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Narr:
Blizzard hasn't made a good game in years, although I guess they were still making pretty good ones back in '99 when Torment was released.
I miss Black Isle. So many good games under their belts or published under that name. *sniff*
KvP:
I'm a big of a fan of BIS as anybody, but honestly, their reputation as a game developer is really overinflated. The games they're most often associated with that people use to illustrate their greatness are Fallout and Baldur's Gate 2, both of which they didn't have creative control over. Their development record is, well, spotty. It has some great games, like Fallout 2 and PS:T, but also a lot of dogs that people forget about, like Lionheart and (farther back into Interplay day) Descent Into Undermountain. The mixed record of Obsidian is much closer to the BIS standard than people care to admit.
Narr:
I don't have the same issue with Obsidian everyone else does. My only beef with them is that they seem to run out of funding before every single game they ever make a bid on is finished. KOTOR2 and NWN2 are the key examples. Mask of the Betrayer? One they had time to work on and polish up? Awesome. Sequel, sure, but it was pretty neat.
I don't recall Lionheart getting terrible reviews, just mediocre ones. I was thinking more about the Fallout titles, PS:T, and both Dark Alliance games for the PS2.
Alex C:
Lionheart was essentially outsourced to Reflexive entertainment. I wouldn't put that one all on BIS's door.
KvP:
Lionheart had a really interesting premise, and a great first third, but once you got out of that initial city, the game starts to become a grind. And the UI was really bad.
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