about it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> now don't go and get all reasonable in the middle of a rant thread... that just won't be tolerated. HA! Good Fun!

am wondering if you is simply trying to get somebody to call bs. troika never had no concept of the necessity to be developing character. in a crpg you gotta develop characters through cutscenes and some narration, but mostly through dialogues... and troika writers never learned how to makes dialogues compelling. troika dialogues were almost universally akward and stilted and dull, even on the rare occasions when there were some glimmer o' thematic originality that mighta' captured a player's interest. is writing crpg dialogues tedious and difficult? sure it is. give numerous options leading to seemingly endless bifurcation of dialogues is making crpg writing problematic. troika additionally appeared to be much more concerned with making sure that dialogue bifurcation would lead to multiple gameplay options as 'posed to focusing on how dialogues would develop characters and story. make sure that each toee npc would give a bluff option and an intimidate option and a diplomacy option. great. unfortunately simply having more options not make for better dialogues. am not sure where nude francis thinks he/she were going with his/her post, but we is calling bs. HA! Good Fun!

make so-called hard-core games ain't what killed troika. looks at initial sales for toee... started out pretty damned good. initial sales of arcanum weren't bad neither. is some folks that wanna repaint troika stoopidity as some kinda noble integrity. rubish. troika games were buggy messes that seemed half-baked. as crappy as were the writing in troika games, stability were even worse... and yet after each incomplete game were released, troika folks went public with their own publisher blame game. stoopid. were stoopid for not having better organizational skills to be choosing what they could accomplish with the resources they possesed. were stoopid for attacking the guys with the money. were stoopid to make those same mistakes over and over again. btw, we don't have to yet again go over how troika messed up identify in toee does we? HA! Good Fun!

"Yeah, he was talking console yet he mentioned DA by name yet not JE even though JE was the one closest to release at the time. rolleyes.gif " ... is vol speaking in tongues again? "Neither EA or Obsidian has all the facts. They have more insider knowledge than we do; but nowhere near as much as BIO or MS does when it comes to JE." and ea and obsidian has far less reason to bs Gromnir 'bout actual sales of je and whether or not it were a goodly seller. nevertheless, vol is willing to simply accept that bio story in spite of fact that other developers is telling him that the bio story sound fishy. is not like bio is saying anything other than "trust us," but vol accepts. and btw, the ps:t situation is pretty damned analogous... and you squeezing eyes shut and shaking head will not change that reality. with both je and ps:t you gots a game that had substantial critical acclaim and a devoted core of fans. you also had a game that failed to meet sales expectations. you had a game where developers from other companies shook their collective noggins with much sadness and expressed their sympathies for the maker of the critically acclaimed game that did not sell so well. and you had some handful of devout fans and proselytizing developers who were insisting 'gainst all reason their game were actually a winner in terms o' sales. btw, Gromnir never stated that je were a disaster in terms of sales. we said sales were mediocre, and we noted that sales undoubtedley failed to meet expectations. you makes national televised commercials for a game and you is no doubt expecting better than mediocre. HA! Good Fun!

what you mean? you can find bugs and bad dialogues in most games. HA! however, we understand what you is getting at. always seemed like troika's biggest obstacle were themselves. too much ego and not enough business accumen to be making commercial success games. HA! Good Fun!

lucas owns star wars. is not same as doing a new ip. HA! Good Fun!

"Espicially since you took Gaider's word out of context. When he spoke of million+ copies he was talking about blockbuster games... Guess what? No one claimed that JE was a blockbuster hit. You don't need a blockbuster hit for a title be successful. Be it a game, movie, or elsewhere." gaider noted that even mediocre console sellers gots 1 mil units sold. we assume that he were being hyperbolic, but what he were talking 'bout weren't blockbusters but rather why developers feels the lure of doing console games. is unfair of Gromnir to use gaider words against him when it ain't so convenient to bio? HA! am the first person to admit that we not got all the facts... which is why we ask folks from ea and folks from obsidian and folks from elsewhwere... 'cause we don't know. if the biowarians is telling us that je were a great seller and other industry experts, regardless of where they works is telling us the opposite, then who is we gonna believe? for years there were a handful of bis clowns who insisted that ps:t were a financial sucess. THEY was in position that bioware is in now. they had most knowledge 'bout how good or bad ps:t did, but they were also the folks who had the mostest cause to be screwing with the numbers to be making 'em look better than they actually were... and just likes back in 2000, there is some fans who is gonna swallow whatever nonsense the a developer feels like spewing. HA! Good Fun!

of course they gots computers. you thinks roman polanski woulda' stayed in france if he weren't able to access underage internet pr0n sites? HA! Good Fun!

http://forums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?t...6&forum=22&sp=0 is funny. we were essentially defending bio in our initial post, but we were also proclaiming heresy by noting that je had mediocre sales. ... nobody wanted to discus much save for our denial of gospel. HA! Good Fun!

roshan is challenging alternaf for worst threads? HA! Good Fun!

oscar wilde wrote no such book... honest. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking that you is gonna get a call from one of our crazy neighbors real soon. she gots a dozen or so cats and looks like her hair ain't never met a brush or comb... ever. seems to be a tad paranoid 'cause she insists that "They" is out to get her. anywho, she wants her drapes back. HA! Good Fun!

that is why Gromnir initially passed on the raptor. heck, most of the games we play is single-player crpgs and strategy games. saving milliseconds on loads is not as important to us as is relative silence and reliability. ... 'course what we were thinking were a reliable drive is now getting some bad, bad feedback/reviews from the locals. taks suggested checking out the following site when we were asking 'bout heatsinks. http://hardforum.com/ zalman didn't have a single good heatsink that they were saying would be compliant with our msi mb. we went to hardforum and within a day we gets 10 responses... and the responses were a consensus kinda thing too. "go with the thermalright xp-90 and a quiet 92mm fan." so far the thing is working better than we coulda' hoped... and we had never even heard of thermalright before. each sub-fora has usually got a stickyed thread or two where they is comparing typical hardware. is some good feedback on hard drives and some included links to other review sites that is helpful. HA! Good Fun!

i have a relatively new computer amd athlon 64x2 3800+ msi k8n neo 4 sli seagate 7200.8 200gb evga geforce 6800gs pci 1gb crucial ballistix 3200 ddr plextor 716 al soundbalaster live on-board new drivers and dx9c dxdiag looks good for the first time i attempted to load/instal kotor 2... but i get to the load/new game screen and scion is doing the robot... frame rate of less than 1 can't start a new game. no other game seems problematic... other than kotor. haven't tried nwn though. dawn of war works fine and that ios probably one of my newer games. any notions? thanks HA! Good Fun! ps the mods can delete this post/thread if they wish. it turns out that the gosh darned nvidia drivers are twitchy when it comes to dual core processors. kotor and kotor2 are both screwed. there are some work arounds, but i am not sure if they are worth the effort.

if Gromnir 'members right, they is using the same animation technique as were used in polar express. ... sorry, but all the people in polar express looked creepy rather than kewl. no doubt the animation has been improved, but we is gonna have to see a trailer 'fore we get intrigued. am also not sure how angelina jollie figures into the mix. romance were not much in evidence with beowulf story. woulda' been more fun to have her play grendel's mother... sorta like when george clooney played the gay dog in the south park episode. oh well. HA! Good Fun!

our perfect girlfriend would hunt down and kill the sorta people that make these threads... 'course we would probably stop calling her after a week or so... HA! Good Fun!

see what we mean? talk to three different folks... storagereview.com and hardocp.com is sites worth checking out. taks actually referred us to hardocp and we has gotten some useful help from the hard folks on more than a few occasions since then. neither aforementioned site is a retail or magazine site so they is maybe less likely to be owned by the man... though the man gots long arms and a firm grip so who really knows. HA! Good Fun!

the power supply on the original sonata would not be sufficient for our needs. the ps on the sonata ii is more than capable for now... as long as we not add in another hd & a second video card. have never actually spoken with anybody that uses the duct. is really awkward and it screws with case airflow. can't think of many heatsinks we woulda' used that coulda' coexisted with the duct anyways... forget some zalman, and not a chance in hell with our thermalright. the duct were a nifty notion and maybe they perfect for the eventual sonata iii, but not really is useful as of today. is kinda funny. you is the first person we seen to complain 'bout the antec ii power supply, and before we built our rig we had few experiences with people complaining 'bout seagate. maybe that tells us something. over at storage review.com and hardocp, seagate is considered the MOST relaible hd available. is not the performance leader, but the 200gb is actually almost as quiet as the samsung spinpoint hd... and samsung not got no warranty. talk to josh and some folks here and a couple of geeks pals we know and they seems to think seagate is crap. 'course the geek friends that helped us settle on this build thought seagate were swell... 'specially as far as being quiet and reliable. we looks at the newegg customer reviews and every single hd and mb has at least a couple peoples who claims that they is crap... heck, is more than a few anti-raptor folks. the more folks we hears from, the more we is likely to hear that every piece o' hardware we got is doomed. *shrug* will get a modular +600w ps at some point, but not today. HA! Good Fun! ps we were warned away from the 36gb raptors in a big way. seen it tested in three different builds and we were amazed at just how poorly it fared. turns out that their performance is actually on par with most quality 7200 hds available. not all raptors is created equal. go figure.

figures. we did research and we checked out hardforums.com and we did all the right things... and then 3 weeks after we build the rig we has everbody and their grandmother telling us what crap the seagates is. well, maybe we picks up a raptor... just in case. HA! Good Fun!

*grumble* got cheap and passed on the 74 gig wd raptor and instead got the seagate 200 gig. got the seagate for under $100. the wd woulda' cost us $175. damn. oh well. HA! Good Fun!

Gromnir don't go top shelf when he builds no more... 'cause it just ain't cost effective and our needs is modest. always we target $1000, with room to upgrade later. case: antec sonata ii cpu: amd athlon 64 x2 3800+ (dual core) mb: msi k8n neo4 sli (integrated soundblaster live) memory: 2x512mb crucial ballistix pc3200 ddr dimm(s) hd: seagate barracuda 200g 7200.8 graphics card: evega geforce 6800gs pci optical: plextor 716 al (slot-load) floppy: black teac os: windows xp pro all for just under $1000 took the duct out of the case so we could add in a thermalright xp-90 heatsink with a quiet 92mm fan for cpu cooling... is still damn quiet. the whole rig is an eye pleasing shiny black box that runs everything we can throw at it. at some point we will upgrade graphics by getting a second geforce 6800gs, but for now we don't seem to need it. and yeah, we will have to upgrade the ps if we wanna go with a full sli confi, but power supplies is not all that expensive... relatively speaking. *shrug* btw, is our first msi mb, and so far we likes. have always been an asus guy in the past, but we almost never oc, so we went with all the nifty features that the msi board gots for us average user kinda guys... have not been disappointed. however, after we gots the seagate hd, sudden-like all our geek friends were mocking our stoopidness. "everybody" knows that the seagates burn out after 20 minutes, right? shucks. ain't had no issues yet, but is like a big cloud looming on the horizon, threatening rain... always. any experienced folks got feedback on the seagates? HA! Good Fun!

from personal experience we can attest to fact that the vast majority of college and pro atheletes we has met has played considerable hours of sports games.you know what the typical college football player does instead of going to class? he plays madden football. keep in mind that sports games offer atheletes more opportunities for competition and trash talk... two things which the average athelete can never get enough of. HA! Good Fun!

yeah. what kinda stoopid gaijin would come up with ridiculous caricatures of asian martial artists that were looking like the ones in je? http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/templeofbruce/ huh. wanna have us link some japanese anime stuff that makes je looks pretty damned tame? HA! Good Fun!

bio needs to believe that je were a success... which may prevent them from learning from the mistakes they made with that game. je success compared to other console titles is seriously in doubt, but there is a group of folks at bio who not seem to wanna even consider the possibility that je were less profitable than they had hoped for. 'course this kinda self-delusion on the part of developers is not a disease suffered solely by kanadians. troika developers post arcanum and bis developers post ps:t had similar difficulty accepting that their games failed to create adequate revenues. bio has gotta learn some hard lessons real fast if they really wants to stick to their plans for making original ips, 'cause a succession of "successes" comparable to je will make it damned hard for them to gets a publisher to partner up with them in the future... and like it or not, we ain't quite at the point where self-publishing and commercially viable downloadable titles is a viable alternative. HA! Good Fun!