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You're meant to build a labyrinth to house the cheese.

I'm a bit torn on the merits of it. It's great to have another character with a different playstyle to use so I like it in that regard. In a narrative sense though, I dislike the concept of jumping between characters (specifically jumping between them on a linear timescale) because it undermines player agency somewhat when you drop control of a character and they become writer-controlled NPCs for whatever length of time. Y'know, the feeling of after having played Geralt for a while, then switching to Ciri or whoever, talking to Geralt from that alternate perspective and having him respond like an NPC, overall I think there's no non-awkward way of framing such a thing. However if the sequences were done in parallel time, I think they could get away with it - i.e. you play out a gameplay sequence with Geralt then wind back time a little and have a "meanwhile..." segment. For what it's worth it's the same reason I don't support the 'compromise' decision in Kingdom Come where you get to temporarily play a female side-character who interacts with the 'main' player character. Not because it's necessarily a token gesture as such, but because it undermines playing the main character quite a bit when you know who the other character is inside-out when interacting with them. You'd know much of their goals, their history, their personality already, instead of having to discover them through interaction. Ideally there'd be two full-blown, full-time player characters, and you'd have the ability to play the game from beginning to end with each one, completely independent of the other. If they managed to write two entirely different Chapter Twos in the previous game, why not go the whole hog and have two completely separate streams? :D

The one thing that single-handedly ruined SR4 for me was the superpowers, and I was mildly hopeful they'd not reappear in this semi-sequel. Alas, Wikipedia disagrees.

Obviously the best board game to play on a PC would be Jones: In the Fast Lane. Of all the Sierra games getting reborn on Kickstarter, why not this? Whyyyyy?

Bugger, turns out I never requested a GOG key. Probably because I was too indifferent about the game itself, no slight on Brian, just that I don't do the horror genre at all.

Same, but the gloss is coming off for me, and quickly. First few days I was thinking it's a nice improvement since I last played, but my opinion has steadily declined since then to the point of exasperation with WoD's outdoor levelling zones. I've grown to absolutely loathe the new rare mob system which incentivises pointless out-of-the-way hunts just to be able to keep up with enchanting materials, because for the most part that's the only purpose the rare mob system serves. The only reason the similar treasure system isn't quite as bad is because the rewards from it tend towards fluff instead of being almost mandatory to keep up with the enchant economy. Add to this the busywork of manual resource gathering for your garrison: chopping down trees, really? It's notionally optional, but required if you want to make meaningful use of your garrison. Think of microtransactions in F2P games that have to pay for some sort of resource to keep playing the game instead of being forced to endure interminable waits. Garrison resources feel like that. Together, they make levelling the biggest chore that it has been since at least vanilla, and possibly ever. I want to be able to pick and choose where I go, skip quests and areas I find tedious without being punished economically. Being able to choose to do that in the past was pretty much the only form of player agency possible in WoW (an extremely thin veneer of it, granted), but the experience here is the opposite of that, it's more linear, railroaded and "cinematic" than ever. Raids open in about a day - and to be fair that's the thing I play for - it's probably the last chance for WoD to show its value before I give up on it. If not for the possibility of trying out "heroic" (normal) raids with the new flex and cross-server arrangements, I'd have not even considered buying WoD.

I largely see myself as being apolitical, but eh. You are a: Centrist Pro-Government Interventionist Nationalist Libertine Collectivism score: 0% Authoritarianism score: 33% Internationalism score: 17% Tribalism score: 33% Liberalism score: 83% The other test helpfully leads with the message "This is the American quiz. Would you like to take the American Quiz (link to American Quiz)?" Less than halfway through it, I found I didn't understand even half the questions properly, so I aborted.

Couple hours so far of the rather prosaically named Super Smash Bros for Wii U (I guess it saves the confusion of appending an arbitrary word at the end), it only having been released in Australia this past Saturday. It's pretty much as one would expect, incremental improvement. Unfortunately the campaign mode is not available online, local multiplayer only.

It's neither really free nor an apology given it's compensation for a paid product that's not being delivered - from what I can see, no refund is offered.

As an Australian, I used to not care at all about Thanksgiving - it may have been the most important day of the year for some people, but for me, it was Thursday. But then last week, Amazon announced free shipping to Australia (when paying by Amex), so now I get to freely indulge in this wonderful "Black Friday" tradition of yours. So now Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday of all. P.S. I had a KFC Zinger burger on Thursday. That's the closest I'll get to eating turkey.

So in a rather unprecedented move the Assassin's Creed Unity Season Pass has been cancelled. Bloody hell, I knew it was flopping, but to cut and run this early is still rather surprising.

Better yet, try turning Cliff Racers off.

Perhaps he meant to say the Deep Roads was as long as the whole of DA2.

I always buy CD-keys online. I've saved buckets of cash this way. You can find DAI fro about 35 euros right now, whereas it's 59,95 on Origin. In a few months it'll be less than 20, which is when I will probably get it. People have been buying it from the UPlay Ukraine store for the equivalent of $25USD.

Hard pressed to find anyone who remembers (T)ESO was even a thing now.

Think of it not as DRM, but as a Parental Control system to limit the amount of time each day kids can play their video games.

I got to 100 but had no desire to use the LFD tool - I'd quit doing pick-up groups altogether some years back - so it's just kind of a holding pattern while waiting for a critical mass of level 100 guildies to be able to run stuff regularly on our own. One week in and I'm pretty bored to be honest, a lot of the things that led me to quit first time around are largely unchanged. Doesn't help that my guild is still broken into two, the people that transferred to the Oceanic servers during the free migration, and those who either opted not to, or missed out on the free period (which ended literally one minute prior to the WoD launch).

I tried the Keep, hoping it'd be some sort of nicely guided thing with context to potentially allow an reasonable in-character import into DA3 if and when I get around to it. But it didn't really work out, because it gives me all these names that mean nothing to me, like "Nathaniel? Who the hell is Nathaniel?". Then I have to look up a wiki to even make a decision, so the whole thing becomes a fruitless pursuit. Ah well. (For context, I only played about half of DA1 and nothing at all of the expansion and sequel)

It's not even silly MMO bull, just bad UI design in general. Displays today have about four times the display area and ten times more pixels than a comparable one twenty years ago, but most game designers have utterly failed to actually leverage the extra space. MMOs are actually one of the genres most likely to buck the trend, you can have hundreds of buttons in WoW for example, all with individual keybinds if so desired. (Sure, you may need mods to be able to display them all on screen at once, but the necessary UI hooks are there) Obviously there's no real use case for 100 buttons - typically a player might have 30-40 total including utility functions like opening a crafting menu. But I suppose the flexibility is there if an obsessive person might want a separate button to summon a black horse, one to summon a white horse, one to summon a motorcycle, and so forth.

Well with Skyrim at least you could easily change it at any time with the showracemenu console command.

Y'know if a whole game was made with that kind of lighthearted tone, I'd totally be into it. Then I realise it's just another way of expressing my long-held desire for an Oglaf CRPG.

I didn't like DA:O so the more I hear feedback about how DA:I departs from it, the more I'm interested. Still a long way off the point where I'd take the plunge though, at the very least I want to hear the opinions of people I respect after they finish the whole thing. And as I said before, I'm going full-on open spoilers mode, so feed me your best spoilers about key decision points (and key decision points where the game doesn't allow you to make any decisions).

Can't check now because of maintenance obviously, but I either had ridiculously good luck on followers with my "alt" or somewhat bad luck on my "main". (I use quotation marks because both are essentially throwaway characters I'm levelling on a somewhat arbitrary basis) Out of the first nine available in the starting zone, alt got three epics, three rare. Main had one epic, two rare I think. Alt is parked at 92 so no more followers anytime soon, main has picked up just one more epic follower in the following two zones and no more rares.

Might be your hardware throttling due to heat. Yeah. I think I've finally hit the wall, I had trouble with AC: Black Flag too. Time to either enjoy some older games or man up and buy a new system. Or I could buy it for the PS4. Which I own. But that sounds like defeat talking. And I don't want to pay twice for it. Well, yes and no in that it sounds like your "normal" system performance is fine, so it might be just an issue of sorting out the cooling parts, cleaning out dust, applying new thermal paste, etc.

Might be your hardware throttling due to heat.