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Daggerfall was ambitious yes, but most parts of the game were just bad, especially all the dungeons. Never played Morrowind, so can't comment on that.

If someone with some actual skills was hired to make a ES game, I might actually buy one. Not that I care about the lore or setting. After FNV I would hope Zenimax actually got the balls to hire Obsidian to work on a new IP. It's not like Zenimax has that many IPs to play around with it...

The 19th. Knowing Bethesda it will be 20th in most of the world before it comes out.

Bought Master of Orion 2 from GOG and I've been playin that. I get my *** kicked on hard so bad that I'm starting to feel like a little girl. On average difficulty setting it's pretty easy though

Weird, because from what I understood from Sawyer's Formspring answers, Obsidian is paid a certain amount of money for certain milestones that were fixed in the contract that both parties signed. None of the sells profits go back to Obsidian unless the contract included a bonus if the game is particularly successful. And apparently that's how all of Obsidian's projects worked. Ye, I understood it like you Sannom. Don't know where Volourn got his "facts".

Aye, that 100k is just for one market out of many and doesn't even cover the digital sales. If DS3 really did 100k units in retail in just the two weeks or so in USA I would say that's pretty good. It's a resurrected franchise, just because it sold millions 10 years ago doesn't mean anything now. Aye, with the UK numbers, Australia and rest of Europe I would imagine the total sales are somewhere around 300k as well. Is that bad? Only Obsidian and Square-Enix knows. We have no knowledge of the budget, other than that the team working on the game was somewhat small. If they hope for 1 million sold copies at Square it still doesn't mean they need to sell 1 million copies to make profit (and they never said how fast they expected to hit that number, plenty of people wait on pretty much every title for the game to go on sale before buying). The game might be commercially succesfull even after 500k sold copies.... Japanese sales who knows. I guess it will depend on the localisation and marketing.

They probably released it just to annoy you. NDA>Common courtesy.

I did and I didn't grind. Hmh, that's weird.

Even by doing all the quests you won't reach 30 without some grinding. The last area before the boss is a great place to grind though if you are short on exp.

Finished reading A Dance with Dragons. Waited for 6 years, read it in about 24 hours. I would kill to get the next book tomorrow...

I don't know what they've done, but screw those pesky Russians. They dump uncleaned cattle manure near rivers that flow into the Baltic Sea. In fact they have whole "lakes" of cattle manure. It kills trees and plants from the vicinity and slowly manages to leak into the rivers and from there to the Baltic Sea causing the sea slowly to die. The goverment doesn't seem to care at all and apparently the pork "factory" owners can't afford to build facilities to clean the manure before dumping it or use it as biofuel. Though the Russians ain't the only ones messing up badly, Polish (though I think their pork farms are owned by American corporations) use the uncleaned manure on their crop fields and rains wash down huge amounts of nutrients (and other harmful things) into the rivers and from there to the ocean. Some law in Poland says they need to cover the manure with mould/dirt/soil after one day. But they don't... Smithfield Foods for example threathens to sue anyone who speaks against them. In small amounts nutriens, nitrogen and phospore aren't bad, but since the amounts are just so ******** high it's killing the ocean. There's already huge dead zones in the ocean and alga/seaweed is spreadin rapidly. And since the demand for pork meat isn't going to drop all of sudden and it's only going up, we are gonna see lots and lots of more of this "pork factories" around the rivers that flow into the Baltic Ocean.

Watched a documentary on the Baltic Sea. Depressing stuff. Thank you Smithfield Foods, Russians and others for taking such good care of our oceans....

It looks good!

There is room for Mass Effect like games, as long the publishers remember people still like to play "old school" crpgs that aren't as cinematic experiences as Mass Effect games. Knowing most/some of the publishers, this ain't gonna happen though, just look at Dragon Age 2.

Finally started my 3rd playthrough on Alpha Protocol this time playing as a "veteran"

Except that it's a waste. There is many places were that money would be better spent, VO for other characters, level design, art design, QA etc. Depents on the concept if you ask me. Games like Alpha Protocol and Mass Effect need it. And games like Fallout: New Vegas most definately shouldn't have one.

That's actually pretty informative. It sounds like this project may be getting more priority with the big games released, and that could be good news for it. Except there are no real facts given. It's just assumptions and rumours. Just like with the movie...

No it's not your fault you encountered a bug. As to non-existant support, yeah I've only seen like 3 or 4 patches so far on PC and 1 or 2 for xbox/ps3. Clearly there should be 1 patch every day. Using just 1 or 2 save slots is stupid. I learned that lesson a long ago, maybe you learned from this as well...

Or maybe you shouldn't use just 1 or 2 save game slots...

I want one for Steam!

If it was/is already in production the chances are high that at least one will be released. Funcroc, you are getting the guy in trouble! Though all the previous evidence has pointed out that they are in fact making one I would imagine they will release at least one DLC for the game with Brennecke as the project director. Future DLCs are pending on how well the game&dlc sells.

it's kind of stupid on your part to assume Obsidian built Onyx just for this one game, it's also stupid to assume they plan on making all their games multi-platform hack'n'slash from now on. why do you even comment if you have no idea what their engine is inherently capable of? Aye, Onyx was 1st made for Aliens:Crucible which seemed to play out completely differently than DS3. There's some thread on Codex (unless they delete old threads) where bunch of devs and ex-devs from Obsidian talked about the game. Can't remember the interview, but I believe they even said that they made Onyx specifically easy to modify to fit their different needs. So they aren't stuck on making one kind of games on that engine.

Didn't get a sad vibe from Rich. Yes, he was hesitant on talkin about the possible dlcs, which could mean that we are getting one or we ain't getting one. Damn NDAs. Either way, I hope there's news on that front soon. At least Square is letting Obsidian patch the game and didn't pull "a Sega" on the title. I agree that they should have gotten more props for the game, seeing all these 6/10 reviews makes me wonder if I played completely different game than the reviewers.

Worked just fine for me on my 1st playthrough, 2nd time with Bendu the animation bugged.

There are these things called publishers who usually call the shots on such things as patches. Obsidian can't patch the game without the consent and resources of Sega.