HoonDing

Zenimax should perhaps acquire Piranha Bytes to give their next TES a much needed injection of originality. And maybe Radon Labs too for the rather impressive female body models... Arkane Studios wouldn't be too bad either. Arx Fatalis blew away Morrowind in many ways, and the combat system as displayed in Dark Messiah was amazing. One of the more creative developers out there atm - no surprise they were asked to help working on Bioshock 2.

Pre-Oblivion Bethesda didn't have bad writing. At all.

Us Belgians have never really felt that 'socialism' imparted on our freedom. Being overrun over the ages by the Romans, Franks, Burgundians, French (twice), German & Spanish Habsburgs, Austrians & Dutch might have something to do with that. After all that, we really didn't care whether the Russians would come or not.

Drakan: order of the flame. Evergreen game.

Well, you can't argue with a degree in Creative Writing.

Kind of an annoying fight after snuffing him out, though. Not enough room on the spine to deal with x death knights, especially with Okku's big ass in the way of everything.

Have people complained about the graphics yet?

Betrayal at Krondor had more text than PS:T & an amazing story (being written by Raymond Feist himself). But it's hardly remembered these days save by a chosen few.

Who's the bald mage that looks like the Ordos Mentat?

Heh, I don't remember MOTB looking that awesome on my pc.. Dark & gritty:

"I tried to be merciful!!!" *hack* *slash* It really doesn't make any sense. At least Imoen would've both kicked them in the nuts or out-smarted them by tying their shoe-laces together or something. I bet if you turn down her over to join in the game she'll immediately jump at your throat too.

That's BIS, not Bio. Besides, this would be better:-The maker tells me to kill. -[iNTELLIGENCE]So the Maker tells you to kill? I was actually thinking about posting something like that myself... Surely that [intelligence] thingie has already become a tvtrope?

That video motivated me to give an 'oldie' a spin myself. Have nothing to play at the moment, anyway. Something from 1999 or 2000, preferably.

Is there low intelligence dialogue?

It seems I'm forced to go for a juicy F/F romance since the qunari is not available to be "romanced". But since I'm planning to kill Morrigan on first sight, that might fall in the water too. Considering it's dark & gritty, it's puzzling BioWare still played it safe with choosing either goody-two-shoes or pansy males to be romanced. I was hoping for some tough love.

How about this (hilarious) review of PS:T: Link

This game will be what Gothic 3 was supposed to be from the beginning without JoWood screwing PB over. I've pre-ordered it already.

Maybe bipolar disorder?

Will there be a demo for this game?

Concerning the 'exploring' bit, does the game have the kind of 'free-roaming' like in SoZ or does it consist of a series of main missions taking you to a map area where there are dungeons/ruins & side missions strewn about like in Drakensang (with the difference that the area is not locked upon completion)? I hope the bulk of this 40 hours minimum will not be party conversations/interactions but actually doing things.

Seems like I'm most suited to playing a BioWare game:

The Black Whirlwind?

The manual doesn't really explain the talent tests. It's explained ratherwell (with examples) on the wiki The Amazon's quest is triggered at a certain point but with or without she will never say much.

Imoen became dark & gritty. She now kills people out-of-the-blue for no apparent reason. I'm afraid for such a trigger-happy companion in my party. I want rational, disciplined beings, not psychotics or emotionally tortured ones... hence I'll most likely use the dog, Wynne & the qunari.

It would be possible, though, considering April's very nature & what the White Dragon said to her in the prologue of the game (not to mention in Dreamfall). Btw, it's ironic that April has a (excellent) discussion about art similar to this thread with a pivotal character in TLJ...