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An engine change would also mean we'd have to wait 18-24 month more. No thanks, using the Fallout 3 engine has been a smart (and the obvious) decision. You might want to rethink that post. Onyx is already built. Granted, the art assets from FO3 may cut about 6 months off development time (not to mention costs). You think it's that easy? Rethink your post.

Starcraft 2, for starters.

An engine change would also mean we'd have to wait 18-24 month more. No thanks, using the Fallout 3 engine has been a smart (and the obvious) decision.

MCA as Lead Writer, and Josh as Lead Designer, and a dream would become true.

Wow, that's awesome news!

Don't need it, don't use it.

There's hardly any game these days I bother to replay.

Yeah, buy him a Lego castle.

I think it's important to have copy protection for your games, otherwise it's an too easy snatch for pirates and everyone else who can't wait to get their hands on it. However, I don't get why publishers have to deploy this internet activation and limited install bull****. That's just contraproductive. They should better use the new Steamworks suit, which now generates independently a specific exe file for every copy. That whay, no-cd cracks become obsolete, and while we once have to activate the game on the internet, it doesn't come with malware or limited installs.

Most likely Atari will be the publisher, because they want to put their D&D license to good use. And right now Obsidian is really the only possible choice for doing a multiplatform D&D RPG. I suspect it will be either NWN3 or BG3, and will be a Dragon Age clone (For heaven's sake, I hope not).

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Perhaps you're liking it now, but trust be it gets on your nerve once you stumble from 30min battles into the other. It's worse than grinding.

I see. I trust Atari has plans to release a revoke tool at some point in the future? Otherwise I'm gonna crack that thing.

Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 also "recycled KOTOR" - Humm.... I guess they had plan for it way back then. Anyways, Jade Empire, and practically every Bioware game, handles the plot better than KotOR did (not to say that KotOR is a bad game). Well, I haven't played the BG games, what exactly did KOTOR recycle? Do yourself a favor and play at least BG2.

Bioware is just ashamed because they couldn't hit the magical 1 million mark, that's why.

Yeah, you'd think that they would learn something from the Spore debacle... 3 install limit is two less than Bioshock... I think it means you can only install it at 3 different PCs, while you can install it as often as you want on the same PC. Anyway, I haven't played Butcher bay, but I quite enjoyed the Dark Athena demo so there's at least for me some appeal to fork out the money. I could also get the Original Butcher Bay, but hey, that's all outdated and so last generation...

More like masturbating screenshot, eh?

Alas, the ancient Chinese setting was just a disguise, nothing more. Bioware didn't even try to make anything interesting out of it.

I must say you've some bad taste when it comes to woman! But then again it was almost impossible to get a straight pretty face for woman right in Mass Effect.

No, the Big sister is more like the Nemesis of the game, while you also fight other Big Daddies, Splicers and whatever else crawls down there in Rapture.

Whatever.

Yeah, so? I've no problem admitting that TLR is too hard for me. I mean come on, a dude who can whipe out a union with 1-2 blows.... Don't tell me that's the stuff that easy games are made of.

What little I played of Lost Odyssey put me off because I fought my way to the first boss and ran into a brick wall. I mean the game mechanics and style were great, but it was one of those where you were expected to run around and farm levels for 2 hours before taking on a boss. So, in plain speak it's just another grindfest. Oh great! Why can't those Japs design games accustomed for the 21th century?

Good. And The Last Remnant is my first JRPG, so I can't really tell you what a "classical" JRPG is like. Maybe just like TLR? Anyway, I heard some praise for Lost Odessey, so I wanna give it a try. Unless battle is too much of a chore. Long and hard battles are okay, but TLR really exagerrated it at later parts.

So, I heard the game offers two campaigns, is that right? A recreated Butcher's Bay campaign, plus a Dark Athena campaign, right? Are those two intertwined or are they seperated?