LadyCrimson

I remember the fishing in Torchlight2 being more productive, over the long haul. I'm guessing they nerfed some of the fishing percentages...which is too bad, I liked the fishing for when I didn't feel like monster bashing. I'm also remembering why I probably stopped playing TL2 - it's great fun in short doses but it's too monotonous gameplay/area wise, even for a loot-fest game, and becomes rather uninspiring before long. Can't quite put my finger on it, but yeah. Still, it is fun to revisit once in a while.

Being tired just makes me slothful. Being bored and mentally inactive is what will make me munch all day long.

Hopefully not to much. They said April 2014 on Kickstarter during the campaign for the basic version before we blew past that funding level. Kickstarter, I believe, requires you to put up a projected completion date in order to even put up the KS for people to fund. Thus I think a lot of them are huge guesses, since they often don't know exactly what they're going to end up with, project size wise, for various reasons. So from what I've seen, not making the original guesstimate date is pretty common, unless the game/thing was practically finished before they even did the KS. But yeah...I'm hoping it won't be much past Xmas 2014 or something. Mostly because I'm selfish and impatient.

So based on your last post, I took a look at that Elven Battle enchant and decided to experiment with it. Thankfully, its graphic is limited to glowy arm shield looking thingies, which is better than weird shifting glows that totally negate any armor dye job you spent time creating. >.> Anyway, I bought a Lesser, thinking I'd level it up. Which I did, but then I realized I needed another Lesser to upgrade it, vs. only variations of marks. Didn't check, but I'm assuming now I'd need a 2nd "regular" version to upgrade it to Greater (or maybe 2 Lessers...). Then yet more to get it to Perfect. Not that I need a Greater/Perfect, personally - I was just experimenting. But that was when I realized it's also that's way for the regular enchants too, once you get past r8. I guess r8 is as high as I'm going, then. There's no way I'm leveling up multiples to high levels just so I can create a single r10. Ha.

Despite my slight grievance about too much focus on one particular thing (even if there was an eventual point), I wasn't disappointed with Sherlock. I think for a 3rd season they did fairly well at trying to branch out even further from the typical Holmes. eg, I saw it as trying to grow into their own. Some aspects of that worked, some didn't. I still like the 1st season the best. The 2nd season was good, but I was not overly fond of the Hounds episode myself. Not that it was terrible. It just wasn't great. I'm also not fond of the giggle-insanity version of Moriarty (he's more Riddler...), but it worked well enough when it counted and that actor was funny/good at being such, so I can go with it. I really like the dynamic between Sherlock and Holmes - the two actors play off each other beautifully - and it's likely I'd keep watching even if they can't keep up the pace mystery-wise, over time. Kinda like why I kept watching House, MD (House/Wilson).

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.