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Screw these Baldur's Gate updates, give me a working version of Planescape: Torment. I can't get the old version to run without massive video issues, basically unplayable.

Yeah which is very damaging actually, and there are tons of other situations like this. Nobody remembers phone numbers anymore unless they're very easy/repetitive, due to cell phone storage, etc. Take away people's daily technology and they're fucking useless.

It's really the existence of GPS type stuff... a map, no matter how detailed, whether or not it's in-game etc. doesn't have the same effect because you still have to convert the map to your char's location via your own mind, just like IRL.

Something clearly not full african? Which the discussion was revolving around.

I didn't fish through it, I saw the first and just facepalmed =p

Some of you guys have a hard time understanding pure black (African) apparently. None of the ones you've mentioned are anywhere close (cept I don't know who Jumai whatever is), and the first one on your link is most certainly not.

Being able to navigate a world without a GPS is part of the "skill" involved in being a good MMO player. Removing that aspect just dumbs stuff down. Like people have said, both have their merits, it depends on your target audience and game design goals.

I'd be willing to bet it doesn't often. The average WoW player will bitch and moan about the smallest thing, but I doubt many of them are at sub-cancellation level. And despite Blizzard's great game designers being few and far between nowadays, they are extremely good at a few things, and one of...

And why should they? WoW items have no value. Smart move on their part to cut CS costs as much as possible.

Yeah interesting. Descent is probably the most well balanced DM vs. Players board game I've come across, I've been impressed at the quest design, as have my friends. Oh well! @Mr. Creed - I was going to suggest the D&D games (Ravenloft, Ashardalon, and that Drizzt one), but it sounds like...

Yes, but there is also the fact that progression servers are still EQ, a game which has had its ins and outs known for years upon years. A new game built similar to EQ would not be quite as inscrutable as it originally was, due to how easy it is to surf websites and shit while you play, and...

Weird, my group (four friends and me) really enjoys Descent. The fact that the DM guy (me in this case) has equivalent goals, and the overall balance of the winner's rewards seemed really well done IOO (in our opinions, lul). I'd almost just buy the master Ettin off of you because mine came with...

He's in the minority of people, with me and a couple others on here, who find the most interesting aspect the societal issues raised in the scenario. The zombies are a backdrop, thus a lack of AGMZOBMIEACTION for a few episodes is largely unnoticed by us. I agree with him, from that perspective...

Spaceward Ho! was just made (i)universal, so I picked it up for my iPhone. Had been checking on it every few weeks since I had noticed it for iPad, and played the everliving fuck out of it as a kid at school.

I don't think you know what permanent means. Reset and permanent are mutually exclusive by their literal definitions. I realize you're saying "permanent within their particular reset" but that's like saying "he's big for a midget." Still a fucking midget. I'm referencing WoW's gear resets...

You're just arguing the niche vs. mass market point. Pretty much everyone agrees you can't do what you're saying in mass market, that's not what most old-schoolers are wanting. There's nothing stopping a game from doing Sleeper type events in their persistent world, it just won't attract the...

Me too. And we legitimately found the Mega Man 3 invicible cheat by doing that. Although for awhile I just thought my game was bugging to shit, as I was occasionally jumping 50 feet in the air and being like "WTF IS GOING ON?"

The kid is also in the process of jumping right into a pit.

That's an interesting premise, but that is completely counter to what a lot of people are wanting being old school MMO players who are tired of the WoW era of bullshit. They want meaningful persistent worlds, not resets. WoW does resets (a version).

Actually yeah, I hadn't thought about it recently, but the gear reset in TBC was the first big FUCK YOU hugely bad decision I thought they made. Beginning of the end, really.

Yeah, but so? You wouldn't be able to compete with the kids who can devote 8 hours a day, but the fact that they can, and have better shit than you, makes the game actually feel like a persistent world and not Modern Warcraft 3 with hop-in/hop-out battles. I certainly don't have the time...

What McCheese said.

Better in my opinion? Yes, because that's the kind of game I like. One that I can get invested in, that isn't soobviouslyjust a skinner box designed to keep the average masses paying as much money to blizzard as possible. Better objectively? Shrug, I'm smart enough to know the difference...

This game is just a completely different game from what it started as, so much that it shouldn't still be called World of Warcraft. It confuses people. Seriously, not only has it changed every fucking patch and expansion (they can't seem to stick to a design decision), but the aggregate...

Yup. What he did with Yoda in 2 and 3 was a very poor choice, and anyone who likes the Star Wars mythos would probably agree. Yet another decision based on OMG THAT WOULD BE COOL and not good storytelling. I can't find the video cause google is just giving me recent Disney merger links, but...

Skip him?

So did they remove the thing that used to let shamans drop more than one totem at a time?

Man I would kill for a new Shining Force.

Yeah these fucks still don't know what they're doing. His entire blog post or whatever that is just screams "I have no fucking clue about design fundamentals." And what Ancient said, making PVP "matter" is exactly what will fuck the game. Diablo PVP should only ever be meaningless...

It only opens certain doors! Others are their specific key only.

I have a local game shop with an owner who would much rather compete with online prices than lose sales. I'm sure it'd be the same for any sane intelligent owner. You should ask him, it's always nice to have the convenience of no shipping delay and such.

You're only considering them full-blown classes because of a preconception. They didn't include "classes", they just offer different starting points. Hope they don't actually add full-blown classes in DS2. One of many ways they could fuck this one up going more mainstream or whatever... sigh.

Cheat sheets? Do tell!

Amazing sir. Thanks!

Regardless of the direction they take 7-9, not making a trilogy of movies using the pure badassery that is Grand Admiral Thrawn is a complete travesty. So fuck this shit.

Alright, thanks for the responses. I'll look into some Lovecraft stuff based on Zhaun's list. What other writers/stuff expanded the Cthulu mythos?

I've been wanting to delve into this stuff after being indirectly introduced to it via the multitude of references in modern fiction, games, etc. Does anyone have a suggestion on where to begin? Interested in the Cthulu mythos stuff.

Honestly yeah, fully fleshed out co-op features would be pretty fucking fantastic. This half-thing they have is just kind of weird IMO.

What is he throwing at Mimics to make them open up and be lootable without munching him? That thing that says it feeds hungry souls or whatever? So many items in this game that I had no clue wtf were for lol.