Cutter wrote on May 10, 2012, 15:15:
So I can pay taxes on it that I wouldn't with a direct purchase

xXBatmanXx wrote on May 10, 2012, 11:22:
Anyone who buys that crap from retail stores needs their head checked. I guess unless it is a gift, which most sites allow gift options anyway - you end up paying a tax.

eRe4s3r wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 10:57:
Did you just say browser based, micro payments and great game in 1 sentence? I think hell is freezing right now. How many good browser based F2P games with micro transactions do you know? Yeah, thats right. There is not a single one of them that isn't P2W

Bhruic wrote on Apr 22, 2012, 01:55:
Second, ideally the servers should be fine already. The game is less than a month from release, that's not a lot of time to fix any problems with the servers they find. The best case scenario for a stress test is that everything works fine. That means they planned ahead, and properly implemented everything they'd need to do in order for the game to be played properly. Personally, I'd hope they would be able to fix disconnect problems by release time, but there's certainly no guaruntee they'll be able to. So while it's not an end-of-the-world situation, it doesn't necessarily bode well for the finished product.

mch wrote on Apr 19, 2012, 11:55:
Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I finally went ahead and used an Amazon promotional credit to order Skyrim.

Can anyone recommend some good mods to install before I get started?

Thanks!

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Apr 15, 2012, 14:22:
The reality is that Half-Life completely redefined the genre. It had an intro, it started you without weapons, it introduced other characters that had meaningful dialogue, it had platforming, puzzles more complicated than just "find the red key" and it completely redefined what could be achieved through scripted events. For the time there was nothing like it.

Blackhawk wrote on Apr 15, 2012, 12:29:
There were exceptions, of course. System Shock comes to mind,

Dmitri_M wrote on Apr 14, 2012, 22:11:
It had the best kind of video game story telling. No not walls of text talking about Knights and swords followed by predictable "choices" leading to predictable "consequences" that an 8 year old could see coming - no, it's story telling was achieved through visceral well structured set pieces the player actually took part in, well connected by a great theme, which by the end made you feel like you'd experienced a journey yourself - that's about the best "story telling" a game can manage - not hand holding a bunch of NPCs through THEIR story while you passively sat watching out in the real world behind your keyboard.
I went off on a tangent. Deal with it.

Jensen wrote on Apr 13, 2012, 00:42:

panbient wrote on Apr 12, 2012, 11:15:
Same as the loss of 1000FPS between the 1st and 2nd screens where the only difference seems to be looking at the center of the room as opposed to the top right corner and increasing the brightness so you can actually see that you're in an rather empty room...

uh, he used an area light in the second shot to cast shadows that get softer as they get further away from their source. it was like "LOL.. look how slow it was when i tried this thing".

Elessar wrote on Apr 12, 2012, 10:53:
Still, they're prototypes and we don't know how it plays. So I'll reserve full judgement. Just not sure these screenshots were really worth releasing.

Yifes wrote on Apr 5, 2012, 18:48:
Your total score at the end affects which ending you can choose, and how battle is progressing on Earth. Yes, the options are limited compared to all the choices you had to make throughout the series, but like I said before, those choices were resolved outside of the final sequence.

NegaDeath wrote on Apr 5, 2012, 17:51:
I don't recall people complaining when that EXACT thing happened at the end of Mass Effect 2.

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 18:20:

Just because it's a tile based engine doesn't mean those tiles are not textured.

The Infinity Engine is NOT tile-based. Each area is a fixed-resolution continuous 2D bitmap. As such, "upgrading the textures" would mean each area would need to be redrawn by hand. It's not feasible.

nin wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 18:04:
If you don't like that sort of gameplay, fine. But don't insist BG should change so it's more like some other game that wasn't BG.

Krovven wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 12:59:
Primarily because this is not a polygon game that uses textures.