[Slade]

In my recent PC RPG craze, I've found my copy of Daggerfall, and have been playing that a whole lot. Such a great game, and kicks Morrowind's and Oblivion's ass in character development and free-formness, and size, too. I wish they'd remake it, and only moderately change the engine a little bit so as to modernize it and make it less awkward, but keep the depth, the difficulty, the atmosphere, the grittiness, the size, the everything. Just make it a little shinier, easier to use, and less buggy. None of this dumbing down and simplifying that you did for Oblivion so that you could sell it on the Xbox and to a larger crowd. Speaking of Oblivion, I beat it earlier today. Lackluster reward for beating it, but the ending's kinda cool, and Sean Bean is Martin.

[Spoon Poetic]

"Sean Bean?" Is that supposed to be cute, because "Sean" is definitely pronounced "Shawn" and wouldn't rhyme with "Bean" unless for some reason you also pronounced that "Bawn." ...

Aaanyway, I've been playing Oblivion a little, and I like it, but I can't get very far since I have very little time for it (and it's my friend's Xbox360 - he let me borrow it for a couple days and then took it back. I'm sure I can get him to let me borrow it again, but for now I don't need the distraction).

Also, I played almost all the way through Dead Rising. It's a short game, but they try to make up for it by giving you more than one story line, so you can beat it several times and have a different game play and a different ending each time. I wasn't all too interested in doing anything that gave it a story, though, except for sometimes it was cool to take pictures. All I liked to do was go around finding violent ways to kill lots of zombies at once, like running them over with a lawn mower or shopping cart, or hacking away with a battle axe. Now that's a good stress reliever!

[SimeSublime]

Sean is the Irish way of saying it. A girl in my class at primary school(named, sterotypically Siobhan)had a brother named Sean, so I consider it quite normal.

Ever since I got my new computer, I've been playing Oblivion. I'm level 30 now, and have done bugger all of the main quest line. I haven't played Daggerfall yet, as my old computer was too fast to run it, but not fast enough to run dosbox to emulate it. But after I'm finished with Oblivion, I'll give it another shot.

[Spoon Poetic]

Do you mean making it rhyme with "bean" is the Irish way of saying it? Cuz it's an Irish name, and it's definitely pronounced "Shawn" in the Irish language...

Oh, and I'm taking donations: If anyone wants to contribute to the Buy Spoon a New Computer That Is Oblivion-Compatible Foundation, please let me know. We're only $500 short of our goal!

This post has been edited by Spoon Poetic: 01 September 2006 - 02:34 PM

[Zewb]

Has anyone ever played Betrayal at Krondor? I recently dug it out of my little museum of ancient floppy disks and I have been playing it on DosBox. Great RPG, in my opinion.

[SimeSublime]

Always meant to play it, never got around to it. I think I read the book instead, as that was easier to aquire at the time.

And Sean is pronounced the same as Shawn, there is no rhyming.

I'd love to donate, but I keep getting cleaned out by the "Keep Simon's car on the road" charity. Donations would be appreciated

[Slade]

Aww... I wish I could donate, Spoon. Sean Bean is not supposed to be cute. It's just his name, and due to the oddities of language, has a first and last name that differ by one letter.

He's the good guy who always gets killed in movies. He was Boromir in LotR (a good guy, just too human to stand being in the Ring's presence), was the Cleric that is killed near the beginning of Equilibrium, Martin Septim in Oblivion, aaaand, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head.

Praise be to Akatosh, Dragon God of Time! Honestly, I just think he has a cool name.

[SimeSublime]

Thanks Slade, I'm half way through the main quest of Oblivion atm. Though you weren't to know, I guess, so I can't hold it against you. It's amazing how I can manage to keep spoiler free for months whilst all my friends are playing it, and by complete bad luck get things spoiled at the 11th hour. Same thing happend with the latest Harry Potter book, strangely enough.

[Gobbler]

I was just about to say the same thing. Thank you very much, Mr. Slade.

[David-kyo]

Always meant to play it, never got around to it. I think I read the book instead, as that was easier to aquire at the time.

I don't think so, as the book Krondor - The Betrayal didn't come out till around 1999-2000ish (as far as I can remember), while the game was made in 1993. Y'all can download these great games from www.abandonia.com by the way.

[SimeSublime]

True, but I hadn't heard of the author in 1993. Actually, back then all I had was an amiga.

[Icey]

With myself.


Going to keep on playing the Sims when I get my mouse back OR go do some Fallouting

[SimeSublime]

Come now Icey, Fallout should be an easy win there. Though who am I to tell you to stop playing with yourself?

[Slade]

Concerning spoilers: Sorry guys. I didn't think it was much of a spoiler since it's the very first quest you get, and there aren't really any surprises in the quest-line. Some of the stuff the badguy says are rather thought-provoking for the Elder Scrolls mythos, though.

Icey: Can you let us know where we can get a copy of you to play?

[Icey]

To hell with it.

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