Wrath of Dagon

Yet that song is now only ever played in English. Go figure.

Hilarious article about Activision: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29719/I..._Activision.php

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You need more Kung Fu!

That's just based on assumptions though. People who are outside in thunderstorms for some reason will be struck a lot more often than the average person, who will almost never be struck.

Hmm, that's quite perceptive of you, I never thought of that. They may indeed be commenting on changes within Bioware over time. I think the problem with Bioware is after Erection Partners bought them, it became all about profits. I'm pretty sure I remember them talking about crafting games with love before that, but you never hear it now, it's all factory assembled for the least common denominator. Plus it seems like they spread themselves too thin with all these different projects, the KOTOR team has been split at least 3 ways, there just doesn't seem to be enough creative critical mass.

Lightning strikes aren't that unusual though, also depends on the person's behavior.

Obsidian uses fairly small teams, I don't think their games are that expensive, nor is AP really AAA, more like A-. I bet Bioware spent at least twice as much on just making ME, not to mention promoting it. Aliens may have been an expensive game though, from what we saw of it.

Here's from a guy who claims to be a statistician: http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=2597 What I don't get is why the odds of the lotteries are so low, I thought the odds are usually twice the jackpots. Here's a guy who claims he got hit by meteorites 6 times: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/835482-man-hi...geted-by-aliens (I saw all this on Wargamer forums).

I know, that's why I added the caveats. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything from NPD, but not being in top 20 means <100K in US for June.

If VGChartz is to be believed, AP sold 280K on the 360 and PS3, which isn't that bad, but still doesn't jibe with not even breaking top 20 on NPD. The only reason I can think Sega would've shipped that many to stores is they're hoping for bargain bin Christmas sales. http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?na...lpha%20protocol

The quarter AP come out is the first quarter Sega made a profit in a looong time. Coincidence?

700K isn't bad at all for a game positioned the way AP was. But as someone said, it's probably units shipped to store, not sold through to the consumer.

That includes minesweeper and solitaire.

I'm pretty sure US has the highest educational spending in the world, and no one teaches creationism.

That's the case in the US also.

Some more interesting info, taking the leaked documents into consideration: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100727/wl_time/08599200649300 Ain't that the truth.

Why wouldn't we? In any case, all leaders of sovereign countries are considered equal as far as showing appropriate respect, if not it's an insult to that country.

http://my2bucks.com/2009/11/18/how-dare-ob...bush-and-nixon/ Bush only bowed his head, not at the waist. It's perfectly appropriate to bow your head as a sign of respect in certain situations, especially to a priest of (almost) your own religion. Although the bow to the Saudi king doesn't look appropriate, but perhaps the picture is out of context. And no, neither one outranks the president of the US. Edit: Actually it looks like the Saudi king is putting some kind of medal on his neck, so nothing wrong with that either, although strictly speaking I would've advised against it.

You'd be surprised how many unbalanced people are out there. It's especially noticeable in companies with high turnover and high stress.

There's no such mentality. Most people in US see Britain as a close ally, nothing more, nothing less. I do think it's shameful that Obama sent the bust of Churchill back, but this is also the first US president ever to go around bowing to foreign potentates, so who the hell knows what he's thinking? And BP does have a lot to answer for, no matter what their initials stand for. I think a lot of their stock is owned by Americans also, and Exxon certainly didn't get a pass for a much smaller disaster.

I think the fundamental problem in the game industry is that most games cost more than they're ever likely to bring back in revenues. Having said that those kinds of problems are common in small companies in most industries, they really run the gamut from great to awful.

I normally assume regular posters on here are truthful, unless there's a reason to believe otherwise. And what elementary mistakes have I made?

I'd bet you never took a probability class either.

There's a new thread on the forum showing how the text adventures would work in the game (this would be used in quests a lot): http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index...pic,1596.0.html