Volourn
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"Well, in P&P it would have been handled differently. In this encounter in BG1 I literally have two options: I can let two guys with the Evil alignment walk away and do whatever the hell it is they're doing in the Sword Coast unmolested, or I can kill them. I can't bring them in to the local authorities, because I don't have the option to take them prisoner, and in any case there are no local authorities. Nor do I have the opportunity to interrogate them in any intelligent way, shape, or form in the dialogue--as in, ask them why they showed up as evil when I did a Detect Evil on them. So I had to decide which scored higher on the index of Lawful Good--leaving them alone or killing them. I mulled it over for about thirty seconds and decided the latter." Give me a break. If that's what you think a Paladin is - killing anything that registers as evil you simply don't know what a paladin is. If a paladin went around killing anyone that detected as evil they would never be able to live in cities. LMAO I mean, come on. that's not LG behaviour but CN. It's literally crazy to that cold blooded murder is somehow acceptable behaviour. And, just b/c a silly game dodesn't enforce consequences for it doesn't mean you role-played the paladin correctly. Any decent DM would instantly make you a Fallen Paladin. BG2 ilustrates this correctly with the Fallen Paladin questline. they weren't neccessarily cold blooded evil but theyw ere no longer Paladins. Paladins don't use their detect evil ability as an excuse to murder people. That's silly.
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"Ha ha ha... No Adam West - No Batman. Ha ha ha..." Not the same thing. That stuff was trash.
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"Now you can use the "these people lived on this land for an entire generation, you can't remove them now!" and "forced re-location is evil" argument. Rinse and repeat. Little by little one can take the entire land with that tactic." Hey, that's what people are using with palestinians since they aren't the original inhabitants of the land either. Also, Isreal has given up land plenty of the eyars. They've even physically dragged Isrealis off of land, thrown in them in prison, and even ultimately killed some of the ahrdcore settlers. So, stating that Isreal isn't willing to make concessions is nonsense. Unlike Hamas. Who won't even back off the whole' destroy isreal' mission statement. How do you work and negotiate in good faith with an organzaition who is set on destroying you and refuses to even back off that basic thing?
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The fact they make Batman 'win' is stupid. Stupid,s tupid, stupid.
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Not Mel Gibson. Not Mad Max. I also like how they decide to show how 'tough and edgy' "Max" is at start of trailer by having squish a little lizard. How mucho he is. That criticism aside, looks like it could be a fun action though shallow film. And, I have no issue with Hardy.
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"Came up positive, Imoen and I killed them (RPing paladins is so much fun), and we took their stuff. " More like Fallen Paladins. I'm sorry, but people who play Paladins like not aren't real paladins. As a DM, I'd have made you lose your standing as a paladin.
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Mako is kool. Dissapointed about no non humans.
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"If I lived in Gaza, I'd want nothing more than to bomb Israel to non-existence. Heck ,I don't live in Gaza and I'd still want to dismantle that faschist little state (and most of the middle east)." And, that's the problem. Your goal (as is Hamas) is to destroy people not save people. You should help Hamas the enxt time they throw Palestinians off the roof of a building because they disagree with them.
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"Yeah, that's not how quality is measured. Bio is ****. Don't bother replying fanboy." They've been successful because they make fun games people want to play. Don't be butthurt about it. I loathe Bethesda personally but they've been successful for the same reason. Same with the Twitcher folks. ">keeps thinking that the same people who've made great games in the past still work at bio I mean do I need to say more? No, I didn't think so." wut r u babbbbbblinggg aboot>
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"I don't know if BioWare can pull off horror properly. If that is, indeed, what it's going to be." Not Bioware doing it. It's EA. \ Besdies, at one time, BIO had no experience making RPGs. In fact, at one point they had no experience making games. That was nearly 2 decades ago. Considering their success, they must have been able to figure things out, Then again, it's not Bio doing it. It's EA.
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"Shadowrun didn't have inventory management hell, I'll give it a points decision on that basis alone." I'd rather have a 'messy' inventory ala DOS than a boring/unimaginative one like SR.
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"For six days in early June, Hamas gunmen physically forced the closure of all the banks in the Gaza Strip, due to a dispute over salaries with the West Bank–based Palestinian Authority." Gotta love Hamas and their supporters who claims Hamas just wants lvoe, happiness, and puppies. Hamas wants power. And, they will murder ANYONE - jewish, Christian, Isreali, Arab, Muslim, or Palestinian. They are evil to the core. They are what those religious extremists in the US would be if they actually had power. Hamas doesn't give a crap about Palestine or Palestinians. That's a FACT. \The fact that Palestinians actually voted for them just shows that people are stupid everywhere and will get suckered by scumbags who yell the right things while doing everything but that. Does Hamas care that isreal has killed Palestinians? No. They do not. \Isreal is far from perfect. Some of their targets seem iffy to me but anyone defending Hamas really need to learn what Hamas is about. Hamas knows that with peace they would cease to exist since their entire purpose is to destroy an entire country, religion, and people. If they succeed? then what? They'll start targeting fellow Palestinians even more if they have a different faith than Hamas. Palestinians deserve to live in peace but they never will as long as Hamas is allowed to control them.
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"Run through it now, it's amazing, not overly long, and you will have no trouble playing it a second time close together. This news makes me happy. This is still the best kickstarter project I've backed at this point. " Nah. DOS is better and SRR is merely okay. DOS is slightly above average.
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They should. They'r ehilarious espicially when people take a crybaby stance over them and take it so personally. And, your opinion about 'opinions as fact' is not factual and that is a fact. Almost done game. Now level 21.
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Gameplay video: Detailed Response
Volourn replied to Sensuki's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Races/classes/backgrounds need to have whatever mechanical bonuses/minuses listed. As an 'old skooler' those picturesque dialogue screens are just unneeded and will ruin my make beleive 'immersion' as they'll take me out of the game. They'll be alright but my opreferences is not to sue them as they add nothing that a simple normal on screen dialogue process would do. Character stat management looks boring as it seems caharacetrs will simply be all looking similar. Need more range. Otherwise, looks good. -
They should add in what eachr ace/class/background/etc gives you character wise when you look at them.
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Obsidian isn't like other KS companies. How many of them have over 100 employees? How many of them have had had more than one million + selling games? How many of them have had contracts with some of the biggest publishers and IPs in the business? How many of them have had a game sell over 5 million copies as well as others that have sold over a million easily? How many of them have built in audiences? Sorry, but you guys spitting in the face of Obsidian and expecting them to have crap sales is silly. 1 million or bust. PERIOD. "I imagine that Obsidian would be ecstatic with a million sales and would be hoping for such a figure, but they need nothing like that to be successful, and that's fact." So, you think Obsidian has no customer base? History proves otherwise. FACT: No Bioware game has sold as much as Obsidian's best selling game. FACT. Not BG2. Not NWN. Not KOTOR. Not DA. Not ME. So, why do you hate Obsidian so much you expect them to go backwards and fail? That's disgusting.
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"I honestly can't see PoE selling a million, as great as I hope it will be. Isometric RPG, man. Look at the D:OS sales, 150,000 so far? Certainly nothing to be sniffed at. We're a niche that want this kind of thing. The big money RPGs are the big shiny ones like W3 and DA:I." If PE doesn't sell a million it's a failure. Isometric RPGs have sold over a million. Obsidian has released multiple games that have sold well over a million. This game has been heavily hyped in the gaming media. There is no excuse for this game not selling lots. DOS is a joke. The fanboys are overrating its popularity. They brag about 250k or so sales for it but ignore the fact that DD (the game it leeches from) sold over a million. \ Bottom line is if PE can't reach million sales it be an EPIC FAIL.
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Me too. And, yours is one of the worst kind.
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"Hamas doesn't care about Palestinians? Sez who?" Sez Hamas. Repeatedly. Do you anything about Hamas or just pretend to? They LOATHE the typical Palestinian.
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"or they wanted to compete with PoE(trying to gimp it), in their mind(probably) PoE is a direct competitor." L0L But, no. "I doubt that PoE will sell a million, but a couple hundred thousand is pretty reasonable, especially if we(backers) give it plenty of good word of mouth." \ If it doesn't sell at least a million copies, it is a failure. Obsidian is not some rinky dinky organization. It's a veteran RPg devloper with games that have sold millions. In fact, their best selling game has outsold BIO's best selling excuses. No excuses. people who expect Obsidian's games to bomb disrespect Obsidian, and yes, 200k sales, is a bomb. "If PoE shows it self to be the better spiritual successor, it could seriously gimp DA in the PC market (where it is already down for the count)." \ \L0L
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"Or you know... lift the blockade of Gaza." Talk to Egypt.
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"That said, this doesn't look very good. Either the game's a mess and they are taking all the time they can physically have to finish it into some semblance of shape... or November's less crowded this year than it's been in the last few and they're profiting of it to give their first game on the new engine and after two... controversial ones an extra layer of polish. Still, colour me worried." Games are delayed all the time. No big deal. AS long as it doesn't fall into Duke Nuke 'Em territory it is meaningless.
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Hamas hates Palestinians as much if not more than they hate Isrealis. They lvoe it when Palestinians are murdered. In fact, they love it so much they loved to murder Palestinians personally including shoving them off buildings for opposing Hamas. \Palestinians deserve to live in peace but they never will as long as Hamas has powered and Hamas will have power as long as many Palestinians get brainwashed by Hamas. The difference between Hamas and Isreal. isreal's goal is to protect isrealis. Hamas' goal is to destroy isreal. That's it. They don't want to protect Palestinians. Plenty of Aravs/Plaestinian or otherwise manage to live in Isreal proper in peace. Go figure.
