mkreku

Those two posts you wrote would probably have been relevant if I had ever argued that Swedish freedom of speech laws were the 'best' in the world. I haven't. Again you go on a rant about your precious laws, yet the difference in the real world remains. The difference being that in the US I have to search for an uncensored board while in Europe I have to search for a censored board. See the difference? You call it "backwards" and "prudish" and I call it American moral standards. Same ****, different name. But I'm glad you came to your senses and admitted it!

Yeah, I've played through it now too. The good: It runs great on my Core i7 920 (@3.2GHz), 5870, 6GB RAM system. Everything on max, 1920x1080 and the game dipped to 37 at its lowest and an average of ~55 (capped at 60). It looks good. The graphics are good to great, the art design is pleasant, the animations are OK, it looks Gothic-y, the world is detailed, lots of neat effects. Combat has potential. It feels fluid enough and if the character evolves it might be fun. Controls are improved over Gothic. The game just feels a lot more responsive and less sluggish. Still no loading times! Mucho important to me. Equipment is more plentiful. This is a good thing as Gothic has always been very low on equipment. Too low, even. The bad (if you enjoyed Gothic): They removed swimming (just like in Risen). You can't fall off of cliffs anymore. Your character runs up to the edge, but stops at an 'invisible wall'. The running animation keeps on going though. You need to jump off to be able to fall off. They removed climbing. Interactivity with world objects is gone. No more sleeping in beds, no more cooking in pots, no more smithing weapons on anvils etc. The animations are there, but not the effects. You can only fight enemies. No more accidentally hitting allies in the middle of combat. Character development is.. different. To me it felt worse, but opinions will vary. Arrows are not physical objects anymore. In Gothic, if you missed your target, you could trace the path of your arrow and pick it up again a kilometer away. Not so in Arcania. Lots of little things noone but me is bothered to hear about.. All in all, I think I will enjoy it as a lightweight RPG in the Gothic genre (I'm still getting it). I'll stick to Risen 2 for my Gothic needs though.

Argh. I am at work. Definitely trying it out when I get home. Thought the demo was due out tomorrow though? Weird.

Ok, that thread got out of hand in a heartbeat.

First, thanks for the links. I did not know there was such a difference, as I live in Sweden. The country Julian Assange flees to after being hunted in the US for publishing what he considers should fall under the freedom of speech act (I am undecided about that myself, as it is being tested right now).. Being able to provide such specific links makes you seem very knowledgeable, I'll admit. But then.. So you claim P with an ENIS is an English word, accuse me of ignorance and wants me to back out of the thread..? Here, if you think English is the problem: http://www.eurogamer.net/forum_thread_post...5712&start= I am not losing sight of the big picture. In fact, I think you are blind to the big picture because you're in the middle of it. My whole point is that you may think you have freedom of speech (since it is written in law and your Holy Paper), you pride yourself on it and talk about it all the time, but in reality.. you don't see it. You let corporate powers run all over it (national TV, most mainstream US media, this very board), you let your government distort it (don't threaten the president!, don't publish our secrets!). You even go so far as to call out LIBERTY to defend your right to this self-censoring (which might be the dumbest thing I've read on this board ever, and I've read the thread trying to teach Wrath of Dagon statistics). I see a clear difference between how Europe (or at least the Nordic countries, Germany, France and England) and the US behave in regards to this subject and I am genuinely interested as to why it exists. My own conclusion is a marked difference between general moral standards and nations being reflected in how different companies set up their boards. You desperately claim it isn't so, but your arguments are bordering on silly (European boards are insignificant, because they want to, because it's their liberty, etc.) and I am not convinced.

Where in the world did you get those numbers? The most common aspect ratios are 4:3 (standard TV, ie. 1280x960) , 5:4 (common computer, ie. 1280x1024), 16:9 (standard HDTV, ie. 1280x720) and 16:10 (common computer , ie. 1280x800).

This is funny.. ..because of this. So my comparison is false and I haven't supported it with facts.. but a few sentences later you make a similar comparison without any facts and we're supposed to just take it for granted because it was you who wrote it? Do you even read the **** you post? Anyhow, since you keep making stuff up about things you are clueless about (like basing your entire argument on calling European boards "insignificant" without even knowing which ones I am referring to), this discussion is pointless. You'll just keep defending your precious (ie. worthless) 'freedom of speech' in more and more convoluted ways and argue with your own made-up arguments. I'm sure it's more practical than actually arguing with other posters, but it got old years ago. Feel free to find a big European company board that doesn't allow me to write a P with an ENIS at the end, for example. I can only vouch for the 15-20 boards I check out ever so regularly. Surprise me!

So all these American boards just happen to choose not to allow me to write **** (which is neither profanity nor porn), and all of the European boards just happen to choose to let me write it with no censoring involved, but it has nothing to do with American moral standards (and European moral standards, in the opposite case)? What a happy coincidence. If it's only down to private property rights, how would you explain the difference between the rest of the world and America? Or will you keep avoiding this question again by spending the majority of your post trying to convince me I have no point and am posting nonsense?

GrrRR..aww

Oh no. Expect a huge price increase in Europe if that is true.

I had the (mis?)fortune of having to review World of Warcraft back in the day, so I was given a free pass to play World of Warcraft for all eternity if I wanted. I got it approximately three months before launch, and I played it for three months after. It was horribly addictive. I was playing for 8-10 hours per day during that period. Everything else started feeling as hindrances from my playing time. Spending time with the girlfriend? Felt like three hours of WoW lost. Going to the movies? Another three hours of WoW lost. And so on. It was when I realized that my priorities had been turned upside down that I stopped playing. I mean, I was annoyed that my own girlfriend was in the way of me clocking in another three hours after the five hours I had already spent playing a game! How sick is that? When I realized that, it was easy to stop playing. I told Blizzard that I didn't want any more free months and uninstalled the client. Oh, and er.. Kaftan is wrong about everything as usual.

Sverigedemokraterna will not get any support from either side. There will be a re-election before we allow any racist parties to play any role in Swedish politics, that much is confirmed. But it will be fun to see how they solve this dilemma. As a side note: 82-84% of the Swedish populace voted. Almost every fifth Swede didn't think it was important enough to use their democratic voice. To me this is horrible. Which groups in society are feeling so out of touch with their own government that they choose not to vote?

To me it is not obvious. All these boards, in different countries, are roughly "advertising" (as you put it) for these various companies. Why is it OK to write **** on an advertisement in Sweden but not in America, if it is completely unrelated to American moral standards? What drives them to censor their own board? What are they scared of? Note that I am not claiming it to be written in law either way, I know they're 'voluntarily' censoring us (which you laughably refer to as their "liberty" to do so, unless you can find a place where self-censoring isn't allowed), just that it is what I believe Obsidian conforms to: they are scared of what the general American consumer thinks of them.

Who claimed it was? They're not compelled.. yet they do. Ever wonder why? I frequent a lot of boards, Swedish ones, Belgian ones, German ones and a few American ones. Boards representing American companies are the only one who doesn't allow me to write ****, even though it's not even profanity. If Obsidian (and Bethesda, Bioware, etc.) aren't reflecting general American moral standards, why do you think they've all chosen to censor ****?

Because it's exactly that; more of the same. I'm afraid the changes most of us here value so highly are too subtle to be noticed by the general public and they'll be disappointed. I'll stop "strawmanning" as soon as you guys stop presenting your BS opinions as facts, mkay? Bad writing, bad combat and sucky engine.. if that was true, you don't see a contradiction with a game being a huge success, getting top grades everywhere and selling millions? THINK.

Hmm, that is not my experience with this game. I remember sitting in some hub (Nexus?) ****ting my pants as I had to leave the safety zone and enter one of the worlds. The one I chose looked quite nice and calm, with a ruined castle to the left and a mountain path straight ahead. I took one stride forward and this huge metallic knight I hadn't noticed (he was the same colour as the background) rolled into a ball and came swishing down the mountain to fight me. He was so fast, I barely had time to raise my shield before he hit me the first time! He hit me so hard, even though I had my shield up I was stunned from the impact. Then he hit me twice in quick succession and I died. Pissed, I went back in, prepared. After a tough battle I finally emerged victorious, thinking that it was cruel to put a small boss that early in the level.. until I realized that it wasn't a boss at all, just a normal enemy, of which up to three might attack you at any one time.

? That was an oddly convoluted way of saying, "I want to play Far Cry 2.".

Well, he did have little virtual mkreku so it wasn't that impressive. I mean, that's almost like cheating.

So why are they censoring us, ****roach? You think they're trying to protect your ****ing kids? It's a **** kind of freedom when you have it but you can't use it. Obsidian reflects American moral standards.

My prediction: we will love Fallout: New Vegas, the reviews will say "it's all the same again but buggier" and award it 80+ scores. The general mass will not like it as much as Fallout 3 and it will only be a moderate success sales-wise. Fallout 4 by Bethesda themselves will be a huge hit, thus making the possibility of another Obsidian Fallout an impossibility. You say Bethesda can't do writing or combat and their engine sucks.. But if you manage to look out of bizarro world where you live, you'll see that millions (!) of people loved Fallout 3 and THAT is what people judge anything Fallout related against now. Unless you're one of the twelve people who see NMA as the shining beacon of truth in this world. I hope I am wrong. I hope Obsidian performs way and above what anyone expects. I hope they manage to find the right mix between accessibility and complexity. A game that suits both the old fans with is spectacular writing and story and the new fans with its finely tuned combat and.. uh.. achievements (I guess).

Amazing trailer. I just wish it had more to do with the actual game.

Just aim for the one with the biggest boobs or whatever. Just make a choice or you'll lose them all.

Uh.. I guess we've gone from "awesome/interesting" to "obscure/random name-dropping". Play it for yourself and see what I mean: http://www.gamershell.com/download_20322.shtml

So all they have to do to make you happy is add a skeleton skin to multiplayer? Wish everyone was as easy to please. I want a bit more than that, but I am not yet sure this game is even in a genre I can enjoy.

Most sitcoms start out interesting but quickly degenerate into utterly predictable trash. It's like, in the beginning they're experimenting with the characters and their roles within the structure, but as soon as someone in the audience laughs, they make that character stick to that one joke forever. A good example of this (even though it's not really a sitcom) is The Simpsons. At the beginning, Homer was just a bad father trying to raise his hopeless kids. He wasn't predictable at all and that made him funny. Then he evolved (or.. rather the opposite) into a complete retard who always does the dumbest thing possible and always tells the same joke. Predictable as hell. This happens all the time in every series. Makes me lose interest after 4-5 episodes max.