Musopticon?

Well, excaggeration is a god's gift I really would like to hear if anyone had alternative tactics for illithids. Oh, and cloak of mirroring anyone? Beholder dungeon?

I cycle too. And read too much books. Also, I used to do martial arts, but money was an issue so I stopped.

Father Sunshine.

I was irritated by one thing when it comes to the much feared vampires in BG2. That damn amulet which allowed Jaheira to literally tank though Vampires wihtout any harm whatsoever. Same thing with the only viable tactic against illithids; storming them with a mass of summons.

Well, I'm killing mutants and mercenaries with over-the-top macho rfles in a jungle right about soon. I'm quite satisfied. I yell when one ugly monkeyspawn took me by surprise. It's not a pleasant sensation to yell like a little boy, but pumping the bastard full of lead and parabolic grenades felt great. Edit: But Far Cry is no means a great game. Just something to kill time with.

True. Back to FEAR, shall we?

Why do I bother? The tanks are into it now.

Seething with anticipation, are you?

Thanks Gromnie for taking the fire.

I could mention all kinds of tactical challenges in BG 2, like vampires, umberhulks and shroom people, but why bother... Edit: IWD 2 was way better at combat and tactics anyway.

Oh no. Not another Volo-fight...

It's not that. I'll give you an example: Curst Prison was full of guards of the same type. I danced in and started fighting, trying to first soften them with spells such as Desert Hell and Ice&Fire. Well, when Dak finishes the spell, my poor fighters have run to the line of fire and the globes freeze their innards and scorch their bones. At the same time; all the guards use their clever tactic of massing over one character and whacking him till the end of time. Grace the idiot runs to heal the poor bugger and almost gets wasted in the process. I can't cast any spells because all my chracters are i midst of combat and on the other hand all the single-character-targeting spells are worthless. So, my brave party proceeds to do their thing; bash heads in till they reach the floor. And this continues till the freakin' Pillar of Skulls. Nothing but mindless hackin', which is sometimes paused by a flashy spell-effect, breaking the monotone somewhat. Mass destruction spells just lay unsused because each time you found enemies; they rushed you. Yes, I could have used a spotter for bombardments, back then I didn't acknowledge that. Still... I love the game so much, but the combat just irritates me. Even the Trias fight consisted of me quickly standing aside when Dak and Grace used every scroll and spell and item on him. One long standing of cutscenes, you must watch every freakin' time. Edit: Though Meteor Storm Bombardment was nifty.

Try harder, swedu. I know you can do it.

Har-de-har.

What exactly is awkward and uinfuinctioining aboiuit it? Yoiiui click oin an enemy, the nameless oinie attacks. This is the same as all IE games. OIir, yoiui select a spell, click oin the enemy, and cast it. This is alsoi the same as any ie games. Theres noitihing awkward aboiuiti the games coimbat and it fuinctioins perfectly well. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Argh, how am I going to argue with a fanboy? This is a fight better left unstarted.

Indeed. The pond is muddy again.

Heh, nothing wrong with combat in Torment? Have you played it recently? It's awkward and unfunctioning.

Edible?

It's bad that JE suffered from biowarenisms. Wasted potential.

"*goes off to watch "Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS" again*" :D That movie is so far-out.

Works now.

Now it's all muddy. Thanks to you, dafty.

I didn't try to imply that. Or change your views. Just throwing rock to the pond. Dafty.

Then you're just daft. I remember the most respected game magazine of Finland "Pelit" joking about starting to copy-paste the EA NHL game review from last year each time a "new" EA NHL game came. There just wasn't anything to review. Same sh!t, different package. Edit: http://www.pelit.fi/

So making the same game annually with minor differencies and updated teams doesn't constitute as bland?