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Ere, when Teclis23 is on the case Valve will be quaking in their boots.

Almost derailed the thread completely there guys. Subverting expectations doesn't = better story Is it not possible to enjoy Dragon Age and Pillars?

I prefer the combat in Deadfire, mainly because in the first game it was over in about 2 seconds and I couldn't really tell what the hell was going on. My guy would run at light speed across the screen even on slow mode. However, Empower isn't all the interesting of a mechanic. Is there even any reason for its existence within the game world?

I kinda like that everything goes to **** in DA2.

I feel like you are my imposter.

Play Overboard for the Playstation 1.

Yep this happened to me the other day. I was pleasantly surprised they put that in.

But that would be interesting or maybe even... fun! That would be proactive instead of reactive. That would allow player to use common sense and see the game react in a way (s)he expected. That would make a player feel smart, accomplished. Perhaps even proud of himself/herself. It wasn't intended to work that way. Designers are pretty much gods while we, players, are mere mortals. A god wants to have absolute control over his creation. And here we had a mere mortals discovering something not intended by gods and also using it. How those mortals dare! Those little, filthy worms. Gods must have felt offended. Thus designers justly punished unruly players by preventing forced movement from working with disengagement attacks. Let this be a lesson to us all. Play the game not how you want, but how designers want. SOZZZZZZZZZ!!! Maybe it was just like the old sack of rats thing in 3rd edition.

That's almost a haiku!

It exists merely as erotic romance fanfic from nerds on here.

I'd just assume people who are into RPG's are more likely to buy a game on GoG as opposed to steam.

Some of the Valian ones are kinda long, what Ydwin starts with? Dusters are more Victorian era aren't they anyway? But they still look pretty good.

After listening to a lot more of the banter. I don't mind it, it's fine. It does its job.

Because of the reasons he just outlined.

I love how passive aggressive this guy is. Good on you lad.

I think it's too easy to enchant weapons and that. Why does our character know how to do it instantly and can do it anywhere? You should have to go out and find a scroll, maybe there's some buried treasure which has the recipe for it. Then you have to take it to some enchanter or have an arcana skill of x to do it. OH WELL it isn't like that so who cares. I assume that it's because you're a watcher, so you can manipulate soul essence. [ I guess, it just feels like a bit of a missed opportunity for exploration.

I think it's too easy to enchant weapons and that. Why does our character know how to do it instantly and can do it anywhere? You should have to go out and find a scroll, maybe there's some buried treasure which has the recipe for it. Then you have to take it to some enchanter or have an arcana skill of x to do it. OH WELL it isn't like that so who cares.

Yeah, I think I've become a little disillusioned with open worlds. They're cool in theory, but a lot of games fill them with essentially empty space, or the world feels empty because the amount people that really talk is low and the amount of response to you and your choices is minimal or nonexistent. If Obsidian could pull something off like Fallout:New Vegas without killing themselves, that'd be amazing. I just wouldn't want them to do it because it's "the thing" to do/because other companies do it. I am completely burned out on these types of games. Give me linearity or give me death!

Yeah fair point, guess some of the choices seem at odds with each other.

Isn't it just for a personal challenge?

Eurgh... So anyway, back on topic. I went and read his PoE review after this, it's notquite as scathing as I was expecting. Anddddd I quite agree with most of the stuff he says there too...! Although I still enjoy the game.

That's a bit over the top surely, the review was quite funny. He's just making it a bit entertaining in the way he wrote it. (I have never been on that site until reading this review)

What is the value of rating something out of 10? How can you quantify the experience of playing a game? The sooner reviewers stop doing this the better. Out of curiosity, how much did you back it for?

' Nearly every companion is a flaming homo who wants a piece of your butt.' Ahahahaha. Okay that really made me crack up. I think it's a reasonably fair review, well I skimmed a lot of it but agree with many of his points.

Yes I find some quite cheesy, they are pretty much all just cracking jokes. Fair enough I guess people really do that. Maybe dialogue containing some more insight into the world or region or whatever could have been interesting. They do this in the Dragon Age games and it's pretty much just cheesy jokes and crap in that. But the voice acting in those games are much higher quality.