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  1. Posted

    Yeah, undead are always cool. Bioware are also very thorough at making them nasty. They are crippled and dangling and attempt to utter words like "Die, mortal" through their rotting maggotfilled throats, while using someones leg as a club tounge.gif

    Like Fubar, I also like minotaurs alot. They're simply walking testosterone, not a single braincell.

    Then there's giant insects like swordspiders, carrioncrawlers and firebeetles. Creepy and nice.

    Though I don't care much for elves, I think nymphs and dryads are nifty. smile.gif

    We should make a list of what fantasy creatures are cool or crap.

    US11B: Is Zelda only for Nintendo?

  2. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tex [uSMC] @ July 09 2002,18:52)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Heres a stereotype for ya: Elves. Always elves. Or at the very least folk who look uncannily like elves. Enough to make you wonder how truly creative people who are in to Fanatasy literature are...<span id='postcolor'>

    Yeah, elves are pretty daft. Also bad are Warcraft-type orcs ... the really cartoon-looking ones with screaming green skin and axes bigger than their bodies. I prefer Tolkien's much more sinister and crippled orcs.

    But what I hate the most gotta be grumpy dwarves with red beards.

  3. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oligo @ July 09 2002,08:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Heh. I stumbled upon this neat site. Check out all those educational comics. I especially loved "In the beginning", "The deceived", "The letter", "Big daddy" and "Doom town".

    And look at all that LOVE on the face of the people...  confused.gif<span id='postcolor'>

    I read the one about (or against) evolution. First the pupil demand certain evidence to evolution and when he doesn't find them adequate, he starts fighting back with "facts" from the bible, like they did not need similar backup. LOL - it made me laugh real good biggrin.gif

  4. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (residuum @ July 09 2002,15:47)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Is there a demo for this game?  Are the gfx nice?  After playing Dungeon Siege I was disapointed by its lack of depth.  It was very stunning and beautiful, but very simple.  Do you think I'd like NWN?<span id='postcolor'>

    The gfx in NWN are pretty much like in Dungeon Siege. I'd say that the nature graphics are a bit better in DS while the interior graphics are best in NWN. But fairly much the same standard. NWN is based on a tile-set, so the nature can look a bit too "even" in appearance, but it's of little concern to me.

    I also thought DS was kinda hollow after a while. Too repetitive. NWN has an excellent story and much depth, like any Bioware game before. It's very addictive and has plenty of detective work to balance off the fighting. Unlike the Baldur's Gate series, this time you are not the son of Baal, but a henchman hired to find a cure for a plague. You can also choose to play through the campaign as an evil character - today I met a horribly evil deamon captured in a force field. The deamon offered me a gift if I would release it upon the world ... my character is a greedy asshole, so I released it tounge.gif

    The fact that you also can play multiplayer with one player as DungeonMaster pretty much let you do whatever you like in this game. There are a zillion monsters and tilesets so it's easy to make new adventures. It only lacks horses, ropes, farmtools and stuff like that, like mentioned above  biggrin.gif

    There's no demo yet, but I personally think it's a no-brainer. It's the king of the hill RPG. I will however not be responsible if you buy it and hate it.  wow.gif

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    Pen and paper RPGs are just too slow and cumbersome with all those rule books and dice rolls. Even a barroom fight can take hours sad.gif

    I'm looking forward to trying NWN with a live DM though. Now I first have to get more used to the 3rd edition rules.

    The point in my first post was by the way, that most of those things *would* be possible to make in a PC RPG, it's just no one has bothered it seems.

  7. Posted

    I've been playing Neverwinter Nights for about a week now and must say this is one of the best RPG I've ever played - it really kicks ass on many levels. But I've noticed some things that are stereotypical to RPG games, and really wonder why these are not yet addressed, considering the current technology.

    - There is still no such thing as horses! Mounted knights simply doesn't exist! Travel from one city to the next? Walk! mad.gif

    - Despite that it's roleplaying, the plots only have one solution. Sure, you can approach them in countless different ways but the outcome is always the same - the world get's saved and the villains get killed. If it's an RPG, why can't I choose to JOIN the villain instead? I'd love to crush the skulls of those arrogant Helmite palladins! tounge.gif

    - It's still not possible to use (f.x.) a rope to climb over a wall or up through a window or such things.

    - You can't choose to lay down the sword and start a greengrocer shop instead of fighting. You can't seduce a rich woman and inherit her wealth when you later kill her. Simply put, there's a major lack in lifestyle choices.

    - people always stand on the same streetcorner they stood on the week before. People never go home after dark or go to the pub. The people who are already at the pub will never leave (slightly more realistic). Why not have to ask around to find a person? The world is too static - it seems like everything has just been put there for the player's sake.

    I know that there are things like MMORPG games. But they are far worse. It's simply 100.000 little annoying kids all running around to find a greatsword +8.

  9. Posted

    Well I think a game from Blizzard (just an example) gets more media cover and PR from their publisher because they've been making games for many many years and people know that they make decent products. There's ALOT of upstarters in developement that cancels their product and never get a game out. Therefore an upstart developer is a greater risk for the publisher. I think neither BIS nor CM had any idea what great potential there turned out to be in OFP. I think I've read several interviews portraying this.

    Now that BIS has more than proven their abilites, I'm sure an OFP2 would get some massive marketing dollar.

  10. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ July 07 2002,06:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">you suddenly realize that there are numerous things that are around you, but you can't find the definition of you. i.e. identity crisis.<span id='postcolor'>

    I think this happens more and more all over the world, not just America.

    I also had an identity crisis until I decided to become a Ninja.

  11. Posted

    It's a classic Albert. I'm sure it is! Once I lived a whole year in England and the last weekend before I was going back to Denmark, I met a beautiful Irish girl and I was instantly in love. She was this rare mix of natural beauty and a great personality. The whole year before that weekend I hadn't been going out with girls at all mad.gif

    It's just some lame timing of fait - or maybe because you live a bit fuller when a stay is coming to an end ... dunno.

  13. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 06 2002,15:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I have a group of childhood friends that I still see from time to time. One of these friends was in Spain on vacation a couple of years ago. There he managed to spend all his money and couldn't get home. To get some cash he did a nude session for a gay porn magazine. The good part is that he got less then 100 € for that. biggrin.gif

    The story doesn't end there however. Some while ago another friend found those pictures on the net "by accident" on a gay site. He claims that he was surfing on a straight porn site when he "accidentally" clicked on a link that took him to the pictures. biggrin.gif

    Anyway the pictures are now put up on a web server and preserved for his grandchildren to see in the future smile.gif<span id='postcolor'>

    LOL, great story! biggrin.gif

    Morale: Once in porn - always in porn.

  16. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Cloney @ July 05 2002,23:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Board Games are fun... Especially Axis and Allies. biggrin.gif<span id='postcolor'>

    Yeah. I can have an aircraft carrier up the nose!

  17. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ July 05 2002,23:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ok, let's get it on. I'm in room1 now smile.gif<span id='postcolor'>

    strange ... so am I wow.gif

  18. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (placebo @ July 05 2002,22:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Multiplayer Pong smile.gif<span id='postcolor'>

    Could someone please join??

    I'm sitting all alone in room1 mad.gif

  19. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (residuum @ July 05 2002,22:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It's a board game.<span id='postcolor'>

    mmm ... I like board games.

    The best is that you have these colorful plastic pieces that often fits up the nose.

  21. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (residuum @ July 05 2002,19:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Sadico @ July 05 2002,13:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Saying that Hitler was right is way too much, but some israelis like Sharon seem to think that because they have been victims of the nazis they can behave like nazis to defend themselves.<span id='postcolor'>

    Indeed.<span id='postcolor'>

    Yeah. Their "Innocense Mandate" is running out fast.

    Edit: Doh, didn't see Denoir's post before posting this.

  22. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (residuum @ July 05 2002,23:01)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Macs are very good computers for imagery and video editing.<span id='postcolor'>

    That was once true - back when the PC was having trouble with even the graphics in Windows. Years back I was a Mac user (for Photoshop) and it would always freeze up and rebooting was necessary several times a day. Now the Mac seems to go towards the same destiny as the Silicon Graphics; too exensive and slow in a an age where a PC can be replaced with a topmodel every year.

  23. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 05 2002,18:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (WKK Gimbal @ July 05 2002,18:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 05 2002,18<!--emo&wow.gif)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oligo @ July 05 2002,08:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Paratrooper:

    "I'm not a fanatic, but that is one of the most offencive things I have ever heard. How dare you compare Christianity to bestiality!"

    I just love these modern times of ours. Just say the magic word "offended" and everybody is supposed to yield before your offended might. And I didn't even try to "offend" you.

    <sigh> I'm not so much comparing as I am pointing out that these both are among the many different things that people rely on to live through another day. People do some weird stuff for kicks.

    Also, each of these many things are often important merely to the particular person who relies on the particular thing to boost him through his days. Now when the person in question starts to enlighten other people of the thing that he does, these other people often feel bored/enraged/disgusted/tired to hear all this preaching which is mere crap to them.<span id='postcolor'>

    Vile carnality is not remotley comparable to Christian faith, infact bestiality is an act not a belief.

    People are not Christians "for kicks". It supports through fellowship and faith, not through some perverse sexual gratification. You don't know anything about faith if you think that is how religion works in people's lives.<span id='postcolor'>

    And I think you completely missed the point he was making.<span id='postcolor'>

    I understand the point he was trying to make, it is not viable. He is not making it in terms of religious faith. I maintain that comparing Christianity to bestiality is repugnant.<span id='postcolor'>

    OK, let me cut it out for ya. The meaning is that you can believe whatever you like to believe, but should not force it upon others to believe the same. That you must respect others for believing differently than you do.

    He did not compare bestiality with religion. He was using it as an example of people who promote their way of life. What the way of life _includes_ is besides the point.

    It might as well have been the way that pop-culture dictates what measurements our bodies must have, or we should be ashamed of ourselves and only come out at night.

    Religious people are by far the least tolerant towards people who have other values. Why care which god/rockstar/TVshow/outfit/sexuality people like, if they're happy with it? Can't you be a happy christian unless everyone accept your visions as the ultimate truth? Why are christians the first to burst out in rage when the subject of homosexuality arises? It's none of their business who other people likes to sleep with. I could go on about this, but it's pointless.

  24. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 05 2002,18:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Oligo @ July 05 2002,08:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Paratrooper:

    "I'm not a fanatic, but that is one of the most offencive things I have ever heard. How dare you compare Christianity to bestiality!"

    I just love these modern times of ours. Just say the magic word "offended" and everybody is supposed to yield before your offended might. And I didn't even try to "offend" you.

    <sigh> I'm not so much comparing as I am pointing out that these both are among the many different things that people rely on to live through another day. People do some weird stuff for kicks.

    Also, each of these many things are often important merely to the particular person who relies on the particular thing to boost him through his days. Now when the person in question starts to enlighten other people of the thing that he does, these other people often feel bored/enraged/disgusted/tired to hear all this preaching which is mere crap to them.<span id='postcolor'>

    Vile carnality is not remotley comparable to Christian faith, infact bestiality is an act not a belief.

    People are not Christians "for kicks". It supports through fellowship and faith, not through some perverse sexual gratification. You don't know anything about faith if you think that is how religion works in people's lives.<span id='postcolor'>

    And I think you completely missed the point he was making.

  25. Posted

    </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Duke_of_Ray @ July 05 2002,17:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Christianity is actually a peaceful religon.<span id='postcolor'>

    Right ... the crusades tells us all about that.

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