VD: That's right; you wait to judge to the new Vampire game; but BIO games you haven't played (KOTOR) are up for you to bash. I won't say anything more about the Vampire game as I've made my position clear on that game in other, more pertient threads.
How about criticing Mr. Cain's decision to go with the part alignment thing. No, I forgot, everyone defends it as a "new & improved' alignment sytem when it is basically a joke, and very anti dnd alignment rules. But, that's cool. Troika's implementating it so it must be good.
I'm not criticizing him for making a tb game; in fact I like the fact he's making a tb game. That is not the issue here. Once again, I'm not defending the qustioner as I think we'll all agree he's a dumbass. Please, BIO and BIS are as direct as they can be. You forget that unlike Mr. Gaider, and Mr. Sawyer who are just employees; Mr. Cains owns Troika so it's not like he;'ll be fired for publicly "overstepping" his bounds. How, would I handle it the question? Good question. Can't say for sure; but I would try to defend my design decisions without bashing the competition. Not that hard. Instead, he allowed the question to goad him into self defensive mode.
Exitium, probably for the same reason people here are seeing Mr. Cain's word as "innocent", and Mr. Gaider's words as an attack against TOEE and how it sucks like POR2 which he never said at all.
Bio has failed miserably? That's an odd thing to say - espicially consideirng a guy who seemed to enjoy IWD2 so much. Hmmm... It's now arrogance to take the dnd ruleset, and not apply them ina certain set limit? Interesting... Seriously, if every dnd game was plain old turn base; taht would get all samey; but to each their own. I like the fact that there are these two systems that both work for dnd in the computer environment. And, please, once again, Mr. Gaider didn't even imply that TOEE was utter crap. All he said was that TOEE, and POR2 are BOTH turn based which is completely and utterly fact. And, how exactly is that bragging? Hmmm.. I'm sorry "I make true dnd; the others (in reference to NWN & PST) are just wannabe hybrids"; doesn't reek of arrogance? That's interesting...
Sabotai: Consideirng his answer was referencing both NWN, and PST; both very successful games that work very well within the dnd framekwork; and have some great advantages over TOEE whetehr you admit it or not; I wouldn't exactly call them "shitty engines".
And, no, I definitely don't feel he was attacking me personally. That would be silly. There is no reference at all to Volourn in his comments. for some odd reason; I don't think I'm that important to Mr. Cain for him to even waste time 'attacking" me.
He said his opinion on the so-called "hyrbids"; and I simply disagree. That's all this is about.
DnD is well tested? Taht's interetsing. Then explain why there is a 35 version out there. Hmmm... We also aren't talking about a lot of games who may or may not be successful - we are talking about NWN, and PST. Whether or not you like them; they are very successful. His comments were dircted at those two games; not those fictional ones.
And, TOEE isn't changing the DnD sytem? That's interetsing. 5 pc characters controlled by one player. Hmmm.. That sure isn't common practice in pnp. Last I checked, neither the Aurora or IE are "screwed up".
Heh. All this over some silly comments in a silly interview.
Enjoy. :D
