Musopticon?

The Vision Bleak - The Black Pharaoh trilogy part 3

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Buffalo Soldier - Soul-shakedown Party - Beats

Oh, sure. The problem is that the scene has yet to catch up to 07. There's a ton of finalized fanwork out that was made for 04 or 05(06 being the first pure multiplayer patch - no idea why since multiplayer is quite dead) and is unlikely to be redone for the newest patches in near future. I'm playing with 1.005(again, feck the zeros) myself and won't likely ever upgrade, since the mod community seems to have to made up their mind to build on well-known ground(read: everyone is just combining modifications or releasing personalized versions of them - google 'Oblivion Lost mod' or 'AKM' for instance). I'm not saying that 07 is without mods, but there's waiting to be done, unless te player wants to mod themself.

Steam version is patched to final, 1.0007 iirc(give or take a zero, all patches have been inside the same numerals), which means that the game is pretty stable, but you are bummed about mods. Unfortunate really, since the quality of both fanpatches, tweaks, total conversions and regular mods has been consistently high.

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, if you have yet to play it. There's tons of sniping ground, a wide selection of weaponry that can be scoped and everything happens in the tastefully dilapitated radiated hellscene of Chernobyl. Soviet nostalgia, jamming East-Bloc rifles, brooding rainswept vistas where wind plays with broken steel barrels and half-torn trees, the constant ticking of Geiger counter lulling the player to a post-apocalyptic vision far more indepth and complete than its predecessors such as Glow ever managed. It's not perfect by any means, but a great game nevertheless.

Stalker:Shadow of Chernobyl it is, though I reckon Blodhemn is using some mods. Honestly, the game is pretty unbalanced in its unmodded state and it is advisable to install some mods. However, there's only a couple of spots in the game where the enemy spawn can be annoying, and two of them are in Garbage and can mostly be avoided at least, and I don't think the respawning is enough to call a very decent game "garbage". Well, to each their own. I think there are worse problems as it is, like the high amount of glitches still in play or the fairly idiotic quest design.

Wait, what? What should I see or what is missing?

My gf was invited to a birthday party of her old friend in Lahti and she took me along. I have to admit that the prospect of sleeping till 3 o'clock and then gorging on toast, sausages and mango juice did seem more favourable to me at first: About the only way a party with a ton of a unknowns can be fun if you are punch-drunk at the onset and I was freshly shaven and soberly handsome, not at all in the mood for drunken skulduggery. Fortunately we left so early in the morn that there was time to visit her old home, a massive country house with a living room as big as our whole downstairs floor ffs. And cats and food and silly Tavastian antics. Nevertheless, after eating and having a bit of fun over her relatives, we went for the party. There was free booze and stuff to eat, I had the missus with me and the party turned somewhat pleasant. Music was generally awful and this fellow insisted on everyone getting naked and doing the helicopter on the balcony. He wore a raccoon hat and yelled at people down the street to join in. A lovable bunch everyone, I just generally detest prancing naked without several oz of Jameson in my system...or without wearing war paint and a cloak(lol wales 07) The party went well, yet we left mid-point to see another old friend of Ida and it turns out he's her ex. Oh well, we weren't exactly bosm buddies and his accomodations were spartan, but we got to sleep off the hangover and the fellow had a snappy taste in music and bars. The general high point of the eve must have been either: -Talking myself into a music club without proper identification in tow, the gorilla at the front was menacing but sensible -My graceous lover and ersthwile therapist, Miss Ida -Asking her mother on choosing good wines to purchase -Her cats <3

I lost almost 13 kilograms(yes, you sweduclown) of weight during last autumn. It was also the autumn when I hopped on to the winds of student lifestyle to try out my still-wet wings. Go figure. I have been very lax on exercise as(s) of late, but the prospect of having a steady job during the summer and excelling in it(graveyard bushboy lol) will give me impetus. Not to mention, I miss running and workout.

Get it here! The demo includes four tutorials, two small maps with up to two AI players, one randomly generated medium map with up to 3 AI players, and 90 minutes of playing time (single-player only). And apparently it is only 536 megs! I'll give it a whirl(read=merge with the game for several 90 minutes) and I'm sure you folks who have yet to buy the title are glad of the chance to try it out before purchase/acquirement. Hell, it's about time.

^<3 Ghostland observatory - Sad sad city

That. Is. A. Grand. Avatar!

*black bartender does a spinkick* Yeah, an inescapable masterpiece of music there. Beta Satan - Great moments of pleasure

Ninja Gaiden BLACK!

Rick Astely - Never gonna give you up NEVER GONNA TELL A LIE AND HURT YOU!

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

Opeth - The grand conjuration \,,/ Also, sorry Shryke, I hadn't noticed your message in my profile. No, I haven't heard of them, I'll try them out soon.

Professional secrets. I completely forgot Worms 2, Settlers 2, Heretic 2(best combat ever) and Heroes of Might and Magic 3!

****, I forgot Alpha Centauri, Civ IV and freaking Pharaoh.

Except that's not what kills you. You get killed by accomplishing your goal. And completely without warning in a very What the?! kind of way. The ending in Fallout was tragic, the one in Stalker just stupid (at least the ones where you just die, they did add endings where you lived as well before release). From what I've gathered, it's player's fault if he doesn't follow the story and ends up being fooled by the Monolith. Were the player to go through the plot thoroughly, they'd survive because it'd be obvious that the Monolith is a trap.

Hmm, I have a list as well, it's a bit boring and not in order, but since everyone else is doing the same... Thief:The Dark Project, just sublime. Best art direction ever, best atmosphere, awesome gameplay and levels. Thief:The Metal Age, Dark Project has a better campaign, but the sequel is more intuitive and has better fanmissions. Rune, my all time fave action game. Mafia, favorite game of the period and absolutely gripping narrative and characters The Longest Journey, favorite adventure game ever Icewind Dale 2, great tactical battles and a great adaptation of 3rd edition into Infinity Engine. Final Fantasy 6, definitely the best FF Legacy of Kain, the series, hard to pick favorites, but at least Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance, great exploration, gripping story. Gothic 2: Night of the Raven, just an awesome rpg. The story is so-so, but the action and exploration are without peer. Dawn of War, and of all the expansions: Dark Crusade Honorable mentions: Dungeon Keeper, Baldur's Gate 2(oh, so many hours spent), Seiken Densetsu 3, Dreamfall, STALKER, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Halo, Final Fantasy 10, Gothic 1, Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors(H-ARCHER RUSH!), Rome:Total War(mods! mods! mods!) and of course the ever-awesome Deus Ex!

Is it difficult then, Cal? I'd play Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night, were I home. A friend just burned them and fanlations on a dvd for me and am more than curious. It's just that...well, I don't know how my gf would take it if started up an eroge on her computer. I mean, srsly.

Ghostland Observatory - Stranger lover Ghostland Observatory - Dancing to vibrate Yeah, move it! Daft Punk - Aerodynamic(Harder better faster remix)

No, thank you, reading your impressions has been interesting. I'm still in Chapter 4 myself, mostly because some areas are a pain on my dads old rig, but I'll finish it eventually!

The previous theme carried a strong undertone of the horror being subjective. Maybe you were just going mad just like all the bums? Maybe you were the only one attuned to the "sound"(basically there's an ancient cult that lives partly in a different reality, all the influence and basically their existence is based on this background frequency they share and it is also the thing that drives the bums and birds mad) and could therefore see the abnormals? I don't know how they are gonna go about it this time(I mean, they acknowledge that Ethan killed over 200 people in the prequel), but I was rather impressed with Condemned:Criminals Origins, particularly because FEAR was such an Akira-hack. I just hope the game has more variety than the prequel. Some of the parts were just...dreary.