- The Overwrought Fantasy RPG
- The Contemplative Neo-Classical RPG
- The Effervescent Dating RPG
- The Number One Best Selling RPG
- An Espionage RPG
- That Other Game About The Secret Agent and Stuff
Reader Comments (44)
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 3:53PM (Unverified) said
I've been waiting forever for this game, I hope it comes out this year.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 3:55PM Johnny Locke said
Getting a huge Mass Effect vibe from this, thats not a bad thing.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:05PM (Unverified) said
Except its not Sci-Fi and it probably won't be as good as Mass Effect.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:02PM Mayor West said
Not so sure about this one. I know a lot of people seem to like it, but it's just not clicking with me.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:08PM (Unverified) said
The original espionage RPG will be back soon - Deus Ex 3. Hope its as good and deep as 1.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 5:31PM (Unverified) said
Deus Ex was amazing, but I've never played 2. Was it any good?
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:44PM (Unverified) said
@shmil
You forgot the rating of 'P'. You know, for Pachter? That's where Duke Nukem Forever went, after all.
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You forgot the rating of 'P'. You know, for Pachter? That's where Duke Nukem Forever went, after all.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:16PM Jrinswand said
"The Espionage RPG?"
Wow, that is kind of disappointing. When a game needs to explain itself on it's cover, you just know it is going to be plagued with mediocrity. Then again, I'm not really all that sure why I thought this game would be good in the first place. To this day I have yet to finish KOTOR II or NWN 2.
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Wow, that is kind of disappointing. When a game needs to explain itself on it's cover, you just know it is going to be plagued with mediocrity. Then again, I'm not really all that sure why I thought this game would be good in the first place. To this day I have yet to finish KOTOR II or NWN 2.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:47PM TheDarkWayne said
you bit your tongue. KOTOR 2 was every bit as good as the original if not better. Saying it's the Espionage RPG doesnt indicate mediocrity, it just says that people are stupid and if they didnt have that there they might buy it thinking it's an action game
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:49PM Shmil said
Because there aren't enough game covers featuring a dude holding a gun. Lord knows what type of game it could be, FPS, TPS, RTS, he looks like a spy maybe its like Splinter Cell or MGS?
No its a genre melding that should be explained before someone picks up an in depth RPG and expect to play splinter cell.
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No its a genre melding that should be explained before someone picks up an in depth RPG and expect to play splinter cell.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:50PM einhanderkiller said
Tactical espionage action.
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/02/mgs4_box_up.jpg
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http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/02/mgs4_box_up.jpg
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 5:03PM Jrinswand said
The Dark Wayne and Shmil, you both make very good points. Perhaps it is necessary that the game clarifies that it is an RPG on the cover. After all, I work at a video game store and I am all too familiar with the way in which uninformed consumers purchase video games.
But perhaps the image on the front cover speaks more of the unoriginality of the game's content than the cover's text speaks of people's idiocy. Now don't get me wrong. I don't know much about the game other than what was in Game Informer when it was the cover story. How many times have you played a bald white guy wielding a gun though? Surely Obsidian could have come up with something better.
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But perhaps the image on the front cover speaks more of the unoriginality of the game's content than the cover's text speaks of people's idiocy. Now don't get me wrong. I don't know much about the game other than what was in Game Informer when it was the cover story. How many times have you played a bald white guy wielding a gun though? Surely Obsidian could have come up with something better.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 5:46PM Shmil said
Yes but from what I've read in that same game informer is that this game isn't like a shooter. That the RPG elements of the far outway everything else. It is like mass effect but in the CIA. All of the dialogue options are there, the weapons specializations.
So a spy based RPG set in modern times, is unoriginal? I may not know of many games but I've never heard of anything like this before. I'm thinking something along the lines of Splinter Cell meets Oblivion.
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So a spy based RPG set in modern times, is unoriginal? I may not know of many games but I've never heard of anything like this before. I'm thinking something along the lines of Splinter Cell meets Oblivion.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 5:47PM TheDarkWayne said
well on that i cant agree with you more. Even in game the character is just generic white guy
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 6:25PM dr steve brule said
the words rpg on the cover or not, that is terrible box art.
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Posted: Jul 3rd 2009 9:44AM Mayor West said
I'm sorry but KOTOR 2 was god awful. What a huge disappointment.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:29PM oOWallaceOo said
They spent their originality budget on the subtitle
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:23PM ch3burashka said
It wouldn't be as stupid if they just drop the 'the'.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 11:56PM ViciousBastard said
lame, it should be tactical espionage role playing!...your welcome
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Posted: Jul 3rd 2009 12:11AM (Unverified) said
The Espionage RPG?? Gimmie a break.
I feel the sudden urge to get out my old Top Secret, p&p game, from back in the day. I miss that game...
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I feel the sudden urge to get out my old Top Secret, p&p game, from back in the day. I miss that game...
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