Interview NMA's big to-do about nothing posted as advertised

[Kamaz]

Exitium, I am sorry, but I think your signature is LARP. Totally LARP.

 

[Walks with the Snails]

Ouch. Very ouch.

 

[Barghest]

Stoopid pictures in signatures are bad enough. But one of freakin' DoW? Yowzer.

No insult intended Exitium, but it is crap.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Yeah, and your opinion holds sway over everyone. Tell that to everyone at DAC who liked it.

 

[plin]

OMG SO LAME, WAHT THE ELL. HYPE MAXHCINE< MACHKJNE HYPE.


actually, it was a nice surprise. Thanks odin.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

Yeah, and your opinion holds sway over everyone. Tell that to everyone at DAC who liked it.

lol

 

[Volourn]

The interview was good with some nice info. However, it didn not warrant the hype of a surprise. That is lame; but that's to be expected from Exitium.

Nontheless, I hope they get the go ahead for this game.

And, oh, one last bit for Troika:

BIO WELCOMES YOU TO THE LAND OF REAL TIME WITH PAUSE!!!

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Jesus, Kamaz, you like LARP and hate mechs. You're one sick puppy.

Anyway, the interview was fairly nice. All you dumbnuts went about pissing on each other about WU WAS TEH HYPEMONGER??! and didn't even comment on this part:

We’ve definitely discussed this as an option, and it seems to me that it would be much easier to balance paused real time with turn based combat than it was to try to balance turn based with full real time. I’m not a system designer, though, so maybe I’m high. I like the idea, but some other people here have said that they think it would be a bit redundant to have both turn based and paused real time. What do you guys think? Would that be redundant?

Give the man some insight, you drama queens.

 

[Barghest]

Oh, the indignity of it!

 

[Volourn]

"Give the man some insight,"

Only if he gives me a job.

 

[Kamaz]

NMA forums handles that part pretty well, RP, dont worry.

And about mechs - well, I think mechs are stupid, silly and pointless but LARPs - the future of RPGs. Whats so fucking strange about that? Uh?

 

[Greenskin13]

You're intollerable, old boy!

This wasn't a flying whore pony!

 

[Major_Blackhart]

You guys bitch more than my dead grandmother. Jesus shut up already.

 

[plin]

You guys bitch more than my dead grandmother. Jesus shut up already.

 

[Barghest]

You guys bitch more than my dead grandmother. Jesus shut up already.

So you can hear dead people? You worry me.

 

[Volourn]

"You guys bitch more than my dead grandmother. Jesus shut up already."

Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

[Elwro]

Don't be so full of spokker jones.

 

[almondblight]

The new screenshot is pretty cool. So's the interview (4 projects they're shipping around). The bitching is kinda lame though.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Even though I am not particpating in this current bitch session, I'm just going to say that Troika had this coming to them. Bioware and Bethesda get all the flames, typically, at the Codex. It's about time another developer got thrown into the mix. Hey, with the strong exception of NWN, at least Bioware never made mediocre titles like Arcanum and TOEE (except for its gameplay) and certainly redeemed themselves with KOTOR.

Besides, since Bioware pretty much invented the pause and play style of gameplay, it can only look like Troika's kowtowing to them.

 

[plin]

Even though I am not particpating in this current bitch session, I'm just going to say that Troika had this coming to them. Bioware and Bethesda get all the flames, typically, at the Codex. It's about time another developer got thrown into the mix. Hey, with the strong exception of NWN, at least Bioware never made mediocre titles like Arcanum and TOEE (except for its gameplay) and certainly redeemed themselves with KOTOR.

Besides, since Bioware pretty much invented the pause and play style of gameplay, it can only look like Troika's kowtowing to them.

I don't think anyone is flaming troika at all, it looks like they're flaming towards you and odin for the supposed hype. I would think they'd be happy for troika even though this surprise didn't meet their expectations to the MEGA HYPE that I fail to see.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Even though I am not particpating in this current bitch session, I'm just going to say that Troika had this coming to them. Bioware and Bethesda get all the flames, typically, at the Codex. It's about time another developer got thrown into the mix. Hey, with the strong exception of NWN, at least Bioware never made mediocre titles like Arcanum and TOEE (except for its gameplay) and certainly redeemed themselves with KOTOR.

Well, Cain and Boyarsky have mentioned in some interviews that they've looked at their errors in their past titles and are looking at ways to prevent them. While its not a guilt free situation, admiting there were problems is a good step. Trying to prevent the same from happening again is another good one.

Besides, since Bioware pretty much invented the pause and play style of gameplay, it can only look like Troika's kowtowing to them.

Uh, no. Did you ever get around to playing Darklands?

 

[Sol Invictus]

How long ago was that game made? You can't honestly expect me or anyone to believe that Bioware stole it from Darklands, do you?

As for Troika getting flamed, and 'no one is doing it'. Please. You should have seen what Saint had to say about Troika earlier in #fallout, before he went back to Sims 2. Oh yeah, if you think he's 'joining the dark side' or whatever, think again - Sims 2 is a pretty fun game.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

How long ago was that game made? You can't honestly expect me or anyone to believe that Bioware stole it from Darklands, do you?

You can't honestly expect me or anyone else to believe that Bioware invented something when that thing was made before and not by them, do you?

I didn't said anything about "stealing" or any other hopelessly infantile form of accusation such as that one, so why bring it up?

 

[Sol Invictus]

While I don't think Bioware 'invented' it per se, they definitely introduced the gameplay element to the modern RPG market, much as Fallout introduced the modern gaming market to sophisticated RPGs, and Planescape Torment carried on that legacy.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Well, I think you'd agree there's a difference between inventing and introducing, yes? Sure, they reintroduced that particular gameplay mechanic in modern RPGs. Didn't said otherwise.