Boy, you guys are quiet. Y’know, you never miss the stalking until it’s gone.
I’m pretty busy right now, but not too busy to answer a few questions. Anyone got any? About anything? NCsoft? Eurogamer Expo? Life, the universe and everything? I promise to subtly evade anything that would compromise me in some way.
Apart from that, anything goes.
#1 by Extremus at October 22nd, 2008
What’s your most anticipated release this fall for any platform?
Do you think The Old Republic MMO will, infact, be “sweet ass” or will it simply conform to the generic mold of the current fantasy MMO genre, but in space?
What do you think of all those PvP Mechanic changes in Issue 13? It’ll basically become a completely different game in terms of how you play?
Why does WoW have this annoying ability to make me want to resubscribe with basically every patch despite me knowing that I won’t participate in any of the awesome raid content? I mean, aside from Blizzard’s hype train being way smarter than me.
(PS the monocle is the best costume piece oh yes).
#2 by Gangrel at October 22nd, 2008
Here is one…
Where oh where can i get the original file for the “Tropic Blunder” poster (ie the one that was handed out)
#3 by Rockjaw at October 22nd, 2008
Extremus: What are we now, American? This ‘fall’??
I guess what I’m looking forward to most, right now, is Fallout 3. Especially because I keep hearing from Eurogamer staffers that it’s bloody great. So let’s hope.
Far far too early to tell with SWTOR, but from the art direction, I think they’re already after “the WoW crowd” which doesn’t bode well. It’s early days, but not as early as you might think. I reckon it has 2 years of development behind it already, so that art direction and many other decisions are probably already well entrenched.
PvP mechanics – you know I was never the guy to ask about that, even when I was an NCsoft employee.
WoW and patches: You’re addicted. It’s that simple. You have to go cold turkey.
#4 by Rockjaw at October 22nd, 2008
Gangrel: Pretty damn sure I told you that already… but here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sreid/2867676518/in/set-72157607497246523/
#5 by Extremus at October 22nd, 2008
I went cold turkey. But… DAMNIT! World PvP man! I just want to scope the expansion and get it over with – see what happens, I’m still pissed that they made us wait this long to get any sort of resolution about the Warcraft 3 Storyline.
And I was just wondering if you think having what’s basically a different set of rules for an awful lot of things in PvP compared to PvE is a good design decision and whether you think that the changes look good. As far as I’m concerned, you’re the sort of player that the changes are aimed at. I think they’re trying to make it all a lot more balanced and accessible to people that don’t venture in to the Arena/Zones apart from getting the odd badge.
#6 by Extremus at October 22nd, 2008
Haw haw double comment. (Take that, your email inbox! – sorry).
Going for a more… stylised look for SWTOR might be a good decision even without the possibility of trying to hook in to the WoW demographic.
WoW hardly has a great looking engine. But it is highly consistent and highly stylised with it’s art direction, so compared to a lot of games, I think it’s held up reasonably well considering how old it is. Trying to go for something shiny and realistic is great and all but these days it’ll be, what, six months until something comes and blows you out of the water in regards to something or another?
As long as the gameplay holds up (extreme shades of grey please, I want to be a bit of a dick if I go Empire but I don’t quite want to be Space Hitler) it’ll definitely get a good few months out of me, if only to help kill Galaxies.
#7 by Dr Toerag at October 22nd, 2008
The problem I have is that I keep finding myself logged out and then the password, whilst no doubt secure, is impossible to remember
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Ummm, questions, did you know that I have downloaded issue 20 of Tagline about 20 times? It keeps on redownloading that particular issue. Now that Indiana Jones 4 has been and gone, has Tagline died forever? It seemed to be the main topic throughout the show!
I’m enjoying the Limited Edition shows, and you explained to me why the DCUO site looked broken to me!
I’d love to have come down to the Eurogamer Event, but midweek? C’mon, that’s impossible to a working stiff!
Are you okay for things to do after the Expo?
Did you hear that Omega Sektor in Brum closed down the other week? Last Easter is looking like an untoppable weekend, at this point
#8 by Gangrel at October 23rd, 2008
Dr Toerag….you aint the only one i have to admit, but IF you set the rss feed to http://tagliners.tumblr.com/rss i think you will find the NEW tagline(rs) (www.tagliners.org)
And thankies Mr Reid… i now have the image (that i didnt have previously
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#9 by AlTagliner at October 23rd, 2008
@Dr Toerag someone who listened to the Tagline podcast? My heart swells up. I hope to do another one with Steve someday but he’s a busy man, and also moonlighting on some other podcast I don’t care to mention.
The comeback pod should definitely be about why they need to film Indy 5&6 back-to-back right NOW.
In the meantime you can follow the world of Tagline in its original wordy format: http://tagliners.tumblr.com/
#10 by Rockjaw at October 23rd, 2008
I think Tagline on Tumblr is sort of the anti-Tagline; practically no words at all.
Toerag, you’re the second person to tell me you’ve got problems with that. I’ll look into it. I blame Al for the Indiana Jones obsession. He got a bit like me about Phantom Menace.
EG Expo being midweek – yeah, I know. There were ‘reasons’ for this, but I’ve never been told what they were. Something to do with London Games Festival and so on. I know they want to shift it to a weekend next year. I have a feeling they might feel bold enough to do it completely away from LGF, too. We’ll see.
Omega Sektor – damn. That’s really too bad, but I heard the writing was on the wall a while back; our two main contacts there moved on at the end of September.
Little secret it seems fair to share now: we had agreement to have a party there on the Saturday evening of Memorabilia. I guess that won’t happen now, either. (Don’t get me started on Memorabilia, either.)