Wrath of Dagon

So when MT shoots someone in the head, do I just pick the "aggressive" dialog option? Edit: Oh, never mind, I see in the screenshot there's actually a shoot option.

It's more difficult to develop for, so could take a lot longer, which costs money, which means the whole project could be canceled. At least leading on the 360, they know they can get that and the PC version done if worse comes to worse.

Ah, uncontrolled capitalism would be anarchy, not what China has right now. Communism is basically gangsterism, with only one gang. As far as China, my favorite characterization of their system is Market Stalinism.

The answer to your question is that 360 is most likely the lead platform, thus the only version which currently runs. Whether that means the PS3 port will be inferior/take longer, I don't think anyone will know until it's much closer to the game's release. It's true that it's much easier to port from PS3 to 360 than the other way around, but that also means leading with the PS3 puts the whole project at much greater risk. Edit: Btw, 360 has a 3 yr warranty, have you tried to get MS to fix it? They're usually pretty good about that.

@enoch Well, looking at historical parallels, kind of Rome and the Barbarians situation, don't you think? Edit: Yes, Putin was warning against too much socialism, you know the devil is feeling awfully chilly right now. Edit2: China may not be an outright enemy right now, but they're no friend either. Who provided nuclear tech to Pakistan and thus to Iran? Who's keeping North Korea afloat? Chinese stab us in the back every chance they get.

You may not believe in making enemies, but enemies believe in you.

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum/index.php?topic=108.45

Yup, should be out today or tomorrow, on NeverWinter Vault, which I assume is IGN.

Finally finished Shivering Isles, so time to look for new games. Planescape Purgatorio demo and Mysteries of Westgate NWN2 mods coming out in the next few days, then there's Velvet Assassin which could be interesting, will have to read the reviews, both Op Flashpoint 2 and Arma 2 coming out Spring-Summer, look good so far, Batman: Arkham Asylum looks interesting, then Wolfenstein!, probably get IL2 Sturmovik as well, and in the fall of course AP and DAO hopefully, and may be even AOD! So for the first time in a very long time this year could be really good for games.

If we had nothing to do with China, our standard of living would be lower, but our economy would be a lot healthier.

I like lightsabers. When's that KOTOR 3 coming?

I thought it went "Poor human, who invented you? Is God in showbusiness too?", don't know where I got that from, but in my head it's in Vincent Price's voice.

Then who would finance our debt so we can buy cheap crap from them? What are you trying to do, fix our economy or something?

What does monetize mean in this context?

Why do you say that? It looks to me it might be good.

They've released plenty of screenshots already. Gameplay videos may not be ready yet, especially as most internet dwellers don't seem to understand the game isn't final and proceed to take apart and nitpick every little flaw. I'm sure as we get closer to release, the info flood gates will break. Unfortunately, to be truly successful a game has to reach the mainstream, and I'm not sure the gaming sites do that very successfully.

Nowhere near big enough a game to stand out from the pack at Christmas. And SEGA's marketing budget is very limited by necessity.

As has been mentioned, ME put you into cover automatically, and often had a problem with not going into cover properly or not being able to deploy a weapon while in cover. Personally I preferred the old fashioned analog movement behind cover in FPS, but I guess for a 3rd person RPG a cover mechanic would be OK if implemented properly (probably one button to go into cover, different button to leave) or R6:V would probably work, although I haven't played it enough to get proficient.

From what I understand there will be family feuds and political intrigue. Of course there'll be the save the world stuff as well. Though if I play as the Alienage elf, I'm going to try to sabotage the nazi humans as much as possible.

Not all, but a good majority of it. The opnly difference is that these people have no problem showing their bigotry while most are still in the closet, so to speak. In my view, if you hate the sin then you hate the sinner. We are who we are, flaws and all, and if you hate an aspect of a person's life he or she has no real control over then you hate the person. Hating homosexuality is like hating left handedness, or hating all blue eyes, or all curly hair. So you think a good majority of Christians celebrate that there was a plane crash in Netherlands?

As in "you get a report of an enemy squadron approaching from the North?" There are plenty of strategy games where direction is essential, I don't know if that applies to sea battles in ETW.

You're both wrong.

May be they'll make it a free download or reduced price, to get more people to try it. In any case, WoW provides a free trial, so TOR would have to also. I'm not fundamentally opposed to MMO's, just to grinding. If you take their promises of a story driven game at face value, that may work out fine.

But they said you'd get a lot more content than any single player game. So long as they provide $15's worth of content a month, why not pay a subscription? Alternatively just play for 4 months, it'll be like buying a single game. Plus I guess you can always unsubscribe and wait for the content to catch up. And yes, I do hope all the NPC's are voiced.