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Well, that's fair enough. Though I'm not sure why you seemed surprised at GameBanshee's nomination?
So do you think if Interplay re-released Baldur's Gate every year then it would deserve a nomination every year?
Well, that's fair enough. Though I'm not sure why you seemed surprised at GameBanshee's nomination?
For me Gamebanshee was really the RPG site exemplary to highlight the very special RPG not exempt of flaws but quite interesting anyway and rather underrated. I couldn't even say it's an influence because it's almost always through walkthrough that I discovered they was supporting this or this RPG. The list is rather long and surprising and you'll get it not from the DB but from the banshee network RPG list, Beyond Divinity, Divine Divinity, Dungeon Lords, Dungeon Siege II, Freedom Force, Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader, Temple of Elemental Evil.I forgot to post GameBanshee's Game of the Year Awards, so head on over. They cover a number of different categories: Best Story/Writing (Alpha Protocol), Best Graphics (Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer), Best Sound/Music (Mass Effect 2), Best Expansion/DLC (WoW: Cataclysm), Most Anticipated (Witcher 2), Indie RPG of the Year (Din's Curse), Hybrid of the Year (ME2) and RPG of the Year (F: NV).
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So do you think if Interplay re-released Baldur's Gate every year then it would deserve a nomination every year?
That's not only a joke I really think it's a clue, some more example, have D3 and not Torchlight or Alien Shooter 2, not have Drakensang: The River of Time even if they have Drakensang, no Eschalon Book 1&2.
You mean the same engine and setting but with all-new story, quests and locations? Sure! If the quality of the content was good enough!
For me, the Great Portal being overrun by demons, the destruction of Cotra, searching out the Darkside Loyalists, discovering the link between the Slith Horde and the cultists, desperately trying to stealth through Slith Horde territory to sneak into the castle and assassinate xxx are all memorable moments, the equal of the better games I've played. That's worth a nomination for me.
But well it's past I don't think Gamebanshee is still what Gamebanshee was, the proof is simple they don't have Venetica in their list of supported RPG.
That's not only a joke I really think it's a clue, some more example, have D3 and not Torchlight or Alien Shooter 2, not have Drakensang: The River of Time even if they have Drakensang, no Eschalon Book 1&2.
Why is ME2 a hybrid when NV isn't?
They both have weighty elements of other genres, most notably the shooter genre
The irony reserved to Alien Shooter 2 isn't well used for someone from a site highlighting games like those I quoted, not that I'll make any irony about highlighting Dungeon Lords for example, but quite many could use a severe irony for such selection.
I know taste and colors… but have you really played it? The exploration is a lot better, the fights are better, even the story is better, better than Titan Quest.
Gamebanshee was unique for me because of questionable but very interesting RPG selections, not only a sign of interesting taste but a bit of valor of courage. I don't see any clue this spirit is still surviving.
I know taste and colors…
Played taste and colors?
Still, it's not really the combat system that defines a game, in my opinion. You can have a fine RPG using any perspective and any combat system you like. But where New Vegas "seems to me" to be a title focused on choices, branching quests, player stats and fiddly systems like hardcore mode, Mass Effect is really about shooting and story. It's like a lot of the RPG elements are a cumbersome afterthought.
I bet you both understood very well what I wrote, did there any mention of Torchlight in this post?
Anyway, let say I jump to conclusion too fast or it's more time change than site change. But well Gamebanshee broke at some points and multiple people contributing to it left.
If I remember well it's around 2006, and I doubt that quote you any names will tell you anything.I wouldn't know, I joined myself rather recently. I'm afraid I can't do much with criticism when you can't specifically name anything. You seem to be implying GB has grown more mainstream, which just makes all kind of no sense when you consider it started out from BG2.
I doubt you'll find much RPG fans that affirm that.I really agree with this point. A lot of RPG fans seem to believe that a game can't be a "true RPG" if it isn't turn-based…
Most RPG fans will agree on that, at least on combat system part. Perhaps for the "play a role" part too but don't count me in.I tend to believe that a "true RPG" allows you to literally "play a role" within a game world and is not dependent on the combat system; the combat can be anything and still be a "true RPG."
The hybrid tag is a questionable point of view. If you evaluate the general mood from WRPG fans all around the world, you'll end with a rather precise list of features that a good RPG should have. There's a sort of common agreement not really formuled but quite concrete.so labeling it as a hybrid is much more fair than labeling Fallout as a hybrid and not a "true RPG" simply because the combat is in real-time.
If I remember well it's around 2006, and I doubt that quote you any names will tell you anything.
Eschalon Book 1
...I can't really follow what you're saying half the time, I don't think I can change your mind. More's the pity.