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I'm hoping to start this over the weekend. Also playing Fable 2. Finished Fable 2. Started Far Cry 2. And driving the car around made me motion sick.

I'm hoping to start this over the weekend. Also playing Fable 2.

Survivors of a plane crash find themselves on a mysterious island that is the object of a fight between shadowy groups who want to control the secrets on the island.

But the helicopter pilot (who was supposed to be the 815 pilot) claims the body in the ocean isn't the person he was friends with who was the pilot for the doomed flight, doesn't he?

That's me out, then. Keep reading. BioWare rescinded that requirement on Friday. I may still be out. The computer I play on isn't set up to the internet. The one that is connected (that I'm using now) is an old model that still runs Win98. Authorization codes bundled with the game have worked fine in the past, and I've never had a problem. Online authorization may be a problem for me, in my unique situation, if the program has to auth via the internet (as opposed to a person being able to manually auth it). I was a console player for many years; I may just return to that (until consoles go all internet crazy and require every game to connect online for something or my internet connectivity changes).

That's me out, then.

BG and BG2. I really wanted to finish BG but in the end could be bothered, so I just exported and started a new BG2 game.

Saw Iron Man last week. Really strong film with great performances from most of the cast and a solid plot. And good humour! Been awhile since a superhero film hasn't taken itself overseriously. Saw Speed Racer today. Fun film, goofy and frothy fun. Had a grin on my face for most of the film.

Well, so do I. But it seems a completely arbitrary assignment. Maybe but its totally cool.

I like scottish accented dwarves...

I'd like a well made Icewind Dale third sequel type game

I dunno, I enjoyed Jade Empire myself. Replayed it a number of times as well, so if someone has it in their top ten I certainly couldn't complain...

You know one game that I probably should have mentioned (and is still installed on my computer) is Freedom Force/Freedom Force vs The Third Reich. I still occassionally make skins for it without any real plans of playing using the skin.

There are still plenty of other hobby magazines on the newsstand though. Ham Radio, model rocketry, sewing, body building, all sorts of esoteric hobbies still have magazines. If computer gaming was stil an esoteric hobby, it woudl probably still have magazines. It had a lot more magazines when there was a lot less money in the business. Newspapers are a different kettle of fish from hobby magazines. Bad example. However, you have to admit, as news-information is increasinly moving to an online distribution model and thuse being easily available to the average computer user, it makes sense that a magazine devoted to something that uses the computer as its base of operations would be hit harder than say, Ham Radio that wouldn't be as intrenched online, necessarily. I think - I won't swear to it - that I still have two issues of CGW around the house here in a box that were my brothers...

My personal preference is for dark hair.

Played in the last 5 years Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together Planescape: Torment Final Fantasy VI/III Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne Katamari Damacy Borrowed and played again in the last year Phantasie M.U.L.E. Would play now if I had the systems up to play them on Dragon Force Arcus Odyssey Shining Force II

A reminder that EA once released a lot of different game genres... *reminiscenses (sp?) the days of "Seven Cities of Gold", "Hard hat Mack", "Archon" & "Racing Destruction Set"* I think I could use a remake of "Racing Destruction Set" :sad: I remember Racing Destruction Set. Wow, I'd remembered the game for years but couldn't think of the name of it (a bit like that game where you bought a giant monster and set it loose) Seven Cities of Gold I remember playing, but never finishing. ARCHON was the game though! I remember many epic battles on that game. Never played Hard Hat Mack though...platformer? Phantasie was a great game. hell yeah though that fight with the Kraken was a huge jump in the difficulty level Yeah it was. Man I loved Shining Force II so much that I actually got all my characters up to level 99 once... It was actually the first (and only game) I assisted on an online FAQ for (Mostly spell progressions for some of the wizards and I found a weird "issue"? where I got Talos' sword on a random drop; unusable by any party member and I held onto it thinking there was going to be some character who'd use it).

hmmm, no way I could ever get a true list like that; changes too much. So ten I really liked (and played a whole lot): Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together Planescape: Torment Dragon Force Phantasie M.U.L.E. Arcus Odyssey Final Fantasy VI/III Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne Katamari Damacy Shining Force II

Yeah I never finished Rune either...

Yeah, I kinda gave up accurate depictions of mythology in games ages ago. I generally just hope its fun these days.

Yup, the original version with Vincent Price. Then there was THE OMEGA MAN with Charlton Heston in the 70s. And NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD has its origins in Romero's failed attempt to get the rights to film the book. Last two movies I've seen was Demons and Demons 2. First one is a lot better, although they're both enjoyable (and both contain the flaw (IMO) of being internally inconsistent in how the demons are handled), but the theater setting gives a nice claustrophobic feel to the preceedings while the high-rise setting of the second film isn't used very well at all.

I liked 6 better than 8 and like 7 pretty well. I also like I and II (very much like some old computer games I've played, like Phantasie from SSI). I don't think I ever beat III (but what I played was fun) and V was only "okay" to me, the story kinda made me go "meh". I really didn't like IV that much.

Well I know VIII sold well, but it seemed at the time that most of the diehard FF fans hated the game. I liked that it tried to be a bit more ambitious in what it was doing even if it wasn't always successfull. But then I never really found it dull (and it is one of the few games that I actually spent time doing the minigame on in any significant way!) I remember getting into a long debate before about VIII vs. IX as many people thought IX was a return to greatness and I found it to be a disapointing mish-mash of story elements we'd already seen in the FF series before. That I favored VIII to VII was the like throwing down the gauntlet asking for a flame war!

I liked Final Fantasy VII; I don't think it was the best in the series (still favor VI personally) but I did enjoy it and played it through several times trying to get all of the stuff (never did beat all the ultimate weapons, but then I was never big on 100% completion). I'm one of the few who favored VIII to VII, and I didn't care much for IX when many loved it. So I'm a bit out of the norm for Final Fantasy players anyhow (and I haven't bothered with XII, so I guess my interest in the series has waned).