Tuesday, 4 November 2008
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| Re: Fallout 3? Kilgaard 21:37:56 |
| | "Jonah Falcon" <jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:1142433709.254036.250680@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...> http://xbox360.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3148743>
Very dubious reporting. The "quote" is actually attributed to Xbox 365 (the
hosting website) and not Pete Hines.
What he does say is the next paragraph is a flat denial of their "quote".
So they have made up a story out of whole cloth and are trying to dress it
up to make it look like Pete said something, which he actually denies.
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Monday, 13 October 2008
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| Cow Level Diablo 2 Edward Cowling London UK 18:47:13 |
| | For the first time after a few times through the game I managed to get
the cow level portal to open.
To be honest it was fairly small and disappointing, but I loved the
unconvincing "Moo" sounds. Obviously recorded by members of the
development team after a particularly good office party 
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Edward Cowling "Time is not your enemy, forever is !!"
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| FO3 & PS3 Diane P. 06:36:13 |
| | Look, I have never played a game on a console much less an RPG, but here's
the deal.
We have bought a 52" inch LCD and have decided to get a PS3 to act as our
blu-ray player. It's a very popular alternative to stand-alone blu-ray
players, at least on some of the a/v websites and the folks who have home
theater setups with large screen TV's.
Now, I'm thinking if I buy FO3, can someone give me some insight as to how
the experience will differ console v. pc? Visually, seeing it on such a
large screen..that's obvious, but I've read here about poor ports from PC to
console and console to pc. Will the rpg elements suffer playing the game on
a PS3?
I know that some of you here have played some CRPG's on console and could
share some insight. Thanks.
D.
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Sunday, 12 October 2008
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| Re: hating open world RPGs and I'm not alone CoinSpin 22:58:23 |
| | Wolfing wrote:
I feel much better now after reading this Fallout 3 report I'm not alone! It's surprising how exactly the same I feel about those type of games. Because of so many people saying Fallout 1 and 2 were the best RPGs ever, I got them a few months ago. I kinda forced myself to finish Fallout 1, but just couldn't finish Fallout 2. It's just an uneasy feeling in this type of games, of not knowing what to do, am I doing the right thing by going to town A instead of B? or in just moving around without a specific reason to. I just don't like that. Guess it's a reason why I didn't like games like the Gothics (well, the 1 and 2 I just hated the interface). I did enjoy Oblivion, but never really went anywhere that I didn't need to. If I got a quest to go to point C, I'd go there, do what I needed to do and went back. Never really looked around, and the few times I did, when I saw a cave unrelated to anything, I felt dumbstruck... 'should I go in? What if I shouldn't? Nobody said anything about this cave!'. It's not really the same as only liking those JRPG games where you just follow a story. I just need reasons to do stuff. Guess I'm not really the explorer type.
I've found that I tend to enjoy games that fall more into the "sandbox"
variety that ones that run on rails. I would rather take my time, do
other side quests, explore, or whatever else I choose whenever I
choose. When it's "go here, start mission 1, now go here, start mission
2, etc." until the end, I tend to get bored and frustrated. If I get
bored in a sandbox game, it's my own fault, and I start looking for
things to do.
I also tend to dislike constant intrusive pointers and reminders towards
missions, I would rather actually listen to the dialog and glean the
information about what I am supposed to do from that (kind of like you
would in real life). That's why I rather liked Fallout 1&2, they just
released you into the wide world and said "find a way to do this" and
you had to explore and find a way to make it happen - again, rather like
real life. You had to be intuitive and pay a bit of attention, and
there were often multiple ways to get things done, which is another
advantage to a true sandbox game.
As you stated with your like of Oblivion, you don't need to have a game
on rails to play the game like it's on rails, you chose to just hit
missions one after another. But you also had the flexibility to do
whatever you wanted in between, which makes that experience appeal to a
much wider audience.
CoinSpin
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| Re: Can't register my copy of The Witcher Trimble Bracegirdle 03:54:06 |
| | "...what you end up is a black screen at the end
NOOO ! no ...that black screen install situation lasts around 40 minutes
(maybe more)
where apparently nothing is happening as the installer patches the files to
enhanced version.
Just wait till it finishes ...yes really 40 plus mins.
(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(") mouse
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Saturday, 11 October 2008
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| Re: The Witcher Now I'm Confused Craig 17:18:31 |
| | On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:00:06 -0700, JLC <jlc@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Ok, so I haven't installed any of the new content. I just finished the game last night. I've been playing using the 1.3 patch. I was really tired last night so for some reason when I was loading the game I hit "start new game" Now this is where the confusion starts. When the start a new game screen came up there was now an option to play a "New Adventure" I don't remember seeing that when I first started playing the game. So I loaded it up and it's the "The Price of Neutrality" level. I never installed this. I have it along with "Side Effects" that I DL'ed when I got the 1.4 patch. What gives? Was it part of the 1.3 patch and I just didn't notice it? TIA, JLC
Yup. The 1.4 version adds speech that wasn't in the original 1.3
release:
http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/The_Price_of_Neutrality
-craig
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| LOTRO: Crafting system is confusing me Mike S . 17:09:25 |
| | Ok. My explanation is bit involved so I would rather ask here then in
game. Hopefully someone can help.
I took Armsman. That means I get prospector, woodworking and
weaponsmithing. As a prospector I started at 0/200. When I hit 200/200
the bar was replaced with a new bar set at 0/400 and a new Journeyman
bar opened up at 0/280 with new recipes. Ok so far.
My weaponsmith bar also started at 0/200. But when it hit 200/200 it
just stayed there. So basically I have my weaponsmithing stuck at
200/200. Where do I go from here as far as weaponsmithing goes?
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| Re: Fallout 3 gone gold Nostromo 05:37:56 |
| | Jonah Falcon wrote:
*yawn* I estimate 4-5 Gb+ patches before it even hits shelves down under
<EG>.
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Nostromo
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| Re: Yet another nail to FO3 coffin... Mark Morrison 03:55:33 |
| | On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:24:17 -0700 (PDT), mace <mmace@my-deja.com>
wrote:
"Tim Cain has Fallout 3 pre-ordered. The designer of Interplay's 1997 RPG masterwork Fallout is looking forward to the release of Bethesda's big budget open world sequel just like the rest of us."
It's going to be bad because someone who worked on the first one is
looking forward to it...?
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| Re: Might and Magic IX (9), brief thoughts Andrew Rybenkov 03:32:07 |
| | On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:04:56 +0400, Nostromo <nostromo@spamfree.org> wrote:
I ended up on some sort of island wandering around the rocks killing random critters with no goals or purpose. It didn't lead me into any storyline whatsoever & just seemed aimless & confusing.
I assume you wandered on tutorial island. Well, you should leave it at once, as you got accustomed
with user interface.
After this you will not have any questions what you should to do (in general sence).
MM9 was built on very strong plot - rather unusual thing for the series.
The game is getting better and better, so give it a real try.
It is true M&M though somewhat unusual.
Hehe, there is not "Flight" spell - bummer.
There is no "Walk on water" spell - because you just can swim.
(Unfortunately it has some incompatibility with Vista)
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Andrew Rybenkov
Lara Croft had died in The Last Revelation - say NO to impostors
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Friday, 10 October 2008
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| Re: I'm an RPG addict .. proof Scatter 07:13:33 |
| | On 2008-10-04, Morgan <Nospam@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
So in your latest stupid post you are now telling us that you're paying cash for games that you are subsequently not playing.
Unfortunately I do this more often than I'd care to admit. I'm a bargain
bin junky, and at a big sale will often get multiple titles. Sometimes
I never get around to playing them all (but I will "one day").
And yes, it's stupid but sometimes I discover an unexpected gem.
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| Re: Best game intro ever Morgan 01:42:08 |
| | Andrew Rybenkov wrote:
My list: 1. Thief (I so love this intro that re-watch it almost every week)
Yeh, I have to agree 100% here, also the end game sequence. "So, you think
you've won. . ." I also liked the way Thief 3's end game camefull circle on
Thief's intro, I actuly got a shiver when Garret said "To spot a keeper is
not an easy thing".
2. Fallout (style, implementation, atmosphere)
Also fantastic.
I also loved the Cut scene at the end of the prologue of Force Unleashed.
As for other intros off the top of my head.
Deus Ex
Gabriel Knight
The Dig
Chronicles of Riddick
Beneath a Steel Sky
Max Payne 2
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| Re: Fallout 3 and PC piracy Kendrick Kerwin Chua 00:39:29 |
| | In article <81891b73-a7bd-4f37-b078-b4c52852bbd6@g17g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
Wolfing <wolfing1@gmail.com> wrote:
For all the cries of doom from developers and publishers about how piracy is making them move away from PC gaming, it's sort of funny (in a sort of bad way) that Fallout 3 leaked to the Xbox 360 already according to some reports.
Piracy is a lot worse on the consoles than is generally reported, but it's
still isolated to people with the technical ability to pull it off. Any
kid with a torrent client and a keygen executable can pirate PC software,
but it takes somebody with a PIC writer and an SMD soldering station to
get an equivalent result on an Xbox 360. It should surprise nobody on this
group that the X86 architecture of the original Xbox led to a lot of
piracy there too. The trick here is that the game companies are actively
attempting to block hacked hardware from connecting to the official game
networks, which is an avenue of deterrent not available on the open
Internet.
I should add the disclaimer here that I'm cheerfully and knowingly
oversimplifying the discussion, since there are several software-only
exploits for all the current game consoles that would allow one to play
homebrew or copied code with various degrees of success.
-KKC, trying to learn the Heroes of Might and Magic game sequence.
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Thursday, 9 October 2008
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| Re: SWG anyone? Einstine 21:21:10 |
| | "morvak" <morvak@gmail.com> wrote in message news:c8b36e1b-b046-4469-b066-909f7c30f6d7@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
I heard that SWG sucks now because of TNG I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, and that it pretty much lost it's player base. Has anything changed? Is it worth going back to? I've never played it. I hear anyone can be a jedi now? Can anyone list the pros and cons? Nos? You still playing?
My take? I tried it for 1st time a few months back after playing
vid games for years, then Warcraft, then Lotro. Ugly as hell and
I did not feel it was very 'user friendly' when it came to picking up
quests etc.
Ugly as hell is a realistic opinion from my perspective. The quest
pickup stuff is no doubt more attributable to me not taking the time
to really learn the game. I think I got to 20 or so.
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| Re: BioWare and LucasArts ready to unveil "it" Morgan 18:19:28 |
| | Mickmils wrote:
But unless it’s a total shock, the game is probably the long-awaited Knights of the Old Republic MMORPG - though this reporter would be They're the same thing.
Has that been confirmed. I know that a MMORPG in the KotOR timeframe has
been confirmed (or incurably strongly hinted at) but has it been confirmed
that it's KotOR 3 and that we can't be expecting a KotOR 3 single player
RPG?
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| Otherland mmo announced Nostromo 15:03:37 |
| | http://www.mmorpg.com/newsRoom.cfm/read/11838
Daymn, now I have to finish reading at least the first book!
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Nostromo
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Thursday, 2 October 2008
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| Lotro Client Torrent DL? Thomas Jespersen 16:06:29 |
| | Hi, I am considering trying the LOTRO trial. I followed the EU site
where you can only select to download the client from websites. I
don't trust the download manager in Firefox to get 7.5GB without a
disconnect, so I wonder if there are any official torrents to get
anywhere?
Google turned up sites like piratebay, but I will probably acquire
keyloggers and viruses as well from sites like that.
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| Re: What do you think about a TV tycoon game? Magnate 15:24:37 |
| | "Imajica" <Beauty@death.com> wrote
luster123 <luster123@gmail.com> wrote I am making a TV Tycoon game for the PC. (hopefully going to port to What are your views on a game like this, what are your expectations. NOTE: this is a homemade game not a production of a big corporation. Your idea has just been stolen. 
Picked up, maybe, but ideas can't be stolen. As soon as he told us about it,
it existed as an idea distinct from him and available to all of us.
The word "steal" implies that somebody (usually the original owner) no
longer has whatever is stolen. That's clearly not correct, because he still
has his idea. As do the rest of us.
It has therefore not been stolen.
CC
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