Valmy

That is certainly true for 1990s games. I can still enjoy the graphics from Baldur's Gate but man 3D games from that year are painful.

They certainly have their fans still but yeah, they moved on from us hardcore RPG fans and we feel sad.

It certainly has been for the development of this game. It will be interesting to see what happens here when the game is released.

I pretty much only use Steam for all my PC gaming these days and I have never spent even a micro-second on their forums so they can be easily ignored. I guess that does not account for other 9,999,999 reasons you have though.

That is great stuff Kimaka!

Man I cannot wait to enjoy a drink at an inn I personally liberated.

This is going to be my Chanter on my first play through: I wrote her background here: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/71117-what-will-be-your-first-player-character/?p=1585788

Right. According to my steam here in Texas, noon CST or 5 pm GMT on March 26th. So if you want to play right at release, you can sleep in.

Obsidian is not a small indie. If they were they would not have gotten so much money.

Ah yeah!

You know what will piss me off? A bad game. Getting it a few days after some press/LPers is no big deal. We were told months ago we would get the game on March 26th and we will get it on that date. I fail to see anything about that anywhere that is even slightly irritating much less piss off worthy. Good for those reviewers and LPers but I have zero desire to become either of those things so I have no desire to reap the "benefits" as humble as they are. I guess I can see getting furious if they delayed the date we are getting it so the press/LPers could review it but they are not doing that. We are getting it exactly when we were promised.

Ah that would be great. I am trying to work out stats and how to play my Priest and Chanter.

Ah yeah that is a cool story as well.

It is on time, no release date was ever mentioned as definitive until the 26th of March. On the 26th of March it will be released. Before then it was rough estimates. I don't know why now, months after the release date was announced, we have all this butthurt about it. What? Months was not sufficient for absorbing this information? People cannot wait a few days? Not necessarily directed at you Ark Evenson, I think you were just kidding around

They announced months ago that release date would be the 26th of March. Christmas is not going to be moved. And the physical copy is just a coaster until then anyway.

How do you know this? We were told by Obsidian there was going to be pre-loading. There is no pre-loading yet but they have not even handed out the keys to the backers yet.

You got a press version Sensuki? Awesome you deserve it. Once I have beaten the game I look forward to checking out your LP

His father was a general during the French Revolution, I put a picture of him up earlier. He is the only black French Major General in history, or at least the only one to lead soldiers into battle. His mother was a slave in what is today Haiti and his father was a French noble which created the perverse situation that in the Caribbean he was a slave but in France he was an aristocrat. Fortunately his father moved back to France and he entered the military like a noble do. The rest is history.

I have yet to see a game where white people enslaved black people that was not a historical type game. But in any case the Valians are like the Venetians, they don't discriminate they just need galley slaves.

True. The equestrian class, which was a hilarious anachronism from the time of the Punic Wars onwards. I think you have it backwards though, they served as the cavalry because they could afford a horse. By the time the state starting providing military gear they had long since become a social class without necessarily a military role.

Probably me before I put my kids to bed.

It looks like it will be unlocked on my steam at noon CST or 5 pm GMT on March 26th.

Ok this is bugging me. It is SAINT Maurice. A 3rd century Roman did not hold any knighthoods. And all those pictures were made about a thousand years after he lived, but he did come from southern Egypt so... But even if he was not black skinned, the Medieval Europeans liked to think he was which is probably more important.

Modern history TEACHING is a thumbnail sketch of a thumbnail sketch, it can never cover much or be expected to be comprehensive about anything. I do not really understand people's obsession with it, it is like criticizing school age math for not teaching complicated cutting age mathematical theory. Obviously with an international club like the nobility lots of interesting things happened, likewise with a huge Empire like the Roman Empire.

While not ideal, in a single player game you can still have fun with a gimpy class. Are they fun or a challenge? Or are they bad plus boring? Obviously not an objective rating here.