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BioWare's MYSTARY GAEM Revealed!

Discussion in 'General RPG Discussion' started by Jed, Feb 10, 2004.

  1. DemonKing Arcane

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    Well I wouldn't worry too much - it all sounds like a massive wind-up to me.
     
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  2. HanoverF Arcane Patron

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    MCA Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2 Codex USB, 2014 Divinity: Original Sin 2
    I call Bullshit, Bio can't code more then two paths (well really one path +getting more money and saying jerky things) but now they are putting in supa voice wreckognition so randomly generated npcs will respond in a believeable way?

    And its got a built in Mr. Microphone feature?

    Not only is it bullshit, its the kinda bullshit only a 9 year old drooling fanboy could make up in his wet-dream bullshit :P
     
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  3. Volourn Pretty Princess Pretty Princess

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    *cough* Bullshit *cough HOTU has more than 2 paths, and that's coded by BIO. Your logic is flawed. TOB also had 3. Weird...
     
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  4. Diogo Ribeiro Erudite

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    ToB only had 1 path, with 3 path branches.
     
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  5. Volourn Pretty Princess Pretty Princess

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    Huh? Please 'plain.
     
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  6. Diogo Ribeiro Erudite

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    What i mean is, the game was very linear and only had one path. At the ending, you were given three choices which determined three endings. Endings != paths.
     
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  7. Volourn Pretty Princess Pretty Princess

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    True; but that wasn't what Hanover was seemingly tlaking about; but then again, his post seem awkward so who knows.
     
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  8. HanoverF Arcane Patron

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    Since you were the one to take PATHS as meaning Endings, your reading comprehension is flawed and awkward
     
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  9. Volourn Pretty Princess Pretty Princess

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    "Bio can't code more then two paths (well really one path +getting more money and saying jerky things" How the heck can that be decipherable. It's awful, awful style.

    The various BIO games have quests that cover more than that. If you knew how to post properly int hat partiualrlu post then maybe you'd be easier to understand.
     
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  10. HanoverF Arcane Patron

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    Int Hat Partiularlalwisadfniasdn?

    You're the last person anyone should be taking advice from.


    Define the meaning of "various" you're using, or give more examples then HOTU
     
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  11. Transcendent One Liturgist

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    I think Hanover's post was perfectly clear
     
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  12. Snuffles Novice

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    Just to clear this up, as some people seem to be struggling with this, but the post is by a "normal" member of the boards, not anyone actually employed by bioware.
     
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  13. Jed Cipher

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    A mod, no less.
     
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  14. Diogo Ribeiro Erudite

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    :shock: Whoa i didn't write that, DemonKing did.
     
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  15. DemonKing Arcane

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    True, but I'm sure you would agree that the whole thing *does* sound like a steaming load of crock, no?
     
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  16. Snuffles Novice

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    Oops, very sorry. :)
     
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  17. Diogo Ribeiro Erudite

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    Thats ok Snuffles :) And, yes DK, it now seems like that.
     
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  18. Nomad Novice

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    The original poster in that thread at Bio does not appear to be either a mod or staff. I suppose his or her status could have changed recently (a result of that post, perhaps?) but that's probably very unlikely.

    While this may be complete BS, there are two things that make me wonder:

    1. The best place to hide something is in plain sight.
    2. The more outlandish the tale, the more likely people will believe it. Consider, for example, "men landing on the moon in 1969" (just kidding).

    Deliberately "leaking" this rough description of the game may be an attempt to gauge community response.

    Then again, it's probably complete BS.

    :)


    N.
     
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  19. suibhne Erudite

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    If this is a trial balloon, we owe it TO HUMANITY to whip out the 12-gauge.
     
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  20. Jed Cipher

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    I think on the whole, it's probably bullshit. But I do think it's possible that if this person is indeed in the know, there might be some hints in there.

    Everyone's favorite diarrhea-mouth, mr. lamat, claims to work "in the industry," and lives in Vancouver. Because of his proximity to BioWare (aka Canada's Shame), the timing of his SEKRET PC GAEM with BioWhore's, and some of the comment he made about his game, I think it's likely (if he is actually anything more than some chubby lump mastuerbating in his mom's basement) that his game and Bio's are one in the same. That said, note a minor similarity or two with the CLU3Z! he drops in the following comments:
    Boo-hoo! Wittle baby takes his football and weaves!
    Saint called him a "developer" in handjob-cum-fixation thread, but if this chump this chump is a dev because he hacks out blurbs for the manual to BioWare's next shit game, then so should the janitors that sweep up after the Bon Jovi concert be considered a part of the "entertainment industry."

    Incidentally, in my hunt for CLU3Z!, I noticed the following image on the BioWare web site:
    [​IMG]
    Maybe it's from an older game, but I didn't recognize it. I figure it's probably concept art from the SHITTY CrPG THAT CANNOT BE NAMED (YET) the hype of which we'll all be unindated in once it is named. If it is indeed art from the SECRET PC GAEM!, it would seem to confirm that BioWare's "original" setting is more high-fantasy, as if they're were ever a doubt that it would be.
     
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  21. Volourn Pretty Princess Pretty Princess

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    Well.. out of the two unannoucned PC RPGs; one of them has been stated quite clearly by BIO to be fantasy. That isn't news.
     
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  22. Jed Cipher

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    Volourn, why are you raining on my parade?
     
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  23. Whipporowill Erudite

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    A turqouise lady? Isn't that a solar or something? Uh. I'm no D&D expurt, no siree,
     
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  24. Volourn Pretty Princess Pretty Princess

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    X:Because I can. :D

    Hanover, so you don't think I'm ignoring the question, other. What exactly does "other than HOTU" manner. Bio's games tend to have "different paths'; they may not be as variant as the Fallouts but they do exist. And, it's mostd efinitely more than the "goody goody vs. evil si greedy" paths as well.

    SOU has variant paths just check out ch1 (lacks in the lastb chapters), NWN OC has variant paths if youa ctually pay attention even if the story itself is on rails, KOTOR mostd efinitely has didffernt paths (not just the main eveil vs. good paths either; but good evil, greedy, or uncaring paths; not to mention the paths where you can often avoid combat as much as possible - again - not as good as the FO; but ti still exists). BG2 does as well and it really has nothing to do with good vs. evil; but both greyish choices - ala vampires vs. rogues. Not to mention how one deals with quests like the Druid Grove, Firkgragg, the Harpers, The Finale in Hell. TOB has 3 endings as well as multiple paths when you can decide how you handle the tests. No tto mention the order in which you can complete various parts of it.

    Once again, I must note, it's not at the same level as FO in thsi regard; but it does eixst.

    Enjoy. :P
     
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  25. Jed Cipher

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    Anyway, what 2 unannounced PC games. There's only 1 unannounced PC game, or at least that's all they've...uh, annouced.

    So, if there's two, and one is confirmed as fantasy--is the other one FO3?

    Discuss!
     
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