Phosphor

Why is some form of indicator required? So most people like to read what JE posts, why is some marker required to show that? It just seems irrelevant to me.

Thread pruned. Please stop with bickering over post counts and games utterly unrelated to this thread.

Personally I don't see what the point is. Developers already have an indicator and that's all that's really needed.

Ok, say that's true... that would imply they designed a game they knew the system couldn't handle properly. That's worse than an accidental bug. I don't think they did that. Although I wouldn't mind a dev chiming in and saying so. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not saying it's true, I'm just asking an honest question, I don't know the technical details.

The Xbox game that someone mentioned would very likely be KOTOR2....

Thread pruned. Let's try and maintain a civil conversation, shall we?

I'm far from an expert on the differences between consoles and PCs in terms of what's under the hood so to speak, but wouldn't it make sense that many of the performance bugs people have noted would be taken care of by a more robust PC machine? Things like slow-down and lag, wouldn't they be ironed out by a stronger processor and more memory than consoles generally have?

I agree having to consult a license holder and to have to work within their parameters may be restrictive, but then it can also help bring out something better than being able to cram in everything a developer's heart may desire. In regards to money, it's a non-issue. Obsidian aren't funding NWN2, Atari are, and Atari are likely throwing a pretty big budget at NWN2 given that NWN was, and is, such a massive success. I must have missed all that. Nowhere have I seen the developers say that all the happenings of NWN2 take place in the titular city name, rather I have seen them say it's a focal point but by no means not the only location. I've also never seen anything that suggests Obsidian have a strict schedule and limited resources for NWN2, nor that the development of KOTOR2 took resources away from NWN2. NWN2 has a two-year development cycle, which is generous, and now that KOTOR2 is done, team-members from that project will move on to NWN2, thereby adding resources, not taking away. What suspicions? That Obsidian are well-regarded by their peers and being given KOTOR2 and NWN2 as their first projects will give them prestige and clout in the developer studio circles? Again, you refer to limited time and money which I see no basis in fact for such a claim. NWN2 is scheduled for a 2006, whether it's out then or not I cannot predict, but I think it has a good chance of hitting the release date. How is Bioware more flexible and skilled than Obisidian? I rather think you need to take a look at the Obsidian team members and their collective background in game development. As for Bioware helping out, why not use an available resource? Bioware made the Aurora engine and certainly will be able to answer questions, which saves a heck of a lot of development time; if Obsidian can just phone or email Bioware and ask about something or for input, that can save days of trying to troubleshoot the problem. You commented that NWN2 may be late, and then criticise the judicious use of a time-saving resource. It's odd. I tend to agree that sequels are never as good as the originals, but in the case of NWN, I'm guessing that adage won't apply. I mean, NWN was pretty weak, it'd be really hard to turn out something worse. But again, I find you saying odd things; you lay accolades at the feet of Bioware while doubting Obisidian, yet Bioware did both BG and BG2, and if sequels are never as good as the original, by your logic how good can Bioware be? Which is fine, except you seem to be using your own speculation and mistaken conclusions rather than facts to determine which will be better, and it seems your mind is clearly already made up.

No, we don't. I'm not quite sure what sort of reply you'd be expecting, Gareth. Of course people are going to be talking a bit more "inclusively" since many now have played the game and there's more subject matter at hand than there was before, and speculations and ideas about content and such are no longer relevant.

I'm sure you can find another KOTOR3 thread to post in....

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Right. Well, since the other thread is the one being used, this one is defunct.

Welcome back, Draconis!

Couldn't agree more.

Isn't this already being discussed over here?: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=26828

Let's not, shall we. Posing scads of links poses to many potential problems and issues, and it's really just spam anyways.

Holy shades of Planescape: Torment! Looking forward to playing this one.

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He's talking about playing games on-line (I'm guessing NWN here). Like with anything, there are sometimes some annoying people on PW servers, and I know the kind Romeo is referring to. They can be extremely annoying in little ways that make you irrationally angry.

If there truly was no reason, there would be no delay. International release of most products takes time to arrange for myriad reasons. Distribution rights, contracts for manufacturing and financials, language issues (getting new voice-overs, subtitltes, proper packaging, etc), trade/import legalities, being amongst them. I'm actually surprised the international release of KOTOR2 is happening only two months after the North American release. Also, international release arrangements are handled by Atari and their international partners; Obsidian has nothing to do with any of it.

The poll still isn't necessary.

A poll was not necessary so I removed it.

Please when posting spoilers in a non-spoiler thread use the [ spoiler ] [ /spoiler ] tags. I know this forum does contain spoilers, but this thread is spoiler-free, hence my asking for this consideration.

Indeed. Pretty much everytime I pop in there are spoilers to be moved to the correct forum. If people could just take a moment to think if their question/post is asking for or contains a spoiler, and then post in the correct forum, that would make things a lot easier and better for everyone, and only takes a couple of seconds.

Sales of the game will speak much louder than any on-line petition ever possibly could.