Winterwind interview with MCA, part II

[Brother None]

Josan informed us that the second article of the Winterwind interview with MCA has been put up.

Link: interview with MCA on Winterwind

 

[DarkUnderlord]

[There are seven worlds], although each world contains a number of sub-locations that aren’t necessarily the world itself, if that makes any sense. If it doesn’t make sense, well, imagine if you will a common apple pie. Cut the pie into slices. Put one piece of pie on a plate, then watch the plate take off and orbit the table. Is it still all one pie?

Cool. Orbitting apple pie!

 

[Tayl]

There had better be Cool Whip included, or I am not buying it.

 

[Ratty Sr.]

It seems MCA is bent on turning KoTOR 2 into a good RPG. We may be looking at another masterpiece like Planescape Torment. Let's keep our fingers crossed for Obsidian, because if this game turns out to be good, the whole world will know that former BIS developers are the greatest masters of the RPG genre. It's about time somebody showed those inept slackers from BioWare how role playing games are made.

 

[Tannhauser]

No account given to Troika or Piranha Bytes? The best RPG developers who have actually proven themselves, and look to continue their good accounts into the future.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

I think it's funny that once again, "Black Isle" are making an RPG using a game engine made by BioWare. Baldur's Gate... IceWind Dale...

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

No account given to Troika or Piranha Bytes? The best RPG developers who have actually proven themselves, and look to continue their good accounts into the future.

I'm still waiting on Piranha Bytes to prove itself.

 

[God is Dog backwards]

It seems MCA is bent on turning KoTOR 2 into a good RPG. We may be looking at another masterpiece like Planescape Torment. Let's keep our fingers crossed for Obsidian, because if this game turns out to be good, the whole world will know that former BIS developers are the greatest masters of the RPG genre. It's about time somebody showed those inept slackers from BioWare how role playing games are made.

I'm not sure. It's possible MCA could be using the platform that they have with KOTOR2 (given the success of the first one) to make what would be a niche RPG available to a lot of people (eg. writing another planescape), but I'm not so sure. We'll see.

 

[Ratty Sr.]

No account given to Troika or Piranha Bytes? The best RPG developers who have actually proven themselves, and look to continue their good accounts into the future.

They have proven themselves? Hmmm, how strange that I haven't noticed. Gothic and Gothic 2 are both rewarding RPG's, but a joke from technical aspect and nearly unplayable due to terrible controls. When pooled against Gothic, even BioWare's Aurora mess is a technical masterpiece. As for Troika, I'll just say that when a game is "similar to Fallout", that doesn't mean it's good by default. All Troika have proven so far is that Atari is a shitty publisher.

I'm not sure. It's possible MCA could be using the platform that they have with KOTOR2 (given the success of the first one) to make what would be a niche RPG available to a lot of people (eg. writing another planescape), but I'm not so sure. We'll see.

Well, MCA stated that his company was working on another project. Knowing Avellone, it's probably something grander and more sophisticated than KoTOR 2.

 

[Josan]

No account given to Troika or Piranha Bytes? The best RPG developers who have actually proven themselves, and look to continue their good accounts into the future.

I'm still waiting on Piranha Bytes to prove itself.

Never heard of the but I'm not waiting for Troika any more. I gave up.