Humanoid
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And you defeat them by applying a heavy-handed all-encompassing blue filter over them.
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Well I'm one of them. But as a bigger picture thing, I guess it also illustrates the potential pitfalls of partnering with a publisher like this. At any rate, it's backtracking on a specific commitment and it's fair enough that they're pursued for it, even if I have little doubt that a majority would have chosen a Steam key given the option. That kind of thinking, after all, is exactly what the Steam ecosystem has been engineered to nurture.
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The 36 hours of deafening silence so far are probably the most damaging. It may or may not work out in the end, but they've already botched the customer relations aspect of the release far worse that Shadowrun initially did. It's certainly the most disappointing launch event of any Kickstarter project I've backed thus far. This is especially true in the context that GOG provide these keys free of charge. They're quite open on the fact that the publisher of a game can request as many copies of their own game as they'd like with no restriction. Conjecture perhaps, but the feeling is that Atlus might be freaking at the notion of effectively sending two copies of the game to each backer and counting it as "lost" revenue, and thus are choosing to withhold the keys.
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You'd expect an American to be better at crafting something gun-shaped than that disgraceful attempt, clearly that's why he was suspended.
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Plants vs Zombies GOTY is free on the Origin store until the end of the month.
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Doesn't feel that long ago that it was all about Dawson's Creek and Mmm'bop.
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The only reason the argument of "You must have finished the whole thing to have a valid opinion" is ever made is so that, whatever the response, the followup argument of "you went through the whole thing, so you must have liked something about it" can be made.
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Y'know this is a bit of a non-sequitur post, but I find from experience this kind of thing does work better when handled from the top down. I know I'm probably on a bit too much about my MMO experience, but I do absolutely find that guilds with a balanced leadership group (indeed for the first few years the officer core was actually majority female) in terms of diversity are much better social places, and not just because of policy and enforcement of booting out troublemakers: indeed that didn't need to happen much if at all. The value was more in setting cultural expectations of how to behave in mixed company, instead of allowing that insular "Internet" mentality to fester in homogenous environment. And while initially I'd say the leadership representation was mostly proportional to that of the larger membership, inevitably as the greater group grew in size the membership skewed towards the average demographic of younger and maler - and yet this did not really end up presenting a problem because we had a strong cultural base and a strong existing memberbase that made sure that situation remained in place. How any of this would apply to a large forum I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if a better, and visible balance in forum leadership and moderation had some beneficial outcome.
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You'd think they'd learn, but no, trouble brewing with the Tex Murphy release where they're apparently forcing Steam for all backers despite an explicit prior statement that alternatives would be available for non-Steam users. This is doubly confusing because a GOG representative has claimed that GOG keys for backers have been generated and provided to the developers. So where are they? One has to wonder whether the 'partnership' with Atlus might have something to do with this mess. Today: GOG, yesterday: Kickstarter campaign, two years ago:
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Well there was only really one DLC - but originally the DLC wasn't integrated into the game: it was a separate entry in your Steam games list and was executed independently of the rest of the game. The director's cut places it where it belongs in the main game. So frankly, you will be replaying the original campaign, because that's the only thing available to do. The other main change would be the boss fights, besides that there are some graphical tweaks (neither positive nor negative really, just baffling), new game plus, and some commentary, nothing consequential.
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I'm in a Star Citizen corporation of which I am the only member. It's just a virtual treehouse, no one's going to police them in any way besides the automatic obscene name filter. Besides, I played WoW for seven years. I never divulged my gender and no one ever seriously asked. Voice chat was strictly optional (hint: Logitech G-key macros), so it's not a policy I'd even be able to enforce - indeed I made it a point to not ask for any personally identifying information in guild applications, just the bare minimum in confirming availability. Sure, it's probably not the common thing to do, but I guess that's the luxury of building up your own community. The early days of Star Citizen would afford plenty of opportunity to do a similar thing if one were so inclined. P.P.S. Rather than a mod adding the Enclave to New Vegas, I'd rather a mod that removed them from Fallout 3. They died in Fallout 2 and should have stayed dead instead of just being the convenient contextless villains that they are now.
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Obviously a subtle hint that the next Fallout game is set in Australia.
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I hadn't heard of the game until you posted the above. So it's not very effectively being marketed despite that.
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The thing is, I don't even remember using the Obfuscate abilities in my Malk playthrough. I don't know if it's my faulty recollection, but I'm reasonably confident that in the first chapter alone you can get your mundane stealth abilities easily high enough to get away with ridiculous things already - y'know, the crouching dead in front of someone in a vaguely darkish play and having them totally oblivious. I do remember the stealth tutorial being pretty tricky though, so I guess the skill ramps up pretty quickly, but it shouldn't take much to reach Bethesda-stealth levels of absurdity. It's been a decade sure, but I'd probably say Deus Ex Human Revolution is the closest comparison to the game mechanically - down to the cheesy and improbable sneak takedowns and silly boss battles - with the magic invisibility cloak being strictly optional.
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Sort of: the DRM-free version was initially only available to backers as a direct download from the Harebrained website, Microsoft's conditions precluded any sales from GOG, Humble Bundle or any other platform. When the restriction was lifted, the direct download option was removed and backers instead given the option of either a GOG or a Humble Bundle key.
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There are many more outliers than that, such as the 5870 also being rated higher than the 7870. But FLOPS are a very specific thing so it shouldn't be taken to have a direct correlation with actual gaming speed.
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Toreador has Celerity I believe, which makes gunplay trivial. I remember gunning down a sidequest boss within the duration of one usage of the skill - which was long enough to empty my fully loaded pistol and then some. For what it's worth, I think I played just about the whole game as a stealther (the pistol thing was my second, aborted playthrough), and it was mostly viable. P.S. Yeah, standard combat-heavy tutorial, I always skipped it after the first time, though I can't remember if that was a mod feature.
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Yeah, but those always felt like simple line-for-line replacements for the normal dialogue in most cases, the NPCs generally don't react to them. That said, I played Malk first up, and only did 1.5 chapters on my subsequent non-Malk playthrough, so it's not a comprehensive analysis. I'm not using it as a criticism as such, it's probably as far as they could go without creating a wholly separate campaign for each clan - but I've always considered it more jokey than insightful, and am fine with that.
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I've always felt the difference in a Malkavian playthrough to be overstated. Rare is the actual encounter which actually plays out differently, usually either you get one extra line of dialogue from the NPC basically saying "hey you must be a Malk" then have the rest of the dialogue proceed as per any other clan; or it's ignored altogether.
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Definitely a JB hi-fi price and minimalistic price tag. They always undercut the RRP by, erm, $1.95. Not a game specific thing, the RRP of PC games is $89.95 most of the time, and has been for around a couple of decades despite the value of the Australian dollar during that time having at various times been: a) under half of one US dollar; or b) higher than one US dollar. Sometimes a few ...optimistic companies try to raise the RRP - I remember Dragon Age Origins being a scarcely believable $109.95. Then they wonder why Australians choose to buy tax-free imports.
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I paid $140 and don't regret it. If I wasn't a teetotaller though, $140 worth of beer would be reasonably compelling too.
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As long as it retains the slower, more deliberate and less chaotic platforming that the series pioneered (then followed by Flashback), I'd give it a look. The Rayman reboot is fantastic but isn't what I'd be looking for in a PoP game. Platformers may be the indie genre du jour, but very few attempt even semi-reasonable physics and are instead usually flat and floaty.
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Combat order every turn is fixed in portrait order, but you can drag and drop the portraits to set any order you like.
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I know, talking more Wal-mart shelves though. But yeah, also needling a bit because I'm relatively pessimistic about near-future VR.
