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Disney and EA sign multi-year Star Wars deal
BURBANK & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) and Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced a new multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish globally new games based on Star Wars characters and storylines.
Under the agreement, EA will develop and publish new Star Wars titles for a core gaming audience, spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres, while Disney will retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile, social, tablet and online game categories.
“This agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating quality game experiences that drive the popularity of the Star Wars franchise for years to come,” said John Pleasants, Co-President of Disney Interactive. “Collaborating with one of the world’s premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to our fans around the world.”
“Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe,” said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. “Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans. DICE and Visceral will produce new games, joining the BioWare team which continues to develop for the Star Wars franchise. The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay.”
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Obsidian loses out - again.
And so do we.
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If you want to play the game, wouldn't you be doing a better job of demonstrating that the preorder bonus is a bad idea if you bought the game, sans preorder bonus?
I likely won't get it at release, unless they do something massively to change my mind, because of my aforementioned doubt. By the time I *might* get around to it Wasteland 2 and D:OS will be released. So I guess I'll get it in the bargain bin unless it gets raving reviews (that is, raving reviews from people that matter, the disqualifies most major gaming press right there
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High heels aren't very practical, but people still wear them 'cause they look nice. Same reason someone would choose to wear an enchanted mail bikini that provides the same protection as a full suit of plate (which is what centurion was asking about).
What, they want to look sexy for the orcs they're murdering? Give me a break.
That said, the idea of a character whose power in battle is directly proportionate to how sexy she (or he!) thinks she looks is kind of awesome.
I'm pretty sure Dream was referring to why women wear high heals irl.
For bystanders it provides added hilarity, we have a lot of cobblestones over here, I'll leave the rest to your imagination...
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This is really coming along nicely.
I am really on the fence on this one. The concept looks really nice, but...they jumped on the "bad pre-order bonuses" bandwagon AND it appears to be designed for consoles (or at least controllers)... Getting a crippled game puts me off of buying a regular copy after release (and reviews) and the second puts me off of pre-ordering. I might hold out until a GOTY edition or somesuch, assuming they put in the stuff they cut out as pre-order bonus.
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I tried to make a ninja dojo simulation for the iphone. Got an average review score of 1.75
Except for the iPhone part that actually does sound awesome...
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This difference between the late 90s golden age and this possible "upcoming" golden age is that the "upcoming" one is a throwback to the original. In the late 90s, it was still pushing new things.
I'm more eager to see what new things come down the pipe with the Kickstarters, rather than promises of going back to the "good old days."
Swen Vincke said something along the same lines in one of his interviews (iirc he actually said that a lot of innovative idea "lines" from the "last golden age" as you call it have just died and are waiting for someone to pick them up and continue experimenting with them). I suspect that once we have the "classic genres" back that the big publishers dropped because they weren't mainstream enough we'll start seeing more experimentation again. While Dragon Commander at first didn't seem like my cup of tea I consider it a start in that direction (from what I understood you plan conquest turn based, actual battles are rts but you can hop into the fray turning it into more of a fps and somewhere in there is also a lot of politics)
Kickstarter isn't really a storefront though.
But you are right that it doesn't guarantee excellent games; odds are there will be some stinkers that get made (and good games that don't get funded).
I think that this way less good games end up not getting funded than with big publishers, so it's still a win in the end
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I don't normally care about "Achievements", but I noticed the Legacy thing keeps track of all kinds of stuff. Unfortunately the "tracker" window seems completely stuff
Tacking achievement:
-1231.43234.4322.334
0, 0, 1 - Wonkability
Etc (not made up it really write stuff that looks like developer comments).
I've also got achievements that have 70 out 80 completed, yet each individual component is 100% solved. That's going to be a bit hard getting the remaining 10 points
There are things that were removed after beta and never added back in but afaik still count as "requirements" to completion of certain things.
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The Esseles (republic) and Black Talon (imperial) are probably the flashpoints that are more story-centric, dialogue, and have potential choices that change how they play out.
The majority of the rest are pretty much the same regardless of whether you're playing Imp or Rep - Except the story specific Revan related paired flashpoints that crop up around level 33-36.
Although I will say it is surprisingly satisfying to finally be able to shoot Grand Moff Kilran in the face.
I find it sufficiently lame we don't get to do the same to any of the Republic bigshots (that I noticed), I smell a bias, raaage!
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?Shovelware is the new AAA.
EDIT: kidding aside, I see this is a Spiders game who worked on Of Orcs and Men so I should check this out (although Cyanide wrote the story for that game).
Of Orcs and Men has some really nasty DRM (apparently most Cyanide games do) which is why I've stayed well away from it for now. Maybe I'll pick it up when (if ever) it appears on GOG.
I have a boxed copy of Of Orcs and Men, and it merely uses Steamworks.
I think you've just been lucky to not hit the limit yet.
See Steam forums here
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* The fighting and RPG systems are sort of like something along the lines of The Witcher 2.
I must be one of few to consider the combat being compared to Witcher 2 to be a bad thing. How bad depends on whether you mean fighting before or after they patched Witcher 2...
Shovelware is the new AAA.
EDIT: kidding aside, I see this is a Spiders game who worked on Of Orcs and Men so I should check this out (although Cyanide wrote the story for that game).
Of Orcs and Men has some really nasty DRM (apparently most Cyanide games do) which is why I've stayed well away from it for now. Maybe I'll pick it up when (if ever) it appears on GOG.
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It's definitely better than: <company name> has stupid idea, <company name> is told idea is stupid, <company name> goes through with it anyway, <company name> keeps insisting stupid idea was great idea. That scenario has happened all too often.CDP has stupid idea, CDP realises is stupid idea.
Good times.
Buddhists say there are 3 steps to wrong doing:
Step 1: Thinking about it
Step 2: Doing it
Step 3: Celebrating it
The sooner you stop the less damage that is done. I commend CD Projekt RED for stopping at Step 1.
I can't resist but add "...this time" to that last sentence while pointing at Witcher 2.
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There's other games out there designed for this kind of gameplay, check those out instead of trying to get every good feature into one game, because down that path lies madness.
Madness? That's a little bit over the top. A MP in style of the Infinity Engine games would probably not change the gameplay in a big way.
Of course there enough examples of games that suffered from a misguided focus an Multiplayer.
But the Infinity games never had the problem.
Personally I thought multiplayer in the IE games was pretty terrible.
On the other hand. Divinity Original Sins Kickstater finished.
If anyone wants a classical Coop CRPG then that game seems to be the perfect fit.
All the pre alpha coop footage showed a very interesting coop focused crpg concept.
I didn't want to play the Larian shill too much, but that was what I was thinking about when I mentioned games designed for co-op. Imho turn based combat works a lot better for this than a bunch of people fighting to pause the game.
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I grabbed E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy in some Steam sale a while back, seemed rather interesting. Alas, it probably needs a 500page manual to make any sense at all. Me and IGN don't usually see eye to eye (no pun intended) but this time I agree with them.
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CDP has stupid idea, CDP realises is stupid idea.
Good times.
I guess miracles do happen. Occasionally.
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Has anyone heard of Mars: War Logs before? It seems to be an action RPG of some kind. Looks very cool in the trailers, but I have not heard anything about it until now (saw it on Steam).
A former guildie of mine bought it yesterday. So waiting to hear an opinion from him.
Keep us updated, it *looked* interesting and user reviews on MetaCritic are positive so far (as are the Steam forums), but it wouldn't be the first time all those were gamed...
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Wanted to try out Rift again, but apparently they locked my account after yet another security breach back when my account was already lapsing and they only allow resets by phone (because I of course don't remember my security questions)
So I guess I won't be doing any business with Trion until they fix that. Oh well. Yet another publisher I don't even need to bother with anymore, money/time saved and all.
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I'll be glad it's over; deleting these daily Kickstarter updates form my mailbox was getting annoying.
But you do know that there is something called "e-mail filters"? So why complaining about something you could stop on your own with just one or two clicks.....
I think it's a sort of hidden compliment about the regularity of the updates.
Also I think I'm gonna add $150 for fanday after all...
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To me, in this case, they have made a bunch of moves, and have taken some out that is only accessible if you pre-order. My guess is they are probably neater than your average moves. Considering this is an action game with lots of fighting (it appears)...
Or they made a bunch of moves, they are nervous because "games with female protagonists don't sell" (which IIRC was mentioned in an article specific to this game having to fight to have a female protagonist) and decided to create some super special moves related to SFII that will maybe encourage fans to pre-order so they can sleep at night rather than worry about the game tanking.
But realistically - to me at least - if the game has 20 different move combinations that you can build into 125,000 different 10 move combinations*...are you really going to miss 3 more moves to use?
As far as Jade Empire goes, there was a significant difference between the release dates of the XBox version, and the PC version. I remember because i kept holding out for the PC version, it just wasn't coming so I bought the XBox version thinking it was never coming. Then of course some time later I heard about the PC version finally coming out. 2 years is a significant amount of time for me to accept that what was added to the PC version didn't get ripped off from me in the XBox version.
How did Jade Empire play for the PC? My wanting it then for the PC was based on how much more I enjoyed the PC version of KOTOR to the XBox version, and I bought the XBox for the sole purpose of playing KOTOR. When i finally did get JE for the XBox, I was glad because I felt the RT action suited itself better with a controller, vs the K/M of CTBw/P of KOTOR. Did JE have controller support? Fable 1 for PC just doesn't play right with me with the K/M. I've even had a hard time getting a setup with Xpadder that I'm happy with.
I played JE on the keyboard and it was fine - but I was familiar with the game, so I'm not sure my experience is the same as someone coming in with no experience in the game at all. Really used it more because its a game with different weapons/fighting styles in each version, but IMO neither feels inferior to the other. There are plenty of other choices in the game to satisfy the player (ie Me in this case). I should play it again on PC (my Xbox being boxed in storage as it is).
*I have no clue how the system will actually work, I'm just saying if you have a bunch of options that satisfactorily achieve the intended experience, why are you going to miss 3 moves? Unless you're a Guile, Ryu or Chun-Li player, i guess...
I played JE first time with a kb/mouse and it worked great. I never even considered getting a controller (I hate those things for anything but racegames tbh)
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I haven't really been keeping up, did they just get like 200k in 2 days?
Yup, I'd never have thought given how slow things started out. Keyrock's unwavering faith has shamed us all!
Would be pretty insane if they managed to 1m goal too...
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Weresheep is like a funny once joke. Much as a wool sweater, it will wear thin.
Weresheep is like a funny once joke. Much as a wool sweater, it will wear thin.
Agreed. People should start to get over it already as it's well in the process of becoming annoying.
Oh, but it's much worse than that. It was itchy already at the get-go. You immediately get it under your skin and then you have been infected with the weresheep madness. It's like a beautiful drug with side effects that you are happy with. In short, the weresheep are a cool Larian-smitten bunch that loves a great CRPG when they see one. Beware, it's quite contagious! BAAH!
Oh, I see the appeal. No question about it. It just seems (to me, personally) that this thing is starting to go a bit overboard, from a neat little joke to a repetitive "not-this-again" one. But yeah, BAAH.
Oh it's only on the foreground this much due to the KS, I'm sure it'll die down quite a bit once the KS ends. Until the next time they do something, I'm pretty sure it'll resurface...
Also companions!!!!!!!!! Partyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
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Really on the fence about fan day, I mean, it's like next door, but $150 on top of all the other expenses I've made lately (damn you kickstarter) is kinda, not cheap.
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Beware of the weresheep! Beware of the court of Andavale!
I can't help but wonder what/who Andavale is a reference to...
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There weresheep have officially made it into the game lore!
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I'm a sucker for good narration and atmosphere. So besides the obvious recommendation of PS:T, I'd go for IWD. It's beautiful to behold and to listen to, and it just plays well. Also, it has combat that's as good as it gets in a AD&D 2e game.
IWD2 is a bit tedious to play, does not look as good as it should - lots of garish colours, a mixture of aliased and blurred renderings, and nasty contrasts. Also, while in principle the story is interesting as far as the villains' motivations go, it never really gripped me.
I've stopped caring for the Baldur's Gate games by now, just not my cup of tea anymore. I've played BG 1 as one of the first games and it really got me into role playing (pen and paper as well), but after a few replays it just feels stale and flawed.
Got to admit I only ever finished BG1 once. Now BG2 on the other hand. I lost a big part of my life to that game...and I'd still play parts of it with pleasure, though the Irenicus dungeon, Sahuagin City and the Underdark are pretty much just tedious by now (especially since you're *stuck* there until you're done with them I guess).
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Don't hold your breath for the ending imho.
It's a good game an-sich, but as a Tomb Raider game, I dunno. I'm rather ambivalent towards this one.