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BioWare Has Neverwinter Publisher
Urthpaw writes: "BioWare (maker of the Baldur's Gate series of games, among others)'s D&D-based 3D, multiplayer uber-RPG, Neverwinter Nights, who's future has been recently cast into doubt by some legal trouble will be released, after all. It is currently scheduled for "Early 2002" release, on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. The press release is here."
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I am up very very late
Time to go to bed
Gabe - thanks again for the Mtn. Dew. It's sure coming in handy [i.e. I like to drink it]. Hope you enjoyed the props from me.
Lovingly,
Mark [your apartment-mate]
I wrote that?
I must sleep soon, else my widdle hands will melt into pieces.
So far every "commercial" game I've tried on Linux has required some obscure or non default
library and/or X windows extension module to be loaded before it'll even give you the time of
day. In fact the situation is worse than Windows IMO. Game designers seem to assume that can can happily use all those junk libraries shipped by
RedHat and it'll work on any dist. Unsurprisingly
this is not the case. I've yet to get a single mainstream game to run on my Slackware dist without having to spend half a day poking around
the net downloading libCoolGraphics23.34.B and libDoAllThe3dForUsCosWe'reTooLazyToDoItOurselves. Ok , I'm being sarcastic but you get the point.
Its damn annoying.
Anyways, trolls, I'm Senior Troll (like Senior Taco) Thank you for making slash a place I can laugh again, and leading the fight against what has become mainstream slash. Slashdot is just like my lame ex employer HP, except I would rather fuck Carly Fioroni over taco any day of the week.
You see, once apon a time, slashdot made this troll laugh on its own. It was a cool distraction from the duldrum of the office. Sometime around march of 2001 the articles started sucking, the +5 comments became more biased, and anyone that had anything remotely nice to say about M$ was modded into oblivion.
What was happening was the same thing that happened at HP when Carly took over, the slashdot way which was once based on open source fundamentals became the neo uber linux youth recruitment camp of the web. I found myself actually changing the way I posted just to earn those mod points. Just like pavlov's dog ejaculating when it heard a bell I would intentionally modify my belief system just to gain karma on slashdot. My payoff was virtual karma on a weblog, seems like pavlov's dogs had it better.
How does this parralel with HP? Before packard died it was stressed to put in your 8 and go home to your family. Post packard it was think like Carly and her croonies or face an unpleasant review, which could lead to your termination.
Sometime last year I said fuck you to HP, and 2002 im sayin fuck you to slashdot. Just because someone doesn't agree with the editors opinions is no reason to censor them. I found out the real truth about 2 months ago when I changed my threshhold to -1. I started to read comments by guys like the turd report and fucky the troll and started to laugh on slash again. After about a month of laughing I decided to join the trolls in their neverending battle.
My arsenal includes some very rudimentery 3d animation.
goatman
sings!
I hope you trolls enjoy it, its a precursor of whats to come. Look out taco you fuck!
Asta Mi Troll Amigo's
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Why is the dialog in these games always so embarrasingly crappy? Listening to strong American accents in a pseudo-medieval setting just doesn't do it for me...
Can't you mod the parent down to -1 OR HAVE YOU GOT THE BALLS?
...is in the wait time before one actually gets to play the game. Look at it from a solely time-oriented standpoint. Before, you had to wait for the Interplay logo to load, then the Bioware logo to load, and then the opening movie (which you can skip). NOW, on the other hand, you add in Infogrames' logo (and depending on if you live outside the US/Canada, the translators' logo as well).
This may seem like a whiny complaint, but it seems to me like this whole dispute came about because some people didn't have their hands far enough in the cookie jar. I sincerely dread to watch this trend continue, when eventually it takes longer to start playing the game than it does to actually play it and all because some corporate execs wanted to latch onto the "next big thing". Plus, this could wind up affecting "business" software, too. What if the next version of Windows forced you to watch a thirty-second MPEG showing the MS logo fading onto the screen? Not good.
I'm not saying that developers shouldn't get credit; not at all. In fact, I like to see my favorite groups get the recognition they deserve (eg. BioWare, Blizzard, Sonic Team, KCEJ, etc.). But I'd imagine that there could be some way to let everyone be equally displayed without wasting the player's time. It's eventually going to get ridiculous, and I don't want to see that happen. Just my two cents.
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
Exactly, man, you grok.
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