Blxz

I vote for Attack Helicopter. Bonus points of course if you even understand the reference.

Probably by design. I doubt Jeff would reveal where he envisions the protagonist coming from. Leaves the game more open and up to the interpretation of the player which seems to be a common theme in many of Jeff's games. Although to be fair, perhaps he meant to write it in somewhere and just got bored and wrapped the series up? We will likely never know.

11 choices for the US, three for the rest of the world - Americans still find themselves picking 'other'. If I were to offer my opinion I would suggest that your method of breaking down the regions has resulted in a less efficient sorting method than keeping them more general.

Knowing the people I have played with in the past (and the way they completely disregard advice and would attempt to move/destroy the pool) I spent a happy 5 minutes in my own imagination thinking of all the ways I could punish them for tampering with that thing. I'd make an evil DM. Nice lore by the way.

The joys of Australian upload speeds. Thankfully I'll be getting a 50-fold increase in upload speeds within the next year or so.

Sadly a video uploaded to youtube is basically a video out of my hands. It is hard to describe exactly how a channel operator interacts with youtube but it essentially boils down to sending them my video and they put it up. Because of that the video is not tied to any file left on my computer. If I still had the original copy (which I might somewhere if it hasn't been deleted to save space) I could attempt to go back and beef up the sound and then delete the old youtube one and re-upload overnight. That is not an easy thing to do though and is really a 5 or 6 step process that would take many hours. I do listen to each video before uploading and check that sound is good and everything but sometimes youtube ruins it. The issue here is that youtube's compression format does a number of things to videos beyond my control and I suspect the issue would repeat itself without lots of work to counter that. Quality drops, videos tend to get darker and sound is never as crisp or balanced as the original video. I continually try to upgrade my videos based on what I know youtube will do to them but at this point I think that fixing the audio for one video (and then having to fix it for every single video from then on) would involve about 2 weeks worth of processing and uploading (as in 14 days by 24 hours = ~300 odd hours). TL;DR - I will attempt to correct this for future videos I upload but I don't think currently I can justify that much work for what is ultimately only about 10 people who watch these videos.

I'm glad you appreciate the voices. As for that screenshot, hilarious. But perhaps he is simply hiding the Lawyers and Jews from Taygen. It does seem oddly fitting. As for being pro-shaper, yes I'd pretty much decided by that point but I wanted Ghaldring to try and win me over. You'd talked him up and so I figured there would be a big info dump and I would be swayed by his passionate words. Instead he tried to have me killed by an underling. (keep in mind that I had never met Ghaldring in any of the previous Geneforge games not having completed G4. I was in awe as much as the character would be) I do address this in the final episode though and recognise my internal bias by that point. But there is a lot that needs to happen between here and there. I hope you continue to enjoy the series.

Thanks for the quick update. I've read that part before and I'm still not sure what I'm looking for. Travel clockwise is a pretty vague bit of information. But knowing that they are in different zones is a good start. I swear I must have walked around that map a huge number of times and struggled to figure out what I was doing. I'll be back if I need more.

I still don't understand this stone pillar thing. What are they and where are they? Are they scattered on different maps or the same map? Asking questions in this forum tends to be a waste of time since the old guard have a certain way of looking at things and rarely share but on the off chance someone is willing to actually consider expanding my experience of the game I'd appreciate some more specific details on the matter.

Why is there a persistent rumour that Jeff is retiring after his next game/remake?

"Big funny pool that makes me stronk but angry".

... If I were to take a guess and go out on a limb here I would suggest that no, he is not still working on it.

My obsession with Battle Magic will continue. I will regret it every step of the way but I will keep putting points into it. I'm not a powergamer by any stretch of the imagination.

I don't think I can ever look at a living tool again the same way. I feel horrified that I've been carrying 40 pounds of those things in my backpack. Taygen was right. We must kill them all!

My laptop had loads of problems with all spiderweb games. I had interesting ones where the keyboard stopped working due to a software glitch spamming the F12 key.

Perhaps we are experiencing a different slowdown then. Your fix did not help me back in the day. Or perhaps I just did it incorrectly.

I had that problem on my laptop with G 1 and 2 but it isn't really a major concern. The desktop computer has no such problems but is significantly more powerful. I can't really think of a fix other than that the laptop worked fine during battles and stuff and it was only when the fullscreen dialog was up like in the beginning and end of the game. I learned to live with it.

I don't feel I am a very good player by any stretch. I'd probably lose my army a few times. But in Typical Blxz fashion I would simply tank with my face and build a new army (and possibly run away screaming to refill on essence....but don't say that too loudly). I do like the HP buffs in G5 but I still think I have a lot of HP for a 3 endurance shaper.

True, although by that point in the game I was so canister addled that my thinking was I could take on the world. Perhaps not so far from the truth. The loss of gazer alhoon was a....necessary sacrifice. For the greater good. Honestly, I'm disappointed that I stopped losing creations about halfway through the game. I sort of liked the rapid deaths early on as it made me feel more shaper-y. I think I prefer the G1 mechanic where it is actually beneficial to absorb a creation and make a new one each time you put additional points into the skill. I think Jeff made a thematic design mistake when he made levelling up more powerful than higher skilled fresh creation levels. It certainly takes away from the moral quandaries of the situation and encourages savescumming to prevent creation deaths (which I have sadly seen too much of in geneforge LP's).

Been a pleasure to have you onboard Alberich. Glad you've enjoyed it. See you around.

I'm glad the whole thing wasn't totally expected. And I wouldn't search too deep into what led me to Taygen. The truth might be....unsettling

Considering it took about 1 and a half hours to get to the endgame once I'd committed myself to do it I don't think I had a choice about multi-episodes. To put things into perspective, I started uploading 11 episodes of various scheduled content last night at 9pm. It is now 10.13am the next day and I've managed to do 7 out of 11 so far. Australian internet.... (the fastest I can get in my area). So slow. Anyway, I do believe that means the final episode released 13 minutes ago. For alhoon and any others who are ghost reading this thread I will post the links to every remaining episode. | (SCOTUS - Surely the Americans will get this reference) And that is it for the series for a while. I will be back at some point to play through Alhoon's mod as it might make a nice little bit of variation as I play through some/all of the alternate endings. But that will not happen for at least a week and possibly for slightly longer. I'm riding high on G5 right now and I don't want to overload that by forcing myself to play through too much too soon.

Shhh, it's for dramatic effect.

I'm tempted to buy the lot for a friend. If only I knew people in real life you were interested in things other than FPS's. Thanks for the heads up.

Yes, I was a bit disappointed that the scottish drakon disappeared so quickly. Most of my voices were fairly generic but I did have fun with that one. And Alexia was just me getting a bit fried in the head from too many recording sessions (the ease with which I can do a giggly girl scares me slightly). Sadly I could never quite get the right voice I envisioned for Taygen; made do with what I had in the end. Not to mention the number of times I forgot the voice I used for each character. Hence the fact they changed so often. Chessrook44 is far better at being consistent with character voices. I personally find them a little cartoonish at times but I think some sound editing on his part would work wonders. I suggest you check out his Avadon 1 & 2 plays if you have not already done so, they are by far some of his best work. EDIT: And no upload today, I couldn't get my post processing done in time for the upload before bed last night. I need to plan nearly a full day in advance to cater to my very slow upload speeds. Episodes need to be left on overnight to upload in bulk.