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Not in my experience. I certainly didn't go from 'dead in 5 seconds' to 'victorious in 15 seconds' on skill but on grind.

Wait until the ending. It's a little polarizing so may change your opinion. I kept trying to get further with Dark Souls but finally ran out of patience. I was hoping that the next boss will be beatable without grinding but no such luck. Final impressions are similar to first ones - it's an average game with a lot of undeserved praise. But my biggest problem is the way it's difficulty level has been presented everywhere. It's complete non-sense that the game is difficult - boss fights are simply around 90% equipment-based and don't test player abilities in a significant manner. The only necessary ability to succeed at Dark Souls is commitment to grind.

That's nice but even for a level 20 character 3000 souls represent a 30 minute grind. I guess it may not be a big deal if you compare it to bosses which as far as I've seen require hours of grinding to beat.

I have a different suggestion regarding Dark Souls: Just watch/read every walkthrough and guide you can find. Learn your travel paths and enemy attack patterns and things should start to slowly move forward. That way you can avoid the epic foreknowledge grind and focus purely on execution.

I tried it out, and it's actually pretty awesome. The main strength of the game is the narrative. Yup. The combat isn't bad as it changes throughout the game with new weapons, upgrades and enemies. But it's the storyline and the way that handled are by far the main attraction.

Dark Souls and occasionally Vindictus. It's essentially a mixture of an average hack&slash and an older MMO. On the other hand Vindictus is at least fun for 10 levels or so and (nominally) free to play.

That's great. I just hope 'more' doesn't mean DS3 was considered the first one. That's one RPG definition I wouldn't agree with.

There is no business sense to compete with another one of your own products. Unless of course it's 'Oblivion with lightsabers' but then why name it KOTOR? IIRC book canon always triumphs game canon so Bioware is free to rewrite the whole of KOTOR2 to their liking.

A collaboration with Obsidian? (I don't understand the language, even though it's vaguely similar to Italian.) That what is says (it's Portuguese btw). The whole rumor makes little sense. Not only would KOTOR 3 compete with TOR there seems to be no reason to collaborate with Obsidian on it.

It's actually quite funny that he thinks upgrading Irish internet will somehow help players from outside the UK area. On the plus side this may mean no GoA for European release.

Space marine. Flash over substance. Nice presentation but gameplay is shallow and gets tedious.

That's a Fallout 2 recipe. You just needed a NPC to use it. In my case, I would break down pistol ammo for guns I did not have, and reload cartridges for the gun that I did have. But there was a big problem with conversion in that bullet hulls were always limited. I never understood why the ammo crafting for guns was so much more complex than for energy weapons.

All four of them? The point is this: there is little to show that such games will sell. You don't like the graphics/writing/combat in a single developer games? I get that. You want it to be better? That takes resources and to pay for them you need more sales. If you are willing to invest enough to make a game met the minimal expectations you simply better off not making it an rpg. Small audience means that you cannot keep up with production values. Especially when there are plenty of good quality browser games and MMOs available for free.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it's been tried before. You can buy your old-school rpg games like Avadon or Eschalon on Steam. Few people are interested.

Neither dose Starcraft 2 and see what happened. If there is enough demand in the pirate community it will happen sooner or later. The only question is how long will it take and how difficult it will be.

The only question here is whether the DRM will work. Starcraft 2 was eventually cracked for LAN. I think I'm missing something here. The last time I saw a real life "internet cafe" was in Budapest a year ago and it looked about as uninviting as the dark ally next to it. A gaming one perhaps. They tend to make that impression. Smaller towns still sometimes have cafes for regular people mostly for browsing and downloading.

Besides getting a good connection you can play with several of your friends in the same location.

I mean one that can afford a good internet connection. That's not a given everywhere.

People who attend LAN parties, organize offline e-sport tournaments and game in internet cafes. Just because Blizzard highly values centralized control and DRM Battle.net gives them doesn't mean that demand is not there.

Actually that is not an uncommon technique of inducing hypnosis. The game didn't make it all that clear but the 'I-use-speech' solutions are rarely given the lines to make them believable.

Deus Ex tops NPD sales chart. All it needed was 5 days of sales.

I'm don't understand what is so surprising about it. Standards of writing in video games are simply not very high and I think even for all his faults MCA still stands head and shoulders above competition. And comparisons to non-interactive fiction are not always valid. Especially to written works were the author can write anything without worrying about resource-cost of on-screen execution.

I get that they are trying to appeal to elitists but the whole "consoles are dying" argument really doesn't hold water unless you are willing to put some evidence behind it. And why dose he thinks he can single-handedly revive middle-tier games where developers like Raven have failed? I wish him luck but don't expect they'll make another game.

It sounds like it was assembled from separate words and sentence fragments. There is completely no proper tone or flow to the monologue.