Soulburner wrote on Jul 24, 2012, 02:49:
Regarding Fallout, I also believe New Vegas was brilliant. The writing, the dialogs, the side quests! Each companion had an interesting story and quests associated with them. The dialogs were engaging (with speech skill and some perks greatly influencing gameplay) and often funny.

While playing Skyrim, after I while I started noticing what's missing. The dialogs weren't any fun, including the dialog options. The speech skill was useless. Side quests were mostly rather uninspired. And I'm bored! And New Vegas... I keep returning to it and always find something cool. The DLCs were also pretty nice.

So yeah, Bethesda, please hire Obsidian to do Fallout 4. Maybe while Obsidian would work on Fallout 4, Bethesda could focus on the new Elder Scrolls game. That would be pretty good, wouldn't it?

Im the opposite, I enjoyed Bethesda's Fallout 3 a lot more then Obsidian's Fallout NV.

Dev wrote on Jul 23, 2012, 01:34:

Jerykk wrote on Jul 23, 2012, 00:47:
I know one of the levels in Contracts plays licensed music that Eidos/Square apparently lost the license to. Pandora Tomorrow probably has the same issue.

Maybe they should like PAY some money to relicense it so we can throw money at them? lol

They could just remove/replace the music in question. Thats not uncommon on dvd releases of TV shows.

Ray Marden wrote on Jul 22, 2012, 21:31:
I have no idea about DR2, but I do know AC previously hit rates of $7.50 through the non-Steam sites. Keep an eye out and it should hit that rate again sometime soon.
It is the only reason I did not buy it for $10.20.
Edit: $9.99 as a download at Lamestop. If they will sell it for $10, the other sites will definitely sell it for cheaper (when on sale.)

Noting that was only for the core game,
Ray

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jul 22, 2012, 20:56:
...People... stop buying Skyrim, so the price can finally drop to under 10 dollars!

The Damage:
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C&C Red Alert 3
Darksiders
Portal 2
Warlock: Master of the Arcane (With Warlock DLC)
Saints Row 3 full pack
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Binding of Isaac (bundle)
Civ 5 GotY (+Korea)
Rage
Krater(Possibly a waste of money at 7.49, time will tell)

I am still waiting on (most likely a winter sale at this point) Dead Rising 2, Skyrim of course, Stronghold 3, Batman AC and some others to hit that sweet spot. Steam and Gamersgate sales have spoiled me utterly.

Ray Marden wrote on Jul 22, 2012, 11:08:
I think Micro$oft has a bad patch policy, but Fish knew what he was getting into. It is his company's fault that the game has some significant bugs, including wiping out everything a player has put into the game, and he has made money from releasing the game. On top of that, he is talking about releasing on other platforms - about making further money - and his answer is "f*ck off" to the gamers negatively impacted by his company's programming faults?

It is not that they cannot resolve the issue, it is not that they do not have the money to do so, it is not that they can give guidance to people on how to avoid it or use a workaround - his answer is simply that it is not worth it to him to patch it.

And what if his game needs another patch? Or there were bigger issues? A larger player base was affected? Just screw those people, too?
Creating, hyping, and selling a game have expectation repercussions.
Thinking issues with Micro$oft are not grounds for destroying saves,
Ray

As an aside, I find it annoying that some bundles don't include all the games; for example Splinter Cell's bundle is missing Pandora Tormorrow and The Hitman bundle is missing Contracts. Obviously contractual disputes since neither game is on Steam at all but these couldn't have been worked out by now? These aren't exactly new games...

space captain wrote on Jul 22, 2012, 16:23:

Jerykk wrote on Jul 22, 2012, 15:45:
The new Superman movie looks like it might actually be good. Hopefully it will explore the moral dilemma that he constantly faces. That is, the conflict between his god-like powers and the moral code his father instilled in him. Give the average person incredible power and they'll inevitably become corrupted by it, doing whatever they want because nobody can stop them. Seeing how Superman copes with this temptation is what makes him interesting but none of the movies have really dealt with this.

for one thing, hes not human..

DeadlyAccurate wrote on Jul 22, 2012, 00:14:

nin wrote on Jul 21, 2012, 22:49:
I think I fall into the cautiously skeptical section. I'd love for it to be awesome, but I'm going to need to see a number of positive comments from people that have played it before I'll consider.

Me, too. One of my biggest worries is that it'll be a bad console-to-PC port

Zyrxil wrote on Jul 21, 2012, 20:54:

Silicon Avatar wrote on Jul 21, 2012, 17:28:
Eh... I dunno. If you only get 1 shot at a patch and you mess it up knowing that it is going to cost you to fix it you'd think that patch would be bullet-proof.

It is not like they have to test against a million different pieces of hardware like you do on PC.

I'm confused as to why the testing process didn't catch the bug in the first place though. Isn't that what they are paid to do? Seems like the error is mutual and he should get to put his patch back up free.

1- Modern games are super complex, even if they're not AAA titles. It's a gameplay bug, not a hardware related crash. It's not reasonable to think a game can be completely bug free.

2- MS Certification, AFAIK, is only to make sure your patch doesn't melt your console or cause crashes. Again, it's a gameplay bug, and there's certainly no way MS patch certification guys could check for that.

Beamer wrote on Jul 21, 2012, 19:25:

Jerykk wrote on Jul 21, 2012, 18:50:
So in addition to the usual 30% cut that MS takes from all XBLA games, they'd take an additional cut for being the publisher, which means that Fish likely only gets 30% profit from each sale. Then you have to consider the costs of development, what with dev kits costing $10,000.

Pretty sure the first part isn't entirely true, and I'm also pretty sure XBLA games don't require dev kits. Could be wrong about both, but I think Fez can be developed the same way an XB Indie game is and no dev kit is needed.

Still sounds dumb that Microsoft charges the same for an XBLA certification as a full AAA certification. Not even getting into whether there's a good reason for certification and for costs, just charging the same seems like a bad idea.

PHJF wrote on Jul 21, 2012, 11:07:

Yes, except imagine how scary Dead Space would be if you were on the same space station without any weapons.

Yeah sorry that isn't how fear works. It's still a video game. You know what Dead Space would be like without weapons? A really boring fucking game that probably wouldn't have sold 1/4 as many copies. System Shock 2 had plenty of weapons and was far "scarier" than Dead Space. Fear in video games is a matter of atmosphere, not vulnerability.