[quote who="Raven X" reply="257" id="2701418"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 256 More brothels in RPGs! I loved that part myself, especially some of the humor they threw in it. I'll bet if brothels were legal everywhere in real life we'd have a much lower crime rate. [/quote] ...and lower video game sales.
... 4 0 1.0000 ... I see a lot of redudancy here. And the schema is simple, there's just a high iteration of elements. It would not be hard to define an XSD against a lot of these with appropriate defaults defined and rebuild these files with up to 40% less content. Parsing would be sped up and your I/O would be reduced as well. I have to say bin
[quote who="ZehDon" reply="199" id="2688021"] Quoting OsirisDawn, reply 198 I dont pay €50 for a great story packaged in a shit game, but i do for a good game with a good story. And Bioware nails it mostly with that balance, for me at least. Make no mistake, Bioware's stories are cliche ridden. Every one of them. What makes them interesting and fun are the characters they populate their stories with, and the world that those stories take place
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="194" id="2685841"] Quoting zesban, reply 191 Sure, taken individually the critique made on each point can lead you in a certain direction. Now start to combine them and see a bigger picture emerge. We're talking choice, at a fundamental level here. Small changes accumulate toward a larger paradigm shift. But they have to start somewhere. Start shaking off the old, that's all I was pointing out. This list of 10 took m
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="175" id="2684774"] Quoting zesban, reply 173 Just a couple of adjustments and you open up a new world of story telling. 1) You're not of humble origins, just unknown. You hail from a different land, a secret order, or have some unheard of gift. You're already a hero but don't deserve it. You're already a hero but this new threat can not be handled by the abilities you currently have. <br
I haven't seen much on garrisons, civil defense, or anything else that affects tactical combat when an enemy attempts to raze your cities, or vice versa. What thought has gone in to this scenario? Please pardon my ignorance if some of this has been discussed. I'll gladly take direction to any of these conversations. It just seems more pertinent now that wandering monsters can also attack your cities. I have a number of questions, including the following - Will I be able to gar
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="170" id="2684662"]Well I guess i bring up box sales and so called sales success because I hear people claim they want a good game design and then they go buy STO regardless of what the beta presented or beta players said. Autar, what exactly are you expecting. It's an RPG. You want to play a slum brat who spends 20-40 hours working his or her way up to a farmer? I mean the whole hero save someone, something, someplace is standard fair. It's not just stand
[quote who="Aractain" reply="166" id="2684572"] [SNIP!] Really looking foward to ToR (*hopes it dosn't suck*). Why? Because Bioware are making it. I really doubt they will be able to beat Cataclysm though, Blizzard are about to drop 3 large warheads on good people's wallets. [/quote] I think you mean the twisted offspring of the Bioware Mythic merger will be developing it. Biothic? Mythoware? Byothwaric? Sounds like an Ewok... Anyhow, w
[quote who="Polynomial" reply="162" id="2683712"]Autarkhos, I've been trolling since like page 2. [/quote] http://www.priceisrightfail.com/ ... Neverwinter Night 2's twist on the King of Shadows was pretty derned neat-o. [Spoiler] About the only thing in games, movies, television, or literature I can think of that comes close to it was in Asimov's I, Robot. <
Sweet savory Save Picture As...! That's a lot of avatars. There's enough art assets here to make a veritable collectible pog-type game! Way to go guys!
[quote who="Aractain" reply="115" id="2681975"]Define 'Art'. [/quote] Art [ahrt] - noun 1. The guy who changes my car's oil for $49.95. Plus tax. And potentially Credit Card interest. Usage: "Hey Art , how's it hanging?" - verb 1. A second person singular present indicative of be. Like Romeo and shizzle. Usage: "How art thou milord?" Seriously though, defining Art is lik
[quote who="mauimudpup" reply="110" id="2681620"]I think OP is wrong. Like others have said everystory is pretty much a retelling retooling of older stories. I think alot of the hate towards bioware is the stupid modern feeling that if its the most popular it must be no good. Over and over I see people trying to belittle good games, movies, ect just because they are popular. Except Avatar that is junk. [/quote] I thought Kevin Costner's dialogue in Av
[quote who="DrEvilKoala" reply="96" id="2680653"] Quoting zesban, reply 93 On a side note :: Punch in the Mouth :: should be an option on every single dialog tree. LOL! You should really try to play Arcanum if you haven't yet. The game has a ridiculously unprovoked "PREPARE TO DIE" line in nearly every conversation. Boy, I love that game. Anyway, I agree with most here that BioWare hasn't satisfied my RPG needs in the la
[quote who="Nesrie" reply="78" id="2679352"] Quoting zesban, reply 76 It's this carte blanche acceptance of a "set storyline" that tweaks me the most though. It keeps the demand focused on art development instead of character or world development and it's why I would propose some find the industry in a state of decline today. In that view I'm inclined to agree with the OP. Sure, there's a market for these shiny new games, as has been demonstrated
[quote who="Forkedman" reply="50" id="2677866"]I think the problem with Bioware games is that at some point they adopted a story/game play formula which they don't really mix up. Goes: Start of game tragedy/cataclysm + first mini dungeon. Access to transport + 4 story locations to explore (and a couple of side quests) Complete 3 story locations = Extra story event in which you get kidnapped/wounded/set off course. Complete story location
[quote who="Aractain" reply="43" id="2676594"] Sure your "choices" carry over, but what effect do they really have? There are some different characters you interact with, but otherwise you're on the same rails that any JRPG sets you upon. Not only that, but for all the improvements that are made the invested time to deliver them is robbed from the production of actualt content. How many hours of real storytelling was there in Mass Effect vs Baldur's Gate 1? This is a poi
I gotta weigh in on this because among our local gaming cadre this has been a topic of heavy conversation for a while now and I'm glad to see it on the internets. We've all had the same feeling the OP has for a while now. I'll focus my discussion on Mass Effect, but know that for us at least it represents RPGs as a whole. Mass Effect brought fantastic new technology to the RPG genre, but in exchange for almost ubiqitous voice acting, better blocking and technical direction for the ons
EDIT: I see from a bit more reading that alot of this has been suggested. I've cut my text to the more unique suggestions... Trade resources with fluctuating exchange rates. A simple AI kicks in automatically, selecting the most efficient exchange rate for you. Notify the player when this happens. They can override to use a different resource, or halt production altogether. Similar to Sins of a Solar Empire's Black Market, though it didn't have an AI th