Monte Carlo

Sordel I love where you are coming from, I really do, and would buy such a dungeon (let us say, sotto voce, Module) in the blink of an eye. But in the game proper I think, to justify the time and assets, it would need to be a part of the game that most would (at least) have a try at.

The idea that the plate-armoured knight was slow isn't completely accurate. You don't have to be a SCA grognard to have seen men in Milanese plate moving deftly and with astonishing speed. Having said that, I think the OP is on the money and his post beautifully written. FWIW.

With respect, yes there is. It's like saying "I love eggs in my beer. I think eggs in beer have been done fine." Or, "I need eggs in my beer more than almost anything else." Because to me a CRPG romance is as useful as cracking an egg into a perfectly good pint of beer: slightly icky, tasteless and surplus to requirement. If old-school role-playing games of yore had been infused with romances then my argument would be void. So I will reiterate: out of the classic, glory-day CRPGs this project is utterly and unambiguously designed to emulate, there was only BG2 that had romances. I'll say it again: there were four only. They were minor additions. They were easily avoided. In short, there was a tiny and unobtrusive corner of the game where the people who like eggs in their beer could do their thing. The astonishing and frankly terrifying success of Bioware's erstatz-emo soap opera romance approach is an unholy taint. It is literally like Ebola for gaming. And the hotzone / infection vectors have reached our shores. The poll is suggesting that my, albeit extreme, view is echoed by many. So a compromise: let this game have a similar level of egg-in-beer activity to BG2. Then could we all be happy? Because as the cliche goes, I think we are united on more than we are divided by. With respect and best regards, MC

MOAR

Then it's a disturbing piece of phallic anxiety, perhaps

Interesting poll, I would have thought options 1 / 1 would win by a country mile.

Of course, you could just call it an Anomalous Subsurface Environment... http://www.lulu.com/shop/patrick-wetmore/ase1-anomalous-subsurface-environment-standard-paper/paperback/product-15874202.html

er, its mega dungeon

**** it, I'm dumping Diablo tomorrow and getting IWD / IWD2 from GOG. Then I'm going to drink a case of claret and beat both the MoFos.

Did I mention that Lahndun is in fact a supra-national City State that is emphatically not in Europe?

It needs reiterating - the Deep Roads in DA:O were not, in any way shape or form, mega-dungeons. They were tunnels. A mega-dungeon requires: Size Back-Story Dungeon Ecology Traps Puzzles Loot (oh yes) Cool monsters Even cooler boss monsters Exploration WTF moments of sheer excitement --- I hope you get my drift.

Get a grip. AAA games have AAA budgets, which this doesn't. Obz need to get some visuals out IMO, and show us what this will look like.

^ This is more like it. As long as I can roll dice and drink beer too.

^ That's quite near Croydon, isn't it?

Yes, but I'm confident (uses technical term) that they'll do some funky stuff with it and get the pre-rendered stuff in.

Ah OK is making more sense. Thanks.

Yes, you can change the paradigm of what constitutes 'property' with the power of your mind.

So it's like another layer?

I had to vote Europe, although the UK is in fact an island not connected to the continental hoi polloi in any way, shape or form (except of course for a bloody great tunnel). I live in the squirming, gelatinous, fetid megametropolis of Lahndun.

Should the Unity announcement have come out with a depiction of what they want to achieve with it? Not a tech demo, maybe just a few concept screenies?

^ Yes, but what does that have to do with it?

As a technical ignoramus I'd be happy to be educated, in layman's terms, about engine versus graphics.

The forum has spoken. Over 70% of us are happy to sacrifice romances. In my case I'd like to sacrifice them on a stone altar in the underground temple of a multi-tentacled god of evil madness, with an elaborately ornate but cruelly-spiked mace.

I want it to mirror IE games, most of which had random dice rolls. I know Sawyer hates it, but I will grind him down like Volourn banging on about Dwarves. I also want the character generation GUI to look as beautiful as possible, maybe a mixture of that granite effect in BG1 mixed up with more of a character sheet style.

Hey, I like this shirt. It's neat, even if it is from GAP. I know, let's go into GAP in the next mall and ask for another one free. After all, I paid for the other shirt and it's the same, right? I'm over forty. This means that I view intellectual, physical and digital property rights in a similar grid square. That is that they are property and therefore protected by property rights that the owner is perfectly entitled to stipulate to protect his or her interest. I know the twenty-somethings (not all of them but many) think that anything you buy that's made out of zeroes and ones should be virtually free, but keep on using your rationale and there will be no content left.