What To Do Until March 21st? Options

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I've been playing Arena in my free time (not very often) to ease any desire for Oblivion. It works pretty well because you can visit both Cyrodiil and Morrowind, and it's always interesting to go back and see the original (like seeing the volcano in the background in Morrowind). Not to mention its like getting a new Elder Scrolls game by just playing it.

If you decide to play, left click + sideways movement of the mouse makes you swing a weapon. Also, be sure to follow the installation instructions, and Ctrl+F12 makes the game run much, much faster.

[Schlucke]

As a College Student I'm writing my last Exam on March, 20'th so I know what to do the next weeks. After that ...

[stargelman]

As a College Student I'm writing my last Exam on March, 20'th so I know what to do the next weeks. After that ... 

OT: Nice avatar! That's Semmelrogge's mugshot, right?

[Sir Radont]

I'll be writing my book, maybe.

[Bofra]

Time to wake from the dead here, been reading this forums as a ghost for far too long...

Here's something free and fun, the new Star Wars RTS, "Empire at War". There is a demo on several download sites that lets you play a few tutorials and a very short campaign. However the real fun comes when you actually find out that people have been modding the demo unlocking a lot more features. There's still a lot unbalanced and much is not as it will be in the final release, obviously since the source is only from a demo, but it's still something to spend a few hours on.

The're quite a few mods (you can find most of them here) but most of them does the same thing, unlocks pretty much everything that was locked in the demo. I found the "Warlord" mod the most stable and fun since some are very unbalanced and some doesn't even have AI unlocked so the enemy ships just stays there.

I'm actually thinking of buying the game in a week or so when it's released, love space fights and the possibility to conquest the galaxy and to ease the wait for you know what..

Besides that I'll be playing Civ IV and Morriwind of course.

[ThePerson98]

Im goofing off in Bloodmoon. Cept whats annoying is the assassins from Tribunal, they have weapons that paralyze me, and there is a glitch that happens sometimes to me where I never move again.

[LiquidIze55]

Until the alledged release date i plan to skim the globe on an epic quest to obtain an xbox 360 (I have preordered the special edition)!

[Proof]

hmm well plan for my mod iam thinking of making.. work, college, Think about playing Oblivion.

[Khaan]

Yeah Battlefield 2 is awesome, (and what i'm playing while waiting) I've never played it online tho thanks to my 56k internet I usually play a heavily modded single player version.

[Loki]

Ooh, 56k, i feel you man, but you need to ask yourself how much you are paying, because you can get verizon DSL for 15 $ a month like i have, and its great for BF 2online. Make the switch, its worth it

[ThePerson98]

Anything that isnt dial up is better. In some cases even nothing.
Better to not play a game than to go through the frustration of lagging all the time

I remember the first day I had high speed. I switched out of AOL. AOL is horrid...
400 KB update on Windows update. 2 second download on high speed.
AOL took about an hour. Im using T1 equivalent internet. Cox high speed. Ive pushed it to 10 MBPS before. Incredibly fast.

[Khaan]

Yeah I was going to pay for broadband and everything but my dad said it would mess up my school work (As if it isn't messed up already ) Ah the joys of still living at home, lol, But i'm going to uni next year So i'll get broadband then

Oo mine is pushed to about 3 kb/second

This post has been edited by Khaan: Feb 16 2006, 02:59 PM

[ThePerson98]

..Oo mine is pushed to about 3 kb/second ...

Amazing download speeds! Whenever I get 100 KB/sec thats when something is going majorly wrong o.o

[Bofra]

Aren't we getting a little off topic?

Anyway, I just remembered another excelent game for you who doesn't need to work/study 24/7 . Gothic 2! One of my favourite RPG:s, actually it's a second on my list, with morrowind being no. 1. Gothic 2 has everything MW doesn't, it, does not look as good, but the forests, for example, are much more realistics. Aside from that the quests are a lot more difficult than most of the MW quests (were you could pretty much follow the journal and everything would turn up fine), here you actually need to think, almost every time. Then there is the combat-system, well..., you have to try it to understand it.

Anyway, the best of all is that a "Gothic 2 Gold" version has finally been released in English, wich includes the expansion "Night of the Raven". Previously the expansion was only avaible in German, wich kind of sucked.

Hmm.. I wonder if this sounds too much like a commercial?

[Tellie]

I'll do what I do most of the time.....Study, write more on my story, maby make a new TES-site, or play Morrowind/Daggerfall.

[jchamber]

why add a new tes site when this one is so awesome? Yay more fanfic material..still trying to catch up on the hundreds of pages of writing I haven't gotten to yet.

[minque]

why add a new tes site when this one is so awesome?  Yay more fanfic material..still trying to catch up on the hundreds of pages of writing I haven't gotten to yet.

Jeeez thanks for your kind words on behalf of the W4O-staff!
And yes I think we have a very nice community here and this site is just what you awesome members make it to!

[jchamber]

Jeeez thanks for your kind words on behalf of the W4O-staff!
And yes I think we have a very nice community here and this site is just what you awesome members make it to!

lol, yw. some very true words, but I know that the moderators have prolly had to cull back the members because of people who didn't know how to behave. So that means that you have a hand in which members are here and thus the community is partly a product of your efforts as well. If there were a bunch of jerks on here and stuff, or idiots that just went on rants over nothing...I wouldn't read as much or as often.

[gadfly33]

OT: As a College Student I'm writing my last Exam on March, 20'th so I know what to do the next weeks. After that ... 

Hey, I can sympathize -- I am writing my thesis, so let's hope the game doesn't come out before I get the majority of it written, or I will have to make the oh-so-difficult choice between academic success and retreating into my own little fantasy sandbox. =)

On another note, I picked up the new PC Gamer (which, btw, has a great feature on Mev. Total War II, for those interested) and the magazine's 'release date' section listed Oblivion as a possible February release. This is the latest issue, so I wonder where they are getting that information from, but this seems unlikely.

What to play until Oblivion? I would suggest Battle for Middle Earth II, which I have been beta testing for a while now. It hits the stores at the end of the month and even if you are not a big RTS person it still has the Tolkien fantasy element to it, which is really well done. And there are elves this time around.

There is even a pseud-roleplaying component: you can create your own custom in-game hero, and customize everything from appearance to weapons to powers according to the manner in which the character advances during the course of the battle. Haven't you ever dreamed of leading one of the seven wizards into battle? =) Play the demo on fileplanet.

This post has been edited by gadfly33: Feb 22 2006, 07:25 AM

[jchamber]

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I picked up the new PC Gamer (which, btw, has a great feature on Mev. Total War II, for those interested) and the magazine's 'release date' section listed Oblivion as a possible February release. This is the latest issue, so I wonder where they are getting that information from, but this seems unlikely.

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I am a subscriber to PC Gamer and I have had the March issue for about two weeks, so the info in the february mag is acctually about from the first or second week of January. But I agree that OB will not release in the next week (last day of the month)