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^ That's a problem with communications more than with the concept. Frankly, the Souls games could benefit significantly from a traditional map or minimap, from a functional journal/quest log, not to mention difficulty through good AI rather than "i have tons of HP while you die in 2 hits"...

Questions: 1) Will there be a thread for submissions, or will each submission have a separate thread? 2) What's the final word on including/not including JRPGs, MMOs and "fringe-genre" games (e.g. Borderlands, FONV, Deus Ex, Diablo etc.)?

Well, I'm sure he could be made into a decent melee build, but that's not what I want to play atm. Started playing as the Commando instead, seems a bit more fun. The constant "Cool story bro!"-ing is absolutely @#@%ing annoying though. :roll: The writers for this game should be put against...

Maybe I should consider switching classes then, because I'm not too satisfied with Zero so far. Picked him cause he's the most similar to the BL1 Siren class, but it's just not the same. The combination of his love for sniper rifles with the special ability that heavily favors melee is also...

Giving a shot to Borderlands 2. Kind of disappointed thus far. I know, the writing in the first game wasn't exactly mature, and was very campy, but the new game is just ridiculously juvenile, it's something the 13-year-old son of my friends would giggle at. Guess they settled for a new target...

They already did that in NWN2. Except that they just limited the speed of animations, and the game would still register the multiple hits. Worked OK, I thought. EDIT: The above post is brilliant :clap:

@TheWesDude: I think that suggestion is impractical, because we'll have to argue to death which game fits which category. Where does BG1/2 fit? Same mechanics as IWD, but some people would consider it also similar to FO and PST. NWN2 OC is more of a h&s game, but MotB is more like a "hardcore...

To be fair, I don't think it's appropriate to say "fantasy has been done to death". It's a fairly diverse genre, and perhaps only a small portion of it managed to saturate the gaming market. "Post-apocalyptic sci-fi" has been done to death as well, but you don't dismiss W2 based on that, do you...

Hey, he played FO1! Maybe he is an ultra-conservative NMAer who thinks that FO2 is the game that ruined the franchise :lol:

Not really, no. In fact, I think one would be hard-pressed to find games that'd belong in both camps. There are a handful, but they are very few. Besides, geographical origin as a distinguishing feature is non-negotiable... I do agree that there's no reason to treat aRPGs separately...

Well, I'm only ~4 hours in so far on this toon, so the equipment pretty much comes to me. I've picked up the mace from suicide undead cemetery runs, and a "hollow soldier shield" which is a little bit superior to the basic one from the start. Everything else pretty much came with the starter...

Well, one reason first thing I do is rush for the pick-up point so I don't die in some silly fashion in the process :lol: And hey, couple thousand souls is petty change, and I see very little reason to carry souls around so far, just spend em first chance I get. If there's platforming in the...

Well, after a slew of third-party fixes applied and programs downloaded, the game went from unplayable to bearable to good-looking and fun. I'm still as clumsy as ever with the right stick camera, but at least the buttons on my gamepad do what they're supposed to now, and the graphics look...

Haha, best suggestion so far :lol: And then they uncover that the new IP is a FPS-action-MMO or something :roll:

I'd definitely like to see that :D The "3" definitely means something, makes me wonder if it's another sequel Obsidian decided to pick up...

I would be at least curious to see that. With the quality of the original game in mind, it shouldn't be too hard to make a decent sequel.

The combat, yeah. The engine itself though, and the bugs. Though to be fair I'm not technically competent enough to claim it's the fault of the engine rather than the fact that they got so little time to work with it. It did take modders years to get the game to a playable state though, and even...

I feel like we've had this discussion before, but I still think that if one wanted to maximize character interaction and then went on to rely mostly on gambits, it's like shooting yourself in the foot. I played with a minimal amount of gambits and customized most actions, and I didn't have that...

Like half of the story-focused FF games have that problem. The protagonist is either too obnoxious or too whiny. Zidane is probably the only bearable FF protagonist, although he isn't really deep either. As for OP's query, JRPGs basically evolved from early versions of PnP games, so if...

Tried it for about an hour so far; great atmosphere, and decent looks once the res patch is applied. But damn, this make the old Capcom ports look playable. I guess it's on par with the DMC3:SE port in crappiness. And then game companies complain that the PC market is this and that, pirates...