Best thread ever.

So are Yipsl and redwoodtreesprite.

 

Hell, I paid $19.99 for the GoTY edition at Target. This was in May 2005. I'm probably going to wait until 2009 to buy the $19.99 Oblivion + expansions edition too. Or, just buy something else if RPGs start getting made again.

 

Oh dear. If only the ESF was as literate as they are literal.

 

ESF? ESFP or ESFJ? I think I'm an ISFP on the Myer-Briggs personality thing, but I'm not quite sure. Maybe I'm an INFP. I guess I don't know myself very well.

 

I'm fairly certain it was a joke.....

 

Check out some of the idiotic responses, though.

 

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/inde ... try4046108

 

Now that's funnier than any patrickstewart!11!!1!! joke.

 

http://forums.xbox.com/2136722/ShowPost.aspx

 

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/inde ... pic=229031

See. They're not all raving fanboys.

 

Good that you preserved the quote here because it seems to have mysteriously disappeared...

BTW, even guys like Todd seem a bit shaken by the amount of hype. In this interview the following happens:

Xbox.com: Why will it be the best RPG ever?
Howard: Oh jeez, that's for someone else to answer. We just try to do better then we did last time. I hope we have.

EDIT: this, on the other hand, looks quite interesting:
Xbox.com: One of the coolest parts of the game is the hyper-intelligent NPCs. Mind describing a few characters we'll meet and just how smart they are?

Howard: I wish they weren't so smart, actually. We spent forever making them really smart, and probably the last few months making them dumber, because they like to go off and do things that really mess the world up. A few weeks ago there was an instance where a player dropped the "Skull of Corruption," an artifact that when used on an enemy makes an evil clone of that enemy. He was just testing and wanted to make sure the object used the physics correctly when dropped. So he drops it and an NPC runs up, grabs it, and shoots the player with it—creating an evil version of the player who starts killing everyone. It was hilarious.

 

That's one of the concerns I have for anyone that tries to mod this game. Bethesda has 100 people spending months tweaking each NPC so they don't break the game. What if a modder adds one more NPC in? What's the chance of your new guy going on a Radiant Rampage(tm)? Will you have to sit and watch him for days on end to see what he does? Even if he's only there to tell the PC a rumor about the swizzle-stick of doom in the next town over he'll be there messing things up afterwards. A careful conscientious modder might get it right, but I'll bet 99% of fan made mods screw up the game in some way.

 

That actually would be entertaining in a train wreck sort of way if the modders added in NPCs that horribly fuck up the game.

 

Yeah I had the exact same thoughts about adding NPCs, it may cause all sorts of uninetended consequences but maybe if they are all very honorable NPCs you'll be safe but throw in some druggies, assassins or thieves and you may be in trouble.

BTW the term is NPC Cascade (tm).

-S

 

You could fully script a NPC, or give him easy goals, to make sure he doesn't do things like that.
If all he has to do is eating twice a day and hanging around the rest, he probably won't kill anyone.

 

Oh a good modder could figure out a way. Have the NPC "visiting from out of town" and disappear after you talk to him. Build a totally new area for your quest and keep everyone there. Integrating new NPCs into the fabric of Cyrodill will be hard tho, and I'll bet precious few get it right. I've been hearing about Bethesda tuning their NPCs for a good six months. How long will it take even a great modder to figure out all the consequences of their NPC's actions?

 

Hehe. RAI turns Oblivion NPCs into Codexers. They are trying to save us from Oblivion. This is the real reason Oblivion is delayed. The NPCs are locked in an eternal struggle with the devs to break the game.

 

Why does it always seem like these douchebags are auditioning to be Bush's next press secretary?

 

This one's just chock full o' dumb. http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/inde ... 30463&st=0

-D4

 

That thread title seriously looks like something written by a Codexer, which is what I thought it was, until I saw the rest of the thread. jesus tapdancing christ

 

Ah, sweet, makes me want to pick him up out of his cradle* and sit him in front of a book - 'No fucking tea 'till you've read it all.'

* He's still sleeping in a cradle because I guess he keeps falling out of growed up bed.

 

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/inde ... type=posts

That one works for me - not technically a thread, but a whole page of posts (and then some) from a really rather over excited (and post count increasing) OB fan boy...

 

Seriously, I keep seeing that nutjob's posts up everywhere and he's bugging the fucking hell out of me. If anyone needs to be banned, or at least given some damn Ritalin, it would be that virus of the human gene pool.

 

Wow, what a nutjob.

 

They won't ban him. They'll ban the person that tells him to shutup.