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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/bethesdas-latest-elder-scrolls-adventure-taken-down-amid-cries-of-plagiarism/

I'll never get the Ultimate, but it's awesome that it exists. 😀

Played a bunch of ESO yesterday and today.

Trying to play Drankensang. Never played before and I suck tremendously.

Jets spent another first round draft pick on d-line. 😓

Treat it like a Bethesda game and mod the crap out of it.

In game content? Definitive edition gives you nothing that you don't already have.

What happened to the good old days when nexus was filled with nothing but nude mods?

I don't get the point about DA2. Origins and Mass Effect also only had an excuse main plot that barely - if at all - bound a few side stories together (and they are really similar. REALLY REALLY similar). That's okay of course because not everything needs a strong main plot. BioWare has always used the basic movie plot structure for all their good games. A movie has to have a centural problem even if that problem is, "I can't relate to my family." BW games always have bigger primary plot points because they make epics (Baldur's Gate 1: stopping Sarevok from starting a war with Amn and ascending to godhood, Baldur's Gate 2: saving Imoen from Irenicus/saving yourself from slayer, Neverwinter Nights: stopping the wailing death from destroying the city then to find all the words of power, KOTOR: find all the pieces of the Star Forge to stop Darth Malak, Mass Effect: stopping the reapers from destroying all sapient life in the galaxy, and Dragon Age Origins: gathering an army to stop the blight from spreading father. There are side stories, but they connect to a main goal. There is no main goal of Dragon Age 2. I've heard people say that protecting your family is the goal, but if it is then the game is even worse because no matter what you do you'll always end up with just your crazy uncle. Others have said that its a mercenary simulator. I wish. The character gets involved in way too many (in game) political fights for this statement to hold water. DA 2 is three acts that don't have a unifying plot thread to connect them into an over arcing story. TLDR: Dragon Age 2 didn't have a main plot.

I'm honestly surprised that EA hasn't liquidated them yet. Looking at their games developed under EA you have Mass Effect 2 (good, but not as good as most people think), Dragon Age 2 (they forgot to add a main plot), Knights of the Old Republic (financial failure), Mass Effect 3 (which is worse than you remember, even without the ending), Dragon Age Inquisition (I like it 'cause it's the only MMO I can play offline ), Mass Effect Andromeda (a failure critically), and Anthem (another poorly received game no matter how well it did financially). They terminated Westwood for fewer screw ups.

Give in and start from one. Trust me.

What is the aversion to the game being online, Im sure there are several reasons but what would your reasons be? I dont have a problem with this type of design strategy but I may be missing something I don't ever want to be forced to have to play with another human being. And if you're not forcing me to play with another human being there is zero rational reason to require the game to always be online. I've only ever played Diablo III on consoles for this reason. It also kills modding which used to be the lifeblood of BioWare games.

Because Epic does not even have a review option, they have literally nothing. It's a vanilla steam and it will takes years to come close to the features what steam allready has, if they even plan to implent them. It won't take years. It took Steam years because its owned by Valve.

I actually like Guy. Find him the least ahole-ish of the professional foodies.

The 7th Guest 25th Anniversary Edition: https://www.gog.com/news/release_the_7th_guest_25th_anniversary_edition

^ Article was updated and the bit about the trailer was refuted.

might also be a generational thing 'cause Gromnir, and most o' our contemporaries, were not needing a push out the door. never even discussed with family as we just assumed that w/i a year o' graduating high school, we would be independent. actual happened sooner as we went away to University and then had summer jobs in california as 'posed to returning back home. woulda' left regardless... join military or go back to working ranches in the dakotas or perhaps do wet work in se asia. we listen to millennials complain 'bout their terrible families, then find out they is 25 and still living at home? HA! Good Fun! That is very much a financial thing. A lot of us Millennial's hit "just after highschool" or "just after college" right in the middle of the big financial collapse in 2008. Add on to that the rent crisis hitting major US urban cities, the cost of tuition, the stagnation of wages, the increased costs of tuition and medical costs, it creates a very different financial environment for people of that age today as compared to thirty years ago. It's not just "leaving home" that's been impacted by this. Millennial's have children later, get married later, buy cars later, buy houses later, etc. All of this can be traced to Millennial's have less money and less secure finances at the same stages of life than prior generations. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/01/13/millennials-falling-behind-boomer-parents/96530338/ (Wrong thread for this discussion, but . . .) Calling BS on this. Grew up a ward of the state, graduated '06, had $150 to my name, immediately moved out of home, and never had to move back in.

I have the new DLC downloaded, but other than multiclassing to the new mastery (oathkeeper), I haven't gotten far enough to actually get into those areas. Like it so far 'cause I'm basically a necromancer Captain America.

I found it pretty early and used it as my alternate weapon for the rest of the game.

They see us rollin'.

I appreciate the honesty, at least.

You forgot that they're both Hydra agents.

Been playing Titian Quest while waiting for Grim Dawn expansion coming out next week. Got to chapter 3 real quick. I feel under leveled. Coincidentally, the last game I finished was Assassin's Creed Odyssey which is also set in classic Greece.

Probably Nosferatu. I imagine it's the most difficult to balance the game around.

Finally, I'm not the only one!