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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.

Was a terrible level. You really need something more than a 15 minute long section of scripted 'things go bang' events if you hope to scare people.

That's been bothering me as well. Wasn't it said somewhere that Obsidian burns through 1 million $ every month? Assuming you can get away with using fifth of the studio you still need around 2 million $ for a 10 months long project.

To be fair, mixing the survival horror and RPG genre in ways that work sounds almost unfeasible. It wouldn't be too hard to make a "survival" RPG that's focused around managing meager resources and just staying alive, I don't think; the early hours of Fallout 1 & 2 are already practically this. As for the horror, that's easy enough to add in; something that plays like low-level Fallout 1/2 could easily be given horror elements. Difficulty in managing limited resources is not synonymous with horror - otherwise Caesar 3 would frighten people to death. RPGs by definition operate around transparent rules and that's where fear of the unknown goes out the window. The best fright you can give a player is that of taking away his items or causing a permanent stat loss.

Seriously? Thanks to wonders of steam some of us have to download 20GB through 1Mb connection and somehow survive.

Thanks. It's amazing what difference even 5 degrees can make.

Anything that's NOT a nostalgia train. Making a 'spiritual' successor to Planescape or Icewind Dale may seem to be the easiest way to go about it but please consider that over a decade has passed and things have changed. Having a largely adult audience (presumably) presents an unique opportunity for atypical story/game design and it would be a terrible shame to waste it by doing isometric/hand-drawn/d20 for the sake of nostalgia.

Are there any FOV hacks for this game? It's been set so low I'm getting sick from playing.