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  1. CD Project Red is dissing SKYRIM

    SS was like Deus Ex without any interaction with the narrative or the NPCs. It was definitely less of an RPG because of that. It's probably not an RPG by contemporary standards.

  2. CD Project Red is dissing SKYRIM

    It seems like a silly answer. They aren't going to push a lot of units because of buyers remorse. The TES games are pretty big on the consoles, and people know what sort of game Beth makes. People that are looking for an open-world RPG better than Oblivion or Fallout 3 aren't going to be more...

  3. Starflight vs Mass Effect

    When I first heard of ME, I was hoping for something like a contemporary Starflight. But you just can't have decent exploration with that amount of handholding and level scaling. And Bioware really wants to make interactive movies, so it's not surprising that they stumbled so badly when doing...

  4. Fallout and what makes it enjoyable

    I shot it in the eye. That's what I did to everything that had eyes. Fallout was exceptional because of the quest design and the way that the character sheet influenced the way you interacted with the gameworld. The combat was not very good, and (outside of some classic dungeon diving) the...

  5. Confirmed. Skrym scales to your level

    I think open-world games are precisely the sort of games that can benefit from some level scaling. Nothing sucks worse than finding a town that is practically useless to you because you were "supposed" to go there at level 1. And that sort of thing is most likely to happen in an open-world game...

  6. Matt Findley and the Interview of WTF

    No, purple isn't necessarily dark. Although I looked it up, and it is technically a combination of wavelengths. Apparently, it technically isn't violet either. But either way, the analogy is reasonable for the point he is trying to make.

  7. Matt Findley and the Interview of WTF

    Are you therefore suggesting that white is the most colorful? Seriously though, the perception of color is based on the wavelength. All other things being equal, orange is longer than purple, but it's not more colorful. And an orange object doesn't reflect more light, it reflects orange light.

  8. Review RPS - Wot I Think of The Witcher II

    I can't think of a definition of "hardcore RPG" that could apply to the Witcher 2. It isn't stripped down. It doesn't appeal to just a niche audience. It certainly isn't uncompromising in its RPG-ness. And the sexual content is specifically softcore.

  9. Hacking minigame for DE:HR

    I'm sure that there will be augs that modify the hacking difficulty.

  10. Hacking minigame for DE:HR

    From what I've heard, you can get caught while hacking, which is good news IMO. Hell, the mere fact that this video exists is good news IMO. This makes me slightly more interested in the game.

  11. Just got a new system...need some modern RPG reccomendations

    Just play the new Obsidian games, like Mask of the Betrayer and New Vegas. And try Alpha Protocol. You can probably pick it up for 5$ now. And give the Witcher a shot, but don't expect it to be much of an RPG. And since I'm recommending games that are barely RPGs, try Mass Effect 2 if you...

  12. Game News Desslock – Decline of Gaming and Dragon Age II

    Yeah, that set me off too. The thoughtless encounter design was the biggest problem with DAO.

  13. New skyrim previews

    I'm just saying that it's common for stats to modify melee damage rather than accuracy. The looking glass guys dispensed with melee dice-rolls in the 90s, and most followed suit. For Bethesda, they actually did mix it up in Fallout 3 (for ranged weapons), and maybe TES V will include some...

  14. New skyrim previews

    It's pretty common for melee weapons in ARPGs, including non-shit games like Deus Ex. They probably shouldn't have used it exclusively for bows in TES IV, but the bigger problem was that they allowed unmodified magic damage.

  15. Preview Fallout: New Vegas - Bugs, Gambling, & Random Murder

    Yeah, that's the sort of nonsense that I see all the time on messageboards. In my experience, it either means that the guy liked the sound effects, or it doesn't really mean anything at all.

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