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See this recent article where Cameron Tofer, one of the core creators of BG, directly addresses it: https://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/pc-gaming/282565/baldurs-gate-legacy The tabletop origins of RPGs does not justify sticking with TB for video games, because by that logic we should also stick with tabletop itself and not have progressed to computers. Coming up with new ideas and new ways of doing things is a must for anything to survive into the future.

Or maybe because they felt that RTwP would provide a superior gameplay experience than the age-old TB way of doing things.

Only 30k views! You should record a clean version (without Brian Heins speaking over NPC dialogue all the time) and upload it to your YouTube channel. In general, I don't understand why more game developers don't publish their own "gold standard" official gameplay videos instead of relying exclusively on incidental previews from third parties. This is the best advertising you can have, much more important than silly 2 minute trailers.

It doesn't matter at all for the quality of a story or the writing whether the actions of the protagonist have an impact on the world or not.

Because they had Infinity Engine ready for an RTS game Battleground Infinity which didn't came to fruition and used it for BG to not lose money on new engine. It's a well known fact and would take up like few seconds on google research. https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Infinity_Engine

Wow, a Pole lecturing Norway on children's rights. Not like Poland's current government is running interference for the biggest child molestation conspiracy in the world over literal centuries- the Catholic Church. Any child protection agency is going to make mistakes as the situation is fundamentally one where, frequently, there is no good answer. The Catholic Church on the other hand has made a whole lot of deliberates and apparently the only defence available is that it's all a commie/ Soros plot to discredit the pillars of Polish society. And in other news, the US has formally announced their withdrawal from the INF Treaty. Unsurprising, and not really much effect after the US abrogated it years ago with Aegis Ashore- not that you'd know that from media coverage as I haven't seen a single source mention it- and the Russians have (probably, at least theirs isn't proven unlike Aegis Ashore) done the same. Joins the growing list of international agreements the US has withdrawn from, though at least this time there's an argument it isn't a unilateral withdrawal. And, of course, a reminder that "China isn't bound by it" is a load of bollocks as an excuse too, since the only US territory the Chinese could hit would be Guam, and maybe the Aleuts.

If you don't like the UK government, just wait a few hours.

Still waiting for GOG version of CK2, EUIV and VicII

Illuminati! Sarcasm, obviously. Though for some and if you go into a philosophical discussion on free will, the answer would be God.

GameInformer - New Gameplay Today – The Outer Worlds

We just live in different worlds. I don't see how any puppeteer is bad for my life, as long as he's benign. Not that I belive in a puppeteer, we chose our system because we like it. If we disliked it, we'd change it. You don't think it's possible to give away something, and then gain something in return because you define freedom as "freedom from constraints". Anything Big Brother does, takes away your freedom. I just define it differently than you. For me it's a fair exchange. I pay high taxes, in return I get safety and prosperity, and lots and lots of perks. Like my 15 weeks of paid paternity leave, my 35 days of paid holiday a year, or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam I could go on and on about the perks, but you get the point I'm sure? How is that not giving something away, and ending up with more? Of course, that's all dependent on the system being fair, which was my point in the first place. Seeing your taxes go to waste must be hell.

What's up with the forum suddenly requiring my birth date?

Ha sorry. PoE1-induced brainfart with the retraining. Action speed modifiers work for reloading weapons as well. So with Swift Strikes you reload faster. Also with Two weapopn Style and dual wielding. Streetfighter's recovery bonus also works for reloading. What does not work is Barbarian's Blood Thirst. It only removes recovery only, not reload though. But since you don't use a Barbarian... no problem.

You can use a long range spell (Crackling Bolt/ Plague of Insects) to trigger combat and then withdraw Vela far from enemies spawning point. A more extreme thing you can do is to use Anguish to push her away before withdrawing her.

A case in point: Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first Indiana Jones movie. If you remove Indy from the film, nothing changes: the Nazis still find the ark, open it, and are destroyed. Indy is a completely needless character in the story. But it's still a good film.

So this guy gets into a terrible car accident and is killed. He finds himself in Hell facing the Devil. The Devil says to him "This is your lucky day. I'm going to give you one chance to get out of hell. All you have to do is complete three challenges" The Devil gestures to three doors behind him "Behind the fist door is a large jug of the nastiest, most foul tasting whisky we have ever made. You must drink it all, one pull, no vomiting. Behind the second door is an angry lion with a sore tooth. You must pull out the tooth. Behind the third door is a crazed nymphomaniac. You must completely satisfy her. Do all three and I'll release you from hell" The man figured he's give it his best shot. He opened door number one, grabbed the jug with two hands and started chugging. He had some difficulty but got it all down. He staggered drunkenly to the second door, went in and closed it behind him with a slam. From behind the door came the most awful commotion. There was roaring, screaming, growling and thumping... then quiet. The man staggered back out, clothes ripped and bleeding from hundreds of scratches. "Awright Dhevil..." He slurred "Wheresh dat girl with the sore tooth?"

BattleTech PowerHits collection and Legends of Terris It was one (three) of the games that really got me into computer gaming and I followed that addiction with an online text based game that I would often dream about, in text. I still log into it every once in awhile. Followed by Civ3 because it was a game I used to get my dad hooked on computer gaming. I'll never forget the Sunday morning we were supposed to go to a movie or something and I showed him my new game and we wasted the whole day on it without realizing it was already night time. Good times. And last but not least HoMM2, sunk about a billion million trillion hours cubed on this and the sequel in both multiplayer and single player Hmm, now that I think about it all these games, with the exception of BattleTech, I played with my dad so that seems to be a common factor here.

I got nostalgia for a lot of games but those with stories were HoMM3 - way too many hours played with friends in hot seat mode and way too many forbidden herb consumed while laying on couch playing Tony hawk pro skater 2

I've been on Yes kick as of late. As a bassist, Chris Squire is one of my heroes. Even as a legend, I still feel he's underappreciated as a bassist. Not only is he a founder of one of the greatest, if not THE GREATEST prog rock bands of all time, and one if its primary song writers, he also provided some of the most unforgettable bass riffs of all time. Everyone knows about Roundabout, Yes's SUPER GIGA OMEGA hit song that propelled the band into superstardom, and that song is driven by a RIDICULOUSLY phat bassline, but Chris was the lynchpin of so much of Yes's sound. He altered his sound as the band morphed its sound throughout the 70s into the early 80s, always delivering solid backing, but I'll always best remember him for his work on Yes's seminal early 70s albums: The Yes Album, Fragile, and Close to the Edge. He hit the highs as well as anyone, but what set Chris apart during this time period was when he dropped the bottom out. As a bassist, there's little in life I love more than dropping the bottom out, but even I am perplexed at hoe Chris managed to achieve such EPIC levels of phatness. He didn't even use a 5 or 6 string bass the vast majority of the time, just a standard Rickenbaker 4 string. I don't know what kind of pickups he used or what black magic tuning, but when Chris Squire dropped the bottom out of his bass, it was like he bored straight through the planet and was hitting strings on the opposite side of it... Scratch that. It's like he tapped into a different dimension and was hitting bass strings from a parallel universe. Those bass sounds were are so filthy low they make my neighbors feel dirty. Not convinced? Check this out: The slide he does around 2:06, and again later on is straight DISGUSTING. That **** drops down past my mortal shell and vibrates my friggin soul. How is he even reaching those level of bottom on a 4 string? How is that possible?

I've told the story before, but most of my sentimental favourites come from that time in 1994 or 1995 where we finally replaced the old family 286 with a shiny new DX4/100. The 286 was loooooong obsolete, bearing in mind that the 386 was released in 1985 and the 486 in 1989. With the PC we got a Creative multimedia bundle, which consisted of a Sound Blaster 16, 2x speed CD-ROM drive, a cheap joystick and speakers, and most importantly, the best bundle of games ever assembled, even if it was headlined by the exceedingly mediocre Rebel Assault. The other newish games included were Return to Zork, and a sci-fi survival game called Iron Helix which I never ended up playing as it sounded too scary for me. (There was also a Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopaedia which was rather handy for school assignments) What's more important though were the legacy games they also included, games that didn't really fit into the multimedia theme and some of which were quite a few years old at the time. There was a 4-game Microprose CD containing Civilization, Railroad Tycoon, F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 and Silent Service 2. There was a 4-game Origin bundle containing Wing Commander 2, Strike Commander, Ultima 8 and Syndicate Plus. There was SimCity 2000 too, but that wasn't new to me, strictly speaking. These games defined my childhood gaming and turned me into the primarily PC gamer that I am today. Before that, sure, I played some games on the PC, fairly primitive titles (though some are timeless) for the time like Alley Cat, Space Invaders, Pitstop 2, Epyx Winter Games. SimFarm, which is a game I've never heard anyone else talk about, is probably the most sophisticated game I actually played on the old machine, and I loved it. I also watched my older cousin (he had about 10 years on me) play some of the AD&D Gold Box games on it too, but I was never brave enough to try them myself - it would be a full decade later that I came into the genre via Baldur's Gate 2. But I digress - ultimately anything I played on PC in my pre-teens was very obviously overshadowed by what the NES and then SNES were capable of, given that I was restricted to 16 colour EGA graphics and PC speaker audio. But for whatever reason, I don't have nearly as much nostalgia for those games as I do for the PC games that came after. _____ HoMM2 is another one that was a bit odd, in that I remember renting it quite a few times from the video rental shop that was next to the family business we used to run. It would have been in that awkward period where it wasn't new enough to have a sequel just yet, but old enough to be somewhat hard to find in stores. Finally did give the big box Gold edition that also included the previous game plus the original King's Bounty.

Figured I should go ahead and post it here too: one of our users, @Decadency, completed the Ultimate: Well done to him!