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You don't fool me, Mr. Luthor.

At least the male-only protagonist rumour was debunked. Though now I see claims that it was genuine but that the backlash may have led to a change of heart.

Slowie!

I would venture to say that most people like him. Indeed one of the criticisms often levelled is that he's too much of the stereotypical gruff, gravelly-voiced protagonists of, y'know, almost every AAA game out there. Don't know how much of that is CDPR and how much is Sapkowski, though at least there are relatively (compared to the older games) frequent moments of levity where he does drop that demeanour for a bit. Be interesting what they do with the next Witcher protagonist, be it Ciri or someone else. I haven't come across a truly badly mischaracterised major NPC yet, which is good, I'd be happy playing any of the "good guys" shown thus far. Dandelion probably crosses the line for some people, and fair enough, but I haven't seen a Miranda-type character who it seems the writers expect us to like but we end up hating.

Gamepad was a pain initially because some things are harder to access ....turns out there are a bunch of hidden gamepad shortcuts the game never bothers telling you about. Most notably, holding down start takes you straight to the map. Left-right on the D-pad while blocking cycles through signs, though I waste the occasional consumable hitting up/down accidentally trying to do this.

And he might also be leaving, hmmm.... surely can't be a coincidence.

Always found how the game would pause completely whenever someone, anyone cast a spell to be immensely frustrating. I know other games often did that for special abilities, but they happened far less often.

The dotted line is a filthy liar though.

That dumb wheel never gave a good indication of what your char says. That was a problem from the get got when they came up with it and my biggest reason why i don´t like it. It´s even worse in the Mass Effect series but Bioware seems to love it. Though, i guess i´m lucky that the translation team did a good job on that and it´s not that missleading as in english (which i also played...for like...2 hours..) The dialogue wheel is the logical consequence of fully voiced player characters. How interesting would it be to have your character just repeat the very same sentence you just picked out of the available dialogue options? I thought DX:HR handled it pretty well. For those who haven't played it, it's effectively a dialogue wheel but when you highlight an option, it pops up a full sentence of what you'll actually say, verbatim. Sometimes Jensen says more than that, but the part you're shown is plenty good enough to convey both the intent and tone of what the option actually is, and I don't recall any instances of the game where I didn't get what I expected out of my selection. The other explanation though, is that the Bioware dialogue wheel, as opposed to the Eidos one, was implemented as a cost-cutting development measure, in that the dialogue may not have been written yet at the point they're scripting the game. In that case it's just an issue with BioWare's workflow, having their writers retrofit some dialogue into a predetermined decision tree.

Lord knows they desperately need someone who can actually write a character. Didn't FO3 get awards for the writing ? And Shadow of Mordor got an award for best video game protagonist.

Maybe now that The Witcher 3 is out, CDPR are looking for someone to really kick-start the writing for Cyberpunk 2077? :D If he's looking for a studio that is both effectively independent but which has both the wherewithal and desire to go with the truly ambitious projects... The Witcher 3 in many ways I feel shares a lot with Alpha Protocol of all things, without the constraints that effectively hobbled it.

Don't think you can get away from us that easily! Sometime soon, some other forums are going to see a sizable spike in new user registrations.

Actually that makes me want a Jackie Chan Police Story type RPG more.... kinda like Sleeping Dogs but less grim and oppressive.

It's just four decisions when you simulate save, not sure if importing might record more decisions than that.

Have they announced a Hardcpre mode, like NV? Also, shame on them for sourcing the supposed spinoff to another company and not this one. They'll probably leave it for the guy who made the Frostfall mod for Skyrim.

Yeah, seen from above (Titan X --> 980 Ti) and using its MSRP, the 980 Ti seems like a good deal Seen from below (780 Ti / 290 --> 980 Ti) and with real world prices around here - not so much. Still, it's somehow reassuring to see Bokishi back in High End territory CF / SLi may make a lot more sense with DX12 and Vulkan, if the developers of the widespread engines (thinking of Epic, Crytek, Unity but also upcoming ones like Oxide) get thrown enough money at to implement really good MGPU support. 16th of June may be underwhelming, considering that the really big architectural leaps will be made in the next, smaller node - I'm thinking of both GPUs and RAM (HBM) here. Also, imho, the GPU makers are not really under that much pressure until VR gets serious market share. [edit] Reminded myself that this is an American forum - removed swear words Self censorship hoorray In a delightfully agricultural sort of way, perhaps the most interesting indication of Fiji - ahem, "Radeon Fury X's" performance isn't any technical data, but the simple fact that's it's a big chip. Bigger than anything previous. So in that pre-schooler maths sort of logic, it's going to be fast.

There may be mountains of it, but I don't think it'd survive close scrutiny much better than the rest of their writing. But to be fair, it doesn't need to, that's why it's backstory. One could say that Bethesda's writing holds up until the point where it comes into contact with the player.

It's 35% cheaper and 3.5% slower than the Titan X. So yeah, in one fell swoop, both the regular 980 and the Titan X are obsolete. Would go so far as to say it also obsoletes all current 'sensible' SLI and CF configurations, you'd take a 980Ti over 970 SLI or 290/X CF. 16th of June can't come fast enough, at which point we'll see how the GPU landscape looks like for the rest of the year.

I was expecting a Raul "romance" mod.

Not tinted puke green, already 100% better.

Also it discounts peoples mid-life crises. :D

Well the other thing is to use namelist generator so you can send us Obsidian forum members to our deaths glory.

Ideally robits would obsolete every single human profession at the same time.

As nice as the option to talk your way through is, I hope they don't roll diplomacy together with stealth, because well, diplomacy is not stealth. Ghosting a level and having the guy at the end grab your camera and force a conversation, no matter how peaceful the outcome, is no better than having an arbitrary boss fight at the end.

Well with Skyrim, Bethesda finally was able to make a game I could have fun with despite the fundamental shortcomings of their approach. So perversely, I think if they try to do Skyrim with guns, they'd probably succeed, and I'd probably have some fun just messing around with it, even if I ignore what passes as the plot. Conversely, if they try to make it a "proper" Fallout game, they'll probably fail in the same way Fallout 3 failed for me, and I'll skip it altogether.