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Well I'm still against more stretch goals but Ropekid's thoughtful replies and the updates made me stop worrying about it. If they add more it sounds like they've thought everything through. It is embarrassing to be so wrong when I thought the initial post had to be some kind of mistake. Ah well. Anyway I clicked on the mysterious extra $5 and marked it as 'contact me over this donation' and now I'm fully locked out of the store until support talks to me. Bummer.
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coffeetable posted:I'll never understand people who want licensed titles over fresh IP Sometimes a good game series needs to be looked at a couple of times and the weak spots polished up over just doing something new and making all new mistakes.
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Alpha Protocol was more James Bond with magic gadgets. It's not like it was ever supposed to be 100% realistic.
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Fuschia tude posted:I think you missed an important aspect of James Bond.
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Dec 13, 2013 20:12
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Megazver posted:Dude, statistically like 80-90% of people playing RPGs with romance actually do romance. Frankly, I find these goony posts about 'romance ewwww cooties' way weirder and sadder. *pat pat* It's okay to pretend to like someone for a while to vicariously experience the rush of falling in love all over again. It's not just for girls. No one will make fun of you for it. Personally I tend to like romances but even I can see they're often the weakest part of the game. I really hope they evolve into something that's much better written than the current standard.
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GigaFuzz posted:RPS article with future Kickstarter discussion is up:
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Fuligin posted:This could be amazing, although far too out of the ordinary for most people to ever have a chance of being made. Internet nerds however would likely throw money at Obsidian/inXile no matter what they proposed and love the Cthulhu mythos already. Probably not another 4million kickstarter but I can see it doing 1million easy.
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The health mechanic will definitely be interesting to see in game. My first reaction is 'huh that's weird' but maybe it will turn out to be a great new way to see party health. At worst at least they're trying something that will be exciting to explore.
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Dec 17, 2013 17:25
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VanSandman posted:Honestly, I read this and think: But you're OBSIDIAN. People gave you money out of trust that you can make a drat fine RPG. Do they really not trust you to innovate mechanically while capturing that same emotional impact and fun factor of the old DnD stuff? Kickstarters in general seemed to bring these people out of the woodwork. Since they 'invested' in their game and believe that any deviation from what they pictured in their head is a personal offence they're going to watch every update like a hawk in order to get mad over something. Obsidian so far has seemed to do a really really good job of keeping things in balance with ignoring the crazier fringe while still keeping the core people onboard but getting too abstract and they'll lose the very people that are passionate about a certain type of game and paid money to see that developed without being completely nuts.
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Dec 19, 2013 09:43
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Pringles_School posted:People here should also have more faith in Obsidian making this balancing act work.
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I do like all the 'let's just all trust Obsidian guys!' posts don't trust Obsidian to sort through all the suggestions and complaints to figure out what is really bothering people verses what's just bothering the fringe people that wouldn't be happy no matter what. As a side note I personally don't care what they call their stats as long as they give me a good tooltip that explains in detail what everything does. Nothing is more annoying then dealing with a new system where they rename things AND hide the numbers (looking at you Dragon Age Origins)
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Dec 19, 2013 14:15
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Zore posted:Obviously we need to make every stat named the opposite of what it is now to break people of the association. I vote we implement a THAC0 type system to stats and actually have higher numbers be worse.
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Dec 19, 2013 19:12
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How about on first load it asks the user to input his own name for things. Sure it'd be a huge headache for the developer but imagine how much everyone will love having 'swole' for a stat.
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coffeetable posted:I'm assuming everyone kills them? Unless of course you have a lawful-stupid paladin in the group that tries to mess everything up.
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Zore posted:In comparison, HK-47 is almost completely incidental, all of his unique stuff was cut out of the plot, and he can be easily ignored all game. Yet he caught on.
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Jan 6, 2014 13:46
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User posted:There isn't really magic in middle earth anyhow.  you're using an awfully strange definition of the word magic. It's a place where gods and demons literally walk the earth and you can raise an army of dead spirits.
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Jan 7, 2014 19:01
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User posted:The Valar and Maia (of which Gandalf is one) are certainly fantastic beings, but it's not really magic in the typical sense. They are very old and very powerful and basically know all the secrets of creation since they built Arda and sang the theme song, but they are entirely natural.
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Jan 7, 2014 20:12
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User posted:Because what Tolkien does is actually far more subtle and interesting than D&D or roughly a billion fantasy books' style magic or roughly a billion fantasy books, that's why. And I've read books that did magic even more naturalistic and subtle than Tolkien. And yes it's still magic.
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Kibayasu posted:...no.
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Well at least my memory was half right.
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It was also demoralizing to lose three picks on a hard lock and end up with a wooden spoon or whatever for your trouble. The picks cost more than I looted  The unbreakable lockpick became my first priority on my second playthrough of that game.
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Jan 15, 2014 20:37
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rope kid posted:Yeah, we still don't award XP for kills (though sometimes killing something may be connected to a quest).
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Jan 16, 2014 13:07
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I'd be pretty shocked if anything more than scrub level loot was randomized. As most of the quests/monsters/loot opportunities are finite it'd make no sense at all for anything of real value to be a random drop.
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Reading through the rogue update is really interesting. Seems like they're really thinking about how to make the class work as a real distinct combat class instead of a gimmick class. It's really refreshing to read something as dry as some rule explanations and be thinking 'can't wait to try that...no wait I want to see how that works first...no hmmm I don't usually like that class but I like the sound of that' hopefully it will keep up with every class reveal.
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Jan 29, 2014 16:07
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GreatGreen posted:Why nerds have the slightest interest in wanting to think their little computer character man/woman loves (aka has sex with) another little computer character woman/man I'll never know, especially considering it is basically impossible for romances in video games to be written with even the slightest bit of competence. The problem comes in is how do you abstract that in a fun/non-creepy way into a game with player choice. It might be an insurmountable goal but I don't have a problem with game companies continuing to try. Of course I also don't have a problem if a company like Obsidian just doesn't want to mess with the whole thing.
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Furism posted:What do they bring, from a story-telling perspective? quote:More to the point, what does a romance between the player character and a fictional character brings that a romance between two fictional characters doesn't? Friendship, hatred, rivalry, brotherhood, betrayal. If you want a 'story' in a game romance is just as natural as any of these other things that get praised when they are present. Edit: I'll also enjoy explaining to my wife the next time she hooks up two of her sims that she's really she's just dreaming that her relationship with me and our child was just like the sims. Darkhold fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Feb 11, 2014 |
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Symphoric, right I agree romances in games now pretty much suck. Doesn't mean they always have to and should be tossed aside as a failed experiment as some people seem to be saying. Heck most movies still don't get romance right. Games are just lagging behind being a new medium.
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Furism posted:Wow, I didn't realize my reasonable and open question would hit somebody's nerves. Sorry about that. quote:I guess I was just implying that it's probably easier to write both sides of a romance than one side and a half (the second half being written by the player in their mind). But I really don't want to get into an argument about something I'm really not that passionate about, unlike some people apparently.
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coffeetable posted:Lifted from Sawyer's NewEgg interview.
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Er I hope I'm just being trolled here but in case I'm not  was he was in a room talking about IP rights while surrounded by an example of an awesome IP Obsidian made that is currently in the hands of a publisher that doesn't care to do anything with it.vvv yes I understand that. Sheesh. It was a funny thing to have on the walls during that moment. I didn't think it was some kind of stealth statement Obsidian was making. Darkhold fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Apr 22, 2014 |
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A bit late but yay on a sensible rest mechanic. It sounds like a good compromise with Inn bonuses and resting in the wilderness to get yourself back up to fighting strength without making the character slog back to town or just letting them rest wherever. It worked fairly well in M&M X which someone else pointed out though in that the inn bonuses didn't last long enough to make a difference where it sounds they've done a better job of that for PoE.
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Most publishers want to continue proven IPs than develop a new untested one. So if PoE proves to be massively successful with an established studio behind it I can see a publisher taking the plunge. I imagine the contract would be brutal though.
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Oasx posted:I must admit I don't quite understand a need to even limit resting, but then again I used save game editors in all the IE games, having a game be a challenge is clearly not a priority for me. Personally I've gone back and forth on the issue myself. I find myself hording too much if I feel the resources are too limited which in turn usually turns most boss battles into just burning through all the crap I've stored up and end up with a million low level health potions/etc in my backpack by the end, but I also see the appeal of not being able to get to 100% and abilities between each fight too to make it into more of a delving into the depths type of experience.
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Book 5? At least that has a semi-decent battle at the end of it. Now book 10 Crossroads of Twilight aka 'Back at the Ranch' was a true exercise in nothing happens for 600+ pages because what we need after 9 books is to slow this series down a bit.
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ropekid had mentioned Darklands quite a few times in reference to certain mechanics present in Eternity. I thought if anyone in this thread was interested in looking at it it's worth mentioning that GOG has a sale for it Here
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StashAugustine posted:Off the top of my head, enemies will occasionally disappear when reloading a save and there's a hitch in the level loading that can throw off your aim while moving. BUT the big question is why this is considered 'very buggy'. Such bugs or worse exist in other Bethesda games with little concern shown yet Alpha Protocol was treated like it was barely playable when it was a few relatively minor hitches. That's the argument people are making. Maybe it's because I've played through games like Fallout 2 that seemed to have a game breaking bug every 10 feet but most bugs I find now adays seem like minor annoyances and Obsidian isn't worse than any other game company currently producing.
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May 31, 2014 19:16
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Who cares? Some people don't care about spoilers at all. Some people have a total embargo on spoilers. Most people are somewhere in-between. Why interrogate them over their harmless preference?
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Err it's not the non-spoiler people that are complaining though? They just asked if the articles had them or not. It's the other posters that are going on and on about how early game spoilers don't count or something and asking them to justify their stance.
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Why is anyone even arguing with this guy? He's not even really replying to any point that anyone is actually making and instead just kinda ranting against some imaginary power gamer arguments nobody is talking about. It is a little funny how completely he's missing the point but sheesh.
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