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Almost all his examples are from the nineties and he only ever mentions games from the nineties and eighties, with the exception of The Elder Scrolls (which had installments in the nineties) and Wizardry 8, a game that came out in like 2001. He outright says he wants it to play like Wizardry...

Did you guys actually read the article? He's not comparing 1980's-era RPG combat to contemporary RPG combat, he's comparing 1980's-era menu based combat with the nineties, which was arguably the golden age of CRPGs. To be honest I kind of agree with him. Wasteland's combat kinda stanks...

Onyx supposedly emphasizes stability, scalability and optimization over everything else. So if they do use it for Wasteland 2 I don't think it'll be a huge deal. It seems like the engine was kind of developed specifically in response to the most common criticisms of Obsidian games. It's a...

Obsidian hasn't developed an old school isometric game because there hasn't really been any call for it from publishers and they can't just make money appear. But if you look at their work some clear trends emerge. First, they're interested in reactivity. Alpha Protocol, for instance, is...

It's not so much a crisis as a slow decline. Look at EA. Their revenue is down and their net income is negative. But they're losing less money than they were previously and they're not really going anywhere. THQ is still in the black but their revenue is shrinking. Ditto for Atari and Ubisoft...

Why should they? I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, and I'm going to kick in some money after pay day, but I'm pretty sure that in dollars spent for dollars earned, something like Mass Effect is still a better investment. The major publishers might be seeing shrinking revenues because of...

Supposedly the engine's really retarded about how it handles memory in general though, hence the need for the LAA Executables. Also IIRC the engine is missing some pretty basic features that were finally added in Skyrim (occlusion culling, for instance) which puts way more pressure on the...

The thing about Skyrim is that it has a lot of 'epic' quests with oodles of story to them, and its dungeons are generally pretty well designed and highly atmospheric, albeit repetitive. But the thing is, even though there's a lot to do, the quests are very linear and don't really give you much...

What version of Fallout: New Vegas did you play? The biggest knock against the game is that it doesn't really have a main quest to speak of. The vast majority of MQ stages, (the Legion is less bad about this than the other branches, admittedly) consist of doing sidequests you can do entirely...

I can think of a few reasons. The fact it'd break a lot of mods comes to mind. But they seem more restricted in what they can do than modders are in general. Maybe it's a certification thing? It is a mystery. Yeah. I didn't say they weren't. What I said was that that it's kind of ludicrous to...

The GRA versions of vanilla weapons should count as new weapons because, y'know, they function differently. Setting aside the fact that GRA Laser Pistols, for instance, have iron sights in GRA, there's the fact that the GRA versions accept mods which change their statistics. So they function...

The Use? Well, for the publisher the use is that it's more sales since it's an inexpensive promotional ploy. For the retailer it's more sales that HAVE to go through that retailer. As for the end user... It depends on the game. In some games, the preorder content does fill a specific gameplay...

That literally wouldn't matter provided that the text was equally as rich. There's a reason that Shakespeare works with any variety of stagings or aesthetics. I mean, God, there's a reason that setting Shakespeare in Soviet Europe or Gangland Chicago is basically as cliche in dramatic circles as...

First off, The Hub has Harold, Loxley, Hightower, The Friendly Lending Company, and people running around in purple and gold robes. It was sillier than New Reno, where every gang other than the Wrights actually made sense in the setting and was tethered to a sense of economic realism. The...

Fallout is not about the serious impact of nuclear explosions. Fallout is a about the juxtaposition of people being terrible with post-nuclear kitsch. Nuclear Explosions are basically a pretext for it. Even if you're taking a DEADLY SERIOUS OMG reading of it, nukes don't really matter that much...

Because Fallout is all about sober scientific realism. Objecting to the Fat Man despite Fallout's magic radiation and weirdly Nuclear Technology is like objecting to the New Vegas Casinos despite Gizmo and Reno. It's stupid.

It looks pretty cool, but I'll wait until there are mods adding the weapons to leveled lists to buy it.

Pretty sure that, at this point, they're just stalling until interplay collapses the rest of the way and it becomes a nonissue.

Well, to be honest this is the only community I've seen that actually has that kind of entitled stick up its ass, and if the newspost updates are anything to go off of, plus it also cares a lot more about Sawyer's formspring (hence the digest posts like the one this thread is about)... so that's...

Haha. Which one of you guys asked this: