Wormerine

Next tuesday can't come soon enough with Spelunky2 coming out on PC. Empire of Sin is something I am keeping my eye on, but I need to see more of it. Baldur's Gate3 can my curiosity, of course, but won't be jumping into Early Access most likely. Mostly because I won't be able to run it. Also I am not sure if I would like it. There is Cyberpunk but 1) I need a new PC 2) I actually am not terribly interested for some reason outside it being a CDPR game. Humankind might be interesting, but need to see more.

I vividly remember playing the mess that was Thief reboot - precisely the disappointing dead space that was the brothel level and watching through a peephole two NPC awkwardly humping. I had a realization that some poor slobs had to make it happen. Overall the update looks solid - lots of promising promises. But looking at those spreadsheet of how different PCs can boink and remembering that it's someones job to do that, and figuring out on how all races can boink each other... I don't want that job. It's not customer service bad, but it's bad.

No, be he is no longer involved.

Dishonored RPG!

Assuming Avowed is a Skyrim duplicate - which I never believed it to be. Obsidian gonna be Obsidian. If Avowed Skyrim game in a way Falllout:NV was Fallout3 then I think both will find their own audiences with a healthy overlap. Even so, who knows what Bethesda wants to do - for the last couple titles they have been departing further and further from what I would expect “Bethesda” game to be.

That was... unexpected. I don't know what to think of it. As of: Obsidian vs. Bethesda... I wonder if there will be consequences. Personally, I don't necessarly thing that there is genre overlap - appeal of Fallout3/4 and Fallout:NV are rather different I think... and even so, Ubisoft made a fortune by remaking the same game over and over again anyway. But that's like a big purchase.

Michel Ancel, creator of Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil is leaving video games. Did he watched way too much of SaveAFox in the last 6 months as well?

Empire of Sin is coming out on December 1. Available for pre-order now. Not a fan of multiple packages. 35 pounds sounds fair, but I feel exclusive content pressures me to buy at least the middle one. Meantime, I am still not quite clear on how EoS plays. They started a continues playthrough. Part 1 is out, but it doesn't show anything new so far:

I think there was the only playthrough of BG2 I managed to do without Minsc - it was an evil one. And none of BG1. I am a sucker for continuality so BG1 is always with Imoen, Jaheira/Khalid, Mincs/Dynaheir. I never found MInsc annoying, but he is not my highlight of BG2 either. Still, I could never bring myself to leave him in the dungeon, and he is just too earnestly enthusiastic for me to be able to leave him behind. He might be a simple one, but there is beauty and purity in simplicity.

D:OS2 didn't allow romances between coop partners?

Still more dramatic depth then the entirety of Kingmaker.

Then we most likely wouldn’t have OW.

You assume most players feel that way. While there are always vocal players calling for post-main-campaign expansion, I would be surprised if that was majority of players opinions, considering they have been doing that since New Vegas. Again, there should be “point of no return” save, which should allow you to do all DLCs, then playthrough the endgame and see the impact of this new content on the ending. I for one prefer new in-campaign content, as Obsidian RPGs a ripe for replay - especially one as short as Outer Worlds, though I am not sure if it have enough depth to warrant more then 2 playthroughs unlike PoEs or New Vegas. I get that’s it might not be for you, but I think you will see that many of Obsidian fans value their games for reactivity and replayability. As such DLCs that expand the core journey are valued. Still, I am still somewhat surprised that they don’t allow for playthrough on its own, unless Gorgon content is somehow uses other locations as well (like SSS from PoE2). My advice would be that if you are into “single playthroughs” in the future, just wait until games are as complete as they get. I never buy a game which I don’t intend to replay until it gets GOTY edition, or something like that.

That’s how Obsidian usually does DLCs. I like that, though I will wait for 2nd DLC before doing second playthrough (plus stream release). Is there no “point of no return” save?

Solasta EA out on October 20th. I like those dice animations. Not so much the rest of UI. I find it intrusive, in spite of being minimal.

As I replied on thread that you started - try once the DLC is out.

Devs were pretty open from the start that certain features that they know there is demand for (like 3rd person camera or modding support) won't be possible to add for this relatively small budget, first in the IP, build from the ground up game. Perhaps for the sequel. OW is also build in Unreal Engine, not an inhouse one, and while I know little of modding UE isn't famous from being mod friendly out of the box. As such I would also keep expectations regarding modding take for Avowed - though it is a far bigger Microsoft funded production, so anything is possible at this point.

I checked Epic UK store and no season pass nor DLC are available for pre-purchase. Perhaps try once DLCs are released? Tomorrow I think?

What do you mean? They are unlikely to kickstart anything now when they are owned by a sizable corporation and InXile is a different studio.

Eh, I think it's fair. Alpha Protocol is much easier to like if you are not actively playing it. I have fond memories of this game, but when I played it for the first time before PoE1 release I quit-raged quite a lot.

What game. In case you are not aware, you are posting in a forum unrelated to any specific game.

There is also Outer Worlds which should be re-releasing on steam relatively soon with one of two DLCs out.

Pre-ordering what exactly?

Spelunky 2 received PC release date and it's September 29!

If Obsidian wants to explore aftermath of PoE2 in Avowed, I think this is a perfect place to bring new players in. This is where secrets can be revealed to the whole world, and Avowed protagonist could face the truth by following consequences, rather then learning about Watcher’s journey - in the end while PoE2 set up many things, many storylines did come to a close. Leaden Key’s secret is not to be secret, Eothas completed his journey. Events that led up to aren’t as relevant as the event itself. It could be a good place to invite new players and hopefully they might be interested enough to try older titles. But yeah, I assume it is not called PoE3 for a reason - as far as we know it might have nothing to do with PoE storyline. Whatever it will be, I am not worried about it. Obsidian has never compromised on RPGness of their RPGs. Even their most streamlined RPGs (like Outer Worlds, Tyranny) are still really good.