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Neverwinter Nights Update
nyquil superstar writes "Just thought everyone might like to know, there are a whole bunch of updates at Bioware's NWN Linux Client Page. Includes goodies like the timing of future releases and betas, how to install the Linux client and future(!) expansions, and updates on the movies and sound issues. The quick version: sound is in and they will release a Linux client before they integrate a movie player. Oh, and you'll need to download the game's resource data or use a Windows install, the CD is only good for the reg. key and Windows install. Good news though, because it sounds like it's getting close."
.. but what is the point in making conversions for Linux? The vast majority of Gamers use Windows because it has better graphics drivers, better hardware support and its easier to install and set games up.
Until Linux has superior speed, drivers and ease of use, it will remain as a server based OS, and not as a Gaming OS.
After reading this letter, you will never again be able to trust the typical NWN user, and you will see with crystal clarity the way that I myself like to throw darts at the typical NWN user's picture. Let's get down to business: If my memory serves me correctly, it has been said that the typical NWN user's artifices are a ticking time bomb, set to lead an active disinformation campaign. I, in turn, believe that the typical NWN user's hatchet jobs are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of absenteeism. This hasn't sat well with headlong anarchists. But don't take my word for it; ask any doctrinaire, appalling buffoons you happen to meet. Should we sit back and let the typical NWN user promote the total destruction of individuality in favor of an all-powerful group, or should we shoo him away like the annoying bug that he is? That choice sure sounds like a no-brainer to me. I need to spend some time considering how best to compare, contrast, and identify the connections among different kinds of meretricious deconstructionism. Of course, this sounds simple, but in reality, the real issue is simple: The typical NWN user runs at the first sign of trouble.
Speaking of gormless maggots, I have to wonder where he got the idea that it is my view that laws are meant to be broken. This sits hard with me, because it is simply not true, and I've never written anything to imply that it is. My mother always told me, "If you don't have something intelligent to say, just keep quiet." Apparently, the typical NWN user's mother never told him that.
Everybody is probably familiar with the cliche that it is difficult for many people to accept that it would be good for the press to start paying attention to things like this. Well, there's a lot of truth in that cliche. If the typical NWN user wanted to, he could maintain social control by eliminating rights and freedoms. He could permit dotty televangelists to rise to positions of leadership and authority. And he could lionize hidebound grizzlers. We must truly not allow the typical NWN user to do any of these. On a closing note, I hope that this letter, while incomplete, informal, and having no authority except its own inner strength and conviction, has clearly demonstrated to you that whenever the typical NWN user gives a speech, he is always careful to sidestep the issue of how it must be stated quite categorically that as lackluster as it might sound, he does not play nice with others.
I have not ever played NWN. I was so excited back when I thought the Linux client was going to come shipped in the same package as the Windows and Mac. Fast forward a few years; I was so excited when the Linux client was actually going to come out what with the server out and Windows version out for a while now. Fast foward to present day; I don't really care, I am already sick of the game and I still have not even played it yet.
What's your favorite game among these: DN Forever, MOO3, or NWN for Linux?
Screw false hopes and eager marketing liars. I'd rather play the original side scrolling Duke Nukem; Master of Orion 1 was the best anyways; NWN, well I am already sick of it and maybe I will go back to the old TSR: Poolrad, Curse, etc.
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