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Displayed name	Emlurk
Member number	2978
Title	Warrior
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Real Rpg's in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Monday, October 13 2003 01:58 Profile #15 I must protest the innocence of Arcanum on the charges of being an "action rpg". You can switch between turn-based and real time combat, so you don't need to go buttonmashing. It's got a compelling storyline, many conversation can have a big impact on your future choices depending on how you play them out, and depending on your personality/race etc. Much more so than most SW games where you either just type in every word that an NPC says and finally get your information, or have very limited dialogue options coughavernumcough. Furthermore it's got great graphics, but that's just icing on the cake for an already great game. Graphics can detract from gameplay/storylines but in Arcanum, they don't. Emjay's short list of the best games ever: 1. Exile 2: Crystal Meth 2. Arcanum -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
suicide methodes in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Sunday, October 12 2003 11:04 Profile #33 Don't kill yourself. I pondered suicide almost every day for two and a half years, (before that too, but not as often) and I think my favourite way to go would be drowning while heavily sedated; bring a bottle of sleeping pills and some alcohol to your favourite diving spot. Tie or duct tape yourself to enough rocks to drag you down. Put yourself in such a position that you know you'll fall into the water when you crash. Take your medicine. Read a good book. I've been free of depression for more than 16 months now, though. Sure my life still isn't that great, but I have the power to change that and there are things worth living for. [ Sunday, October 12, 2003 11:07: Message edited by: Emsam ] -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Who likes XT's in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Wednesday, October 1 2003 14:25 Profile #20 When I was four we got a computer called Victor... It had pacman, pango, space invaders, pc-golf (ascii graphics), paratrooper among others. Then we got a 286-laptop with a whooping 20MB Harddrive. Good enough for civilization! It's all downhill from there, innit? Edit: Our neighbour had a commodore and all I remember of it is the horrible loading times. [ Wednesday, October 01, 2003 14:27: Message edited by: Emsam ] -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
"98% of all statistics are made up" in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Saturday, September 6 2003 11:15 Profile #23 1 would own a computer Ok, say there's roughly 6, maybe even 7 billion people in the world, going with the higher number, 1% of that is 70 million. I can't believe that there's not more than twice that number of computers in the world today, what source are you using? And about the 6 people possessing the big lot of wealth, I'd say one of them would be western european. (There's not 360+ million people in the US, closer to 300 right?) -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Hello there everyone....what game are you playing now? in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Thursday, August 28 2003 08:08 Profile #31 Well I'm done reading The Fires of Heaven, can anyone guess what I'm reading now? My two favourite authors are Robert Jordan and Ursula Le Guin, but I also like Katherine Kerr, Anne McCaffrey and Douglas Adams a lot. -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Stopping Illegal Cracks for Spiderweb Games in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 12:15 Profile #10 quote: Originally written by MR SIR: (on another topic) there should be an option to order games either on cd or download, instead of both. Why would i want a cd if i already download the game from the spidweb ftp weeks before? Well then, ponder it from a different angle; even if you want to have the games on cd (because the cds are pretty, or as backup since CD-Rs are useless for that, and so you wont ever accidentally remove them, or whatever) would you not want to be able to start playing at once by also being able to download it? -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Hello there everyone....what game are you playing now? in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 11:56 Profile #19 quote: Originally written by murdershewrote: I prefer reading books that a movie was later based on. I have a good imagination, but I am more of a visual learner. I prefer to see a story happen than have to read a thick book on it. I prefer to watch a movie, and get an idea of what the book will be like. Than I read the book, using images from the movie to guide me through what is happening. Then I watch the movie again and compare and contrast the two. It is a fun way to understand the meaning of a book's plot. Try it with any book you know a moviw was made after. The two are always different in many ways, but you will get a better understanding of the book. Books on tape are always enjoyable too. Try listening to Goldeneye or Sphere on tape. Wow. I had no idea there was such an opposite take on books compared to mine, and coming from someone who seems to like books. I mean I have friends who don't read, and that's just their big loss, but I fear that if you and I would ever meet IRL our thought-wave patterns might collide and cause severe injury. Or we might just fall in love -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Stopping Illegal Cracks for Spiderweb Games in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 08:13 Profile #4 Blunt trauma to the back of their heads? Only making freeware? Not making any games? go back in time to kill their parents? Dammit man you got me hanging on the edge of my seat now. What... Is... It??? -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Hello there everyone....what game are you playing now? in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Wednesday, August 27 2003 00:42 Profile #4 I'm just about done reading The Fires of Heaven, for the third time. -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
The next spidweb game. in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Sunday, August 24 2003 04:15 Profile #10 Anything with Jar Jar Binks in it would be better without sound so It's not that the Geneforge engine sucks, it's just horribly unattractive. I don't think too much graphics quality detracts from plot, I just think some people don't realize the importance of a good story (or can't come up with one) so they try (and fail) to compensate with flashy graphics. We've already had the graphics of Exile downgraded twice. Enough already. (One thing I do like about the Avernums though is the new stat/skill system.) -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
The next spidweb game. in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Sunday, August 24 2003 03:27 Profile #8 My conclusions: 1. A new RPG, preferably Fantasy, but Sci-Fi or Historical would be ok as well. 2. Atmosphere! Ominous and creepy, keeping you on the edge of your seat through long, caffeine-drenched nights. A good story is vital, and so is a good challenge, but Atmosphere is everything. (This is why Nethegate and E2 are the best of Spiderweb's games) 3. I haven't registered GF or BoE, and I'm on a PC so as the Macnazi would say: No GF2 for you! 4. I think Jeff can do it more or less alone, how much help he wants to employ is totally up to him. 5. Pretty darn handsome. I think we'll have to wait a looong time for a really new game. We'll have BoA, GF3 and probably a "Blades (or something) of Geneforge" as well. Dou you know what I'd like to see after BoG? Geneforge on the Exile 3 engine. Or on something like the Arcanum game engine. If you have to try your hand at this isometric thingie, then either make it real pretty, or totally retro (I'm thinking Ultima 6 Stylee). -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Continue the story...... in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Friday, August 22 2003 13:28 Profile #3 Said an ominous sounding voice out of a dimension rift to nowhere. The little bunny was sucked into the rift as it closed, to be joined forever in holy sodomy by unnamed evils. Later that same day, a scientist, with a nose made of silver, was working on a wicked experiment to... -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
How about new spidweb game ? in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Friday, August 22 2003 13:21 Profile #7 quote: Originally written by Alorael: New Centurions isn't even a new game. It's just Realmz with a new title and a new theme. Fantasoft deserves to die for self-plagiarism. -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Wednesday, August 20 2003 12:44 Profile #166 Ok, thanks for deconfusing me. -------------------- Drama queens and long sigs suck. Cut the crap. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Wednesday, August 20 2003 11:38 Profile #164 The timelines on the first page of this topic seem a little bit weird to me when they say that the Hawthorne that sent Erika et al into Exile is not the same Hawthorne that she had assassinated. Is this actually based on some text from the A/E-trilogies or just something one of you made up? -------------------- Drama queens and long sigs suck. Cut the crap. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Names in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Tuesday, August 19 2003 08:52 Profile #37 Once upon a time I played around with the original Exile 2 graphics until I had 20 or so Slith PCs, including more slith mages, a female slith, a slith bard, an assassin, an archer and sliths in heavy armor. I also pasted in and modified some Vahnatai graphics, and the ogre mage, and the rakshasa into the PC-graphic file. Then I gave everybody shields with a lion on it, except for the scantily clad warrior girl who I undressed completely. I miss the original E2 pics, I'm not good enough to make something that fits in with the newer graphics. -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Names in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Monday, August 18 2003 03:21 Profile #33 I'm currently playing a 4PC-party in E2 with Jae (sort of named after me), Alisha, Marijane & Magnus. Marijane & Magnus have been in all my parties in all the Exiles and Avernums. Once upon a time when I used other races than humans I would name my Slith fighter Zrog, and my Nephil rogue Kisss. -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
Personality Test in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Saturday, June 7 2003 08:16 Profile #28 I'm INTP as well. 22% Intuitive 22% Thinker 11% Perceptive and a whooping 88% Introvert; If I were ever the protagonist of an adventure/role-playing game, the only party allowed would be once I slew the great dragon, and saved the fair maiden. Not 3-5 other guys tagging along, nagging at me constantly. -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00
know any good rpg's like avernum? in General
Emlurk Warrior Member # 2978	written Tuesday, May 27 2003 07:31 Profile #20 I think the Best RPG that's not by Spiderweb and isn't an Ultima would be Arcanum. Came out in 2001, don't think it had much commercial success despite being named best RPG of the year by some magazine or other... (costs 'bout $10 in stores around here, and that's the original version, not some 'classics' budget re-release.) You move around in real-time, but can switch between real-time and turn-based combat. It deals with a world of magic moving towards an industrial revolution so you'll meet some high-tech items as well as loads of spells. Age of Wonders is a pretty good game, but a fantasy setting does not make it an RPG. [ Tuesday, May 27, 2003 07:33: Message edited by: Emjay ] -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 \| Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00

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