Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Geneforge 4 will be out before too much longer now, and it will be really good. For my money, the best Spiderweb game ever, by quite a margin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 It warms my heart to hear you say that, SoT. It also makes me a little jealous of the beta testers. How much longer are we likely to wait? "Before the end of the year" isn't too encouraging. Of course, I'd also rather more time get put into the game than less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk MagmaDragoon Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 We are all waiting! I hope it will be out soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Unfortunately, some of us still have a while to wait... Unless you're buying Dikiyoba a Mac, SoT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk MagmaDragoon Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba:Unfortunately, some of us still have a while to wait... Unless you're buying Dikiyoba a Mac, SoT? Eh eh. I like very much the fact that Jeff makes games for Macs first ; in Italy there are only a few Mac users. Anyway, I give you a Mac like mine: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 I'm kind of up to my neck in Macs, but only the oldest one is really mine -- a slightly older version of the one shown above, with a 15" screen. The rest belong to the university, so I can't give them away, though I get to control them. Spiderweb games should run fine on a cheap second-hand G3, though. These are supposedly available for a few hundred bucks, if you're really desperate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 I'm not sure about best Spiderweb game ever, but as someone who hasn't really liked Geneforge up to this point I can say that GF4 is a very good game. It also fixes quite a few of the most irritating flaws of previous Geneforges. —Alorael, who is guilty of dereliction of beta-duty. He needs to work on that. Every day of delay is probably his fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Hmm, I guess I'll actually play the demo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Ash Lael Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Does it have actual characters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast *i Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Although I can neither confirm nor deny speculation as to the matter of the nature of characters, I will say that significant efforts have been made to develop interactivity between characters and the events in the plot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 I won't say it's the best Spiderweb game, but it is the best of the Geneforge series. Unfortunately everytime Jeff tweaks the game it pushes back the release date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 I got an error message saying the above post hadn't gone through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Emperor Tullegolar Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 I don’t know, the release date is dangerously close the the release date of the World of Warcraft expansion pack. Might that effect sales? I mean, World of Warcraft is a staple of the Mac RPG gaming community and that is Jeff's primary audience as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast *i Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Hard to say. Jeff's audience also contains a lot of old school gamers too, remnants of simpler era long gone. These people, I suspect, would not necessarily buy into the whole World of Warcraft thing. Good point, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Delicious Vlish Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Who you calling old sonny? Back in my day, we stared at @ all day. And we liked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Emperor Tullegolar Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Quote: Originally written by Delicious Vlish: Back in my day, we stared at @ all day. Respect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Swimmin' Salmon Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Quote: Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar: Quote: Originally written by Delicious Vlish: Back in my day, we stared at @ all day. Respect. We worked damn hard to get you that @. You better be grateful. All we had was text. Beautiful, beautiful text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 I still enjoy having my @ slaughter the alphabet, but I've been away from the world of pure text recently. —Alorael, who still remembers and/or invents the days when all games were just a series of 1's and 0's and you had to interpret them yourself. Be glad you have your fancy computers instead of pieces of paper or, in the really old days, digits scrawled in the dirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Delicious Vlish Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Table tops, with to much mountain dew and pizza, and funny dice with to many sides. Stacks of paper. Maps. Little pewter figurines. "You are being attacked by a hobgoblin, a gnoll, and six goblins. Prepare to defend your selves!" "Magic missile! Magic Missile!" The dice would make an awful racket. Oh, and if you ever see a b coming at your @, run you fools! This foe is beyond any of you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Have you ever tried to kill a fruit bat? I've certainly tried (it's a story for another day) and it was extremely hard. —Alorael, who decided to call it a draw. He did manage to drive off his foe, but only because his foe was apparently not interested in savaging him like a good b. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 A b might sting you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity:A b might sting you. Only if it's a dragon bat. EDIT: *checks Angband monster database* Huh. I coulda sworn dragon bats had a sting attack. Now my joke isn't funny at all, if it was in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Emperor Tullegolar Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Not street urchins again! pp pp pp p p p pp pp pp @ <Ah! My gold! pppp ppp p ppp pppp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk MagmaDragoon Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Quote: Originally written by *i:Hard to say. Jeff's audience also contains a lot of old school gamers too, remnants of simpler era long gone. These people, I suspect, would not necessarily buy into the whole World of Warcraft thing. Good point, however. I completly agree. If I had to pick between WoW and GF4 I'll take the second. Old school is always better, after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Quote: Originally written by Delicious Vlish:Who you calling old sonny? Back in my day, we stared at @ all day. And we liked it. I was going to say "what do you mean back in your day, don't you still stare at @ all day?" But it seems @ gets the respect it deserves around here. Very nice. It makes me feel very xyzzy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Delicious Vlish Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 I seem to recall a "b" being a balrog in Rogue... I could be mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 B is the Balrog in Moria, but I'm pretty sure B's are bats in Rogue. —Alorael, who could see bats of Gorgoroth having stings, but they don't either. And Tullegolar, your urchins are the old kind that has surely grown up into drunks, village idiots, lepers, and the occasional veteran or mercenary that in turn died out and was replaced by the current generation t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Seeing the article about Jeff in About Jeff reminds me of playiing Eamon and having to map the world on paper. You kids have it easy with graphics and automapping. You don't even have to insert floppy disks and swap out game and data disks any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug shadowss Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Funny because I play both wow and Gneforge, but if i had to make a choice, G all th way sicne ive been playing it for 3+ years actually if you think about... geneforge is much more relaxing, but if you want to be with more "live" players than u could do WOW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug shadowss Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 i thought that the mac and Windows versions were coming out in different dates, first mac then windows; (WOW)Burning crusade and G4 for mac , PS3, WII are released. G4 for windows ??is this the order of releases?? plase make any and all corrections.... it may help others... and myself... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd adad64 Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 to all you who have windows instead of macs... HAHAHA I'll get to play it first, all of you poor, helpless, defenseless, suckers. (Sorry just have to rub the fact that I'm a mac fan in.) By the way, WOW, is fun, but it's also making SC2 come out 20 billion years later than usual. So I'd definetly pick GF4. I need money to register though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk MagmaDragoon Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Flamewar Alert! Really, I'm a Mac fan too, but this don't mean that who use Windows is a sucker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Thank you for that display of reason, MagmaDragoon. adad64: No flaming. Do you see anyone else rubbing the fact that they like Macs or Windows in? I don't think so. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Delicious Vlish Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 **Pacification Vlish Mode** Play nice. Please. We are all aware of the fact that Macs are vastly superiour. There is no need to incite another dreaded flamewar. The last time this happened people brought Cryoas and Fyoras and Dryaks. There was a lot of ashes and puddles and entrails everywhere. Took the serviles weeks to scrub all the noob juice off the walls. Let those using Windows remain loyal to the Shaper cause. The rebelion will crush them shortly. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 There are two words in there, DV, that come close to TM's level of inappropriateness. Boo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Delicious Vlish Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 How so? Do tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 I'm sending you a telepathic message as we speak, vlish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Delicious Vlish Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 The tentacles... They receive nothing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk MagmaDragoon Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 Try with the nipples? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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