A. There are no gay relationships in Baldur's Gate or Baldur's Gate 2, by default. They have to be enabled with a 3rd party tool that strips out gender check for those NPC conversations.
B. Bioware didn't even make the original Baldur's Gate.
C. The first gay romance option in a Bioware game was Liara in Mass Effect in 2007. The first gay male romance options in a Bioware game were in Dragon Age in 2009.
It may not be particularly interesting to look at the political significance of your turds, but as video games continue to grow as a medium of expression, the importance of attempting to understand their political and social relevance should be obvious.
As a side note, is it really so threatening to look for deeper meaning in the mundane aspects of your life?
So what you're saying is that unintentional racism doesn't exist, but anyone who sees racism where you don't is being racist, even if that is not their intention.
What happens when a SSD hits its write limit? Is there catastrophic data loss, or does the ability to write just cease to function while keeping the already written data intact?
Come on. It seems like everyone is posting "solutions" to the problem that recommend banning bad language or punishing offensive users. Am I really going to be the only person to say that maybe the author needs to grow thicker skin and not let these things get to her so much?
Are we really so easily offended by people playing a game?
Game mechanics are what made Fallout great? Here I was thinking it was the storytelling, dialogue and setting that made Fallout great. Even for its time, Fallout had simplistic turn-based combat, terrible AI, and a horribly unbalanced skill system.
The ability to re-map keys doesn't make anything "self-evident" about Oblivion's development. Your precious Fallout didn't include the ability to re-map keys, and I doubt you'll be arguing that it was originally developed for a console. I'll give you that cross-platform development may lead to compromises, but the outright paranoia and hostility exhibited by the Fallout fan community is nothing but FUD.
First, there's plenty of blood in Oblivion. There's even an option you can set to make it have even more blood than before.
And Oblivion was rated M.
Star Trek: Legacy wasn't developed by Bethesda, it was developed by Mad Dog Studios and published by Bethesda.
Co-developing games for consoles and the PC (like they did with Oblivion) is not the same as developing a game for the console then porting it to the PC. Even Morrowind was developed as a PC game then ported to the X-Box.
Bethesda's "refusal" to tell the public about game mechanics is a direct result of the Fallout fanbase (namely NMA) having this twisted sense of entitlement that you're showing so well. With you guys, Bethesda is damned if they don't and damned if they do. I sometimes wonder if NMA et al. would be happier if no new Fallout game was being made, ever.
Ridiculous Fallout fans like to harp on the "it's not Fallout without turn-based combat", as though many other famous RPG series never made the jump from turn-based to realtime combat. Are you seriously going to tell me that Ultima 7 isn't a real Ultima because it has real time combat instead of turns?
You idiotic Fallout cultists seem to think that Bethesda is going to kill Fallout. I have news for you, Fallout is already dead, going on for nearly a decade. Bethesda is your only hope of seeing it come back to life. I suggest you come to terms with that.
Actually MTV, at least on its website, has a pretty respectable gaming news department. Yeah, everything they put on TV is awful vapid crap, but don't write off MTV's online games coverage. It's easily as good as most other gaming sites (though that doesn't say a whole lot, I admit).
Full parties in 3D have been done, and done well by several games: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights 2, Dungeon Siege, and Freedom Force, just to name a few on PC.
The Imperial Library has the full texts of every book that was ever in an Elder Scrolls game, and plenty of other good reads about the world of Tamriel.
I was mistakenly referring to this preview, specifically the part about how half of the Japanese script was cut for its original localization and that most of that will be coming back. So not they're not really doing a retranslation so much as bringing back previously unseen dialogue.
mostly because you forgot about about the Final Fantasy Tactics remake and the new Disgaea game due out on the PSP, and the new Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles games on the DS.
Also, Magical Starsign came out in 2006 for the DS, and is a pretty good RPG from what I hear. On top of that, there's a whole ton of RPG's out (and still coming out) for the GBA, which the DS plays just fine. The re-release, with new translation, of Final Fantasy VI ranks high on my list this year.
Living in Australia isn't much of an excuse, since the DS isn't region locked. Importing shouldn't be a problem.
A lot of the responses to my post seem to be saying that shovelware is getting the nod over fan-favorites because they were easy to emulate or some such nonsense. That *may* be the case, but that's not why gamers were pissed.
They were pissed because Microsoft is on record as saying that they prioritize games based on how they've sold. So regardless of how easy it was to develop the emulator, the suggestion is indeed that shovelware that sells well makes the cut, obscure classics are ignored. Call it bad PR if you want, anyone who takes gaming seriously as a hobby can tell you: this is remarkably short-sighted.
Five years from now, is anyone going to say "Hey, let's play some Monster Garage on the 360"? Even though it was a popular television show, and probably sold like hotcakes despite being a sub-par game, probably not.
But five years from now, I promise that there will be people who want to return to low-selling classics like Phantom Dust and Panzer Dragoon Orta.
MMO's have a tendency to, how should I put this, erode their source materials.
There's few things worse than seeing a world or setting that you've loved for years suddenly inhabited by psychotic idiots. One of those few things is when the people in charge of managing that world start changing it to cater to said psychotic idiots.
For reference, see Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxies.
The 360's lackluster backwards compatibility has been a sore spot for a lot of gamers. No one who just bought a shiny new 360 wants to have to keep that huge ugly old Xbox just to play their older favorite games.
Psychonauts in particular is a sentimental favorite for a whole lot of people in the so-called "hardcore" gaming community. It was one of the titles that everyone pointed to when MS released a compatibility updates, as evidence that MS doesn't care about real gamers.
Seeing shovelware titles like Cabela's Big Game Hunter and Barbie Horse Adventures making the cut while fantastic games like Psychonauts and Shenmue 2 were forgotten was a bad thing. This release is one of the biggest steps in the right direction MS has taken.
There's lots still room for improvement, with notably absent fan-favorite titles like Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Phantom Dust, Otogi, Chronicles of Riddick, Mercenaries, Panzer Dragoon and Jet Set Radio Future. But still, this is a damn good update.
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Not to nitpick, but I'm gonna nitpick:
A. There are no gay relationships in Baldur's Gate or Baldur's Gate 2, by default. They have to be enabled with a 3rd party tool that strips out gender check for those NPC conversations.
B. Bioware didn't even make the original Baldur's Gate.
C. The first gay romance option in a Bioware game was Liara in Mass Effect in 2007. The first gay male romance options in a Bioware game were in Dragon Age in 2009.
If I wanted to read some Fox News apology for hate crime, I'd go to Fox News.
Just because you aren't actively looking for messages doesn't mean they aren't being conveyed to you.
It may not be particularly interesting to look at the political significance of your turds, but as video games continue to grow as a medium of expression, the importance of attempting to understand their political and social relevance should be obvious.
As a side note, is it really so threatening to look for deeper meaning in the mundane aspects of your life?
So what you're saying is that unintentional racism doesn't exist, but anyone who sees racism where you don't is being racist, even if that is not their intention.
How does that work?
Question:
What happens when a SSD hits its write limit? Is there catastrophic data loss, or does the ability to write just cease to function while keeping the already written data intact?
Books for Baghdad, a site soliciting textbook donations for Baghdad University.
Come on. It seems like everyone is posting "solutions" to the problem that recommend banning bad language or punishing offensive users. Am I really going to be the only person to say that maybe the author needs to grow thicker skin and not let these things get to her so much?
Are we really so easily offended by people playing a game?
Game mechanics are what made Fallout great? Here I was thinking it was the storytelling, dialogue and setting that made Fallout great. Even for its time, Fallout had simplistic turn-based combat, terrible AI, and a horribly unbalanced skill system.
The ability to re-map keys doesn't make anything "self-evident" about Oblivion's development. Your precious Fallout didn't include the ability to re-map keys, and I doubt you'll be arguing that it was originally developed for a console. I'll give you that cross-platform development may lead to compromises, but the outright paranoia and hostility exhibited by the Fallout fan community is nothing but FUD.
Where to begin, where to begin...
First, there's plenty of blood in Oblivion. There's even an option you can set to make it have even more blood than before.
And Oblivion was rated M.
Star Trek: Legacy wasn't developed by Bethesda, it was developed by Mad Dog Studios and published by Bethesda.
Co-developing games for consoles and the PC (like they did with Oblivion) is not the same as developing a game for the console then porting it to the PC. Even Morrowind was developed as a PC game then ported to the X-Box.
Bethesda's "refusal" to tell the public about game mechanics is a direct result of the Fallout fanbase (namely NMA) having this twisted sense of entitlement that you're showing so well. With you guys, Bethesda is damned if they don't and damned if they do. I sometimes wonder if NMA et al. would be happier if no new Fallout game was being made, ever.
Ridiculous Fallout fans like to harp on the "it's not Fallout without turn-based combat", as though many other famous RPG series never made the jump from turn-based to realtime combat. Are you seriously going to tell me that Ultima 7 isn't a real Ultima because it has real time combat instead of turns?
You idiotic Fallout cultists seem to think that Bethesda is going to kill Fallout. I have news for you, Fallout is already dead, going on for nearly a decade. Bethesda is your only hope of seeing it come back to life. I suggest you come to terms with that.
Actually MTV, at least on its website, has a pretty respectable gaming news department. Yeah, everything they put on TV is awful vapid crap, but don't write off MTV's online games coverage. It's easily as good as most other gaming sites (though that doesn't say a whole lot, I admit).
What are you smoking? The free Dreamfall demo came out more than two months ago.
Apparently, the guy who blew the lid off this whole scandal just had all of his EVE accounts banned.
Grim Fandango predates the "Windows XP generation" by three years.
Since when is Halo 1 a sequel to anything? Or World of Warcraft, for that matter?
Full parties in 3D have been done, and done well by several games: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights 2, Dungeon Siege, and Freedom Force, just to name a few on PC.
The Imperial Library has the full texts of every book that was ever in an Elder Scrolls game, and plenty of other good reads about the world of Tamriel.
I wonder if the game will simulate the pick-slides on Rancid's Salvation.
I was mistakenly referring to this preview, specifically the part about how half of the Japanese script was cut for its original localization and that most of that will be coming back. So not they're not really doing a retranslation so much as bringing back previously unseen dialogue.
mostly because you forgot about about the Final Fantasy Tactics remake and the new Disgaea game due out on the PSP, and the new Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles games on the DS.
Also, Magical Starsign came out in 2006 for the DS, and is a pretty good RPG from what I hear. On top of that, there's a whole ton of RPG's out (and still coming out) for the GBA, which the DS plays just fine. The re-release, with new translation, of Final Fantasy VI ranks high on my list this year.
Living in Australia isn't much of an excuse, since the DS isn't region locked. Importing shouldn't be a problem.
Well, 'tis the season.
A lot of the responses to my post seem to be saying that shovelware is getting the nod over fan-favorites because they were easy to emulate or some such nonsense. That *may* be the case, but that's not why gamers were pissed.
They were pissed because Microsoft is on record as saying that they prioritize games based on how they've sold. So regardless of how easy it was to develop the emulator, the suggestion is indeed that shovelware that sells well makes the cut, obscure classics are ignored. Call it bad PR if you want, anyone who takes gaming seriously as a hobby can tell you: this is remarkably short-sighted.
Five years from now, is anyone going to say "Hey, let's play some Monster Garage on the 360"? Even though it was a popular television show, and probably sold like hotcakes despite being a sub-par game, probably not.
But five years from now, I promise that there will be people who want to return to low-selling classics like Phantom Dust and Panzer Dragoon Orta.
MMO's have a tendency to, how should I put this, erode their source materials.
There's few things worse than seeing a world or setting that you've loved for years suddenly inhabited by psychotic idiots. One of those few things is when the people in charge of managing that world start changing it to cater to said psychotic idiots.
For reference, see Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxies.
Fallout deserves better.
The 360's lackluster backwards compatibility has been a sore spot for a lot of gamers. No one who just bought a shiny new 360 wants to have to keep that huge ugly old Xbox just to play their older favorite games.
Psychonauts in particular is a sentimental favorite for a whole lot of people in the so-called "hardcore" gaming community. It was one of the titles that everyone pointed to when MS released a compatibility updates, as evidence that MS doesn't care about real gamers.
Seeing shovelware titles like Cabela's Big Game Hunter and Barbie Horse Adventures making the cut while fantastic games like Psychonauts and Shenmue 2 were forgotten was a bad thing. This release is one of the biggest steps in the right direction MS has taken.
There's lots still room for improvement, with notably absent fan-favorite titles like Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Phantom Dust, Otogi, Chronicles of Riddick, Mercenaries, Panzer Dragoon and Jet Set Radio Future. But still, this is a damn good update.
You make a lot of assumptions about what I do and don't know, and what actions I will and won't take.
News Flash: projecting your own foot-dragging apathy on the rest of the world isn't very productive.