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And maybe I loosely compared dota to an rpg and because of your closed minded ideas on what this project should be you didn't even see any possibilities of what I was talking about. Maybe because I didn't preorder the game 2 years in advance from kick starter idk. Sometimes it seems like you guys have been playing solely these games for 15 years.

You all funded a spiritual successor and most of that spirit was an art style the games are honestly meh.

I hate to tell you there is a lot to learn about balance from other games than just your bg's or your dragon ages. Your all so in the box.

How is it totally different you level up skills and get items sounds like a basic crpg to me. And fits as a good way to look at balance and how to balance things. If you would prefer we can keep looking at the bg series for balance options.

U pay for a unity license and can produce as many games as you want with it and why when you QA would you need more licenses wouldn't you package it up and run it as opposed to doing it in the engine especially since I wouldn't want QA testers access to variables and numbers they could change all willy nilly

Yup. All those MMO's where, due to PvP every class is just a clone of the other. It's the worst thing imaginable (and also why most MMO's are really bad, this PvP balance making them more and more symetrical and less fun to play per patch). Let's not wring a fun system with that kind of MMO clone balance. A completely pvp oriented mmo game dota2 very balanced very diverse in Heroes. It's a system that uses soft and hard counters which most of you argue against.

Guild wars 2 did more wrong than right IMO

That post was not directed at obsidian in any way

Gdc != e3 gdc is a conference for developers to share with each other. E3 is an expo for publishers to show off shinies to journalists.

Getting the ads out is a small part of marketing finding out which ads return the most money and which ads have tapered off with returns this is someone's full time job This is 1 reason to go with a publisher

Lol really people are stupid what a great way to operate a business that is so logical

Interestingly, they seem to have "borrowed" spell ideas specifically from 2nd edition D&D as implemented in BG1 / BG2 / IWD1. At least I don't see anything resembling some of the more unique IWD2 and PST spells in there... PoE is supposed to be a spiritual successor to those games too, isn't it? Also, a few more spells based on creative never-done-before ideas would be nice. I'd especially love some spells that interact with the physical surroundings to allow environment-aware tactics, as those are all too rare and there's still lots of potential for innovation there. And don't tell me that kind of stuff is too difficult to implement; the creators of BG managed to make the projectiles from the "Lightning Bolt" spell bounce off walls and damage everything in their path back in 1998 with the primitive Infinity Engine. In 2014 with the Unity Engine, it should be easy. There's a spell that throws boulders and when hits solid objects explodes sounds exactly like what your looking for

They said that we would have buffs that add fire damage to attacks so I would assume that we can add other things to like maybe a per rest that would dispell magic or a silence So there might not even be special arrows like that Sorry for no punctuation doing this on phone at work

I'll throw a bone the settings of the two games are very different so I don't think that a lot of art asset sharing will happen and shouldn't.

There's an article for you all to read imma find a link a little later

If you want it just get on release stop waiting for steam sales they are hurting the industry as a whole.

..... I clearly said in my post "give us mod tools they made for themselves to help make the game". I also clearly said I wasn't asking for them to make tools they didn't already make for their own benefit or create resources for modders specifically. What I am asking for costs them not 1 cent, and the only time they need to invest is uploading the tool then making a link to it on a webpage. Meanwhile Obsidian's lack of a promise doesn't mean crap. If you want to win people over you have to do more than say "well I didn't promise that so...". Either they made some tools for their own use or they didn't. If they did put them out there for modders. If they didn't well gee golly willakers all they have to do is say that and it is a non issue isn't it? Meanwhile I sure hope you expect this game to be more than just what was "promised". For example they didn't "promise" it would be bug free or even playable. Only that it would be a game containing XYZ elements. So I have a unity license yes please obsidian release the tech you and your team made so I can "mod" project eternity. That's what Im gonna do with it I swear only Poe not my own projects.

It is those little things that take a good game to a great game remember the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little bit extra

How slow are we talking will I be able to see a fireball coming at me and scatter my party in time with a custom scattered formation? And will the casting animations be diverse enough for me to judge what's coming before hand? 3rd edit thank you josh

Because it's a real-time game and I only have one character. The rest are teammates, not brainless zombies. I don't mind controlling the whole party in ToEE, but that's turn-based. Lot's of things happening simultaneously, I can just see the gameplay being *pause* give lots of orders *unpause* watch the battle progress for a second *pause* repeat And yeah, Dragon Age: Origins is a lot better game than BG2 in terms of gameplay, plot or characters, actually in any terms I can think of right now. That's why party based RPGs with this many skills is better suited to turn based. Pause, give orders unpause, wait for round to end, pause, get board and just watch auto attack do the rest. Why play a party based game with the ability to make own companions if you are just gonna have ai do all the work That's why I'm hoping this combat slow thing they talked about is still in, and key binds let me key bind everything I have great dexterity. That would be fun combat

Yes, "spiritual successor" = "perfect copy", even the words are pretty much the same. Really between Torment: ToN and this I've now heard several dozens of reasons why each game can't call itself a spiritual successor, all of which mostly boil down to "*thing* I liked in previous game is not the same in this game therefor I am now outraged". Anyway, since the chances for any kind of Multiplayer for the initial release are slim to none I guess you and your friends will be saving some money, 'gratz. And the things that they are crying about were some of the worste parts of the game

You can publish with unity free as long as annual revinues are under 100 k

I read the first point by the op and in my mind based on how other threads go in this forum group and decided to just make my point. When you are basically in the heat of battle constantly against a lich or dire bears or sword bees there is to much adrenaline going threw you for this supposed love hormone to be in the fore front. Any sexual contact made by the pc would not harbor love but lust. I would however like if they made a character arc were one of your team members was just a slam pig. Thank you for your time

I got threw 5 pages and stopped so sorry if some said this already. What if the summoned demon or w/e didn't have and abilities on its own but the Mage would have to cast spells for it to do its thing like a fire ele having a minor aoe burn around it, or a earth golem to stun an enemy. These spell would be cast by Mage and exicuted by summon. This solves balance issues with Mage being strong then having summons. The issue with progression as a summoner learn new abilities for summons. And the issue of a boring class that just sits the casts spell at beginning and does nothing but sling attacks

If your computer alerted you of a virus, but you weren't done browsing r/aww yet, would taking care of the virus anyway make you its bitch? Yes