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  1. Interview Interview with Chris Avellone

    I agree. Every computer game I've seen that has tried to do facial expressions looks very bad. The characters faces and bodies don't have the mobility of real people, so the expressions look distorted and artificial, like grinning robots. It unnerves me. But it is true that most gamers do...

  2. Editorial Jeff Vogel on innovation in indie games at RPGVault

    Is Jeff Vogel some kind of a sacred cow around here? You guys don't normally have a problem with mocking a foolish statement. He just insulted his entire industry just to get a little publicity. If Bioware put out a statement saying the same thing, I think there would have been a little more...

  3. Game News Jeff Vogel talks about Geneforge 4

    If Spiderweb Software games are going to have graphics, they might as well be reasonable. Otherwise they could be roguelikes for all the difference it makes. I don't think there is any danger of the focus moving from gameplay to graphics.

  4. Interview Exciting Oblivion persuasion mini-game is revealed!

    Bloody mingames. I absolutely cannot stand action-minigames in RPGs. I was drooling for Oblivion, and you guys have managed to almost totally put me off it. I think minigames are a symtom of a game designer who would really rather be doing action games. Wost minigame ever: The KOTOR...

  5. Preview There is no dialogue in Oblivion according to 1UP

    In Morrowind, each character has 20 or so topics of conversation, of which maybe one is unique and important. But you have to read ALL the options to find that one. BORING. A better system might be: Most NPCs don't say anything much. You know that they are unimportant, and you can safely...

  6. Preview Oblivion - a game for Casual Joe

    I think Bethesda would have to dumb Oblivion down a little more before some of you guys could understand it. What is difficult to separate about: -More sophisticated gameplay. -Better Interface?

  7. Preview Oblivion - a game for Casual Joe

    Oooh, sophisticated debate! :roll:

  8. HOMM 3 vs HOMM4

    Yes, I think you are right. The level design was tight and polished. The stories were kept to a decent level. The atmosphere was truly fairytale. Lovely. I still recall with fondness the 'horde of skeletons' level and the one where you start out with no castle in the middle of heaps of gold...

  9. HOMM 3 vs HOMM4

    The Gauldoth Necromancer campaign was awful, and contained a lot of the worst feature of HOMM4: excessive story. It depended heavily on triggering plot points in the correct order around the map. I tended to do them in the wrong order, and get a story that made no sense at all. Once I was left...

  10. Company News Is Troika Dead?

    As long as I have been reading it, the Codex has been full of rants and diatribes and l33t speak. Since developers still come here, I guess they are thick-skinned. However, it is extremely unpleasant and bad taste to mock people who just lost their jobs.

  11. Company News Is Troika Dead?

    If Troika closes that really would be sad news. Troika had such great ideas, but the games never seemed to be all they could be. They had too many bugs for a start. What a pity.

  12. Company News BioWare Speaks: Why IPLY and BioWare Split

    Well, you all seem to be saying that Bioware should have stuck with Interplay and gone bankrupt. Why, I have no idea.

  13. Company News BioWare Speaks: Why IPLY and BioWare Split

    And what is wrong with Bioware getting their money for their work? Honestly, most gaming fans seem to think that game companies should be charities. I know you guys aren't too keen on Bioware, but would you really rather they made stupid business decisions, went bankrupt, leaving 100s of...

  14. Game News Fallout 1, 2 and PS:Torment for $2.90

    Not Europe? Darn it all.

  15. IGN names Best RPG of 2004

    It sounds as much or little an RPG as Diablo (but for different reasons) and most people agree that Dialblo is an RPG. Just because it is a 'kids' game doesn't automatically mean it is crap. I'll not be playing it, though... Not my cup of tea.

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