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I think I would have liked ME2 a lot less had it not been the one I played first. It's probably a marginal improvement in gameplay (though I don't feel it's as big an improvement as some others do), but in the context of the first game, has lobotomised writing. Because I played it first, the most egregiously stupid plot elements of ME2 kind of went over my head, so it was a solidly playable game in that regard. ME3 though, has no such saving grace. I consider it one of the worst games I've had the misfortune of playing. What's more, I hold that opinion even if the infamous ending is disregarded: sure, the ending is terrible (I never got even near there myself), but so is the beginning, and almost all the parts in between.

Well if they moved their HQ to China perhaps?

The "best" ending As for Miranda, ugh, I think Bioware genuinely misread how people would receive her as a character. Instead of a cool central character everyone would like, they ended up with an smart-arse, insubordinate, plot-armoured Mary Sue impression.

Bethesda did not invent quest markers. Blizzard gets that credit. They've been using Quest markers in WoW since the Bush Administration. It actually took about 5 years after WoW's launch for them to add quest markers into the game. As anyone searching for Mankrik's wife would attest to.

If DA3's tedium is due to Skyrim, then what was DA1's tedium caused by? Indeed I'd say that filler combat tends to be a staple of Bioware that's not necessarily seen in Elder Scrolls games, which are happier to let you bypass this type of so-called 'content'. Admittedly oftentimes this is achieved through some borderline exploitative behaviour, but also in more mundanely emergent ways, like simply sneaking (or running) through an entire dungeon.

Well, if they get enough backers maybe they could buy Disney outright. EDIT: Let's seem, market capitalisation of just over $181b, so 362 million backers at the gold ($500) level would do it.

I hope it was only the tea and not the ice that did.

I know it's the corporate logo and all, but having that image be white on black like the rest of the forum makes it look like just part of the normal thread title text. Like: OBSIDIAN New forum feature: Jump to Obsidian developer post. Would be nice if it stood out a little better.

Just get a monitor with a rotate function.

Sleeping Dogs main story was all a bit too grim for my liking, so after about halfway I just ran around doing other stuff. Definitely got my money's worth, in terms of the construction of its open world, it's a lot more fun to just roam around in that the comparatively vanilla layout of Steelport (and probably GTA's cities, but I haven't played any recent ones).

Need to post a screenshot of your character showing off your martial score of 1.

You might have inadvertently 'followed' a forum or topic. Check the "Content I Follow" menu item, or failing that, the "Notification Options" under "My Settings". The latter option is more suitable if you've intentionally followed something but just don't want to be emailed about it.

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I used to be an powergamer who optimised everything to the n-th degree, savescummed, and generally exploited the game engine for all it was worth; and those were the conditions I played BG2 under (having only played it once, back in the year of its release). I was pretty much the complete opposite of me nowadays, and I wonder how I would have tackled BG2 if it were a current game. Probably by enabling cheat mode and skipping all the combat.... I tend to pick and choose what areas of a game I care about, and ignore what I see as irrelevant. The discussion about PoE's economy somewhere around here for example meant absolutely nothing to me. People talk about optimising carry weights and calculating value-per-weight of loot in that game. Me, I hit loot-all on every container, and the first time I became encumbered, early on in the tutorial dungeon, I opened up the console and multiplied my carry weight by 100.

My memory of enemy mages in BG2 is largely of Valygar one-shot backstabbing them with that silly katana before starting each fight.

Daikatana, now that was iconic.

Save a bit by unticking Dragonshard and Demon Stone. Bought the Lucas bundle myself, aside from the two aforementioned titles I have everything else on offer today. As of the 1000 box milestone they've announced, it means I have 29.6% of the titles available on GOG.

I'm an insomniac so it's hard to measure how much sleep I'm actually getting a night. I try to give myself an 8 hour window on weekdays, but that's going to be less than 7 actual hours in practice on most days. On weekends I'll typically be up 10 hours after first attempting to sleep, but again hard to say how much of that is actual sleep. Fortunately work has a degree of flexibility in hours, fortunately: no questions asked to about 10-10:30, though I can choose to turn up at 6 if I wanted to.

I post in ironman mode, no savescumming. (In all seriousness though, the type of constantly updated post that would benefit from this kind of change is the type that probably should be 'curated' with the help of a friendly mod anyway. Not something that one simply tosses to the hoi polloi.)

Richard Garriott made Akalabeth alone and in his spare time some 36 years ago, therefore Obsidian is incompetent.

I'd happily take Obsidiot.

I had a love and hate relationship with the previous game. Loved the parts of DXHR just running around the (improbably laid out) cities and doing smaller quests in that framework. Got terribly bored by the overlong 'main' missions between the city visits, and ultimately quit the game over it. I'd go so far as to say that had Montreal and Singapore existed as hub cities like Detroit and Hengsha, it'd have been one of my favourite games of the past decade. So more of the former and less of the latter, please.

Observed it was down to $20 on Origin Mexico, so I decided to become a temporary Mexican. No time to play the game anytime soon though, and at a 25GB+ download it's probably just as well.

And with a space game your painted backdrops would be super easy to make.

Well PoE does need a few more portraits....