Kotaku 
Enter your username and password.
Denver, 6:12 AM
Wed Dec 9
64 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip us:
Editor-In-Chief:
Brian Crecente
| AIM | Twitter
Deputy Editor:
Stephen Totilo
| AIM | Twitter
Senior Editor:
Michael McWhertor
| AIM | Twitter
Senior Contributing Editor, Japan:
Brian Ashcraft
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, East Coast:
Michael Fahey
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Oceania:
Luke Plunkett
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Weekends:
Owen Good
| AIM | Twitter
Correspondent, San Francisco:
AJ Glasser
| AIM | Twitter
Columnist:
Leigh Alexander
Columnist:
Tim Rogers
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
11/26/09
A large furry fanbase, then?
they wanted to have a half-dragon variant you could use in dungeons. Sadly, this was feasible due to time and money
So no.
11/26/09
Yeah I'm going to run at it with a sword. Hopefully it doesn't fly away.
11/25/09
11/26/09
What is the world coming to? Dragons used to be the fiercest of the fierce, the encounter to end all encounters. They would demand tribute from villages. Maidens sacrificed yearly. Because they could breathe FIRE and FLY and cast MAGIC. How do you stop that with a sword?
Dragons are really letting themselves go these days, seems like any ol bloke can just say "Hun, I'll be home for dinner, but I'm gonna go slay a few dragons with my buds."
"Ok sweetie, be careful!" replies the wife, with nary a look of concern.
11/25/09
"No John, you are the dragons!"
11/25/09
11/25/09
11/26/09
When was the last game where it's fun to be a dragon? NWN: Hordes of The Underdark (by playing a Red Dragon Disciple or an Epic Shifter)?
11/25/09
11/25/09
11/25/09
#speakup
11/25/09
10/14/09
10/14/09
10/14/09
I also wanted to mention Witcher and it's delayed, branching consequences but you already mentioned Witcher and sex in the same sentence so it's cool.
10/14/09
1) this is a world with technology around medieval levels. News travels, at fastest, via messenger pigeons, or more often by dudes on horses. Barring magic in the game world, the odds of anything about you being known more than a mile from where you did it are close to zero, realistically. Even with magic, unless we're shown signs of an advanced magical media/communications network, it'd still be stupid for news of minor events to travel at all (ex: a farmer whose house/family you save will have less than 100 acquaintances, all in his town within a mile of him, and few will even really CARE about the story; it'll realistically spread almost nowhere in a human lifetime). World changing events, maybe a bit more, but anyway...
2) I've worked as a cashier before, and NEVER felt an "aura of evil" off of anyone, regardless of whether or not they tried to/did shoplift, try to buy tons of allergy meds to make meth with, or whatever. People who seemed shady most often seemed that way due to reminding me of people who WERE shady, not due to doing anything/having done anything.
10/14/09
10/14/09
And, while it might be okay that a little brush with some remote farmland people won't affect your reputation, because there wont be anyone to tell about it to the whole wide world, doing something like that in a city, even a medieval one, should affect how people treat you. Rumor spreads faster than wildfire in relatively small communities. And there's always someone watching.
I'm waiting till someone comes up with a location based system where you have a more or less clean slate whenever you approach a new location (unless of course you burned the previous one to the ground or saved it from the dragon, since that kind of stories tend to carry around), with your reputation arriving in delay, as people tie your name to stories from merchants or travelers. That would not only be cool but also somewhat realistic (as far as games can or should be realistic)
10/14/09
10/14/09
The way the morality decisions are described for this game it sounds as if there are no specific forks so no single decision dramatically changes the gameplay but several dozen decisions build up and alter the world in certain ways over time. I could be wrong but that's what it sounded like.
10/14/09
Lots of gameplay material on youtube of it, btw, if anybody is wondering. Even though it's from July, it looks pretty polished already.
10/14/09
10/20/09
But really, Germany? That's a little ironic. #divinity2egodraconis
10/14/09
Now we will see if it's sucks or not.
06/08/09
06/08/09