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I also want to commend everyone for being so well behaved! I didn't have to take out my Bunny Bopping Slippers and Tabs is on her game with her steel toes!

i still can't believe it takes Mr. L337 DoOdz 30 seconds to kill a White Wyrm. Those things are like giant mongbats these days. They go down faster than a drunk............well you get what I'm sayin'.

OF COURSE WE ARE ALL WELL BEHAVED YOU MIGHT HAVE TO GET RIDE OF THOSE SLIPPERS 4 GOOD WITH THIS BUCH OF PEOPLE THEY ARE ALL GREAT

Monsters that used to be "scary" or "challenging" are now nothing more than cannon fodder. Nothing is a threat anymore, it's very sad.

hehe never!!!!!!!! I still like to wear them

They're always tweaking things, I'm sure they will fix it.. eventually

Did you notice how the dungeons in KR are a straight rip-off from those in icewind dale, looks wise.

that's what I thought anyway.

Well dang it... suppose Im losing my touch in my old age....

30 seconds? I bet that can be done faster.

Another rant while I'm feeling inspired...

On the virtues of the 2D client
I've been reading Stratics a lot lately (I felt like getting my blood pressure up) and it pisses me off to no end many of the people that so viciously attack the 2D client. With great frustration I read about how supposedly terrible the 2D UI is, how "it's time for a change" etc because the graphics and the UI of 2D are terrible.

When are people going to realize that the 2D graphics and UI aren't "terrible", they're just "underdeveloped". Think about it. The 2D client is 10 years old, and any real updates have been slim. Oooo, we got a new targeting system. Big whoop. There are tons of ways to improve the 2D interface, to make it easier to use, to make it more efficient. I've been playing with that UI for years and it is in a sense a third arm to me. I am one with the 2D UI. I AM the 2D UI (well not really, but you get the drift).

Furthermore, what's with people calling the 2D client "cartoony"? Hell yeah it's cartoony. So is nearly every video game in the entire universe. Who cares if it's cartoony? 3D was cartoony. KR is cartoony. What is cartoony anyways? It's just a vague opinion that can't really be defined. What makes something more cartoony than something else? Dumb.

As far as the 2D graphics are concerned, I personally prefer them over the current KR versions. But then, I also like the color blue. And I think Coke is good and Pepsi tastes terrible. Who cares? The thing is, EA could whip out graphics that looked even worse than 2D and KR combined, and somebody would like it and think that they are superior to either.

So what's my fuss, anyhow? Look, I have no problem with the development of KR, and I'm glad for anyone that finds what they're looking for in that client. But just the idea that conceivably, the 2D client, a perfectly good client could be shut down is absolutely unthinkable. I've ranted plenty about KR but I've never said the project should be shut down. Because of this it tears me to pieces everytime I see someone praise the thought of shutting down 2D.

There is only one seemingly logical reason that 2D be shut down to make way for KR, and you'll hear it touted by plenty of people, "Well, it should be shut down so the devs can focus more resources in a single client."

Well I hate to break the news, everyone, but the problem with the game isn't the client. It's in the design of the game. All the things I ranted about in my OP. That's the problem. So now you have all these resources going into "resurrecting" the client, instead of fixing the real problems. Oops. Guess that reason is down the drain.

Hey, I don't have a problem with KR and people playing KR. So why do people have to have a problem with me merely enjoying the game I love the way I have always enjoyed it?

The Icewind Dale and Baulders Gate games will always be favorites in my book! They remind me of staying up late on warm summer nights.

"Just ten more minutes, then Im going to bed..."

Yeah right.