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Old skool doesn't = great No one played Oblivion for that either..... Agreed and that's why I will still get it. Just stating my disappointment in this design choice.

Damn, the more I hear about this game the less interested I become;

Games I will be getting: Fable 2 Alpha Protocol Red Alert 3 Empires: Total War ME2 Aliens RPG Aliens: Colonial Marines Soul Calibur 4 Codemasters F1 game Civilization V Half Life EP3 Resident Evil 5 Games I might get (Depending on what I here/read closer to/at release) Dragon Age NWN2 SOZ Fallout 3 Precursors The Force Unleashed Dead Space Dues Ex 3 Rage Games I look forward to being announced (Hopefully) Jade Empire 2 Armored Core 5 Quake 5 Games I would like that won't ever come out Wing Commander Freelancer 2 FreeSpace 3 Homeworld 3 Jedi Knight 4 KotOR 3 (MMO doesn't count) A good Star Trek game

I did all the side-quests I could find and I even played that horribly stupid shoot'em up sequence and finished it in 13-15 hours (can't remember exactly anymore). I have no idea how you played it. Everyone goes at their own speed.I just finished my fourth play through of JE on Friday, which logged at 20 hours 43 minutes.

It helps that you are wrong in this particular case. As for the "dreaded" Oblivion combat, no, we do not have clumsy first-person melee. We do, however, have guns that generally tend to put bullets where you point them. How can I be "wrong" in my preference for stat resolved combat? So your preference is right, and everyone else's is wrong?

And that surprises you? Despite what elitist say, it only 2nd to Neverwinter Nights in terms of sales and the quickest to reach a million. That said, IMO AP as the opportunity to outsell it, it ain't SCI-FI and it isn't Fantasy( ), which would of turned people of ME and Oblivion, NWN2 etc. It's a Spy rpg that look sweet. Which is funny, because with Mass Effect they said everything was taken from KotOR.

Did you just say a world that has dwarves, elves, orcs, hobbits and magic had believability?

Seen Hanc0ck, wasn't bad, but much better then his last movie.

I knew there were plans recently to use the R 18+ rating for games but it didn't happen, but I didn't realise it was just one man who stopped it going ahead. How idiotic is that, that one man can cause that, such things should be a majority rules vote, because you will always find at least one idiotic, ignorant person in a position of power. I'm ashamed that he is the Governor of my state. But when I think about it it actually makes no difference to me, because I would of been importing it anyway, since it much cheaper to do so. Except it will be 'illegally' now. Still it makes me angry that one narrow minded man can force his will on an entire country.

I don't think AP needs to have it where you must use stealth or that you can get through the game without killing anyone, as long as it made as a viable and fun element of the game, which doesn't require the AI to be terminally stupid to be implemented, I'll be happy. However no disposing of bodies makes me think this is unlikely. Best not to mention that game here, like everywhere else it usually causes rants.

Oh come on... Proof that OFLC needs a shake up, what in F3 could seriously be that bad? based on earlier rumors it seems to be drug use. It has to be more then that, otherwise we wouldn't of got Dues Ex.

The Witcher sold a million, and that was by a small company with limited hype, word of mouth was enough. Given Bioware is a acclaimed and well known RPG developer, then the fact that its highly likely to appear on PS3 and 360, 3 million+ is very possible, unless it absolutely terrible.

Oh come on... Proof that OFLC needs a shake up, what in F3 could seriously be that bad? Looks like I'll be importing it. (Don't care its illegal)

I believe it is, when I seen those pics I can see a WoW influence. But its not only that, those graphics.... NWN2, Withcher are already better then it and its released in 2010? I get them wanting low hardware requirements, but S.T.A.L.K.E.R did this, while giving those with the better PC good graphics. Huh, what do you mean? Those are fantastic graphics and I certainly prefer those over NWN2, Witcher or STALKER Better than STALKER... I guess Diablo fanboys are as objective as Halo ones. No, but that doesn't mean they weren't. Seriously, it won't have dialogue, its story will be from Blizzard, NPCs will be meh, and its graphics will be poor-average. Is it me or does that sound strange that a game like this is coming from one of the biggest development houses in the world? Basically its like; 'Well we don't have to put much effort into this, every Diablo fan will be drooling over this and would get it even if it looked like an Amstrad game, and the non fans that look at this and laugh don't matter because we have 9 mil people in Asia playing WoW'. Then we have five classes, if Obsidian had dared to release NWN2 with five classes.... I wouldn't want to think what those boards would of been like. Then no character customisation, that was fine when Diablo 2 was released but now? And Finally no Necromancer If this was EA people would be saying they're milking the series.

Reports the 3rdp view is crap in F3, seriously how does anyone know that? The few previews are singing its praises... Much like they did with Oblivion.........

I believe it is, when I seen those pics I can see a WoW influence. But its not only that, those graphics.... NWN2, Withcher are already better then it and its released in 2010? I get them wanting low hardware requirements, but S.T.A.L.K.E.R did this, while giving those with the better PC good graphics.

Just another fanboy, whining about the camera. Time to move on people. Buuuut if its like Oblivion in story and dialogue... Then I'll be heading the pack with sausages strapped to my chest running at Bethesda's headquarters.

If you've played the Homeworld games, then you know how Eve plays. I never really thought I would enjoy the point and click combat and I was right, Eve seems very deep, skills, abilities, a economy monitored and developed by a economist, numerous ships and upgrades, but the style of it just doesn't keep me interested.

Eve Online, decided to give it a try, was disappointed to say the least. Decide to go back to X3, using the sector takeover and numerous other mods, took over the two unknown sectors below Maelstrom and took Merchant Heaven and Grand Exchange from Teladi control. Then did a scout mission of the next Xenon Sector and realised that's as far as I would be going for a while.

That's not embarrassing, being blown up in your freshly bought M1 Colossus, by a bunch of pirates because you didn't tell the turrets to attack enemies and the shipyard had no shields , that's embarrassing.

What no jumpdrive? TS with no jumpdrive = target practice.

But who are the 'naysayers'? I certainly wouldn't identify my own, mixed, provisional opinions with that of many other 'naysayers', even if I am overall skeptical. I think in the face of Bethesda's hype, especially after they proved themselves capable of great exaggerations with Oblivion, a small degree of skepticism is simply an intelligent move. After that, just how much 'naysaying' or 'automatic negativity' there is going on depends on the individual. I'm talking about the people that just plain say its crap, the the 'soul' of Fallout is being destroyed, that it doesn't deserve the 3 in the title etc. There hasn't been enough information on it to say that. Personally I'm like you, not sure what to really make of it yet.

In a game like ME where the PC has VO, its the only practical choice, maybe they can do more later on in the trilogy. ME is a game where they are purposely focusing on the cinematic style, for better or worse. Its an experiment in immersion and I'm guessing your not in favour of it. But don't think all Bioware next games will have this, DA won't and that's their next release. Personally I enjoy both, but I think for CRPG having PC VO is detrimental to role-playing for the moment.

Yeah I don't quite get that either, but then people raved about GTA 4 graphics and I was meh. Technically GTA 4 graphics were great, massive area no loading time between different areas, but aesthetically/visually I wasn't that impressed. I think some reviewers are expecting all new games to look like Crysis, even though most PC can't play it above 10 FPS and the consoles would blow up if you tried to put it on them.

But why is more than three needed if there are only three outcomes? Its always this: _______________________________________________________ Information seeking - - Conversation Good/Paragon - Conversation Neutral - Conversation Evil/Renegade _______________________________________________________ Because there are only 4 useful things in this conversation, anything else would be fluff leading to the same path eventually. Maybe they could of had five or six choices, but in the end they would of been superficial, and when you are using a voiced PC that's a waste of limited resources. I look at ME in the same way as I look at BG. ME was the beginning, getting used to the engine, understanding it capabilities getting the story and the characters set, basically getting everything in place and working. Then release BG2 (ME 2) tons more dialogue, better quests, a more enjoyable game(IMO). Another thing too look at, is the difference between NWN2:OC and MotB:OC while I did enjoy the NWN2 OC MotBs was a lot better. (again IMO) Back on topic, the dialogue of AP seems good, but my opinion of it would go up if it was like: However I imagine this would be hard to implement throughout a whole game. Perhaps it could be used in interrogation sequences, plot critical moments etc, but doing it throughout the whole game? That would be a lot of work.