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Indeed, their inability to create a dynamic world, sound dialogues, or an interesting combat system, the introduction of handheld nuclear catapults are all great signs it will turn out well... Although I would somewhat agree with you: "it will turn out pretty well for them because although it...

I agree it is not what it intended to do, but the mix resulted in some frustrating results, as you had the impressions your commands were not carried out at all, especially when the combat system and feats in KOTOR and NWN revolved around turns. The turns may have been irrelevant to the player...

Indeed, however, the implications on gameplay are radically different: In order to play a BW game "correctly", you'd have to pause at the beginning of each turn exactly, and give order at this point. Thus it would work better if the game autopaused at the beginning of each turn. On the other...

It is definitely not the same indeed, but some games padds the gape between those, though (like Titans of Steel: warring suns: as it is turn/round based with very tiny turns, it is some kind of hybrid, and a good one for a change, or the traditionnal PnP RPGs I talked about). That is true...

Those aren't turn-based games, but phase or round-based games. As rounds, and turn usually refers to different subdivision of time in turn based system, it would not be a convenient classification anyway. The phase based denomination is ok, as there are separate phase for giving order and...

It is not completely accurate for TB, though, as some TB system are simultaneous (the Master of Orion series, the dominions series, Laser Squad Nemesis, and Combat mission use it for instance ). RTwP and simultaneous TB are rather close systems (as you usually freeze the game in order to issue...

No, however, not all majore review sites had given it good marks (3/5 on gamespy, 3/10 on eurogamer...) There are some exemples indeed of games with good critics that didn't sell well partly because of fan bashing, like Kohan 2 (but it had to do with it being out at the same time than...

You miss the point: Fallout: BoS scored an average 6.6 on major review sites, listed on Gamespot: it is still overall considered crappy by reviewer, even though they overated the game... Fallout 3 will probably at least score 2 points higher, and it will be probably better marketed than...

It is a little gratuitous as Fallout played a lot more like a virtual world than Oblivion (because in Fallout, the world reacted to your actions, while Oblivion was a graphical rollercoaster...). It's more like the increasing development costs in the videogame industry, led by the stupid...

However, Galactic civilization is just Civilization in space and in no way a spiritual sequel to Master of Orion 2. I loved MOO2, but I found many design decisions in Gal Civ completely unadapted (wtf? sending billions of civilians as groundforces, or the culutral assimilation of alien races...

anyway, even before the article, there was no chance it would be a true sequel to Fallout, because Bethesda and BIS didn't have much in common (except maybe the amount of bugs on release). I don't think the inept dialogues in Morrowind, the uninspired gameplay, or the lack of interactions (I...

I don't think there is any game like this one :) Rune maybe, but it is not a recent one, and doesn't allow you to chop arms, or Mount and Blade, although the unmounted melee combat is somewhat dull in this one. I have been trying to make Severance work on my new computer, but to no avail :(...

Wow, it was my favourite on my STE, and it is one of the two games I still play on it (the other one is Speedball 2). It took me years to find it (I first played it at my cousin's home, but they lost it afterwards). The Laser Squad Nemesis sequel lacks the part where you equiped your men :)...

But Arcanum RT mode was not pausable, which was pretty stupid given the system in use. However, I think alternate turn based is somewhat limited (I have horrible memories of urban fightings in fallout, when you had to wait for the 976 civilians to take their useless turn...), and I don't see...

Bah, Wow would had to count, since it was the final blow to the dying single player PC RPG market :'(