Never played part 2, but The Witcher was one of the most overrated rpg's that comes to memory. The storytelling was just so over the top and stupid I couldn't get through it.
I just hate the thousand variations of DONT STAND IN FIRE. Rift was an even worse offender than WoW in this regard. Positioning should be part of any encounter but hopping around everywhere is tedious and forces you to zoom all the way out. I'd rather have raiding depend on strategic use if your...
Was going through my old Photobucket account and found these from 2005, was helpin a lowbie friend who was getting ganked by a couple of 60's.... man I feel old:
and they fled like cowards
Seems to be a global 2 second cooldown on most abilities, short duration buffs are on a separate cooldown. The point of combat seem to be to perform combos and not spam all your abilities.
The Silmarillion. Not directed by Jackson, the book is too different from The Hobbit & LotR to use the same director. Someone like Danny Boyle would be a better choice, he has very unique visuals in his movies.
I read Everette's book and while it's interesting, the conclusion is that the tribe apparently doesn't usesyntactic recursionin the surface structure. The underlying representations could, and probably do have some sort of recursive element.
Not sure how many of you studied linguistics in college but there has been an interesting debate going on for the last ten years or so about a number of important things. The pioneer of this field Noam Chomsky has argued for a while now thatlanguage is not for communication. What that means is...
I never played 11 so I can't say how similar it is. You pick a starting job and when you reach level 10 you can pick up the others, you have to go to the class guild of that particular one. In the starting village there's an archer guild, lancer guild, conjurer guild, etc.
I got an alpha invite this morning. The download was relatively small at around 4 gigs, probably because only a small portion of the world is open. It plays like your standard MMO now as opposed to the unplayable mess we all remember a few years back. It has a usable UI, fluid...
I always liked this system as well. Akitoshi Kawazu designed FF2 which should be no surprise since he took that same design to the nth degree with all the SaGa games.