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Olli:
"The title is Drakensang: The Dark Eye, but in Non-German-speaking territories we will focus communication much more on "Drakensang" than on "TDE" because it's not such a strong license as it is in German-speaking territories."
You forgot to add "pwned". Oh wait. No, you didn't. When did "focus... much more on" become synonymous with a title change or with dropping the 'The Dark Eye' label? Bethesda might have focused on marketing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as merely 'Oblivion' but the full title is still The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Same with Drakensang because the official (English) forums still refer to it as Drakensang: The Dark Eye and no title change has been officially announced.
Maybe for those who didn't pay attention, like you. Those that did pay attention know the developers made no false promises that this would be like Realms of Arkania
Was I doubting that anywhere? All I said was that for the fans of the original series this is DSA 4 all the way. How can that be wrong if even the official site says "DSA ist zurück!" (in English: DSA is back!)? Or why do they (Radon Labs) keep emphasizing at the (German) forums that they are all huge fans of DSA P&P and the CRPGs? Oh, right. Because they absolutely want to avoid that people think of Drakensang as a sequel to previous DSA games. Ho-hummm....
BTW, since you are so anal with names (are you a lawyer in RL or something... jeez ), I'm intentionally avoiding "Realms of Arkania" now because I'm slowly getting the impression that you do not know that "Realms of Arkania" does not exist in Germany. At all. In Germany it's just DSA - Das Schwarze Auge. We know of no "Realms of Arkania". I was just using RoA earlier so outside people know which game(s) we are talking about. Trust me. Any fan of the original German DSA CRPGs will immediately think 'Yay, DSA 4 is being made' when they hear of Drakensang.
You seem to be arguing that this is the same as making a Fallout 3 that has nothing to do with the original two. How does that work, exactly?
There are many sequels that had absolutely nothing to do with the previous games in a series. If you want a rather drastic example I'd mention Quake 3 which all of a sudden was MP only as opposed to Quake 1 + 2 which had a (by some FPS fans even considered as strong) single player mode. Just because the game's name is Fallout 3 doesn't mean it has to have the feature set of the previous two games. Not even close. Is that really that hard to understand? *sigh*
Yes it does, because they're being honest. They're not lying. They're not pretending their game is something it's not.
Oh, so you have inside info on Fallout 3's feature set? You already know that Bethesda is not honest and that they are lying and pretending that Fallout 3 is something else than it really is? Interesting.
Also, I think you're not reading the same German DSA forum as I'm reading. The one I'm reading had a very harsh and flame-filled argument around the firebreathing Tatzelworm.
Ummm... are you German and if so are you sure your reading comprehension is fully in order?
I just went the extra mile and actually checked out that thread (must be this one here right?) and the worst "flames" that I could find were from someone calling the Tatzelwurm a "sausage with legs" and another guy said that it looks like a little kid drew a sketch of a dinosaur. OMG! How offensive! Especially in comparison to those constructive, troll- and flame-free threads one can read on the Codex forums. Holy shit, man! Someone call the German police and shut down the Anaconda forums ASAP!!!
Don't pretend things aren't so when they are. What's next, are you going to say Star Trek fans are all happy with Bethesda's published Legacy and only Fallout fans are unreasonable?
What does that have to do with anything I said? I actually said that you can bitch and moan as much as you like if the game should really turn out to be crap. But until then, yeah, I will keep calling everyone a hysterical little school girl who has their panties up in a bunch over... over... ummm... what?... right... NOTHING. Because just about nothing is known about Fallout 3 yet.
Ignoring what someone says and then just making the same argument is a form of weakness. If you don't actually have any foundation in reality as to our being "unreasonable, obsessed haters", then just admit you're wrong, but don't just keep repeating it when you know it's false. Did you read NMA's article? Did you click the refs to see what Fallout fans were saying? Did you see the interest in Van Buren? Did you see the excitement around Fallout Tactics?
I did read the article. Yes. The existence of the article alone speaks volumes of the self-importance that the Fallout community is for some weird reason giving itself. But we've been through all that on page 1 or 2 of this thread already so I'm not going to repeat it. Otherwise, I don't care enough about the Fallout franchise to do a lot of reading on it. Who cares? Doesn't change the fact that the hating and the hystery is plain retarded. No other gaming community behaves like that. At least not with this level of persistence. Single, isolated issues sometimes drive some gaming communities up the tree. But you're up on the tree all the time.
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