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That's gambling for some people. Huge highs / depressing lows.
11/18/09
Personally, I loved all the discussion this has generated!
Now I have to spend more time with the game and see what I feel about it. I've run across the vendor, but I was reluctant to gamble with my spoils as well. Time to roll the dice for me.
11/18/09
Though I wish that Mythos had been Flagship's first "main" game and Hellgate wouldn't have even started to be developed until years later (years after it started development). That game had CLASSIC written all over it.
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Was I hallucinating, or are a good deal of the sound effects and even the music taken straight from diablo? I swear the moody guitar strumming is the same as the town music in the original.
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I bought Titan's Quest when they had the Direct2Drive deal, but it just never hit the spot.
This, I do believe, shall.
11/18/09
Only thing I can really add is that the MMO version of this game will be eagerly anticipated here. Couple of years to wait still on that however.
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I played in the Mythos beta and was eagerly following this game and waiting for it's release, so when it released I basically cracked out on it.
Hell, the weekend before it released I watched people play it on livestream for a good 30 hours over the course of fri, sat and sunday.
11/18/09
#speakup
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Mmmm, that brought back memories. I love Diablo's music.
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I'm glad they had him though, his music fits this game perfectly.
11/18/09
@Faulpyr: Ya the guy rocks.
11/18/09
I'm playing Dragon Age right now. It's awesome. But every time I come to a moral "choice" or try to use poisons or potions effectively, I have the thought:
"Wow, Witcher did this SO much better."
The original release was so buggy, but I played the rerelease with all fixes, and it was just a better game. It's funny, Dragon Age really is awesome but after playing The Witcher it falls short in some really key areas. So I have high hopes for the sequel.
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I'm not usually one to re-play games, but if you're inclined to re-play The Witcher, definitely do get the patches.
11/18/09
Beating that fucking dragon should NOT have taken me that many tries. Accursed controller..
11/18/09
Why on Earth would you put yourself through that kind of pain?
d^_^b Seriously though, yeah, Dragon Age is punishingly difficult. But even that is a kind of shortcoming. I like a good challenge, but I don't like playing the same fight fifteen, twenty times before a lucky break enables me to continue the game.
I like both games. But for people who haven't played The Witcher, I tell them to get that instead of DA:O.
11/18/09
The control really isn't that bad - it's just when positioning is supremely important (such as the dragons) that it becomes a great big giant pain in the fucking ass and I want fucking keyboard shortcuts argh. This radial menu thing is a pretty good idea given the limitations of a controller but goddamn it, I usually play this shit on PC.
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Since I cannot express how excited I am, I'm just going to let you picture me doing the happy dance.
Therein lies said happiness. #gyromancer
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Disclaimer: I own a PS3 and not a 360, don't think I'm being a 360 fanboy here. #gyromancer
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I'd actually prefer this sort of game on my PSP or iphone. In that case they'll have optimize more.
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The cells a weird monkey but in many ways the systems are equivalent. I even read MS licenced some of the tech from IBM that went into the PS3 for the 360. ie. Sony indirectly subsidized the 360.
Both are stripped down PPC cores with roughly 512 megs of ram with GPU's around the same generation. Both have spare 'cores' to help with peripheral tasks.
The big difference is the PS3 splits it's ram into two differently timed chunks; The PS3 went with 6 super fast specialty cores while the 360 went true multi core; 10mb of edram attached to the 360 CPU; bisexua... errr universal shaders on the 360;
So porting just needs to address that. And if you really don't tap the power much you just got to program for a PPC core.
So if you keep the ram requirements sub 256mb and never use alpha blending, never use screen-space ambient occlusion; never use anti-aliasing then you could port it pretty easily because their both PPC machines. Although I wouldn't have a clue where to start. #gyromancer
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I'll tell you now, creating a web app to work baisically like access, using ria and silverlight 3, has been the worst decision i've ever made. #gyromancer
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11/09/09
It all works, and its oh so pretty, but to do sometimes standard stuff, like call a single entity from a dataform, is a lot of work. #gyromancer