melkathi

It's on my wishlist. Do tell me more

So he folded up, assuming something similar to a standing fetal position, then, very slowly keeling over sideways? Or would that require a stomach shot... Chestshot... Ok I got an image for that as well: As the chest is pushed back by the force, the arms snap foward and legs fold up, causing him to fly backwards in a sitting position, arms extended as if grasping for something in front of him?

We had a tournament going. Both singles and doubles. Took turns playing trying to get the most cash. Or take turns as a team. A friend was extremly good at diving and finding that rare coin that would give you an extreme boost at the start. He'd team with the best pilot in the class... took me a while to get my game to a level where I could compete with 'em. ... kinda strange looking back and seeing what games we would turn into "multi-player e-sports" But what were we to do? Play North and South all day? (ok going to let people get back to XCOM )

I was too busy playing Duck Tales at the time

Can that person still hear?

I was reading an article on massively. Then I looked at the comments. The article was bad enough, blaming once more "fans' expectations" for the failure of SWTOR (in a way the article is right when it comes to me personally: I had no expectations whatsoever of the game and the game lived up to them ) But the comment section. That is tin-foil-comedy gold! It's like a train wreck you can read. One person lashing out at every other commentor and making up the majority of comments. Very fitting for this thread and worth a look if you are bored and in dire need of a face palm: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/23/hyperspace-beacon-will-free-to-play-save-swtor/#continued

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream

Trashman, did you ever get to play Frozen Synapse? What is your take on that game's approach to Turn Based combat?

Can't remember the rest of the post... are we still talking about the smurf/pocahontas hybrid in space movie?

What worried me were the people who afterwards insisted it was a great movie with an original story and a deep, meaningfull message

Greek letters (that's an Eta not a russian N ) so it says LROTIEOP or if using erasmian pronounciation LROTEEOP or something like that

What we do mind is you calling it crap

I send out my first manuscript and it got repeatedly rejected. In retrospect it did have a lot of problems. I would probably reject it as well. Worked on something else and got a lot of initial praise from people who read the draft. Got put in touch with another (experienced) author to give me some feedback and he told me pretty much "Keep the day job". Decided he was one of those people I would not listen to

Played one of those myself. Quite fun.

But even if you play as a fighter, for the survivability while you get used to the type of game, there is so much story that you wll not feel that you are loosing out.

Yes worse. What AG is commenting on is the fact that the game tells you you have to choose between group A or group B. Once you make your chocie the game proceeds in the same way regardless of the choice, as events have been set up in such a way that your choice does not matter. What you try to bring up as an equal example is a game that says: this is the big evil boss monster you have to kill. There is no dishonesty in the game design where it misleads you into thinking you have a choice. You purpose from start to end of DA:O is to kill the Archdemon. DA2 tries to set up a conflict in which you try to choose sides but regardless of your chocies and your actions, events will always unfold in the same way leading to the exact same outcomes. You could just as well have said "Not any worse than Space Invaders where your choice is to shoot the invaders or to... shoot the invaders..." Would have been just as relevant.

Yeah that's what I meant! But it's also what the OP meant.

How do you reconcile these? You can't have a dialogue with a silent protagonist. More a case of the other way round. With fully voiced characters, the budget for voice acting severly restricts the number of choices writers can give you in a dialogue. Only with a silent protagonist can you truly have vast options that allow for true dialogue and not just a narrow exchange of set phrases.

I think they just wanted what they believe to be a good RPG.

Going to try to find a target for you Is the offer valid outside the US?

But don't in reality a lot of gamers belong into that category? The first reaction of nearly any gamer who has the slightest belief that they have even the tiniest understanding of the industry is to say "The publisher forced the devs". It's nearly a pavlovian reaction - you say the word "bug" and gamers will shout "Damn publishers, beancounters who don't understand gaming forced an early release!" Of course publishers make it easy for people to use them as scape goats. EA has given people no reason not to blame them. But just because a publisher is evil incarnate, that does not mean that, for example, a writer hasn't produced drivel by himself, right

That's a good point, Spider.

He's in the Ancient Temple.

Perhaps 'filler' was too strong -- the "4,000,000" concept was a substitution for the idea that any amount over 3,500,000 would contribute to polishing the features already added. It could have ended at 4,300,000 and the result would have been comparable to 3,800,000. There was no critical need to get to 4,000,000 exactly. For example, we "probably" could have gotten the fortress for 2.85 million, but not for 2.75 million, as it would have strained the limits of development to be too generous. Enhancement we could have gotten for any amount over 3.5 million. While I agree with you, the Endless Dungeon undermines that argument a bit. A huge dungeon irrelevant of budget just based on popularity. It suggests that the extent of Obsidian's commitment to the project was not set... But there are more important things right now: What character will Mr. Avellone play in Arcanum for his first playthrough? Has he started yet? If not, why not?

"Selfish" is the wrong word. "Overconfident" would be the right word But I agree with you. If you do not believe in your own work, why should anybody else. Do you remember some years ago when Bioware was hiring writers (I guess it ended up being for SWTOR)? They asked people to do a small mod with their Neverwinter Nights mod tool and make a quest or something which would include their writing sample. So I guess it can't hurt to make story mods for any game you play that is easily moddable.