Saganomics

@megalowho said:

@EXTomar said:

The more I think about it, the more I think Bethesda should go with a more Minecraft system where going full on MMO seems more and more a bad idea the longer I consider it.

A make your own fun, sandbox style MMO is probably the best fit for the series. Building homes, roleplaying NPC's and all that. If they're trying to hook players in with the tried and true quest/loot/level/grind system and archetype classes, they're taking the easy way out. That shit is just naturally addictive, not good game design.

Hrrrm, yes. The whole time I was wandering around Maar Gan in Morrowind, I couldn't help thinking, "Fuck, I wish I could be the dude responsible for hollowing out all of the giant bug carcasses these fools are living in. That would be way more rad than exploring tombs."

@SagaciousJones said:

For real though, I walked past the shelf with that Dwemer Puzzle Box on it like four times.

An MMO seems like a super obvious direction to take the franchise, and Nirn is a huge setting with tons of interesting locations and shit hinted at in the lore, but I sincerely hope this doesn't mean the end of single player TES games.

I'm that dude who is super bitter that we're seemingly never going to get Warcraft 4 thanks to the success of WoW.

@Whforde said:

I used to like MMO's, then I took a look in the mirror.

Same. :(

@Skykin said:

@FoxMulder said:

@Ravelle said:

I stopped because of the terrible framerate drops on the PS3, is it safe to go back now?

The PS3 is much much better now because of the patches. It's still a Bethesda game so it will have problems here and there, which the Xbox has also, but it is easily much more playable now!

I think the PS3 version is still very broken. I have all versions in my house. My roommate plays the PS3 copy, and I watch her play pretty often. Anyways, after the latest patch on PS3 EVERYTIME, every single time she goes into any water the game freezes and requires her to shut off the system. I told her that starting over would probably fix it, since the save she was playing was still from release. She started over and the first time she jumps into the water (in whatever that first town is) the game crashes the system.

Before that update I honestly didn't see anything with the PS3 version that would make it unplayable, but now... I wouldn't even play it if that was my only choice. (Which thank god its not)

Anyways my two cents on the issue. Obviously the problem isn't that widespread or I would have heard about it elsewhere, but anyone assuming the PS3 version is all "fixed" up is sadly wrong :( I think they've backtracked.

Have your friend delete her game install data (not her actual character save data) and reinstall and patch it back up. The hard lock on entering water thing is a common issue with the latest patch, but this fixes it for most people.

@me3639 said:

Worst news of the year so far.

And we've still got like eight months left, which is probably just enough time to squeeze in the demise of both Obsidian Entertainment and THQ.

Fuck this dumb earth. :(

@captain_max707 said:

A sad day...

The saddest of days. I don't have much faith in the MMO thing but best of luck to them all the same.

@phrosnite said:

I haven't played a stalker game either and don't plan to.

Cool, bro. Do you make a habit of posting in news threads about games you don't actually have any interest in, or is this a special occasion?

@algertman said:

40k Space marine had a horrible launch on PS3due to multiplayer being unplayable. As is multiplayer didn't work. These people have had this coming for a while.

Yeah, let's just go ahead and dismiss the fact that Relic is the only studio other than Blizzard making RTS games that are worth a damn.

@paulunga said:

Where did this shit actually start?

Well, uDraw didn't do them any favors.

@Mace said:

Obviously the layoffs part of this news is depressing, but I am personally very happy that Dark Millenium is becoming a single-player game. I am not a fan of MMOs, but I do really like the Warhammer 40k universe, so I am happy that I will get to play this game now.

Same. The layoffs are really, really unfortunate, but let's be honest, this MMO would have been fucking doomed even if they had scraped together enough cash to take it all the way. Now there's a chance (a slim chance, admittedly) that it will end up a viable thing.

@PerfidiousSinn said:

Auto-tune wore thin just with Zimos, I wouldn't be able to stand an entire game with my character speaking with it.

Totally agree. The auto-tuned character gimmick was far more amusing as a side note in various previews of the game than it was as an actual thing that I had to listen to.