Yeah i seen a few, but most are made by the person....there are anime keyboard stickers but without specifics it's hard to look for what you want.

Originally posted by Waterlily

kotaku.com/5115340/dollar-no-longer-weak-vs-euro-on-steam

*cough* No more buying from Steam for Europeans.

 Shops here or even Amazon doesn't charge that much.

 

Not that I liked Steam, I don't want any of the games they sell anyway. But gd, companies are so shady.

I couldn't agree more Lily, this is not fair to the European gamers at all, in fact it's downright disgusting.

Here's one U.S. gamer who will not be supporting Steam until they fix the price.

Twisted Metal Black....don't know if it came out for the PC, but if you have a PS2...get...this...game.

Seriously i would go so far to say that Twisted Metal Black is best in series.

IIRC DN:F was shelved for Prey...which also took forever to get out the door, but I'm not 100% on that....when they decided to get around to it the engine and graphics were severely outdated, so...yeah back to the beginning

It looks to me like the setting is going to be based on the old DN:F based on the screenie on the main site which appears to have Hoover Dam in the background, DN:F was set in Nevada...more specifically Las Vegas.....and of course since 3D Realms won't confirm or deny -anything- i suppose that guess is as good as any other.

Anyway,here is the original trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPX_y7wP_ko

And here is the  pic with "Hoover Dam"

http://www.3drealms.com/duke4/

I don't know if it's going to ever be released either but i would like a new Duke game to be sure.

No, Ra and Bastet were Gods who were created by the Egyptians to give praise to and to explain what they considered to be otherworldly things.

Many ancient cultures worshiped the sun and many gods were born because people wanted to give meaning and symbolism to the sun..just like people have done with werewolves, vampires, ghosts and so on..".If there is no rational explanation to it then it must be supernatural" has been the mindset of many a culture and it exists to this day, but just because they believe it to be so doesn't make it true. 

One again, I'm sticking to my guns...so far the argument has been this:

 "Vampires might exist because we have ancient documentation that talks about them"....then by that evidence we must also deduce that Ra, dragons, centaur's, Medusa's, leprechauns and the tooth fairy do as well.

Vampires being persecuted is largely irrelevant considering that we have no evidence to support that a single vampire has ever been real let alone burned at the stake, drawn and quartered, stake through the heart or anything...unless your hinting that Bram Stoker was writing non-fiction...to hint that today's society would turn into torch and pitchfork wielders kicking down the front gate is absurd...it would be studied, it's face would be on the cover of every known paper in the world, activists would be showing up in Volkswagen's to protest it's treatment, worshipers would be coming out of the woodwork to 'praise' this creature..and the religious would denounce it as evil.

Vampires are flawless by human standards....most vampires are shown to be highly attractive and desirable to the opposite/same sex or have the ability to charm the opposite/same sex...they can live for thousands of years, are immune to most forms of mortal death, they never get sick, they never get as old as they are when they're embraced, they are usually shown to have incredible strength and agility, the ability to defend themselves...and, of course, most of them are shown to be quite refined and wealthy.

The downside: no exposure to the sun,no reflection.fear of crosses,sleeping in coffins,drinking blood to survive...oh and the possibility of some random person throwing garlic at you or the possibly a stake-wielding maniac, and i might add that all of these downsides differs between cultures while the upsides almost never do.......with the exception of Nosferatu.

Sounds like a small price to pay.

Anyways,you seem to be looking for somebody who agrees with you as opposed to somebody who can debate/counter it which is all i can really offer so I'm going to let others have a crack at it....i've pretty much said everything that needs to be said on the subject.

Happy holidays bro, although i'm not Jewish i'll assume everybody can post.

Wishing you and your family a safe, happy holiday.

I agree, this game looks like it borrowed more than a few ideas off of Earthbound, Animal Crossing and even a touch off of Myst.

The graphics are good for the DS but not incredible but that's excusable for a homebrew IMHO....it's sounds interesting and i have to admit the music isn't bad....it's worth taking a look at but i can understand Nintendo's rejection...they're not exactly hurting for DS games.

I have to agree with the majority as well, ol' Bob seems to have a bit of a "me,me,mine" complex going on....also some of the stuff he rips on others about is flat out wrong:

At 1:36 he talks about how things are seamless (transition between areas) in his game and says why the 'big guys' cant do that...i could name a load of games for the C64 NES,Genesis and SNES that are just as seamless as his game.

Originally posted by bluesession

Originally posted by JustTalking

... at least some form of vampire lore exists in ancient Egyptian culture...but so did Ra who had the head of a falcon and the body of a man, should we believe that Ra existed as well?...

 

I understand your point, but thats a bad example, Ra is a god, even if he existed he was probably never seen directly by other human.

On the other hand, vampires are miths that are supposed to interact with humans.

 

 

I'm sorry by i must respectfully disagree, my example is valid....Ra was shown in hieroglyphics to 'walk among the people' and to 'bless' the noble families, i fail to see the difference between a God sometimes appearing to the people and a vampire sometimes appearing around people.

We can not and should not take -any- lore at face value...vampire lore has been written,re-written, packaged, sold, displayed, and glorified.

Vampires can tun into mist, vampires can't turn into mist, vampires can tun into bats and fly away, vampires cannot turn into bats and fly away, vampires have super strength/speed, vampires don't have super strength/speed, vampire need to consume mass quantities of blood, vampires only need a goblet full of blood per month, vampires can cross running water, vampires cannot cross running water....where does it end? it won't, books will still be sold....each author giving a different spin on the subject, Hollywood will continue to make movies...each a bit different that the last.

And people will believe what they wish.

Let's go back to Egyptian lore for a minute...Bastet..this goddess was changed over and over to fit certain criteria within Egyptian/Greek culture as it changed..cat's were used in Egyptian society to keep vermin at bay, the result? a goddess depicted with a head of a cat and the body of a woman and 'protector' of Egypt.

Because of certain conditions a goddess is born..this must bring me back to my theory of vampire myth and how it may have came to pass...because of certain, at the time, unexplained medical/psychological disorders a supernatural being is born.

Now, let make it even easier...i'm reminded of what Jack says in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines-

"We're living in the age of cell phone camera's kid, **** up ain't tolerated"

Humans make mistakes, we are flawed, i remember tripping on a bit of pavement and landing on my face while a very attractive woman was walking by...no way to recover from that, an accident sure but still.

Not one single vampire that supposedly 'exist' has -ever- made a mistake...funny because neither has werewolves, not one time in these myths have gone on....never captured, never seen except by these tell-tales and authors with something to sell.

A flawed specimen like a human is 'transformed' into a flawless being, incapable of being detected after all these years? not a single greedy one among the bunch that would take his/her 'powers' and display them to the world for more money and fame, not to mention the hordes of people that would worship his/her every move?

No i simply can't buy that, it goes against the core fabric of the human drive.

Such an underrated system.

Ah, yes i did prattle on a bit in my last post, sorry.

Long story short: Research other games.

IMHO if developers looked backwards every once in awhile we wouldn't get as much trash as we do now, Look at the game "Vampire Rain"....i seriously doubt any of them said "We want to make this game like Vampire The Masquerade:Bloodlines", which might explain why it...well...sucked.

I support ideas, while you may not be able to get into advanced programming right now there is still so much you can do, writing, storyboards, game research, concept art....you can still make this game come alive without programming a single line.

Also, you might have the workings of a decent PnP game...or both, who knows.

Ah, not me i never hate

MS made mistakes, no doubt about that and we've seen the results to be sure....and it is a funny pic, but still that sucker had to be running all the time in that cabinet, probably with little air circulation..not defending the 360 or anything but just saying.

As for the NES...come on now, let's be honest here...you -must- remember the process it took for you to get a game to sometimes work in that blasted thing:

Red blinking light-how to solve it:

1:blow in cartridge

2: insert game

(blinking light)

3:remove game

4:blow in cartridge followed by Q-Tip

5:insert game

(blinking light)

6: Blow in cartridge,Q-Tip, blow in console, blow in cartridge...and if this doesn't work some form of ritualistic dance 

(fixed)

Originally posted by Draenor

A broken console in a department store is nothing new really...I can't tell you how many times I went to Target as a kid only to find that their super nintendo was on the fritz...granted that the 360 certainly has a higher rate of failure than that console.

 

Not that I don't see the comedic value of this

Same, i think it's funny too...but like i've said before i could make a list of system problems going as far back as the NES.

Ever see the condition of the DS on display in those stores? like somebody took a key to em....chances are that 360 was a first-gen that was on 12 hours a day, every day until it snuffed it.

I say go for it bro, what do you have to lose? time and some developer saying no...which just puts you in the same place you're at now..no biggie.

If a grammar school dropout could invent earmuffs at 15, well...anything's possible

The name of your game should reflect some aspect of it, if you don't think it does you may want to consider changing it.

When I'm working on a project i think the best way is to go back to basics, play EQ or AO...what do you like about it? what do you dislike about it? if this game was yours what would you change about it? and go from there...now I'm not advocating stealing material but ideas can spring up by reviewing what has come before.

IMHO Istaria would be your best bet, so far with what material you've given us it seems that's the way your headed...and Istaria does have quite a few of the characters you wish to incorporate into your own game, so it may be best to see how they built them....strengths, weaknesses and so on before you put yours down so as to make sure yours isn't a unintentional carbon-copy.

The bread and butter of any RPG, pen-and-paper or otherwise is story....a RPG player should be intrigued from the word 'go'....it should be gripping to the very end and make this player want to play it again and again, a bland story can ruin even the best of games.

In this case i do not recommend you research MMO's....instead i would recommend the Gold Box series of D&D games(which requires DOSBOX), Planescape:Torment, Icewind Dale, Baldurs Gate, Arcanum...failing that i would recommend that you read up on as much D&D source material you can find on the web.

While it is true that Prophyria isn't considered officially to be part of vampire lore we must go back to my example of 14th century England...a person who is exposed to the sun only to blister, flake and burn...with the stories passed on and with limited knowledge of said disorder(s)...what would be the normal response? i don't believe that it has to be 'official' to be a reason.

Vampire myth, as you said, has been passed down for ages and i still must believe that it was a way for others to explain something in which they had little to no understanding of....we know that Vampires, or at least some form of vampire lore exists in ancient Egyptian culture...but so did Ra who had the head of a falcon and the body of a man, should we believe that Ra existed as well?

I would like to point out that i am fascinated with all forms of myth and lore including Vampires and that i am in no way trying to disuade anybody or frown on their belief system, in fact if you haven't done so already i highly recommend a book called "I, Vampire" by Michael Romkey along with the" Vampire Papers" (avoid the rest of his drivel like the plague though, his writing style changed to a ridiculous adolescent blathering) it is a modern day view of vampires and their culture  seen through the eyes of a troubled man....so far I've yet to have a complaint about this recommendation.

I know that you didn't ask for any Final Fantasy Online bosses but this one you have to include.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/15/warden.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/08/pandemonium-war.html&usg=__z6qKfELOwmLtv35SwCe5VqmGmCY=&h=406&w=393&sz=59&hl=en&start=2&sig2=qcAGpeKFXc2CvkI49PLaoA&um=1&tbnid=TM53IuYOmU9FrM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=120&ei=HuVNSfqyCtmitgfHzdScDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfinal%2Bfantasy%2Bonline%2BPandemonium%2BWarden%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

18 hour real time fight...not beaten, to date i don't know if it even has.

Originally posted by Moirae

*sighs* yeah so what. My boss said he wouldn't charge for local phone calls then he did it. What the hell does that matter? Stop whining about NOTHING.

I can't, a lie is a lie no matter how you try to spin it.

Look, most of my posts have been pretty fair, I'm not slamming EQ2...hell i love the game....i'm not slamming SoE, for that matter I'm not slamming John Smedley...but i won't ignore an obvious and blatant lie.

You keep telling people to 'stop complaining' to 'get over it' and so on....i must yet again bring up that this discussion on this thread has been civil, frankly the only person who seems to have a problem 'complaining' and 'whining' is you.

Nobody is forcing you to say here or even acknowledge this thead or us...and yet you keep coming back, why?..it's obvious you disagree with us, you've made your point...and yet you're here.

I must also point out that until you came back this thread was starting to settle down, nobody forced you to come back here...and yet...here you are.

I just enjoy talking to people, you know...shooting the breeze and whatnot, usually my posts can go on for a -long- time so...yeah, Just Talking

Originally posted by windasm

You always get the best loot if you solo..

Plus..if you do group with several people..it might take longer to get the quest done by the time half the group says "brb..restroom,baby,phone,doorbell,beer,food,guild,wife,husband,reboot,ect" . You get the idea.

Another thing that gets on my nerves while grouping is people looting while they should be fighting . Them little loot pop up windows can get you killed sometimes especially if you have most of the ag. All the group should kill all the mob first and then loot after.

Anyway.. I do like grouping sometimes if it's with the right people. It's just hard to find the right people sometimes.

Truth.

While soloing has never really been my gig (i'm usually a healer) i can understand doing it...in FF Online i would take my WHM/BLK to Valkurm on my own and randomly help out a party or give out raises when needed, i know it sounds cheesy but i always felt like i was giving something back, i was there and i know how bad it could be especially those parties hunting Pugils.

Every once in awhile though i would get that vet group, didn't really need my help but hey, a high level white mage for back-up never hurts..these groups usually paid for services rendered, which wa always nice.

B

I enjoyed your post but these is a bit of a difference between your example and FunCom, it's slight but it's there.

FunCom didn't promise that AoC would be the best game ever, they promised that certain things would be implemented in-game at launch....they weren't, the said that AoC will have features that most MMO's don't have....it doesn't, and i believe this to be the issue most gamers have...it's basically an unfinished product that looks,feels and acts unfinished.

It's like riding a bicycle with one pedal missing, can you still ride it? sure...but it isn't going to be much fun.

Developers are rushing titles out the door to beat others to the post, while i don't agree with this it still happens...FunCom was no exception, now they have a lot of back peddling to do...on that bicycle with one pedal.

Wait...since when did the Mac have games?  j/k

Seriously though, Novaseeker is right on the money....it's pretty much WoW or nothing if your looking for a high population fantasy-based MMO's, but here is a list of others you may want to try out.

http://www.applegeeks.com/sm/index.php/topic,5994.0.html

This list is two years old, so some of them may be unavailable.