"Your rationale for this big pile of urine called steam doesn't quite make sense - unless you can purchase HL2 for $12 dollars on steam, thereby QUADRUPLING valve's profit on each sale --- Wait - how much is HL2 on steam?"
In case you didn't know, Vivendi won't allow them to sell the game below retail price.
You are right, not enought carnage and violence, and no ultra detailed 3d ships, what are they thinking for trying to release some old school stupid pirate game ?!?
Why can't Valve quit with the hype ?!? I can't take it anymore, i'm sick and tired of reading throught all this stupid news, this game is bargain bin only for me >:(
"Now, you can say they made some great games, but you can't say any of them were actually original games. Just because something is good doesn't mean it's original."
i thought Torment was one of the most original games i ever played, but then again, i don't judge games by engines or settings, particularly RPGs, but that's just me i guess...
"Black Isle did not produce Baldur's Gate. They only published it."
Actually, they did some minor work in the game, mainly sound and a few other things, but yes, what i meant is that Baldur's Gate is the only game they produced togheter with Black Isle as the publisher.
"I'm a bit confused and I've been wanting to ask this question for a while. This seems like as good a place as any. What roles did BioWare and Black Isle fill on Baldur's Gate and other perennial role playing games?"
Black Isle games include :
Fallout 1 & 2
Planescape : Torment
Icewinddale 1 & 2
Bioware's RPGs are :
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
NWN
KOTOR
Black Isle used to be Bioware's publisher, and they were very close during the first years (and still are, Obsidian are working on KOTOR2 and NWN2 thanks to Bioware), though the only RPG they produced togheter was the original Baldur's Gate...