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What the hey, man? You just started your second playthrough. I'm about 12 hours in and only unlocked my second tower.

PoE is $45 for the base game right now.

I'd recommend Tyranny generally speaking. But Pillars of Eternity is a longer game by many accounts if that's a factor for you.

If you think the entire game is just choosing between the Scarlet Chorus and the Disfavored, then you're jumping to conclusions terribly early.

Confirmation from Paradox that the game should have trading cards: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/why-no-steam-trading-cards.981447/

Either I've encountered a bug or something is poorly explained. One of Siren's songs is simply not available. It's the level 9 defensive song. She's level 10, almost 11. I swear I had it earlier. Checking her talents, it doesn't have the gold border. This stinks because I have her using the defensive tree and have the talents for expanded radius on defensive songs. I think I saw a post about this on the Reddit sub from another player. Edit found it, but his was even worse: https://www.reddit.com/r/TyrannyGame/comments/5cypzf/bugsirins_songs_not_working_correctly/ Already reported on Paradox, seems repro is done: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/bug-sirin-looses-active-songs-when-removed-from-the-party.982399/ Don't drop her from party.

Probably going to be up to their publishers. Paradox isn't much of a box publisher. Though Pillars certainly did have a box edition for Kickstarters. I have mine still in plastic.

Right now I'm feeling like this might be Obsidian's best game. I know I've heard complaints about it being too short, so that might temper it. I really didn't care about the PoE companions, but this lot are simply a lot of fun. Lots of strong personality in this crew. And lots of interesting people to meet and kill when they don't bow to your authority. I gave them a chance!

This is when I knew I was dealing with something special. Also, mild language warning, but it is filtered on these boards.

I actually had to run back and forth between the furthest spots about a dozen times to get it to kill me. It's very generous.

Did you beat it already? How long?

Rabble rabble rabble.

Just noticed no trading cards. I was looking forward to sprucing up my profile with a Tyranny background. Hopefully they'll introduce them later.

Tyranny makes a fantastic first impression. The Conquest sequence is probably the coolest feature I've seen in an RPG. And I'm only saying "probably" because I know someone will point out some game from the 90s I missed with something better.

Still on Nuka World. I've decided the Disciples simply must go. Nisha almost deceives you into thinking she's a fine person, but just looking around their base you can see that they're basically the worst.

If reading detaches from a character, then reading books never would have caught on. A good performance can bring a character to life in amazing ways, but it's not such a requirement. And it has to be good. Mediocre performances do very little for me.

A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a real fun movie. I started Hector and the Search for Happiness hoping it'd be more of the same. Got bored of that one rather fast.

Looks like a higher minimum and lower recommended. Just from looking at what Steam says.

AMA on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c3nkh/we_are_obsidian_entertainment_creators_of_aaa/ Stealing a couple specifically about Tyranny.

New policy. Bethesda did the same for DOOM and Skyrim Remastered. Now, they could also be doing it to hide a turd. The cup game requires you to have multiple cups after all.

Maybe this is what I need to actually start writing seriously again. My stories were never very optimistic.

That's a safe assumption.

Collections people are like salesmen on some truly horrifying drugs. They're really interesting to deal with, for particular values of interesting. Just to be clear, they're not calling for me. But I have had to answer the phone with them calling for both the business I work for and other employees at the company. An all too common tactic is them angrily threatening to call business associates supposedly under the pretense of seeking information. Sometimes by claiming to have contact information for entities that don't even exist. They avoid saying they're doing it to just harass the debtor by getting them in some sort of trouble, because my understanding is that would be illegal. But that's exactly what they're doing. It's the entire reason I've fielded calls directed at other employees of the company. They call saying they want to know "the company's procedures for when they visit and serve papers to the employee." But, despite seeing at least half a dozen of such calls, no employee has ever been served here. The point is entirely to get the company to put pressure on the employee.

It hasn't been 10 years since the last Final Fantasy, has it? Or is XV the continuation of the story that began in the game released 10 years ago? It was announced pretty much at the same time as Final Fantasy XIII. Which went on to have two of its own sequels, then there was another Final Fantasy MMO. So it was announced about 4 games ago. When it was announced, as Final Fantasy versus XIII, it garnered a lot of attention for being developed mostly by Kingdom Hearts and FF VII team members, as well as having a darker tone, action combat, and heavy inspiration from real world locations and the Japanese mafia. This, of course, appealed to the mid-20s me. The game's changed a lot since then, though, especially in the transition from versus XIII to XV, seeming to lose some of the dark and edgy aspect in particular. But I still like what I've seen.