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Losing all hope for a good RPG
Biggles
<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
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[url]http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/09/0721224[/url]
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And the reason beeing the cancelation of Fallout3????
This once again proves the stupidity of modern publishers... There's a fanbase outthere for Fallout (no one i asked who plays RPGs doesn't know and doesn't love fallout), and Fallout:BOS is coming out this month, so the logical path would be wait how this one sells, and if it performs poorly, THEN can Fallout 3, not NOW...
BTW: Bioware are working close together with Obisidian entertainment on a new rpg game not yet announced. Obsidian's CEO is Feargus Urquhart who has worked in BIS and Interplay earlier and helped along many good rpg games. What I've heard some old devs from BIS is working at Obsidian, but that might not be true.
Also Bioware is working on a yet unannounced rpg.
Hopefully they can pull out something good and not a hack n' slash crap like NWN. Thank god to the NWN fans who have made to NWN some really good MP modules and new rules.
sounds kinda familiar... :(
Altough I can't say this came out of blue: cancellation of Jefferson (an unnamed D&D game), top men like Avallone, Josh, Feargus etc. leaving and so fort.
Damn shame never the less. :(
Pretty soon all that is left is a bunch of dumbed-down arcade shooters...:(
"However, just as he thinks things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggingly big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair."
-quote from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[B]Bah!:mad:
Pretty soon all that is left is a bunch of dumbed-down arcade shooters...:(
"However, just as he thinks things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggingly big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair."
-quote from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy [/B][/QUOTE]
A large portion of the gaming market already is, and will continue to be, shooters, most of which are [i]not[/i] in fact dumbed-down clickfests, but let's ignore that stereotype for a moment. There will always be a good market for RPGs and strategy games, and a good portion of them are actually pretty good.
though I never played many/liked RPGs, I don't want an entire genre to dissapear. :(
Also I've heard WotC is going down because of Hasbro. Hasbro is a company makeing things for children. WotC used to make mature stuff, but now Hasbro have made WotC to control every D&D licensed product and check that it doesn't contain mature content.
[B]I like FPSers, and have yet to even FIND a clickfest shooter. (OK, never played doom...that was prolly a clickfest)
though I never played many/liked RPGs, I don't want an entire genre to dissapear. :( [/B][/QUOTE]
your young, impudent and rash, FPS are for you, we will wait till you mature a little and come to realize that the rich enviornment of RPGs ;)
[B]there will be a major revolution in the games industry very shortly [/B][/QUOTE]
Especially when I release my 3rd Space Quest adventure game on the world...
;)
[B]Yes, then all the world shall bow down before JackN! [/B][/QUOTE]
God I hope not... I can't lift that much you know....
:p
[B]your young, impudent and rash, FPS are for you, we will wait till you mature a little and come to realize that the rich enviornment of RPGs ;) [/B][/QUOTE]
While I agree that RPGs are much more entertaining for the thinking man, there are times when there's nothing better than ripping The Covenant into shreds with a Warthog-mounted machine gun. Sure, Halo's got nothing on anything to come out of D&D in the last , but it doesn't have a [i]bad[/i] story...
Flight Sims, Space Sims, Puzzle games (Tetris even got to level 19 a few times, racing, even golf games...I play alot of different things.
RPG's take time, I love a game where I can hop in, have fun for a few minutes, and get back to work.
Young, Impudent, and Rash? I don't think anyone would ever say those apply to me. You get me mad enough (And believe me, that in and of itself would be a feat) and I might get rash. :)
Short on time...yea, thats me.
Shoot, The Longest Journey looks to be GREAT fun, but I just haven't had the time to play. :(
And just to be fair, not all FPS are all run and gun. Take Wheel of Time for example. 40 artifacts, offence and defence...that is a thinking mans FPS. Of which I was king for awhile. Though sadly haven't played in a LONG time. *Sigh* I have good memories of a match that lasted over two and a half hours. Think four flag CTF with placeable troops and defences/traps, and you are thinking of the gametype...over two and a half hours long it lasted with NO ONE scoring a point, and my team outnumbered. Run & Gun = dead in that game...plan your attacks and keep up your defences will win, but of course the enemy knows that as well...shoot, you could have 2 people engaged in a fight for 5 minutes before a victor was declared. Not to mention you had to fight off not only your main opponent, but anyone else that decided to throw a fireball your way.
Man those were the days!
I'll admit, games like UT2k3, Halo, even GTA are run and gun. Although I was pretty good about being the sniper that the enemy never saw...muahaha
As for beat em up games...not really my style. although there was a GREAT mutator that made UT2k3 players be able to punch and kick that was alot of fun, but it was simple.
Hmm...what genre does Zelda fit into anyway?