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Trying to finish up Portal 2, also started Shadowrun Returns to make some room for all the new games I've bought so far during the Summer Sale

Don't quit your day job though

Yay. Casey Hudson talking out of his ***, concept art and BioWare Montreal... Why should I care about games made by BioWare Montreal? Have they actually ever made anything decent?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/04/hunting-for-paid-russian-trolls-in-the-washington-post-comments-section/ Just gonna leave that in here...

Ah, dammit. Unless it's one time deal only with the other company which I doubt. Haven't read Warbreak so I have no idea how popular that series is, nor do I have any idea about magic system.

One thing I picked up from that Feargus goes and mentions Brandon Sanderson specifically and few questions later he says "and potentially acquiring our own licenses." Mistborn the RPG game in the making, eh?

I'm kinda getting more and more excited about this project. I did think initially that they were only helping out on it, but it seems they are actually fully working on it. Will be intresting to see what new they can bring to that genre.

Even if game developers found a cure for cancer gaming fans would still ***** about it.

I remember him from Alpha Protocol. Good luck Joseph

Participated on a language test that is supposed to test my English skill and if I pass with a high enough grade I get 35-50 euro raise on my wages. Too bad the actual test is more about answering techniques and not about actually understanding the language. You might have questions where all the answers are right, you have to choose the one that is the most right one?!, you have trick questions, not enough time to write (slow writer here) on open listening comprehension tests. And as usual the biggest tests 2 min speaking part and longest writing part were once again ruined by idiotic topics. It's not easy to talk about something for 2 minutes if you don't really feel like the topic suits you at all. You have to come up with stuff and then you can't speak naturally about it, you have weird pauses to collect your thoughts etc ruining any ******** momentum you might have during that 2 minute of time.

I actually signed up for the beta. I used to enjoy World of Tanks, so why not

Seems to me there's always outrage no matter they do. Maybe these people would be happy if the company stopped existing and then they could reminisce about the good old times when Obsidian was still around... Since there's apparently going to be constant updates from Obsidian on Armored Warfare it seems some of their workforce will be "stuck" making that game for a looong time, but they have recruited heavily for that game as far I as know so I guess those working on the project are passionate about such games anyways. Would be nice to know (I know we won't ever hear the details) what kinda deal they made on the game... Meaning if the game is as succesfull as War Thunder or World of Tanks, how much of all that Free-to-play money they will be getting that people will spend on the game.

Nah. Every single time someone talked about "Kickstarter fatigue" it turns out Obsidian-caliber devs can get a project financed just fine. The fatigue only hurts smaller companies if you ask me. Well known people will still get their projects funded. I'm personally waiting for Obsidian's next project before I start funding again, as I'm still waiting for most of the projects actually to deliver. 1 out of the 7 projects I've backed has delivered a full version of their game. 5 out of 7 should be out by now, according to the original plan. So yeah, not very intrested in backing smaller companies in some quite time until I've actually gotten to play some of the projects I've backed.

My boxed copy of CK2 disagrees with you.

With Taco Bell green sauce?

To me it seems it's all about keeping their staff which I can understand and respect, but at the same time the selfish fanboy inside of me wants to scream in disappointment. I can only hope that PoE and South Park opens them loads of new options so that they can focus more on making the games most of us love and not something that we don't really expect from them. I personally will most likely end up playing the game if it's about the same quality as World of Tanks, but it's not something I want my favourite company working on, since there's less good crpgs in the world than there are action games.

Gotta say I'm disappointed, hopefully not that many people are working on this and there's an actual CRPG in the making that we haven't heard of yet...

They already have their own people playtesting the game and afaik they always have bunch of people testing their own games even though there's a publisher involved.

I haven't heard that story, what did they do? Anyways, for me this makes perfect sense and hopefully opens up a nice and working relationship with the two companies for other games as well and not just PoE. Paradox is one of the few publlishers that I have nothing bad to say personally, and they are even Swedish (means a lot when Finns don't naturally "hate/dislike" Swedes)

You mean other than change the release date so they had less time to finish the project than originally promised? I would call that shenanigans...

As far as I know that signed contract got changed midway of creating the game. One former dev said it was like the scene from Empire Strikes Back with Vader and Lando. If I recall correctly, Bethesda pushed the release date months ahead that could have been used to fixing all the minor bugs that some people apparently had while playing the game that showed in the reviews and eventually lead to them "only" getting Metacritic of 84. If you look at the few 65-75 reviews up there, they are complaining about how buggy the game was (for them). Don't remember if there was a immediate patch for the game when it got released, but I never had any broken quest chains etc. The whole concept of Metacritic is just frelling ridicilous. Who even decides which reviews are shown on the page that actually matter on the Metacritic rating? Publisher? One guy at Metacritic who might be pretty damn desperate for ad money from publishers? It's not even statistically viable if you look at how few sites actually get their reviews put up there. You have 39 reviews out of hundreds on that site, some from small sites that no one even reads but they miss big *** magazines from Europe. Not to mention if you take away 1-2 of the bad reviews and change it up with a good review, and boom it's 85. And if you are waiting for compelling evidence, you might need to wait a bit longer. Don't think anyone from Obsidian is going on a record and say how much Bethesda screwed them over, if they screwed them over, since they might want to work with them again. Not to mention it sends a bad signal to all the other publishers out there. It's good that there's people like Brian Fargo out there who are done with the publisher model and will tell us just how bad it is working with some of them.

Pelit 90/100 + recommendation. Pelit being the biggest gaming magazine in Finland.

Oh and I forgot the moment when all of the kids just charge through Clyde's door when his dad opens the door

Kenny's betrayal and the exposition by Morgan Freeman Abortion clinic doctor getting shot for being German The graphics in Canada Taco Bell Green sauce The fight against Gnome Warlock and many many more

They're gonna need one for Pillars of Eternity and any future self published games