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Which is kind of ironic, Atari being the "Grand Old" console game maker One wonders how much weight a company like Atari puts on an asset like Goodwill, even if the actual unit sales met expectations (probably due to brand recognition). If the title did seem to receive some flak and moderate reviews, it might require more marketing to sell the next product to the same market ? Just curious. Especially since I'm trying to keep an open mind in my guessing both publisher and title for Delaware. Nothing seems certain yet, not even that it will be announced at E3

I didn't mean to imply that Atari has given up on D&D crpgs (too much $ involved), only that they might try another developer for the next game.

I think it was simply assumed when Bioware mentioned (on a press release on their site) that they get more offers from publishers than they can handle, and that they gave one of these to Obsidian. This was shortly after KotOR came out, I think. Ahh, I see So it might have something to do with the timing of the press release, while everybody was having Kotor on their mind. Isn't the human brain a funny thing ? Seriously though, Bioware have had a hand in most of the commercially successful crpgs the last 6-7 years, most of which (BG/NWN IP's) now have Atari as publisher. Does anybody know if the Lucas site/boards ever mentioned *anything* about a sequel ?

Nice to see, that I'm not the only one who loved IWD, IWD2 even more so (and thats from a Fallout fanboy). I'll look at a barrel the same way again, without wondering whether or not It looks "Smug". If people don't appreciate the humour of the game, their loss. I giggled loudly when my priest of Bane gave a motivating speach to the milita Lets see, what do we know or can at least reasonably assume: Kotor2 will be made by somebody ($) BG3 will be made by somebody ($) Somebody is going to slap the Fallout3 tag on some game ($) Bioware is currently fed up with other peoples IP, but working on some pc game (Jade Empire?) Interplay doesn't do PC games in the immediate future (without influence) Atari has PR representatives that get "silenced" for mentioning BG3/NWN2 (owns interesting licenses, burnt their hands on Troika and crpgs) Feel free to add to the list, an interesting puzzle. What I *would* like to know is, where did the Kotor2/Obsidian rumour originate from ? Never seen anything even "semi-official". The only press releases so far suggested that there was a thing going between Bioware and Obsidian, which somebody here (can't remember who) tried to downplay. Has anybody here ever seen anything to actually suggest that it's Kotor2, or does everybody assume that it is so because "everybody else" think it is so ? Kind of like a mob mentality when people start thinking collectively

I still prefer my favourite conspiracy theory, that they were working on BG3 for Atari, and now can't announce it because the license is/was disputed and Atari lost

Inertplay is very good at scrapping halffinished projects

37 actually. Started when I was 19 B)

I suppose we aren't even allowed to know who the publishers are? In some cases, the name of the publisher would either be a giveaway of the game title. or at least narrowing it down to more credible rumours. Example. if the publisher is Lucas, no bonuspoints for guessing Kotor2. If the publisher is Atari, you could narrow it down to 2-3 titles which would be sequels to popular brands (BG, NWN etc.) or if none of the above, it would ruin the diversion that lets people guess wildly (and wrongly) on the name of the game that is Delaware. Once the name is revealed, watch this space for speculations on why it was necessary to keep it secret

*Raising hand* Been there, done that for 18 years: Comal 80, Pascal, Delphi, Gnu C, Gnu C++ (g++), Smalltalk, Forth, 10+ differenct basic dialects, 8/16/32 bit asm, 4th gen. platforms, Proprietary stuff on mainframes, Modula 2, html, xml, asp, logo, fortran, bash, perl, lisp etc. Can't remember having done Cobol though... weird These days I'm mostly doing design and prototyping though.

Good thing I'm not a Kiwi then... I just live there (a stranger in a strange land) B)

That would explain Fo:BOS, pre-pubescent masturbation substitute. Their parents probably didn't allow them to buy it, which explains the questionable sales...

Skulking across the plains, clutching a sharpened screwdriver, cometh Gorth! And he gives a cruel grunt: "I'm going to hump you until your rump glows!" :D

Finishing Van Buren is a nice dream... exactly that, a nice dream. So is raising the Titanic, a nice dream, but only that. I probably cry more tears for Jefferson though, as I know preciously little about the content and game mechanics of Van Buren, so It's only the dream of whatever my imagination fills in the blanks with in a possible Fallout 3, that's giving me moist eyes. *sniff*

Rune was in Third person... Urghh... so it is. Bad memory (blame it on my age )

Its a co-production between Lucas and EA... EA Sports: Light Saber fencing world series 2004

Sounds like you should try Rune instead of crpg's. It's a very good FPS (First Person Slasher) with sword and axe combat. Weapons can be wielded or thrown. Bonuses for chopped off heads and limbs, and severed limbs can be wielded as clubs (I tried beating an opponent to death with his own arm once) :D

It definitely gives Charisma - 1 penalty Perhaps also a Constitution - 1 for a couple of days... Edit: Unfortunately, I don't have an image editing program at hand that works with animated gifs... otherwise I *could* have given my avatar a pink sheen

My vote says it all... (Huh?)

Me ? Currently living and working in Wellington NZ. Most recently spent a weekend in Sydney. Finally got a much requested sunburn (looks like a lobster now) B)

You are HK-47. A droid with a mission (mission, not Mission), if you could just remember what that mission is... Oh yes, kill meatbags, find master B) Would make a nice competitor for FO:BOS

All he saw was a naked "ass" ?

I don't mind console rpg's out of principle. Actually, I don't really mind console games. My "grief", based on my experiences is just that they get ported badly, leaving pc users with a feel of "missing something". Hard to describe really. I would have loved to see games like Resident Evil and Dino Crisis with some proper graphics, mouse controls and save game features (unnecessary limitations). My problem with FFVIII (my only brief encounter with jrpg) might just as well have been an age thing, being unable to relate to the problems of children and teenagers. By the gods of my ancestors, how I wanted to put that Squall guy (was that his name ? Referred to in my mind as Squeal) over my knees and spank his attitude problems out of him. The setting itself, without knowing the history of it seemed quite ok. While Kotor "smells" like console, at least they hide it very well behind a piece of quality entertainment. Nice controls, nice gfx, no save game limitations. I loved the game, currently playing it through the third time. Now if they would just make PS:T in that engine... Edit: Honestly, who would mind seeing Annah's tail rendered in the Odysseus engine ?

Action type games seems to be predominant here (with the possible exception of Akari), so are we to assume that these guys don't like/play crpgs ? Or is it just that quality crpgs are in short supply and you are doing something about it (please ?)

Yes, tried the pc version... Not all of us have the benefit of japanese girls to get aquainted with cultures from the other side of the world, not that I would mind trying it out