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After a 2 minute look, looks interesting, and $10 is certainly a low entry-point. I'll return to it again soon.

Good, now I can be interested about what he does again.

MINOR? MINOR? MINOR? It's like a .gif I can't get out of my head. I didn't mind the JRPG influences, I did wish the spells wouldn't take so bloody long. Same complaint I had for FF.

Wait, so this has started and we're meant to 'move', right? Gonna take a while to 'get into' character...

Manual pause, used to just rest whenever necessary. As I played multiple times, got very good at powergaming, and started installing difficult mods, I also began to impose house rules on resting myself. I also used Ctrl+J and MoveToArea quite often after the first few playthroughs as walking back and forth got boring; recently I've switched back to not using them, as they really end up destroying your sense of place.

Star Wars was cool, but not that cool that I'm going to really care about the constant milking. It'll have to be a good movie on its own right. Hope they revive the Jedi Knight series though.

I don't think we've confirmed that you can just 'sleep it off' and have rest heal all your health. There's likely to be restrictions of some sort. I'm not really fussed about rationalising this, since the gameplay benefits are so clear.

I don't care, whatever you call it I'll get used to it in 5 minutes anwyay.

I'd like to see multiple forms of synergies rather than single dependences of trees. E.g. you may not need Dodge to get Evasion, but if you were to pick both Evasion and Avoid Arrows you would get some kind of synergy bonus. Or a system in which you can pick any feat you like and they stand alone, but say, to become the Dodge Master you need to have learnt any 5 dodge-related feats.

Merged.

I want to, but LP'ing means for every hour of play it's another hour or more to LP, and right now the I have about half an hour of game time a day. I think I can do it in November, once I push off a few articles off my back.

I am playing nothing, and this disturbs me.

Walking/running rarely makes a difference in gameplay, except in something like Thief. All running please.

Bulgogi pizzas, I'll have you know, are very well loved in Korea. You can put bulgogi on anything. I generally go towards organic produce, which is rather unwise on a student budget, but for now I'm a hapless victim of the organic marketing discourse of the times. Sometimes I can tell the difference, but usually...

I'm a reasonably health conscious person and I probably eat better than the statistical average in this country, but I'm far from chewing obscure fruits while jogging and am ignorant about a lot of those things. Meaning that fresh > frozen seems to be a General Rule that does me by OK. Good to know regarding fruit, though. Given I'm also a terrible cook that nevertheless insists on the benefits of homemade meals, tomorrow I'll try and negotiate the easiest way to cook a combination of different coloured things in my fridge. Probably means raw capsicum, boiled beans, boiled eggs and some nuts, or some other ungodly collection. (I can cook some real dishes, but they're mostly Korean.)

Mozart, Dvorak, Brahms at the city orchestra. Impending hurricane meant a nice half-empty theatre. It probably is another sorry testament of the American tastebud that at the grocery store, the place was all out of bread, onions, and then all kinds of frozen and instant foods. Meanwhile, most fruits and vegetables were left unpilfered by the horde.

I'm sure we'll go at least 3 years before sticking with Win7 becomes a real nuisance. I doubt I'll need to care about Win8 before Project Eternity comes out. Am curious as to the consequences for mobiles though. Will Windows Phone now use Win8, and does that provide any superior functionality in any way? E.g. true multitasking?

People, we have enough here to write several dissertations, but sadly, most of it is people talking past each other and then getting blue in the face about it. No, that doesn't apply to just people who disagree with you. Let's try this one more time, since life is all about futile efforts. The moderation policy emphasises civility; we're not so dumb we can't tell what's civil and what's taking the piss. I'd also personally recommend brevity over eternal nitpicking, but what do I know...

Volourn never loses, that is absolutely correct. I loved AP and still go back to it, despite its flaws. One of those games, like Divine Divinity - really unique and although I can see why people might hate it it works just great for me. In fact, man, I want to play it right now.

I vote for a NPC companion which is two talking heads, and one of them will keep saying 'Hot' or 'Cold' every 20 seconds depending on how far you are from your quest objective. The other talking head will just yell 'Are we there yet?' every 15 seconds.

No Windows since '98 has ever been worth upgrading at launch. Half of them were never worth it at all, while the other half didn't have so many benefits that it couldn't wait a couple of service packs.

Numerous people have responded to your concerns, so if you don't respond to them and just talk to the air, then by definition, nobody can persuade you otherwise. *shrug*

I'd agree if they introduced regenerating health and KO-instead-of-death. But they haven't, it's a system that has similarities with both older (e.g. Darklands) and newer games, but with no exact precedent. So it's not a 'modern feature', it's a unique feature. More information will show what kind of user experience it will generate. If the dangers like KO characters getting killed, permadeath, health attrition is real, then it will feel old school. If they screw up the balance and stamina is too big, etc., it will feel modern. My interest, personally, is in how it will actually work. And it sure sounds like it won't play like Mass Effect or whatever. Unless by 'purist' you mean 'everything must be the same', in which case, I plain disagree, and I still play BG every few months. BG2 wasn't the same as BG1, IWD wasn't the same as PST.

Except it's not 'easy mode'. Let's leave that to the other thread, since this is specifically about enemy stamina/HP.

Well that's up to you whether it ends up qualifying as worth buying or not for you. That isn't my problem. I'm saying it's neither a standard HP system, nor is it a regenerating HP / everyone-gets-up crap. We have yet to hear exactly how the things will work. What we do know is that an enemy attack doesn't just deal 50 damage and stamina absorbs it. It might deal 30 stamina and 20 health damage. And health will be much harder to heal than in games like BG, because you won't have 8 heal spells a day. You will for stamina, but not for health. So when your health is low, you can die even if you have high stamina. And then, again unlike in BG, Raise dead doesn't cost a pittance of 200 gold, it's either rare or impossible. If your guy goes to 0 stamina and falls over, you don't say, "who cares", you need to watch out that enemies don't hit them in the face while they're unconscious and kill them permanently. So sure, you can have battles where you survive and your party members get up. But you'll have to have done a good job of making sure they didn't get coup-de-grace'd. And the health damage they suffered in that battle will be difficult to recuperate. So in some ways it's less hardcore, in some ways it's more. Remains to be seen how exactly it will work. (Edit: I'm assuming Expert mode is on. Why wouldn't it be on, if you're looking for 'no nonsense'?)