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The adventure game Secret Files: Tunguska was recently delayed, even though it was ready for distribution, because they found some bugs with the cutscenes and they wanted to fix them instead of releasing a patch later on. Impressive.

Oh that's just not right. Edit: Although I suppose it would make for interesting use of the controller. Whether a single game is worth the price of a particular console is really up to the individual, so telling them they are idiots because they value a particular game more than you is, well, idiotic. I bought a GC just so I could have the sweet, sweet candy that is the Resident Evil remake, everything else was then icing on the cake. Of course it helped that the system was on $50 more than the game.

Obsidian should work on a M.A.S.K. RPG.

Have you played the Dark Messiah demo? Look down and you'll see your body, look to either side and you'll see your shoulders. Terribly exciting. I like the character having a body in first-person, but I don't like the camera moving all over the place. Edit: The strangest use of body awareness would be in Trespasser. Look down and you'll see the player character's breasts. For the sake of immersion and realism, there was no hud, instead you had a heart tattoo on your breast that told the state of your health, making it the only game in which boobie oggling was a gameplay component. And as everyone knows, magic tattoos are more immersive and realstic than a hud.

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I would use the teleporter and my original self would die and my soul would go to heaven because I am a good boy and then I would go on a rampage with my soulless clone freak. Everybody wins!

I recently tried the trial of CoV. It was my first MMO, having only recently switched to broadband. I made an 8 foot tall bald rotting corpse lady. I kept getting lots of invites or some such. Necrophiliacs paradise! Anyway, I actually didn't mind it, but then I got lost trying to find the entrance to something or other and lost interest.

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People like having control over what their character looks like because it allows them to make someone they feel it uniquely their own, rather than something the developer thought up. It's just a small thing that makes the game more enjoyable for them.

This isn't about political correctness so much. If a game is set in a period of our history, then yes it ought to be historically correct, but limiting the role of particular characters, be it based on gender or whatever else simply because "it was like that in real life!" without actually using that feature in any way is meaningless. Really, what does the limited role of females, and the inability to play a female character add to the Gothic games? RPGs are all about choice, and unlike your claim, limiting the players choices without any reasoning for the limitations won't bring you more fans. ...must... proofread... before... submitting...

I'm not trying to do anything. I've never claimed the role of woman in the Gothic series should be changed or that I had a problem with it. That's true of most games, even the "Elder Scrolls, World of Warcraft and Forgotten Realms" you appear to have a grudge against, although I suppose when you say "merits and strengths" whatever they may be, you are still simply talking about what you like about the game.

What's the point of any discussion on a message board? Just for the hell of it. You claimed something was realistic, I disagreed and was interested why you thought it was realistic, you claimed the game was unique, i was interested in what you thought was unique. Turns out you were really just talking about what you like about the game. The end. No need to be so defensive.

Gothic is set in a medieval fantasy world. In what way is it unique compared to other RPGs set in medieval fantasy worlds? Note that I'm asking what's unique, not what about it you like. You didn't explain what it is I'm supposedly twisting. Anyway, you claimed the role of women in Gothic was realistic, I pointed out that as it's set in a fantasy world realism isn't the issue. The end. No need to get your knickers in a knot.

It's the creepy hentai games that westerners like best. An untapped market...

I remember someone saying they couldn't get into Deus Ex because they were forced to play a male. There is nothing particularly masculine about JC Denton, nothing about his character that makes him uniquely male, so really it's the character model they couldn't identify with, not the actual character.

Not really. It's a typical cliched medieval fantasy world, something we've seen over and over in crpgs. Oblivion is in no way unique. Twisting what exactly? I'm merely pointing out that whether or not woman have an important role in any fantasy rpg has nothing to do with realism due to the fantasy setting being whatever the developers decide it is. This isn't about Gothic or Oblivion or even RPGs, rather games in general. You're confusing realism with what you find preferable. Not really. The setting as a whole isn't any more creative than TES or DnD or any other medieval fantasy nonsense. Yeah, I prefer players characters not to be so bland.

I don't know about that, isn't the Blu-Ray region-encoded? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Apparently not for games.

It's all your fault. It's always your fault...

So a male knight in a fantasy land fighting orcs is realistic, but a female knight in a fantasy land fighting orc is unrealistic? One may like their fantasy setting done in a particular way, but it's got nothing to do with realism. What does Oblivion have to do with anything? Er, I'm obviously not saying you have any problem with Thief, the point is you're making the same mistake they are, comparing history and the real world with a fictional setting, that although parts are influenced by history, the devs could throw in laser guns and aliens and it wouldn't make the game any less realistic.

Because women haven't traditionally had a large role in, er, imaginary places? Reminds me of when people complained that characters in Thief had American accents instead of proper English ones.

I originally played through the game at 1024x768 on my old 6800 and ancient cpu and motherboard. The game could get quite jerky at times, but I still think it was as pretty then as it is now with my new system. Those screenshots were taken with my new X2 4200+ and 7950GX2, and the only difference I noticed was that now it's a hell of a lot smoother (and I suppose less jaggy with the higher resolution, though jaggies weren't something I noticed much first time around. Funnily enough, while LadyCrimson mentions the screenshots looking better than seeing the game running, I found the opposite, with the game looking better in action. Don't really understand the bit about the graphics not being crisp and sharp, the character's armour in LC's pic looks pretty crisp and sharp to me. To each their own. Now, if only I had a turn-based party-based ancient mythological Greece that looked as good as this... *drool*

Was HL the first FPS to make heavy use of scripted sequences? The best thing I remember about the game was that the marines acted in a way I had never seen before in an FPS. The game that drew me into FPS was Duke Nukem 3D, as it ws the first to let me play in a game world that was actually made up of realistic ( and wonderfully interactive) places. Before that all I got was rooms and corridors painted with a different flavoured texture. Oh, and did I just see the spambot Gabs criticise someone for spamming? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! *dies*

Graphics are unchanged since the demo. You don't think this is pretty (the first screen when starting a new game)?