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I really really do.

I'm not really sure why they put Sie on the banner . Costs

Yes, especially considering you have posted a pretty famous game which already has a thread on its own.

It's pretty much a very well polished and published indie game, an indie game at its heart, if you will. So it's not an indie game. Good to know.

Sounds mighty good. Especially the infos about missions and plot/writing.

Since when is Portal an indie game?

Is it? The amount of choices & consequences, some narrative choices (the all flashforward-flashback thing) and the choice of the setting for an action rpg are all pretty interesting and original.

I've downloaded Eschalon : Book II demo but I still haven't played it. The character creation page looked mighty good and old-school, but the comments I've read about the combat system aren't the most reassuring.

He had five pages, and only one that isn't filled to the brim with useful (and more importantly, new) info is the first page with the basic premise. Ran out of space I guess.As for the destructible environment, "it's limited to (barrels and) fugly trucks" and disappearing bodies were slightly disillusioning. A 5-page informative review? Sounds pretty good. Any new info that you got out of it?

Maybe, just maybe, it's that the environment isn't interactive enough? Like you can't hide bodies, blow crates to destroy enemies' cover and things like that? After all, from all the video previews, it looks like the interaction with the environment is mostly context-sensitive (meaning you jump where there's a jump point etc.) with just a couple of exception (I remember Mike blowing a turret or something similar in Moscow in an old video). Strange that the reviewer doesn't elaborate on the subject.

Because SE's unannounced project is shocking and looking kick-ass and sweet. It cannot be Obsidian's. Lol. Well Chapman said that he was pretty pleased with the polish level they already reached so.. maybe.. naaaah, it's not Obsidian.

Sounds great to me.

It certainly looks like Square Enix and Obsidian are collaborating, though it's still too early to link this collaboration with the secret Square project. My personal hope is that it's another IP since Obsidian desperately needs to step out of Bioware's shadow (not that I'm unhappy they're working on the Fallout franchise, and they definitely deserve to considering their past, but it's still a sequel/spin-off to someone else's IP). I also hope it's not medieval fantasy.

In a nutshell, yes.

Doing balancing, tweaking the lighting, waiting for SEGA to set a new release date, according to the interviews.

Maybe they were talking about another project? Every preview and interview etc.. I've seen about Alpha Protocol mentioned the fact that you can't change Thorton's face... Either that or it was a feature they scrapped.

That's actually pretty awesome.

88 out of 100 for Alpha Protocol judged as an action game it's pretty positive, since it should signify that the shooter-y gameplay is solid. Then again, considering the guy hasn't done his homework, it probably doesn't mean anything at all.

The game will indeed have a demo, though they haven't announced when we'll get it.

I doubt Obsidian would be hired to work on an action/shooter game, it's not their area of expertise and there a LOT of small devs that would be more suited.

That's certainly an extensive list. I'll look into it.

Bad reskins aren't what I'd call 'preset faces'...

Memo to myself : never read Gametrailers' comments 'a substandard Mass Effect'... I have the feeling that if Obsidian's next project is a fantasy party-based RPGs it will be called 'a substandard Dragon Age' even if a lot of the design decisions are actually pretty different .

Cool interview though after having read a bunch of Avellone's interviews, now I pretty much can repeat his favourite games and I find that.... disturbing.

I believe Halbech is the company Leland works for.