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Yeah. I just don't get it. Unless it's about a group of Klingons and not Starfleet officers. An R rated Klingon movie could be cool. A Kahless movie, for instance. On the other hand, there's no way that's what the movie is going to be about.I heard it was a JJ Abrams and Tarantino collaboration and that they want R rating, which no doubt means unnecessary use of bad language and gore to go along with the lens flares.
I just found out that Obsidian nearly got to make Baldur's Gate 3 with the budget and schedule they wanted (neither of which they got for KotOR2 or NWN2), but then Atari had money problems and lost the D&D license so Obsidian had to abandon the project. Why do these things happen instead of awesome games?
They have hardware. It sounds a lot like the Steam Machine, though. It might work, but I don't have very high hopes unless it has a great library at launch.Atari has become quite a joke these days. Now they are wanting to get back into the console business but I don't see it happening.
After Black Isle failed, Obsidian was basically a AAA studio that nobody trusted to make AAA games. Publishers weren't ready to back them on new IPs, but (often rushed) sequels to existing IPs were fine. I'm not sure any other studio has ever been in that position. They're doing their own stuff now, though, with crowdfunding to get away from the publisher backing and absurd deadline issues. Pillars of Eternity is supposed to be pretty good.Yeah I know that many of Obsidian's people worked on Black Isles games, I enjoyed Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible and followed the production of Van Buren. Still they did take several scraps from Bioware or have continued to work on IPs from their own past who are now owned by other companies, such as Fallout, whose license holder is Bethesda.
I did not imply this as a criticism of Obsidian however, just an observation at how they have more or less either taken IPs from Bioware or worked on the same titles they once had as Black Isle. I haven't seen Obsidian do much in the way of brand new original IPs.
Hey now, they fixed that in the Mask of the Betrayer expansion. I haven't played Andromeda, though, so I have no idea if Obsidian would have been a better choice. With EA's meddling I suspect it wouldn't have made a real difference, though."ceiling caves in and protagonist disappears and is never heard from again"
Such a good game. It's a shame Troika got screwed by Activision during development. And they did it so early on that there was never a v1.0 batch of disks because they developed a patch long before the game went to manufacturing. And they made that patch for free, working completely unpaid. What I would love to see is something like Assault on Dark Athena, where it's a sequel with a bundled update/remake of the original. The game is something like a week before Gehenna, according to lore. That would be a great subject for a sequel. I should also play Arcanum at some point.I was completely brokenhearted over Troika. Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines continues to be one of my favorite RPGs of all times. I still have it in my computer, along with the community restoration mod. God I wish we could get a remake of that game in modern day consoles. Oh well.
Well he did get Seven so.......Their relationships was kinda fleshed out though in that episode where they both got infected on that away mission and the crew left them behind until they got help from the Viddians. I assumed she made her point and put up the brick wall to him for any future advances.So, did Janeway just ignore Chakotay's constant flirting for six years or did she just never notice? Either way, poor Chakotay.
Because Beltran kept threatening to quit. He hated the show's writing and especially his dull and technobabble-filled dialog. Pairing Chakotay with Seven was basically a bribe to keep him on for the last season.Well he did get Seven so.......
They were maybe two days from something happening between them when Voyager came back, though, at which point the writers did their customary reset button smashing. And he continues to flirt with her as far as late season six.Their relationships was kinda fleshed out though in that episode where they both got infected on that away mission and the crew left them behind until they got help from the Viddians. I assumed she made her point and put up the brick wall to him for any future advances.
Berman (I think) and the network has, or at least had, some odd aversion to serialized storytelling and wanted everything to be purely episodic. Relationships only change during finales and premiers, events from previous episodes are rarely referenced, damage to the ship never caries over, etc. They even went so far as to kill off all of Piller's recurring characters when he quit being showrunner and left the project. Braga actually wanted The Year of Hell to be a full season with long-term consequences, but it was vetoed and cut down to a two-parter that was immediately erased from the timeline. All this lead to a writing team that just didn't care. Moore was frustrated early on when he joined in season six at not being allowed to do arcs of any sort, but one of the final straws was when he asked the more veteran VOY writers what B'Elanna's reaction to an event would be and they said they didn't know or really care and told him to have her react however he wanted. That's about when he went off to resurrect BSG.The more I rewatch episodes the more I wish they would have spent more time fleshing out so many things with the crew, etc.
Not a clue, but now I'm interested.So I've got a card game and I don't know what it's called.
I found it, it's a variation of a game called GarbageNot a clue, but now I'm interested.