Tale

Is it better, worse, or on par with Arkham City? I don't remember Arkham City well. I'm trying to replay the entire series, so I might be able to answer later. My initial impressions is that it feels cheap. Part of that is because it looks like butt (they probably all do compared to Knight) and because I hate this VA for Batman.

Liked Arkham Knight enough that I grabbed Arkham Origins for the complete set. I definitely don't remember the last gen games looking this bad, but that's kind of how the memory goes, isn't it?

It'll be an innkeep, not a merchant. You probably need to buy some cards, not win them. There's more merchants/innkeeps to play than there are cards to win from them. So you shouldn't have to scour to find an unplayed merchant. If they still reward you with nothing, you're short purchased cards (or ones from sidequests).

Number one reason I haven't even played the previous. Okay, number two reason. Number one reason is I don't have a PC that can run it even though I bought it on sale a few years ago.

The Witcher 3 was a fantastic game with more consistency and had a truly great ending. Dragon Age Inquisition was a pretty good game that felt like two games, one open world, one level based, with a badly rushed ending. I still want to know why DAI went with that structure. Nobody does open world games where the main path missions are completely cut off. Did they split duties between studios? Was it the result of a revision in design? Did the story designers not feel comfortable working in the open areas? I swear, games need commentary tracks.

I finished Batman: Arkham Knight. I fully expected to hate the "twist" and the ending. But they're not so bad. The twist is only annoying in a "they said it wasn't this" kind of way. The ending is actually pretty darn good, not fantastic, but good. The 100% ending is comic book dumb, you get used to it. And it would work as a setup for Batman Beyond and that's always good.

It seems they don't feel that the equal protection clause requires a protected class to be valid. And it is seems the opinion of the majority that marriage, same-sex or otherwise, falls somewhere under "the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States," "liberty," or "the equal protection of the laws." If you have to be a protected class to avoid discrimination in marriage, that would be even sillier than the idea that stupid people could be protected against discrimination in applying for jobs.

My understanding is this. 5 Supreme Court judges ruled that prohibiting same-sex marriage denies people equal protection of a fundamental civil right, so is therefore in violation of the 14th amendment. That sounds sensible to me. Why should I then take the word of 4 other Supreme Court judges that try and claim that marriage is only an issue of states? When the Supreme Court has already, in the past, sided that issues of marriage are subject to equal protection? How is this so vastly different from Loving v. Virginia?

Tell me that to my face!

It's a question, but I don't know if it's a truly more important one. No game should survive off the back of dissatisfied customers, regardless of how crucial that practice might have been to the creators. If someone's truly in that situation, well, it's time to start being up front with people. Lots of communication. It won't solve the problem, but people who go in knowing that they're getting something unpolished and have a promise of support will probably be more willing to stick with it than people who feel deceived and only hear about it from the developers after the voices get raised.

I think there's a coin rollover glitch in the game. I had 65k when I looked at one point, then I looked later and had a measly 4k. No explanation for the loss, I guess I just hit a cap and started back at 0. Edit: Looking it up 65k is the trigger. You lose the excess when you load up a save or travel.

Health recovery when using stamina? That's a good one. You can heal by just jumping or casting spells too. I also like the one that improves your total vitality with each kill when just running around. The one that improves defense each time you get hit failed to impress me, though.

And with an easy dip into alchemy you can have two decoctions at once. I had 241 toxicity cap.

Strong attack is overpowered with the one decoction. 10% off the HP of any opponent you fight.

One question: Will this one feature a hundred sacks of bloody limbs in every dungeon heavily implying that 90% of the remaining population are murderous cannibals? This is a serious question, actually. It set a really unsettling tone for Fallout 3. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be in a tongue-in-cheek post apocalypse or a full blown horror game.

Batman: Arkham Knight Sadly, this game isn't going to be able to follow up on my high from The Witcher 3, but few could that aren't from Telltale.

My work e-mail is being spoofed. YAAAAAAY Came into work to see 20+ "undeliverables" I've never sent and growing. Double checked with the ISP, the e-mails are not coming through their servers, so at least I'm not infected. Edit: Now this is interesting, it seems as if the e-mails were all sent around 8:11 AM this morning. That's what the bounce backs all tell me. None since then, just some are slower to send something back. I guess whoever was infected took it offline.

Just finished it. Now that's how you do an ending. I was holding back tears right up until I couldn't anymore. And it wasn't even sad. I don't want to spoil what I got, but why is this so hard for most developers? Make it about the characters and where they've grown into!

I look at that and just get pissed off we didn't get KOTOR 3... Avellone as lead of KOTOR3 after leaving Obsidan? They're resurrecting Battlefront so I don't see why they wouldn't bring back another wildly popular franchise. Because KOTOR is Legend material and no new material for that old continuity is going to be produced. Expansions for TOR seem to be the only exception. Battlefront doesn't have the same issue.

Those quests can reactivate later, FYI. I actually did one of them twice! Once before she left and again later. Fun thing about quest items, after they move from quest to junk, if you sell them to anyone, the original vendor will sell them as a quest item all over again. And by "fun," I mean "this sucks." Because most items this happens with will just get stuck in your quest inventory forever. Witcher gear maps in particular. The statues seem to be an exception in restarting the quest.

Yeah. I wasn't impressed by the videos. The Hoth map looked very linear. The other vid was a bleeding horde mode.

I think I'm nearing the final stretch of Witcher 3. Got Arkham Knight to play starting tomorrow, so hope I get there.

Shadows of Mordor was made by Monolith (of No One Lives Forever and FEAR fame), who are currently owned by Warner Bros. I'm skeptical that they would go to a publisher owned studio.

What do you mean, now?

My memory is really fuzzy. I remember the Carnotosaurus and its camouflage, but I keep thinking that's the Spinosaurus from the third movie.