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Recent content by Alec McCabe

  1. Review Vault Dweller Does Dragon Age II

    Is having a %miss chance better than the %glancing blow approach, and why? I'm not sure the review touches on this. That it makes boss battles very long as a result of needing a lot of hp is mentioned, but the alternative - needing to stack hit% or be ineffective - also has its' problems.

  2. Review Vault Dweller Does Dragon Age II

    If a game in which you always hit becomes a hit point game, wouldn't a game in which there is a chance that you miss be all about stacking hit %?

  3. DA2: A short review of this insulting abomination

    Even Jade Empire? Which is the game that DA2 reminds me most of, I must admit. The He-Man comment's close, but I thought more of the film '300' - both 300 and DA2 use the same framing device, that of a 'true' story being told and embellished by a narrator.

  4. Review Dragon Age II Is Mediocre, BioWare Is Becoming Terrible

    I'd disagree with you. When the question is, 'Is BioWare becoming terrible', the issue of whether some of the things we praise them for in the past were actually accidental or incidental becomes relevant. If the developers of Baldur's Gate 2 had the freedom to create something of their own...

  5. Review Dragon Age II Is Mediocre, BioWare Is Becoming Terrible

    I'll sum up - crux of the thing and all that - by saying that although BG2 had the edge in entertainment value, it's hard to give it the credit; if only because most of these imaginative options for dealing with encounters are the product of our imaginations and skill at playing the engine...

  6. Review Dragon Age II Is Mediocre, BioWare Is Becoming Terrible

    I will tell you why I think this is the case - and the funny thing is, it's not actually due to BG2's superior design. It is in fact due to BG2's inferior design. Because there were so many oddities, strange loopholes, weird magic items and way-out-there spells, it was unbalanced and weird as...

  7. Review Dragon Age II Is Mediocre, BioWare Is Becoming Terrible

    But we're not talking about most modern rpgs, are we? We're talking about Dragon Age: Origins. And in DA:O, although you could play a mage as a ranged dps machine, that wasn't the most interesting or even the most useful thing they could do. There's whole trees of abilities focusing on buffs...

  8. Review Dragon Age II Is Mediocre, BioWare Is Becoming Terrible

    Besides the traps abuse - which as you said is abuse, and funnily enough there is a dragon fight in DA:O that can be won with traps spam, and that's Flemeth - the rest of your ideas basically boil down to the same thing: you need a spellcaster. And one of the decent ones, too - a Bard won't be...

  9. Game News Dragon Age II Has the Best Writing since PS:T

    If you don't kill him and talk to him, you can, and he'll agree.

  10. Review Dragon Age II Is Mediocre, BioWare Is Becoming Terrible

    This basically describes the Firkraag fight in BG2, with the slight tweak that where in DA:O you had to have a Mage to heal, in BG2 you had to have a Cleric or a Druid to heal and a Wizard or Sorceror for anti-magic duty. BG2 had you having to dedicate a lot of your magic resources to...

  11. Vapourware KOTOR 2 Restoration Project (not the Restored Content Mod)

    That's what I've been trying to tell people, but it doesn't stick. Skyway - a save after the bug is in theory all you need, but in practice it's not. If you actually read the posts I write - which I guess you don't, so never mind - you'd note that I'm not 100% on TG's policies. Unless you...

  12. Vapourware KOTOR 2 Restoration Project (not the Restored Content Mod)

    Boring; because I'm trying to be reasonable here. No, I'm not throwing insults. They don't help. It also doesn't help that people don't seem to read what I'm saying, or for that matter only read rumours and half-truths rather than going to the source. As an example, sure, the information is...

  13. Vapourware KOTOR 2 Restoration Project (not the Restored Content Mod)

    The simple fact that they don't need it. If the bug is still there, eventually a beta tester will come across it. It may take a while. I don't see this as a problem.

  14. Vapourware KOTOR 2 Restoration Project (not the Restored Content Mod)

    They do, yes. But if they can't identify the bug from that savedgame, then they need a savedgame prior to the bug occuring, preferably one with a list of what options led to it. Part of being a beta tester for TSLRP is keeping a large stable of regular saved games from which you can draw one of...

  15. Vapourware KOTOR 2 Restoration Project (not the Restored Content Mod)

    Where did I say that they haven't accepted any, again? According to the forum, some have been tested, they don't work, the Team's not accepting any more.

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