Originally Posted by r3dshift
The only snag with these RPGs is their enourmously prolonged development cycle.

True enough, but I don't worry about the looks all that much … for a FPS, etc it is more important to get physics right (as I picked apart in my review of the Max Payne 2 clone 'El Matador') but for a RPG it is the other stuff that really matters. Heck, Avernum 4 is one of my top games of the last 12 months!