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  1. What do you think about BG2?

    Great, you can use a dictionary, but you fail at recognizing parts of speech! Average is being used as an adjective. Try again.

  2. What do you think about BG2?

    You either are incapable of reading, or don't know the meaning of the word average. This would mean that an "average" game has a similar number of games better than it to the number worse than it. Given the number of absolute shit games out there, I find it hard to believe you can come up with...

  3. What do you think about BG2?

    Except he's not asking you to agree that the game is excellent. He's simply saying its unfair to call it poor, and blatantly not true to call it average or below average (for every game better than it, there are loads of games worse than it, so its certainly not average). Opinions are...

  4. Increasing health with level = Stupidity

    Exactly. That's my point. Static HP is not inherently good, and growing HP is not inherently bad. Its all about how it interacts with all the other mechanics in the system that decide whether it works or not. In and of itself, its an incredibly stupid and shallow way to judge a game.

  5. Increasing health with level = Stupidity

    As you progressed through the game of DOOM, you as a player got better. With practice, you got better at aiming, and at not getting hit. This doesn't happen in a turn-based RPG. Your likelihood of dying, and chance of hitting are modeled by the statistics in the game. Because you can't get more...

  6. What do you think about BG2?

    Um, if you extrapolate into games that haven't been made yet, the "average" moves down, not up. If 5 shit games and 1 good game come out in 2009, the average quality of RPGs is lowered, because the 5 shit games pull down the average more than the 1 good game.

  7. Is Obsidian Entertainment a good studio?

    Fixed.

  8. I just started Baldur's Gate 2...

    Its kind of hard to not realize the encounters are isolated. Demilich has a collection quest building up to it. You're told about Elder Orb Beholder and the Lich in Ust Natha well before you encounter them. BG2 is not "dumb easy" as Andrej says it is. I found combat to be more interesting than...

  9. Is Obsidian Entertainment a good studio?

    How does being on consoles excuse mediocre gameplay? Just because there were no other good console shooters means that they get to ignore the development of PC shooters?

  10. Is Obsidian Entertainment a good studio?

    Then, instead of trolling, perhaps you would like to name what IS the second-best RPG of the 21st century, yet released? I'm assuming that's what he meant, seeing as there's no possible way he could be trying to include games that have yet to be released.

  11. Increasing health with level = Stupidity

    Fair enough. HP scaling with level works alright with the D&D system. There are a few kinks, but the system as a whole works better with HP scaling. To remove it requires revising entirely how a lot of things in the system work, especially how damage scales with level, and how higher level...

  12. Is Obsidian Entertainment a good studio?

    Fair enough. Part of this has to do with the fact that there's no option in the poll between "pretty capable" and "rather average". I'd say that Obsidian puts out games that are above average (e.g. above standard fare, which is unfortunately mostly Bioware and Bethesda crap these days), but only...

  13. Is Obsidian Entertainment a good studio?

    What? How can you say average compared to a subset that consists of two developers? How is that a statistically meaningful average?

  14. Is Obsidian Entertainment a good studio?

    Thats a shame. Its hard to justify buying MotB for someone who doesn't own NWN2, but if you already own NWN2, its well worth the purchase.

  15. Increasing health with level = Stupidity

    This is a legitimate fault of the system. D&D already accounts for skill by reducing falling damage with DC 15 Jump and Tumble checks. To say that HP again accounts for skill is, in a sense, double-counting.

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