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The problem I had with Beer is he was basically saying "It's because we hyped up your game that it was so successful." Marketing is important, sure, but it'd be interesting to see every other game journalist site continue coverage of Blow and Fish's games, while he upheld his principles. He's basically admitting the lack of integrity of the gaming journalism scene, which is disheartening. On his twitter, he has straight up stated "I would have been happy with no comment" so it is clearly not the lack of information that he received, but he's effectively paying it forward because he felt the response was rude, and as such he should deny information about a game that readers are presumably interested in because he had his feelings hurt. Perhaps Beer "brought it on himself" as well? If there are better indie games that should have been covered, perhaps he should have covered those ones instead.

I have always told people "Only contribute to Kickstarter what you are perfectly comfortable never seeing a return on." Further, only contribute to a Kickstarter that has sufficiently convinced you that the chances of this actually happening are small. I've seen some people talk about how they'll eat conservatively and whatnot, in order to contribute some larger amounts, and while that's their prerogative, I do find it concerning and a relatively high risk play. I have only contributed to 3 things (one of which I actually sort of regret, though I'd likely still purchase the game regardless). Although Total Biscuit is off when he talks about how "you don't support the developer more because you get a discount." In a lot of cases, it's better to get a bit less money earlier than a bit more money later. If preorders were not considered advantageous for developers/publishers, they wouldn't be done.

Given that I'm already pretty indifferent on the difference between 720p and 1080p for basic television, I'm curious how much I'll care. On a computer, my love of resolution is typically associated with the amount of desktop space I get out of it. However, that also requires me to have a large enough monitor to prevent things from getting too small. I actually stayed at 1024x768 even though my monitor could support 1600x1200 for a loooooooong time until I finally got a 19" CRT. I was happy with my 19" CRT for a long time, until work gave me a 24" flatscreen, to which I had to upgrade. Though even at 1024x768, aliasing was rarely something that ever bothered me. It might now (now that I am so used to 1920x1200), but I actually stuck with my CRT for as long as I did because I wanted the flexible resolutions for gaming (since frame rate was significantly more important for me), but I *do* notice obvious image degradation when playing on an LCD's non-native resolution. I imagine non-native resolution becomes less of an issue once the pixels get so small, but I wouldn't be surprised if I experience some level of push back, personally, until I have hardware that can support those resolutions at high frame rates and detail levels. Since I just bought a new computer, this is likely at least 3-4 years out for me.

Tried a replay of the game as a custom character (that is really just a street samurai mostly), although my stupidity had me sell my baseball bat and forget to buy a replacement. I died helping out Paco, but as such don't find myself feeling to motivated to pick up the playthrough again. In general I have noticed myself enjoying "replay" less and less in a lot of games (strategy games excluded), and feel that this one may end up being a "one and done" for me. Not that I didn't enjoy it and feel it was worth the money, because I certainly do on both counts.

Yeah I ended up finding that link. A lot of comments indicate that Beer (and fans in general) may have been giving Fish the gears somewhat throughout the year as well. Sounds like Fish had some controversial opinions regarding things like games out of Japan and the like. I find it interesting, however, that Beer effectively states (in the video anyways) that gaming journalists should skip on "shilling" games from Fish and Blow because they refuse to answer those questions. Not sure that really paints Beer in a much better light, however. It's not what I would expect from gaming journalists, and figure that on some level game journalism got caught up on Fez and Braid because they were high quality games, as opposed to the litany of other independent games that go relatively unnoticed.

How does purposefully pulling a trigger rule out "excusable homicide?"

THat timeline is a bit lacking, unfortunately. Is there an article that is a bit more descriptive of what happened?

At just over 12 hours, I just completed the main campaign. Was good fun

Because in the event of no witnesses, if someone kills someone and can convince others that it was indeed an act of self-defense, SYG applies.

It's easier to hack than other games... >.>

Or you just hacked your achievements!

Swadian Knights for everybody!

I'm well aware of the technical differences. I'm not aware of the cost differences. Are you aware of the cost differences, and any other factors that may have been considered with the choice? Maybe they're reserving the space for OS because it allows them to extend the OS further later in development? (which is impossible if they don't restrict it now).

Unless there is cost-savings in the simplicity of supporting only the single architecture (of which I am wholly incapable of actually answering).

That buyout is wholly unsurprising haha.

I agree G is an odd button, but as an "old school" game, I figured I'd have to jump into "explore the controls" mode I actually just used 'C' (as my hands are on WASD) because it's just one click to inventory, but it is there at least.

This is the answer that I figured you'd give. As such, I'd argue that, if you're getting something out of it (entertainment), it is not a waste of time. Any non-zero amount of time adds up. Especially if I feel a need to discern "is he just venting a legitimate point in an emotional manner?" If it's an entire page (say 15-25 posts) of junk, several minutes probably. Plus the additional risk that I may just not even bother continue reading the thread, completely skipping potentially good feedback. At this point I have abstained from the forum entirely. So while I'm not wasting any of my time with it at the moment, it means that those that actually enjoy interacting with devs have been denied. I liked talking with devs back in the KOTOR days.

I dislike fatalism. Do nothing because we're helpless to stop it. Especially when we see evidence that it can already work. Some person comes onto this forum trash mouthing Obsidian and people speak up about how he's absurd. Moderators edit and remove obstinately trolling posts. I mean, why should they bother... it's not like it's going to make a difference. I've seen this very board basically start mocking a poster that wanted to start thumping on BioWare for silly reasons, and that poster shut his trap. But really, why should those people have bothered speaking up? I mean, it's not like it would have made a difference. Except that it did. This forum is a better place for it too. Commonsense is overstated, and constantly debunked by empiricism time and time again. Arguments are about exerting influence, and always have been. After all, if it was truly pointless, you wouldn't be spending your time in here trying to convince me otherwise. Why do you care? Presumably you're getting something out of it, even if it's just some level of entertainment. I'm not suggesting debating the troll. Though at this point, it's become clear that you don't actually understand my position. I'm not suggesting giving the trolls what they want and actively engaging in a discussion with them. I'm suggesting manning up and indicating to them that their actions are no longer going to be tolerated. One way of doing this is continuing the discussion without responding to them. Other ways are to deliberate state "Your behaviour is not acceptable." I full on made a troll spaz out and leave a thread because I told him "You're being unreasonable, and I have no interest in discussing things further with you." I'm not actively debating him. I full on stated he wasn't worth the time. He left the thread, though occasionally comes back when the topic comes back in, but he's already cemented his reputation in his response to myself and other people. In later threads, people continued to call him on his BS tactics, rather than sittling idly by and doing nothing, or by actively engaging him in the discussion that he wanted. Doing nothing would have been suboptimal. Look at my link in my OP. Is this an example of actively engaging in what the troll wants? What the troll said, and who the troll is is not even acknowledged. It's simply a call out that "This type of behaviour simply isn't acceptable anymore." Tripwire just released a forum wide public message to their forum users stating straight up that being belligerent and attacking other posters is unacceptable, and that they will be far less lenient towards it in the future. When I find myself having to moderate BSN (note: I'm not a moderator for the forums, but I do have to step in from time to time) I do start temp banning people and detail what it was that motivated the ban. Further infractions of a similar variety starts to incur a penalty for aggravating circumstances, because frankly if those people aren't willing to change their behaviour I'm not interested in wasting any more of my time (or other people's time) by having them continue to post. My most common action on this forum, in response to insults or overt trolling, is to click the report button. I'm sure that's just the type of attention that the trolls are seeking though, so in reality I should just do nothing. Because it's fatalistic and never going to go away, right?

Why do you choose to waste your time, then? Developers do, however, waste their time filtering through the filth to get to the meaningful feedback.

My parents tell me that I learned to turn on the old Apple II with no over instruction as well. I didn't do much with it, as I was only 2, but they were impressed.

Best to not just walk around confirming the Dunning-Kruger effect! Especially when there are keyboard shortcuts. 'C' brings up your character sheet, and a 10 second check of every key on the keyboard shows that 'G' brings up your inventory.

'C' will at least pop up your character sheet, so it makes it a bit faster to get to your inventory.

Nope, hacking into the matrix isn't a level transition (it's kinda cool to go into it during combat actually).

Is there a way to "exit combat" when it's clearly not hostile anymore? It's a bit annoying to move individually when I don't see any hostiles nearby.

The reason for that is probably beacause both arms are body parts, so technically when buying an arm you can choose where to put it. Eh, I was still expecting to drag and drop it into the appropriate slot, however.