Diogo Ribeiro

No thanks.

Portuguese women are a bit like Daikatana. They suck and blow, in more ways than one >_>

It basically feels like Sim Earth meets EVO - The Search for Eden. 'Meh' for now. Not that I didn't like both those games, but I'll believe it when I play it.

True. Note that I didn't question the possible reasons behind it, I'm sure they were good or even out of necessity. Just saying what in there feels rushed to me.

And because roleplaying takes a hit. And because most, if not all, subesequent areas are inflated with mostly unecessary combat. This isn't rushed in the "glitch" and "unfinished content showing up where it shouldn't" sense, it's rushed in the "ok, it's near the end, let's just make the player kill a couple of hundreds of things so it gets labelled as epic and challenging". Different perspectives. It's your prerogative to have that one, and it's mine to have a different one. To me, if a game who averages a healthy dose of combat and roleplaying suddenly drops most of its roleplaying and focuses much more on combat towards its end, it's a signal of not enough balanced development. The focus becomes uneven, and the way to end feels much more less developed and rushed.

My point is basically that. Towards the ending we're treated to either a much lesser focus on story or a growing focus on combat areas which serve no purpose other than to delay progress and give an artificial challenge to players. Sometimes both. In BIS titles, or titles made by former BIS devs, like Fallout 2, Planescape, Vampire Bloodlines, and KoTOR2, its there. On differing levels, but there nonetheless.

That's development, not creation.

Is it a BIS curse? Who can tell? Stay tuned with us as we unravel another part of the mystery in our next episode of the bone-chilling terror series "Their Games Felt Rushed Towards Their Endings". :ph34r:

Black and white violence perpetrated by a bulky man of small words but big feelings.

Saw the trailer some time ago. Looks nifty. Am eagerly waiting for it. Or for any comic book-based movie that doesn't suck, for that matter.

For some reason I find it terribly appealing.

Unfortunately I can't seem to find that album here. I've been searching everywhere and nothing. I'm only going to wait a couple more months and then it's back to mass ordering at Amazon. Anyway, right now it's This Town Needs Guns by They Speak With Strange Accents.

That should teach Marvel a thing or two.

Faster, off of "The Holy Bible", by the Manic Street Preachers.

Different versions of Lithtech, wasn't it? By the time they had gotten the thing to work on a given build, the new version just demanded more and more reworking on the thing.

One can never have enough of those.

I only know Koontz's "House of Thunder". Pretty entertaining back then, but I've forgotten much of it by now.

Speaking of which I managed to find Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. I promptly bought it, though I'm sure I'll be losing something in the translation from english to portuguese.

How strangely unerotic.

But how does this invalidate that they, in fact, constitute a party? Does a party of adventurers only become as such only if and when their AI is satisfactory? Would an opposing group of enemies be considered only a group of enemies, instead of a party, because they has weak AI? This to me seems to be the equivalent of suggesting that, under the same game, a party of 5 characters with poor AI, and the same party with advanced AI, are labeled as different things, simply because of the disparaging levels of AI routines available to them.

Megaman and Ninja Gaiden 3 = teh pwn as well.

Some out of my hazy memory: William Gibson, "Neuromancer", "Mona Lisa Overdrive" J. G. Ballard, "Crash", "The Atrocity Exhibition", "High Rise" Jos

Probably.... Metroid Super Mario Bros 2 and 3 Castlevania 1, 2 and 3 Zelda Contra (basically the only game my father ever played together with me... the memories, they burn) Bubble Bobble Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I blame God and his cruelty towards kittens.

This.