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  1. Anyone remember the Elvira adventure/rpg?

    I played the Amiga version back then ! Yes it was really incredible with surprises at every corners. the werewolf in the garden, the vampire lady in the chamber, I recall fighting some guards too. very deadly ! Cool graphics too ! Mount and Blades isn't obscure but that's what I'm...

  2. Changed your mind on TES4?

    my mind changed for the negative. the lattest video especialy the one with voice acting convinced me of cancelling. and the weird thing looking like dagoth ur. I thought, oh no ! Morrowind all over again ! Next the animals will be gone. bye bye birds and cows and chickens. And guess what, when...

  3. Mount & Blade Makes #1 at The Underdogs

    Lets not foget mount and blades isn't even completed yet ! I started with .711 and upgraded to .731 and man ! that was crazy ! the castles, all the cities gone 3D. Armagan keep amazing us ! (He and his wife are the only devs with a couple of help for the art & sounds) So far I'm really...

  4. Why Oblivion will be the greatest RPG, based on facts

    That must be a joke, right? You rally mean to say Mount and Blade is 1000% SUPERIOR ? With real physic (rather than physic enabled clutter and rape enabled bodies) and really crazy skirmish and real AI (as oposed to schedule AI) oh and yes real combat both mounted and on foot and well...

  5. I change my mind. Oblivion is the best game ever

    I'm must confessed I joined the Dark side of the force, and cancelled my preorder after seing more and more bullshit. The voice acting video is the one who finally convinced me. it was so plain riduculous. and then spoilers started pooring out about the ridiculous conclusion of the 20 hour...

  6. New Fan Interview at TES Forums

    Perhaps because they answered ALL my in depth questions about magic from the 5th thread in the team diary on magic ? A damn big chunk of it was that. There wasn't much left to say. They even went in the tiny details such as the scripted spells effects, customazible summons, etc. In case you...

  7. OBLIVION GERMAN VIDEO!!!

    I doubt *objects don't cast shadows* means all statics don't cast shadows. those can be dealt with easilly in an efficient way. But processing shadows from every fork as they are cast on every gold pieces lying on a table ? That would be quick efficient suicide. Don't put more in Kathode...

  8. MSFD on Bethesda's uber next-gen skill system

    In morrowind you had to work them through either a dll (Aerelorn stuff... but I don't think he did those, but he explained they were possible) the otherway involved running a golbal scrip - running all the time - a very bad thing !!! Basically cortex told me it wasn't a good idea to have a lot...

  9. A great example of why TES matters

    On #6 see my other post, or play back Daggerfall another time. On #1 - no excuses for the procedural quests. But I haven't seen any procedural 3D generator. DF was not really 3D. It was tiled. Dungeons were basicaly a cube. Still Blockhead proved procedural dungeon were possible, and now...

  10. A great example of why TES matters

    Other devs were disatisfied from what I heard, on a few points. But that's unavoidable. When you work as a team you make compromises. From the way he speak I would say there was a communication problem and big egos perhaps, the usual thing in moddern society. To his defense he confessed to...

  11. A great example of why TES matters

    Doug had some good point. You don't have to oversimplify things. Personally I like the way Cyrodil turned out, not as much ancient Rome, as a strange cross between Dark Age / Frank and Late roman empire. The Bretons and Nords turned rather good too. The problem I see is the...

  12. MSFD on Bethesda's uber next-gen skill system

    where did you get the idea I was claiming you were claiming ... err.. I was just...

  13. MSFD on Bethesda's uber next-gen skill system

    Doesn't make much sense or you are unable to make sense of it. I don't know where you're getting those strange idea The father of most current CRPG and MMORPG, and the major factor that forced D&D to add skills was the Pen & Paper system called Runequest. It was by far the simplest...

  14. MSFD on Bethesda's uber next-gen skill system

    Can you give us an idea what the formula look like ? is it a real exponential n! = n * (n-1) * (n-2) * (n-3) *... *5 * 4 *3 *2 *1 or more like xp (n to n+1) = 2(n+1) -1 (which mean total xp for level n = n * n => 10,000 usage at level 100) are the other factor used as straight...

  15. MSFD on Bethesda's uber next-gen skill system

    Not really if they use the X^2 curve, there is the following relationship total xp for level n = n ^ 2 xp from n to n+1 = 2(n+1) -1 if they use a real exponential curve, it's more like total xp = n ! xp to n+1 = n+1 * (exp to n) you can figure out quickly that the curve to go up...

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