PC Zone hands-on

Polynikes said:
Someday I hope to play an RPG that lets you write your journal notes yourself. I don't know why it hasn't been done yet (that I've seen), because it wouldn't be very friggin' hard.

Didn't the Infinity Engine games allow for this, as well as Arcanum? At the very least you could put text markers on maps and use your character bio as a scratchpad.

Also, don't double post.
 
Polynikes said:
Someday I hope to play an RPG that lets you write your journal notes yourself. I don't know why it hasn't been done yet (that I've seen), because it wouldn't be very friggin' hard.

Realmz, for MacOS (the classic versions) and Windows. Made by Fantasoft in 1994 :D
There was an option to record every important message in your journal automatically (which seems to have been buggy, as you could scroll through the entries and find pieces of dialogue that you hadn't encountered yet), but you could simply write stuff down in the journal all by yourself (and there was no quest list).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realmz

OnT: Also, a pretty good preview overall. No previous knowledge of who Will Porter is, but he seems more like a real journalist than most other "game journalists"...
 
Bofast said:
OnT: Also, a pretty good preview overall. No previous knowledge of who Will Porter is, but he seems more like a real journalist than most other "game journalists"...

As Bri-man said, he's registered here, and one need only look here to realise how awezors he is.
 
That might have been the most positive form of dropping the letters NMA in an article that I've seen in years.

Bravo!

Still reading the article, but so far it looks like he intentionally spent some time doing other things than popping heads, and even with the much greater length of his hands-on session in mind, this leads me to place a bit more faith in his version of things as opposed to the "yay I killed a bunch of shit" line that we've heard repeated by some of the other hands-on previewers.
 
Indeed, it is a very good preview.
Hope he pops by so he can be congratulated proper for doing a good job.

Don't worry Will, we won't bite. Well, I won't anyway
 
That's a pretty good preview! he seems honest, unlike those butt kissing retards who call themselves game journalists.
Still, the game worries me quite a bit, actually, im not worried, Im already pissed off, the changes that have actually been published are enough to make me not buy the game, I'll probably rent to check it though, hope its the last thing to die!
 
Per said:
Polynikes said:
Someday I hope to play an RPG that lets you write your journal notes yourself. I don't know why it hasn't been done yet (that I've seen), because it wouldn't be very friggin' hard.

Didn't the Infinity Engine games allow for this, as well as Arcanum? At the very least you could put text markers on maps and use your character bio as a scratchpad.

Also, don't double post.

Some did. Baldur's gate 2 did but Icewind dale and BG1 didn't. Don't know about the other IE games.
 
It does seem like the only quest the press mentions (aside from the megaton quest) and it is sort of a rip off of the slag/modoc quest in fallout 2
 
Cheers for the nice words chaps...

There were a few more details in the box-outs featured in the actual magazine (which never get put up on CVG) but I'm glad you lot approve in the main...
 
Per said:
Polynikes said:
Someday I hope to play an RPG that lets you write your journal notes yourself. I don't know why it hasn't been done yet (that I've seen), because it wouldn't be very friggin' hard.

Didn't the Infinity Engine games allow for this, as well as Arcanum? At the very least you could put text markers on maps and use your character bio as a scratchpad.

Also, don't double post.

Yes, you could do this in BG2 and in Planescape: Torment, too, I think. Great way of pointing yourself towards the places you've been. I think there were similar features in Icewind Sale 1+2 as well, but I'm not sure about this?
 
I didn't have a problem with Jet until someone pointed out that it shouldn't exist anymore.

I'm just going to say that someone reversed engineered it. There are still people that practice chemistry but I'd need an explanation on how it became prevalent in the east but disappeared in the west. For all we know, they've got a quest about that.

The real question is, how does one exactly do jet? Snorting? I always thought you breathed it in like an inhaler.
 
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