Recent content by Stoveburner

Sorry, but I cannot take you seriously when you are clearly so biased against one company. I mean, Bethesda are no angels but they are far from the worst in the industry. And really, you could call the suits at every corporation in the world 'crooks', it's just a matter of perspective...

It relies on fans making the game suit them better. It's not really 'broken' it's just not what you want. There is a difference. Bethesda wanted to do it a certain way and as long as it works when played that way then it isn't broken, you just don't like it. And it's perfectly fine to not...

I think the easiest way to do it would be use a fully 3D camera.. like WoW (with an .ini tweak you can zoom way out) , or *gasp* Fallout 3. The problem with Fallout 3 seems to be that while you can zoom out and make it look almost similar to Fallout 1/2, you can't really fight that way unless...

Oh, sorry. It's clear now. I thought at first you were implying that making perfect games would stop piracy. But companies don't seem satisfied with just making 'more' money, they want money for every copy that is played. Which I guess I can't blame them even if I despise the current methods...

I agree with someone else that said quality isn't really a major factor. You could have nothing but perfect games and piracy would still be rampant. Yes, you may sell more raw units based on your game being better than bacon, but you will have just as many pirates stealing it because they can.

Going from full FPP to OTS isn't really the same as going from FPP to a zoomed out TB bird's eye. If this style was so easy to implement and played smooth and was desirable I'd think we'd see more of it, even from indie devs who supposedly 'get it'.

Well, the cartoon was talking about music.. which is what I was generally referring to. But yeah, back in the day computer games had zero protection either. Then they started having word games when you launched it that you needed to look in the manual for. Well, Xerox made that useless. Then...

It's a circular argument. DRM exists because of pirates and now pirates pirate because of DRM. Chicken or the egg! Well, in this case we know it was the pirates that came first. LPs and cassettes had no DRM and in fact every home stereo system came set-up capable of copying them.

It's hard enough for even great devs to get one camera style working properly, much less 2 or more completely different ones that serve specific and vital functions. Unless you want to count jRPG style world exploration and then zooming into combat on predefined 'battlefields'. Which I'd...

I didn't say that. ;)

Well, that's a shame. No sarcasm really. I personally enjoy a wide variety of games and tend not to think of them in terms of 'dumbed down' or whatever. I can just as easily do a pacifist run through Fallout over a weekend or work on clearing a few dozen levels in Peggle. I don't look at...

I wasn't aware that we were speaking of a specific genre, but you know that the supply adjusts to the demand, right? If RPGs aren't selling well then you aren't going to have many made. But if you need a strategy/rpg type game from a small studio you could check out King's Bounty if you...

I think you underestimate the sheer number of games that get released. ;) And there are a lot of smaller publishers out there, granted they may not be able to bankroll a huge studio for 3 years.. they could at least help as long as the studio had some of its own money as well.

I'm not sure that's always the case. Atari did publish The Witcher which is borderline indie and considering the content and target audience was never going to be a huge seller. I don't think it always has to be the next big seller to warrant production, it just has to be a safe bet. Lots of...

In 1982 my mother played the Atari 2600 as much as I did. I'm not sure if you were around then, but before the 'crash' of the early 80's games were HUGE. It took a long time for them to regain foothold comparable to what it was when they first hit the scene.