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Now that's confusing. I thought Obsidian was thinking on kick-starting a project of their own.

Aneutronic fusion temperature reached. Pretty interesting but don't believe any of the garage generator nonsense.

New Vegas Complete Edition - could finally finish the remaining DLCs. I'd essentially agree with reviews - DM is repeatable, LR tedious, HH interesting but short. Only OWB is forgiven all it's faults due to writing and humor. And while on the subject of writing - what's going on with MCA character design lately? Some of his NPCs are starting to feel artificial - like some sort of proxies for a philosophical debate with a serious dose of pathos and fatalism. I've caught myself thinking repeatedly that the 'right' thing to do would be to mercifully put them down as they can't possibly survive in a world such as this.

Good to see that NIF is having some success with the laser. Too bad the whole "fusion" thing isn't working out for them.

Dose that even make sense given that payments supposedly stopped months ago? The project was being developed for not-yet-existent console. It was always bound to be a risk - no need to look for a conspiracy behind it.

Saints Row the Third. It's still fun as a sandbox and PC port is reasonable this time around. Sadly the whole storyline/mission aspect took a major turn for the worse.

Consider this: the Borderlands PC version sucked. People hated it (the port, not the game). This is just as much sending the message "We won't screw it up this time" to people that have played the first title. Also those kind of features are getting increasingly less common. If that was their intention it'd be much better to promise push-to-talk and FOV control instead. Vsync comes close to text chat in the list of features PC gamers took for granted.

There was Return to Krondor and Betrayal at Antara. And as much as I love BaK I doubt you can make a remake work as modern wrpg. It simply had no place for the choice and customization that (supposedly) are essential today.

For one thing they singlehandedly brought down FASA which was huge back in the day. Apparently it has something to do with Microsoft corporate culture - it was heavily criticized by former FASA director as hostile to development of any entertainment. The lessons of that debacle apparently resulted in Bungie running away rather than suffering similar fate. It's been considered for weeks now so I imagine Obsidian knows what would be their choice for such a project. The inxile kickstarter didn't even include a single piece of concept art so the only barrier I can see is in the realms of finance.

Quite surprising that it would be Microsoft - Obsidian should be aware what their track record with developers is. Stranger still - no kickstarter announced. You'd think this the perfect time to cash-in on internet sympathy as well as gamer nostalgia.

Any hints who the publisher was supposed to be? It'd be interesting if it's THQ considering the South Park situation.

So you mean that FPP games (thanks to denying player information he should not posses) can actually induce tension and perhaps even fear in ways 3rd person games can't? Logically then they are far better at conveying any stealth/horror experience.

Can't say I found the games all that similar. Gothic/Risen is the typical PC attempt at the sandbox with unrestricted saving/loading. Dark Souls is like an mix between console adventure game and an MMO - one screw up and hours of progress might need redoing.

Good that the PC only guys will get to play this. Especially if your a masochist. If it gets quicksave it'll be much easier. This is a game that quite deliberately lacks a pause option. Something tells me that quicksave is not in the plans. A good trainer could help it tho.

He also added another line: "In my mind video games need to have the goal of educating people, entertaining people, or at least being artistic[...]" You'd think that the entertaining part pretty much covers all games made today.

The problem is that those mechanics either evolved or died off - and it happened for a reason. I see no good reason to scorn modern game design or avoid wider audiences available today. If anything it should be preferable to update the mechanics and keep the best parts of older games intact - then they can appeal to both groups.

Nice try but no gaming system required learning the complexity that was juggling various types of memory on a DOS PC. Amiga users had the worst case of all to call anyone "intellectually challenged". And while we're at 20 year old system wars the king was always ZX Spectrum.

I was under the impression that reverse was true And I wouldn't worry about architecture. The series was never bothered with historical accuracy so I imagine devs will simply make things up. I'm just disappointed that given ubisoft love of trilogies French revolution and Napoleonic wars are next in line for revision.

Assassins Creed 3 setting leaked. Not really surprising.

Shogun 2 on and off. Overall nothing special. Any improvements from the original? Do you still spent 80% of the game time on match-making?

What character concept? WRPGs have long ago given up on predetermining anything of note about player character. The only things that remain preset are necessitated by presentation and interactivity standards (and occasionally the desire to make sequels).

The ruling dynasty had. Don't confuse that with modern nationalistic bickering.

Civilization 5 to expand. Apparently new addon will reintroduce religion and improve diplomacy. So after alienating the fan-base and milking the title with numerous DLCs they decided to put back thing that previous game shipped with. That ship had sailed IMO.

But why ask for opinions then? It was pretty obvious that the 2 things fans will want is Planescape/Icewind Dale setting-wise and decade old mechanics. Aiming your 'kickstart' project at the die-hard fans will inevitably kill any larger appeal it might have had and I assume Obsidian is fine with that. That's the whole point of 'spiritual' successors. You can easily do a 'Bioshock' or simply use setting as it was without mentioning key names.

Is this a joke or are they hoping people forgot how atrocious that game was? /edit Seems they are serious. At this rate we will be seeing remakes of Back to Future very soon.