Cutter wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 21:40:
They're not even A titles, nevermind triple A. They bang them off each year with a few months work. Really they're generally nothing more than roster changes and some cosmetic tweaks here and there. And like I said, I worked for EA for 2 years so yeah I think I know from what I speak and yeah I have a right to bash them. And given the disdain with which they treat their staff and customers everyone else has the right to take shots at them too.

WaltC wrote on Sep 22, 2012, 00:59:

Optional nickname wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 10:10:

Extremely polished, Extremely worth not $20, but $60.

Actually, I wish you wouldn't say that...;) It just shows how you've become conditioned to think that "$60" is "the right price" to pay for a game of decent to outstanding quality. I think Runic has got it right, though, because in charging $20 they are bound to sell many more copies than they would have sold at $60, and so they are bound to make a lot more money with the game than they would have at a $60 per-copy MSRP. Piracy will be greatly reduced, too, from what it would have been with a $60 MSRP. People have got to quit responding like Pavlov's dogs when they hear a bell...;) Runic is ahead of the curve with their pricing metrics--they've got the right approach where so many game developers don't have a clue--which is a pity for them and us.

The musical Soundtrack is so effing beautiful, it is actually overpowering to this cartoony like game, to a point, but I shall let it play in TL2, and never ever bring that into Diablo3, shame on those that consider this.

I was very pleased about the fact that the game itself doesn't look "cartoonish" at all! The cut-scenes are all cartoon, though, but thankfully they aren't worth our attention in the scheme of the game.

the isometric view is zoomed out a touch at 1080p, but it is a very welcomed change, albeit the small monster appearance, I haven't seen the rest, but so far they looked a little translucent

Use the mouse wheel and zoom in about as close as you like. Apparently, you haven't done that yet. I'm playing at 1920x1200 and the resolution *and* the UI scale beautifully--you can even scale the UI independently of the game--I found that at my resolution 80% scaling on the UI is perfect for me.

edit: Forgot to say my favorite part, this game is like Dungeon Seige 1 , but so much better! THANK YOU FOR THIS!

Dungeon Siege had far more of story than T2, and wasn't particularly Diablo1/2-like at all, but I love T2 because it reminds me so much of D2 which I thoroughly enjoyed on my 3dfx V3, IIRC...;) I love the music and the atmosphere of T2.

The one thing I recall about Dungeon Siege was that you could rotate the camera on the x axis 360-degrees around your character/party--you couldn't rotate on the Y axis completely--but it made Dungeon Siege seem a lot closer to a real 3d game than the frozen isometric view that T1 and T2, and probably D2, as well, are limited to.

Thanks for reminding me that the next "old" game I'll have to buy when it comes out--say on GoG.com--is the original Dungeon Siege. I think it was the best in the series, and that the franchise went downhill quickly after the first one.

Cutter wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 19:50:

JaZeeL wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 17:01:

Cutter wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 15:18:

John wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 11:16:
Another game on Kickstarter that looks promising is Blackspace.

They worked for EA sports and have shipped tons of AAA games and they can't even list one of them? Right. Pass.

Working together for the past 7 years, Jerry Phaneuf and Volga Aksoy have contributed to award-winning AAA games, including EA Sports MMA, Madden NFL Franchises, NASCAR Franchises, Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchises, and more. With their combined holistic knowledge and high-level experience, they bring the best in art and design, software engineering, and project management.

???

Since when are EA sports games triple A titles? And they don't mention what capacity. In short, they're being very intentionally vague which is never a good sign. Hell, I worked for EA on EA sports games.

nin wrote on Sep 20, 2012, 13:14:

It's equally amazing to me how companies with zero project management, Valve and Blizzard for example stay in business.

Would you really want a valve product on based on some managers dictated timeframe?

Hell, Blizzard can't get it right half the time even when they do take forever...

jacobvandy wrote on Sep 20, 2012, 12:47:

TheEmissary wrote on Sep 20, 2012, 12:33:
I don't think Valve would shake up Half-Life in that way without experimenting with it. Valve tends to experiment with new game mechanics before they put them in practice and we haven't seen anything remotely open world from them yet.

They could do it with Episode 3 first. Episode 2 already had somewhat open-ended objectives in a very large area.

Flatline wrote on Sep 17, 2012, 15:38:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 17, 2012, 15:23:
Doubtful that they learned anything to be honest, Laidlaw and Gaider were still all about the "awesome button" long past the sales failure that was DAII.

Apparently DA2 outsold DA:O significantly. I'm not sure it was a sales failure.

Creston wrote on Sep 17, 2012, 12:13:
Built on frostbite 2? Now that sounds really interesting.

I'm glad they're taking their time with this one. Hopefully at least SOMEONE at Bioware realizes that going from 4 million sales on Origins to 2 million sales on the turd that's DA2 means that you did something wrong somewhere. Despite all the bleating by Mark Laidlaw.

We'll see how it goes. Bioware has a lot of work to do to regain the blind pre-order trust from its fanbase. As far as I'm concerned, their games have been relegated to "I'll see what people say after a few weeks of it having been out," status.

Creston

Dades wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 22:03:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 17:31:
It's more than likely by state. Personally I've never heard of a human rights law other than by UN PC types, or from the example stated in this thread.

It was linked three times here already, it's both a federal law and a state law in every state. This is easily verified with Google. If you want to stick your head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist to make some dumb political rant then go ahead but you are 100% wrong.

While we don't know enough to know if this ever happened in this particular case, I think it's a point worth mentioning that harassment laws are very clear that the behavior in question must have been called to the attention of the alleged harasser as being unwanted and viewed inappropriate by the harassed for it to be legally actionable

He indicated he would not change his behavior and alluded to a future hostile work environment, it's pretty clear cut. Then he went out on the internet and admitted it to the world. I don't see any wiggle room here for Brad Wardell. He claims she made everything up and sabotaged his game at random but his own correspondence says otherwise. I don't really care what his political affiliations are, it is despicable behavior.

space captain wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 22:12:
ROLLINGCHIKN MAKES HIS OWN TRUTH!

Beelzebud wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 17:29:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 16:52:

Creston wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 15:11:

Teddy wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 15:05:

Creston wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 14:24:
nice...
One thing I do agree with, however, is that since he owns the company, he can pretty much do whatever he wants to in it (within legal boundaries, of course.) It is NOT against the law to make vulgar jokes that make people uncomfortable, despite all the efforts of the US to apparently make it so.

I don't know what hole you're living in, but where I'm from it absolutely IS illegal, regardless of whether your company is publicly traded or not. It's a violation of human rights law, not employment law.

Further, if it -were- legal to do what he did, then the judge would not have refused to toss the case when Wardell tried to get them to do so. Frankly, I think you're operating on an ancient and idiotic supposition that will get you sued one day, and rightfully so.

Human rights law. Oookay, Teddy. Keep huffing the glue, buddy. Every single one of your posts becomes fucking dumber and dumber, so now you go on the dumbass list.

Creston

Remember the Politically Correct/Liberal crowd tends to like to make up reality as they go along to suit their views.

Says the guy siding with the person that is completely wrong about what the laws actually say.

nin wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 17:14:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 16:52:

Creston wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 15:11:

Teddy wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 15:05:

Creston wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 14:24:
nice...
One thing I do agree with, however, is that since he owns the company, he can pretty much do whatever he wants to in it (within legal boundaries, of course.) It is NOT against the law to make vulgar jokes that make people uncomfortable, despite all the efforts of the US to apparently make it so.

I don't know what hole you're living in, but where I'm from it absolutely IS illegal, regardless of whether your company is publicly traded or not. It's a violation of human rights law, not employment law.

Further, if it -were- legal to do what he did, then the judge would not have refused to toss the case when Wardell tried to get them to do so. Frankly, I think you're operating on an ancient and idiotic supposition that will get you sued one day, and rightfully so.

Human rights law. Oookay, Teddy. Keep huffing the glue, buddy. Every single one of your posts becomes fucking dumber and dumber, so now you go on the dumbass list.

Creston

Remember the Politically Correct/Liberal crowd tends to like to make up reality as they go along to suit their views.

Oh look, another political hijack from you! Typical.

Creston wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 15:11:

Teddy wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 15:05:

Creston wrote on Sep 6, 2012, 14:24:
nice...
One thing I do agree with, however, is that since he owns the company, he can pretty much do whatever he wants to in it (within legal boundaries, of course.) It is NOT against the law to make vulgar jokes that make people uncomfortable, despite all the efforts of the US to apparently make it so.

I don't know what hole you're living in, but where I'm from it absolutely IS illegal, regardless of whether your company is publicly traded or not. It's a violation of human rights law, not employment law.

Further, if it -were- legal to do what he did, then the judge would not have refused to toss the case when Wardell tried to get them to do so. Frankly, I think you're operating on an ancient and idiotic supposition that will get you sued one day, and rightfully so.

Human rights law. Oookay, Teddy. Keep huffing the glue, buddy. Every single one of your posts becomes fucking dumber and dumber, so now you go on the dumbass list.

Creston

Beamer wrote on Sep 5, 2012, 23:07:

Sepharo wrote on Sep 5, 2012, 21:07:
Does your comment have anything to do with what you quoted? Or is it just like those of professional spammers...

"Interesting game. You should check out these interesting shoes at ubuynow.com for $35."

Yeah, it was a pretty non-partisan post he went off on, damning both sides and showing favoritism to neither. It said the Dems sucked but gave credit to the Republicans for trying less hard to hide their equal suck.

Bodolza wrote on Sep 5, 2012, 13:15:
I've got to give credit to the Republicans this time. At least they aren't pretending they want an open internet. Their party platform just says outright that they don't care about protecting openness, except for what's in their own self-interest.

Shok wrote on Sep 4, 2012, 22:37:
Still Origin free here. Waiting for the DLC that removes the Origin requirement. FU EA!

Yakubs wrote on Sep 3, 2012, 01:31:

Dades wrote on Sep 3, 2012, 01:15:

Yakubs wrote on Sep 2, 2012, 23:21:
Let's hear what risks Guild Wars 2 took. I can't wait to hear what you fanboys come up with.

You took the risk of leveling up to 5 before making sweeping statements about the game so we'll listen to your words of wisdom mr internet study. We didn't hear you the first 20 times.

OK, so you're going to make a statement that you can't back up and then pretend like you're taking the high road by claiming that's what I'm doing? Respectable.

And I said I played it for 3 days, not 3 hours. I know this is hard for you to believe but the game is not so incredibly deep that it's impossible to understand it after 3 days.

EDIT: I'm honestly interested in how GW2 is "taking risks." Please enlighten me on your clear statement rather than trying to change the subject to your perception of my character.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Sep 2, 2012, 20:34:
Hrm, poor ToC DHs. Not that surprising though considering how crazy the damage was, for a Discipline skill. Still,the 1.05 patch probably won't be out for a month, so farm it up while you can, ToH users.

Oh well, still playing D3 occasionally, but really looking forward to Borderlands 2/Torchlight 2.

I stopped playing Starcraft 2 over a year ago, not sure about the rest of you guys but I've utterly lost interest in any SC2 'expansions' they are going to attempt to sell at +$40.

The sad thing is, it doesn't even seem like Blizzard is intentionally trying to hamper players' enjoyment, it's like they just don't even understand how to make a fun game or something. Nobody thinks .0000001% drop rates are fun, Blizzard. Also, screw the AHs.

Cutter wrote on Aug 31, 2012, 22:59:

Nate wrote on Aug 31, 2012, 21:44:
The patch on 8/30 helped performance a great deal for many people. It also improved stability and added new stuff.

PS2 is great fun. I pre-purchased GW2 and am not even interested in it now.

Hah, I'm the opposite. It's all GW2. I've checked out PS2 for a few hours but it's still has a very long way to go.

eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 28, 2012, 10:50:
Exactly, how dare they ruin my hobby? ^^

More importantly though, I care for Mech Warrior, and it ain't Mech Warrior with no campaign or point. Battle Tech, to take it further, is all about REASON, LIMITED RESOURCES, and character driven stories. Not about Deathmatch. This is the fast-food of battle-tech and it tastes like fast food tastes.

eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 28, 2012, 08:36:
Because Mechwarror 1, 2 ,3 ,4 had SP ? What would ever make us want SP...

Yifes wrote on Aug 26, 2012, 00:25:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Aug 25, 2012, 21:49:

Fion wrote on Aug 25, 2012, 21:46:
It's easy to join in a party, no matter if others are in offerflow or not. If your in different overflow instances or not, join group and right click on portrait and select 'join in'. You'll automatically be switched to the right 'server'.

Except it doesn't work and hasn't since 2am. Hence my frustration.

An easy work around is to regroup at one of the capital cities. Any instance you enter as a group from then on should be the same, and you shouldn't have any problems as long as everyone sticks together.

I'm also enjoying the game much more than during the beta. Now I'm taking my time exploring, doing the personal quest, and crafting, and the pacing is much better.

Also, I'm finding that the best moments I've had so far are those where its just my party of 3 taking on champions by ourselves; You really have to think and time your dodges rather than just mash your face into the keyboard as a part of a 30 man zergfest.