Recent content by Darathy

A handful of dust.

Given how horribly deity is usually represented in games, I'm going with Myrkul in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer. Also, the Roman pantheon did contain the same major deities as the Greek pantheon (and no, they wouldn't have disagreed about that), but the Romans also had a fair...

Planescape Torment's a definite "must-play". "Must-read", anyway. Do not try to run NWN2; it's a 2006 release, IIRC, but it's not exactly optimised well. The KotORs should run OK; KotOR II is a 2005 release, and while they occasionally have engine hiccups, you should be able to run at least...

The story wasn't incomplete, though, and is of far greater depth than the first game's; and in what way are the characters "annoying"? I'm not sure they can really all be characterised as anything; they're all fairly diverse.

Why? You may be right about accusations of being a WoW-clone; however it is fair to say, based on Bioware's track record, that the game will have strictly railroaded story, characters ripped off from the first KotOR, the most banal, "epic" storyline they can come up with, fedex-dominated...

Can't really comment on most of the game, to be honest; I uninstalled partway through Port Llast. From what I've heard the gameplay doesn't improve much over the rest of the game. You should definitely try NWN2 - it's got a much firmer sense of plot and, once you get out of Act I, pace. You can...

NWN1. I was bored rigid by the opening scenes. By Port Llast I was ready to uninstall. Dull story, graphically lacklustre (it looks worse than stuff like PS:T), unimaginably irritating in quest design, which is banal, linear and about as inspired as a hole in the head, and dialogue which is as...

Being slightly against MMOs as a kind of digitalised crack, and having an equally slight loathing for Biowhore as the makers of NWN1 and for their general all-around mediocrity, in particular in the storytelling/dialogue department, I may have a slight bias. I also really, really like KotOR I...

True Neutral/Neutral Good Elf Cleric.

Ideally? Obsidian, as a writer/level design/gdb.

KotOR II, Starfleet Command 3 and Age of Mythology were all excellent.

Depends what you want to do with it; if you want spell VFX to work, you may have to turn some settings down, and if you don't get the fixes for hi-res and hi-res text, the resolution may annoy you.

I facepalm. Why? You seem to be reducing both to mere representationalism; neither can be satisfactorily or realistically reduced in the way you seem to be attempting to. Further, if photography and film are not art, why is painting? Certainly I can agree with your definition art as a...

This thread makes me sadface. LimaBravo: Are you an admirer of stuckism, and if not are you genuinely, as you appear to be, arguing first that films and photographs have no artistic merit, and second that the whole is actually less than the sum of its parts?

This thread has gone 17 posts without a mention of Planescape: Torment? Wow.