LadyCrimson

I'm glad I'm not a famous super-Chef, where public/media might suddenly start re-evaluating my ability to cook/teach great restaurant meals if one day I said I really liked/ate Togo's meatball sandwiches. Obsidian never said P.E. would be a clone of the older games. They seem to want a game that harkens back to those games, but that doesn't mean they (the whole team, including Sawyer) may not also see it as an opportunity to try to do new things and/or alter some mechanics that, over time, they see as something they might like to have changed/done differently. Creative people tend to do that sort of thing. (and I see nothing wrong with that) From what I know of Sawyer, I also expect combat in P.E. will actually be better/more interesting than in the past IE games.

If I never sit in this stupid recliner again, it will be too soon. *bored* Think I'll rent some pay per view movie. Must be something.

I have no problem with item degradation, as long as the notion of durability is reasonable. I played a little of Dead Island recently, and in that game you'd pick up a weapon and I swear after killing 6-10 zombies, it was almost broken. Coupled with a very tiny backpack so you were hard pressed to keep enough spares on hand, that was taking it a bit far, imo. It's not that one couldn't deal with it, but it was extremely annoying and doesn't add anything to the gameplay but irritation. Item-swapping - don't really care. That's one of those things that if I feel like swapping weapons cheapens my combat, I just don't swap weapons, even if I can.

I think people often fear the initial idea of something/change more than the actual end result/reality of what that idea turns out to be during actual gameplay. eg, sometimes it's hard to envision a change until you see it working, and thus we fear it until we can see it working. I have no idea if the ideas Sawyer/others are coming up will end up being something I'll like, but to me that's the point. I'm willing to try them to find out.

Yes. You had the same named land areas, but it was different in design, size/openness, etc. Altho, I'd be hard pressed to call it a campaign, really. It was a lot more basic/sparse. The exact same maps of the SP campaign were available to play as well, but it was the other one that most people played. I don't think the spell system was broken, but having to use skills to level them up was limiting, the way it was done, because if you wanted to be more than pure "nature magic" you had to keep switching fairly equally between it and whatever else, or going back later to kill stuff with puny level1 fire spells to level it up. I remember I spent a lot of extra time to create effective dual mage. Anyway, it's an old game that was fun to a lot of us who were hungry for more action-rpg's when it was released, but I'd say like many games of the period, it hasn't aged well.

DS1 was a lot more interesting to play in the MP mode (which you used to be able to play solo offline, I don't know if you still can). The maps were less linear and quite different. But there was no party - it was more like playing Diablo with your single chr. And it still had no story, really. I remember it took me a while to warm up to DS2. That beginning, imo, was terrible, but once I got far enough past that to the meat of the action-rpg gaming I liked it quite a bit. The expansion was a dismal piece of work, tho.

Y'know, a lot of games I've played have had minor clipping issues. Name of the game, so to speak. But I think BL2 tops the list, at least in some aspects. Stuff like items falling under the floor all the time, to be lost or making you pixel hunt for the right spot to be able to click on it, places I can clip into rocks, enemies leaping and getting stuck in rocks, all of that. I don't remember BL1 having nearly as much issue with it. Also ... along with finally farming the Commando head I wanted, I just got the 3 Vault symbols for my first gambled Legendary. Only took 200+ hours of gameplay time and millions of gold! Of course, I was gambling for Eridium with one of my mules at the time, so it's a completely useless one.

Haha, soon as I complain about my luck finding something I find it. But it's about friggin' time! My BL2 life is complete now, yay, blahblahblah. Well, mostly, I was just jealous hubby's GunZerker had that cool bowler hat. Now we can play top-hat and bowler-hat (I don't like the helmet-heads). Yes I care about such things. Maya's head from that enemy I was farming is kinda cool too. Looks kinda Cary Grant-ish. Wish the clothing skins didn't alter the hat/hair color. Oh well. No biggie.

I farmed for that BL2 Commando head that I wanted for another hour yesterday (so 50ish more tries). 3 more Legendary Cradles and 1 Gunzerker head. Bah...I want my Axton to be in a top-hat, darnit! Even if I can only see it when in a menu. Heh. Maybe today's the day. I suppose some people farmed this enemy and had exactly the head they wanted drop in 10 minutes. Sorta like how I never had an Shako drop for me in Diablo 2. A friend gave me one, and that's the only reason I had one. I have the worst luck with such things.

I've been sleeping on the recliner for most of the week to stay in an upright position (health issue, nearly over with). This has led me to discover that one of my (adopted as adults) cats likes to wake you up at 6am by paw-scratching/tussling with the top of your head. Cats aren't allowed in the bedroom here (allergy reasons) so I didn't discover this earlier. At any rate, this has made me glad that I tend to trim their claws with a claw clipper. ...and yesterday I napped, watched bad TV, napped, surfed the web from the recliner (cordless tech is awesome sometimes), napped, played a game for an hour, napped....you get the idea. Today will likely be more of the same. Maybe tomorrow I can finally get out and do something more interesting than being a slug with a cat for a hat.

Live action actors are obsolete? I haven't noticed that yet, either in terms of film or stage. The industry for both has changed of course, but obsolete? Nah. I'm always sympathetic towards the continuing push to eliminate requiring humans from various jobs...as I think in the long run it leads to a lack of variety, option, number, and "tiers" of employment opportunities.

I do that occasionally with Steam sales, and then most of those titles sit uninstalled and unplayed, or only played for 20 minutes. So I know what you mean. We could build a fire, sing a couple of songs. ...not in the mood for "real" playing of any game this morning, but I did try continuing farming for one of BL2's Axton heads. A very easy to get to/kill enemy drops it (under a minute for each run), and I swear I've killed the thing 200 times and so far it's dropped 4 legendary Cradles and 1 Maya head. It's Legendary gear drop is more common than the purely aesthetic appearance head. That's getting a bit ridiculous.

The lack of anything interesting to watch on 800+ channels of TV and a couple of mostly-sunny days is making me long for baseball season. At least Walking Dead starts up again soon.

That aspect has actually been discussed a lot already, in all the other threads. At any rate, it's more about what direction almost all previous romance threads get turned toward, rather than any original intention. It's been a while and things are slow, however, so as I said, we shall see.

What is a "Videa?" ..... I had to say it.

I gave up on my Mech after having to listen to her scream every time she caught on fire. Drove me bonkers, and not in a good way.

For some reason, the image of a cat's face and front paws peeking out of a kangaroo pouch came to my mind. Probably means it's about time to get back to snoozin'. Happy day/cheers.

I think I'd feel bad for the many suddenly out of work (or at least less work to be had) voice actors. Altho I can see it for some of the smaller bits, like background chrs. and other noises. But for main/player/companion type chrs...I hope we're still a really long ways away from it. Just my opinion.

Hubby and I took a pair of 34 chrs. into the Hammerlock DLC. We liked that the design of the areas felt a tiny bit more like the first game, and the Witch Doctors made things a bit more interesting. I'd say we enjoyed it, but at the end, here's my husband's statement about it: "I've had enough of this DLC...I'm disappointed it was so short." ....we finished it in like 5 hours. Didn't do all the side quests, maybe half of them. And we're usually the sort of players that take at least twice as long to finish a (first-run/blind) gaming thing as most reviewers/many seem to do.

Kulyok's? *Google* Nope...just plain old vanilla BG1 Xan. Never got around to BG mods, really. I should some day....I just haven't.

... I'll let it go for now, so the poll can have some results, as long as the thread doesn't turn into the typical romance-topic direction/debates. We shall see. Carry on.

--Xan --Atton --Boone ....I loved them all to death in their actual games, but mostly, the humor value of those three in the same room would probably have me lol'ing forever.

Poor Chris Taylor. I always liked him. Only played Dungeon Siege's tho, none of their RTS. That said, the mixture of genres sounds a bit weird to me. I like both action-rpg and some RTS, but mixing the two I'd have some reservations. I generally haven't liked games that mix genres too much, so it would depend on exactly what level of that they're really doing. I'm having a hard time picturing it.

Cheating to that extent, imo, does ruin the "fun" of a game. At least, in terms of item hunting. But I don't even use the keys. I freely admit I used the bin file cheat once to check that chest out/what its potential really was (2 legit keys don't do it), but I'd rather just find stuff on my own. I'm weird that way. I don't even like trading, heh. All I used willowtree (BL1) for was inventory space, because I'm a collector. That said, the current trend in games such as these to have drop rates (even for the not-the-highest-tier stuff) that are insanely low/rare is becoming a bit annoying.

If I can understand it and whatever is used/created feels appropriate for the culture being presented, I'm fine. I think I'd rather not read a whole lot of thee's and thy's, however. Perhaps a few characters where that's part of their idiosyncratic personality or something, but not everyone in the world.