Duncan

Man, I guess you should never count out the Thumb vote.

I am just watching this for the first time and WHOA. The guy lumbering into camera all "HO HO HO YOU GUYS FORGOT ABOUT ME" is terrifying. And yeah, up until now I wasn't totally clear on what you do with the blocks in Tetris. Thanks guys. What? There's a girl on this show? How did that happen? Andrew looks like he's going to punch someone a lot of the time. Ohh... Spider-Man... seriously, I can't handle this anymore. He needs to get tear gassed in the face. Get the fuck away from the camera. ...he just took his shirt off... why did he do that...

Also, you = correct, so don't worry about it.

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/pr.cgi?id=20060426scifi02 what what

That would be the same two guys who wrote the second one, so I don't think it was quite so much a case of "we have to redeem ourselves for WW!" as it was "this time let's try not to alienate people so much". I was just thinking about this now... I agree that between WW and TT there was a bit of backpedalling with the writing. But I think that makes it weird in TT where Kaileena is supposed to be his true love (or whatever), and the WW-Prince is supposed to be his 'dark side' (or whatever), both of which are pretty dubious when you look back at WW. The Prince/Kaileena relationship in WW is fundamentally bizarre and there's no way the WW-Prince is the angrier, depressed version of the SOT-Prince -- he's a stupid, violent dick. So either the writers just made things up to make writing TT easier or they think they accomplished things in WW that they didn't. Either way :fart: also, hi, welcome to the forums, etc. Sorry I ranted out loud at you for no reason.

With Warrior Within I think it's a question of how off-putting you find it. The more suspicious/shit you find the attitude, art direction, etc, especially in contrast to Sands of Time the less likely you are to enjoy the game. Like, if your favourite thing about Sands of Time was "platforming action" you will probably find something to like in Warrior Within. Creatively/artistically it is terrible. Beyond that though, it's still not a very good game (at the least it's not Sands of Time-quality), the level design for instance is pretty bad. Warrior Within isn't just Sands of Time painted black. The game clearly has a different mindset. I don't know as much about Two Thrones but it seems a lot like Warrior Within painted brown. So the art direction is closer to Sands of Time but it still has WW's "hardcore fuck some shit up" attitude. It depends mostly on why you want to play them. If you want to continue the story, definitely don't bother. Sands of Time is a stand-alone story written by Jordan Mechner that's awkwardly fitted into a trilogy (because trilogies are epic) written by two other guys who no one has ever heard of for good reasons. If you are just looking for a fun game I would still say don't bother actually. You might like Warrior Within but you definitely have to have some blinders on.

To be honest there aren't any drastic changes upcoming. I haven't played it in six years but I don't remember the long conversations and exposition dumps easing up by much. That first one in Arcadia is the one everyone remembers but there are definitely some more later on. I like the game but the storytelling is pretty screwy.

I probably like The Sting the most. Most of my favourite episodes are in the third and fourth seasons, but I actually like the second season the best. Maybe because the worst episodes are in the third and fourth seasons also.

I totally thought he was dead. Whoops.

Possibly but I think that's where 'uncontroversial' comes in, given the number of adventure gamers who shit a brick when something's direct control. I think the idea with BS4 is that it's a safe, compromising thing that knows only Broken Sword fans and adventure gamers will be interested in it.

Well, given that practically the entire company is gone, I think the idea is that they can't afford to produce anything other than a cheap and uncontroversial sequel to their most popular game.

I don't remember it all that well, but essentially, yeah, they're only doing the concept/design for this game and someone else is actually producing it. I think Revolution is just a design house now.

Fuck.

Okay, sure, but just because they haven't said it before doesn't mean it was because it wasn't allowed. Unless they've actively, consciously avoided saying goddamn because it was against some Elder Scrolls rule, I don't think your example holds up. What you're talking about is blatant contradiction, and when did they establish unequivocally that they don't say goddamn?

Okay, what I don't get is how this apparently high-minded fantasy world can't come up with 'goddamn' on their own. They have 'god', they have 'damn', they can't put the two things together? What I'm saying is goddamn isn't particularly convoluted as far as etymology goes, they're probably using words which are less plausible, and besides the language in Oblivion is not substantially different from English anyway.

Yeah, I mean talk about an atmosphere killer. That's my least favourite thing about Battlestar Galactica, frak. I guess that's a different situation than this because of the FCC but still nothing pulls me out of that show like "She's a mother[WE CAN'T SAY THE REAL WORD]ing Cylon!"

Yeah, agreed. I mean there are gods in Oblivion, you can damn them. Urban swearing? What? It's not like this is a magical fantasy fairy happy land or anything. The name of the game is Oblivion!

Yeah, who knows what's going on there.

I think The Longest Journey is the only adventure game made by non-English-speaking-developers that has a good English translation... because it was written in English ¬

I think you're talking about different quests -- are you doing the one in the palace in Chorrol where you're finding the missing painting? If so:

Just got done with Kvatch. This game is fucking great.

For the first, like, five minutes, then there's those trolls.