Scleameth

WE want a new background...We want a new background...*phooaaaar* We want a new background! *eats more beans*

Nice work Schot ! Ctrl-Z and you

BAD NEWS !! /oooo

as promised, here are some of the screens I managed to remember to capture.... These first 2 was after my first really big battle - I harrassed the pc with air strikes and that's why I have so much spare resources... 1,2 These 2 was when I got to controll the giant spider - I tried to capture the scale of the thing, but unfortunately one can't move units around after a scenario is complete.... 3, 4 Some sand dragons : 5,6,7 Some group fotos with a golem : 8,9, 10 I just got Damanhur as a hero : 11, 12, 13 Crossing a bridge with some nice Afreet action : 14, 15, 16 I'll post some more of the new campaign as soon as I have to stop working late..... again.....

That spider is huuuuuge ! Although you only get to controll one in the second act.... I'll have to capture some additional screenies.... I tend to forget in the heat of battle and when some hard fought missions are done.... THEN I remember... hehe it's a shame really, 'cause there's some nice maps. I tend to pan the camera when marching a big army over some insanely huge bridge, but .... FORGET TO TAKE SCREEN SHOTS !! I started the 3rd and final chapter yesterday and the game just gets better ! Have I mentioned the great intro ? /whistle I think there's a bug in the version I have. *ties string to finger to remember to search for patches* In the world map, you build 3 types of sections to your captured cities. 1 will create +1 to army every turn, 1 creates +1 to Wealth and 1 creates +1 to research. Now it seems that only once I have enough Weatlh points to upgrade to city-level that I start gathering points for army and research... bummer, since you might only start upgrading unit attacks and defence later on in the campaign - as expected, but that leads to you not being able to upgrade every type. In the second act, one genie kept attacking my one region while I was on the other side of the world map conquering regions. To resist the attack you have to have a Barracks in your city. This barracks is destroyed, but the region survives. The lead to me spending a lot of Wealth points on rebuilding the barracks and not being able to upgrade to city status in other regions. Hero abilities are upgraded by completing quests and side-quests. SPOILERS : The first chapter starts off with this Clockwork technology - very cool. These are basically soldiers with guns, clockwork men - very big robot-type guys, tanks, etc... you might say it leans more towards C&C. I got this one hero that, when upgraded enough, will take out a small city with one shot ! The second chapter is more focussed on magic and desert-type units. There are some dragon-type units that are absolutely amazing in gfx and animation ! There's this one dragon type that will destroy a defence tower in one pass ! The one heroin you get at the start of this chapter has this special ability to create a fire explosion - since you face water-crystal-like apponents, this fire is a very potent attack !... and it's so biiiiig ! The third chapter started with me facing some sun god - This guy was really, really big, but I'll have to fight him again with my improved walker !! Seems like the units in this chapter can be compared to Stargate. I'll post some screenies tomorrow...

Yeah, Spore certainly looks huuuuuuuuuuuge !! They're doing their homework on this one ! Here's a funny clip of Robin Williams creating a creature.... (hope the link works ! If not Just google for Spore + Robin Williams - you'll get enough hits). Spore and Robin Williams

Never played Torment - I'll keep an eye open. I agree that Knights of the old Repuplic was an excellent game ! I guess you're right that Spellforce leans more towards the RTS side, but I still enjoyed the RPG factor. I guess I have to choose my words carefully since there seems to be quite a few people out there that don't like to compare Diablo and Sacred to 'Real RPGs'. In my mind they're both RPGs, just not as complex - focussing more on the character level and abilities than the user 'guiding' the story-line. I guess I was a bit harsh on Bladurs Gate, I know there's millions out there that think it's an awsome game. I just like to get home sometimes and only play for an hour - Baldurs Gate does not allow for that because in an hour, nothing much happens. It's just that I never 'saw' the game before I bought it, I bought it plainely on word of mouth. Maybe I'm just too impatient, maybe I'm just an idiot. I think that sooner or later I will play BG2 from start to finish, but I've got 3 new games now and BG2 has to move to the back of the que. Horses for courses I guess, sorry if I insulted BG, but I'm sure there's people out there saying : 'Why is idiot so hyped about Rise of Lgends'...

Thanks again Schot ! I tried some of those links, but my PS v6 is not up to the task... anyhow, I did gain some useful tips and I guess that's the idea ! Well, I messed it up good this time.... but it was fun ! *expression of todler with paint on fingers next to 'newly' painted dining room wall*

Well, my problem is that I don't have internet connection at home.. I don't wanna spend money on phone lines just yet and GPRS connection is just to damn slow for gaming.. I played Prey a little at a friend of mine and convinced my wife to 'get me it' ! I had to come to work today so I haven't installed it yet.... From what I've heard it's the next best thing after HL2. Doom3 and Q4 sucked a bit (let's just say I expected more) and I just did not have enough time/patience to finish Farcry. Robosapien V2 : Vids Must be great to pass the salt with this guy !! Still would prefer QRIO, but unfortunately I don't have that kind of money.... /sad Already working on my second million... my first was a total disaster !!

Thanks for the advice Schot ! On the avy this was the origiinal : This is after some hue changes : I'll hang on to the latter.... for now.... I didn't save the psd file of my sig, so I can't really make the motto more prominent. But I intended for people to focus a little on it with the current sig. I'll spend some real time sooner or later on a new sig and surely use your tips ! ps. I had googled and realized that I'm up for a bit of studying ! "It looks like you may have put some layers on a difference setting." Dunno, I just exploid all layers options and try not to mess the pic up to much...

Thanks guys and gals ! Got some nice sneakers, Prey and Titan Quest ! I bought Rise of legends for myself as an early birthday gift, but oh-so-very-nearly bought a Robosapien V2 /drool !! Perhaps next year I'll twist my wife's rubber arm into one of those.

I did some work with Rise of Legends screens and concept art... I know the animated sig is a bit big and appologize, but I just could not make it any smaller. oh, and this would make a great avy

I searched for this link in the forum and found nothing, so here's the post : Posting and You /whistle

Very nice ! Just a bit slow on my side... buffering, buffering, buffering *pa parapa* buffering, buffering *too toottoo pa parapa* buffering, buffering.... technology can be cruel somtimes

Thanks, gogo It will soon be time to move away from Evangelion, but since playing Rise of Legends, insperation is immenent !

I've not yet seen the second Ghost in the Shell, but I've watched the first one a few times.... I have it dubbed in English - lemme know if you're interested.

My old Scleameth sig - I liked it but it was a bit big... The new one is nice and chaotic !! /oooo

Wow Schot, you seem to out perform yourself with every avy !! I really like Erialc's new av, so many subtle changes to a masterpiece final product !! /bow

So, last Saturday I returned from a business trip and thought that this would be the ideal time to start a new game. I still play Sacred, but I only on a pop-in basis. So I had 4 games in my hand an seeing my wife's glare I had to decide to buy only 1... /devil I bought the Baldurs Gate game pack, since I never palyed it and was always curious. Got home installed it, played a bit and realized early on that this game might not be what I hoped. So I played and played... and played, never really getting the impression that what I was doing was right or wrong, just scouting about, gaining no significant experience to level up to try new skills... I stopped right there and installed Bladurs Gate 2, seeing as I would obviously need to read the complete 146 page manual to make any headway, I thought I might as well play the game with better graphics and take it from there.... still no real attraction towards the game. So yesterday I bought a gaming magazine and read the reviews of Rise of Legends and Spellforce 2. Both of these games were part of my initial 4-game selections (the other was Neverwinter Nights - also not played yet). I never got round to downloading the Spellforce 2 demo, but read that it was a system hog and reasoned that my perrefin-power-pc won't be able to handle the graphix. The review was not great, but the review of Rise of Legends was. On my way home last night I bought Rise of Legends. Installed it as soon as I got home (and deleted some old mp3s to open enough space) and only got to bed at 2 this morning ! I watched the intro about 4 times ! The gameplay is also very nice and not as focused on many diffirent resources as some RTS games of late. I used to play Area of Effect back in the day and prided myself on 'Bronzing in 13', then there was Starcraft and nothing really got close to beating the gameplay. I played AoE2 & 3 a little, but.... not the same. C & C 1st 2 was nice, but Tiberian Sun was a downer. I never really liked Warcraft, but finished the single player WC3 and expansion with some good time and some bad times, I can't comment much on multiplayer there, since none of my lan buddies liked WC3. I played Rise of Nations a bit, but never really got stuck into the single player mode. Rise of Legends : Simple, Great looking, Very Original !! Although I have to replace parifin with jet-fuel to get my pc running the game and still it brings up a message box informing me about the lack of pc-power, I still manage to suck out a good amount of grafix at 1024X768. It's been a while since I looked forward to a whole weekend of gaming ! I'll leave Spellforce 2 on the shelves and take Rise of Legends if you like RTS..... I'd leave Baldurs Gate on the Shelves and take Spellforce 2 if you like RPG (that's if you don't already own Sacred).

Up to now I've been too skimpy to buy a DVD rom !! I always wanted to play Neverwinter Nights and\or Baldurs Gate, so I saw Baldurs Gate 4Pack at the shops for a good price and bought it.... never paid attention to the label on the cover that reads : DVD ROM... needles to say, I'm now the proud owner a DVD rom. I also have the 'Next year' thing in mind to seriously upgrade my PC, but it seems that's now been famous last words of mine for the past 2 years /blush next year I will have 4 GFX CARDS !!

Yeah, that's the buttons I always use - but it seems to be there again when I switch off from ogametests skin... not giving you any carrots about this, since the key to the testing skin lies in the name : ogametests Still a great skin and I still wish we could have stats on the avy part like pokemon\yugi oh cards /viking

eeerm... Where's that 'new posts' button again ? /oooo Using 'My Assistant' for new posts, but picked up that 'next page' and 'previous page' are labled in reverse.. /wacko

Shmirgen !! That's AWSOME ! Nice work Schot !!

Using Netscape 8.1 - well, I guess some Firefox users will insist that it actually is Firefox... ?

It works great ! Is it just me or are some links broken ?... like "Llama's Goals"... btw - what happened to the Ogame Tests skin ?