LadyCrimson

Totally awesome.

Daredevil - 1st two episodes, liked the father/son bits and the oily yet cool eyeglass wearing henchman. The rest was "ok." Third was all right, although I found myself kind of rolling eyes at the overlong h2d fights. I don't think I'm "connecting" the the Daredevil guy that much - it's not that I don't like the actor, he's good, I just mean the character. But he's better than Batman. 4th episode got serious. By the end I was all like "ok, this is gettin' good." Time to watch the 5th. ...I didn't know Vincent was going to be in it. Soon as the credits rolled on episode 1 I was kinda stoked for that. He is always the bomb. I'm going to like him and the henchman the most, I can tell. I must be evil.

So the excitement/chaos of PoE's release is over, the forums have slowed down, I did finish the game (and tried another game's new alpha), and now, time-wise, there's a slight void, if that makes sense. A now what feeling. I need a break from thinking about (any) gaming stuff at all I think. Seems like a lot of new things on Netflix added the last month or so. Time to drown in some of that. If I can stay awake. But first I'm going to pull a few cookies out of the freezer and heat those up while pondering whether it's time to get ourselves a hotub. It just might be. Soaking in one while having a drink and reading a book sounds pretty appealing these days.

Not for dinner, but just in case you ever want to impress anyone with a fruit hedgehog...because, reasons.

So that's what a drill is for. (I don't think "awesome" is the word I would use...)

*singing off key* "ON A DARK DESERT HIGHWAY, COOL WIND IN MY HAIR..."

Thats kinda the problem, but even game footage wouldn´t do it for me. Rome 2 was so broken (in terms of AI), and every other Total War game was released as a bugy mess, except maybe Rome and Shogun (still problems), that i just can´t allow myself to be excited. I´m very very cautions about this. I still have never played any of the Total Wars (I own Rome but ...) but I do get the cinematic trailer issue. Entertaining they can be, but they tell you nothing of the game itself. Just meant to build excitement.

Got it. I knew I'd heard that vocal timbre before, especially around the 1:20 mark. He's much older now of course. Gads time flies.

That voice sounds really familiar ... must ... figure it out. The trailer is cinematically entertaining.

I'd actually have liked that more than the figurines - for one thing it could have required more points in Lore for all chrs. to be able to use, vs. buying all the figurines and just dumping them on all chrs as perm. quick items. Anyway it just would have been nice if some crafting had felt more unique/fun, vs. largely about utility.

In terms of drive space, sivas has the idea. Isometric and smaller area in individual maps does not always = small data footprint.

Need to do housework but unmotivated today. Which means I'll probably snort awake on the couch with a cat on my face again. Thinking about dinner already...something done in the wok I imagine. Maybe there's a new movie on VoD that would seem interesting. Hubby wants a metal/plastic lathe ... I keep telling him we should build a giant workshop in the backyard for him, vs. the cramped 1-car garage. I don't care about that big rectangle of grass at all, so he could cover it entire with a tall/long shed or something, but so far he hasn't done it. :D

Some flames burn bright but don't last long. It happens. Caught a few minutes of some random localized games the other day. It still amuses me when announcers made all these comments/predictions/analysis regarding a players current season stats (not lifelong/last season) ... when it's still April. Yeah I know ... it's a stat game. It still amuses me.

If you have the rogue-like npc with you he makes a comment as you approach them the first time. If you hold the TAB key down they highlight and clicking them gives you a message I think. Then you just click each one to light them with the torches (if not a fire godlike). Once disabled I don't think you can reenable them. Although I think the pillar method does not disable ALL of them. More like disables a path through them.

Yep. Get the best weapons/armors/shields that don't already have a quality enchantment (but have other unique enchantments), and add a quality enchantment on top of it. There's no real reason not to do it. Agreed ... on the other hand, it's largely the only thing really worth doing, imo. And none of them are very interesting, just important because of mechanics reasons (accuracy accuracy accuracy). I'm sure on PotD food/scrolls and other buffs are much more vital at times but you can just buy a lot of them vs. crafting them. I didn't find crafting useless but except in the most punishing circumstances (early PotD and/or small party/solo), it's just not very interesting and certainly not vital to what might be considered the "average" player. And I usually love crafting in rpg's. It's often one of my favorite parts. Although tis true one of my fave things about such in other games is the hunt for the ingredients, which in PoE felt somewhat lackluster. I would have preferred being able to get more as random loot off enemies, containers and more to pick in the "wild" etc. vs. being so much in the stores or a random Stronghold thingie.

A month of playing PoE off and on = I can't get back into "survival" or building modes. Not in the mood to dig holes for hours. And as usual if I look at Steam nothing much appeals. So...I guess I'll play some more PoE. Maybe load and finish the dungeon. Or continue my PotD save, which is basically at the point where my party of 4 is staring at the walls of the crumbled Stronghold wondering if it wants to go in (probably not). Or I could just go read a book.

I guess I'm a control freak ... I don't miss scripted combat party AI and auto-defense seems good enough. It does add some micromanagement but casting AI in this particular game would likely infuriate me by wasting per-rest spells unnecessarily and choosing ones at times I wouldn't choose. So I'd rather just hit pause all the time anyway.

Same here. I also tend to get attached to companion personality = their original portrait, so I can't even change that (unless I did it from the 1st start, before getting to "know" them). It'd be like attaching a different face to a friend or family member. Just feels weird. So in this case, using the no-personality adventurers, it's just for the visual funnies. The thought of Kirk/Spock/McCoy/Scotty/Uhura running around in the game just makes me

I Actually did that, I have my PC is 3rd to last with the wizard and druid. He still shows up next to tank on top after area transition and dialog scenes. This sort of thing used to be fairly common in a lot of games, once upon a time. Your character is the main character/leader/special person and is thought of as doing the talking. Generally, leaders don't do the talking from the back. Thus in certain scenes they tend to get auto-placed in the front to represent this...probably because it's thematically more proper and occasionally for starting position challenge reasons. Pillars actually does this very little, but it does do it here and there. I'm not sure why they chose to not do it 90% of the time but then do it those few times.

Did it take anyone else a long time to realize the inside page of the Guidebook also had some signage?

817 kittens out of 1001 kittens.

That was part of my point, tho. I do the same thing. Durance had 4 Athletics during almost my entire game. It didn't help. I'm guessing his low Dex was the main issue in those scripted panel events, OR you have to his athletics extremely high.

I started to make a Supernatural cast portrait party but I haven't gotten around to finishing it. A Star Trek:OS party might amuse me, too.

Yeah, pretty much sums it up this article/review/rant for me too. Pillars is not even close to perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but my main problem with it was the combat encounters feeling bland. The Stronghold being not necessary is true but didn't bother me at all since it wasn't a part of the main gameplay itself, imo. I just ignored it/didn't care. In workday week terms, it's like the early part is Friday (woot!), the middle part is Sun. night/Monday (sigh, back to work) and the last part/end is Wed night (closer to Friday!). Pillars never reaches any major heights but in the end all of the things I did like mitigated the things I didn't like, enough to equal something that I overall like in spite of a few glaring weaknesses. I still wish the combat had been more attention-holding however. It really does drag things down in the middle.