Lumines, Neverwinter, and Knights On the Way 39
While it's not something we normally link to, some anticipated product-related news is making the rounds today. As 360 owners are likely already aware, Lumines Live! is available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. It's not entirely all it's cracked up to be, though, with some of the content yet to be rolled out and requiring a separate purchase. Neverwinter Nights 2 has gone gold, happily, with an October 31st release date placing it on the same day as Final Fantasy XII and making me very sad. Finally, November 21st will see the release of Knights of the Nine, new content for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The content will come with the PS3 version of the game, will be released to the 360 and PC via normal channels, and will also appear in stores via a box loaded will all additional Oblivion content to date.
An elderly relative has died and left you a castle (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:An elderly relative has died and left you a cas (Score:2)
Yeah, I read some posts on TES forums saying that they probably did that so people would easily notice that the mod they bought worked, right at the beginning of the game.
It's still pretty stupid.
Re:An elderly relative has died and left you a cas (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like a 419 scam to me. I don't trust it.
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NWN may still come to Linux (Score:4, Informative)
From the FAQ:
We have by no means made any decisions to abandon the Linux or Mac communities at this time. Nor is it such a black and white issue over whether Atari or Obsidian decides what happens. Atari has been very open and a fantastic partner.
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Depending on when this poll was taken it's fairly believable. Later on in the lifecycle NWN was far more heavilly played by Linux users (well, it was newer for them by a year
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Wow, you should be in PR with skewing like that. The poll was open to the entire bioware community, not strictly to neverwinter nights players. Ontop of that, NWN sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and that poll had 13,000 responses. While its a good size sample, how many little jimmys who got NWN for windows from their mom that never visited t
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A comic strip related to Linux port. (Score:2)
NWN will NOT come to Linux (or Mac) (Score:3, Insightful)
Look at the date stamps for those quotes. The ones saying "sure, we'd love to do Linux and Mac, and we're talking to Atari" are all dated about TWO YEARS AGO, way back before they had even settled on a design spec. And the one saying "if you want a port, post your support on AtariCommunity.com" is over a year old.
How many words about Linux or Mac have either Obsidian or Atari spoken since that time? Zero. None. Nada. Zilch. Instead, we have learned that the new graphics engine is entirely based on DirectX
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MOD PARENT DOWN (Score:2)
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They initially ported their engine from OpenGL to DirectX with the hope of a non-existent 360 release. Porting it back may not be too hard, it is a graphically simple 2.5d engine. With the Wii and PS3 to consider, adding a OpenGL rendering path would seem a good idea. NWN had a very long tail on Linux and they are presumably hoping to licence their engine as
The future of gaming? (Score:1)
This microdownload stuff is complete bullshit. There was a time when devs would include this content with the original purchase, but I guess it's passé to nickel and dime your customers with these downloads.
I didn't buy that horse armor and I sure won't be buying this.
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De Rigueur (Score:2)
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It's killer easy to pop whatever I am currently watching on a memory stick, no matter if it's fansubbed anime, from a DVD, or something I missed on TV the night before. Even in Linux or Mac OS. Windows folks have it even easier.
And if I get bored with whatever I happen to have on it, I can always pop in a game, or browse the web, or listen to some music.
It's not just for watching overpriced UMD movies.
Re:The future of gaming? (Score:4, Interesting)
Does the price honestly surprise you when you consider the price of the PSP version? Does it surprise you when you consider that the Xbox 360 version includes new content that the PSP version doesn't have?
400 MP = $5.00 USD
Lumines on the PSP currently costs $20
IIRC It debuted at $45
Lumines on the 360 will cost $15
The Extra content will run you $7.50 for a total price of $22.50
So lets recap: It's debuting on the 360 with extra content for HALF of what it cost new on the PSP and only $2.50 more then the bargain bin price that the PSP version is today.
Just because it's distributed on XBLA doesn't mean it's not worth as much money as it's PSP counterpart. I would think the online features and ease of running it from your console without a disc alone are well worth the extra $2.50, not to mention you can get it cheaper if you're not interested in the extra content.
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Ever thhink that they're going this route so that you can get most of the game for less, and only get the other chunk of content if you want it?
You know, if they took a $40 game and broke it up into 4 pieces which they sold at $10 each, I'm sure we'd see a ton of bitching here about how they're just trying to get more money out of people.
IF YOU DON'T WANT THE CONTENT, DON'T BUY IT.
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Also look at Oblivion, if you bought it earlier this year for say $50 in the store. Now they're rereleasing it, probably for $50 again, with the additional content so the folks who bought it early are getting ripped off because they *h
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Guild Wars: Nightfall also coming out (Oct 27) (Score:2)
Me? I'm getting NWN2 the day it comes out, and when I finish it (and start waiting for mods from Stefan Gagne (Penultima, Penultima Rerolled), Adam Miller [Shadowlords, Dreamcatcher], etc ) I'll get GW:N, which ought to have the "opening day" bugs worked out. It's a good t