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201baldur's gate and icewind dale were good..
i'm retired. what's your excuse?
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Nah, you get the family to play the game with you. You each take turns driving the mouse and you collboratively make decisions about what to do in the game. The family that games together stays together - usually all night until someone realizes that it's 4am and you guys really should have gone to bed hours ago.featureless wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:03 pm This stupid thread got me snooping which made me aware of The Witcher III. That would almost certainly require me digging the old PC out of the garage to determine its specs which would almost certainly lead me to buying a new video card and more ram which would almost certainly lead to me being holed up in the room with the spare tv for hours on end which would almost certainly lead to an issue with the family's neglect. I should just not look in here again.
Great sales pitch!Eris wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2019 4:48 pmNah, you get the family to play the game with you. You each take turns driving the mouse and you collboratively make decisions about what to do in the game. The family that games together stays together - usually all night until someone realizes that it's 4am and you guys really should have gone to bed hours ago.featureless wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:03 pm This stupid thread got me snooping which made me aware of The Witcher III. That would almost certainly require me digging the old PC out of the garage to determine its specs which would almost certainly lead me to buying a new video card and more ram which would almost certainly lead to me being holed up in the room with the spare tv for hours on end which would almost certainly lead to an issue with the family's neglect. I should just not look in here again.
After reading this article I want to play Oblivion again. I'm a huge Terry Pratchett fan, and I played some of Emma's mods in Morrowind, so the Vilja mod sounds really appealing!Most people know Pratchett as the author of Discworld, the famous fantasy series about a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants. However, what many people don't know is that the knighted author was also a massive fan of video games - so much so that he actually worked on mods for Oblivion, most of which were spearheaded by a Morrowind modder named Emma.
After making the transition from Morrowind to Oblivion, Emma sought to create a companion for herself. This resulted in the creation of Vilja, a Nord alchemist designed to keep Emma company as she traversed the world of Oblivion. While Emma originally created Vilja for personal use, even voicing the character herself, she eventually released her to the public with the help of fellow modder Charles "CD" Cooley. Vilja received a lot of admiration from avid players, but a particularly intriguing email titled "Praise for Vilja" came a few months after Vilja 1.0 launched.
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"The first letter from Terry arrived in March 2010, only three months after the original release," Emma told Eurogamer. In this message, Pratchett mentioned how enamoured he had become with Vilja, specifically mentioning his appreciation for the way in which she would acknowledge small gifts such as strawberries. "He also praised the modding community as a whole, mentioning how impressed he was by the effort put into mods, and how much he enjoyed using them."
I was thinking about reinstalling Morrowind, and it looks like the newest patch removes the need to play with the disc in, so you should be able to play without the disc with no need to install a pirate crack.lurker wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2019 1:00 am playing morrowind (ESIII) again for the umpteenth time, and stumbled on something new to me. if you press your nose firmly against the ghostfence, you can kill things inside it with your bow. yeah, big hairy deal, but this is testimony to how deep this game is, i must've played it dozens of times all the way through and yet never noticed this.
i sometime wonder about the gameplay changes between morrowind and the later games. i assume they were responding to player complaints about lack of realism. this in a world where it is actually possible to buy stuff 24/7, but we can't allow that in a game with elves and dragons, but shops being open round the clock would be unrealistic. and what happened to mark and recall? levitate? they worked in morrowind but not in in cyrodil or skyrim?
24 hour shops don't make sense to me in a medieval type setting. That's really a modern phenomenon made possible by eletricity.lurker wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2019 1:00 am playing morrowind (ESIII) again for the umpteenth time, and stumbled on something new to me. if you press your nose firmly against the ghostfence, you can kill things inside it with your bow. yeah, big hairy deal, but this is testimony to how deep this game is, i must've played it dozens of times all the way through and yet never noticed this.
i sometime wonder about the gameplay changes between morrowind and the later games. i assume they were responding to player complaints about lack of realism. this in a world where it is actually possible to buy stuff 24/7, but we can't allow that in a game with elves and dragons, but shops being open round the clock would be unrealistic. and what happened to mark and recall? levitate? they worked in morrowind but not in in cyrodil or skyrim?
I don't pay money to download stuff, I'd much rather spend $3 on a CD than ten dollars on "intellectual property."Eris wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:57 am Unless you really want the physical copy, I'd say ignore the used one and get it from Good Old Games.
https://www.gog.com/game/icewind_dale_2
It's only $10, and you also get some goodies like the "Adventurer's Pack" expansion, the soundtrack, some wallpapers, etc.
What are they and how much to ship them?lurker wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 2:41 pm i'm about to take a stack of (mostly) RPG game cds to goodwill with the graphing calculator, if anyone wants some or all, lemme know.
don't worry about shipping. no guarantee they'll run on your version of windows. pillars of eternity, dungeon siege, dungeon siegeLOA, DS BW, flight sim 2002, myst, 1l2 sturmovik 1946, sacred, flight sim 2002, morph studio, black hawk down, COD goty, conflict: desert storm, ori and the blind forest. and an os2 warp install set for you os2 geeks. maybe some more, need to go thru the drawer. some of these i've never installed.
As you wish. For my part I'd rather pay money that goes to the creators for a product that I know is going to work, than pay money to a third party for something that may be useless.Bang wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 12:05 pmI don't pay money to download stuff, I'd much rather spend $3 on a CD than ten dollars on "intellectual property."Eris wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:57 am Unless you really want the physical copy, I'd say ignore the used one and get it from Good Old Games.
https://www.gog.com/game/icewind_dale_2
It's only $10, and you also get some goodies like the "Adventurer's Pack" expansion, the soundtrack, some wallpapers, etc.
no hurry.Bang wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 5:34 pm I remember the demo for Dungeon Siege was a lot of fun, so those would be great, if you're really going to just give them up. I've never played Pillars of Eternity, but it did sound fun at the time.
I have to get a PO box here in Washington, so if you're willing to hold on to them for a week or so that would be appreciated.
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