Verno wrote on Mar 26, 2010, 12:38:
Doubtful. I believe this is simply to drive people towards their console products and will mark their exit from the PC as a platform.

Creston wrote on Mar 22, 2010, 22:11:
I have no facts to back this up, but I think that if Spiderweb Software would put their catalogue on Steam, and offer it up for 5 bucks a piece, they would make a lot more than that 111K.

My biggest problem with their games has always been that they're very expensive. And yes, I know they're a lot cheaper than normal 50 buck games, but they just seem to be expensive for what you get, for some reason.

I'd buy every one of his games for 5 bucks a pop. I might even buy a few at ten bucks a pop.

Creston

dryden555 wrote on Mar 17, 2010, 08:19:
There's a good reason you cant use your DLC in the expansion. The original was crazy easy with all of your armor and weapons buffs on everything. The game designers quite rightly make you go in naked or you would sail thru the expansion, regardless of difficulty level.

DA has a few problems that need fixing, but the biggest one is how 2 mages standing at the back can spam AOE spells and kill everything in 2 hits. Hope they seriously dealt with that in the expansion.

ASJD wrote on Mar 16, 2010, 15:19:
WTF they still haven't even come close to fixing up ArmA2, and haven't brought the latest patch to Steam and now they expect people to buy more?

Seriously, NEVER AGAIN will I buy shit from this company.

Verno wrote on Mar 12, 2010, 14:48:
It comes up because people are tired of EA switching off the servers or having the master server explode at 7pm, relax. It might not make it better but they're just venting, perfectly understandable in this situation where you have a great game but the publisher is hurting the MP.

Cutter wrote on Mar 3, 2010, 12:16:
No one's expecting cutting edge graphics, but the haven't seemed to have changed since he started either. And $28 seems very pricey for a product that hasn't looked to change in 20 years.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Mar 2, 2010, 10:22:
Countless baseball games back in the day you could pitch one every couple hundred games...

Something tells me they have code that doesn't allow you to pitch a perfect game. Wouldn't be tough. 9th inning, everyone gets a hit no matter what.

LightAssassin wrote on Feb 27, 2010, 14:42:
A well designed turned based jrpg is like a battle in chess. It will never die, just with more choices it will become less popular.

Bronco wrote on Feb 24, 2010, 16:14:
I wonder how many of these stream of consciousness social media contraptions go un-viewed every day. If you tweet and no one reads it..does it exist?

What a waste of energy.

The Advocate wrote on Feb 24, 2010, 10:28:
Oh...yay. That's exactly what the Western market needs, more snore inducing grindfests with pseudo-furry characters, 12 year old kids with 10 foot tall hair and 32 foot long swords and a game story that always consists of "you're a humble farmer/peasant/lower class denizen who has been divinely marked for a world changing destiny".

Drayth wrote on Feb 16, 2010, 16:26:

We’ve got some very ambitious plans with DLC – our first pack is coming up in a matter of weeks. We’ll also have title updates coming up because once the game’s out there, we’ll need to get feedback from the people who are playing it, and if need be make a few adjustments and tweaks.

Our team are already prototyping all sorts of stuff to be released as DLC and we’re really excited about it. It’s a really different type of market now; I remember five or six years ago, you’d get a game, finish it, put it back on the shelf and that was it. But now it’s almost as though the game’s release is just the beginning, really. Ours is a game that lends itself very well to expansion – there will be weapons packs, map packs – all sorts of things we can do to get our product out there.

These guys really deliver.

Darks wrote on Feb 15, 2010, 14:04:
Just how is he killing pc gaming Briktal?

CT does more for pc gaming than most Developers do, he’s very committed to pc gaming and trying to keep it alive. Just because someone makes a game for the console to does not mean he’s killing the pc gaming market. It’s called trying to make money in a tight economy so he can keep his company alive and self supported. He’s not owned by EA or any of the other big publishers. He is self sustained. Your accusation is completely unfounded and is your biased opinion.

Darks wrote on Feb 15, 2010, 13:36:
Im not screwing with any of you, take my word for it. The games rock solid. If you liked the first one you will love this one. Its way better.

And btw, this game is not Demigod in any shape or form, or remodled in any way.

The Advocate wrote on Feb 12, 2010, 13:09:
From a financial standpoint alone, how would you justify the manhours and expenses involved to make those small sections, which are completely optional and not required to progress in or complete the game, accessible to that small of a demographic? Note I said "financial standpoint", not PR or because a good friend or even that Blue is colorblind in that spectrum.

I can see investing the money in to it if the majority of the main game play was heavily color based and reliant on color pattern matching. However, in this case, it is not.

Ray Marden wrote on Feb 9, 2010, 07:09:
I really liked the game, but I still hope they expand the story a bit. I know I'm in the minority here, but I still feel like I did a quickie origin story, then I grabbed the required friendly factions, and did an end battle.

It's strange, too, because Mass Effect 2, though a different style of game, feels somewhat similar: find out why you're special, go grab your teammates, and then go kill the bad person.

I guess I just want to see more factions with competing interests and more ambiguous choices - the "good" and "bad" choices still seem really obvious in these games. Although I can understand the argument of them being pointless, I would like to see more quests unrelated to the main story line. It's a lot of the little things adding character to the game that flesh it out for me and make it seem more realistic and less linear/scripted.
Duncan had some impact, but I never felt a part of the Grey Wardens.
Having dealt with combat like I would in WOW (tank, healer, and rest as ranged,)
Ray

Acleacius wrote on Feb 6, 2010, 03:09:

You're dumb. <3

Probably.....defiantly.

Just seem like the story could continue, without Shepard. Maybe not, does it really have to be a Specter now, I mean since there are humans on the council and they can build these ships now, so couldn't a new PC with a different story take over?

I gathered they designed this universe to continue for many, many games and yes I did realize this story was a trilogy, it just never said (at least I saw) it was Shepard's trilogy.

Acleacius wrote on Feb 3, 2010, 12:24:

briktal wrote on Feb 3, 2010, 11:07:
but because people are pretty dumb.

Why are they dumb? Because games like this and in general console games, cater to dumb. Partially this is because of the crappy controller and partly becasue many console gamers are very casual and don't want to have to think. Therefore they should be watching movies, not pretending they care or are interested in gaming.

They have dollars, therefore someone wants to take their dollars. Game companies have been lead to believe, they can have gamers merge with movie goers and everyone will be one big happy family (on prozac?).

So game developers are willing to sacrifice creative quality, for mind numbing inane design, to get insane profits.