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I still want to know who's troll account this was. I'm beginning to believe maybe GuardDog's theory about it being Pop's was correct. I wouldn't put it past him. And no problem, Gina. It's a brilliant video and I think everyone should take the time to watch it one day.

It's like $5 on Good Old Games.

Hi cronicler, Could you please try to make sense in future? Regards, Forum Goers.

I've been curious about this for a while, if the publishing/advertising is Sega's job, why does the developer company have a marketing person/staff (Mr Rorie)? Sega could just as well send someone over and ask what you think the guy should emphasize in interviews, no? And no, I'm not implying he should get fired, before some genius asks. -.- Obsidian is still an independent company. Sega doesn't own them. As such they need people to manage their brand - people like Rorie.

I always wondered if I believe I can summon things by thinking about them, and if everyone else thinks no one is supposed to be able to do this, then wouldn't the belief of the majority negate the minority? But you see, you are actively thinking about summoning things, whereas the majority is actively NOT thinking about anything. Only when the object of your creation finally appears does the majority notice, and then it's "How did that happen?" not "That violates the laws of physics and I don't believe it!"

Tigranes is statistically the least offensive person on any given forum.

Please do it.

I hope they're moderating your face while they're at it.

Welcome to the forums!

Get up at 7:30. It's raining. Have shower. Get out. Realise it's 8:55. Skip breakfast. Walk to work in the rain. Arrive 5 minutes late. Starve. Miss lunch because you only have 6 hour shift. Finish work at 2pm. Can't go home because you have a Discrete Maths for 2 hours. Die.

My list would be: Portal Jazz Jackrabbit 1/2 Jedi Knight 2 Worms 2 Icewind Dale 1 KOTOR1 Age of Empires 1 Age of Empires 2 Giants: Citizen Kabuto Beyond Good and Evil Deus Ex 1 Half-Life 1 Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines Baldur's Gate 1 Planescape: Torment Quake 3: Arena Fallout 1 Fallout 2 MotB? (am still in NWN2 OC) Diablo 1 Diablo 2 System Shock 2 No One Lives Forever 1 Jagged Alliance 2 Warcraft 3/DotA/Tower Defence I haven't played any of the Thief series, or Grim Fandango. I've probably also missed a few awesome games I own.

They have stated that it will be a new IP. A part of me want's to be cross at them for not making a Starcraft MMO. Then again they might still create a Science-Fiction based setting (Probably not a Space-Opera setting thou ) instead of a Fantasy setting so the Sci-Fi nerd in me is still hopeful. Considering they're making Diablo 3, and would be sick of making Warcraft games, and have only just gotten back into Starcraft games, I think there's good money on it being science fiction.

I think they could have. If a few things went differently. Imagine if they did. Countries like Cuba, North Korea, Iran, China etc would be the norm (or worse). Democracy would be a dream. Would an Axis win be a world state that we could recover from? Maybe it'd take another 200 or 300 years.

I wasn't talking about that.

Adding silly and meaningless dialogue options and requiring you to play the game once before they're even available is a gimmick, sure. The only interesting part mentioned is making the game more difficult, but personally I'd prefer Obsidian do that via AI improvements - and I certainly shouldn't have to have already played the game once to unlock an actually difficult mode. I'm rather concerned about their claims that they had to dumb the AI down because it was too good. Are we going to get NWN2 style boringness?

I thought it sounded like a pretty lame gimmick.

It occurs to me that Objectivism is roughly interchangeable with sociopathy.

I am going to read Catch-22 and I don't care what any of you have to say about it!

Best rating scale ever, IMHO. Forces user to actually read review, prevents much bias, and gets rid of a lot of reviewer subjectivity.

Ew. Edit: Sorry, but... ew. I guess it means one less forum to moderate, right? Heh.

Sounds a bit... lame. But then if you don't talk to Sie right, she attacks you, so there are some bad choices. My thoughts exactly. Hopefully they implement this better than they describe it, because if not... bleh. Bad choices exist. Don't pretend otherwise. You can still make a stunning RPG with bad choices (and indeed, perhaps only with bad choices). C.f. Deus Ex, Planescape: Torment.

AP does seem to have a rank system though. I noticed that in some of the dev diaries Mike has "spy" and other assorted titles. I'm pretty sure those are more like Fallout traits/perks.

The other possibility is that a lot of game reviewers don't know what they are talking about or they are not playing the games with a critical eye. I mean, how else can you explain a absolutely horrible game like Oblivion getting such insanely high scores. But yeah, game reviews are highly suspect, I think. Generally speaking of course. There will always be exceptions. You both make good points. I completely avoid game reviews these days. A total waste of time trying to sort the gems (rare) from the trash (common).

I guess that's why PC games have been a consistent growth industry for almost their entire existence (especially the past few years), right? Because they don't sell too well these days? Damn I'm sick of the misinformation surrounding the PC game industry. It's not a ****ing zero-sum game because not only are the Western markets (Canada, America, Western Europe, Australia, etc) not saturated yet, but you've got the developing countries (Brazil, Poland, Russia, etc) all getting into video games at roughly the same time and they are definitely not choosing consoles.

If they don't make BG&E2 there will be blood.