LadyCrimson

I think I'm one of the few who isn't that enamored of Minsc. Don't get me wrong, I liked the Boo bit and he was funny, but it got old fast. I was more the Xan type - no idea why, but I found his moroseness hilarious. But I totally know what you mean. A companion can be a lot more memorable if they have a personality quirk or two, that one either finds giggles amusing or at least highly relatable in some fashion. They don't have to be over the top, but I certainly enjoy chrs. who feel like they stand out.

Sometimes the Oscar show is fun to watch, but the Oscar's themselves are just the artists patting each other on the back or giving Oscars as a sort of lifetime achievement nod. Which is fine, but I don't put any stock in it. Has anyone tried watching Cold Comes the Night? I saw it on VoD last night and noticed Bryan Cranston was in it (Alice Eve too, for those that care). Which made it tempting, but when I viewed the preview, the Russian (?) accent he was using had me laughing so hard my shaking hands couldn't press the "buy" button. I might still give it a go later...

Yeah...when I say 20-25 hours I do mean the main campaign + side quests, perhaps. But not including the mega-dungeon. Unless each level of the dungeon only has a couple of encounters, I expect that to add some hours to my total. If it's higher than I'm expecting, say 30-40 hrs, awesome. I'm so far content with two major city hubs. The only thing that would seriously disappoint me is if the entire game felt linear travel-quest-wise - and by that I mean more like some arpg's, ala Dungeon Siege 1's single-player campaign. Follow the yellow brick road forward and nothing but. That's fine in a loot/action game but would be not desirable in this style of game. But I don't expect Obsidian to disappoint me in that regard.

I wasn't ever expecting mega-epic in breadth or length to begin with, although I was/am hoping for a game that would take me (a slow-poke) 20-25 hours first-playthru at least. So I suppose for many others that might mean only 12-18. My hopes rest more upon that quality/the world and various options are such that I want to replay the game more than once, as opposed to many games these days where I play it and go "that was some fun" and then never fire it up again. It's pretty rare I rack up countless hours on a video game because the official campaign is really that long...it's more that I rack up hours via replays and endless tinkering of...whatever it is that interests me. Btw, I didn't find BG1 to be all that long, either ... main campaign wise. I think I spent most of the time on non-quest things + trying to get every map to have as little "black" left on it as possible.

I've done ones that are almost all black. I usually find such easier because you have no graphics to interfere with perceiving the interconnecting shape-outline, which is what I mostly go by. But if there's only one or two shapes used, or close enough to seem like it, as it appears is the case of that one, that could give me trouble.

It's a real product. And sadly, I want to try it now. (some guy reviewed it, too - he opens the can at about the half way point)

They have computer game jigsaw puzzles. Sadly, most of them don't offer more than maybe 400-500 piece options, which for me makes them too quick/not fun. There's a few that go up to 1000. I'm more the 1500-2000 piece sort. That usually keeps me busy for a few days... Think I'm still better off buying a physical one. Which is too bad, because they take up a lot of room and give one a sore neck.

I'm still good at most of the old games - at least the ones I occasionally fire up again. But this is mostly because I played them so much back when that they're forever burned into the brain, like the memory of one's first love.

A lot of shows do that at least occasionally. Star Trek:TNG did it semi-frequently, IIRC, and the original ST did it a few times. I've really only noticed minor inconsistencies when it happens...rarely anything major plot or chr. building wise. eg, it only seems weird or misplaced once you know it's weird and misplaced.

*reads thread* I'm beginning to feel like an old fart for still having my games installed to the main C: directory....although since Win7 I haven't used the actual Program Files directory in ages. Win7 kinda ticked me off with that...

LOL at Skyrim....

Gazing at the (awesome) character sheet, for a second I thought to myself "MIG? What stat is that?" ... then I realized it was Might and rolled my eyes at myself. Graphically I like the game more and more as we get more visuals. Subtle sometimes, yet also very grand. And I love the rocks/walls/stone floor textures in the arena-like first screenshot.

Today I've sneezed about 4 dozen times so far, so my eyes feel a bit swollen shut and my nose is on fire. I know I have allergies all the time but I don't usually sneeze that much in one morning. Don't know what it is. Maybe some mold somewhere. Although it hasn't been rainy/damp in a while... My ears, at least, are fine. That sounds bloody annoying, Enoch. I remember the intense itching sensation from having chicken pox, I can't imagine having something like that feeling inside ones ear.

Sherlock Ssn3 Eps3 - That was more like it. I'd give that episode an 8.5 and the first two 7.5 But the last 5 minutes of eps. 3? A 10. Bwahaha, perfect.

I don't mind a few loot tiers, but in games like Eternity, this shouldn't mean low lvl items that explodes from a group of monsters by the dozen...god I'm so tired of that syndrome, even in games where that's the expectation (Diablo's, Borderlands, Torchlight etc). So so tired of it. It's stupid. I'd rather see very few items drop per fight, and almost everything that does drop is useful in the sense that it's likely you *must* use it, for a while at least, because you can't afford anything else. To me it'd be more like in BG1, where you have all those plain arrows, which dropped like gangbusters from certain enemies - but they're still very effective/desirable/used all the time because magical enchanted arrows are 1-expensive to buy in huge job lots and 2-rare to find. At least through the first half of the game, or even further if one isn't hoarding cash/cash is rare. Obviously if you don't use bow slingers in your party, you'd find such "useless", but then there'd be enemies that are likely to drop a fair number of swords and armors or magical scrolls instead. Or whatever. But did you use only "white" items? I'd guess after the first 10 levels or so, probably not. Sure, Diablo's can be played with "self-found" items only. But who the heck uses the white items past the very early stages of the game? Those types of games drop so much "junk" that they then even create game mechanics to use it up (salvaging). Why not just make drops less ridiculously numerous, but better when they do finally drop? How much of a carrot do we really need?

If it's something they're working on - eg, it's an Obsidian game - I'll be at least interested to know more. If it's something they're collaborating on - eg, it's not an "Obsidian" game - I'll be a lot less interested, unless it happens to be a game genre/setting that I like to begin with, perhaps. Depends. If it's an MMO collaboration and they're doing the writing, I'd find that intriguing. Don't know if I'd want to play it, but intriguing nonetheless.

Ok, thanks, I'll assume it'll be fine, then. ..the Steam update thingie doesn't work, however. As soon as you get online, even if it doesn't download an update, when Steam detects a game has an update available, the game goes into an "Update Required" mode, meaning you can't play it until you update it.

Went "online" for the 1st time in months, noticed that you can now set individual games to "not download/update" - I'll try it and see if it actually works, or if it'll still "forget" my settings when I go offline and try to download everything when I go back online. If it does work, that'd finally fix one of the major dislikes I've always had with Steam. Question: if hubby DL'd TL2 on his Steam account during the free weekend, and I then buy it on my account and gift it to him, would he have to download it again/lose any save games?

Sauerkraut is something I don't like to eat by itself (unlike some dill pickles or cabbage kim chi) but it is something I love to have on certain foods. Like a hot pastrami sandwich, or on a hotdog with mustard. Basically, it goes well with mustard and salty meats. It has limited uses (for me)...but those few uses are mighty tasty.

Speaking of adds, maybe it's my imagination, but I've been feeling like one of the solo mini-dungeon quest bosses in the Dread Ring must be based on your gearscore. That is, the higher my GS has become, the more adds there are/faster they show, making it tougher when alone. The other two feel more static, but the one with ... Jawbone? ... keeps getting tougher because of more and more adds, making it difficult (hard to focus on the big-bad because if you don't kill the adds they overwhelm you etc). I started Dread Ring with maybe 11900 GS and Jawbone felt easy/never used a pot or Daily. I now have 14500 and I take a ton of damage, use a couple pots and a Daily and it keeps getting tougher. The other two solo thingies are more static. Also ... are there any armor enchants that don't have a super fugly glow effect? I tried one once, hated the glow, took it off. Most of the glows I've seen around in Enclave are fugly too - most don't even seem to bother with one. They really need to make that visual optional.

If by overall game scope you mean length, breadth, content etc ... it's probably mostly that for me. Not in the sense that I want total length to be short - more a matter that the bigger the learning curve/more stuff I have to keep track of, the more I have to time-obsess in long sessions in order to stay motivated/immersed. Especially if there's a potentially emotion-engaging story arc involved. It's like novels. Some people are fine reading a book a chapter at a time over weeks, but I typically am driven to marathon read novels in one or three days. Now that I have less energy for marathoning anything, more complex games (for me) are more difficult to finish, because a lot of the time such games don't "play" well in short time-chunks. eg, where 1-2 hour sessions gives me, personally, little sense of progress and I lose motivation over time. Whereas games like Diablo you can fire up and randomly play for a couple hours very easily even if you haven't played it in months. Anyway, I still want complex and involving games/rpgs...it's not a fault of the games, just the way I am now. Makes me a sad kittah...

Me when I was 12: "Daaaaad, Moooommmm, you say that (story, phrase, opinion) every single time. I hate it when you constantly repeat stuff, so annoying!" Me when I'm 45: constantly repeats stuff ...had fun with the hubster playing some Torchlight2, which he seemed to like ok, even tho he ended up using a KB/mouse mostly. Currently debating whether to play more solo and stay up until dawn, or just go to bed.

Depends on the woman, just like with all ethnicities.

Downloaded pet skin mod for TL2, discovered that running with the mods active means I can't use/have no access to previous game chrs. Screw that for now. Hubs dl'd the game to try it. As usual he's trying it with a gamepad hack, tho he has the wireless KB/mouse with him as well. His insistence on gamepad limits our potential game choices a lot. Tho in this case I'll doubt he'll like the game enough for us to care much. He played D1/D2 with me a little bit, but was never really into them. Edit: Hubs just came in the room to ask me: "Do you run out of bullets in this game?" lawlz.

Lazy morning. Shower, dishes, cooking a meal, then a lazy evening. I take my PC outside twice a year, take off/clean the case grills and use a large rubber squeeze bulb to poof-blow dust out. Seems to work pretty well and it stays pretty clean. Unlike some of my ancient early PC's, where I never cleaned them and they'd end up with a layer of dust so thick you could build dust-snowmen in there. The old hardware seemed more tolerant of such, tho.