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does anyone  go one 1up.com
its a great gamer site.
The Podcasts are very informative and smart not
poorly written and acted  like G4TV

Going to be starting Final Fantasy XII tomorrow.

Listening to "Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue" while playing the "Bird Elephant" level of Katamari is one of my favorite things to do right now... it's weird and lovely


Gosh.. i need a new ps2. in a few months.. i wont be able to play anything im sure.

So I'm playing NWN2.

If you love RPG's in general and especially like stuff like Fallout and BG, GET IT!

Geck0 wrote: So, is it any good?  I am presuming it is.  A few people complain about NW (such as the camera angles and some silly plot ideas, plus some playability issues).  I also hear the new one has horses, does that add to it?

NWN1 is only good when you can look beyond the abysmal interpretation of DnD3.0 rules. Avoid stuff like power attack and expertise cause it's going to give you a major headache getting it to turn ON.

Don't bother with both that horses module and Darkness over Daggerford. I have a pc that can run NWN2 and it had serious trouble with those two.

As for the rest of NWN1, the OC's (all three) SUCK badly. Think predictable childlike story in which you'll be doing the same thing over and over. (in the Oc it's get four items from four different areas in ALL CHAPTERS) Camera mode is something to get used to, I use the Top Down and use the middle mouse button to adjust realtime. It's something that needs some training. Also, all AI and especially those of henchman is abysmal, you'll never get them to do what you want.

Get NWN1 only for the custom modules or multiplayer. (SOU is pretty good with someone else, but you'll notice the quality dropping rapidly near the end! lazy developers!)

I've had NW for ages and have compled the first OC.  I will play SoU and HotU eventually, but I've been playing some custom modules, including that Dreamlands one (it's a series of three long large modules) and seems pretty good and it doesn't seem to slow my machine down too much.

I also use top down view, but I don't have a middle mouse button (or middle scroller).  Chase mode is horrible!  I walk into walls and all sorts.  At night it's even worse, I don't want to carry a torch instead of a shield (being as I prefer axe/shield combo on a dwarf) into battle!

Well I'm not likely to buy the new module (I didn't buy the other three premium modules either).

I have downloaded Darkness over Daggerford, but have yet to try it.  So you think my PC will struggle with it then?

Apparently HotU will only run on 1 3 GHz. or higher, I shall put that to test sometime!

I do need a new computer though...


Edited by Geck0 - November 03 2006 at 18:53

It seems I missed out on Aldebran (isn't that a type of cereal?).

I actually logged-on Distant Lands earlier and the world is still the same (I could find places I used to go), but hardly anyone was online and none of them I seemed to know...

Oh well.  I'll log-on tomorrow and see if there are any more familiar faces.

Geck0 wrote: It seems I missed out on Aldebran (isn't that a type of cereal?). I actually logged-on Distant Lands earlier and the world is still the same (I could find places I used to go), but hardly anyone was online and none of them I seemed to know... Oh well.  I'll log-on tomorrow and see if there are any more familiar faces.

Seeing as I couldn't sleep, I decided to log onto "Aldebran"

Don't recognise anyone, and it's damn quiet. But I'm going to stick around in case I see some familiar faces. BTW, you should come visit!

http://mud.tap.de/

I'm about 4 hours into Final Fantasy XII.  It's very different, but I'm enjoying it so far.