Wrath of Dagon

No, they don't talk, they're like dolphins, I already said.

How is it?

No, they never run out of tasty humans.

I've replayed HL2 to see the better graphics on the 360 (compared to Xbox), but it wasn't as good as the first time, but that's a usual problem for me. The only other shooter I replayed was Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the replay was also awesome but I turned off the auto-aim.

Dragons are like dolphins.

There are a lot of advantages in having your own engine, the chief one is the in-house expertise which just isn't possible with someone else's.

Just found out on gamespot Wolfenstein has a checkpoint system and no manual saves! What is this infectious insanity and will it never end?

You guys play old games. It's KOTOR and K2 for me.

Definitely one of the top shooters I've ever played. The two best things are the atmosphere and that just about every combat encounter is a sort of puzzle in itself, where you have to figure out how to best dispose of the enemies. Environmental puzzles were great too, definitely a cut above what you usually see in games. The story was OK, not outstanding but did the job. There was some lack of motivation so that sometimes it seemed like a long road trip. Episode 1 had the tightest construction so it's probably my favorite. Don't really understand the complaint about weak guns, I loved to splatter Combine on the walls with my shotgun. May be the reason some people don't like it is because it's a slower paced shooter, with lots of rising and falling action, instead of being frenetic throughout, the latter being something I strongly dislike. Just a theory.

No worries, this is obviously Bioware's heartwarming version of "The Dirty Dozen".

The scene where a strider blows up a whole house is amazing as well. Yeah, too bad the bastards spoiled that for me in a preview video. You really have to be careful in which game videos you watch.

Giving the player less HP is fine, I hate it when they give a ton of HP to the enemies though, it just makes me feel I should be using a real gun instead of a pea shooter.

What did it do?

This just in: For every game out there, there's someone who hates it.

Wow. I think Molyneux is barely even on Vince's radar screen. Vince isn't making his game to spite Molyneux, or Bethesda for that matter, he's making a game he himself would like to play. Also, excellent post Tig, it summarizes everything nicely.

Game sounds too complicated to understand without playing the demo, also it may be good to start at the lower level and build up to the overall commander once you get the hang of it. Also I read you can build a 600 mile map and keep the forces from the previous battle, so some sort of a campaign may be possible that way. Of course the battles are so huge and high level enough they may feel like campaigns anyway. If anyone hasn't tried it, I'd also recommend Take Command 2 Manassas from MadMinute games, it's also realistic but quite a bit simpler than what I've seen of HistWar.

Developer claims it's done: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/17/reassuri...being-polished/

Really, what's up with that? To me, the problem with choices in ME is more than just lack of consequences. That's just a symptom of the real problem, that the choices don't flow naturally from the rest of the game, and are just inserted here and there so they can claim you're making big choices, and therefore this is a deep RPG. They're nothing more than a marketing check box. I don't include the council choice in this, it was excellently done and belongs in a much better game.

Retailers are usually the first to find out about delays. Doesn't matter too much to me, but Bioware did them a big favor by delaying DAO, and now they blow the advantage.

I don't understand your point. Because he's making his own game, he's not allowed to have an opinion of other games?

I'm 100% sure ME1 was a crap game. Also the Citadel was built by a very ancient and dangerous race, commercial land developers.

Yes, but we're kind of off topic.

There will be a full demo once the game is out, that's what I was referring to, not the combat demo, which is mostly to get feedback on the combat. And I'm not aware of anyone here saying the game will be great, all we're trying to do is explain why we have high expectations of the game.

It's not my card, it's my TV that doesn't have a digital input, since it's about 3 yrs old.

Have you ever compaired digital and analog 720p picture? Because if you have, I'm afraid there is something wrong with your eyes.. May be something's wrong with your TV. I've compared VGA and DVI on my old monitor, and didn't notice any difference.