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A quick Google would seem to support the idea that licencing is bloody expensive. CNN Money suggest that This may be horribly out of date and inaccurate information, I suppose, but it suggests that they have paid a lot of money in the past.

In other news: rumours abound that bear shits in woods; Pope is Catholic say sources; Sun will rise tomorrow morning say experts.

I know, which was why I italicized fixing. Piss poor A.I.? By today's standards; it was pretty much on par with its contemporaries. The tactical element was more to do with how to deal with multiple enemies, stronger enemies, or situations where you were outgunned. It was about weapon...

From the videos I saw, even walking seems to be a problem sometimes. Fine, but that does rely on fans fixing the game. Equally, it doesn't really play to the strengths of isometric combat - it still lacks any genuine tactical element.

Major developers seem to obsessed with first-person realtime combat, which they tout as more realistic and visceral. The indie developers are often working with old engines which couldn't perform the transition, and may well lack the expertise in any case - producing competent indie fare is...

Jedi Academy, to pick a game off the top of my head - incorporated useful first-person (blaster) and third-person (lightsaber) perspectives. I can't see why this would particularly jarring, because I think most people would like to see this coupled to turn-based combat, so the game would...

I had a lot of trouble with Steam when Halflife 2 was released. Still, I think that any move towards a standardized system of distribution is simply going to provide pirates with a bigger target; the industry needs to maintain diverse outlets in order to help legitimate fans buy the game...

Bioshock was cracked within hours of release. Seeking technological solutions only prevents a certain amount of casual piracy, and for some is a positive enticement to beat the protection. Of course it helps to some degree, but making piracy socially unacceptable and incentivizing game...

Really? Not in any I've used in the UK. It is just common courtesy to quote anything you're refering to, so that the other person can reply to the specific accusation.

A distribution model that is quite common in independent roleplaying games, as a matter of fact. Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure how this would dovetail into [iBethesda's[/i] idea of open world gaming. Given a limit, it is quite possible that casual gamers would rush to explore as much of...

Yes, I really wasn't arguing it - as I wrote, a stretch (in reality, almost entirely manufactured). As much as anything, it was a comment on his slippery attempts to rubbish the critical acclaim of the originals along with the opinions of notional fanboys (anybody who dislikes the direction of...

So, by his reckoning, Fallout and Fallout 2 are overhyped, distinguished only by their prominence in a market with few roleplaying games, but... ...Fallout 3 manages to recapture the spirit of the originals. Therefore, Fallout 3 is overhyped, distinguished only by its prominence in a...

So, rather than playing the game to decide whether or not they enjoy the game, they should just trust reviews? They get to gamble money on a product that they haven't tried, and pay for the (at best, subjective) reviews, as well? Don't you think that buying disappointing games, games which don't...

Presumably, you've tried sex with animals and eating broken glass, then? Because, how do you know until you've tried it? There are so many videos, gameplay and plot-details available now, that it is very easy to reach pretty well-informed conclusions about the apparent strengths and...

The thing I love about My Name Is Earl is the finely-graded sense of moral ambiguity... Oh, er....

Which reminds me, I meant to ask; did anybody watching the YouTube stuff ever actually see a player die? (I've seen a lot of easy looking combat...)

Er, what? Don't judge it on what it is, but against what it could have been, had it been a really bad game made by somebody else? This makes no sense. First- and third- person perspectives each have their own qualities, advantages and disadvantages, and neither is inherently superior...

Er, AVP, but then you were an Alien...

I thought there was reasonable novelty value in it for a first playthrough. The character creation/vault section was one of the better of Bethesda's ideas, because it provided them with the ideal opportunity to explore some of the issues of vault life - a nice way to explore the duality of a...

The vault is like a fucking Disney animatronics ride; too artificial and nowhere near enough intelligence... Will you really be able to cope with that for hour after hour of errand boy quests? The violence may feel fun and shiny, and offer relief to begin with, but how much long-term...