Yakubs wrote on Mar 10, 2013, 18:53:
Seems fairly obvious to me that they planned on putting in an offline mode at some point all along (once the DRM is less important than squeezing out marginal sales) and they're only announcing it this early to try to calm the hordes.

Similar to how to Blizzard claimed D3's online-only aspect was mandatory and yet are turning it off for the console version.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 15:36:
Gloomy day here in MN. light rain but tons of snow on the ground....perfect day for chili! It is sooo damn good!

RaZ0r! wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 14:22:
I pledged. This, and Lord British's game, and Carmageddon...

I feel so weak.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 15:34:

More people played and played in ways we never saw in the beta.

Shitty Beta then.

NegaDeath wrote on Mar 9, 2013, 01:02:
Free game from EA for anyone who bought SimCity.

Figured this would happen.

Frijoles wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 23:23:
GMG is doing their usual 20% off coupon, which works on Tomb Raider. Brought the cost down to $40. Although I'm a bit nervous these days using a third party to get Steam keys. I've started using them more though and haven't had a problem.

Flatline wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 19:28:

Cutter wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 16:42:

Jerykk wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 15:31:

Cutter wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 13:12:
Environmental art isn't bad but could be grittier. Character art is horrenedous. What is this? A kids cartoon? Too much combat focus. Dialogue looks poor so far. Standard Bioware G/N/E responses. So yeah, at this point I'm really beginning to regret my investment.

You'll be hard-pressed to find any RPG that doesn't have a combat focus. Even PST has a lot of mandatory combat. That said, if you listened to the narration, you would have realized that there are non-combat opportunities in the demo. The street thug fight could have been avoided if the player had enough charisma and the interior fight could have likely been avoided if the player had a disguise.

It would be boring without combat but it's another thing when that's the main focus. And the dialogue seems to be very Bioware...so far. Limited G/N/E, one or two sentence conversations because god forbid anyone should have to read some real dialogue. So far I'm not impressed. The saving grace *may* be the editor. However, that all depends on how difficult it is to use and the amount of assets involved.

Wow. You're seriously judging an entire game based off of a 20 minute alpha clip of a side mission. Why aren't you playing the stock market with that kind of predictive skill?

Tell ya what. If you don't like the dialogue in the mission... write your own fucking mission. That's what the mission editor will be for. The damn thing is drag & drop. You can finally show us how the game *should* be.

Creston wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 21:49:
They replaced 75% of his SKULL?

I... wait... what?



Creston

Redmask wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 21:24:
Sigh, hopefully they can launch this one without a huge debacle.