Forum: Dragon Age: Origins
November 16th, 2009, 03:42
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Replies: 171
Views: 11,205
The problem for me with DA (and I AM having some…
The problem for me with DA (and I AM having some fun with it, just to be clear) is in general a problem with the state of the genre itself; and that is that crpgs are far too refined now days… too…
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Forum: News Comments
October 19th, 2009, 05:11
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Replies: 85
Views: 9,303
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Forum: News Comments
April 16th, 2009, 06:56
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,939
Man, I just don't get this thinking. When I…
Man, I just don't get this thinking. When I settle in to play a game, all I want to do is lose myself in a world as far from reality as possible. Sure, plausible physics is nice, but that's where I…
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Forum: Gothic 3
March 31st, 2009, 06:01
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Replies: 2
Views: 826
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Forum: Gothic 3
March 30th, 2009, 23:35
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Replies: 2
Views: 826
Combat skills… something missing?
I'm at lvl 22. I'm playing with balancing and AI turned on. I just realized that with the master swordsman skill, I don't really have any new moves. I can basically do the same moves with my lvl 1…
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Forum: General RPG
March 21st, 2009, 01:54
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
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Forum: General RPG
March 21st, 2009, 01:47
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
Sometimes, though, Indie's will come out of the…
Sometimes, though, Indie's will come out of the woodwork and surprise us with some highly respectable tech found in their games. I'm sure there's a few examples that I'm missing here, but one comes…
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Forum: Politics & Religion
March 19th, 2009, 03:50
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,480
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Forum: News Comments
March 19th, 2009, 03:38
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,236
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Forum: Drakensang
March 19th, 2009, 00:20
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,783
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Forum: Drakensang
March 17th, 2009, 23:42
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,783
Blacksmithing question
I got instructions(recipe) for something called "Knife Butt" I think it was called. What it made was a Pommel. The description said that it was used to make the weapon easier to handle and the…
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Forum: General RPG
March 11th, 2009, 05:01
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
Where Innovation has always lived and thrived as…
Where Innovation has always lived and thrived as the purview of the Indie house, the established Corporate Gaming Machine is obliged, by the dictates of profit, to embrace the relative safety of…
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Forum: General RPG
March 10th, 2009, 13:05
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
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Forum: General RPG
March 10th, 2009, 12:58
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
An aspect of old school rpgs that I’ve always…
An aspect of old school rpgs that I’ve always been fond of are the atmospheric text descriptions of objects and locations, and even sometimes in the middle of a dialogue… ie Eschalon. They always…
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Forum: General RPG
March 10th, 2009, 03:55
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,711
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Forum: General RPG
March 10th, 2009, 03:19
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
There was certainly no intent to mislead on my…
There was certainly no intent to mislead on my part, if that's what you mean by "deliberate move". Further, I beg to differ that my simple summation of his idea had nothing to do at all with his…
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Forum: General RPG
March 8th, 2009, 15:18
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
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Forum: General RPG
March 8th, 2009, 15:10
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
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Forum: General RPG
March 8th, 2009, 15:03
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
"This means an ever expanding character system,…
"This means an ever expanding character system, combat system, magic system, item system, and so on." by Dartagnan.
There is a lot of good stuff that Dartagnan said in his post, but I think the…
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Forum: General RPG
March 8th, 2009, 14:55
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
Indeed! That's why my first inclination was to…
Indeed! That's why my first inclination was to start off wondering if innovations were even a necessity at all.
In the end, though, as I think even you may have been edging, however grudgingly,…
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Forum: General RPG
March 8th, 2009, 14:41
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
An RPG innovation that I always found to be…
An RPG innovation that I always found to be significant in it's level of departure and its creativity had to do with XP rewards. It was Morrowind's method for determining how you gained skill…
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Forum: Drakensang
March 8th, 2009, 03:10
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Replies: 6
Views: 9,382
Thanks. I just updated my nvidia drivers and did…
Thanks. I just updated my nvidia drivers and did a windows update, but that didn't help. It's weird the way the whole game was running fine, and then just in the Blood Mt forest, I get dropped out…
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Forum: Drakensang
March 8th, 2009, 01:16
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Replies: 6
Views: 9,382
What is a Nebula Assertion error?
The game was running fine until I started wandering around the forest at the Blood Mountain. All of a sudden I'm getting dropped out to desktop with a:
Nebula Assertion Error: nD3D9: begin pass -…
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Forum: General RPG
March 7th, 2009, 04:43
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
You may have noticed that I lamely did not lead…
You may have noticed that I lamely did not lead off with any ideas myself as OP. To be honest, I have cogitated on this for a few days now (and believe me, as someone who drives for a living, I’ve…
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Forum: General RPG
March 7th, 2009, 04:31
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Replies: 45
Views: 2,273
Role Play a Game Developer
In the Drakensang forum here on The Watch, Gorath mentioned in passing that Drakensang, while a “damned good game”, had no new innovation. I'm not here to refute that… in fact, in large part, I…
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