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DapperDraculaDeer
Aug 4, 2007

Shut up, Nick! You're not Twilight.
Yeah, someone was just hand waving away Romeros lovely behavior by pointing out that his other wives were adults. As if that somehow makes the fact that he was grooming a 15 year old Romanian girl in the background while married to one of those ladies totally not an issue.

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Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
Gotta fully juice those whales before the virus gets them.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Did the CoE thread have the same OP as this one?

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010









jabro
Mar 25, 2003

July Mock Draft 2014

1st PLACE
RUNNER-UP
got the knowshon


Disney is going to be knocking on someone's door.

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



Those aren't real, right? They can't be. I can't believe I even have to ask, but I do.

Lum_
Jun 5, 2006
This started 2 years ago. Stormtrooper helms and light sabers were added in during a May the 4th livestream. It wasn't marketed as ...obviously as it is now, so I guess they have really good lawyers on standby.

http://sotawiki.net/sota/Blue_Electric_Sword
http://sotawiki.net/sota/Red_Electric_Sword
http://sotawiki.net/sota/White_Sky_Navy_Helmet

The Totally-Not-Darth-Vader armor set was slated as the top end reward for the livestream, but didn't get unlocked.

https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?p=89581

Lum_ fucked around with this message at 03:23 on May 5, 2020

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010





https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?p=96736

Never forget.

peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos
Holy poo poo.
I guess it's the last bastion in screwing nerds for cash, the old Star Wars plan

THE BAR
Oct 20, 2011

You know what might look better on your nose?

Lum_ posted:

The Totally-Not-Darth-Vader armor set was slated as the top end reward for the livestream, but didn't get unlocked.

https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?p=89581



E:

Also the fact that they used makeagif for their own content.

Popete
Oct 6, 2009

This will make sure you don't suggest to the KDz
That he should grow greens instead of crushing on MCs

Grimey Drawer
Richard Garriott who is definitely still working on SotA and hasn't already completely forgotten that it exists, please answer for this obvious IP theft.

Thompsons
Aug 28, 2008

Ask me about onklunk extraction.
look it's totally on-brand for games based on old CRPG settings to have completely loving incongruous sci-fi elements

THE BAR
Oct 20, 2011

You know what might look better on your nose?

Might and Magic VI blew my 9 year old freaking mind.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
My laser-equipped hovercraft was the coolest drat thing in Ultima 1.

Lobus
Jun 24, 2016

What happened here?
:parrot:
So is this game fairly dead at this point? I had played it years ago, and the idea of player cities seemed cool. I tried playing it again recently and all I found where abandoned cities full of vendors that have overpriced items from years ago. Also in these same empty cities the game really bogs down, its almost impossible to get around.

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
It's more alive than it has ever been, in a sense.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

The game is pretty much Sea World at this point, lamely waiting for the last of their whales to die off.

Gobbeldygook
May 13, 2009
Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

Thompsons posted:

look it's totally on-brand for games based on old CRPG settings to have completely loving incongruous sci-fi elements
that practice predates most CRPGs. The 1980 D&D adventure Expedition to the Barrier Peaks involved the players venturing into a crashed space ship, shooting laser guns and fighting robots.

Gynovore
Jun 17, 2009

Forget your RoboCoX or your StickyCoX or your EvilCoX, MY CoX has Blinking Bewbs!

WHY IS THIS GAME DEAD?!

Thompsons posted:

look it's totally on-brand for games based on old CRPG settings to have completely loving incongruous sci-fi elements

Ultimas 1 and 2 had the player flying a spaceship, so yeah.

lynch_69
Jan 21, 2001

I remember playing Might and Magic 2 on my Genesis and being honestly surprised there was sci-fi space poo poo towards the end. I thought it was really cool and original at the time.

Thompsons
Aug 28, 2008

Ask me about onklunk extraction.

Gynovore posted:

Ultimas 1 and 2 had the player flying a spaceship, so yeah.

I mean I wasn't being facetious there

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

Gobbeldygook posted:

that practice predates most CRPGs. The 1980 D&D adventure Expedition to the Barrier Peaks involved the players venturing into a crashed space ship, shooting laser guns and fighting robots.

The fussy 'don't mix my peas with my potatoes' separation between sci-fi and fantasy only really picked up during the Eighties. There's a lot of Sixties and Seventies material with heavy cross-pollination.

Chev
Jul 19, 2010
Switchblade Switcharoo

lynch_69 posted:

I remember playing Might and Magic 2 on my Genesis and being honestly surprised there was sci-fi space poo poo towards the end. I thought it was really cool and original at the time.
Each of the big three had their own approach to the sci-fi/med-fan mix. Might & Magic always treated the sci-fi as a late-game revelation and a Clarke's third law thing where technology and magic are actually the same thing. Wizardry revealed the sci-fi at the end of Wiz 6 and then in 7 and 8 it was just there from the get go, also unlike M&M's shiny metal sci-fi Wizardry's sci-fi is a spelljammer-esque fantasypunk thing. Ultima's sci-fi just was Garriott going "I'mma rip off Star Wars and stick some tie fighters in there for no reason" (and then same with Time Bandits). In that way the lovely hodgepodge that is SotA is very much true to the spirit of Garriott's early work.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

While we're discussing incredibly dead MMOs, what was the final fallout on Pathfinder Online?

Chev
Jul 19, 2010
Switchblade Switcharoo
someone posted a link to an article about about that in the "will there ever be a good MMO again" thread.

Gobbeldygook
May 13, 2009
Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

Chev posted:

someone posted a link to an article about about that in the "will there ever be a good MMO again" thread.
probably this one which is by a goon.

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



https://twitter.com/jeffwardshow/status/1273472357626261505

Popete
Oct 6, 2009

This will make sure you don't suggest to the KDz
That he should grow greens instead of crushing on MCs

Grimey Drawer
I didn't know the Unity store sold deep sea expedition packages.

Arms_Akimbo
Sep 29, 2006

It's so damn...literal.

Graphic design is my passion

Capntastic
Jan 13, 2005

A dog begins eating a dusty old coil of rope but there's a nail in it.

ETA until Shroud’s next and final wipe?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 4 days!)

Good news everyone. There are still some of those cash money "lord of the isle" bundles with a video game castle for a mere $6999 USD available.
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=9085

Please don't crash the page while you all rush to purchase.

ErrEff
Feb 13, 2012

DancingShade posted:

Good news everyone. There are still some of those cash money "lord of the isle" bundles with a video game castle for a mere $6999 USD available.
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=9085

Please don't crash the page while you all rush to purchase.

jabro
Mar 25, 2003

July Mock Draft 2014

1st PLACE
RUNNER-UP
got the knowshon


Hehe 69. Noice

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
last month the notorious game designer Lord British was blasted into space to spend the rest of his life aboard a one-man prison vessel

ErrEff
Feb 13, 2012

It's at his house castle. Other pictures have family photos of him.

Lord British invited Ghislaine Maxwell to his house (along with a bunch of other people).

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


I expected modern day lord british to have more facial hair

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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

:aaaaa:

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