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I suggest you rethink your position, or you might have to explain to the many, many Neverwinter, KotOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age fans why the games they enjoy are in fact bad.

This sounds like a threat. I'd report him for trying to intimidate me. Help us free the forum of internet bullies! :salute:
 

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I didn't bother checking that thread. Lots of nice material in there that you've nicely posted.

:love:
 

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idk why its such a bad topic on here
its a rugged, ice-covered land filled with barbarians and savage warriors
itd be weird NOT to see some prostitutes in meed halls and war chief lairs
not saying anything over-the-top like GTA, but just to make it seem more realistic and viking'ish
incline of skyrim fans
Nonsense, we don't need hookers in Skyrim. They just need to follow the advice of that guy from the leaked Quakecon demo and include the ability to RAPE EVERYONE YOU MEET. RAPE! RAAAAAAAAAAPE! :obviously:
 

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I am honestly not sure who has the worse fanbase at the moment, Bethesda or Bioware.
 

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I still vote Bioware. Bethesda's got the crazy modders, but the regular Bioware fans make up for it in volume of unsavory shit.
 

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Let's expand this subject, shall we? What is worse for the RPG genre and gaming in general: Bethtards', "All that's necessary in an RPG is my imagination!"? Or BioTards', "RPG's are about epic stories and interacting with virtual fuck-buddies!"?
 
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corvus said:
Let's expand this subject, shall we? What is worse for the RPG genre and gaming in general: Bethtards', "All that's necessary in an RPG is my imagination!"? Or BioTards', "RPG's are about epic stories and interacting with virtual fuck-buddies!"?

For the codex definition of RPG? Biotards are worse by far.

Bethtards preferences lead to sandbox games, which can be a lot of fun if the world simulation and game systems are robust.

Biotard preferences lead to dev time being spent on polished cinematic set-pieces at the expense of player options.
 

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ImmoralMechanic said:
corvus said:
Let's expand this subject, shall we? What is worse for the RPG genre and gaming in general: Bethtards', "All that's necessary in an RPG is my imagination!"? Or BioTards', "RPG's are about epic stories and interacting with virtual fuck-buddies!"?

For the codex definition of RPG? Biotards are worse by far.

Bethtards preferences lead to sandbox games, which can be a lot of fun if the world simulation is and game systems are robust.

Biotard preferences lead to dev time being spent on polished cinematic set-pieces at the expense of player options.

Completely agreed. If companies emulate Bethesda more, there would be more innovation and slightly higher chances of interesting stuff to do in game.

If most devs followed the Biofans demands, I'm afraid we'll just end up with a bunch of recycled epic plot lines and graphic novel in fantasy land.
 

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That's a tough one. Beth fanboys are dense in that they think pretending = role-playing game, but rabid Bio fans have a definite edge in sheer creepiness. When an Oblivion fan talks about how they role-played a nobleman because they wore fancy clothes and bought a big house and had pretend-conversations with the Count of Bravil, I just think it's funny and a (little) sad. I can imagine an amused Pete Hines reading posts like the ones sgc_meltdown showed, all the while thinking "Ha! These fucking idiots - we don't even have to make actual content in the game! These dumbshits will just make content up in their heads that doesn't even exist in-game, pay $60 for it, and when all's said and done, they'll call us geniuses for it!"

I gotta give it to BioWare for having worse fans tho, because even if Oblivion modders add furry/nude mods a few days hours minutes after release, BioWare games make the creepy romance stuff a central part of the game. So based on pure creepiness and Tali/Merril fandom, I give it to Bio fans.
 

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Evil LARPers, having taunted the Codex with their vile tales of Immershun, have been thrown overboard from the HMS Codex and meet their fate:

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There are different aspects of "immersion".
For me immersion is the little details that make the game world more believable and feel more realistic. Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul for example changes the game to be more place centric than player centric, ie monsters scale by their location not by the player character's level, with the hairiest ones in the more remote places, and the roads and area around the Imperial City being safer. And there are also notices posted in the Imperial City that warns about the dangerous areas.

And there are mods that add pipes. You can smoke the pipe yourself if you choose and at various Inns the NPCs have a small chance of smoking a pipe. The difference between a true LARP'er and myself is that I don't bother with the smoking myself (what would really be the point?) but I enjoy the added detail to the game world. Kind of reminds me of Strider at the Prancing Pony in Lord of the Rings.

Making a background for your character helps if you want to avoid being The Chosen One - The One Person That Can Save The World. My favourite character in Oblivion was a Khajit who was addicted to Skooma and needed a fix every day. So I used a mod that delayed the Main Quest and let me start just about anywhere, and started in the Skooma Den in Bravil. That was the incentive for burglaring, thieving and tomb raiding instead of just following the main quest.
 

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I find it a bit scary (imagine how Codex would react to such revelation just few years ago), but currently bethtards seem to be less retarded than biowhores.

At least I can believe that bethtards would appreciate it if someone made a game that would react to and accomodate what they are larping. They are sad fuckers with their mindboggling make-pretend, but I think their madness is not incurable and threads made by the ones that manage to get into Morrowind or Daggerfall are mildly encouraging.

Now, biowhores seem to thrive on regurgitated stories, bad interactive movies, fake choices and exclusively bi companions, so that players are not limited in pursuit of their "romantic interests" and everyone can fuck with everyone else. I can't see them adapting to a hypothetical perfect RPG even though I can appreciate *good* storyfag game once in a while.
 

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I was going to say Bethtards are much worse than biowhores cause at least some biowhores hate DA2 whilst most bethtards regard Oblivion as a classic. But DraQ brings up a good point.

On another forum I saw one guy (who's a typical consolefag whose only exposure to rpgs is Mass Effect and Fallout 3 and of course he regards them as amazing classics with a crap tonne of depth with choices) playing Dragon Age Origins. And he was just raging about how the C&C has terrible design.

The rage was Best Thread Ever material but it was basically him raging about how the game didn't make the consequences clear enough before hand (e.g. he thought there needed to be an icon for the dialogue when hardening Alistair, and he thought it should've been a lot clearer what the two dwarf kings were going to do with the kingdom when it was pretty clear what their motives were if you just talked to people) Seeing him write off those examples as "horrible game design" was quite infuriating- I mean, sure DA: O isn't great with the C&C but it's still a step up from ME.
 

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Stinger said:
I was going to say Bethtards are much worse than biowhores cause at least some biowhores hate DA2 whilst most bethtards regard Oblivion as a classic.

Implying that DA2 is way shittier than oblibion and it can't be fixed with mods(like oblivion).Beth tards are OK.
 

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DraQ said:
Now, biowhores seem to thrive on regurgitated stories, bad interactive movies, fake choices and exclusively bi companions, so that players are not limited in pursuit of their "romantic interests" and everyone can fuck with everyone else. I can't see them adapting to a hypothetical perfect RPG even though I can appreciate *good* storyfag game once in a while.

Thing is, some of them even called Witcher 1 and 2 immature compared to Bioware's games because it has tit cards or naked sex scenes but it lacks the deep relationships of Bioware games. :retarded:

While the Bioware romances are totally deep and emotional and add a lot to the story and the characters and even the gameplay and they're totally mature and serious.
 

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JarlFrank said:
Thing is, some of them even called Witcher 1 and 2 immature compared to Bioware's games because it has tit cards or naked sex scenes but it lacks the deep relationships of Bioware games.
Understandable. The Witcher 2 is an order of magnitude more mature during the game proper but during the sex cutscenes it plummets to lowbrow pandering. The poorly-animated jerky puppets in ME aren't much better but at least the game doesn't open with a softcore porn-esque T&A shot.

It might be different form a non-american perspective, but CDPR is better than that and they shouldn't have ever put themselves in a position to be compared to Bioware.
 

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