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Seen a couple of those other Surkov videos.. a bit spoilerish, but I don't regret watching them.. I must say that Avellone & co. did a surprisingly good job with the atmosphere.. it really feels like a modern spy flick. While I can understand some will not find this a positive (I remember a couple of preview talking about stereotyped character), but for me that's pretty important. I'm not just talking about the writing anyway, the sound department seems to be equally great.. not just voice acting, but music (or lack of it, like in the helicopter scene), sound effects, etc. @Thorton_AP : My guess is that they've cut a good deal of the level playthrough.. probably the embassy will get attacked AFTER you've infiltrated it, going by the Thorton-Surkov dialogue.

Shorter than most RPG yes, but then again, 20-30 hours is A LOT considering the C&C they've promised. I forgot the obligatory commentary on the Surkov's trailer : top-notch voice acting, some nice bits of gameplay, some hilariously bad facial animations unfortunately.

Fallout New Vegas is doing much better than Alpha Protocol if you consider how far the release is (we don't even have a precise release date yet). Then again, being a pretty big IP and considering Bethesda's marketing, it was to be expected.

Still, considering that Red Eagle sounds very protective of their IP (and I can understand that) and considering that I really doubt the other unannounced project is a half-project even only manpower-wise, it seems a logical conclusion. Mind you, Obsidian not doing any writing on it it's just extreme speculation on my part, and even then, they'll probably end up doing the 'small writing', meaning, they won't write, story, background and important characters but they'll still end up writing quest designs, dialogue, etc..

IF there is a writer team at Obsidian for this game. Consider that, going by what Pop said us, Avellone himself called this a 'half project' for Obsidian... they don't even consider this their own game.

The original Fast and Furious was decent at best and Tokyo Drift... meh, I basically had time to kill when I saw it and even then I felt cheated.. I wanted a mecha to emerge from behind the mountains and kill them all.

Notice that they talk about 'video games', and considering Red Eagle it's not that big, they've probably made a similar deal with another developer, most probably in another genre entirely (I mean, we don't know what's the genre of the game Obsidian is working for, but considering their area of expertise it's most probably an RPG). Considering all the work on the design and supervision alone on Red Eagle's part, I guess Obsidian is doing more than grunt work.. Then again, I've never been very good with this stuff.

Meh, as long as I can create a tanned Thorton with a stubble and some shades I'm okay.

Seems like a fair enough review to me.

Think you're onto something. In Fallout: NV, they're going to have us start off being patched up by a doctor as well The story isn't written by Avellone though.

Sorry, but there's a stereotype to play to. It was either that or sneaking through/having shootouts in pizza parlors It's not the stereotype that bothers me, pretty much all the locations in the game are 'iconic' instead of 'realistic', it's just that I don't know what Thorton would do there.

I think it actually looks better than the one in the game.. pretty cool.

I've also noticed that Mass Effect 3 is listed as a Sony exclusive.... leaning more and more towards fake.

It's not a pre-alpha (do you really know how old the build would be for being a pre-alpha? ), most probably a late beta preview build. There will be maybe a little bit more bug fixing and polishing before the preview (though the game has already gone so it's not like they're working on it now, except for maybe patches or DLCs) but don't expect any dramatic change.. to the AI too, sadly. Then again, the game looked surprisingly challenging even with the stupid AI, though it may simply be because the guy took the shotgun instead of the assault rifle and was distracted too.

Leaked E3 line-up. Not sure if it's true or just a fake, but there for your viewing pleasure. EDIT : I'm leaning more towards fake though.

Actually your NOT being original could give you the credit you need to work in the industry!

A Kiss to build a dream on has been already introduced by the GNR extender (More where that came from) mod. Though overlapping isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially with such a sweet song. And what a wonderful world seems like a deliciously ironic choice if a bit too predictable.

Give me a kiss to build a dream on and my imagination will thrive upon that kiss...

If it ever happens I doubt it will be by Obsidian's hands. I don't really want to knock them down, but technical optimization just isn't their forte.

If you think it fits, it fits. Talking about radio stations, I had a lot of ideas in my head for a Fallout PnP campaign and since radio stations are now an element of canon I was thinking about a ghoul blues radio station. Then again, I still have to convince two of my players that it's worth it to play in a Fallout setting, so for now it's just really an idea. But.. you know.. if you think some blues fits...

I like it. So basically the Rome hub will be all inside archeological sites and museum? I understand the iconic appeal though I'm not sure what a superspy would be doing there. Then again, the lighting looks good and atmospheric and the architecture too, so I really can't complain.

In F3 that was actually the result of a bad ragdoll constraint on the yao guai. A couple of other creatures had similar problems, I believe. But anyway, I think the ragdoll was causing creatures like yao guai to go shooting off into the sky sometimes even from mundane deaths. Are you sneakily implying this won't happen in New Vegas?

I may be wrong but I believe I read that it was made optional. Of course I may be confusing this with the 'kill-cam'.

I think some of it doesn't fit Fallout's timeline, though I don't really know what to suggest with the same 'atmosphere' right now.

Awakening is buggier but also FAR FAR better IMHO. Better story, better characters and much less filler combat. It's a tad easier than Origins though, especially if you use a mage and respec him right.