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Avernum 4 - 7.63 (10.0/1.0) in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, February 16 2007 15:45 Profile Homepage #13
Originally by Emperor Tullegolar:

quote:
You should at least finish the game so you know who the Darkside Loyalists are for Avernum 5.
The Darkside Loyalists are a group of Empire agents led by led by Dorikas (who teleports to safety before your party can kill him) and based in the ruins of Erika's Fortress who are causing problems for Avernum because they don't like the fact that Avernum and their precious Empire are cooperating. Is that close enough?

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Rate Homeland : The Stone of Night in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, February 16 2007 15:28 Profile Homepage #20
Originally by BainIhrno:

quote:
...the others were maintained by people who aren't around anymore.
Bump them up anyway. (And we could always get a mod to maintain them once in a while if we asked nicely. Or bribed them.)

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Let's start off at a 7.0 and go from there.

For the novelty of playing something so awful: +0.5
For being able to travel with your dog: +0.5
For the dog having an inventory: +0.5
For the dog being useless in combat: -0.5
For the girlfriend being useless in combat: -0.5
For me not being able to figure out how combat was supposed to work: -1.0
For me not being able to remember anything about the graphics (meaning that I repressed them): -1.0
For sharing a background sound with Geneforge and making me like Geneforge less because of it: -2.0
For the snakes: -0.5
For more snakes: -0.5
For the rats: -0.5
For some sort of navigation problem I had on the level with all the rats: -0.5
For being so bad I deleted it incorrectly in my haste to save my computer from utter destruction and now have to put up with the indignatity of it being listed on my Add/Remove Program list until I get a new computer: -1.0
For being so terrible Dikiyoba will be able to make fun of it for the rest of Dikiyoba's life: +3.0, which brings the total to 3.5

[ Friday, February 16, 2007 15:33: Message edited by: The Dikiyora ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Avernum 4 - 7.63 (10.0/1.0) in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, February 16 2007 14:58 Profile Homepage #8
4.0

This game was not fun. I tried to like it. I really did. But I only made it to Fort Draco before I gave up (and it took me about a month to get that far). There were probably good things (the shades, divine retribution, combat more interesting than goblins and nephilim) about it, but I never got that far. Two things killed my enjoyment:

1. The encumbrance/inventory system combined with the "seamless world." It took forever to get back to town to drop stuff off and heal up. And I was always having to drop stuff at the beginning of every combat. It was just tedious. I could have gotten used to it or built future parties differently except that...

2. The game didn't motivate me at all. I never cared that Avernum was in danger or wanted to find out what happened next. Whether because of a boring plot, it taking place in Avernum-but-not-really-Avernum, or because of something else entirely, it just wasn't interesting.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Oldbiehood in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, February 16 2007 14:28 Profile Homepage #73
Originally by Sarasaphilia:

quote:
An oldbie should be someone who helps out a lot and always knows what's going on.
Those are helpful people or people worthy of respect, not oldbies. There may be a lot of overlap, but don't try to equate them.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Avernum 2 - 8.54 (9.7/5.5) in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, February 16 2007 10:56 Profile Homepage #22
Why in the world are you rating a game you don't really like at a 7.5? (Then again, I may be the extreme one.)

Anyway, I bump my rating up to a 9.5. I haven't played E2, so everything about it was fun and it got a lot of replay. It's definitely the best of the trilogy. The Empire War and the vahnatai made for an excellent plot. No complaints about the engine. I still like that heretic vahnatai fort, for some unknown reason. Also, I have recently (re)discovered the joy of Divine Warrior. Finally, it has nostalgic value.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Blades of Avernum - 8.66 (10.0/7.0) in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, February 16 2007 10:40 Profile Homepage #19
Let's see... I have not played BoE, so I will make no comparisons between the two. :P

The BoA editor can do a lot but it's fairly difficult (for me, at least) to work with. I miss level 3 haste acting on everyone (as a preset spell) but I have no real complaints with the engine. There are still some irredeemablely awful scenarios but by now they are outnumbered by the good and really good ones and it seems that many more good scenarios will be released in the future.

Dikiyoba gives it an 9.

Edit: Bolded score. And raised it.

[ Friday, February 16, 2007 13:29: Message edited by: The Dikiyora ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Oldbiehood -- Analysis in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, February 16 2007 10:03 Profile Homepage #6
Originally by Slartucker:

quote:
I was surprised to see Dikiyoba and Randomizer tie, given the celebrity that Dikiyoba receives for his creative works, and the fact that Dikiyoba has been around longer.
I haven't been around too much longer than Randomizer, though, and while it took him a while to be active in General, he has had about the same level of activity as me for many months now. Anyone who votes for me as an oldbie is probably new enough to vote for Randomizer as an oldbie as well.

And given that you are using my stories as an explanation for the numbers, I'm kind of disappointed you didn't include someone like The Lurker, who doesn't post much at all but gets a fairly large part in the story.

Originally by Ephesos:

quote:
But then again, I honestly feel like a part of this community, so it kind of feels important-ish. (Still not sure if anyone would notice if I just disappeared, but that's teh internets for you)
You don't have to be an oldbie to be part of the community (assuming you meant "Spiderweb" by "this community"). All you have to do is be active and non-annoying. :P

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
heustess quest in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Friday, February 16 2007 08:52 Profile Homepage #7
Originally by upon mars:

quote:
I can pass without asking heusstes it's probably a bug.
Not necessarily. It's sort of a hard quest to get. If you enter from the west (that is, from The Great Temple), then you've already passed Heustess and he won't bother you. If you reach the west side of the map by disabling all the mines and turrets, then you've already passed Heustess and he won't bother you.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Spidweb on Slashdot in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, February 15 2007 23:33 Profile Homepage #1
Bad, bad Aran. :P

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Oldbiehood in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, February 15 2007 22:19 Profile Homepage #53
quote:
Originally written by Now With Responsibility:

I'm wondering why Zeviz decided to use the hardcore ascension tattoo from KoL in the first one.. I mean, is his keyboard not capable of doing that one?
I

Zeviz's third definition allows Dikiyoba to 2.5 of an oldbie, which is more than Dikiyoba will get with most other definitions. Don't knock it. :P
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Experience stopped going up in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, February 15 2007 21:31 Profile Homepage #1
You don't get experience for killing much weaker monsters, so if you are only fighting much weaker monsters, that could be the problem.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Episode 3 Continued in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, February 15 2007 16:26 Profile Homepage #231
Originally by Nioca:

quote:
And how have you stopped it?
Reread the end of Chapter 36 again.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Episode 3 Continued in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, February 15 2007 15:50 Profile Homepage #228
*Facepalms Nioca*

It's Nalyd (Dylan spelled backwards, if that helps), not Nayld or Nylad.

Dikiyoba also already took care of the disappearing accounts. We just need to get the missing ones back now.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
I am 22 today in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Thursday, February 15 2007 15:05 Profile Homepage #11
Happy birthday!

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
A Year and a Day in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 23:06 Profile Homepage #57
Not any feelings that we'd recognize. :P

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Episode 3 Continued in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 20:20 Profile Homepage #207
I think I've spent more time trying to get it to work than actually playing it, but anyway...

Behold! Chapter 38: Several Spiderwebbers Complain About Dikiyoba's Tardiness And Dikiyoba Gets Annoyed But Then Realizes That They Are Right And Finally Gets Around To Writing The Next Chapter (Okay, so Dikiyoba didn't really call it that. You'll have to read it to find out.)
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
[Insert Dumb Joke Here] in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 19:52 Profile Homepage #60
Originally by Nioca:

quote:
Agreed. Being on the receiving end of it once, I know how stupid and juvenile it is. If you want to insult me, than insult me. Not my mother/father/some other relative.
It's pretty darn funny when "Your mom!" insults come from a full-blooded sibling, though. :P

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 18:26 Profile Homepage #136
Originally by Infernal Flamming Muffin:

quote:
What is this "signature" you are talking about?
Everything under the dashed lines in most people's posts (Dintiradan and Lenar being the most obvious exceptions). Most people add that in through their profile instead of adding it at the end of individual posts like you are.

[Edit: Curse you, Nioca! :P ]

Originally by Nioca:

quote:
Though it does make one wonder what Tyranicus and Zephyr Tempest did to upset you. :)
They did nothing to upset Dikiyoba. Dikiyoba kills Tyranicus repeatedly because his reaction amuses Dikiyoba. Zephyr Tempest is just accident-prone. :P

[ Wednesday, February 14, 2007 18:27: Message edited by: The Dikiyora ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 18:10 Profile Homepage #132
quote:
Originally written by Infernal Flamming Muffin:

(quietly waits)
(dosn't last long)
I am male by the way.
And my brother is a male too.
Duh.

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I can transform into almost anything, though not sanity -Infernal Flamming Muffin
Wait... you do know how to add a signature through your profile, right?

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Weather in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 14:43 Profile Homepage #3
Today: partly sunny, partly cloudy, slightly windy, moderately chilly.

Edit: Dikiyoba wanted to have every word end in Y in that sentence.

[ Wednesday, February 14, 2007 14:50: Message edited by: The Dikiyora ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 14:39 Profile Homepage #130
Originally by Student of Trinity:

quote:
Fear not. Though computer viruses abound, there have yet to be any authenticated cases of computer cooties.
Although, to be frank, it's not cooties you need to worry about if you make Dikiyoba angry...

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Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Geneforge 4 on Digg.com, digg it and help out Spiderweb Software! in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 09:27 Profile Homepage #52
Originally by Kyrek:

quote:
Of course this has all lead up to bad reputation apparently. Well at least that's what my karma says.
Dikiyoba is afraid that it's probably a holdover from your Minotaur days. But it's not like karma matters anyway.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
heustess quest in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 09:13 Profile Homepage #2
Heustess in G1, right? You need to enter The Sentinels from the east and get past the three guardians somehow. Then, if you have a high enough leadership, you can convince Heustess to let you by without losing endurance by agreeing to kill Goettsch. That's the quest.

Of course, then it ruins your ability to meet peaceably with Goettsch unless you have a high enough leadership to convince him you were lying to Heustess.

Dikiyoba doesn't know what happens if you go back to Heustess without killing Goettsch, though.

[ Wednesday, February 14, 2007 09:21: Message edited by: The Dikiyora ]
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
deathcap mushrooms quest in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 07:11 Profile Homepage #7
You can finish the Master Threll quest after the evacuation, since that servile doesn't evacuate.

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Geneforge 4 on Digg.com, digg it and help out Spiderweb Software! in General
Dikiyoba
Councilor
Member # 6600
 written Wednesday, February 14 2007 07:00 Profile Homepage #41
One!

Dikiyoba.
Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00

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