Okay, game is going, and if anyone's interested I'm updating the post that Endre mentioned.

After -12 all winter this is kinda nice. ;)

You still have it.

Nope, I gave it back. I remember telling you I was a one-piece swimsuit girl not a bikini girl.

kind greetings to you all
*hugs a few people, patts on a few heads*

ddickinson, do you happen to know any music by an Englishman called Havergal Brian, appart from the gothic symphony (just wondering, music is kind of an obsession for me these days, and you seem to be the person to ask, being from the UK)

and we've had lovely weather here for the past few days! (but such things are relative to me of course, my mother once caught me out playing in the snow in my underwear when I was 7 years old)

The name sounds familiar, but not someone I can put my finger on. I am guessing he is a classical composer?

Morning Vnlr, or shall we just call you "V"? ;)

I found it, the cheerleaders got it and turned it into 12 matching headbands. :/

well, Vnlr is just some sort of abreviation of my family name, Vanlaer (which ethymolgically means about as much as "the one from the woods")

Yes Havergal Brian is an English classical composer, and a fascinating one at that.

There are many self-taught composers throughout history, but I have yet to witness Hans Zimmer write a two hour long symphony for a 1000 musicians :)

I find the German Giants like Wagner, Beethoven, Shumann, Shubert, Mozart, Bach, ... to be fairly overrated actually, there is so much beautifull stuff floating about made by dutchmen, Englishmen, Polish people, ...

a lot of people, like the Dutch, are a bit like Englishmen and cooking in their knowledge of their musical heritage: the English have many great traditional dishes (pies, puddings, ...), but no one bothers making them and they'd rather pop open a can of baked beans ;p

Re, back to do more work...

Seconded. Also it was IMO not very well balanced. The more interesting loot was in the random levels you could find maps for, and those also were a little more challenging (= read interesting). But doing these levels meant leveling too fast - the main game would get very easy and boring since it did not scale.

So I guess it's off to the nudist beach for you then. :-)
It was those random level maps that really bored me. They were the exact same levels with the exact same layouts, with the exact same monsters. I do like that it was harder, but it was still just so dull. I guess many people must like it though, as it seems to have some high ratings. I got it as a freebie a while ago, so I am not too bothered about it not being for me.

Okay, continuing to update thoughts on the game here for whoever's interested.

In your opinion, is the sexual violence necessary for the story, or is it there just for shock value or to be artsy? I am all for games not getting censored, but I also hate games that use sexual violence or a load of other things just for the sake of publicity or to make some kind of statement.

Sounds like you are having fun. Good :-)
*happy hug*

on a different note;

I dreamt tonight that I was part of a large mob of poor people being marched into siberia by soviets. When we finally got there, however, we wound up in a 4 star hotel with commissar butlers? We ended up investigating a dissapearence in the hotel, straying out of our rooms against regulations. The commisars found out, and after long, friendly questioning over tea and scones we were flung out of the hotel into the frozen wastes.

Then we were hunted down by werewolves, and we mounted a defence in an abandonned fuel station.

The werewolves came straight out of morrowind (textures and everything), as did the huge battlehammers lying about in the shop of the station.

We smashed them up to a pulp, and then we left for some city which seemed important in the dream.

there we wound up in parliament, where I supported the opinions of a bunch of disgruntled turkish salt miners with marxist quotes.

After that I went hoppak dancing with my classmates from secundary school. We then went streetracing (though I haven't a clue on how to drive a car in real life)

and there were quarians at the end, as there always are nowadays...this time they were debatting over the dollarsymphony...one of them looked excactly like [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/AinoJ%C3%A4rnefelt~1888(AtelierNyblinHelsinki-NationalBoardOfAntiquitiesPictureArchive).jpg/220px-AinoJ%C3%A4rnefelt~1888(AtelierNyblinHelsinki-NationalBoardOfAntiquitiesPictureArchive).jpg]Aino Sibelius[/url]...o_O