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"in all likelihood, we will end up getting SoZ - an expansion announced after MoW - before MoW ever gets released." And? tariu will likely make little to nothing on MOW. They'll likely make a decent profit on SOZ even though it'll sell like than MOTB.

I'm a playmaker, and I have 11 goals, and 9 assists in 24 games. L0L I try to pass; but *shrug*. What can ya do.

"Developer should always listen to the fans. Its part of the job." No, it isn't. Devs' job is to make games. periods. It's the media types' job to 'listen to the fan'. The point is that fans are selfish, scummy, egotisitical, arrogant, and pieces of crap who never see the big picture, and are more likely to screw up your game than help it. "Its not like the fans are buying the games and allowing the developers to make a living or anything." Actually, it's the devs' skill that lets them make a living not the fans. The fans only buy the games they wnat to play which are made because of the devs' skill. Period. The success of a developer (or any company) is because of them not because of some selfish, scummy, egotisitical, arrogant piece of crap. Sorry; but it's true.

Ahh.. NFL.. trying to control what their employees do on their free time including their rights for freedom of speech. That's just barbage. If I were him or any other NFLer, I'd tell them to zip it! A big star should do it.. let's see how much NFL will flex their muscles there.. I wonder what NFL would do if it was Peyton Manning or Brett favre doing it. Oh yeah, nothing. Favre was talking all summer, and not one word from the NFL except the usual "I hope GB, and Favre can come to some sort of udnerstanding." HAHAHAHA!

People who send hate mail over soemthing like this are scumbags, and are dumber than any ref who makes a horrible call. Period. P.S. My Giants seem a tad confident... maybe, too much...

Yeah, Will is right. I enjoyed the game immensely, but the plot was spoiled big time. Hard to have a 'plot twist' when its revealed before hand. L0L

Yeah, DF, for one. R00fles!

They tell you about this stuff in the manual, as well as in previews, reviews, message boards, etc. before the game was released. While I'm not 100% in favor of the method, BIo made that design choice so those who didn't want to read chocies could just click on the most likely response for their character and get on with the 'cinematic story' or the killing.

"Note to devs: ignore the fans." I agree with this statement.

Still NHL 08, and 09. Finishing up my league's season 4 playoffs and the ASG with 08. Playing club games, and other leagues I am in games with 09. Having fun with BAP, and franchise mode in 09 depsite how extremely toiugh it is to score since I think the goalies cheat. L0L Online EASHL games are much more stable now, thankfully. I still dissapointed my early stats got screwed with; but oh well. 'Tis is life. It is all about the future, BABY!

"the books if you actually took the time to read them, were well written, and did elaborate on the background of the main storyline greatly that being said, it was a poor way to implement such aspects to the storyline, and did detract from the gameplay" So, you agree, the story was poorly written. It doesn't matter how well the books themselves are written - that's an absolutely poor way to tell your story hence poor storytelling hence poor writing.

L0L MW is horribly written. And, I didn't rush through to beat it. Writing (and verything else) was so horrible I simply quit. I think people who think MW's writing is good really don't know what good writing is. Finding books lying around that tells you background stuff is NOT good writing. ie. Show do not tell is the best way to get a story across.

"but if you felt like reading, the the writing was at least good, and if you didn't feel like reading you could skip it. " PST's writing was good overall; but it wans't uniformly good. That's a myth. My previous example of the wall of text detailing the BW is a fine example of poor writing. Some of the charcters are poorly wriiten ("OMGZZZZZ! FIREEEEEEEEEE!"... Of course, there's examples of great writing too... most anything dealing with Dak'kon for example. I just don't believe the myth that PST's writing is above approach. It isn't. Not even close.

"To say ToB isn't BG3 is technically correct" It's not just 'technically' correct. It *is* correct. BG2: TOB. 'Nough said.

"This love of sequels really annoys me. I mean, I can understand execs loving sequels, but seeing the customers repeatedly clamoring for more of the same gets on my nerves. Every time I hear someone talk about "franchises", while referring to games, I get urges to be violent." That's silly. Any intelligent consumer should want more of something they enjoy. I enjoyed the Bg series so why wouldn't I want 'more of the same'. I like apples. I eat apples. I will continue to eat apples. I like BG series. I play BG series. I will continue to play BG series. "Bioware certainly doesn't have the will do it, considering the games they released after BG2." Yeah. Games just as good, and pretty much all of them better at role-playing than BG2. *shrug* "Would you name a few?" Obsidian, Squaresoft, EA Developers, Lionhead Studios, Microsoft, LucasArts, Atari CD Project, etc., et.c. And, no, I don't care how much you think x company sucks. Or that y company has never made a BG style game. Guess what? BIO never did either before BG. They were making medical software for macaroni sakes! "And the BG saga is over." Nope. The lack of imagination I see on forums supposedly based around companies who make fantasy based games dissapoints and confuses me. By using our IMAGINATION, there's tons of ways to continue the BG saga. But, *sigh*, the lack of imagination is humourous.

A lot of deja vu here... " As for this topic: We already had a Baldur's Gate 3... it was Throne of Bhaal." Nope. TOB was an expansion to BG2. Unless you think BGG3 would follow up two 100 hoursish games in BG1, and BG2 with 30-40 hours. L0L TOB was originally intended to be a full fledge sequel. But, it wasn't. It's an expansion. "Too many years have passed and only the Bioware/BiS of old could pull it off." Simply not true. Espicially since BIS was just the publisher. And, there are plenty of companies who could do it now.

L0L Wall of text. The biggest criminal for bland of wall text is PST. *cough* bloodwar wall of text *cough*

"ToB is BG3." Nope. It's BG2: TOB, expansion to BG2: SOA. This is undisutable fact. Intentions mean nothing here only actualities. A BG3 has potential to be awesome game. And, the BG/Bhaalspawn story doesn't have to be over. Does everyone here lack imagination? That's weird since fantasy is ALL about imagination. Use it guys!

"You're wrong. Morrowind was even worse." You're wrong. Daggerfall was even worse.

"Exposition in Mass Effect, for example, is generally atrocious." No.

"The Doctors worked on a game called "Battleground Infinity"." Was being published by Interplay. " And back then BG wasn't a multi million franchise." Interplay paid a lot of money for the license, and after the debacle of DTU, they had a lot riding on their next D&D game. A lot of pressure to put on a newbie developer. " If some new developer wants to make an RPG, fine, create your own IP" BG is/was not BIO's own IP..... This doesn't change the fact that there are talented companies out there outside of BIO/Obsidian fully capable of making a BG3 that is good. "but I don't want some amateurs messing around with the mighty BG!" DOCTORS. Doctors were hired to develop games. HA!

Why do you FAIL? I don't like Bethesda personally; but others do. Plus, Bethesda is far from the only company out there. It's plainly fanboyish to say only 2 specific companies can make a certain game. With that kind of attitude, Interplay never would have hired some doctors to make a RPG in the first place because they were 'incapable' of doing so. L0L

Equipment history in BG series (and NWN series for that matter) were fun; but in the end absolutely irrelevant to my enjoyment of those games. Maybe reason #985,000....

"Baldur's Gate saga ended over 7 years ago with Throne of Bhaal. There's no reason to continue that storyline." Simply false. Use your imagination which, btw, is what these games are supposed to be about. L0L "Only Bioware or Obsidian are qualified to make a real BG3." Absolutely baloney.

ME's dialogue is awesome. Sure beats BG's. R00fles!