Comments on: Now That’s What I Call A Best 2008: December. Erm.

By: Metronome

Metronome — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:12:32 +0000

I have been waiting the day baldur’s gate 3 comes out. Anyway happy new year 2009:). Truthfully, I think left 4 dead is the best game for december 2008…

By: Simpsoid

Simpsoid — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:26:40 +0000

The RPS snow doesn’t reach the bottom of the page :(
I suppose it evaporates when falling.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year RPS and all RPS readers!

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:29:03 +0000

@Stromko

As much as I like DnD 4.0, and hate 3.5 for it’s terrible balance problems, YOU ARE CORRECT SIR.

By: pepper

pepper — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:43:14 +0000

I tell you, you lads are either insane or brilliant for merely discussing yesteday, with the memory still fresh in mind for everyone, it is almost like tearing open old wounds!! Oh, and im NOT ANGRY DAMMIT!

By: wcaypahwat

wcaypahwat — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:24:23 +0000

I would hardly claim the Obsidian lack talent…

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:37:08 +0000

Your Eberron game is either Dragonshard (the RTS with sprinklings of RPG), or D&D Online.

If you don’t like that, well…it’s not my fault you weren’t a bit more specific. :p

By: Larington

Larington — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:25:52 +0000

I struggle to envisage anything but the same edition of DnDs ruleset being used as was used in BG1/2. Modern re-envisionings be damned.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:19:42 +0000

Bah. There’s no need for BG3 or another Neverwinter Nights, because they would be required by the license holders to use D&D 4th edition and their published settings.

I guess you could say 3.5 is a bit played out, but with a different theme or a really well-told story I’d definitely pay for another go. 4th ed in the vein of Neverwinter Nights would be like Freedom Force without custom heroes or destructable environments and fewer powers. Or put more succinctly, like an MMORPG. Exactly like one, except a few years behind and less complex or nuanced.

It’s sad that none* of the many excellent third-party D20 games materialized into CRPGs, and it’s too late now. (*just remembered Knights of the Old Republic — wow, that was a fine goddamned game wasn’t it? If only they hadn’t rushed KotOR 2 out a year too soon with second-rate budget and/or talent it might’ve been fantastic too.)

By: Corbeaubm

Corbeaubm — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:09:38 +0000

Actually, I think that the dev on Prince of Persia has a point. It’s one of the best-designed games that I’ve ever seen, and does attempt to push the bounds of a game as a form of art (and not just in the visual sense). The just made the game itself too easy, and thus got slammed by a large portion of the internet. They deserve the criticism for what went wrong, but they also deserve praise for what worked right.

Ultimately, I have seen quite a few people write things that show they get it. Not professional reviewers writing to a mass market audience though, nor RPS.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:02:13 +0000

Merry Christmas! For 2009, install an AIM client into RPS where angry men will shout swears at you in instant message form from across the worldly webs.

By: Tom Camfield

Tom Camfield — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:38:35 +0000

Merry Christmas!!

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:21:52 +0000

Frohe Weihnachten und einen Guten Rutsch!