AgamemnonV2

Fixed that for you. This, so much. I still shake my head every time I'm in third person and side-step and move forward at the same time. It's like my character is skating across the Mojave. That and the "I'm frozen in a Matrix-jumping-pose" bit.

You do know that Tolkien Enterprises has brought a few lawsuits against Wizards of the Coast over a number of things in regards to their naming guidelines? Any folks who were there for AD&D 1st ED can tell you that Halfings used to be called Hobbits until they got slapped with a lawsuit. Gygax got away with a lot more, such as the designs for Orcs and the inclusion of Wargs as worgs (plus it's also rooted in mythology). I'm saying that it won't be confused with the super-popular (known better by their subtitles) The Elder Scrolls because there's only a narrative/background genre tying the two together, unless...Is Skyrim going to be a card game? I certainly thought it was a card game in conjunction with Skyrim, considering I knew the relationship Notch had with Bethesda before the project was announced, especially once I saw some of the sample art. This is not far-fetched in any single way--there are far too similarities here. Bethesda legal probably would've just snubbed their nose at it if it was named something else but alas there's that last nail in the coffin there to draw their ire and honestly, I don't blame them. Pish-posh. The industry are deals with loads of "frivolous" lawsuits. If Bethesda gets Notch to change the name then it'll mean he'll have to be a bit more creative.

Why, do you know any?

Europe has shit Internet. Might want to get your facts straight there. And comparing Japan and South Korea when their average is double that of any other country? Yeah, real great standard. It's a good thing the majority of the world lives in those two countries, hyuck! Can people stop saying this absolute trite? Did people "vote" with the RealID fiasco? Why exactly is it so damn taboo to offer criticism to a developer and hope rather that they actually listen instead of just wipe their ass with their money? Do you know how much fail this argument is? Even TODAY, where social gaming services are practically the norm, we usually find that fewer than 40% of people who have purchased a product don't even bother to utilize its online functions. Go check out some multiplayer-related achievements on Steam, specifically for L4D2, and let me know what you find. Hey, how about I just play Diablo III because it's not that difficult to set the game to work only client-side? Must be why everyone else gets downvoted as often as you do.

There are already parts of the world in which gamers are paying exorbitant prices for games--sometimes $20 or $30 over the mean price globally. Case and point: Australia. No one should have to pay $80AUD for Borderlands. Might as well pay that much for a swift kick in the nuts. Anyway, the trouble really isn't with the one-price option. Rather it's with the entire craze of DLC. More and more developers are wising up to the successful trend of being able to sell bits of the game for small quantitative prices. They understand the psychology of a consumer--small, singular digits often seem like good deals. Bioware has whored this to perfection--so much, in fact, that I now come to expect them to have no fewer than four or five DLC "campaign" in all of their future games. And who can forget the craze of selling "fun" and "unique" items for pack-of-gum prices as well? Sid Meier has found so much success with this in Civ V that I think we can all safely assume there's never going to be a proper expansion to that game. And to deliver the point home, all I need to say is: Team Fortress 2 hats. Like Free-2-Play schemes in the MMO market, developers of single player games have found a way to continue to make a profit even after the first purchase of the title. I suspect in the future that every video game will have an online market of some sort, selling either fluff or content. They'll probably even manage to get away with not having to develop proper sequels just by releasing a slew of new missions and what not on the same game engine, just like Valve.

Your douchebaggery is always enjoyable. I'm not sure why you didn't just come out and say, "BLIZZARD ONLY CARES ABOUT UHMER'KAH." Except any number of gamers living out of a big city in the States can probably tell you ISPs and connection rates are not always the greatest. And if Blizzard does not care about trying to make money off of the other 6.7 billion other people in the world then they're genuinely retarded. Every English-speaking country in the world has horrid ISP options (moreso for any English-speaking country that isn't the US). Their goldmine in South Korea is not excluded of this dilemma. And yet all of this can be solved with a simple offline option or a LAN option, and all you can do is cry bloody Burden of Proof.

I have "actually been keeping check." All that really tells me is that they're dumber than a bag of hammers. "Oh gee, I'm genuinely surprised that not everyone in the world has a T1 line that never fails. Am I the only one living in a mansion?"

That's kind of like saying, "Yes, there's some similarities to Dungeon & Dragons and Lord of the Rings, like halflings, dwarves, elves, and orcs, but that's about it."

Losing a CD drive is not a justified action to not trusting a publisher who pretended they weren't more malicious than people who create viruses? You want to talk about justice, let's talk about how EA skated through that whole clusterfuck without so much as a lawsuit. People win lawsuits on much less in consumerism, like spilling hot coffee on yourself because the cup apparently didn't say, "CAUTION: HOT." It's utterly disgusting that things like that even happen and just more proof how the ESA manages to get away with so much because lawmakers still think video games "are for kids." I'd like to see an honest study show what really happens. I really don't know any pirates who then promote games to others to purchase. http://news.softpedia.com/news/EA-Admits-Pirated-Copies-Do-Not-Equal-Lost-Sales-94516.shtml http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sims-piracy-bittorrent-game-sales,8126.html I don't think it's a coincidence that the most-pirated games in the world are also the ones topping out on the sales charts as well. My "market" is worth over $11 billion. What do you suggest? I try to find a company that doesn't hate money?

I like how the Notch Defense Brigade has been comparing Edge Games with this. Yeah, because, as we all know, Bethesda Softworks hasn't produced a title in ten years, and even then that said title was an unknown blip (and, furthermore, Bethesda is an unknown studio anyway). Right, perfect comparison. Because a card game called Scrolls with Vikings and magic stuff can't possibly be confused with the super-popular The Elder Scrolls with Vikings and magic stuff. Anyway, I think it's a real waste of time. I've heard the whole, "It's another team, it's not affecting Minecraft dev time," but that's a load of horse-crap. Notch is still thinking small with Minecraft and yet the thing has the potential to make Facebook look like chum's work when it comes to revenue-making possibilities. Instead he's got a super-small team handling a Valve-sized fanbase. And Christ, at least there's a hundred people working at Valve. I can only imagine what Minecraft would look like if he actually took a look at the top ten mega-overhaul mods and said, "Hm, maybe I should actually add something more than just shears." And I get the Adventure Update is supposed to be that, but it still doesn't fly with me considering that he probably could've knocked it out in a month if he had a bigger team.

Yeah, I'm sure it's REAL HARD to have an offline mode and a LAN option. For reals, yo.

You know, I somehow doubt we've gone 23 pages without mentioning all the key points and facts to piracy, such as: - It's not stealing, it's data copyright infringement. - Not only does it not hurt the market, it actually helps it through promotion. - No one loses a damn thing over piracy (except for the loss of a guaranteed sale). As for the argument and justification behind it, everyone has a different story. I'm sure most of it is done out of convenience and because few are ever prosecuted on it, but for me it's completely different. When EA spear-headed the DRM nightmare on Spore, I supported them. At the time I thought, "No big deal, I always have Internet access. This won't inconvenience me." That was before we learned EADM launched with tools to detect "hinky" installed programs like Alcohol and Daemon Tools and then lock your CD drive, acting as a rootkit even if you uninstall Spore. I fucking lost a CD drive to EA and was never compensated for buying their game. So yeah, excuse me if I never install an EA game again and just leave the purchased product in the box and simply play with a pirated copy. I will never feel guilty for that. Secondly, any PC gamer will tell you the crappy dilemma we all face. There's rarely a demo for a PC game these days and even if there is it usually does not reflect the full product (although kudos to the games that manage a "timer trial" so you can actually play the full game for a period of time). Most importantly, however, you can never return a PC game once you've opened the box. It doesn't even matter if it wouldn't even install on your computer--most retailers have a policy to never accept refunds for PC games once their seals have been broken. Console gamers don't even face this problem. There's multiple renting services for games AND not only can you return games in a period of time but you can also trade them in for something else! Which brings me to the "try before you buy" philosophy, which I fully support. As long as developers and publishers continue to not publish true demos and as long as retailers keep pretending it's the 1980s, then I'm going to treat them the same way I'm being treated; like an idiot. It really doesn't help when developers like Ubisoft cry wolf all the time and take giant dumps on PC gamers all the time as well. No, sorry, I will not be interested in your game that you purposely held back a month for its PC release for "distribution reasons." Kiss my middle finger on that one, bub. With that in mind, I'm never going to take up an issue with anyone who pirates a game for the same reason I do.

The issue may be old news but I just have to throw this in: roundabouts are DEFINITELY not better in regards to the flow of traffic when holding the exception over proper city planning. South Florida is an excellent example of this. The cities were planned with massive expansion in mind and created the road system based off of the grid plan (as opposed to the "I drew the road system with a crayon" plan). Because of this massive project in which nearly every street follows this pattern (with two-way traffic), traffic flow is reduced because drivers are conscious enough to know that if they are stuck going west-bound, they can always turn north or south and return west to still arrive at their destination (with a little more travel in mind). Roundabouts are commonly found in cities where city planning predates the horse and buggy, so it's understandable why it's a mess. And truthfully, in those cases, roundabouts are the ONLY thing that would work because usually the distance from the previous intersection is only a stone throw away. Even now in the city I'm living in roundabouts are God awful tools, smaller than the Mini Cooper, and there's not a day that goes by where I don't see a tour bus get stuck at one attempting to go around it. And then there's the ever-so-common "circle-lock" feature that usually happens when people are impatient and don't yield, breaking out into the circle, when the person they cut off is attempting to still stay on, but the person behind them is trying to pass them to another direction, thus virtually stopping the flow of traffic until someone takes one for the team and goes down a street they weren't planning on going down anyway. Here's a good example of why roundabouts don't work in the United States. Follow the road called Hollywood Blvd to the West and you'll find a large roundabout. This planning was done for a couple of reasons--for one, the city wanted to be "unique" and add some unique value to the city, and the other was they bought the whole, "roundabouts help with traffic" myth. I've driven on this road plenty of times to tell you otherwise. The speed limit on this road is 45MPH. Everyone takes this roundabout at about 25MPH. The traffic is always light at all times of the day. It's pointless on that fact because people actually AVOID the street, going further down South on the highway to just go West on Pembroke Rd or further North to Sheridan St. Hell, that's what I would do, just because everyone knows what a large inconvenience the circle is that just by using it you lose about thirty or forty seconds of final destination travel time. Maybe it's not that significant but take a look East from the highway and count the number of circles. If someone from Sheridan St left at the same time as someone from Hollywood Blvd off of I-95, then the guy on Sheridan St would arrive at Hollywood Beach four minutes sooner than the guy on Hollywood Blvd. Roundabouts are rightfully looked down upon in the States for good reason. Busy streets are largely given priority in traffic light management so you won't hit a red light that often, thus ensuring that one continuous direction with mostly greens along the way means you reduce your speed far less often.

How exactly is a developer supposed to improve on common mistakes if the answer to every problem is, "Don't worry, our community will fix it"?

I would recommend Open Cities but it's an absolute nightmare with Extended Landscapes as far as strain on your system goes (not to mention compatibility patches).

, babe! I just want to know who he is.

Unfortunately the FaceGen version Oblivion uses really can't do much to the way the technology worked then. There's a popular combo mod that makes them look like prettier dogs though. http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=14805 http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5643

Both. I don't know if it's still in development but those stat bars just look incredibly out of place for what must be the skills tab. And then the skills tab is some scroll-y looking thing. Everything the community has been doing with Bethesda games is ensuring there's as much information in as little space as possible and yet they seem to not be getting the hint. Will their next game have entire full-screen info-graphics on one specific skill with lore back story to them too? As for RPS's news, yeah. They're spot-on about reporting on great stuff. I just don't think it would hurt to hit the spell check button before you click "Publish" though.

I remember when my first account got banned because I called Bashcraft out on defending rape and pedophilia in Japan as "cultural differences." How much better can irony be defined as when my second account gets starred one day before I leave to live in a different country, a process which has left me with forgetting my recent password change and being stuck in Gawker limbo in regards to a password reset? Of course now that the redirect no longer works it's all for nothing anyway.

Not to mention you won't be able to play any mods that add new key functions. As for my mod list: Oblivion.esm Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm Armamentarium.esm Kvatch Rebuilt.esm HorseCombatMaster.esm Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp DLCShiveringIsles.esp Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp LoadingScreens.esp LoadingScreensAddOn.esp LoadingScreensSI.esp Natural_Weather_HDR_by_Max_Tael.esp Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp Realistic Water.esp WindowLightingSystem.esp Akatosh Mount By Saiden Storm.esp Book Jackets Oblivion.esp Cyrodilic Brandy.esp ImprovedSigns.esp Portable Campsite.esp Redecoration.esp Reznod_Mannequin.esp Update My Statue.esp VA_BetterGold.esp Living Economy.esp Living Economy - Items.esp Cutthroat Merchants.esp DropLitTorchOBSE.esp MiscTracker.esp Map Marker Overhaul.esp Map Marker Overhaul - SI additions.esp Guild Map Markers.esp HouseMapMarkersOnlyBought.esp DLCHorseArmor.esp DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp DLCOrrery.esp DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp DLCVileLair.esp DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp DLCMehrunesRazor.esp DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp DLCSpellTomes.esp DLCSpellTomes - Unofficial Patch.esp Book Jackets DLC.esp GrimbotsSpellTomes.esp AyleidFiringa.esp Armor of Heaven's Fury-Gold-Heavy.esp Blades Ceremonial Armour.esp CM_Better Wine.esp CM_Better Wine_SI.esp DBShadowSet.esp HelmetCollection.esp javrmb.esp Ma.S.Tro's Black Crest Kit v1.03.esp mnp Nighteye Goggles.esp PTArtifacts.esp RSArmor.esp ROHJ2.esp Tyrael Armor.esp Thieves Arsenal.esp Daedric Lord Armor.esp Zira's Horse Modpack - Friesian Horses.esp Zira's Horse Modpack - Shadowmere.esp Zira's Horse Modpack - Extra Horses.esp Zira's Horse Modpack - More Horses.esp Zira's Horse Modpack - Armored Legion Horses.esp DLCThievesDen.esp DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp ExnemRuneskulls.esp Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp OOO-Water_Weeds.esp OOO-Map_Markers_Stock.esp OOO-No_Guild_Ownership.esp OOO-Container_Trap_Instant_Effects.esp Alluring Potion Bottles v3.esp ArmamentariumLL4OOO.esp ArmamentariumLLMagicOOO.esp SSEE-OOO.esp GrayFoxOutfit.esp KnightlyArmory.esp 300_Akaviri_Stronghold.esp Amajor7 Imperial Furniture.esp DBSRebuiltComplete.esp Kvatch Rebuilt.esp Kvatch Rebuilt - OOO Compatibility.esp GlenvarCastle.esp TheForgottenShields.esp DLCfrostcrag.esp DLCFrostcrag - Unofficial Patch.esp Knights.esp Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp The Lost Spires.esp Lost Paladins of the Divines.esp HoarfrostCastle.esp MannimarcoComplete.esp xuldarkforest.esp LostSpires-DarkForest patch.esp xulStendarrValley.esp xulTheHeath.esp XulEntiusGorge.esp xulFallenleafEverglade.esp LostSpires-Everglade patch.esp xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp xulChorrolHinterland.esp mythsandlegends.esp xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp AkaviriStronghold-LostCoast fix.esp xulBravilBarrowfields.esp xulLushWoodlands.esp HoarfrostCastle-LushWoodlands patch.esp xulAncientYews.esp xulAncientRedwoods.esp xulCloudtopMountains.esp xulArriusCreek.esp xulPatch_AY_AC.esp xulRollingHills_EV_withoutWheat.esp xulPantherRiver.esp xulRiverEthe.esp xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp xulImperialIsle.esp xulBlackwoodForest.esp xulCheydinhalFalls.esp KvatchRebuilt-CheydinhalFalls patch.esp xulAspenWood.esp xulSkingradOutskirts.esp xulSnowdale.esp FrostcragReborn-Snowdale patch.esp OOO-Snowdale Patch.esp xulCliffsOfAnvil.esp OOOCliffsofAnvilPatch.esp MannimarcoResurrection-CliffsOfAnvil patch.esp Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp Harvest [Flora].esp Harvest [Flora] - Shivering Isles.esp Harvest [Flora] - DLCVileLair.esp Harvest [Flora] - DLCFrostcrag.esp Real Lava 1.3.esp Kyoma's Journal Mod.esp Leviathan Soulgems.esp More_Training-1908.esp P1DkeyChain.esp Unlimited Rings 1.0.esp Unlimited Amulets 1.0.esp Alternative Start by Robert Evrae.esp Disenchant.esp MidasSpells.esp Deadly Reflex 6 - Timed Block with no damage or durability changes.esp Mounted_Spellcasting_Deadly_Reflex_Compatible.esp DRSplatter.esp OOO-Respawn_Week.esp [GFX]_Initial_Glow-all.esp DeadlyReflex 6 - Combat Moves.esp ArmorOfMythologi.esp Summon Oblivion Gate v08c.esp Summon Oblivion Gate v08d.esp Greek hero armors and weapons.esp

Also, downvote me all you want, but RPS's quality of writing IS shit.

Like I said at the start, this just reinforces my current modus operandi to just pirate all EA games just to be safe. I'm not sure why EA likes being complete idiots--maybe they're just trying to steal the limelight back away from Bobby "I fire employees when they are being sexually harassed" Kotick.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/06/elderer-skyrim-for-pc-detailed-by-bethesda/ Nothing really new revealed. I don't know if it's just RPS or what, but who the hell thinks the UI is any better than Oblivion? Christ, it still looks terrible. Although that might just have to do with RPS's quality of writing anyway. I mean, seriously. Do they proofread their stuff before publishing?