Hothgorn TheBlack

oooooo lethargic............ 1. Wheres my gun? 2. How do I beat up the guy with the boxing gloves? -Hothgorn

Wait...wait.....I think i've gamemastered for those people before........

Doom 3 makes me jump.......it takes good scripting and level design to do that- The ambience, the noises, the stained walls, the lack of ammo.......and that freaking monster busting out of the steps....(bang! bang! bang!)..jerk............... -Hothgorn The "No, I'm not afraid; what was the access code again? Oh, lets ask the guy with the missing eyes" Black -Tip of the moment: If it's laying down dead before you got there shoot it anyways........

You are the Hero! Be it from pure boredom or a wish to vicariously explore the hero fantasy, you favor characters who champion justice, protect the innocent, and defend the weak. Roleplaying which involves destroying evil or righting wrongs particularly appeals to you. You often make a particularly skillful and charismatic leader (unless the group is the typical bunch of ragtag thieves). -Cheers Hothgorn TheBlack

Bethesda developing and publishing Fallout 3 Elder Scrolls developer licenses the beloved sci-fi RPG series from Interplay and is already hinting at sequels. Role-playing gamers everywhere got a jolt of adrenaline today when Bethesda Softworks announced that it has licensed the Fallout franchise. Under the terms of the deal, Bethesda acquired exclusive international rights to publish Fallout games on PCs, consoles, handhelds, and other media from its current holder, troubled publisher Interplay. Interplay will still retain ownership of the Fallout intellectual property. "We’re extremely excited about this opportunity and what it means both for Bethesda and for Fallout fans around the world,” said Vlatko Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks. "Fallout is one of the great RPG franchises. Millions of Fallout games have been sold worldwide, and fans have been eagerly awaiting the release of a Fallout 3 title." Although Bethesda's first Fallout game will be called Fallout 3, it is unlikely it will be the same game--code-named "Van Buren"--that was being developed by Interplay's internal Black Isle Studios. Black Isle was all but shut down last fall as part of Interplay's cost-cutting measures, which saw both work on the game stop and the departure of virtually all of its developers. Though its financial terms were not disclosed, the Fallout license deal will give a much-needed injection of cash to Interplay, which is facing severe financial difficulty. The company's controversial CEO, Herve Caen, only had good things to say about the transaction. "This is a good agreement for both companies and for gamers," he said in a statement. "Although several parties had a high level of interest in licensing Fallout, we are most impressed by Bethesda’s execution of role-playing titles. Bethesda is an ideal steward of the Fallout franchise." Indeed, the Fallout series is being taken over by one of the more well-respected role-playing game developers in business today. Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series has won numerous awards, most recently for Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, its sprawling third installment for the PC and Xbox. The first Elder Scrolls game was released in 1994, three years before the still-celebrated Fallout hit PCs. According to Bethesda, Fallout 3 will be developed alongside the next Elder Scrolls and under the direction of executive producer Todd Howard. Also, since Bethesda is currently hiring developers for "future-generation consoles," a GameCube, PlayStation 2, or Xbox version of Fallout 3 is highly unlikely. No release date for Fallout 3 has been set, but Bethesda has already hinted that it intends to "publish additional sequels." However, none of these sequels will be the Fallout MMORPG Caen mentioned last month. In a separate press release, Interplay announced that it is retaining "all online gaming rights for the Fallout franchise." It is unclear how this would affect any online component of a Bethesda-developed Fallout game. -With this and the fact Baulder's Gate 3 was licensed to Atari, looks like Interplay can't do any more damage. -Hothgorn TheBlack

DING! Balandar has made a level! New title: Programmer! You have 7504 experience to go for the next level I am so happy for you Balandar. Congratulations for your current and future success! Weekends before: Weekends after: -Hothgorn TheBlack

Interplay reopens, Titus declares bankruptcy [uPDATE] French authorities suspend trading of Interplay's corporate parent while the publisher acquires workers' compensation insurance. Just days after California authorities forced Interplay to close its doors, the publisher has apparently reopened them. A late-breaking report from The Orange County Register says that CEO Herve Caen succeeded in acquiring workers' compensation insurance for the financially ailing company, thereby allowing work to resume at its Irvine, California, offices. The offices were forcibly closed Friday by state labor inspectors due to lack of workers' compensation insurance and unpaid wages. Ironically, the good news for Interplay came on the same day the publisher's majority shareholder, France-based Titus Interactive, declared bankruptcy. Speaking to GameSpot, sources close to the developing story said they heard news of the bankruptcy from Caen himself. Caen founded Titus in 1985 with his brother, Eric. According to the news service AOF, Titus has entered redressment judiciare, the French form of receivership. For the layman, receivership is a form of bankruptcy in which a company can avoid liquidation by reorganizing with the help of a court-appointed trustee. The Tribunal of Commerce of Meaux halted the trading of Titus shares midday yesterday at 0.16 euros ($0.20) per share. Titus stock will remain suspended pending a review of Titus' finances and those of its two French subsidiaries, developer Sofra Games and distributor Avalon France. Until October 6, Titus "will enter into a period of observation during which it intends to continue negotiations on the possible sale of assets" in order to avoid liquidation, which is the usual outcome of redressment judiciare. No specific assets were mentioned as being on the block, although last week, Titus founder Herve Caen told GameSpot he was "working on a lot of deals" regarding Interplay and its properties. from gamespot. -Hothgorn.

The Orange County Register reports that California labor investigators have shut down the publisher--something CEO Herve Caen disputes. Less than a day after CEO Herve Caen said Interplay was "still here," the publisher has apparently been shut down by the State of California. The Orange County Register's Tamara Chuang reported late Friday that California's Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement forced the Irvine, CA-based developer-publisher of Fallout to suspend operations. The closure followed a snap inspection of Interplay's offices by investigators, who found the company was without workers’ compensation insurance and had not paid employees. According to officials, there were 14 staffers on-site Friday during the inspection, and 79 still on Interplay's payroll--down nearly 40 since their mid-April financial statements. The labor officials' visitation was prompted by complaints by seven Interplay workers who claimed their wages had gone unpaid. Dean Fryer, spokesman for the California Labor Commissioner, told the Register, "An employer has responsibilities when they open a business. The responsibilities include proper and timely payment of wages. It includes providing workers compensation coverage in case there are injuries. If the employer cannot accommodate those basic issues of doing business, we cannot allow employees to work." As a penalty for its infractions, Interplay was fined $1,000 for each employee on the payroll for a total of $79,000. This sum is in addition to the $179,000 it already owes the state in back taxes and the $432,000 in unpaid rent it owes its landlord, Arden Realty, who is reportedly on the verge of evicting the company. In addition, it is being sued for $156,000 in back Baldur's Gate royalties by BioWare. As of part of its mid-April financial statements, Interplay declared it only had $1.2 million in cash on hand. Despite the increasingly daunting scale of Interplay's difficulties, Caen brushed them off. "I hope to have that [insurance] back by Monday or Tuesday," he told the Register optimistically. Caen also had the esprit to question the semantics of Chuang's article. "The company has not shut down. [The state] can’t do that. It can only let me not let employees work," he said. In addition to breaking the closure news, Chuang also confirmed that Interplay employees had not been paid for over a month, had no health insurance, and had been told to remove their belongings from the building due to a looming lockout by Arden. Still, some of the Interplay staffers at the office on Friday held out a more genuine sense of hope than their employer. "The reason I stick around is that I’m a diehard loyalist and I love the people I work with," IS manager Steve Jobes told the Register. "If there is any sliver of hope that Interplay may someday turn around I want to be there to see it." -oops -Hothgorn TheBlack

Hello DashZero! Welcome!

*looks down AH HAHAHAH!!!! I'M ON FIRE! AH AH! AH! AH!! AAARGGGH!!

Well, its your heavy accent.

I don't know what you said Martok, but that was hillarious. -Hoth

Small download, free to play for the duration of E3. good looking game, though I'm worried that everything is piped in (including graphics). May have some serious rubberbanding. It's considered the next diablo, only online and different....?..... http://www.guildwars.com/ -Cheers -Hothgorn

So far: Virtue: Cu2O (That's the periodic elements making copper oxide): Blaster, Energy Blast/ Energy manipulation Sysiphus: Controller, Mind/Healing Hoplomachus: Tank, invuln./Mace Corpse Rot: Defender, Radiation/Radiation Just trying things out right now mainly. The game is a blast (no pun intended) -Hothgorn TheBlack

Instance?

So, my main question is how is finding Baddies? Is it a pain? Is there always too many people around grabbing all the gangs for themselves?

hm......I like the H.O.N.O.R. idea. hm.....how about: Huge Overfed Nanites On Riddlin? No? I'll try again later.

Details! Details!

Ok, I found another movie its 89mb and is long. It features the invasion that Soke and Novawop speak of. http://www.rixus.com/beta3mb.zip its a ftp, so one will have to download it. -cheers Hothgorn

Hm....Soke's link has some interesting possabilities. The fraudulent Fatal Quartet The groovilicious A-marines The $6 million Morphin' Masochists -My favorite thus far. Gamma Guard of Hoboken Mighty Troopers of Oz The awesome Pubescent Family of the good ship Lollypop The stupendous Mighty Reserves Inc. Power Agents of North America Random Knights Suicide Knights of London A-hamsters of New England Teen Champions from the Past Blackbelt Cephalopods of California -Lol hieyyyyya! Power Knights of Asgard Seems to be stuck on a Knights kick. -Hothgorn

Just a heads up: City of Villains and Auto Assault top NCsoft's E3 lineup Two new games will join Guild Wars, Tabula Rasa, and Lineage II on the Los Angeles expo's show floor. Joining the growing chorus of pre-E3 announcements, NCsoft unveiled its lineup for the looming game expo. Along with several previously announced titles--including Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle, Guild Wars, and Tabula Rasa (which was announced way back in 2001)--the Korean publisher will be showing off two all-new PC titles. The first new game is Auto Assault, a postapocalyptic massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by NetDevil. Set in a world that's half Road Warrior and half Fallout, the game will let players customize their own cars, trucks, and motorcycles with a variety of engines, armor, and weapons. Gameplay will consist of missions and wandering through a wasteland full of mutants and bandits. Environments in the Havok engine-powered game will be completely destructible, and crashed cars will suffer realistic damage. NCsoft's other new title is City of Villains, an expansion pack to its superhero MMORPG City of Heroes. As the title suggests, the Cryptic Studios-developed expansion will let gamers join the dark side of Paragon City. As supervillains, players will battle those infernal tights-bedecked do-gooders while building their own criminal empires. (Insert diabolical laugh here.) NCsoft did not announce a release date for either City of Villains or Auto Assault. By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot POSTED: 04/23/04 02:29PM As for the leadership/name. Well, I'm going to on a few hours a week, so I'm a bad choice. (Not that anyone would choose me anyways). For a name? Well, how about we figure out a background for the group first, then we name it. It's like writing a book. Titles don't get done until the story is done. -Hothgorn TheBlack

Minimum System Specifications • Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP • Intel Pentium® III 800 MHz or AMD Athlon 800 MHz • 256 MB RAM • 4X CD-ROM Drive • 2 GB Available HDD Space • GeForce 2 Series or ATI Radeon 8500 Series Video Card • DirectX 9.0 • 16-bit Sound Card • 56k modem • Keyboard and mouse Recommended System Requirements • Windows® 2000/XP • Intel Pentium® 4 1.7 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1700+ • 512 MB RAM • 16X CD-ROM Drive • 2 GB Available HDD Space • GeForce 5600 or ATI Radeon 9600 Series Video Card • 16-bit Sound Card • Broadband Internet Connection • Keyboard and mouse with wheel

Soke has a poll for which server. It's located in the Announcements section. Post your votes there! -Hothgorn TheBlack

Action packed http://www.pr51.net/sturm/TAC/BoS_2.wmv Here's one of Dr. Physics doing some fighting with the interface turned on so you can see what it looks like. http://www.slugmen.com/drpinterface.wmv Here's one of a combat where he was flying. http://www.slugmen.com/flyfight.wmv Here's one some poor guy alone in the warehouse. http://www.slugmen.com/poorguy.wmv This is Whoa using his speed siphon power. Slows other people down, speeds him up. Its part of the kenetic set. http://www.slugmen.com/whoafast.wmv (keep in mind this was a cut/paste job on my part. I am not in the game.) -cheers -Hothgorn

Planned Game Servers We know you’ve wanted information about the availability of servers. So, without further ado, here are the names for some of the planned CoH servers to help you with all your game playing and team coordinating needs. Please keep in mind that not all of these servers may be live on launch day, and it's also possible that more will be live. The final exact server setup will be based on load demand and server configuration. "Justice" "Pinnacle" "Virtue" "Liberty" "Guardian" "Infinity" "Protector" "Victory" "Champion"