Phoenix

Anyone can verify that?.

Interesting poll . Anyhow i think there're many important elements and most them supporting each others: Story/plot, character development, NPCs, technical aspects... Character development and story seem very important to me.

28 Days an average film, nothing really scary.

Yeah, we forgot those old cannibalism and zombie films from 1960-80's: - like Night of Living Dead, couple films about Cannibals in Amazon, B-list Horror movie such Bad Taste (by Peter Jackson), Dead Alive, etc. -A films by an Italian director Dario Argento also pretty good. I remember there was one film with Jennifer Connelly in it.

Danny Elfman? the guy that did the music for the movie "Big Fish"? Never heard he did any music for video game.

No one said graphics is most important thing in game. I am curious. what kind of representation?

In all kind of games?. I guess Silent Hill 3 was wrong to uses realistic graphics to depict horrific monsters and rusty old surroundings.

I didn't say it's a must. It all depend on what kind of feels the game designer want to deliver to us. For e.g, to give a creepy, haunting atmosphere, you certainly don't want to use cartoonish cel shaded graphics.

I think there are several things to make particular game atmospheric: 1) Music and sound - both elements can be very important, but also in varying degrees depend on specific type of game. Game with stealth gameplay (Thief series) really need good sound effects (and music also equally important). Arx Fatalis depends more on sound alone to provides real-world underground atmosphere. 2) Perspective - i believe FPS perspective provides best atmospheric and immersive feels as in Arx Fatalis, or Morrowind, compare on top isometric view. But of course some else would says behind the shoulder 3th person perspective (Gothic 2) is better. 3) Graphics - Photorealistic visual, special ambient colors, shadows and lightings can also enhancing the atmosphere.

Interplay fired her?, not because she left on her own?. That's too bad. Oh well, hope she is doing well on her new job.

My favorite horror films: ------------------------------ - The Exorcist (still the best for me) - Poltergeist 1 & 2 (the third one sucks) - The Shining (Jack Nicholson, directed by Standley Kubrick) - Rosemary's Baby (by Roman Polanski) - The Sixth Sense (Horror movie for children ) - From Dusk Till Dawn (George Clooney) - Hellraiser trilogy + Part IV - Dracula ("love never dies") - Lord of Illusions - Wishmaster - A Nightmare on Elm Street (Part 1), Halloween & Friday the 13th (look bad for today standard)

I like many types of music, especially New Age, Rock, Oldies, Pop/Love songs and Trance. Don't like heavy metal and Jazz, though.

Let's wait and see.

Some of these elements you mentioned can be found in Arx Fatalis, Gothic 2 and Divine Divinity. But of course, i can see that those game still far away from Ultima 7.

Warning.

For me NWN is average or rather bad in singgle player campaign. But it is still the biggest D&D game compare to TOEE. The problem is because the single player portion, only as afterthought to the whole game. The multiplayer portion seem very successful, and the modding community still very active.

The mini game was okay, although some peoples not good at it and keep complaining... So it should be all optional.

Yo-yo.

I left my computer for one day and then found out the forums already online and truckload of people already there.

Don't know you, but anyway, Happy Birthday!.

I see quite many peoples from Interplay/BIS forums, and few others from RPGCodex.

It is okay as long as we have enough or a good moderators. It's also not unusual for game forums to has political discussion section like at AVault forums or RPGdot forums.

I came here because i expect to see some ex-Black Isle workers would post here, and involve in discussion with fans about the game that they are making. Beside, i want to see some new informations about the unannouced project.

I think it should be allowed but i don't want to be moderator for political forums .

I spent 10 minutes thinking out a name, then feeling lazy so i settle for "Phoenix". Nothing really special. My avatar - taken from this forums until i can get a better one.