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Have you taken a good look around to see just how many MMORPGs there are around at the moment, quietly ticking over with a small, but relatively loyal following? A low budget game doesn't need to attract huge numbers of subscribers to remain viable. WOW was aimed clearly at a very large core...

Well, one thing to consider here is selection bias; there are many more low budget games being made than big budget ones, and by defintion they have fewer resources to attract established developers. So, for those reasons, low budget games are vastly more likely to be amateurish (being far more...

Aw, come on, did you have to sully your post with that snipe? The rest of the thread isn't exactly an uncritical hotbed of unqualified enthusiasm. You aren't the first to raise the issue of the quality of graphics or gameplay. However, if you want to know why people might be willing to...

Without wanting to try to make myself sound like an expert, the worst thing about losing those elements of the design is that they - deliberately or not - tie in very nicely with the science behind the Super Mutants. The whole point of the process of Super Mutant creation is that it is more...

I have to agree that the only argument worth having is how fit this music is for its purpose, not whether it would necessarily fit well on a mix tape with the soundtrack for the originals. The main theme always sounded wrong, in my opinion, being too epic and not dark enough. Fortunately, I...

Which is what I thought, but not what you said initially. I wasn't suggesting that Bethesda will or can make a decent a fist of it, what I'm definitely saying is that people here take no pleasure from the idea that they might produce a bad game rather than a good one.

Quake LAN-play against my mate still rates as about the best multiplayer gaming I've experienced, even though I used to have to take my P60 desktop around to his house (stuffing my huge CRT into the back of his car...) Ah, halcyon days...!

In that case, you win the prize for cutting off your nose to spite your face... Great, I hope he enjoys that warm, fuzzy feeling. Other than disappointment, he gets the satisfaction of not being the kind of intellectual pervert who would rather something be bloody awful so that he...

Is probably true, but it isn't a consistent line from Bethesda... Except that NMA's own previewers don't think that is an accurate discription, and they have seen the demo. Oblivion-with-guns is potentially a bit of a red herring anyway, because it suits people to think that the greatest...

I think we might actually be coming at the same point, but I've not explained myself well enough. I recognise the juxtaposition, I meant that they shouldn't be at crossed purposes - the ambient music was an aesthetic counterpoint to the use of Maybe, whereas epic orchestral music very much runs...

Does anybody know what we call it when a person thinks that anybody who disagrees with them is insane? We say that person has, Dissocial personality disorder. Can you say, dissocial personality disorder?...

Well, without wanting to read too much into it, I don't want to set the world on fire, as well as queueing a rather broad joke about nuclear holocaust, is actually a rather sweet little love song about a man who has no ambitions to do great things with his life, other than get into the knickers...

Legacy on the PC is generally considered to be a horribly bugged piece of underachievement, particularly marked out by broken promises and missing content. Even were it not for the play-stopping bugs it is, at best, a spectacularly missed opportunity; had they delivered on what they said they...

Harsh, truly, harsh. Part of the problem is that eveybody remembers the upbeat rock music from e1m1 (and, of course, had a 16-bit soundcard, at best). There was a different piece for each level, and the score was carefully constructed to alternate tension and adrenalin. Go find the tune for...

NPC, lost up a tree? Does he mean permenantly deformable environments, or just pathfinding during individual combat sessions? And, are huge explosions going to be a regular issue? Huge?

Every other fucking thread degenerates into senior forum members having to defend their and NMA's behaviour. The reputation was thrust upon NMA, rather than deserved. And it was mainly thrust upon the site by lazy individuals who couldn't distinguish between individual post-ers and some...

Is anybody really complaining about the switch from iso TB any longer? You're doing a great disservice to people who have spent time composing much more sophisticated critiques of the information now available. Don't pretend that there is a simple line being toed; people are much more...

The combat was fucking horrible in KOTOR. The worst of it being the Sabre combat - pretty much the only reason to play a Star Wars game. Did you ever feel as though there was any real connection between the actions you queued, and what eventually happened? In any situation with more than a...

That sounds a little paranoid. Actually, what hey wrote is technically correct; he is the producer for the franchise, which is what they've bought. I wouldn't read too much into it, because it doesn't really matter - people who know, know, and people who don't care, won't. It is as...

I've already taken a shit in my own hat, so there; it keeps my ears warm... No, but you are the one who's extrapolated - as far as I can see - way beyond what anybody has said. That Bethesda controls information tightly and restricts access to its products prelaunch to journalists are simply...