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Ooh, I remember that from PS:T. I must have used that spell an awful lot. It was one of very few that I felt I could actually control. It'll be weird having all the same icons for NWN2. Well, it'll be weird for the first twenty seconds, but then I imagine I'll get used to it.

 

It'll be nice to have 'portraits' that actually look like my character. NWN's tiny portrait selection wasn't up to much, and it took me ages to find portraits for BG that I could live with.

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"And hopefully they have more spells than in IWD2. NWN had some pretty cool ones that IWD2 did not and I would like to see them in NWN2."

 

I believe, in the end, that IWD2 and NWN had about the same amount of spells. IWD2 had lots of spells, and some cool ones that I wished NWN had (and NWN2 too). And, vice versa.

 

I figure we'll see 200+ spells. NWN1 had just about 200 spells without expansions, IIRC. IWD2 had about 300; but ti had the advantage of all the other IE games (not counting PST).

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Josh looks much bigger on TV than on the forums :)"

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Yeah, but he sounds like a doofus. What a big, loveable doofus. I especially like how he managed to convey some excitement.

 

My favorite was the artist fellow. When he talked about the red dragon, I was all "YES!" I mean, I haven't even played and my favorite bad guy is the red dragon. I like it when the design team sounds proud of their work.

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Yeah, but he sounds like a doofus.  What a big, loveable doofus.  I especially like how he managed to convey some excitement.

 

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Who do you think I am? Dhothlar?

 

Okay, so, what else about the diaries? Anyone else notice that Avellone didn't get up on the stage with the others?

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My favorite was the artist fellow.  When he talked about the red dragon, I was all "YES!"  I mean, I haven't even played and my favorite bad guy is the red dragon.  I like it when the design team sounds proud of their work.

 

 

And they apparently got to play around quite a bit. If they had to break up the dragon into separate pieces to be able for the kind of machines OE runs on, then went far far beyond the kind of detail the engine could ever show with normalmaps :)

 

 

Its te danger with programs like Zbrush, you get obsessed by the level of detail you can accomplish and so you get stuck in an eternal loop of "..just a little more, then its finished."

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Like feature creep, kaf?

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We used the "IWD2" icons as placeholders, but I think they've all been replaced now.

 

 

Hmm...so would you say the replacements are better (similar) or worse(NWN)?

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keep iwd2 icons? probably not, as they is ip of interplay.

 

am curious 'bout something. chrisA is a co-founder o' obsidian. as such he is one of the big bosses. nevertheless, josh is the lead designer on nwn2, and as such is at least s'posed to be the cracker standing behind chrisA and the other team members making sure that everybody does their work in the limited 'mount of time they has left to finish nwn2.

 

Gromnir has once or twice been the lead on a project/case in which we were, for all intents and purposes, the boss over our boss. we has had some mixed luck with such situations and we wonders how josh handles chrisA... or if chrisA is such a model team member that he sacrifices ego for the greater good and he not really needs to be bossed.

 

also, we assumes that chrisA is already leading on another project 'cause otherwise we not know why chrisA not simply took over leadership after the ferret departure. if Gromnir is wrong, which is very likely in this and other instances, then please discuss why it were that josh becomes lead when chrisA were already working on, and familiar with the nwn2 development and all the personel and problems attendent to that development.

 

thank you in advance.

 

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Maybe the icons were part of the "art assets" and no longer ip to Interplay.

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keep iwd2 icons?  probably not, as they is ip of interplay.

We bought them, along with all of the other assets that were part of Jefferson/Van Buren.

 

we has had some mixed luck with such situations and we wonders how josh handles chrisA... or if chrisA is such a model team member that he sacrifices ego for the greater good and he not really needs to be bossed.

He doesn't need much bossing.

 

if Gromnir is wrong, which is very likely in this and other instances, then please discuss why it were that josh becomes lead when chrisA were already working on, and familiar with the nwn2 development and all the personel and problems attendent to that development.

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I crush dreams.

Finally, a Dev who can admit it openly. :(

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We used the "IWD2" icons as placeholders, but I think they've all been replaced now.

 

 

Hmm...so would you say the replacements are better (similar) or worse(NWN)?

 

 

As a matter of purely personal preference, I really, really like the new icons.

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if Gromnir is wrong, which is very likely in this and other instances, then please discuss why it were that josh becomes lead when chrisA were already working on, and familiar with the nwn2 development and all the personel and problems attendent to that development.

I crush dreams.

 

 

crushing dreams is what all peoples in managerial positions ends up doing. you is simply more cheerful 'bout doing so than is chrisA?

 

Gromnir did forget 'bout how you bought art resources. am suprised you wasted time and effort on coming up with new icons if you paid for old ones you has been using since ps:t in some cases.

 

*shrug*

 

hope the nwn2 icons looks real purty 'cause time spent on such things probably coulda' been utilized on other more pressing and important aspects.

 

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