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We haven't really been following the post-apoc title and we probably won't, but for the interested, Shacknews is providing a teaser trailer for the upcoming post-apocalyptic shooter/racer from the Spike TV awards.

Also a tidbit from the Spike TV Awards; BioShock picked up the Game of the Year award there.

Link: Borderlands teaser.
 
Are there any good RPG/actions anymore rather than action/RPGs, the last time I played a decent RPG was probably on the Dreamcast (Skies of Arcadia)

Just call it a fakking shooter with stats rather than pretend it's an RPG for crying out loud...
 
The name hack 'n slash generally works, and Action RPGs of any stamp usually fall under that category: Hellgate: London, this game, Depths of Peril, Diablo, the countless Diablo clones, etc.

What's in a name, though? Most people seem to be able to separate action RPG from real RPGs. And even if some gender blenders (as Todd would put it) muddle the line a bit, the problem is not with straight-out hack 'n slashers like Hellgate: London. The problem is all those reviewers who now take Oblivion as the standard for RPGs to compare any other RPG to (you wouldn't believe the number of reviewers that compared NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer or the Witcher to Oblivion)
 
Does anyone have any decent suggestions for RPGs that are of a more recent mark that don't have the stink of Ob-livion and it's ilk?

*sigh*, diversity and storytelling are lost on today's youth...
 
Mord_Sith said:
Does anyone have any decent suggestions for RPGs that are of a more recent mark that don't have the stink of Ob-livion and it's ilk?
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Eschalon: Book 1
The Witcher
NWN 2: Mask of the Betrayer

The first one is a good indie that emulates Ultima 2-3, the latter two have been universally praised for the storytelling, TW being strong on choice and consequence and MotB being compared to PS:T favourably.
 
No, they are. Well, at least some of them are coding the games. But the real problem is a combination of idiotic marketing and really bad management decisions, with some companies worse than others.

It's like with television, and why U.S. TV seems to just regurgitate the same crap season after season. The statistics seem to show that the public wants, for example, more game shows. So the management says, "Great. We'll develop six game shows and run a week of premiers and two-hour specials." Meanwhile, the marketing department comes down to the developers and writers with "ideas" and essentially forces them to make these things exactly in line with their "vision" (and boy do I use that term losely.)

Then the marketing department sets to work doing what it does best- oversaturating the market with poorly designed over-budget garbage, promoted in the most irritating and invasive ways possible.

So...well, the results for creative and different art aren't good.
 
Moving Target said:
So...well, the results for creative and different art aren't good.
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S'like. You're talking about product. I mean it's a work of art, but when people conspire to make money off it, it eventually becomes a product. I'm thinking of the music industry.

I think my point is, as a teenager, I've fallen in love with Fallout, and now Temple of Elemental Evil. It has nothing to do with age. Once a one dimensional git, always a one dimensional git.
 
I actually can't wait for this game, simply because Diablo style co-op games are so awesome with a friend, and the post apoc setting gives me a raging hardon (even if this is a cheesy iteration), and the idea of a fps Diablo styled "look for the biggest gun" character leveling and stat building game to play with a friend just sounds superb.

Co op games are my favorite type, since I don't like playing online, and don't play games by myself anymore (except for the rare good game that comes out).
 
Ahh, judging by that trailer... This brings a level of mediocrity that I never, knew existed... Oh, I forgot to add the hokeyness factor as well. -NOT something I will even have a fleeting fancy for.
 
Wow !
Now THAT impressed me ! very sweet .It looked like a mix of Mad Max ,Dune and Fallout(although fallout itself is kinda mad max ish) !
 
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