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Is it? It seems to have been working fine in the video game industry for.. what? 20 years?

Meh, I don't think they'd really insert a Uwe Boll cameo, since it's simply better to forget about the fact that he was born and had the possibility of making movies. It is fun to discuss what such a cameo could be though, and we don't really have much to discuss in the first place.

To be honest I don't have anything against Bethesda too, though who knows what would have happened if Obsidian had more time to work on the game (but again, maybe the fact that they didn't have much time and that they tried to keep the game safe it's for the best, both from the reception pov, and from the management pov, so they don't screw it up by being too ambitious). Then, again, Bethesda probably has given them the project in the first place because they don't want to keep too much time between installments of the series.

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Hasn't Dead Space 2 already been announced? By the way, nice to see that Project Mercury has a name. We still know NOTHING about it though.

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Since Half Life 2 is hopelessly problematic with me apparently (after I finally fixed a problem with sound and I managed to play up to the boat-driving section, the problem reappeared after the Steam update :/) I've begun Gothic 2. The old nostalgic feeling is all there, and after fiddling a bit with the control scheme I've managed to create something comfortably close to that of Risen. Not quite as smooth but still good fun. And mighty hard too!

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A bard NPC that continuously stops you to tell you that he's ze only genius in ze hole ****ing buzinez ?

It crashes goddamit. It crashes, oh, oh, yes it does. I can't even start an offline practice.

Damn, I thought we had pics. We'll get those screenshots sooner or later. We'll get them.

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Are all those red-marked areas to be visited in DA2? Well, it's also basically any place that has been mentioned in the first game + a couple of new ones, so going to all of those might be somewhat... indulgent. For a story spanning 10 years though, it could be good to change scenarios so much. I mean, the areas are little already, so at least make them look all unique. Granted, I honestly doubt that we'll visit all those places during the game.

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But there is MacFarlane. The game is still DOOMed!

Are all those red-marked areas to be visited in DA2? Dunno. Possibly. At least some of those locations, probably.

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GameInformer : Interactive map of Thedas.

So they've removed the minimap by taking advantages of vistas? That's an.. interesting choice, but how will it work on low-end rigs? I'd have like to see something like this in Arcania though, I like the idea.

So Lead Narrative Designer worked on Oblivion and Fallout 3? The writing will suck. The game is doomed.

I'm downloading it. I'll let you know my impressions.

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Only thing you can do is buy New Vegas but not Fallout 3 and the next Fallout (4?) by Bethesda. I don't think there's really any other way to support Obsidian without supporting Bethesda's Fallout(s). To be fair, I could argue that the core gameplay of Fallout 3 and New Vegas is the same, and that actually New Vegas is in a lot of way a refinement/correction rather than a revolution, but I don't really want to start a debate on how you feel on Fallout 3.

I don't think that there will be any difference in the division of profit between buying the game retail or on Steam. Assuming there even is a division of profits in the first place. I'm going to quote J.E. Sawyer from his Formspring thingy: Publishers take the majority of profits. Developers are paid on a milestone basis with some bonuses or royalties (usually) negotiated into the contract, but said bonuses/royalties are usually contingent on some strict criteria (shipped on time, 85%+ rated, X million units sold, etc.). In the 11 years I've been in the industry, I've received one royalty check for one game: Icewind Dale. Some very successful companies have a lot of bonuses and royalties flying around, but they are the exception.