bmardiney

Weird, okay now it's working. Hopefully it stays working. Thanks for checking and helping, everyone!

Hmm. Okay thanks for checking. Must be me then, for some reason. And no, I'm doing everything right, I'm pretty sure. I'm able to play OTHER shared games, just not this one. Hmmmm

To me, I don't care what "tools" an artist uses to "paint" with (violence, profanity, sexuality, etc). I only care what the message of the art is. For instance, a game where violence and sex and drugs and even death are used in a message that celebrates life, I'll probably love it. But if another game uses dialogue and cooperation and group hugs in service to a message of nihilism or misanthropy, I'll hate it. When you care more about the colors of paint being used rather than WHAT'S being painted, you're missing the point of art.

So, is that one instance? Is there only one dialogue where it appears? How often is it used? I guess we won't really know until the full game is out. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate more "mature" writing and themes. I don't mind "lore based profanity". But I recently bought Shadowrun:Dragonfall, and the (more explicit) profanity occurred so often that it was immersion breaking and annoying, and unfortunately Steam doesn't offer refunds. However, I recently learned that GOG offers refunds, so I can certainly try it out. How is profanity "immersion breaking" when the universe's own continuity supports heavy profanity? Perhaps you don't understand what "immersion" actually means. So if you just happened to be turned of by depictions of violence, and you played a game whose universe was all about heavy violence (think a game made by Quentin Tarentino), would you call the violence "immersion breaking"?

Just wondering if anyone else is having a hard time getting this game to work with Steam's Family Share option. I managed to get it downloaded on my girlfriend's PC, but when I try to play it, it goes to the PoE store page, requesting she buy it. What's going on with this?

So the game doesn't care if you haven't put your level up points in, it still regards you as level 2, 3, etc.? That's a shame.

I've played up until getting Eder. To my disappointment, he had also decided to take "Ruffian Proficiency", just like I had decided to do. I'm wondering now if I can restart, choose to refrain from leveling up, so that I can recruit the first few companions at level 1 as well. Any thoughts on this?

I'd even take a fan-made one, at this point. Maybe I should try to draw one up in Paint.net, using what little info I can find

One of the things I'm having a hard time with is figuring out the "Cultures" in character creation. I've found the map of the playable area of the game, but is there/will there be a map of the entire world? It's hard to get a handle on where all of these cities, bays, islands and continents are in relation to each other. When asked what culture I want to be from, combined with my race, I'm just randomly guessing, which really kills role play immersion. Even the wiki is pretty vague on the details.