LadyCrimson

Watched the first episode of CW's "Arrow" series. Green Arrow. Haven't read the comics, nor did I see the Smallville stuff, but I kinda liked this new series. At least the premiere. Can definitely see the Batman influence. The bow skills are impossibly silly, of course, but whatever, it looks cool. At least it's entertaining. Dunno if the later episodes hold up ... and the flashback method as a persistent mystery/story telling thing wears on me these days ... but kinda cool. For, y'know, CW.

That's so ludicrous and ridiculous! .... it's perfect! I can see something like that being really fun in a game. Altho it's probably more suited to a game outside of P.E.

I personally never liked the memorization system of spells. As a limiter, it definitely works, just saying it's not my fave thing in the world. In terms of buffs, you could have it cost a lot of power/soul/stamina or whatever, but you can recast it on top of itself as long as you have the resource .... and each recast increases the duration. Not the benefit, just the duration. So if you feel like standing around for 10 minutes regening resource/recasting, you might get that light armor buff to last 15 minutes, but if you don't feel like standing around, you can use it like "usual" (eg, just before combat as a short term benefit) - your choice. Or as mentioned above, the always-on/always taking up resource route.

Excellent. By the time I really need to switch, the Steam Linux library should be quite acceptable. And Window's has been bloated for a while now. Altho it does depend a little bit, in my limited experience, what kind of stuff you have on it. My HDD Win7 boot time is still quite fast, but that's because I have almost nothing that runs on bootup except the basic required system things.

I heard about that on the news as they were covering the election. Classy, Trump. But it is funny. I picture him with his wig all askew, drink in hand, ranting at office lackeys while posting on twitter.

Y'know the little remote gizmo one uses to lock/unlock a car? The battery in mine finally gave up the ghost. After 14 years or something. Seriously, I haven't changed it since I bought the car. Now that's one hearty little battery.

Oh? So if you go between Acts, they reset? That's interesting, thanks. Altho, like I said, there doesn't seem to be much reason to, outside of missing quests or if you're on the hardest difficulty perhaps (I'm just goofing around in Normal).

Torchlight2 - once in Act2, starting to feel like the unique (orange) items are too numerous. Since enemies don't respawn (can't "farm") and you get what you get, I can see having them be more numerous for each playthrough. But it's starting to feel a bit Monty-Hallish. Minor nitpick tho...rather have too many then zero, like in D3, haha. Still a fun, light romp of a game. My ferret is all buffed out with xtra health/dmg plus healing, thorns, and summon imp spells and kicks butt on his own. Too cute. I still have to get through the original game. It's pretty fun, but almost too silly for me.

I have no personal desire to play my PC games on a little tablet, whether in another room across the house or on a train/plane or in a park. There's such a thing as being too plugged in, and possibly, too integrated. I like separation.

Only if the underlying works/infrastructure was in there for the modders to latch onto, so to speak. And as Althernai already mentioned, it wouldn't appear that will be the case for the initial release of P.E.

Sitting here wondering if Guildmaster is going to post a P.E. update later this evening.... I love jumping spiders and love taking photos of spiders in general. But doesn't mean I want them in my food, bed, or hair. Hahaha. I'm sorry to hear that Calax. I can only offer internet hugs, which I know isn't much, but **hugs** anyway. Thoughts are with you and your family.

Obsidian has been clear that P.E. will focus on single-player alone. No co-op. So if there will be a co-op mode, it will be in a future sequel/DLC/expansion or whatever. As to myself personally, I don't really care if it's included or not. I don't have any personal use for LAN/co-op myself (hubby wouldn't be interested in this type of game), but I have no objection to it being part of a game, so people who do care can play that way....as long as I'm not forced to do something like play single-player while online. *glares over at Blizzard....* Post-script: I should mention that the one time I tried playing IWD in co-op with a friend, I didn't like it at all. Even IWD wasn't "diablo-like" enough for me to find it fun. Party-based games of the IE mold don't work for me as co-op ventures (and I obviously don't want P.E. to be Diablo like). But I've heard of many couples/friends who did enjoy playing IE games co-op.

Well, while most stories (but not all) tend to need one or multiple antagonists to go with that protagonist it certainly doesn't have to mean a "chosen one" or "save the entire planet/universe" type of hero/villain arc. And yes, I'd rather not see those yet again, either. Saving the main area you're a part of from a perfectly mortal tyrannical rule or something (eg, like a localized civil war) would be ok with me tho. Or in terms of divine conflict/influence, you could go the Greek/Roman mythology route, where it's often more of a personal thing for the hero...like Hercules atonement labors. Well, not exactly like that, because I think Hercules became immortal at the end as a sort of reward, but you know what I mean I hope. His adventures and battles weren't about saving the world...they were about saving himself.

While they've been pretty clear that it won't be in the first game, if when the sequel is made, I wouldn't object to there being a LAN mode for folk who want it. Like Drac said, LAN/co-op doesn't necessarily = WoW or drastically altering gameplay mechanics. And it's not like it wasn't done before in the past, with games of this type. But again, not this time around. Maybe for next game.

Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter. The action scenes were entertaining, but of course the movie itself is ludicrous and the ending became too over the top even for the premise of the film. Still, I derived some moments of pleasure out of it, not the least of which was seeing Alan Tudyk in a small uncredited role. I heard Armin Shimerman was in it too, wearing a shirt that said "Han shot first".

I.....must have this hat. I needs this hat. Where do I get that hat?

Seem to be getting a lot of bad headaches lately. It's always something, right? But the day has been lovely, cool but sunny. Sitting out in the yard with the cat, then going back inside and sitting with the other cat, meditating and reflecting under their watchful gaze. Happy for what I have had, what I do have, and what I may have in the future.

Agree to this. And yes, in my mind dual-wielding is cliche. Except for some very specific applications, it's little more practical than a 12 ft. katana. Giant warhammers are impractical too though, and warhammers are awesome. I like dual wielding in terms of damage/speed vs. defense. Pistols, short swords, daggers, things of that nature. It's often (to me) more exciting than equipping for blocking damage etc. But I'm not sure it fits with P.E. specifically....depends what they're doing with the weapons/skills/combat stuff and all of that. I don't think one should be dual-wielding long muskets or something like that. Well, since it's a game, you could, but that's not what I personally mean by dual-wielding. Teehee.

Done. I added spoiler tags for length reasons, as well. If you don't know how to use them, it's just: [ spoiler ] .... [ /spoiler ] (no spaces)

Walking Dead, Sunday's eps. - Yes! Finally!

Still playing Torchlight2. My apparently seasonal gaming shift for wanting more in-depth fare hasn't kicked in yet.

Is dual-wielding cliche these days? I like dual-wielding. Shields are boring. ...I dunno, to me everything is pretty much a cliche. It's more a matter of how you use the cliche to turn it back into something interesting.

I liked GoT's 1st season. It kinda lost me early in the 2nd season tho, and I still haven't watched the last half of that. At some point I think someone here told me that the stuff re: the Wall wasn't even written about in the books yet, and I lost interest...that was the only thing (outside of Peter D.'s performance) that I cared about.

We Bought a Zoo. Slow but I guess it was ok for light feel-good fare. Matt Damon's performance was the best aspect of it. Altho my husband said it was "kinda sappy."

It must be the weekend. As to the idea of PE being a MMO... no, and no. I like single-player games and I want more single player games, not less.