Mamoulian War

Infinity Engine, especialy in Hi-Res resolutions looks much much better than most of the "modern" 3D engines... The designers just had to put more time into small details which made the areas look more alive... you can't see much of that nowadays most of the 3D worlds are static, with very few exceptions...

i played beta when it was out... i liked it a lot, the game was full of nice ideas, but from what i have seen and experienced it got ruined because to many people who played it played WoW aswell and they were not willing to pay 2nd subscription... that is fate of others MMO's aswell especialy if publishers are trying to get the same audience for their games...

There are. Stardock, for instence, has been opposed to DRM in the past. yes i know about stardock and CD Project Red and their www.gog.com aswell, I apparently missed "more" in the post above

Maybe i came to that conclusion the same way like you did came to conclusion that i am a fanboy so looks like we are both wrong :D Peace

People who disagree with your assessment of a game are not necessarily fanboys... Disagreeing with my assessment doesn't cause me to consider them a fanboy. Lines like "but i enjoyed every single line in that game" cause me to consider them a fanboy. I consider a fanboy to be someone who simply reveres a game without acknowledging its failure and problems. Every game has failures and problems. I never said the game was flawless, i just said i enjoyed every single line what's wrong with it? can't be someone happy about so much in-depth dialogue trees never before and never after seen in any other game??? That experience was and stays unique in my gaming "career"... i know if i did not play the game, i would miss a lot!!!... There are few things i did not liked about PS:T, for example i hated that everytime i started the game i had to start as a Fighter... And in all games i always play caster classes... But that minor glitch did not destroy the overall joy in me which i had whole the time during the play... that feeling is very seldom, and when you get it, you know you are playing something you will never forget... during last 20 years i had that feeling maybe on 8 or 10 other games...

You might be hating it, but i enjoyed every single line in that game i would kill to see something like that released again... but will not happen again... kids nowadays are to lazy to read, be it books lines in games or even newspaper... this game helped me a lot with learning english aswell (not native speaker)

there was one already http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/Products/PSX/pong/

if i do remember correctly i seen lot of ME ads in german comercial TVs in prime time when it was released.. and that is pretty expensive

1 million marketing costs are not very much over the top (do not forget about the world outside USA, where you have to pay for marketing stuff aswell)... compared to left 4 dead its nothing... http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/42138/Le...ion-Ad-Campaign

I know you hate the game and all, but don't start going off and spouting off random numbers now. nope that is simple math... try counting with me... my development costs are 25 millions (i bet that the number was bigger but we leave it down at this) add the marketing costs (i will be low again and say 1 million) how many gameboxes do you have to sell to get the money back?

You know that 80-90% of ME Xbox sales was before Bio was bought up right?

You are forgetting that they invested 800 million into ME PC and DAO IP's so they pretty much covered all Bioware's developing costs

If you realy think that the securom deal was less than few millions you are pretty naive and you can bet EA expected at least double if not triple the sales on PC

ME sold 2,5 million units on the 360 alone. Add the PC sales, and you have 3 million. Now don't tell me those aren't good numbers. you do know that EA has not seen a single dime from the Xbox release? so if they even sold 500k (which i realy doubt) ME PC that is for EA surely disapointing release... Boy, you really have some nerve. ME (PC) was the deal for EA! Just imagine, they only had to spend money for the conversion! And SecuRom and activation servers + their maintenance + staff who must solve billions of problems with DRM...

ME sold 2,5 million units on the 360 alone. Add the PC sales, and you have 3 million. Now don't tell me those aren't good numbers. you do know that EA has not seen a single dime from the Xbox release? so if they even sold 500k (which i realy doubt) ME PC that is for EA surely disapointing release...

I just wish there would be people like him in the gaming industry http://www.dailytech.com/UMG+Executive+Say...rticle13919.htm the most interesting quote from article...

Sorry but you are wrong... Bioware and Pandemic was purchased as one entity... But serves them right... If you dance with wolves, be prepared to get eaten... and Bioware?... I bet EA was realy dissapointed with the sales numbers of Mass Effect...

No way to know without looking at the contracts. I wonder if EA has the rights to their IPs? You can bet they do have rights covered for everything Bio ever created and is not owned by ATARI...

SoZ Wrath of the Lich King Witcher Enhanced Fallout 3 for PC and that's it... it's sad how many games are nowadays... i remember times when i was buying 4 PC games a month, not 4 games a year

Atari might think it still might be profitable, but does Obsidian? I think Obsidian is better off either making their own IPs or non-DnD products, much like Bioware has done. And then sell to EA because they spent to much cash for making Mass Effect? No thank you... You would be surprised how many people would disagree with your opinnion here...

Final Fantasy IX, WotLK

I found it quite interesting that they did this. Looking at it from one perspective, Ubisoft basically called the bluff of many pirates ("We only pirate because of the eeeeevil DRM")... and judging from a few torrent tracker sites I looked at, the pirates were basically proven to be full of sh*t. The torrents says only about people who do not buy games, lot of people who refuse to buy securomed games have purchased this game only because it's DRM free, same with Sins of a Solar Empire and lot of games from gog.com... every single software ever released got pirated... be it PC, console or mobile application... and no DRM ever will change that...

That news made me realy realy sad another gold classic gonna be turned into pile of steaming ****...

NWN2: SoZ, WoW: WotLK, Final Fantasy 3

The man tells the truth!!! Alien versus Predator 1 wins the "Best Atmosphere Ever Award" in a FPS game... I never played 2, but iirc 1 was really atmospheric. It was like being right in the movie. It was also dang hard, too. AvP 2 was imo not so good as AvP 1, but i still can recommend it to you, just dont play it on hardest difficulty when you play it for the first time