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agreed I'd rather have games done rather than done 80% and declared done by marketing. then you hear about all the sutff that had to go at the last moment and all the bugs and then you curse.

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*groan* Oh noes! SEIV beta started way back in ... well, I can't quite remember. I know the planning started around 1998, beta I think was sometime late 1999 or 2000... and we're STILL getting patches to it, at the end of 2005!

We're not gonna get it until 2010! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/skull.gif [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Poison.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Dagger.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Dagger.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Dagger.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Bullets.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Bomb.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Bomb.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/skull.gif

(Ok, ok, so there was Dungeon Odyssey and Starfury in between... but still)

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Starfury was just making the engine for se5 and

Dungeon Odyssey was just WTF.
Ragnarok from 1992 is better, granted Ragnarok beats just about every other modern RPG also...

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Final Fantasy Tactics for the playstation was my favorite, but I grew up with the Dragon Warrior series for the NES. My 4 year old was playing the original the other day,She wasn't doing too bad for not being able to read yet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Might and Magic VI I thought was a good game. I play adom at work every once in a while, but I was never a big fan of "die and start from the begining" type. Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter had an interesting save system though, but I haven't gone far into that game yet. I'll have to give Ragnarok a try, I'm always up for a new RPG, there just arent enough good ones out there.

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Anyone here play Guildwars?

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I never got into the online games, partly because I don't have the money for the montly fees, and partly because I don't have internet at home. At the time I looked into it I couldn't see paying 20-30 dollars each month for the little time I had to play. I did play a free demo of something along the lines of an MMORPG, It was aimed more a kids though. a free trial aimed at kids meant there were alot of people running around not knowing what they were supposed to do. I wouldn't mind trying out something like Guildwars, but for now I'm stuck with single player RPG's

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Guild Wars has no monthly fee. You still have to pay for Internet though, which might run around $20 a month for low end DSL from SBC (they have special deals all the time) or similar.

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Thats not so bad. It's been a few years since I had internet at home. I gave up when I couldn't find a reliable SP that wouldn't try to shaft me. My current comp isn't worth fixing for internet though. Maybe I'll give it a try sometime.

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Wolfman77: You can get around Adoms' total death syndrome by simply copying the savegame into a backup folder.

But in my opinion, this does take away something from the experience. (Doesn't mean I don't do it, though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif )