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The Platinum Age of CRPGs
Matt Barton writes "I've just posted my third (and final) installment on CRPG history at GamaSutra: The Platinum and Modern Ages. This article covers the many classics released between 1994 and 2004, including Fallout, Planescape: Torment, Ultima Underworld, and of course Baldur's Gate, Diablo, and The Elder Scrolls. It also discusses why WoW and other MMORPGs aren't descended from these CRPGs (but rather MUDs). The Platinum Age produced the finest CRPGs ever made — but the future of the stand-alone, single-player CRPG looks grim."
Bethesda + non-fantasy, turn-based RPG = Total fucking failure. Or rather, Oblivion with guns, which is the same thing.
Death and danger are my various breads and various butters.
"Oblivion with guns" is what we'll get, and that is semantically equivalent to a steaming pile of bloody dog shit.
Bethesda has made exactly nothing worth a damn since Daggerfall. Oblivion was the first game in a LONG time I uninstalled without beating it.
Leonard Boyarsky isn't involved. Tim Cain isn't involved. Even Chris frigging Avellone isn't. It's like someone making Pulp Fiction II without Quentin Tarantino or any of the actors related to the first one. Pulp Fiction II would suck anyway, but it has zero chance without its original creator involved.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Have they finally released a Linux port ? If not, NWN2 remain insignificant as far as I am concerned.
:wq
Are you kidding me?
Do they let you on the internet with that kind of brain damage?
I seriously hope you were being sarcastic, because Bethesda is going to bend Fallout over whatever piece of office furniture is close enough and violate it repeatedly while laughing all the way to the bank on the backs of those who did not learn last time.