On the Mass Effect thing Moirai and Ragnarok there is an AMA with Nicolas on another thread ( http://forum.sureai.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=11087 ) that can help you clarify the similarities. Link to the AMA on Reddit Did you get inspiration from Mass Effect 3? Some people see a lot of similarities b...

I disagree. Ultimately art is subjective And that is the reason that despite the disagreement, I can understand your point, Ragnarok's point and I think you are not wrong in your opinion. :) But I feel that if the overal mechanics were even less like Bethesda games the experience would be enhanced....

Ah, you made yourself a lot clearer now. :D I can agree that art creation itself is already an experience of achieving transcendence. Sure, to create art the artist must percieve the world with a level of abstraction that is trasncendent to the human perception of the world, that much I agree. And I...

This is the part I disagree the most. I am an artist myself (music) and I never seen art with this goal. In my opinion, Knowing what people "need" is the job of the marketing department, focus testing etc. Sure, most "entertainers" perform with the audience preferences in mind. But saying that a tru...

Yeah you are right. The frustration is part of the experience and to remove that frustration the developers would have to sacrifice a lot of their artistic vision of the game. But I guess that I liked the overal Enderal experience but I am just tired of downer endings in general. At least I think I ...

Good point. I wonder if that frustration Enderal seems to cause is not a parallel to reality, where the impression of choice is often an illusion as well. I would not go that far. Choices in game design are simple when compared to our choices in real life. We might get frustrated on real life if we...

mindw0rk hat geschrieben:

You can read bad review on any game. Risen is as close to Sure Ai games as it gets

Hazzmat hat geschrieben:

Definitely try Nehrim it's on par or maybe even a bit better than Enderal.

Ok, guess I'll keep my eye on steam sales for Risen and Oblivion.

I think that the power to shape the world via your actions or not is rather tied to the overal game mechanics. By that I mean that open world RPGs benfit the most from having more decisions and different outcomes based on your decisions than other games. Even if the differences are subtle. Skyrim fo...

I've read some bad reviews on Risen. But the combat looks cool on the trailers.

Yeah, no game ever met all the things that I am looking for. Most of my favorite games come close to it. And actually most of the things on that list I did not knew I wanted before I met a game that made that feature right. Like I never cared for Romance subplots untill I completed Mass Effect. It i...