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Because they suck. EDIT: I have a high tolerance for bad combat mechanics, but when a role-playing game offers me bad combat mechanics with very few options, and combat makes up 70% of the game, that's when I rage.

Oh God, no. If there's anything The Witcher 2 shown is that CD Projekt RED's combat mechanic prowess is comparable to Obsidian. Hint: it's very very very low. Second hint: Alpha Protocol, The Witcher and The Witcher 2. Next time they should outsource the combat, maybe I will be able to enjoy their game then.

Well Eurogamer Italy gave it a 10!

Yes. And the ka-ching! sound is the most horrid thing to be ever thought of! Ever! No, but seriously, I hated that.

Eh, almost forgot, I'm also using a tree replacer (without the esp, because the guy that did it went a bit overboard imo, and the Mojave ends up looking like a forest). As for retextures, I'm using Arenovalis/Millenia (it's the same guy) for the weapons, nothing for the Vault suit , and Western Sky for the weather, since Nevada Skies is a pain to use with the DLCs. It has its few flaws (soundless sandstorms which feel far more unpolished than the ones from Nevada Skies and the fact that most clouds don't move) but I personally like the effect overall. Plus, it makes the contrast when you actually go in a DLC area much starker, in my opinion, which is the reason I put that mod in my list in the first place. EDIT: Almost forgot, the Strip's lighting is terrible with Western Sky so I edited it in the GECK to match that of some other areas he edited.

Aside from changing the LOD rock's textures I don't think so? I don't remember fiddling with the LOD values in the ini aside from the ones about light, but I may just be misremembering.

That's hardly something fans should be happy about if the resurrected franchise doesn't resemble what they were hoping for in the slightest. To answer the OP, it was Square Enix that preferred to go with the Dungeon Siege brand instead of a new IP Obsidian pitched and proposed the high level concept I think (at least that's what I gathered from various interview both from Obsidian and Square Enix) though I don't think that the concept was anything more than "let's go with an hack'n'slash for consoles". Not that Obsidian is free of blame anyway, they designed the game and decided to go with the direction they went for.

It's nice that you live on another planet, but some Obsidian's games have had some pretty serious and easy to reproduce bugs across the board and not necessarily just on console. Example? Alpha Protocol and the reload and enemies disappear bug. Granted, Dungeon Siege III seems to be pretty bug-free, so that's definitely a plus.

Fallout: New Vegas. Most fun I had with a game in a long time. Still playing it!

What exactly have they learnt from Bethesda, especially considering that they're (obviously) not in charge of the marketing? Anyway, happy for the Feargus' slaves if DSIII sells well.

I wasn't talking about quality (I haven't even played the main game, let alone the Sebastian DLC), but about getting less content at the same time because you didn't pre-order before an arbitrary time limit.

I'm glad to see you're as witty as ever, Morgoth.

If The Witcher 2 is an RPG, DX:HR easily fits.

It better be good. It better or I'll throw idle threats at the guys at Eidos Montreal and bitch like there's no tomorrow!

So, is there any role-playing game to be impressed/excited about this year? I'm feeling pretty grumpy and it would be nice to get something to make me less grumpy. Well, I guess I'll get the New Vegas DLC at least.

They didn't with DA2.

What "last few BioWare games"? Because Dragon Age II sure as hell didn't do that. You either pre-ordered it before you could get a good idea of how it played or were screwed and didn't get the Signature Edition with the additional character and quest.

The demo may not offer a good slice of the story, but the core mechanics are there and they even overlevel you to make sure you can try more than 1 ability. Seems reasonable to me to assume that's how the game plays, so if you don't like it, you likely won't like the final product.

Metacritic gets a lot of flak for being the major review aggregator, and they certainly took a lot of stupid choices in the past, but I very much doubt they're bribing the publishers to be referenced in contracts (and be sure, as the situation is, if the Metacritic was shut down they'd use another aggregator) nor it's their faults that the gaming journalism is as it is.

Actually, Metacritic gets used by publishers in contracts as a royalties clause, so it seems perfectly logical to me to use it as one (but not only, obviously) way to judge how successful a game was. Forums can be useful to see how successful a game was with a certain niche and do provide good feedback, but it's confused, hard to read feedback, so it usually gets disregarded.

I'd honestly still have some niggles about the combat and the general genericness of it, but then again, I don't really care about the Dungeon Siege name.

There seems to be an awful and frankly unexplained disconnect from what Nathaniel (lead designer) initially said here and what we actually got (and from what I'm given to understand from reviews, this is the final PC control scheme though I guess we'll be able to change key bindings with a day 1 patch). I doubt we'll get much of an explanation beyond "things change during development" but it's pretty weird that we'd go from a perfectly reasonable control scheme to a gimped one. There were actually moments of fun in the demo despite the general mediocrity, and I'm pretty sure the game would be fun if I had an Xbox 360 controller.. but it's an hack'n'slash and it's pretty weird, even with the slightly different mechanics, that we weren't provided a decent control scheme, considering there are so many examples of developers getting it right, and considering Obsidian has shipped 6 PC titles already (one of them being a PC exclusive).

I actually think The Witcher 2 has some of the worst RPG combat in the last 5 years, so I can't really agree with you on that.

That leaves you with dialogue and minigames as positives.

Where? Torrent sites, I presume, since the release date is not until next week in Europe and the week after in NA.