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  1. Company News Larian Studios Status Update

    Larian's a pretty likeable studio. Their games are more action-oriented than some might prefer, but they clearly have a lot of fun writing and designing them. Fantastic customer support, too.

  2. [Serious thread] Morrowind vs. New Vegas

    Morrowind had a very mysterious and foreign atmosphere to it, and no other game I've played has managed to replicate that. The game has problems, God does it ever, but it has a very unique and appealing "feel" to it and that really worked for me.

  3. An rpg where you play the villain.

    It's pretty hard to write interesting morality in a video game, so most writers don't really try. Stock black-and-white characters and situations are the norm, since they're easy to make and easy for a player to decide what to do. From the short time I played Fallout 3, it was one of the most...

  4. Editorial Mass Effect 2: Time Magazine's 10th Video Game of the Year

    Wait, I thought Shepard was just plain military. What's with the "para" prefix? That's really all I've got, not much I could criticize that hasn't been criticized millions of times before.

  5. Game News Bethesda says: Interplay could only use the name 'Fallout'

    Ooooh, a bunch of corporate babies are squabbling over who gets to hug the favorite teddy bear at naptime. Very serious. Let me know if they argue so ferociously one of them loses bladder control.

  6. Review Dragon Knight Saga Review

    It's kinda like Diablo in that combat occupies a large part of the game and there's an aspect of item-fever. On the other hand, it does have lots of sidequests and often different ways to solve them, a solid amount of exploration, and the occasional bit of platforming or puzzle-solving to mix...

  7. Game News Mass Effect 3 - Shepard is Our Only Hope

    The thing is, though, genuine Lovecraftian horrors don't make for good video game antagonists. They can't even be understood, much less overcome, and their power lies in two things: the sheer vastness of their mystery, and their ability to make the protagonists seem small, insignificant, and...

  8. Game News Mass Effect 3 - Shepard is Our Only Hope

    The first Mass Effect had these weird dreams whenever you found ancient beacons. IMO, they were reasonably well done; freaky, distorted, really vague. Set up the Reapers fairly effectively. And then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_NAoNd4 ... re=related I got to this part, and...

  9. Game News The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Announced

    One of Morrowind's expansions took place in a primarily Nord land, and IIRC it was pretty decent. I didn't play it very thoroughly, though, and Bethesda's too next-gen to take stock of anything fun about Morrowind and apply it. I hope they continue to support the modding scene, too. 90-99% of...

  10. Fuck Bioware fans

    Didn't ME2 have a secretary or something that wouldn't sleep with you? I seem to remember her telling FemShep that she'd tongue-fuck her any old time she wanted, then spent the rest of the game feeding my fish. Unless that's a weird sexual metaphor for Bioware, which actually wouldn't surprise...

  11. Is this the end of the world?

    Did GameFAQs ever have a decent community? I think I signed up for their forums in 2001, and drifted around for three months, never found a board that wasn't full of idiots, then forgot about it. Around ten years later, it seems like it's gotten even worse.

  12. So I just won Gothic 2

    You could try Halo. You constantly have to make do with the weapons, ammo and medkits the game gives you, and it's rarely enough. Lots of meaningful C&C, since you can only carry two weapons at a time. /derp It's tricky to find an open-world game with a challenge like that, because if...

  13. TSOTR aka Minarus

    ...your AI is called "TARD"? I desperately want your AI to outperform Bethesda's Radiant crap in every possible way. Then we can say that tard > radiant, and the world will make sense again.

  14. PC Gamer Editorial - "less story is more immersive&quot

    As what? Ask twenty different Codexers what the definition of an RPG is, you'll likely get twenty different answers. For C&C, yeah people understand the basic concept, but when discussing implementation, it's the same situation. It trips up discussions around here all the time. Terrific. Wanna...

  15. Game News Deus Ex: Human Revolutions Footage & Interview

    :smug: Should have stuck with the deflecting bullets. Would've just been lame, as opposed to extra-lame. I dunno, I definitely get more of an IW feel. Vent-crawling and turret-hacking is a good start, but IW did that too. Aesthetics are also much more in line with IW as well. Hopefully that...

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