Funny read. Also quite informative ... ;)
http://www.mobygames.com/featured_article/feature,31/section,207/

I was interested to read Nos's comment in the Western RPGs thread:
"Deus Ex should be one of the games blamed for the dilution of rpgs into
fps hybrids, NOT lauded as something great & revolutionary"
I've never played it, but I hardly ever hear anyone ambivalent about it.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4557935.ece
That is just some impressive technology there, obviously not suitable
to today's computers (I think), but who knows, maybe TES:
Daggerblivion (2012) might use it :)

I just finished Mass Effect, which was o.k.  - lots of dialog - but
none of it meant much of anything, and crappy FPS/RPG combat (as
opposed to good like VTMB).  Good story.  I started over, but I don't
think I'm interested enough to go all the way through again or really

I am loving this game, it's so atmospheric. Pity about the fact that it
BSOD's my farken computer ever 30-50 minutes. I tried patching it to the
latest I could (1.06 or something), but if anything its worse.
I'm actually kinda pissed off, it seemed to be a great game. But this is

Hi, i've played through almost the whole of 'Soulbringer'.
Unfortunately toward the end, the game crashes when i enter new
maps. OK, so staring from an earlier save-game and doing the
different 'OtherWorld'-quests again, but the game starts crashing

Thread on the Jowood site.  Personally, after what Jowood obviously
did
to rush G3 to market, out of greed as much as anything, it doesn't
surprise

What makes a game an RPG?
It seems to be a gradual shift of degrees of RPGness rather than a a
simple yes/no question.
After all, there's absolutely nothing a game designer can do to either

I'm about 1 month in on my LOTRO sub and I am having the gaming time
of my life.
Crafting
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has anyone an idea where to get a Survival Edition of Fallout 3 (when it
comes out) outside the US (and without paying the double price on ebay)?
Tried to order it from amazon.com but they don't want to send it to
germany... *sigh*

Amazing. I see the work that went into this game that is the first
of the Gothic series. It is loaded with little tricks and secrets
that are fun to hunt out. Once I realized that, I went looking for
some of them, and found a few.

Well, it appears a big chunk of new information is out for the Star Trek
MMO...  Including quite a trailer that shows actual finished gameplay
(according to some interviews I read on MMORPG.com).
As many feared, it looks like it will be concentrating on ship combat

Seems the tech school coders are still at it.
Pushing canned junk from 10 years ago. There's
no good or bad debate about this stuff. If they
want to do something worthwhile, try something

http://www.gamestooge.com/2008/07/29/blizzcon-tix-go-for-100/
Ouch. You better have some serious cosplay.
(Just kidding. I think.)

I know about Joe (the author); I know his style, and his tastes. I'm not,
but he is a Fallout fan of old and like many on here, he's been
optimistic-but-fearful about FO3.
I haven't read it yet, but he's finally had his hands-on preview, and