Tale

I would recommend the Wadjet Eye games like the Blackwell games, Gemini Rue, and Resonance if old school style p&c mystery adventure is what you're looking for. Gray Matter, while not Jane Jensen's best game, is a good mystery p&c too. I'm playing through the Blackwell games really enjoying them. Gemini Rue and Resonance were pretty good, too. Gray Matter I did not like.

Just finished The Last of US. It's still going through the credits. It was superb and I highly recommend it to anyone interested.

Has anyone seen these fan mockups of colored PS4s? http://i.imgur.com/6F2vzMV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/oGgVowl.jpg This is going to be a missed opportunity if Sony doesn't pay attention.

Oh, I see. I thought "remove" as opposed to "steal/borrow."

Is this something actually happening? Either way I think I need more context.

I'm sad that SRIV is requiring DX 11, despite III working fine with XP. Guess I'll be buying it on a console.

It's fake. He does run FAKKU, but that twitter post never happened.

I don't think they'd appreciate you sacrificing children or posting nude pictures on their forum, either.

It stands to reason that the people most adversely affected by microtransactions are those who lack impulse control and buy into them. Followed by those who have the ideological opposition to microtrans. But "stands to reason" is kind of like "sounds good on paper."

That's what Jesse Schell said at DICE 2013. Skip to 10 minutes if you just want that.

Full game trials are something PS+ has. However with the problem of demos reducing sales more often than improving them I'm skeptical of them keeping it. But if implemented, I disagree with limiting it based on friends and family. I'm kind of in a position where I would be okay with losing resale if publishers stopped pushing impulse buys, pre-orders, and hype, and started giving out better demos. If we're going to move into "games as a service" era, we kind of have to get into a spot where bad service means the customer doesn't pay as much, if at all. The good and the bad.

An unsubstantiated leak is saying it never worked that way. It was just a 30-45 minute full game trial. A comment from cboat (a poster notorious for accurate leaks on neogaf) implies it was a 60 minute trial.

I'll agree and disagree. The changes they made to party and character control were clearly concessions to improve the console experience. The changes to character creation and dialogue were about following the same philosophy that guides Mass Effect.

Yup, I grabbed it on Steam just in case. It seems like Atari might be having a tiff with Beamdog. It's possible it's Hasbro. Developers confirmed it wasn't EA.

It's like a bad breakup. It's an emotional base, not a rational one.

In BSN? I can understand it here or in Witcher forums or RPGCodex, but Bioware's own forum isn't supposed to be Bioware fans? Who do you think would be most disappointed with Bioware's recent titles if not their fans? The ones with the greatest hope are often those hit the hardest by bitter disappointment.

I've seen the criticism against Morrigan's new look, and he's not wrong. He's not entirely right either. It's not just misogyny, there's just a general pettiness out there towards anything Bioware. Misogyny is just a common tool in that particular box. There's not a lot of good signal to read in that feedback. Full disclaimer: I actually like the look. So I may be biased.

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/microsoft-to-pull-complete-reversal-on-xbox-one-dr/1100-4673/ Giantbomb is reporting that Microsoft is reversing their DRM plans. I'm glad to hear this. It'll give them a better ability to compete this coming generation. Edit: Oh, that Game Informer article is talking about the Giantbomb report.

Only Tales I've played was Vesperia. It was a solid game, but not enough that I'm willing to put off my backlog for further titles.

No real playtime today, just messing around in the already beaten Antichamber. I'm looking at my plate for the forseeable future. Currently doing The Last of Us, then have Shadow Hearts: Covenant, and Deadly Premonition. Shadowrun Returns will probably be out before I finish all three. This was supposed to be the year I made progress on my backlog...

I bought Antichamber on an impulse and used that as my break from Last of Us for yesterday. Ended up playing it until 1:30 AM. I think that's a positive feeling. Sadly, I did beat it in those 5 hours.

The Last of Us. I've never been good with tense games, so I had to take a break after a few hours to read a book. It's fantastic.

Found out I arranged the wrong return flight for my boss next week. And by "wrong" I mean "the week after next." And I did this on Tuesday, so it's too late for a cancellation. Doing a change would actually cost more than doing a new reservation just for the return. QQ

Finished Penny-Arcade 4. It seems to have forgotten to be funny towards the end. I still liked it, it just may be the weakest installment.

I think this is, from my subjective point of view, the most accurate review I've seen of the game. I think I remember a great deal of the game. Especially the third act. And that's the part preventing me from even trying a replay.