Good luck with finishing it. My girlfriend tried to fire up the original Morrowind, and I was surprised to find that it just keeps hitting you with pages of text, and when you get past that, the combat system is such that you can’t even hit the tiniest of worms.

Heh. I played through as a wizard, mostly because I enjoyed the mages in BG1 and 2, and thus tended to have them as my main character.

Ha. Yeah, I think I prefer K1 too, just because the plotline of the main character feels like it gives you so much more agency. Revan and Malik are just strong characters.... also accidental gameplay choices made that final fight epic, since I forgot to pick up any skills that would let me interfere with Malik’s…

Being able to convert most your companions to the Dark Side made it feel a lot more viable of an option, while in K1 you ended up murdering your good party members. When I played it, I spared a few of the Jedi I was sent after, without really affecting my Dark Side powers too, which was nice. Maybe the evil options…

I also think that having it voice acted naturally changes the way you’d write too.... people don’t speak paragraphs at each other as part of normal conversation.

I think the most lasting memory I have of Torment is just how much of my time was spent finessing that ageless jerks tats and stats so that I could get every dialogue option available to me. I don’t envy these early players... I imagine for every choice you see, there are so many hidden beneath the surface, waiting…

This discussion makes me think of how it was when, after my girlfriend and I finished Oblivion a year or two ago after having missed it the first time, we fired up Morrowind, which I hadn’t played since the early 2000s. I expected that the graphics would be terrible, but I had forgotten that from moment one of the…

It’s pretty easy to make a game that is challenging and rewarding without forcing you to grind content. But it makes for a shorter game... I can understand why MMOs don’t want that, but I never felt a sense achievement finally getting my pants after killing the same boss for the 25th time. By that point, the game…

WoW has apparently gotten better about making their high end content more accessible since I left back at the end of the Burning Crusade, but god... there are just better ways to have fun in gaming than MMOs, or really any RPG that forces you to grind for hours to advance like some Final Fantasy or JRPG games.

For me it wasn’t a matter of video games, in general, but rather the video game grind that I needed to reject. Those years I played World of Warcraft, I had a lot of fun, but I also spent way to much time to support that fun, and had to sort my schedule around it in a way that just wasn’t healthy.

Really? Given how up and arms South Carolina and the whole rest of the South has been over taking down their Confederate battle flags, I say, bring on more slavery movies. Let them see what sort of horror that shit represents.

Oh well that’s good then. Other reviews weren’t really that specific.

But by that logic, Mulder being a Holocaust denier would make sense too. So clearly they are making some choices for the sake of good taste.

I would say that Fringe certainly ended better than Lost did.

So, I heard Mulder turned out to be a 9/11 Truther right?
Ugh. Maybe it was just easier for me to handle all that conspiracy stuff in the 90s because those weren’t the people running the country.

ESPN should also worry about the simple fact that they’re a middleman and an aggregator of content... there’s nothing stopping the NFL or NCAA from just making a streaming app for all their games and doing their own advertising. I’ve only ever been a fan of NCAA basketball, and it was a constant frustration to figure…

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Vote against that, assholes.

I wish I could convince Captain Ironsides to take a detour through that place.

I wondered if you didn’t lose happiness or something if you ignored them. I think its the ‘Clear Corvega Factory” quests that really pisses me off. That stupid factory hides its boss in a really werid place that I never find easily, and its been given to me three or four times. Going someplace new is fun.... getting…