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purpleblob
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Wish they announced Interplay is finally dead and buried.
And while we are at it, let's also bury BG series and leave it alone.
Wish they announced Interplay is finally dead and buried.
I've thought about this a lot, as Pathfinder looks like its selling through the roof, despite being buggier than BT4. Its not being buggy alone, BT4 has some performance issues, but its not really that buggy as far as gameplay goes. I think far worse are that few reviews really praise the game. Pathfinder reviewers say great game, if it wasn't buggy. There just isn't that many people who have played through BT4 who think its great. Me too. Its a competant effort, but I'm playing Battletech, POE2, BT4 and Kingdom Come parallel and the one I find the least exciting and enjoyable is BT4.
...My wife makes me feel stupid every day. I don't need a damn game to do the same thing.
And it's a shame, because Sigil is such an eclectic city any kind of stories could take place there.One thing I would like to see is another game in the Planescape campaign. Not another Torment, but I'd like to see more of that universe.
pibbur who is pretty sure that won't happen.
Who owns Interplay these days?
I'm playing Kingmaker over BT4. I was a huge Bard's Tale fan back in the 80's and donated to the kickstarter. BT4 just doesn't seem like it's a Bard's Tale game. To me, a Bard's Tale game should be about killing creatures, leveling up, and the maps.
Too many damn puzzles in BT4. My wife makes me feel stupid every day. I don't need a damn game to do the same thing.
You're implying that you (or anyone) would have faith in announcement like that?A statement that a true Van Buren was being developed would most likely shatter the inter-webs to pieces!
It's *almost* like all they care about is getting as many games out as possible in order to earn money on the license.How true but yet they lease the Ip to cheap MMO developers.
Yep but still hate those MMO's.It's *almost* like all they care about is getting as many games out as possible in order to earn money on the license.
Yep but still hate those MMO's.
Still would like to see more good SP's games also. Anyway selling your Ip to whoever wants it just saturates the market with crap games, and ruins the brand image.
Earlier I was so it applies to them also.For a moment I thought you were talking about Game's Workshop.
One thing I would like to see is another game in the Planescape campaign. Not another Torment, but I'd like to see more of that universe.
pibbur who is pretty sure that won't happen.
To me, a Bard's Tale game should be about killing creatures, leveling up, and the maps.
Me too, Bard's tale 3 was one of my favourites as a teen. BT4 is one of the few games I backed at over the minimum. I don't mind puzzles to break up the gameplay of a Dungeon Crawler, but I don't want to play a game primarily about puzzles. I think I had more fun with Grimoire, and honestly I probably even had more fun with Darkest Dungeon, which I didn't think was all that great of a dungeon crawler, but at least it was a dungeon crawler.
Just far too many games adhere to that simple formula. Blizzard reached HUGE success with that - kind of an Nethack clone, as I often said.
What I do love - and I really love oit very, very, VERY much ! - is that the Bard is actually influencing things through Music ! Since Wizardry 8, I haven't seen that. Far, far, far too many games are out there merely sllowing mayhem and slaughter, and not a single game is about music. It's as if music as a gameplay part was an invention of the most evil.
Today, games - and especially most RPGs, and since most RPGs these days are based upon the Action-RPG model - are merely about combat. Battling, swords and slaughter, most don't even offer something more sophisticated that slaghter and maybe some kind of magic.
I bet that most Action-RPG lovers hate The Badrd's Tale 4 for its music. For, as you wrote it, "RPGs should be about killing and levelling up" (my words).
People are I bet hugely irritated by music as a gameplax part. It shouldn't be there, I bet they say. Like zjat enemy in the game already says - oh, what an irony ! - "Music is perversion !"
In the current age of dark, brutal, so called "mature", "heavymetalized" games, a thing like music is simply not wanted. Music is like colours. Music is childish. Music is immature. People want brutality.
I wouldn't call darkest dungeon a dungeon crawler; it hardly had 'dungeons' bigger than 8 rooms. To me a dungeon crawler has gazillion rooms. Hum. There was a 1/2 decent dungeon crawler a couple of years ago - let me try to remember the name - hum - one sec - yea - ok not sure if you would like it - it was called:
The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians