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Two-handed warriors seem kinda pointless. You're mad. A mix of control, damage, and buffs. Pulling with the chain, devouring dragons with rampage, and doing AoE damage while Solas keeps enemy groups together with Pull of the Abyss. And my 35% damage group buff that I keep up most of the time.

No, the argument's going to be what it has always been. You can't be about ethics in games journalism while celebrating the internet stalking of an iPhone developer and attempting to get a woman fired from a job in game development because of her opinions on female representation. An attempt that was so blatantly ignorant and misguided, it turned out she never had the job in the first place.

I don't think a more loyal adaption to the book could have been done well with only 1 movie, anyway. Two modest length movies would work. But the tone is definitely one of the problems it has, mixing being kids movies with LOTR style fantasy epics.

If your melee isn't specced specifically for defense, which it won't be if it's not sword/shield and Vanguard, it needs to be actively controlled to survive. Dodge is important. This is why I respecced Bull to ss even though I only used him for one mission.

Dabbling in two styles? In DAI? Ewwwwwwww. That wasn't a good idea in previous games. It's a terrible idea in this one. I heard daggers was pretty good, though, just hard to keep alive.

I hear Guardian of Light is good. And there's a Raziel/Kain skin! Last Remnant is notworthy too. I own them but never got around to playing before my computer died.

Battle of the Five Armies There's a good movie in there somewhere, it just needs the bad movie to be cut out. I've excused the love subplot in the last movie, but there's no excuses anymore. It's not subtle, they beat you in the face with it repeatedly. The weasely guy from Laketown does nothing but provide bad comedy. The Dol Guldur plot which is the big addition to the Hobbit tale ends right after the film begins and is completely irrelevant to the rest of it. The only good thing about the Dol Guldur arc is finally seeing Saruman, Galadriel, and Elrond fight. There needs to be a fan edit of this trilogy. Radagast can pretty much be cut completely from the film. There's only two places he's contributing, when he tries to distract the orcs from the Dwarves and fails (can be cut completely) and when he helps Gandalf escape from Dol Guldur. But if Dol Guldur gets cut, there's not even a loss there. I don't mind Tauriel, but the love subplot needs to go. And with this movie, that's her entire role in the plot. But since she saves Killi in the second film, whose illness explains why several dwarves stay behind, she will need to be established, but then trimmed heavily. Some of the heavier action scenes can be trimmed down. Escape from Goblin town needs to be half as long to a third the length. Bombur's barrel action scene can be cut, too, but probably not necessary. Dol Guldur needs to be trimmed if not cut out entirely. Giving a reason why Gandalf just before Mirkwood is nice, but doesn't play into the main plot enough. To be positive, I loved Azog in this movie. He was unimpressive as a Warg Rider, but he's cool as a general. Thorin, Bard, and Bilbo all shine.

I found a dupe bug for crafting materials. It requires a stack, 2 minimum, so I spent two hours farming fade-touched silverite. I don't actually need more than two pieces, one for me, one for Blackwall, since it can't stack between weapon and armor, but it's nice to have extras. Especially if I decide to start playing the critical crafting lotto.

This is from Remember Me devs? Maybe this change is for the best, then. That game had such exciting potential and this one seems to as well. Hopefully they can find something that works with their talents better than it did.

Killed the Vinsomer by dropping my level 3 focus abilities on its head and might offense potions. It died before I knew it. Then killed the Hivernal the normal boring way. Enough Dragon bone that I just need to get some Fade Touched Silverite and I'll build myself the last sword I'll ever need.

If you have done all you want of Hinterlands and Storm Coast, I suggest picking up quest Varric clues you in on. That'll take you to Crestwood and Western Approach at least. You can decide what to do next from there.

It is hard to keep people engaged in things that are not action packed, I think that the indies are the ones that have embraced the genre in a way that isn't violent. I think we can have action packed and still at least try. Zone of the Enders 2 tried a bit. Metal Gear Solid 2 could be argued to as well. Deus Ex. I think what Deus Ex 2 tried with the ending is worth appreciating. So I've kind of proven my "nobody" wrong. Let's modify that to "nobody right now" and certainly "not enough."

Two Steps From Hell I could link them almost all day.

16? In earlier areas it's like 8. When I hit Emprise if there's a Wraith wave there's lots of numbers, easily in that range, but if it's Greater Terrors, there's only 3 per wave. I think I got a 2xPride + 1 Rage once, too. Wraith waves are the most dangerous in the game. This is true of all ranged attackers really, but wraith especially. They're immune to the chain! If you can't get them all in one spot, it's hard for the tank to control. So they'll just be picking off the party.

Playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, but the Shadow of Mordor DLC is supposed to come out today and I might take a break for that. On the other hand, I am almost done with my first playthrough of DAI...

Genres tend to fall in and out of favor, having a big hit is a factor in this. It wasn't long ago that you couldn't get a horror novel published unless you were Stephen King. You don't want to know what novel broke that trend and got publishers to start buying again. That's why it's important to keep an eye on the market and have a diverse portfolio. You can't afford to bank on being the one to break the trend, but once it does break, if it's in your wheelhouse, you need to be ready.

When games start doing science fiction that's not military space opera, I'll see this as a possibility. Nobody's going for the high ideas of science fiction in the game space. We're getting dogfights and shooting evil aliens. Games still have a way to mature and diversify.

Because I'm not inclined to believe the narrative you have conjured up where games journalists are exclusively responsible for all the things you dislike in gaming. Sometimes a company simply does things people don't approve of for their own reasons. Sometimes they're listening to an audience that's not you. It's a complex matter that doesn't boil down to your ridiculous bugbears. Valve itself has been a fairly upstanding company and if they state a reason, there's no reason to start second guessing them just to make the entire world fit in your little box.

Why is it impossible for Valve to deny something simply because they don't want it on Steam?

I hope you're not seriously comparing a Bioware romance scene to youporn. People other than you are capable of having their own opinions. This includes Valve.

They just did exactly that. The game ranked #7 was banned and it was done in anticipation of bad press. The game was ranked #7 by people who'd never played it. And it was banned because Valve themselves chose to do it, by their own statements, not because of press.

The question looks daft to those of us not indulging in the "skeleton journalists are controlling popular opinion" conspiracies.

Netflix doesn't have greenlight. Human Centipede 2 is distributed by IFC in the US, which is owned by AMC. If Hatred had a publisher, then it would probably be a different situation. After Hatred releases and if it gets positive reception, I'd expect them to change their stance. Subject matter or not.

People have been complaining about the lack of curation for quite a while. It's a pretty common annoyance with Greenlight. I'd be surprised if there was an outlet that hadn't covered it already. TB talks about it constantly.

Guardians of the Galaxy is what I felt Avengers should have been. They grow as a team!