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  1. Malekith
    Eternity Chronicles is good for an overarching title like Elder Scrolls. Cycle of Eternity or something similar could work as well. As for the individual title(subtitle?), i hope the words deadly,darkness,shadows are nowhere near the final title, and especially not together.
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    Whose team wins dictates who takes the coffee machine
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    Liar...
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    I demand race to play a role in what kind of baby you get when you romance the broodmother. Quanari? Baby ogre. human? Hurlock. Dwarf? whateverthe****wasnamed. Reactivity for the win.
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    Nope. He said that AP was the same quality as DA2. you disagreed, and when Alan said that the 2 games are compairable you brought sales as evidence that DA2 is a better game than AP. No one spoke about popularity as it is irrelevant. If you think that popular doesn't equal good, then we are in agreement. But AP >Witcher2>DA2. At least for me.
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    By the same logic, Skyrim is better than all Bioware games compined. Deal with it. I liked how in a previous post you said that what others think doesn't matter to you, and then you say that sales are measure of quality. Be consistent at least. And Twitcher2 was "better" than DA2 as well. They sold the same(by now W2 propably more), but DA2 hurt Bioware's reputation and made people hesitant about the fransise, while W2(which i don't liked) skyrocked CDP reputation,was criticaly acclaimed, and made Twicher 3 and Cyberpunk two of the most anticipated RPGs right now. Instead of CPR rpgs to be compaired to Bio's to see if they measure up, every journalist and their audience compaires DA:I to the Witcher3, and find it equal at best, lacking most of the time.
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    Who should they blame than? It's EA or Bioware. There is no third party. BioWare. Ok. I blame BioWare for most things, i just thought that publisers dictate the timeframe of their games.
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    Who should they blame than? It's EA or Bioware. There is no third party.
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    From the way the update sounds, at the start the stronghold isn't a full castle with people already paying taxes. It wouldn't surprise me if it'll be half ruined. So the choice above is eexactly as it sould be. or to put it differently a) During your adventures you decide to build a stronghold out of the monster infested ruin you conquered b) you leave it as it is and continue your adventure
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    Wouldn't made more sense to be completely separate building in one of the cities?
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    Can the companions be permanently killed in those side missions? (yes please)
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    I hope i can experiment with my prisoners and sell them to the local animancer...
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    Co authored by David Gaider maybe? After all he is the one who said Twilight was an inspiration...
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    Well, I brought it up because the original assertion was: If PS:T was ahead of it's time people would like it more then the BG series now days, which is not the case. To which you responded: Way more. Check the poll Obsidian made about which game PE we want PE to resemble more. If this was the case, there may be some level of vote splitting going on. (Granted, there's nothing stopping someone from voting for BG1/BG2 yet considering PST their #2 vote). Ah, i undertand. Well, the poll for the backers listed BG series as a whole, so we can't know. But most people like BG2 much more than BG, and generaly it's considered a better game. BG series wa first,PS:T close second, the rest way behind. But it's more propable the majority of people who voted BG series were voting for BG2.
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    In order to invent a believable "culture", whether you know anything about existing cultures or not, you will still require a deep understanding of why humans are pack animals, why we have evolved into a socially dependent species, why there is such a thing as 'group behavior', why we look up to leadership, and why and how we construct social phenomena around ourselves. Generally, you will need to study existing cultures in order to extrapolate such information, but it could potentially be done by studying either human psychology, or evolution, and extrapolate similar information. With a solid understanding of the fields/examples mentioned above, you can then lay down behavioral patterns, in a believable manner, to form a completely new culture with no connection to Earth's existing cultures, other than being recognizable to us as a human phenomena. You would follow the same pattern to invent "believable" magic. It annoys the hell out of me when fantasy books drop magic on you as a "snap-of-the-finger-makes-anything-happen", with no explanation whatsoever. I much prefer reading something that at least gives a remotely believable explanation to magic other than "it's magic". Project Eternity, fortunately, has souls/animancy, and what appears to be an entire school of meta-science behind it. Love it. I don't disagree. But a setting can be internaly consistent and believable, while being completely alien and pure fantasy. Being based in how reality works doesn't make something historical fiction
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    Good luck man! Good luck to who? Nightshape works on CDPR
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    I noticed you stated "the first BG." Where does BG2 rate on the list? First of course. And i was basing my opinion more on GoG best selling list. BG2 is first, and it more popular than PST, no one can say otherwise. But PST is second. It sells more than BG,IWDs or Fallouts. Not that GoG sales are the definite arbiter of older games popularity, but chances are PS:T aged better and is more liked nowdays than IWDs and BG1. BG2 is another matter.
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    Walking Dead only tried to do the story, PS:T tried to do both, as for KOTOR the gameplay was infinitely better. If PS:T was ahead of it's time people would like it more then the BG series now days, which is not the case. KotoR gameplay better? No Is more liked than the first BG and both IWDs. Way more. Check the poll Obsidian made about which game PE we want PE to resemble more.
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    Not no, Yes. Project Eternity is said to be comparable to around the 16th century of our world, technology wise, and for some of the societies. With some differences, because the developers are NOT trying to make an exact realism simulator, as you seem to suggest. I'm not geting involved in this, but PE is no historical fiction by any stretch of the word. Ziets in formspring said spesificaly that PE cultures are not real earth nations and cultures transplanted in a fantasy world like in Dragon Age.
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    RPGs are considered niche in the first place in the current marketplace. In an age that 3Mcopies is becoming the minimum to break even, the RPGs that are considered huge successes can be counted in your fingers. That's why from the Big publisers EA is the odd man out having an RPG division, and Bioware is struggling to keep up. Walking Dead sold way better than what was expected.
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    Walking Dead wants a talk with you. Back in the day RPGs were the hobby or D&D nerds. Even now it's the "old-school" crowd that is louder about 'gameplay above graphics/story/whatever" Now that you reach in a broader audience, games for gameplay aren't the rule anymore (sadly). You have an ever expanding audience that plays games strictly for the story and the characters (a large part of Obsidian,Bioware,CDPR audience),or eye candy and do every idiotic thing you can think of(Bethesda). Many fans of the mentioned companies in fact dislike the gameplay of their favorite games, but they love them anyway. Go to the Witcher forums. PS:T has a cult over there. As games are pushing to be more like movies,(or novels in Planscape's case), gameplay is starting to take the backseat. And quess what? The audience is there. KOTOR was following the same formula as PS:T, and was a success for Bioware. So the reason that PS:T wasn't because it focused on story. It was because it was ahead of it's time, had an unfamiliar setting when a more traditional would ease people in, and had ton of writing, when the people who like to read are the minority.Today that cutsceens had taken over the games, that "problem" is eliminated as all people like watching TV/movies.
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    Back in the day. By now? PS:T is the second best selling game on GoG, behind BG2. These games continue to sell strong 15 years after they were made. Sure, for a publiser nowdays that isn't something they want. All they care are the first week sales. But for a smaller studio lke inXile and Obsidian, making a game that is criticaly praised and have a long lifespan can sustain the studio.
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    That is true. He writes as a living, he is publised, so he is. How good he is is irrelevant. But a 14 book series, a "sprawling fantasy epic" with a "cast of thousands" etc.etc.etc. should not depend in sympathize with one single character, unless it's writen in first person. As for the impact named characters had in the story, i agree only to a point. My problem is that in most cases the amount of screen time some characters had, that was way more than their tiny role in the story. I agree that foreshadowing is the biggest strenght of Jordan's and there are layers in his series. That wasn't what i complained about. The amound of pages Jordan wastes is a cituation that doesn't changes and nothing importand happens. The whole thing should be two-three chapters max, not two books. Yes. But instead of Jordan leaving the character that doesn't do anything relevant out of the narrative or simply mention him and focus on the active one, he decided too strech the inactive one's arc so he has page time. That is the whole filler in WoT But this has gone long enough in this thread. Let's leave it for a book thread in off topic
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    So we are on topic after all? What you describe qualifies as a "cinematic experience"
  25. Malekith
    ...ye musta fergot yer MOD tag, did ya??... ...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!... Yes, but he is right about that. We have gone off-topic.
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