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DDO's been winning awards since switching to free-to-play, but knowing the online gaming industry, the free-to-play model just doesn't make a lot of money due to the tiny number of people who actually make in-game purchases. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27416/Going_Free_Boosts_Turbines_DDO_Re...

Neither Betrayer nor Zehir sold very well. Betrayer generally earns good reviews, but Zehir was widely panned as "largely unfinished". Hm, yeah, I might be biased because Zehir was a return to old-school D&D and I liked it a lot. And yeah, the big problem would be the existing publish...

They can, but I get the sense that Bioware wants to keep all Dragon Age development in-house. Dragon Age's brand is currently very, very strong, and I'm sure Bioware wants to make sure every Dragon Age release is mega-hit material by doing the development and QA themselves. If they farm it out to t...

Because Bioware can just make one good game, cash in big, then farm out the sequels/expansions to its partner studios. Said partners earn Bioware more money without needing to expand their own development staff. In short, follow the NWN model. They can do the same with Dragon Age, without having to...

Going to Bioware and begging to take them back may be the only way to restart the trend of decent D&D games (although, ironically, despite its computer gamey roots pretty much no 4E video games have been released yet). Now why would Bioware possibly do that... they successfully transferred the ...

It gets better. From everything I could find on their campaign setting, Golarion, all of the planes are actually in the same physical dimension. James has gone on record stating that teleport and its ilk actually only have a intra-planetary range, which is why it takes epic-magic to teleport to the...

So....this is supposed to be funny? What am I missing?

Crissa wrote:Malak, that's a strange argument. It goes very far to not actually face the argument at hand, and then it insults the maths vs 'those who play the game more'.

Yeah, he is an idiot.

Meanwhile in Paizoland: Alternatively if there is no snark, the post is written in such a way as to portray the OP as incontrovertably correct and people should just acknowedge this. Most times they just come off as completely arrogent. Unfortunately, these people do not like it when others tell the...

Caedrus wrote:Chainmail bikinis fall into this category. It's always out of place and it dehumanizes any character that's wearing one.

What kind of prude backwards attitude is this? 'dehumanizes' o.O

Welcome to the 19th century.

maddd0g wrote:Can't you guidos just have buttlove and make up already?

I guess they like angry sex.

Zinegata wrote:Continue living in your fantasy world where 90% of people are retards.

Irrespective of what you two were discussing, 90% seems a plausible guess for the rate of idiots in the human population. Sturgeon's Revelation and all.

Wyzzard wrote:If you have Auto Attack and Ai Wen's Leaping Octopus Death Maul Technique (that works just like Auto Attack), then that's not fluff, it's bullshit.

Too bad the example he actually used was grappling, not auto-attacking.

They're not biting into "more options", they're biting into "more kool powerz!". If I they can grapple effectively, they might use the move occasionally. If grapple is renamed "Tsu-Min's ultimate-skull-crushing-death-lock" but remains mechanically identical (but perhap...

Personally, I think the "adventure path" model gives just the right amount of linearity -- move from dungeon 1 to dungeon 2 to ... to dungeon 6, with the gaps filled in with whatever non-combat stuff you like. They are not all the same. Up until Kingmaker, I found them to be very linear. ...

When Paizo puts out shitty products it makes people less likely to play D&D. Like, if this product was good it could've kept 3.5E afloat for a few more years. Whatever you think of Pathfinder, it does help to keep 3.5 alive. In every gaming store there is bound to be lots of (new) PF material a...

Are there a lot of people (or at least, enough of them) that really do care enough about the quality of non-illustrative artwork in RPG books to justify that amount of effort and money (in particular, stuff like holding up printing for two months to get art that fits in better). Yes, me, for exampl...

Can anyone explain to me why pointing out that Fighters blow is resisted so fiercely that even designers take time out of their day to come in to smack you with their dicks? You should have picked another nickname. The paizo designers are probably aware of the den and the tomes and just envy your g...

TheFlatline wrote:Maybe Cryptic will pull off something nice here

Don't be naive - it's Atari. The company who is so full of creativity they even had to steal (..ok, buy) the name of another game company

Which would matter if I had a magic Virtual Machine that could run download cracks off the internet and run ToEE that was provided for free and didn't take eleven billion years of research to figure out how the fuck it works and that it meets these criteria. Yeah, maybe this 'technology' thing is n...

a crack to remove the cd check. I've done this three times. The first time, it worked. The second time, it gave me a virus. The third time, Virus. I'm never doing it again. Apart from virus scanners, you could simply use VMs. Even if you get a virus it doesn't matter and you can always just overwri...

Yes, ToEE is the best D&D CRPG aside from Planescape and BG (which are not because of gameplay, but whatever). unfortunately, I don't own it, it's not worth buying, and the only cracks available online are filled with viruses, so I will never play that game again. I recently played it again and...

Kaelik wrote:Personally, my D&D CRPG game opinion is:

"Fuck you! It's turn based, stop making me target Glitterdusts and stinking clouds with a 3 second cast time on moving enemies in real time you asshats!"

Temple of Elemental Evil to the rescue...

I'd like to see some aberrant monsters by HR Giger.

I don't care if it's the greatest edition of D&D ever, with plots that make hardened veterans weep with emotional joy, IT'S ANOTHER FUCKING GAME IN NEVERWINTER. I won't even say "it's another fucking Forgotten Realms game" because I've pretty much accepted that *all* D&D games are...