[Hivemind] My blood runs cold...

[Mr Fidgit]

...but that lasted maybe a week, just like most of my other computer gaming addictions.

i get to the point where i feel i have to complete the game (the campaign scenarios), but once i've finished, i never play again....i did that with NWN, too. i beat the game - so i'm not that interested in trying out any of the modules people have created (and there are tons of those mods online)

 

[barsoomcore]

Morning, Hive.

Crazy weekend. Big game yesterday -- my gang for once moved much faster than I expected them to, and unable to come up with cool stuff I just threw a series of monsters and bad guys at them for fighting. It was just fight, fight, fight the whole day.

Not my idea of a great game. I felt bad about it, but sometimes it happens.

The Barsimians right now are wandering around this crazy jungle land that's apparently the bad dreams of an insane goddess, and so everything is awful and nasty and cruel. Even more so than standard Barsoom. Problem is I'm mondo busy, too, and like HH I've been running Dungeon adventures for the past few months. "Pandemonium In the Veins", followed by "Porphyry House Horror," and now "Heart of the Iron God". They're good adventures, and have fit very nicely into the campaign, but I'm starting to feel like I'm losing my creative touch.

Sigh. Blah blah blah blah. Need to write more Story Hour...

 

[Carnifex]

I have friends that are still playing Starcraft on a regular basis. It never clicked with me. I liked Total Annihilation and Kingdoms, but that lasted maybe a week, just like most of my other computer gaming addictions.

You see, I found the Starcraft storyline, especially when continude by Brood War, to be really, really good. I actually cared about the NPC's - I hated the bad guys and loved the good guys. And the Battle for the Amerigo is one of the coolest cut scenes ever

After all,

*minor spoilers*


when the heroic Fenix apparently died early on in the Protoss campaign I was annoyed, because he was hard Then in a later level you're about to get swarmed under by a great number of zerg, and then suddenly a spearhead of protoss smash into the enemy, led by Fenix now as a dragoon, laughing merrily as he blasts his way through to save you

*/spoilers*

The storyline was absorbing, liek that of a good book, and unlike anything in C&C or the ultimate facelessness of Total Annihilation...

And warcraft 3 is just a completely different style of game with its heroes and small number of units.

 

[Maldur]

I just finished registering for GenCon Indy!!

Allright!

 

[Mr Fidgit]

.... led by Fenix now as a dragoon, laughing merrily as he blasts his way through to save you

i loved that!

i liked that they did the same for Warcraft (the on-going campaign storylines with the same heroes and such - the older version wasn't that way at all, IIRC)

 

[Maldur]

fex, it seems that my arguments to Kale were more to the pooint if I said Blades then Wavehawks. Blades seem like the guys to fight the Good fight in the most lowdown dirty "practical"way possible. You got to love secret societies.


And theruinedone: Yes you !!

 

[Carnifex]

Just to pimp my lastest SH update

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=774809#post774809

This one features the party havign a nasty surprise; the kind that has many eyes and really isn't an option to try and hack your way through when you're just a lvl 4 party

 

[HellHound]

Wooooooot!

The vagaries of the postal service have FINALLY landed my PoD copies of Three Arrows for the King at my doorstep.

And they look sweet!

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As for the SteamTech book, I would look at it as a magic-based sourcebook for design.

First you introduce the concepts, then the immediate game mechanics required for the concepts to work.

Then you go into chapters that detail the monsters, the items, the vehicles, etc.

To me, it should lay out just like any other thematic sourcebook like Necromancer's Legacy, or perhaps somthing like the Powers of the Jedi sourcebook, or even one of the changing breed books from White Wolf.

 

[Sniktch]

HH, and anyone else going to GenCon Indy this year - what hotel are you staying at? Hound, I think you and Capellan will be at the same hotel, and that's the one I'm looking for, but figured I'd ask around. Does anyone know where the ENnie judges are staying?

 

[Carnifex]

i loved that!

i liked that they did the same for Warcraft (the on-going campaign storylines with the same heroes and such - the older version wasn't that way at all, IIRC)

There were so many cool moments in Starcraft. You couldn't help but admire Kerrigan, even considering all things; as well as hating Mensk when at the end of the first human campaign he deserted her on that space station as the zerg assaulted.

And as for frickin' Akbar, or whatever the guy was called, in Brood War; and the mess that the two Earth Authorities guys made as they were tricked completely by the zerg. And... so many good moments.

Warcraft 3 had a cool story line as well. Nicely connected The final level is quite amusing as well, I ended up with just my Keeper of the Grove fending an entire demon horde off as they trashed my base with mere seconds to go on the clock