Which is why they need an Exalted MMO, not WoD. Within three days everyone will have mastered the "Peony Blossom Attack", "Heavenly Guardian Defense" and "Graceful Crane Stance" skills.
...and the point of the game is to escape from a confusing and disorienting 3D world using portals. I found Narbacular Drop fun and interesting, and Portal's pretty much the same - it was occasionally disorienting, but that was the point of the game.
Perhaps you missed that the singleplayer game was designed around it? It would probably screw up most FPS levels, but these levels are designed to be solved using it. I fail to see how this will mess up any aspect of the game.
Ah. Slashdot stripped out the paragraphs. I'm far too used to posting on forums which handle paragraphs on their own, apologies for the ugly block of text.
I can't imagine D20 being the worst system. It's not as if it includes rules for anal circumference (warning: review contains a link to Tubgirl, although it's very heavily warned about and is probably less mind-hurting than the game they're reviewing). Then there's that magnificent game of tolerance and peace, RaHoWa...
There are some brilliant D20/OGL games out there - Iron Heroes is neat, and Arcana Unear^H^H^H^H^HEvolved is a good new take on D&D. Then there's Mutants & Masterminds, a very cool superheroes game based on the D20 system, and Castles & Crusades is an attempt to go back to simplicity of the older versions of D&D without losing some of the better ideas from D20.
The advantage of the D20 system is that it boosts sales - if someone has an incredibly cool campaign setting they want to publish, they can publish it as a D20 book with virtually no rules and it'll sell far better than the same book with a crude homebrew system of their own tacked on. In both cases you can use it with any system you like, but in the first case you're far more likely to see it on a shelf, and not mouldering away in a warehouse or basement somewhere.
D20 may not be the best system ever, but it has done wonders for settings both from WotC and third-party publishers.
I spend an hour walking home every day, and an hour walking into work on some, because of First. Didn't they put prices up 3 times this year as well?
(I'd drive, but parking's too much hassle...)
Shadowrun isn't cyberpunk, though. It doesn't try to be.
It takes some things from cyberpunk, yes, but it makes something entirely different out of them.
For proper cyberpunk, Guardians of Order have released Ex Machina, which comes with 4 settings, ranging from third-world dystopia, to biotech space towers, to America a few years in the future, just how the Department for Homeland Security would like it...
Your GM was running it wrong! The Computer specifically advises the GM to roll dice all the time, make little secret notes behind his screen, and laugh evilly.
It helps it your players don't know the dice are meaningless, though:P
He says he's fixed that problem now - some scripts were left over from an older version of the site. There'll still be popups, unless you use a browser which blocks them, but nothing'll try to install itself.
Level Eight: You control the country. Go buy a Civ game
Level Nine: You control the planet. Luckily for gameplay, there's some nasty aliens to fight and other planets to colonise! (but I can't remember any good games along these lines, not having played many)
Level Ten: You're god. Destroy the entire universe, and turn it into a game of Pac-Man.
Meh. I can think of a circumstance when genuine ads would make a game more realistic, but not just adverts for the sake of adverts...
If a game's supposed to be set in a real city, it should have ads. Not excessively, but just ads where they'd be in the real city. I still wouldn't answer 'yes' in a survey, though, because the people doing it would take that to mean 'I love ads! I buy stuff from spam! I have a 12" pianist!'
However, if Master Chief in Halo 2 starts drinking Coca Cola...
Well, a famous website helps, but mentioning it on slashdot's not a bad idea. It's a NaNoWriMo, so I hope you won't be insulted when I say I'm not expecting a classic... but you've got one more reader.
You might not like Radiohead, for example, but have you ever seen one of their lyrics booklets? It's not just text, it's art. More than could be put into an ID3vX tag, certainly. Perhaps if the booklets were offered as a free PDF (or equivalent) download?
I'm proud - I was considered worthy to be trolled! Someone actually spent the time to insult my post and call me a commie!
(I'm not a commie, but my cousin was kicked out of his local Communist Party for being too Communist. Really.)
$100? In some places they don't accept $50!
In England some English shops still refuse to accept Scottish notes, despite them being legal. Too easy to counterfeit, much like the higher-denomination US notes.
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Which is why they need an Exalted MMO, not WoD. Within three days everyone will have mastered the "Peony Blossom Attack", "Heavenly Guardian Defense" and "Graceful Crane Stance" skills.
The game you are probably thinking of is Nuclear War.
Sacrifice was brilliant. I may have to reinstall it tonight.
Clearly the game is not for you, so don't buy it.
What is your point?
Ah. Slashdot stripped out the paragraphs. I'm far too used to posting on forums which handle paragraphs on their own, apologies for the ugly block of text.
I can't imagine D20 being the worst system. It's not as if it includes rules for anal circumference (warning: review contains a link to Tubgirl, although it's very heavily warned about and is probably less mind-hurting than the game they're reviewing). Then there's that magnificent game of tolerance and peace, RaHoWa... There are some brilliant D20/OGL games out there - Iron Heroes is neat, and Arcana Unear^H^H^H^H^HEvolved is a good new take on D&D. Then there's Mutants & Masterminds, a very cool superheroes game based on the D20 system, and Castles & Crusades is an attempt to go back to simplicity of the older versions of D&D without losing some of the better ideas from D20. The advantage of the D20 system is that it boosts sales - if someone has an incredibly cool campaign setting they want to publish, they can publish it as a D20 book with virtually no rules and it'll sell far better than the same book with a crude homebrew system of their own tacked on. In both cases you can use it with any system you like, but in the first case you're far more likely to see it on a shelf, and not mouldering away in a warehouse or basement somewhere. D20 may not be the best system ever, but it has done wonders for settings both from WotC and third-party publishers.
I spend an hour walking home every day, and an hour walking into work on some, because of First. Didn't they put prices up 3 times this year as well? (I'd drive, but parking's too much hassle...)
Well, I found it worth reading. Not everyone reads the same mags and sites you do.
Which book of Genesis?
Shadowrun isn't cyberpunk, though. It doesn't try to be. It takes some things from cyberpunk, yes, but it makes something entirely different out of them. For proper cyberpunk, Guardians of Order have released Ex Machina, which comes with 4 settings, ranging from third-world dystopia, to biotech space towers, to America a few years in the future, just how the Department for Homeland Security would like it...
Your GM was running it wrong! The Computer specifically advises the GM to roll dice all the time, make little secret notes behind his screen, and laugh evilly. It helps it your players don't know the dice are meaningless, though :P
But it wasn't that - it was the local cache of the web pages, which could be accessed anyway.
Isn't PC World the store, and Personal Computer World the mag with linux coverdisks?
In the UK, the game's rated 18 (I think), and this happened in the UK. So, no.
He says he's fixed that problem now - some scripts were left over from an older version of the site. There'll still be popups, unless you use a browser which blocks them, but nothing'll try to install itself.
They're not. My old next-door-neighbours used to sell them. Then the police found out, and I think they're in prison now.
Level Eight: You control the country. Go buy a Civ game Level Nine: You control the planet. Luckily for gameplay, there's some nasty aliens to fight and other planets to colonise! (but I can't remember any good games along these lines, not having played many) Level Ten: You're god. Destroy the entire universe, and turn it into a game of Pac-Man.
Meh. I can think of a circumstance when genuine ads would make a game more realistic, but not just adverts for the sake of adverts... If a game's supposed to be set in a real city, it should have ads. Not excessively, but just ads where they'd be in the real city. I still wouldn't answer 'yes' in a survey, though, because the people doing it would take that to mean 'I love ads! I buy stuff from spam! I have a 12" pianist!' However, if Master Chief in Halo 2 starts drinking Coca Cola...
Some places (ie my university) have incredibly restrictive proxies, which even block the Windows Update software - you /have/ to use IE for that.
Well, a famous website helps, but mentioning it on slashdot's not a bad idea. It's a NaNoWriMo, so I hope you won't be insulted when I say I'm not expecting a classic... but you've got one more reader.
That sounds about right. Have a cookie.
You might not like Radiohead, for example, but have you ever seen one of their lyrics booklets? It's not just text, it's art. More than could be put into an ID3vX tag, certainly. Perhaps if the booklets were offered as a free PDF (or equivalent) download?
I'm proud - I was considered worthy to be trolled! Someone actually spent the time to insult my post and call me a commie! (I'm not a commie, but my cousin was kicked out of his local Communist Party for being too Communist. Really.)
$100? In some places they don't accept $50! In England some English shops still refuse to accept Scottish notes, despite them being legal. Too easy to counterfeit, much like the higher-denomination US notes.