Valmy

I hope it will be more content based and less mechanical in this game than the stronghold originally was (before they added the Yenwood Field content). And you will be sailing around so maybe it is more of a presence in gameplay.

Ah gotcha. So maybe it is no big deal. I was just groaning at seeing yet another form of combat just be the same as always.

Eh....don't agree. Ship content is something we will all use while not everybody will be using Ydwin. At least not all the time.

I am no naval historian so how exactly did it work? Surely the sides of the ships would be blown to pieces if contact is that close.

I have always gotten a kick out of how castles and fortresses in RPGs never actually function like fortresses. In Dragon Age it was almost a running joke about how the doors to castles were never closed when they were attacked, the bad guys just ran in the door and you fought them in the courtyard. This happened with the stronghold in PoE of course with you having these big walls and gates you spent money on yet all the battles were either fought inside the walls or even inside the keep. In the ship-to-ship combat in the ship video we have two ships locked together with some kind of wooden bridge device. Now if our ship was some kind of medieval or Roman Empire type ship that would make some sense, but surely in an era where both ships have guns pointing out of their hulls this makes no sense. I guess RPGs just don't work with anything but squad-on-squad infantry combat on a flat field.

Yes. All you fans of simplified Chinese rejoice! Or at least do so in $2,000 more dollars.

I only see that 1.9 million has been invested on Fig.

Ydwin looking like Harry Potter yet not being a Wizard is going to bother me.

Come on party! Let's go track down that god! We will bravely go where most Kith fear to trod! We're trouble some corsairs! And we're here to loot your treasures! We would shoot you on the downbeat... but we have to rest five measures! A pirate I was meant to be! Trim the Sails and roam the sea!

Heck they got in trouble for some random backer poem that 0.01% of the players ever saw when PoE 1 got released. Best not to risk it.

The purpose of sidekicks is to make sure all classes are represented as NPCs I guess? Makes sense but it is not a very exciting stretch goal.

Yeah. Weird. That is exactly what you asked for. I just hope I can transfer both my characters from PoE. I know the Watcher can but can my priest of Eothas? I think I can sort of recreate him in an inn in Dreadfire but I would really prefer to transfer him over.

It makes no sense for somebody who has not trained for years under a master to be able to craft weapons. But I guess we shouldn't use realism arguments. But please not this. If you can make your own daggers with your own special powers then I will have to make my own daggers unless I want to have inferior daggers. And I REALLY do not want to make my own daggers.

I am fine with crafting so long as it is not important. God I hate when the best stuff is all crafted. I never hated a system quite like Dragon Age: Inquisition. The crafted stuff was all better than the dropped stuff and it could not have been more tedious. PoE's crafting was fine. Let's keep drops where you get your gear.

Sad that a majority are such psychos as to hate game developers. Though I very much doubt anywhere close to a majority hate Bethesda. You might wish they did. We got New Vegas out of FO3 maybe something great comes out of this as well. We shall see.

The silent majority is often overlooked. I think it is the silence.

Damn. Tough break Obsidian after a really good job on Stick of Truth.

Well I was there. There was indeed butthurt over Fallout 2 at the time. To the point I even delayed buying it even though I loved the first one. There was a time I took the RPG purity brigades seriously and respected their opinions. But once you get burned over and over again by their misrepresentations and hyperbole you just start to tune them out. I mean if you don't like Bethesda and did not like Fallout 3 then how is your opinion valuable at all to somebody who does and did? Then it starts to become haranguing for partisan purposes rather than honest evaluations. I mean that dude even admitted he was out to reduce the number of sales...no agenda here. A true honest broker.

I did like the homeopathy reference though. A little poetic metaphor never hurt anybody.

Glad to see that. I was worried what might happen to the original project if the supplemental kickstarter failed. Pity there is really no way it reaches 200K since this game really needs voice acting. But oh well.

Yeah they will make it easily.

I am not sure how to feel about this. Need more information. Seems bad though.

I am almost 40 so 2002 feels almost contemporary. Nostalgia seems weird for something so recent. I thought I backed PoE because I liked that sort of game. To say otherwise seems to suggest I play RPGs out of nostalgia for the first time I played any RPG of any sort ever. I mean sure they said it would be a game in the genre of the IE games. Well so what? Are EA's FIFA games based on nostalgia for football? Am I wrong about this? I just seems a very strange use of nostalgia. I am not playing this game to reminisce about 2002 no more than I eat pizza to remember a pizza I ate back in 1991.

Are we talking about the marketing for DA:O that tried to make it look all hard core? Because that was rather hilariously bad. The game itself was as grimdark as KOTOR was.

Huh. How did they know he was straight?