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That's the first tape measure I've seen that doesn't have both centimetres and inches on it.

So $12.25 for game plus all content DLC at the Squeenix store. Hmm.

I felt there was too little freedom in the story missions, and too little focus in the open-world gameplay. The former being simple canned segments that could have come out of any game, and the latter was all just a bit samey where you could do some activity at any given location and have it be basically the exact same experience as it happening at any other location. That said, which of the DLCs are actually story DLCs? At the moment I'm taking a crude approximation that the ones over a dollar have some content and the ones under a dollar are just wearable tat.

The 20% off does work, but on the other hand at Squeenix's own store you get to pick and choose the DLC or just go for the base game at $7.50. So at $17.50 for everything or $7.50 for just the base game I probably would say the latter makes more sense. Moot point personally since I've decided against it for now - as someone who thought SR3 was dull and that GTA was terrible, I don't think the game would have done anything to change my mind. Same with Tomb Raider for $20, Borderlands complete for $22, or Total War for $33, Tropico for $8, Gothic for $5. I'm pretty bored but I don't think that any of them, good deals they may be, would help me.

Counting the damage this month - $661. Also more copies of the games than I have friends to give them out to. But it feels like collectively there's a bit of a peak that's now been crested - got up to a dozen games to harvest between now and the end of the year.

Not really an answer, but I use foobar2000 as my all purpose music organiser and player. I do use it to fix up dodgy tags, bulk renames, format conversions, etc, but I can't really compare it to specialised tools out there since the only other program I use is Exact Audio Copy to do the ripping from CD. Yeah, 100% of my music is still purchased on CD (then ripped to FLAC for desktop/HTPC listening and to ogg for portable players).

Haven't played anything all week, but tempted by gameplay video of Monaco, if anyone has a good word to put in about it. Unfortunately I only generally play my multiplayer games with one other person which I guess would kind of put a crimp on it, but still.

Did they get around to releasing an image of the addon poster? Leaving the possibility open of throwing in an extra $25 or whatever at the last hurdle but I'd like to at least have a vague idea of what to expect. I'm in for +$25 already on top of the $95 physical and a separate $65 digital pledge, the first addon which will probably go for the weresheep T-shirt, but not super-keen on the "normal" T-shirt, hence the question. This despite me being one of those a bit tired of the weresheep thing in general, but eh, it works best as a T-shirt rather than all the other overuse.

Odds are that's not a bad thing given recent trends.

GOG have done D&D bundles more than once previously (though before they got the rights to NWN2, so that last time was the first time that "full" set appeared). And Zoraptor pointed out earlier in this thread that the Gamersgate pack is literally a bundle of the GOG versions, installer and all.

In for minimum game pledge at the moment, but won't really be something I'll think about until release. April's been by some distance the biggest month so far in terms of throwing cash into KS - between the big three titles alone that's $600+ sunk. Just as well there's nothing major on the horizon, and even on the smaller scale I'm not aware of anything else other than maybe Jim Walls' new Police Quest. Aside, $150 minimum for a box copy? On the one hand it's probably a sensible thing to keep overheads down, but I like my boxes.

I take the one licence is one copy of the game dictate at face value since I don't want to think too hard about lawyerish matters. I do maintain that the licences should be fully tradable though, if not currently in use, hence my offer to Tigs. I don't see it as anything out of the ordinary - I bought both the Witcher 2 digital copy and a CE boxed copy, and when the latter arrived I gave away the key in it to a friend so they could redeem it on GOG. Two licences, two people playing, sunshine and lollipops. Obviously some vendors, notably Steam, make this very hard to accomplish, but it can still be done if you register each game on a separate Steam account.

Back in 2007, by alternately serendipitous or cruel circumstance depending on what day you ask me, ended up co-founding what turned into a WoW raiding guild. I was right on the verge of quitting back then, but as a result ended up playing for almost another half-decade. A bit of an oddity is that due to the opinions of the few various founders, right to the end of the guild's heyday at the close of the second expansion, it was operated without voice chat. Some members used it casually between themselves, but all official communications were strictly text-only. I'll say those were easily my best four years playing MMOs, but I have no desire to ever come back. The flipside, although not a personal disadvantage, is that it does tend to become a fairly insular environment - so after the event, it was pretty much guild activities or nothing.

I think all the questions which were basically rate yourself from 1-4 on each of these glaringly telegraphed stats were rather tedious and pointless. I'm not trying to be a negative nancy - indeed some of the random alignment-type test things can be amusing diversions (and a quick look shows some very familiar-looking questions), but yeah, this just seems to be trying to do a little too much.

Unless you have a different distribution to me, the NWN2 CD-key is on a sticker on the front of the fat manual. (And at 35 characters, probably the longest CD-key I remember seeing) As I have the GOG copy now, I can PM you my original copy's key all legal-like if you wish. And hopefully Feargus won't smack me for denying a sale...

A GW2-type guild system would be perfect for a loose-knit type guild that an Obsidianite one would be. That is, the ability to be in multiple guilds simultaneously, on any server. Still, with only 8 US servers and 3 EU English-speaking ones, still a far less daunting task than if it were, say, WoW.

Dragon Commander is $40 from GOG as well right now, so I assume it's a deliberate pricing strategy.

Bit at Amazon's current Gold Box deal, Hitachi 4TB external drive for $150. $20 shipping to Oz, but eh, I've had a couple boxes of scissors sitting in my cart for a few weeks so the combined shipping works out well. Deal ends on the hour.

The only thing about the X series that I remember is that they had a canned benchmark out of their engine back in, oh, 1998 I think (before the release of the game itself), which may have been the first 3D-accelerated program I ever ran (on my nVidia Riva128, which was a terrible product).

They changed their mind then. In the last update they said that you needed to pledge more than 95 in order to get the free dragon commander. Now you have to pledge to a tier higher than 95. Might seem like a minor change but its 54$ (150-96) if you had no addons and even more if you had addons that pushed you over 95$ I fall into the same category, but I did only skim the text and didn't really think about the literal wording. Heck, I'm actually over $150 but at the $95 physical tier so no DC for me at this stage. Actually what would probably be most efficient for me is to downgrade that pledge on the KS site a bit, then make a separate, additional pledge, for the $65 digital tier on their website via Paypal. Kind of silly on the surface but I have absolutely no interest in game-design type rewards. EDIT: Actually need to register another Kickstarter account instead of the Paypal option since the limited quantity tiers aren't available directly. My economic rationalism is making me jump through all these hoops.

Is it just me or is Tomb Raider permanently listed in the specials section despite not being on special at all? It's been there for a few weeks every time I check, and at full price.

I don't completely understand the problem, but I was under the impression that the reason it didn't work is because it was missing that additional cable. The game doesn't seem to know how to use the audio from the CD like it did for CD drives. Nor have I ever met someone who got around the problem, short of simply ripping the audio data and manually playing it...which is what I ended up doing. Wasn't able to check myself, but remembered to ask my sister who has my original CD - she gets music just fine with the UserPatch installed. Win7, fairly standard hardware and definitely no analogue CD audio cable. On the other hand, I've just re-installed the newest release of the patch and at the installation menu you can manually add music tracks to the game.

And the male character lacks the stubble part of "all video game protagonists should be white males with brown hair and stubble". That, or a chainmail mankini.

I used to be one of those types of people, but only during IWD2's development.

Obviously the solution is to have two 27" screens, one 1080p and one 1440p, side by side. Then you can selectively display content on whichever screen handles it better. And this suggestion is only half tongue-in-cheek - it's probably a good genuine option if you're unsure for now and put off the thinking until later.