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[xHI VOLTAGEx]

I think its at ~53% - 46% .....Bioware still winning

Oh and btw, did Bioware make Baldur's Gate, or did Blizzard?

I could have sworn that Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance was made by Blizzard. (Only Baldur's Gate game ive ever played)

*edit: I looked it up and Baldur's Gate was published by Vivendi Games (aka Blizzard) Just asked this question b/c on the DA:O homepage it said "From the makers of ........ Baldur's Gate"

Modifié par xHI VOLTAGEx, 02 avril 2010 - 09:19 .

[AlexDSR]

xHI VOLTAGEx wrote...

I think its at ~53% - 46% .....Bioware still winning

Oh and btw, did Bioware make Baldur's Gate, or did Blizzard?

I could have sworn that Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance was made by Blizzard. (Only Baldur's Gate game ive ever played)

*edit: I looked it up and Baldur's Gate was published by Vivendi Games (aka Blizzard) Just asked this question b/c on the DA:O homepage it said "From the makers of ........ Baldur's Gate"

Baldurs gate dark alliance was developed by snowblind studios. However the original baldurs gate was developed by Bioware

[Wicked 702]

xHI VOLTAGEx wrote...

I think its at ~53% - 46% .....Bioware still winning

Oh and btw, did Bioware make Baldur's Gate, or did Blizzard?

I could have sworn that Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance was made by Blizzard. (Only Baldur's Gate game ive ever played)

*edit: I looked it up and Baldur's Gate was published by Vivendi Games (aka Blizzard) Just asked this question b/c on the DA:O homepage it said "From the makers of ........ Baldur's Gate"

From Wikipedia....

Looks like Snow Blind did the first and Black Isle did the second. Published by Interplay, which is a division of Vivendi I believe.

[MerinTB]

Wicked 702 wrote...

xHI VOLTAGEx wrote...

I think its at ~53% - 46% .....Bioware still winning

Oh and btw, did Bioware make Baldur's Gate, or did Blizzard?

I could have sworn that Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance was made by Blizzard. (Only Baldur's Gate game ive ever played)

*edit: I looked it up and Baldur's Gate was published by Vivendi Games (aka Blizzard) Just asked this question b/c on the DA:O homepage it said "From the makers of ........ Baldur's Gate"

From Wikipedia....

Looks like Snow Blind did the first and Black Isle did the second. Published by Interplay, which is a division of Vivendi I believe.

Yeah, and those games were just loosely based on the original Baldur's Gate games.

Baldur's Gate is a popular series of computer role-playing games that take place on Faerûn, the main continent from Dungeons & Dragons's Forgotten Realms campaign setting, set in the years following the cataclysmic Time of Troubles (1358 DR).
The original series, developed for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS by BioWare, includes Baldur's Gate (1998), Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (expansion pack, 1999), Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of  Bhaal (expansion pack, 2001).

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance & Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
The Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series was produced by BioWare's publisher Black Isle
Studios, a division of Interplay Entertainment. Although they take place in the Baldur's Gate rendition of the Forgotten Realms setting, they are not often regarded as a part of the Baldur's Gate series, as the plot is unrelated to previous games, and they were console-exclusive titles. These were not released for Windows and Macintosh platforms and were not created using BioWare's Infinity Engine. Interplay has announced intentions of releasing a third Dark Alliance game as well.[1]

Modifié par MerinTB, 02 avril 2010 - 09:35 .

[Wicked 702]

MerinTB wrote...

Yeah, and those games were just loosely based on the original Baldur's Gate games.

Indeed. Very loosely. But, I actually enjoyed them somewhat. They weren't bad or anything. Just not great either...

[TheMufflon]

I took a look at some of the match-up forums, and realized that I'd rather stay as far away as possible from the Escapist community. I firmly believe that their stupidity is contagious.

[MerinTB]

Wicked 702 wrote...

MerinTB wrote...

Yeah, and those games were just loosely based on the original Baldur's Gate games.

Indeed. Very loosely. But, I actually enjoyed them somewhat. They weren't bad or anything. Just not great either...

I don't know that I played any of the Snow Blind games, but I thought I had...
not the Everquest one...

hmmm.

[Wicked 702]

MerinTB wrote...

I don't know that I played any of the Snow Blind games, but I thought I had...
not the Everquest one...

hmmm.

If you like Diablo hack 'n slash style then you'd like them. They were very much so. AD&D spells, rules, and settings with a Diablo gameplay system (button clicking, quick potions, 3/4 overhead view, etc.). Nothing original really but I remember seeing the water effects in the first one on PS2 and thinking, "WOW, that looks so REAL!!" Ran very very smooth graphically as I recall.

[Faohlun]

 I just recently quit WoW all together with my cousin just because what they are doing to pvp, and others I mean I know the majority of blizzard hates the Arena so I wont flame the constant nerfng of my Enhancement shaman but I will say one thing I see it coming to an end very soon

Modifié par Faohlun, 02 avril 2010 - 09:55 .

[JigPig]

scyphozoa wrote...

I just realized this competition is null and void. Any list of developers that fails to include Hironobu Sakaguchi's MistWalker Studio is automatically disqualified.

oh well, it would have been a good competition too, maybe next year..

"Oh no! [insert ****ty obscure japanese company that made 6 games you've never heard of] isn't in the running, the contest is void!"

[Twitchmonkey]

scyphozoa wrote...

I just realized this competition is null and void. Any list of developers that fails to include Hironobu Sakaguchi's MistWalker Studio is automatically disqualified.

oh well, it would have been a good competition too, maybe next year..

Really? Maybe you really like one of their DS games, but as for their 360 games, Blue Dragon was fundamentally ordinary in every way and Lost Odyssey had a lot going for it but was held back by tired and repetitive gameplay.

Modifié par Twitchmonkey, 02 avril 2010 - 10:03 .

[xHI VOLTAGEx]

Mistwalker = disbanded.....
Never really like JRPG's myself but if you like Chrono Cross or Chrono Trigger thats fine with me
Oh and it said it was PUBLISHED by Vivendi

Modifié par xHI VOLTAGEx, 02 avril 2010 - 10:05 .

[JigPig]

Stellar Stone is not in the running, hell, I'd pick the devs of Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing over Zynga every day of the week.

At least there's some actual GAMEPLAY there.

[Abriael_CG]

xHI VOLTAGEx wrote...

Mistwalker = disbanded.....
Never really like JRPG's myself but if you like Chrono Cross or Chrono Trigger thats fine with me
Oh and it said it was PUBLISHED by Vivendi

actually Mistwalker's not disbanded at all. They're working on The Last Story for the wii at the moment.

I "chat" with the one handling their twitter account quite often, a very likable guy/lady (gender's unknown lol) too. It's one of the few official studio twitter accounts that actually keeps a nice dialogue with the rest of the world.

The validity of the competition is very much debatable for the inclusion of Zynga, a low-quality, low-budget developer that makes FREE games (while everyone else in the competition makes games you have to pay for), and that can directly reach every single user of theirs via facebook to prompt them to vote (and they did, that's how they chaught up to valve despite an initial gap of 3000 votes), and thanks to the ability to vote via facebook connect, it's literally 3 clicks away.
They're not peers of the other developers competing, and they have obvious advantages that should see them disqualified.
Thanks to those advantages they eliminated some very strong competitors like Infinity Ward, Square Enix and Rockstar. None of them should have been even nearly threatened by the likes of zynga.

Modifié par Abriael_CG, 02 avril 2010 - 11:21 .

[UBER GEEKZILLA]

EVERYONE....bioware wil now face valave...this will be hard as vavle has made many acclaimed games...VOTE FOR BIOWARE valve has won enough awards...bioware should win for a change

[Abriael_CG]

UBER GEEKZILLA wrote...

EVERYONE....bioware wil now face valave...this will be hard as vavle has made many acclaimed games...VOTE FOR BIOWARE valve has won enough awards...bioware should win for a change

At the moment Valve is losing (even if the gap is not big), to be honest i doubt their chances to win. Zynga can (and did) simply send direct messages to all their almost 50 million free users via facebook.

Also, I wouldn't discount the Bioware/Blizzard competition as won. At the moment the gap broadened a bit again compared to what we had this morning, but I don't put it beyond Blizzard to actually spam their fanboys directly inside WoW if they see they can't win legitimately. They're already using all three of their lame/spammy twitter accounts to try and plug.

[Cascadus]

JigPig wrote...

scyphozoa wrote...

I just realized this competition is null and void. Any list of developers that fails to include Hironobu Sakaguchi's MistWalker Studio is automatically disqualified.

oh well, it would have been a good competition too, maybe next year..

"Oh no! [insert ****ty obscure japanese company that made 6 games you've never heard of] isn't in the running, the contest is void!"

herp derp i have no respect for the man who started final fantasy and one of the most respected and significant people in the industry who also created one of the best games on the 360 hurr durr

Modifié par Cascadus, 02 avril 2010 - 11:34 .

[Abriael_CG]

Cascadus wrote...
herp derp i have no respect for the man who started final fantasy and created one of the best games on the 360 hurr durr

I don't think he's even worthy of a response. Certain games need a brain to be appreciated. Obviously someone that would insult a company just because it's Japanese lacks quite a bit in that department.

Modifié par Abriael_CG, 02 avril 2010 - 11:38 .

[Masticetobbacco]

AlexDSR wrote...

I appreciate blizzard for making games with really great gameplay but despite their resourses they really slow on making new stuff and yeah all the titles look ancient now. Plus their milking methods are outrageous.
Bioware from the other hand is a hard working team, giving us top quality games quite often. If for any reason (EA) they wont go astray many glorious days are ahead of them.

blizzard used to be JUST LIKE THIS. They made top quality games. Then one day they decided to come out with an MMO. Fair enough, MMOs are fun anyway. The first 2 years of WoW were amazing. Amazing gameplay and high quality service.

But MMOs eventually corrupt all companies. They can make retarded shi.t up and still make money of it. They can refuse to create new patches or content, but its okay because only 5% of the entire community really gets to level 80 and has the best of the best gear. They can do anything they want, and still reap the benefits of monthly suscription. Greed has corrupted them, they plan to even milk the starcraft franchise much to the dismay of millions of angry koreans

As of now Bioware doesnt REALLY milk us dry, but their recent DLCs have been fcking trash. They are coming out with an MMO, and I do hope this does not affect them negatively.

[Cascadus]

Well be prepared for BioWare to be 'corrupted' because TOR is eventually coming out.

[Masticetobbacco]

yea I know. I trust Bioware can handle an MMO well.

it took blizzard, an honest game company, 2 years of WoW to crack under greed.
Burning Crusade was really marketed towards a larger audience (making the bosses much easier, making combat more simpler, making it so any idiot can mash 2 buttons and play the game), and the requests and comments of the old fans were mostly ignored

WOTLK just took a huge **** on WoW fans. The bosses were extremely easy and unoriginal, the lore was retarded, customers were largely ignored. The expansion was way too short and now they plan on another one

Modifié par Masticetobbacco, 03 avril 2010 - 12:44 .

[CultKiller]

Cascadus wrote...

Well be prepared for BioWare to be 'corrupted' because TOR is eventually coming out.

TOR better not disrupt the future of DAO or I am going to be PISSSSSSSED!