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I hope Obsidian or some modders come up with a working companion ai someday. These sorts of micromanagment during a non turn based combat neither feels fluid nor fun to me. I have put it aside for now.

Im interested to read what this patch will actual fix...second AP playthrough considered.

I think the only thing what changes between today and 80/90 was the easier patch delivery thru autoupdate/Internet. Games from earlier era were bug ridden too, from the 90's i remember a prominent soccer manager which were practical unplayable on most computers before a patch arrived...update via floppy disk...to get from the store. In 1995 i bought "Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure" without patch impossible to play through. I didn't have internet back then. I got my patch over a bbs mailbox. But even simpler games from the 80's lacked quality control, just watch some AVGN videos.

Can only comment on the screenshots (since the trailer download is awfully slow). I liked HoMM V (okay was my first HoMM) but these screenshots, even though similiar to HoMM V, are a bit too (whats the word?) glaring or flashy for my taste. But i will give it a try once its out.

Even thougth Obsidian developed it, AP is the IP of Sega and only they are in charge to order a patch from Obsidian. Feargus said at E3 he wanted to release a patch shortly after the first issues from reviewers and players arrived, but SEGA still wanted to wait. I guess as the sales were way below their expectation, they drop any further plans inversting any money which includes expansions and patches. My guess is they dropped more money on AP as they indended to in the first place (and therefore killing other projects like the Aliens RPG), but if I were the one who pull the trigger on Sega i would 1. Make some sort of a big patch/expansion for free 2. Bundle the patch/expansion with a lower pricetag and call it AP 1.5 (or something) 3. Release it again to reviewers I think this can save SEGA's (and Obsidians) reputation and their Alpha Protocol brand which would do great as a series.

Me too, but i guess there will never be a official patch. Are there any modders around Alpha Protocol?

also Ghostmaster Vampires Masquarde: Bloodlines Theme Hospital / Park Sin Episodes Blade Runner

As angshuman says... Also explain what you mean with efficeny and the Doom 3 engine? I would had agreed on .kkrieger from the same year with the term efficeny.

idTech 4: Doom 3 Quake 4 Quake Wars Prey Return to Castle Wolfenstein II Source Engine: Half Life 2 Portal Team Fortress 2 Dark Desire of Might and Magic Left 4 Dead Natural Selecton 2 Sin Episodes :sad: The Crossing Postal 3 Vampire Bloodlines

I'm interested in Rage, but this is the first time I heard it will be some sort of an RGP, as far as I read it will be primarly an FPS. I hope Tim "I'm a hack" Willits don't get his hands too much on it. And it' seems Carmack may have finally done a good 3D engine since 1999. Carmack is good, but in my opinion he has to live up to the praise he still receive's, the current id Tech 4 engine got overshadowed by other 3D engines quickly.

Dont know if its posted before, but the Star Wars Next Gen Video from youtube looks very good. Would be a nice engine for Kotor III. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC3bqyq9QQY...ail%26id%3D5236

You dont need german to hear what he is patiencly waiting for. Its Unreal Tournament, he said it twice.

Thanks for the media update!

It's kinda big, but I like it.

Huh? A link where I can read about it (not a forum/blog link).

Source?

It replace the manual.pdf, dialog.tlk and the swkotor2.exe. I found in a forum a short list, but dont know where they got that list (since you dont find it anywhere): - Made a fix to a display issue with Small Fonts. - Made a fix to a gamma issue after movies finish playing. - Removed the display of Force Points on portrait tooltips for non-Jedi characters. - Fixed bug where some objects in the game would give a sticky mouse indicator like they had an inventory when they did not. - Fixed an issue where if you changed appearance while Force Speed was active your movement rate would return to normal. - Fixed an issue with droid animation when the item they were using ran out or their target died.

I dont remember my first rgp, i think it was a german ultima clone for the C64 which i tryed a little. My first RGP I really played and enjoyed was Champions of Krynn on the Amiga.

Well there are much more people who speaks german (over 100 mio.) or spanish (over 350 mio.) than swedish (under 10 mio.). I dont know why it is so weird to hear translated movies/games. You usually talk to your friends in swedish or in english? For myself I prefer original versions and try to get a game I like in their original version. But I have nothing against translated versions, but I agree sometimes (but not that often as some people like to say) they are below mediocre.

Agree, its obvious why someone in the name of Lucas Arts wanted Kotor2 to be released in December. But theres allways a other side who said "Okay, its hard but we can do it.". I often dont know who is the publisher and who is the developer. But when I see a Lucas Arts Logo in the beginning and the a logo from a firm I never heard before, where do I go first regarding my concerns. Its a bad thing, true but I must admit I didnt notice it during the game. Anyway, source of your fact? Dont know, as far as I read both claim that the other one is working on it. Feargus is for sure a more credible source than someone from a LA-Helpdesk. But as a customer I had to say it doesnt matter to me, I want my copy fixed. Why not, you seem to spend much time here.

Prepare to be disappointed. "

Okay, then lets link to the forgotten netiquette of past internet days Netiquette. Be nice anyway. I agree...in terms of a content patch. But when you buy a DVD player and the player would sometimes speed up or general doesnt view most of your DVD's right, wouldnt you go to the store/fabricator and claim a working one? There are no problems to give back a dvdplayer, but its tricky with software. Here in austria I cannot give back software you allready opened (dont know how its handled elsewere). I encountered some unusal problems like heavy graphics errors, speed up dialouge, small sized videos, videos without audio, dantooine speed problems, windows sized start and gamma resets. For me this products has some flaws that I dont want to look over.

Afraid of chaos?

and then it fixes only the manual. Indeed the international patch seems to do a little bit more than that. - Made a fix to a display issue with Small Fonts. - Made a fix to a gamma issue after movies finish playing. - Removed the display of Force Points on portrait tooltips for non-Jedi characters. - Fixed bug where some objects in the game would give a sticky mouse indicator like they had an inventory when they did not. - Fixed an issue where if you changed appearance while Force Speed was active your movement rate would return to normal. - Fixed an issue with droid animation when the item they were using ran out or their target died. Not many fixes, but I got some problems with gamme settings during play.

This is what I dont belive. If you take a look at early drafts of the original screenplays and other things, you end up with a bunch of really idiotic ideas by Lucas that were corrected by the talented people around him(screenwriters, directors, producers, artists, FXpeople etc.) On his own, Lucas is nothing but a sad hack. selection original Lucas ideas: (from imdb and various others) -George Lucas planned for the characters of Luke Skywalker and his aunt and uncle, to be midgets. -George Lucas had planned the character of Han Solo to be a huge green-skinned monster with no nose and gills. -Luke was originally a girl -Luke was first named "Luke Sarkiller" (after being changed into a man) ..it just goes on and on. Basicly, everything that made Star Wars good was done by other people. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not that iam a big fan of Lucas writing skills, but to his defense this is usually called pre production phase which every movie is running thru. Its always obscure reading first drafts/early ideas of a movie. Ripley in "Alien" were also later changed from a man to a woman, the early concept drawings of the Facehugger by O'bannon were laughable, so on, so on, so on...