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  1. That's true. Josh has said, and I am paraphrasing here to the best of my recollection, that while crpgs may not blow the doors off on initial sales, they tend to sell very well over time. I mean people are stil buying Fallout today. Ho many people are buying shooters from 1997? Its unfortunate the most publishers are out for the fast buck.
  2. That's true. I find shooters a lot more interesting now then I once did because they have taken some aspects of crpgs for their own. In a limited way, but it still makes the fps genre much more interesting than it used to be. STALKER for example is one of my favorites and that is because in addition to being a good shooter it's got a good deal of crpg aspects to it. STALKER is still a shooter though. DX is a lot closer to being a crpg.
  3. The Guns of Navarone is fab.
  4. I wouldn't say that. I would say that the choices are getting so small, that the chances of getting something that you really love is pretty small.
  5. If I were making that list I would include games like Deus Ex and System Shock 2. They might not be strictly crpgs in the classic sense, but they are close enough that I would include them. Certainly if Diablo and Dungeon Siege and Lands of Lore are on that list that DX and SS2 should be also.
  6. CRPGS I think were worth something (from that list) 1998: Might and Magic VI -- Both a rebirth and a classic at the same time. Its almost a perfect game. The series fell apart again fast afterwards though. 1998: Fallout 2 -- Not something I think nearly so highly of as Fallout 1 but still a worthwhile crpg 1999: Baldur's Gate: Still my favorite BIoware game. Actually my only favorite Bioware game. Only marred by the imbalance between level cap and game xp. 2000: PS:T -- Not completely my cup of tea but still a special game 2000: IWD -- My fave of all the IE games 2000: BG2 -- I'm not as in love with this game as a lot of people, but it was still pretty decent 2000: WIzards and Warriors -- A buggy mess but still a lot of fun in the old skool way. 2001: Arcanum -- Buggy and imbalanced between tech and magick, but stil one of my faves ever 2002: WIz 8 -- My 2nd fave crpg ever. I'm playing it even to this day. Like last night. 2004: Bloodlines -- Took me a while to get into it, but ti was pretty fun 2007: THe WItcher -- Flawed but more interesting than anything since Wiz 8 AS you can see the list of crogs I care about becomes less as the years go on. Th crpg is a dying breed, atm.
  7. I felt that was ludicrous even at the time it was written. Mixing real world and cartoons on that level simply doesn't work for me. Using real world concepts in a generic sense in fine, but once you start bringing in real world people and places, the whole thing falls apart. FOr me.
  8. I can't read .xls files on my home computer. Can you just copy/paste into a regular post as well? Even just the titles would be sufficient. I'm curious to see the list of names.
  9. Val Kilmer as Doc was far more interesting than all the rest of Tombstone combined. The bad guys were tedious. The narrative structure was really weird; the entire last half of the film felt like a tag on. I watched Force 10 from Navarone last night (early this morning actually). Hadn't seen it in a long time. I remember it as being OK, but at this viewing was not impressed. It felt more like a bad made-for-tv movie than anything else.
  10. Isn't that the movie where we are told if one urinates on silk it becomes strong enough to bend steel bars? Mythbusters tested that. Surprisingly, it doesn't work.
  11. Well, I can understand why a developer would focus on graphics and presentation first and then gameplay mechanics second and story and narrative a way distant third. The probably feel that the best way to make money is to focus on those that will most help sell the game. ANd really what makes a game specifically a game and not a novel is the gameplay mechanics. SO it makes sense that there is focus there. But, for me personally, I've really begun craving some actuall rich narrative content over the last few years, even at the expense of graphics and even gameplay. Obviously though I alone don't buy enough games for developers to cater to my desires.
  12. Definitely. I wasn't really meaning any sort of knock on AP. I reserved my copy several months ago and am looking forward to it. I was really just commenting that US developed games in general feel sort of flat to me. I'm hoping AP will have some spark to it.
  13. I think its mostly relative. Much like when a video game has a "good" story that means "good for a video game" but substandard fare pretty much any place else. Let's face it: story and narrative content have not been a focus of game developers for a long time now.
  14. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is fab. Eli Wallach is great and there are some great set pieces such as the whole bridge sequence. High Plains Drifter is also great. Although I tend to think of it a something other than a western for some reason, even though it obviously has all the trappings of one.
  15. One of Eastwood's best movies. Possibly his best. I believe he directed as well? ALso one of the best westerns I've ever seen, too. The only western I would rank as better than I can think of at the moment is RIo Bravo. Westerns, I think, are inherently doomed to genre-centric obscurity, sadly.
  16. Orginally the game was going to be more serious and real world, but at some point some of the design philosphy for the game underwent a serious change of direction and now I think we're going to get a game closer to NOLF (though probably not THAT satirical/comedic) than might have been expected.
  17. It's hard to imagine Smoke on the Water as a workout song. Maybe Highway Star or Speed King. Or Woman from Tokyo. Metal Church did a pretty awesome cover of Highway Star many years ago.
  18. ANd yet you love Bioware games. The mind boggles.
  19. I work out to a lot of Rancid, Flogging Molly, Social Distortion, Dropkick Murphy, The Bouncing Souls.
  20. Awesome game. Both 1 and 2. That's too bad. At the moment my tastes in gaming seem to match up better with games developed outside the US for whatever reason. Not that US games are all bad, but, I don't know, there's a certain mass-produced blandness to many of them. At least from the large developers. ANd even though Obsidian isn't a huge developer they are mainstream enough that I think some of that generic and bland quality will affect the game. ANother great game. For me the best cropg since, um, well probably Wizardry 8. WHich is kinda depressing.
  21. An unstoppable force meets an unmoveable object!
  22. I didn't but there's a cumulative effect with the years and years of it. besides I somehow presume Role Playing game developers who created Torment and MoTB to be immune to crap of that sort. I almost puked at the end of Call of Duty IV's single player, for the sheer idiocy, bias and misinformation in the story. It ruined my experience of what was essentially an excellent game. I understand your point, but this is a game where the pc dual-wields smg and has unlimited ammunition. To assign any more importance to the political overtones than to the ridiculous weapon usage is giving the game too much credit. The devs are just trying to put together a story based on all the movies they've seen in their childhood. I do wish that more games developed outside the US were easier to find in the US though. And sold well here.
  23. US developers working out of the US are probably going to make games that are influenced by a US mindset, no? You can't take it too seriously. Although I freely admit to loving STALKER because it was free of the tendencies of US games. Which is refreshing, though not inherently better or worse. Politics in these games is all just so much mindless twaddle.
  24. Managing expectations is the key to enjoying next gen games.
  25. I just got access to the ammo press in the Pitt. I converted all my ammo to .44 magnum and 5.56 rounds. I now have something like 20,000 rounds of ammo for those guns. lol. Ludicrous.
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