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Wasn't Dark Messiah originally supposed to be the sequel to Arx Fatalis and then they changed it to be vaguely connected to the might and magic series?

I guess so. I haven't played either one. Sadly, it appears runecasting was left out in favor of accessibility.

I liked this review of Dark Messiah:

1UP.com gave the game only 4/10, criticising the over-reliance on using the kick as a weapon and dubbing it "The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot Deathboot in the Land of the Conspicuously Placed Spike Racks".

I HAMMER people with my artifact adamantine hammer.
Spears? Pff.

And these are not the hammer.

Here's the grasp. I'd be able to forgive them for it if it were once, or twice, not 5+ times now. That the company that made NWN and baldur's gate has come to this...

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"BioWare's vision is to deliver the best story-driven games in the world."

- Dr. Ray Muzyka - CEO and General Manager, BioWare & Vice President, Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts executives are rolling in cash given to them by ronery teenagers looking for a cheaply made, prepackaged crapfest roughly disguised as an rpg with broken gameplay while ripping elements from every fantasy/scifi trope you can imagine. They charged extra for special edition content and DLC that modders could have and have made better stuff than.

They're trotting out an expansion to DA:O that will cost the price of a full game -$40- Gameplay will still be broken and unbalanced, the moral choices will still unlock a few same choices, giving the player less control than a choose-your-own-adventure storybook, but at least you don't have to flip the pages for this. Bioware are giggling over the fact that they can criticize Final Fantasy/jrpgs while pumping out the weeaboo equivalent of Twilight for boys over and over. Hey, I heard you will be able to sex a few more people in this one guys... while feeling like you saved the world!

And people will buy it.

That, my friends, is why we can't have nice things.

Maybe I'm alone in this sentiment, but who gives a shit how expensive DLC and expansions are? Strangely, I find the self-entitlement hyperbole of such statements indistinguishable from those made by game pirates. Are you going to justify illegally downloading it, also?

If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's that simple. Unless... you sue Bioware by claiming they gave you obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and you need to play this game to finish this last quest and to open all these chests and to hit that next level and to talk to all those NPC's and to max out all of your characters, and and and-- I NEED THIS EXPANSION RIGHT NOW DAMMIT, YOU OWE IT TO ME FOR MAKING ME PLAY YOUR WORTHLESS GAME!

Just be glad someone in EA understood it would be losing by charging even more. The game industry will never compare to Cisco and its twenty-thousand-sold-as-twenty-million-USD router, or any other "highly specialized" company based in a capitalist economy for that matter. For now, they remain on your side.


Oh, by the way, one thing you types (the ones who feel the need to own every video game) always fail to remember: mods can be sold at cost too, it's just that they're usually too derivative to bother with the legal hassle. That, and the fact that most wouldn't sell, because the community holds free/cheap content to a different standard. Be fortunate that you never looked at the source code to your favorite mod.

We now take it as pretty common knowledge that you just don't mess with Vietnam, even if you're an immensely powerful and technologically superior nation. They know kung fu, or something, and apparently every time they get invaded they simply level up.

He was arrested and imprisoned in the brutal Fenestrelle fortress for seven years without charge, and to make things even worse, his former friend Loupian spent that time comforting Pierre's ex-fiance with his penis.

Hilarious.