Wrath of Dagon

Fixed that for you. Double fixed.

I hope Obsidian has some interesting ideas they want to implement, not just throw in a bunch of filler quests and call it a day.

At least they could talk about the setting a bit, this is not a good way to introduce a much awaited game.

I'm playing in character mode, and the camera works fine. You can swivel it around and zoom all the way out if you need to see a lot. The only problem as always is when you go through a door you're too close to the wall. I believe any rubber banding can be turned off, but it's not an issue the way I play. Anyone who's refusing to play because of the engine is really missing out, the game has the best content I've seen in a long time.

What's wrong with the camera, it's pretty much the standard PC camera now. I know everybody complained about the OC, but I run it fine on an old PC, MotB was quite a bit more demanding. On my new computer I would be able to run MOW on the highest settings just fine, but I had to set it on the lowest because MoW constantly crashes otherwise.

I'm really tired of seeing UE3, so I'll be glad if DX/Thief use something else. I think the plasticky look is prevalent in most modern games, and has to do with not supporting skin translucense.

Marketing campaign has been horrible, "we've got blood and sex, and it's really dark, I mean super duper dark, and did I mention we have blood?", but that doesn't mean the game will be bad, they're just marketing to the LCD trying to improve their sales.

I think the biggest problem with the sales of the first one was that the concept when summed up briefly doesn't really appeal to most people. I didn't have much interest in it at first, but after hearing repeatedly how great it was, and not having anything to play at the time, tried it and it won me over. People who don't follow games as closely would likely never bother with it.

The real issue I see is this. If the government provides food, shelter, and healthcare, what's the point of someone working? What effect does dependency have on society? Also I have a very hard time believing that goverment run healthcare provides the same quality at lower cost as private healthcare. Aren't all the countries with public healthcare constantly struggling with cost, and some are now encouraging people to get private one? We have public healthcare in my county btw, but no one who has a decent income would be caught dead in it.

Console is almost always the lead platform, deal with it. The IW and DS engine was also used for Project Snowblind, and not only looked terrific, but also allowed a bunch of AI allies before that became all the rage.

Don't see anything wrong with the engine, seems like a very fun game so far.

Thanks, the Kotaku video didn't work for me for some reason. That video does look too realistic and complex, part of the appeal of the first game was its simplicity, hopefully they won't mess it up. There was a similar escape sequence in the original btw, it wasn't all stealth.

Of course not. Uncle Obama will make it all better, there, there.

Dagon is not an elder god. Also Dagon wasn't killed, he became wrathful and Also in the original Call of Cthulhu story, Cthulhu himself gets run over by a fairly small boat.

Uh. that's because Morrowind wasn't dumbed down? Oblivion is a dumbed down version of Morrowind, less skills, less possibilites, much less attention to lore or story, less weapons, less spells, Xbrick as the primary development platform. Even if one accepts the premise that O was "dumbed down" and M wasn't, I don't see how one can logically blame "consoles" when both games were console releases. O was "dumbed down" because 1) many of the changes were flat-out improvements, and 2) more user-friendly games tend to sell more copies, regardless of platform. The console/PC factor is irrelevant. PC gamers tend to be a lot more anal-retentive. Thus any game that's less anal-retentive is automatically guilty of consolitis and being dumbed down.

I'm not saying get rid of the missions, I'm just saying keep the free roaming also, except expand it from what it was in DS. I thought the combination worked very well in that game.

I'm hoping for big free-roaming city part, where you can break into random apartments for loot and discover side stories.

That's actually debatable, in a lot of cases it leads to over diagnosis and a lot of unnecessary treatments. The cost crisis is in catastrophic care, not in routine care. Here are some interesting political insights: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22155.html

I'm pretty sure it'll be stealth based, otherwise what's the point? The quality is a concern though, given it's a brand new studio with no track record.

No one's said yet it'll be in modern setting, I would bet it won't be.

Apparently the leading plan right now is to break up employer funded insurance and route money directly to individuals to buy their own insurance: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22087.html Don't know how well it'll work, they were raising my premiums 25% a year when I bought my own insurance.

Thief needs the ability to run from rooftop to rooftop, that would make it perfect, not that I expect much from the new studio.

It doesn't matter, the medicine is made in bulk, pharmacies buy in bulk. Your theory would only work if the government distribution chain was more efficient than a private one, which has been proven to be false over and over again. So far as I know in Canada medicine is still sold through private pharmacies, but the price is government controlled.

Because it's every man for himself. So long as a politician is supplying pork for his own district/state, they don't care he's not acting in the national interest. Now if he's dumb enough to actually break the law and get caught, he'll be removed from office, but so long as he's getting legal bribes, i.e. getting political contributions in return for doing favors for the contributors, no one seems to mind because everyone else is doing the same, so why should the voters single out their own representative? But the larger issue is that the original intent was to have citizen legislators, not a professional politician class. Once they've been out of the private sector for so long, they lose touch and just go along with the prevailing political culture.

They'd be voting against their self-interest unless every other state does the same. Legislative term limits are a good idea for the same reason presidential term limits are. It doesn't matter how talented one is if he's corrupt. Well, sure. But where's the evidence for the connection that you're assuming exists between time spent in office and corruption? Despite what Frank Capra would have you believe, I suspect that first-term legislators are just as likely to be corrupt as 20-year veterans (but somewhat less likely to be competent). I don't have hard statistics, but all the people I can think of who were accused of corruption were serving long term. I believe the maxim that power corrupts, and that once they start believing they're part of the ruling class they begin thinking they don't have to play by the same rules as us peons. Aside from corruption, if the terms were limited perhaps they wouldn't be so obsessed with keeping themselves in power, which to me is what's causing most of the problems in our political system.