RavenX

Now THIS looks much improved. I checked out some of the other videos as well and I'm Very Glad you animated the rest of the members of a unit during an attack or defensive action (noticed this in FE-TacticalTest2) . My excitement for FE just peaked :). In fact, if I'm feeling well enough I may have to do a FE version of Undead Rising and get around to implementing the rest of the things I wanted to with the original version that I couldn't do when my health worsened. I wou

Been thinking about trying SW:ToR my-self. Hey chief, how's the PvP? Decent?

I just came to the forums to post this info! lol. Good beating me to it, Russ. If anyone remembers, back when the news was first put out that the shooter XCom was coming out I mentioned Firaxis would be also be making a traditional strategy version as well. I hadn't heard anything about it since then though and even then it was only a rumor I had heard in a e-mail between me and one of Ken Levine's associates from 2K. I'm glad to see they followed through. Now I don't ha

[quote who="ElanaAhova" reply="195" id="3034535"]Hey, can anyone tell me if chunks of soul crystals are anything but items to sell to vendors for coinn?[/quote] Chunks of Soul Crystals? Maybe I haven't run into them yet? I don't remember seeing any "chunks". There's your petty soul gems, lesser soul gems, common soul gems, greater soul gems, and grand soul gems, and black soul gems. Did you try looking it up the on the Skyrim Wikki?

[quote who="unacomn" reply="192" id="3033970"]Quoting RavenX, reply 188 Windows XP won't let me change the setting in that way, but I have tried every option in the compression and hardware acceleration sliders, with no effect. I was pleasantly surprised that the sound ran normally actually, in New Vegas it was a complete mess. Sound isn't really the issue for my PC. In interiors it gets up to a very high framerate, it's the loading of textures and map

This looks pretty cool for something small. I might check this out. Good looking out pointing this out. We share with each when we find decent games all the time. That's what this part of the forums is for. You're good man.

[quote who="Kantok" reply="189" id="3033882"] Because after the 200th or 300th lock picked it gets annoying. There's no skill or game about it. Pick a random starting spot, carefully test if you have it right. Repeat until you run out of picks or get the lock. This works regardless of skill of the PC or the lock requirement. *YAWN*[/quote] True, it can get boring after the hundredth time or so. When you think about it though it is so

[quote who="unacomn" reply="167" id="3032837"]If I manage to fix my PC while I'm on vacation this month, I'm going to start the game again, and mod it to hell and beyond. The interface especially, I hated it to no end, but now I see there's a mod for that. I just wish there was a way to mod the Morrowind interface into it, sadly, that's impossible. Also, a minimap would have been nice, although... funny story. When I played Morrowind the first time for 3 months, I had a SiS 31

Personally I kinda like the Fallout 3 method of picking locks. To each their own I suppose. I've been working hard on the Rav'N Review of Skyrim which is very in depth and in it I also cover the mods I'm using and the ones I've tested that turn out to be not so great. I also cover some of the more specific bugs. The 1.2 patch did bug some of the quests which means I may have to reset a couple of them through the console or if I can't fix them so I can do them the way

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="11" id="3032672"]Raven, how are you going?[/quote] Not too bad my friend, how are you? Things are going ok for me except on the money front. I've got a new doctor and I'm on better meds but the medical bills are killing me and my family. My wife and I added up our bills for the month (Dec) and then subtracted that from what we know our income will be before Christmas and after paying for my doctors visit and meds for December we&#39

[quote who="pacov" reply="166" id="3032751"]Yeah - I need to take a look again at Skyrim nexus. Grabbed a few mods shortly after launch and I'm about due for another look. Thanks for the list![/quote] Don't mention it brother :), no problem at all. I highly recommend the mods I mentioned if your system has the graphical capabilities to handle it. On a side note, I was going to do a "Rav'N Reviews" on Skyrim and post it here for my review friends an

[quote who="pacov" reply="67" id="3024957"]Are there any good pc mods out yet? [/quote] Some of the graphics mods are quite nice. I'm using the 4Gig Memory Unlocker, Colorful Dragons, Nude Females (when you take off the armor of course), Post Process Injector (custom settings and is a HUGE Improvement) , and the HD Texture Packs from the guy who did the HR Textures for Whiterun. The game looks simply Jaw Dropping on my system. All of them are on Skyrim Nexus.

I canceled my pre-order of Arkham City all together because they pulled that "lets push the PC edition back a month" plan. Since they saw fit to screw me over on the platform I WAS going to BUY it for, well, I decided to screw them over on the price of the game... Do I feel bad? Nope. That's what they get for treating PC gamers like criminals, lost sales. It really sucks too because Arkham City is an Amazing game and DC deserves every single cent of the licensing fee and Roc

[quote quoting="post"] Skyrim's street date has been broken in Australia by a solid 10 hours, however - because Steam owns PC Gaming - it can't be installed until midnight. So, until then, I get to stare at my legally purchased, worthless piece of plastic that amounts to little more than a Steam Activation code. DRM's a real bitch. Doesn't change the fact that I'm still very, very excited - enough so to buy it regardless of the Steam bullshit i

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="3022399"]I'm in Battlefield 3 mode (which I suck at). But I plan to get this during the holidays.[/quote] Chief, you remember how a while ago you sold Impulse for those truck-loads of money we talked about? You don't have to wait for the Holidays to afford it ;)

Indeed Nenjin, great find. This "Cartel" looks like something to keep an eye on. It'll be interesting to see if Paradox can truly pull off the RTS portion as well and not make it blow as RTS doesn't really seem to be Paradox's cup of tea. I hope they can pull it off because a Real Syndicate style remake would be awesome as hell if done correctly.

[quote who="Alstein" reply="48" id="2999557"]I'm suspecting Impulse, but I'd be really happy if you could use your serial on the new Stardock client when you release it. [/quote] That's pretty much what I was thinking as well. Always good to get some info in advanced though. Thank you my friend.

P.S. Does this mean Fallen Enchantress is going to be on the new Stardock specific program or will we get it through Impulse?

Small Memory Footprint FTW! :)

[quote who="Jafo" reply="25" id="2999209"]An SSD isn't going to be any safer than a platter. Both have finite lives. Genuine long term storage will also mean minimum access/use. Then you'll only have to worry about still having the hardware and/or OS to access it....[/quote] Hmm...why was I under the impression that the other big advantage to a SSD was that they didn't have any moving parts and had incredibly long, nigh on indestructible, life s

[quote who="Jafo" reply="21" id="2998797"] Only things you 'need' to have on an SSD is the OS itself...and various proggies such as Photoshop...or Office, etc. All the 'big crap' like Games, Music, Videos, etc....leave them all on a platter. Minimum 'functional' SSD size for W7 is dependent on installed ram and possible need for a Hiberfil. - eg with a UPS. Mine's fine with that...12gig ram and a 60gig OCZ Summit. B

I'm still waiting for the size of SSD drives to get a lot bigger (not to mention a LOT cheaper) before I invest in one so I don't really have anything useful to contribute here. Needless to say though, seeing as how I've currently got 2 TB's almost filled with programs, games, and movies, converting that all over to SSD's would be really expensive. Unless of course you've got dump-trucks full of cash lying around because you just sold your digital distribution system..

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="7" id="2998621"]The techs spawn the goodiehuts.[/quote] Yeah, I remember that much. Last night was the first time I tried playing a game of Elemental in months to be honest though so I'm a little rusty now on some of the details. At first I couldn't even remember how to rotate a building when placing it in my city. The thing with the goddie huts though, was it was literally within the first 10 turns and I was picking up treasure chests

[quote who="Delmoroth" reply="30" id="2997502"]Lol raven, as far as gameplay, it has a much to do with it as an x-com shooter or a syndicate shooter. Unfortunatly it seems everything is being made into a shooter now because that is what many consoul gamers want.[/quote] [quote who="Nenjin" reply="31" id="2997697"]Raven....look at those screen shots. Don't some of the things in them seem mighty familiar? [/quote] Ahh...lol yeap. See, that's what I get for not read

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="5" id="2998447"]This was changed in 1.3 I think, they didn't like it that you could see stuff and not pick it up. They tweaked the goodiehut code when they removed that limit.[/quote] Really? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that make the part of the research tree and things you needed to research to increase your lore enough so you could pick up the "goodie items" completely use-less? I haven't gotten far enough in my current new gam