Riggswolfe
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Yeah, I have nothing to say to people who didn't like BG, and less to people who liked those damned action console games that bastardized things more than the PC RPG.
Get out of our RPG thread heathens!
I like RPGs quite a lot, but there's one reason I couldn't stand to play Baldur's Gate: Minsc. I'm sorry, you need to report to an execution line immediately. Minsc is hands down my favorite RPG character of all time and the only computer game character that regularly gets quoted around our gaming table during PnP games. |
"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Yep. Every time I wander into a dungeon I declare it a 'den of STINKING evil'.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Sir T
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*cant help himself*
BUTTKICKING FOR JUSTICE!!!!
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Hic sunt dracones.
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Riggswolfe
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Our two favorites:
Magic is impressive, but now Minsc leads! Swords for everyone!
Ahh... We are all heroes; you and Boo and I. Hamsters and rangers everywhere, rejoice!
I also like the one about "Evil is everywhere! Be careful! Don't step in it!" I can't remember the exact quote.
I also greatly enjoy
Evil meet sword! Sword meet evil!
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Lum
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no no no
Buttkicking for GOODNESS!!!
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Pennilenko
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no no no
Buttkicking for GOODNESS!!!
Ahhh... Memories. |
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Prospero
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Go for the eyes Boo!
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WindupAtheist
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I played through BG1 with an evil party, killing off the good characters as I met them. I went so far as to use the Cloak of Algernon to charm every single person in the Friendly Arm Inn so I could gank Khalid and Jaheira without getting in trouble. Minsc I provoked into attacking me and blew into giblets before he could finish yelling "Go for the eyes!"
Xzar and Montaron, that's where it was at.
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild
"Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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rk47
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the memorable things about Baldur's Gate 1 is that there's plenty of recruitables that it's never too harsh to lose some of them in early game. Which makes the game a decent challenge just like Temple of Elemental Evil minus the good TB Combat
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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F13 presents TranscripFun!™ for the hearing impaired:
(FIRE/CONCERNED WHITE PEOPLE APPEAR)
CAPTAIN BEARD: The plan will work, your majesty--wait...is that a British accent? This is going to end with you being corrupted by evil isn't it?
GOLDILOCKE: Of course it will. (PAUSE) The Blight ends here, but only because I want to yell incredibly obvious commands at our half-retarded--
(LARGE ANGRY GREEN HUMANOIDS STRATEGICALLY WALK STRAIGHT FROM THE TREELINE INTO:)
GOLDILOCKE: Archers!
LE EVIL: Rawwrr! Who needs tactics when you're large and angry! (SWINGS SWORD)
(EVERYONE CHARGES BLITHELY)
GOLDILOCKE: For Ferelden! (DARK, MATURE, GRITTY FIST PUMP)
(MORE CHARGING, SLASHING, DYING)
CAPTAIN BEARD: (BRUTALLY EFFECTIVE PENSIVE LOOK)
GOLDILOCKE: Hurk! Argh!
LE EVIL HORNED GUY (CHOKING GOLDILOCKE): (CHOKES GOLDILOCKE)
AUDIENCE: Look at that spittle! This is definitely not the high fantasy D&D I'm used to!
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Fordel
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The charging into each other is getting rather cliche in these videos. Hasn't anyone heard of a shield wall?
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Brogarn
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I hate to say I'm disappointed by something that Bioware put out but I'm definitely disappointed with that trailer. Cliches and poor battle tactics abound along with animations didn't quite look right to me.
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Margalis
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Given that it was a minute long, was 50% company logos and had no gameplay footage it wasn't that bad. At least it established a tone and visual style that differentiates it from most other entries. That said it certainly doesn't excite.
Maybe it's because I'm a perfectionist but I don't understand the media that some companies put out. The Champions gameplay footage is another example.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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rk47
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It's not that bad if the trailer came out like...2-3 years ago after it was announced but FOUR YEARS an all we get is cinematics? Wow, my hype eater starved to death already.
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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schild
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 This is the ONLY shot that means anything. Now who is writing the main storyline? And who picked 1200x675 as the image sized? Comeon, 1280x720 min plz. Thanks. |
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Lucas
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This is the ONLY shot that means anything. Now who is writing the main storyline? And who picked 1200x675 as the image sized? Comeon, 1280x720 min plz. Thanks. Yeah, my 24" Samsung is crying . |
" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Valmorian
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Minsc is hands down my favorite RPG character of all time and the only computer game character that regularly gets quoted around our gaming table during PnP games.
This is why I never play PnP RPGs, even though I collect them: The utter lack of taste of the RPG player crowd. |
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schild
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Morte >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anna>Minsc.
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Lucas
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Morte >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anna>Minsc.
sooooooo true dat...Chief.  |
" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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NiX
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God the screenshots are underwhelming.
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HaemishM
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Underwhelming? Can you say "How is this screenshot any different from a shader heavy, bump-mapped, light-sourced NWN?"
None of the hype gets me in the least bit excited about Dragon Age. That trailer was incredibly dark, like 1970's film dark, and wholly uninspiring.
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WindupAtheist
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Montaron >>>>>>>>>>>>> (x infinity) all
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild
"Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Stormwaltz
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Now who is writing the main storyline?
Dave Gaider. No idea about the screenshot size. The last few shots (the ones with cartoony characters and overviews of a huge army) are from a 2004(?) demo video, made in the Aurora Engine. |
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"Isn't that just like an elf? Brings a spell to a gun fight."
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dusematic
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Minsc is hands down my favorite RPG character of all time and the only computer game character that regularly gets quoted around our gaming table during PnP games.
This is why I never play PnP RPGs, even though I collect them: The utter lack of taste of the RPG player crowd. No kidding. Minsc was unbearably cheesy. I get that he was SUPPOSED to be funny. I like humor in games but c'mon, a dumb and dumber routine in a "serious" rpg is pretty lazy. |
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Sky
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If you're too cool for Minsc, you've turned the corner from cool to douchebag. But you already knew that.
My favorite BG2 campaign had me as an undead hunting Paladin and I went straight into the sewer to rescue the other Paladin. Four-handed swordness chop chop. A bit of minmax, I took the undead hunter after too much ability loss from undead or something. But with the Paladin class quest lines it was pretty awesome.
I like Bioware (a lot), but the only two rpgs I really reflect on from that vein are BG2 and Planescape. Just sayin'.
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Valmorian
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If you're too cool for Minsc, you've turned the corner from cool to douchebag. But you already knew that.
Or you stopped thinking about whether you're "too cool" some point before high school. |
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Yegolev
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If you take D&D seriously, you're not doing it right. I remember suggested incantations for a fire spell included "Ron son ol!" and after that I really couldn't look at D&D as anything other than a lighthearted take on fantasy.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Lucas
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Two new screenshot from Worthplaying. The news blurb is the same piece of PR we saw elsewhere: http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=53832The new ones are the second on the left and the first on the right...The others are old pictures from a..umm, 2005 or 2006 press release. |
" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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schild
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Hadn't watched the trailer before. Who at Bioware decided it was good?
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Hadn't watched the trailer before. Who at Bioware decided it was good?
Glancing at gametrailers right now, there's close to 30 trailers up right now from E3. So far the Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 trailer is the only one I've watched that's more poorly done than Dragon Age. |
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lamaros
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Am I the only one that honesty doesn't give a shit about the trailer being shit? All trailers are shit.
Actually, I lie. The last time I saw a trailer that bad was HG:L, and we all know how that ended up...
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Riggswolfe
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Morte >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anna>Minsc.
I'd put Morte in a dead heat with Minsc and Anna slightly behind them. |
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