RavenX

[quote who="vieuxchat" reply="1" id="2431620"]I would love to use such a system. And it would be even better if you don't see the real percentage you used. I mean : take a little cauldron, click and hold. As you hold some liquid is versed in the big cauldron. you just see the liquid flowing, when you release the button you won't see "34% water", but the color in the cauldron could be 34% blue That just would be really awesome. [/quote] I like that, but, that would make

[quote who="joasoze" reply="22" id="2431671"] And why arnt you playing right now mister?? [/quote] I actually had DA:O minimized when I typed that reply :P. I've been playing non stop for the last 7 hours or so and I'm about to go back for more until I get tired. The review is coming brother, I'll start a new thread for it and those who have it can review what they've done so far. Also if you play while "Logged In" to the game and community your progress is tracked o

[quote who="Tridus" reply="19" id="2430924"]Anybody buy it off iimpulse having problems? I'm being told that my serial number isn't valid even though its showing up in my games list. It won't download. [/quote] I saw on the DA:O forums a lot of people who bought it through a third party download service are having issues. That's gotta suck. It could be sever server stress too though. I had a problem getting my Stone Prisoner Add-on to work. It kept telling me my code was invalid

[quote who="MagicwillNZ" reply="4" id="2431189"]God Raven X, you look like you belong in a metal band. [/quote] lol thanks.

Imagine a picture of a bubbling Cauldron. Around the main Cauldron are a bunch of smaller Cauldrons that correspond to the various elements. The player would use a pointer that looks like a hand holding a magic wand (think old school MoM pointer). You hold the pointer over a container that has a Element in it, like Fire, or Earth, or Air. You click and hold down the mouse button and suck up magical power from the small container. You get a percentage reading of how much "Magic" of the Element

[quote who="Tridus" reply="37" id="2431147"] That sound you hear is the intent going way over someone's head. (At least, I hope so. It seems out of character for Raven to have actually been serious though, I sure didn't read it that way.) [/quote] I do you think you're the only one who read the post the right way Tridus, I was being mostly sarcastic yes. Still though, it was partly serious. If you take away all the "Hard Core" what are you left with? Spore?

[quote quoting="post"]It’s not the loudness I don’t just read the feedback on Elemental in our forums. I read the feedback on lots of other forums. So I lurk on sites like RPG.net, Octopus Overlords, PCCohort, Qt3, CnardPC, WArgamers.com, rpgcodex.net, tacticularcancer, colonyofgamers, bay12games.com, Shrapnel Games, penny-arcade forums, etc. And one of the most consistent concerns I read is that the hard core beta testers who post the most will influence the game

[quote who="joasoze" reply="14" id="2430079"] Quoting Raven X, reply 13 Quoting LoneLord, reply 1I've been trying my hardest to avoid all spoilers and trailers for this The trailers don't really give away any spoilers unless you watch one of the walkthroughs. Don't watch those and you're good to go. Quoting Tormy-, reply 12I am installing it right now! I will be in about an hour and a half. Actually it hit the pirate sites y

[quote who="Tridus" reply="7" id="2429993"]Force Unleashed was at best a mediocre console game, which means that on PC its going to be pretty terrible. [/quote] I don't get into a whole lot of console games these days except for fighters and a few exclusive titles. I actually loved Force Unleashed on the X-Box 360. My only regret about the game is that it was too short. At the end I still wanted more.

[quote who="LoneLord" reply="1" id="2429506"]I've been trying my hardest to avoid all spoilers and trailers for this [/quote] The trailers don't really give away any spoilers unless you watch one of the walkthroughs. Don't watch those and you're good to go. [quote who="Tormy-" reply="12" id="2430025"]I am installing it right now! [/quote] I will be in about an hour and a half. Actually it hit the pirate sites yesterday and even included some of the DLC lol. I cou

Interplay, who shared many of it's development staff with Black Isle is making a Fallout MMORPG. This could be seriously awesome if they do it right. The first artwork from the game has surfaced and GameSpot has the coverage. Check it out Here .

[quote who="Khardis" reply="17" id="2429847"]UFO Afterlight is the only non-brand sequel to X-com that has been worth a damn, in my eyes, but that one is actually pretty good. Still, another X-com is good news. But I do echo Red1939's sentiment... [/quote] There's another game called UFO: Extraterrestrials, check it out Here . The graphics are a bit dated, but when it comes to game-play and strategic options in ba

[quote who="vStyler" reply="80" id="2429547"] Where it pisses down almost every day [/quote] [quote who="zakai1369" reply="81" id="2429861"] Where they complain and wear winter coats when it's in the 50s [/quote] lol both true!!!

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="8" id="2429821"]I got an e-mail from SD telling me they are throwing the switch at 10 tomorrow morning. I was going to sing a 'hallelujah' chorus about it, since my 9:30-10:45 class had been canceled, but then I remebered they're an east coast company. Which means 7 in the morning my time. Bleh! [/quote] [quote who="Servius" reply="9" id="2429851"]I believe they are central/north USA. However the email said it

Special Thanks to Kryo for the tools to do the reformatting. It now follows the same format as his "Bug Roundup".

I'm starting as a Human Noble Mage first I think. Then I'll probably start a fighter type to play as a alt. With one I'll make evil choices or bad decisions and with the other I'll be the goody goody.

[quote who="SCORPION2000net" reply="78" id="2427421"]Here is mine: Reduced 33% Original 1680 x 1050 Windows7 Ultimate 64Bit Running on a Intel X25 G2 160GB SSD [/quote] lol holy sh*t... -2 degrees. That's COLD [e digicons]:seal:[/e] [e digicons]:snowman:[/e] . It's times like this I'm glad I live in Florida, "The Sunshine State" [e digicons]:sun:[/e]

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="18" id="2429344"]I would personally rather Stardock not spend the enormous amounts of dev time that would be necessary for allowing players to mutate creatures or make hybrid creatures. The graphical component alone would be prohibitive, and the algorithms used to determine what the outcome would be in terms of functionality would be just as bad... [/quote] Not necessarily. It could be done quite easily with a Spore type interface.

When I woke up this afternoon I had a call from GameStop on my caller ID. I called back the store and they said I can come pick up my copy of Dragon Age: Origins in the morning. YAY!!! :) By this time tomorrow the Dark Spawn will be falling bloody at my feet. [e digicons]:ninja:[/e]

[quote who="joasoze" reply="6" id="2428846"] I live in Norway and the shops will mostly have 100 copies of Wow and 3 other games on the shelves. Not expecting this game here anytime soon. Not a big fan of steam. If I buy a boxed version of Empire Total War (its actually in the shop), then I still need a steam account before playing the game. Go figure. My friend had his Half Life experience ruined by forced install of a patch that broke his game. Bahh... I just don't wanna go

[quote who="Tridus" reply="28" id="2428767"] Quoting Raven X, reply 27 these can cause new bugs and crashes upon introduction. but its effective an in-development program right now. Developers are going to break it sometimes. [/quote] Exactly.

[quote who="joasoze" reply="4" id="2428797"]I found that it is on Steam. No buy for me then [/quote] There are other ways aside from Digital Download to get games you know. Some of us "old timers" even go to these things called Stores where we put down *gasp* physical money for a pre=order of a game we wanted. We also used to walk 20 Miles Uphill BOTH WAYS in the blinding snow to get there. :P lol j/k Don't like Steam?

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="27" id="2428082"]will various factions have varios pigmentation? Or is it random? Or are all factions a multitude of various pigments? Obviously it would only add aesthetics, but what if we don't want to fight only Medieval Europeans? what if we want Samurai? or Native-American war dogs, or ... the awesome Zulu warrior? do you see what I mean? Also, among Europeans, will we have Blonds, Redheads, and Brunettes? Will we have freckles and non-fr

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="57" id="2428513"]Raven X's idea to "build your own tech tree" before the game even started was an interesting one ... but it seems like it would be the ultimate in min/max and strat crafting, although I suppose it would make good strats easier to learn for new-comers. [/quote] Not necessarily before you start. I mean "as you go". You would be able to see the full tech tree at any time by going to the research screen And you'd see the branching paths. C

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="26" id="2428721"]but it works almost perfectly on x64 Win7?[/quote] It doesn't brother. I'm on Win 7 Pro 64. It's a little more stable for me in XP Compatibility mode. If the last two Beta's are any trend then stability probably won't be a major issue they address until the basic fleshed out game-play skeleton is there. Meaning all the scripting for the actual mechanics (not withstanding tweaks of course) as these can cause new bugs and crashes upon