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So this Grimoire game

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129. Cleve Blakemore
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Weitere Optionen 22 Jun. 2000, 00:00
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
Von: Cleve Blakemore <cleveblakem>
Datum: 2000/06/22
Betreff: Re: Re: Canada Sucks : Time To Eat Crow You Marxist Ratbags
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In article <OLhROelWKsRig7F7g5fNEblj5>,
Quatoria <quato> wrote:

...

One day in New York it was too rainy for me to sell coffee table books
at Union Station so I walked to my warehouse space on the West side of
49th and got two boxes of umbrellas to hawk near the Empire State
Building.

I couldn't see very well carrying two huge boxes of umbrellas so I had
to walk slowly and deliberately up to 49th and Broadway.

At this time I still resembled an ordinary mortal at a mere 200-205 lbs
of steroid-free beef (if I recall my weight correctly) although my
quads were a full 32 inches, no tiny gams there. My quads were like
gigantic sides of beef glued to the front of my legs.

I stepped off the pavement in front of Wendy's restaurant in Times
Square with the umbrellas, it was raining and foggy ... at just that
moment a tax driver was unwisely backing up from a parking space at
Wendy's - he failed to look when he gunned it in reverse and ran into
me from the front right side REALLY hard. I mean there was this
gigantic THUD and the umbrellas went everywhere. I didn't fall down.

The cab driver screeched to a halt, jumped out, then his passenger. The
cab driver was really scared he had injured me, he kept asking "You
alright? You alright?" and I told him, "yeah, my leg is sore, otherwise
I'm okay." I wasn't that fussed about it at the time, barely noticed it.

His passenger was just standing in the road shaking his head, going
"Fugg me, I can't believe your leg isn't broken. We hit you hard enough
to kill a horse, I thought we had backed into a building or a lamppost."

A crowd started to gather and somebody wanted to call an ambulance for
me. A bystander on the sidewalk said "I saw the whole thing. IT was
fugging unreal. The guy was like an immovable object - I saw the taxi
crumple and shake but the guy never even budged, it was the weirdest
thing I've ever seen."

The cab driver checked his rear fender and it was crumpled a good 3
inches, a bit of work for a smash repair. He almost asked me if I had
collision details, then realized I was a man, not a truck and he
decided he'd best just leave the scene if I seemed to be unhurt. They
got back in and sped off.

I thought nothing of it. A car had hit me really hard going about 15
mph in reverse. My leg got a little jolting sensation and I dropped the
umbrellas. That was it.

The next day I discovered a bruise from knee to hip, dark and purple.
In those days my recuperative powers were so amazing it faded away in
about three days. I never thought of it again until I had the bone
density test, then that started me thinking about a lot of other weird
similar things in my life. Amazingly, I had this kind of framework even
when I was a lean, slender 162 lbs in the army - you wouldn't think it
to look at me but even then I was essentially made of solid granite
covered by a light coating of flesh, much like a Terminator model. On
the surface at that time I gave the impression of being a slender,
sensitive ectomorphic type in good condition, but few people ever found
out just how awesomely resilient I was. A couple times I was taking a
beating from middleweights in the army that would have felled a house,
I still went on to win the fight. I was just barely qualified to fight
in that weight class with a full stomach.

I only tell the truth here, I never invented a word of this except for
the occasional narrative flourish of hyperbole. That is simply the way
I was born and it correlates with many, many others things I have heard
about children with high native intelligence - same symptoms, same
physical traits, same somatotype. Makes you wonder if genius is itself
a separate race, complete with their own racial traits and physiology.

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Before you buy.
 

DarkUnderlord

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Believeland Quark Clakemore said:
it was too rainy for me to sell coffee table books at Union Station
Probably about the only snippet of truth in that entire load of hogwash.
 

Vival

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It's not really suprising he can't finish his game with such an ego. When thinking of himself as a superior being every little problem that occurs during development and can't be solved right away must be a source of inner conflict and frustration.
 

MaskedMartyr

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So has Cleve ever gotten into a relationship or done copious amounts of drugs or anything to substantiate his ego?

seriously wat
 

Lonely Vazdru

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Cleve Blakemore said:
In those days my recuperative powers were so amazing

Don't tell me. Aging is a chore. It takes me a whole week to regenerate a mere finger by now.
 

Cleveland Mark Blakemore

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mondblut said:
Well, if you played Wizardry 6, gameplay is pretty much identical (not Wiz7 since there is very little free-roaming in Grimoire, the areas are tightly sequenced).

First time I have heard that, over 8 years with more than 120 beta testers involved.

Grimoire is amazingly open ended and allows you to do nearly anything and go nearly anywhere with very little in the way of controls on the player other than the need to surmount certain challenges/solve puzzles to gain entrance into a new area.

Everyone that has played has said it was at least as open ended as Wiz 7 and certainly much larger in scope.
 

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MisterStone said:
129. Cleve Blakemore
Profil anzeigen
Weitere Optionen 22 Jun. 2000, 00:00
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
Von: Cleve Blakemore <cleveblakem>
Datum: 2000/06/22
Betreff: Re: Re: Canada Sucks : Time To Eat Crow You Marxist Ratbags
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In article <OLhROelWKsRig7F7g5fNEblj5>,
Quatoria <quato> wrote:

...

One day in New York it was too rainy for me to sell coffee table books
at Union Station so I walked to my warehouse space on the West side of
49th and got two boxes of umbrellas to hawk near the Empire State
Building.

I couldn't see very well carrying two huge boxes of umbrellas so I had
to walk slowly and deliberately up to 49th and Broadway.

At this time I still resembled an ordinary mortal at a mere 200-205 lbs
of steroid-free beef (if I recall my weight correctly) although my
quads were a full 32 inches, no tiny gams there. My quads were like
gigantic sides of beef glued to the front of my legs.

I stepped off the pavement in front of Wendy's restaurant in Times
Square with the umbrellas, it was raining and foggy ... at just that
moment a tax driver was unwisely backing up from a parking space at
Wendy's - he failed to look when he gunned it in reverse and ran into
me from the front right side REALLY hard. I mean there was this
gigantic THUD and the umbrellas went everywhere. I didn't fall down.

The cab driver screeched to a halt, jumped out, then his passenger. The
cab driver was really scared he had injured me, he kept asking "You
alright? You alright?" and I told him, "yeah, my leg is sore, otherwise
I'm okay." I wasn't that fussed about it at the time, barely noticed it.

His passenger was just standing in the road shaking his head, going
"Fugg me, I can't believe your leg isn't broken. We hit you hard enough
to kill a horse, I thought we had backed into a building or a lamppost."

A crowd started to gather and somebody wanted to call an ambulance for
me. A bystander on the sidewalk said "I saw the whole thing. IT was
fugging unreal. The guy was like an immovable object - I saw the taxi
crumple and shake but the guy never even budged, it was the weirdest
thing I've ever seen."

The cab driver checked his rear fender and it was crumpled a good 3
inches, a bit of work for a smash repair. He almost asked me if I had
collision details, then realized I was a man, not a truck and he
decided he'd best just leave the scene if I seemed to be unhurt. They
got back in and sped off.

I thought nothing of it. A car had hit me really hard going about 15
mph in reverse. My leg got a little jolting sensation and I dropped the
umbrellas. That was it.

The next day I discovered a bruise from knee to hip, dark and purple.
In those days my recuperative powers were so amazing it faded away in
about three days. I never thought of it again until I had the bone
density test, then that started me thinking about a lot of other weird
similar things in my life. Amazingly, I had this kind of framework even
when I was a lean, slender 162 lbs in the army - you wouldn't think it
to look at me but even then I was essentially made of solid granite
covered by a light coating of flesh, much like a Terminator model. On
the surface at that time I gave the impression of being a slender,
sensitive ectomorphic type in good condition, but few people ever found
out just how awesomely resilient I was. A couple times I was taking a
beating from middleweights in the army that would have felled a house,
I still went on to win the fight. I was just barely qualified to fight
in that weight class with a full stomach.

I only tell the truth here, I never invented a word of this except for
the occasional narrative flourish of hyperbole. That is simply the way
I was born and it correlates with many, many others things I have heard
about children with high native intelligence - same symptoms, same
physical traits, same somatotype. Makes you wonder if genius is itself
a separate race, complete with their own racial traits and physiology.

Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
:lol: :lol: :lol: , the man has talent.
 

neilsouth

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When i first heard about this game and its style i was really excited and couldn't wait , i remember visiting the main site for it week after week. Every so often there would be hints of a release but alas nothing. I completely forgot about it for along time because of this and then i saw a release date for summer , my excitement grew.

Summer came nothing , a release date near christmas ok maybe now? again nothing. A website popped up telling us a release date for april again nothing , then may ... then june and now " a new website for july ".

What the fuck is going on, apparantly its in constant beta test and any request to have a quick play through with other beta testers is met with a forceful NO. I pretty muched ended up begging and the result was " WE WILL NOT BREAK OUR NDA " , but when asked for a quick tease they had nothing to give its as if the game never happened. I really enjoyed eob ,lands of lore and all the other games of this type but i don't like to be messed around and lied to by beta testers and the developer of this game.

I had upmost respect for the developer of this game at first , i had high hopes of a completion. I posted about this game on many other forums in my excitement hype , but now im not happy and have lost all respect :x
 

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There are no beta testers, they are all alt's of cleve, grimoire does'nt exist, in fact, i bet you're another of cleve's alts, but then cleve is just an alt of KC.

Damn this place is a headfuck.
 

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What the fuck is going on

Re: Canada Sucks : Time To Eat Crow You Marxist Ratbags
My quads were like gigantic sides of beef glued to the front of my legs.
A car had hit me really hard going about 15 mph in reverse. My leg got a little jolting sensation and I dropped the umbrellas. That was it.
I was essentially made of solid granite covered by a light coating of flesh, much like a Terminator model
I forgot more about this subject than whatever any of you could even pretend to know.
Imagine how all this is going to sound to you when you first cough up a gout of blood on the mirror and your child brings you his hair in a paper bag.
CLeVE!! I FOOLED THEM!! I BOUGHT SOME tiMe By THROWING THEM mY PEniS aS a DEcoy!!
to know what I am thinking about, just ask yourself what you are thinking about, then think ahead by one million steps.

That answer your question?
 

neilsouth

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aron searle said:
There are no beta testers, they are all alt's of cleve, grimoire does'nt exist, in fact, i bet you're another of cleve's alts, but then cleve is just an alt of KC.

Damn this place is a headfuck.

hah believe me im no alt of cleve , unless cleve has his hand in moderation of rage3d ? :lol:


Bluebottle , yes :x
 

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Cleveland Mark Blakemore said:
...other than the need to surmount certain challenges/solve puzzles to gain entrance into a new area.

...and that's exactly what I meant. Wizardry 7 didn't involve finding specific items or getting hints for special puzzles in order to access most of the world, except only a couple of areas. If patient enough, you could cross the whole sea or get to Tower of Dane right away from the beginning.

In Wiz6, on the other hand, to access almost any area player needed to do or find something in a previous one. Same goes for Grimoire, as far as I remember. I replayed the '98 beta fairly recently, and player needs to complete *all* dungeons in the region and do numerous puzzling things just to be able to get to an exit to the rest of the game (makes me wonder how common residents do travel around, hehe).

UPD: Another thing worth pointing out is the layout of the world. While the world of Wiz7, as with any other game, must be split into smaller manageable zones deep inside, designers went to great lengths to create an illusion of a huge seamless country, with large tracts of open outdoors, no loading screens, no "enter this one-cell-wide corridor to get transported to another area" etc. Even cities and many of the dungeons are seamlessly integrated into this world. Grimoire, on the other hand, like Wizardry6 and most other games is laid out as a number of restricted autonomous "rooms" with very obvious "doors" leading to other zones.
 

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Insert Title Here RPG Wokedex Codex Year of the Donut I'm very into cock and ball torture
Well, I will hazard a guess that the game changed a lot in the last ten years. I really hope it gets released. For people who like good, old RPGs it's basically a dream come true - FINALLY a game with many races, classes, and LOTS AND LOTS of statistics. And step-based movement. Somehow, I'm very attached to that.
 

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