For the Orks, it’s Fourecks, from the Discworld... whose capital is “Bugarup”.

Their research tree with involve adding more dakka. That’ll be the entire tree, probably. Just... a huge, seemingly complex research tree that whose every branch just says “dakka”.

To be fair though, the game itself kinda goes off script once or twice, as part of its script. There are multiple situations in the game where a mutant combat expert should have been able to incapacitate people without slicing heads off. But no. Instead, some peasant locals show up at the pub and want to start a fight?

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“We didn’t allow Joe Camel to encourage our kids to smoke cigarettes”

But you do allow the sugar industry to sell brightly coloured cartoon-character-covered “treats” that are more addictive than the hardest drugs and just as damaging to the human body as alcohol... to those same kids. I guess lung cancer is a big…

I think the worst thing about NWN’s story was that it marked the point at which Bioware clearly lost their better writers and started doing the same story over and over again.

Seriously - look at KOTOR. Same story. Bastila = Aribeth. Same plot structure, in which you go to each hub area and collect some ancient thing,…

It’d be great if they finally fixed the damn environment mapping issue (that on modern graphics cards, if you try to enable the environment map stuff - that which gives metal its shiny reflective effect - your character is rendered invisible). Without that effect turned on, all the weapons look like dull plastic.

Personally, I imagined it as being a dragon with big long ears and a tendency to look a bit sad.

Because I’m a Brit, and we still know the difference between ass and arse.

Oh god yes, I have memories like that. You’d never kill the bastard before he was at least past the midway point. It was like trying to catch someone covered in grease.

Were you on the European servers by any chance? On my server, Alliance massively outnumbered Horde. Which, before battlegrounds, meant they always had…

Did you ever watch the youtube backstory videos? They’re pretty fantastic, and very unsettling if you’ve played the full game.

Not sure how you managed that, unless it was Akers. Akers was a bastard. But then, he was supposed to be.

You definitely need to complete it though. It’s the best bit of science fiction writing I’ve encountered in a very long time. It will genuinely unsettle you, and leave you with a bit of an existential crisis.

Yeah, I don’t really get it. As you say, compared to Amnesia... and hell, compared to Penumbra, Soma was pretty story-driven rather than monster-driven.

The only part of the game that pissed me off was where you have to contend with... that guy. What was his name? Ackers?

The problem with it was - they’d already…

I’d be happy if they just released them, patched to run on modern systems, on GOG.com

I loathe this modern big publisher obsession with only selling stuff through their own stores. It’s just part of the general sleazy attitude of big business - constantly trying to establish monopolies that don’t *technically* violate…

This is true. I remember with fondness... during the very first week of the game, my first character was a Night Elf Rogue (before I promptly saw the light and rerolled Horde), and at level 10 I ran (very fast, with a hundred monsters tailing me) all the way to Booty Bay, got on the ship, and went to the Barrens.…

That was always one of the biggest problems when it came to balance though - perception.

From a Horde player’s point of view, Paladins were the spawn of satan - their ability to bubble seemed absolutely unreasonable and led to a whole heap of rage in PVP, because quite frankly... godmode abilities do not belong in a…

“Many specs had no viability or leveling options that weren’t obscenely difficult or tedious in comparison to normal leveling.”

Yeah but... you didn’t have to go with those specs. It’s like complaining that vanilla prot spec warriors sucked at solo PVE. Yes, they did. That’s why you didn’t go pure prot until you’d hit…

Blizzard are an obscenely wealthy company. Couldn’t they just have... multiple legacy servers? Like one for strict WoW Vanilla, and one for Burning Crusade + Wrath?

Or, how about this for a more modern idea that would probably scoop up a *lot* of people who once played but are now on the fence about the whole thing -…

“And after years of choppy, illegible Hollywood action scenes, it revived the visceral beauty of a well-shot, well-choreographed fight...”

I wasn’t such a huge fan of John Wick - big fan of Keanu though. Always thought more highly of him than other people seemed to.

Nevertheless, credit where it’s due - I *loved* the…

Garrett.

These places look like confirmation that we’re actually living in The Sims, and some sadistic 12 year old is designing homes and giggling hysterically.

I never understood those iron weapons. Like, in past incarnations, iron weapons were, sure, the cheapest and crappiest. But they at least looked like they’d been made properly. For example, you could get an iron saber in Morrowind and it looked... like it should. Like an actual saber that someone actually spent some…

Uh... I think you’re a little overly angsty there. I dunno what happened to you, but for most of us? Scamming is irrelevant. It’s noise. It just... doesn’t touch us. I mean, do we see those idiots in Jita spamming shady contracts? Sure. But if you genuinely thought you were the one who’d come out on top, you kinda had…