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I have never played the Quest for Glory games, although I would very much like to. Alas that Sierra doesn't make adventures anymore.I love the older games. There's just something about them and I really enjoy. It's too bad that you can hardly find most of them anymore, except for outrageously priced on eBay. Especially ones from the FMV craze.

I found Xisto though Xisto, actually. They referred it as an alternative to thier own hosting, for less technical stuff. Xisto I found though the directory free-webhosts.com.

Has anyone else here played Puzzle Inlay? It's one of my favorite puzzle games. The object is to fill in an object using a varity of shapes.

 

This game is for the puzzle aficionados; you are guaranteed to fall in love with it from the first seconds. The idea behind the game is simple but brilliant - you are given different pictures you have to inlay with gems of various shapes. The gems pass by at the bottom of the screen, slowly accumulating. You can pick any you want. But if you wait for too long, the gems will block the traffic and you will lose. Simple, isn't it? Simple, but not necessarily easy.

I'd highly recommend downloading the demo. You can play for an hour, and can try any of the three avalible missions.

 

Just be warned, this game is very addictive.

What, Michael? *blink* Adventure games, not RPGs...

And thanks, rowita! I can't belive I forgot the Gabriel Knight series. Those are some very good games. Temujin is awesome. Despite the small screen size and the blurriness of the picture, it still is nice to look at. And the FMV is cool. There's another Southpeak which uses the same interactive video engine at Temujin, but I can't remember the exact name. I think it may be called Dark Side of the Moon, but I'm not sure. I haven't been able to find it.

And I forgot to mention the Journeyman games. They are a series of older adventure games, also published by Sierra. I haven't played any of them yet, but they used to be quite well known. I'm trying to find the Trilogy to buy.

There are also a good deal of free, online adventure games. One of the most well-known is The Mystery of Time and Space, which is a very fun flash adventure. The storyline is sketchy, but it has fun puzzles and humor.

I checked out the website, and it sounds interesting. Might sign up and see how it is. It's neat to find an online turn-based strategy. (My favorite strategy game is Heroes of Might and Magic 2, a very fun turn-based game.)

Well, Blizzard opened up a new US beta server, but it doesn't look like I got on that one, either. Bummer.

And good luck to you, Froglok, in getting in on the European one.

Has anyone else been reading the comic winners that are being released from the Blizzard Insider Comic Contest? For those of us who really want to be in the the beta, I thought this one says it perfectly.

I love Sci-Fi. Twilight Zone (the old 50's and 60's episodes) is my favorite show. Outer Limist is cool too. Like you, Zenchi, I like the more down to earth SF, even though I really enjoy Star Wars (which is really more fantasy than SF, but that's a discussion for another topic).One of my favorite science fiction movies is Gattaca, which, if you havn't heard of it, deals with the issue of reaching perfection based on gene manipulation and socieity's obsession with focusing on superficiality - in this case, whether someone was genetically manipulated or not. It's facinating for the issues it raises, but is also a very artistic movie. While the setting is in the future, almost everything you see echoes of the 50's, which combined with the cinamatographic style gives the movie a wonderful film noir feel. Highly recommended movie.Dark City, while not being very original, is also an interesting SF film. The style again is noir-esque, and highly enjoyable.Does anyone else know of any other noir SF films? I'd really like to know if ya do.As far as the theme goes in SF, my favorite is utopia/dystopia - the crown jewels being, of course, are the novels Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Utopia, and Brave New World. Political science fiction and fantasy is preferable for me than 'hard' sci-fi or sword-and-sorcery fantasy.I've read all of the Ender's Game quartet, but haven't read the Ender's Shadow trilogy yet. Almost finished reading Dune, which is better than I thought it would be.I haven't played many science fiction oriented games, because many I play could go either way between being SF or fantasy.And I read quite a few Star Wars comics (and especially love the Tales of the Jedi series), as well as Scion, which is more quasi-SF in a fantasyish setting.Anyways... Science fiction, wheeeee!

I'm sure everyone here's read Fahrenheit 451. (If you haven't, do so, it's one of the best books ever.) I read in one of Ray Bradbury's (the author) introductions that F451 was published in a book for high school lit students -- with the bad language censored out! If that's not ironic, I don't know what is.

I don't know about it being the worst film ever, but Absolon probably comes pretty close. It's about this furture society where humans have all caught a neurological disease and there's only one medicine, called Absolon, which will allow a person to live. It isn't a cure, just a 'putting-off-death' type thing. Anyways, there's one giant company that controls how this stuff is given out, basically making everyone a slave to this corperation, except scientist has discovered a permanent cure, but before he can distribute it, is mysteriously killed. And the movie just gets dumber after that. At least it was good to sit around and make fun of.

I hate that too. Arrgh.And melkon, that sounds funny... But yes, would probably get incredibly annoying repeatedly. I'd try it out of one of my own friends if I ever admitted to losing an argument, heh.

Okay, this list is going to sound very out of place, but here they are:1. Myst - Favorite, undoubtedly. This game is excellent. I don't even have to say anything about it. And to those who say it's just a glorified collection of puzzles, well, read the books. You'll find a much greater appreciation of the game.2. Grim Fandango - I wish LucasArts would start making adventure games again. The ones they have made are great, and this one is their best. Wonderful story, diffucult but not impossible puzzles, humor, and wonderfull characters.3. The Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin - Immersive. Period. Besides, there are very few adventure games set in the 13th century mideast. It's a shame it's as poorly known as it is.

Thanks! :Pj00 are nice indeed.

Wow. You have much Gmail. o.oI would like one too, please. Mostly for more space. Stupid current e-mail only gives me 5mb. I would also like a good one to use on my website so people can actually get though to me.E-mail: [deleted]

Would anyone like to help start a Runescape clan? I'd like to start one and want to know if there is any interest in one.

 

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Attack: 52

Strength: 50

Defense: 40

Prayer: 33

 

Would anyone like to start a clan with me? I'm usually on World 19, and am only F2P.

Heh heh... Yes, Wow does stand for World of Warcraft. And I was in the stress test, and, whoa. This is an awesome game. Gameplay's great, and even though I only got up to level 9 with my main character, I had a blast playing it. Graphics are quite good, and it's easy to manuver. The death system can be very annoying, but at least you don't lose any of your items. I tested out a Night Elf Druid (my main), a Tauren Warrior, a Human Mage, an Undead Warlock, and a Dwarf Paladin. For the few days that I was able to play it, it was amazing. Aso, even though it was a stress test, and the world I was playing in, there was hardly any lag for most of the time, which really suprised me.

Wow. You have created a very nice looking, apparently very fuctional site. both the design site and the blog look very professional. Love the color scheme. On the contrary, I think that the amount of color you have and the amount of graphics are great, but we'll see what you do with it when you add them.9.5 out of 10The biggest problem I have is how, when you hover over the sidebar links in your design site, the cursor changes to be a pointer accompanied by the question mark (at least in XP Home). Personally, I Htink it would be better if you left it the defaut pointing hand (like you have for the sub-catergories), or, if you want something different from that, just a plain cursor, though that may be a bit confusing to some.On the whole, though, you have created two very good sites. I much admire your web design capabilies.

Be wary of using it, though. I'm not entirely sure that changing the scrollbar is a W3C standard, as it put up errors when I tried to validate CSS that used it. While I think it looks nice done properly, just be careful. Also, if it is valid, could someone give me a link to the W3C page that says so? I can't seem to find it in their list of valid CSS tags.

But it's also completely useless and will also annoy your users. I reccommend against using anything to disable rightclicking, since it's so easy to get around them. And, yes, even newbies can figure them out. Screenshotting, anyone?Also, you're disabling several helpful, legit uses for rightclicking, such as 'copy link location' and 'open in a new window/tab'. Or rightclicking and selecting 'add to favorites/bookmarks', which surely is something that you would want your users to do, heh.

Notepad. Always, for everything, alone.Notepad is the lord.Down with WYSIWYG.Let the true ruler be known.</fanatacism>Ahem. Yes, Notepad is what I use. It's fast and simple. I would try Dreamweaver if I got the chance, but currently other things are higher on my to-buy list. My '98 came with Frontpage, and I have opened some HTML docs in it a few times, and cannot make heads nor tales of it. Besides, I've looked at the code of pages done with Frontpage and they are bloated and overdone. I will sometime try the developer's tools that come with FireFox, but I haven't yet.

This is old news...But, yes, Picasa does sound interesting. I'd probably download it if I had a use for it, but I don't have large photo collections or anything such, so using IrfanView to browse though easily has wroked well enough for me so far.

Another vote for using FireFox to block popup ads. It works very well, and so far I haven't had an ad get though that I didn't allow.But, for those of you not using FireFox (and shame on you), Google's toolbar worked pretty well for me in the IE days. It occasionally let a few popups get though, but on the whole kept most of them down. I didn't have a proplem with having multiple users logged in and it not working. Plus, the serch functionality and the 'find within current page' worked well and was helpful on several occasions.

FireFox. Best free browser avalible. I haven't tried Opera, so I can't compare it that ways, but far, far better than IE. I agree wholeheartedly with you, Mr Self Destruct. PNG support, tabbed browsing, and security were big factors in switching.For those of you who use IE/Netscape and haven't tried tabbed browing, download FireFox and try it. It will not take you long at all to fall in love with it. It's one of the best additions to a browser possible.On another note, I have tried Safari as well, and liked how it worked on the Mac platform.

You got to see Dave Matthews? Lucky.But I haven been able to see several very good concerts this summer. I've been to Diana Krall, Marc Cohn (Best Concert Ever Award), and Richard Thompson. Every one of them was exellent. I actually like Diana Krall's music even more now after her concert. Also, Richard Thompson's opener was Jackie Greene, who is fabulous and will definately be big in the next few years. He's the only opening show I've ever seen to be called back out for a encore, heh,

I don't see how someone can not like Pink Floyd. I've only been able to get ahold of two of their albums (Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall), but I adore them both. I also have the Making of The Dark Side of the Moon DVD, which is good if any of you see it. (It has accoustic versionas of Breathe, alsong with several other songs. w00t!)But, probably my favorite songs are Comfortably Numb, Hey You, and others whom I can hear in my head but not name. Heh. But I like the idea of playing Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 for graduation. Now that would be something to see.

You want a good source for adventure games? Go to [url="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Exellent site.

 

As for your list...

 

 

Myst - This is probably the best-known adventure game, along with it's very well done and just a popular sequel Riven. Other sequels include Myst III: Exile and the upcoming Myst IV: Revelation. URU, which was released a year ago, is a game that is based in the Myst world but not following the same plotline.

 

Syberia & Syberia II - Two very good, very beautiful adventure games that have made a very big splash in the industry. They came out fairly recently. I haven't personally met anyone who has played Syberia and hates it.

 

The Monkey Island Series - A hilarious four-part (and hopefully continuing) adventure series by LucasArts that follows the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood, who wants to become a pirate. Extremely funny and a slapstick type way.

 

Broken Sword - Another series (I'm making all adventures sound like series. eep.) which is funny, but in much more of a subdued way. The first two games (Shadow the the Templars (European Name) / Circle of Blood (US Name) and The Smoking Mirror) are shaded cel animation, and the newest (The Sleeping Dragon) is in full 3D.

 

Grim Fandango - Another LucasArts adventure. My second favorite game of all time. Should be required playing for anyone who professes themselves to be into computer games. You're a skeleton in the Land of the Dead, who is working off his debt to the Powers That Be by selling travel packages. It's a combination of Maya, Art Deco, and Film Noir styles. While the game is often humerous, it has a very touching storyline and great gameplay.

 

The 7th Guest - A rather famous horror adventure. Campy acting and a somewhat predictable storyline, but good puzzles and gameplay.

 

The Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin - A very good but highly under-rated adventure. You play a fallen Knight Templar in the 13th century. Good character animation for the time it was made and interesting storyline. (I'm sorry, this is my third favorite game, and I must plug it.)

 

 

So, that should start you out well. Despite how mass media and gaming mags ignore the adventure gerne, it is still strong and looking good for the future.