Starwars

So sad about this. Discworld has had a huge impact on my life. RIP.

Looking very good, the start of it sure was a downer though. Looking forward to the whole thing!

Resurrection also presents story problems (well, all matter of magic tend to do this but Resurrection much more so).

The Alpha Protocol drinking game presentation is still the best one!

Was a long time since I listened to that one. Yeah, that is really nice and I do hope it's still in the game in one form or the other. I love the opening with the harp and chimes especially. Soft and mysterious. They haven't revealed much of the soundtrack. Sensuki ripped a few tracks from one of the earlier backer betas but I'm guessing those were not finished as of yet. No idea if they're gonna be in the game and in what state. I'm guessing at least some of those are live orchestrated now, as the main theme is (was only for the latest backer beta we got the orchestra version, earlier it was synthesized one). The music that's actually in the backer beta is pretty soft, background stuff and not really driven by melody (which some people don't like, personally I like this approach). I think there will be bigger moments in the final game, and more melody stuff. Unfortunately the music has been borked for the last few backer betas but I love the Inn music. Simple, classic guitar does wonders for the atmosphere I think. There will be about one hour of orchestral music on the soundtrack according to a dev I PMd about it. Well, as far as he could remember.

Come on BAdler, we're all crack-addicts waiting for our next fix here!

They abandoned with because it was a huge amount of work to make it work properly I think (there was some discussion a while back on the issue). I seem to recall them mentioning that they want to try and do it again for future project.

Playing Crusader Kings 2, holy crap, this game is addictive...

Agreed. They've said they're gonna look into more audio sliders after release but I would kill for a toggle to have a silent party-leader at least. The constant "OK, alright, fine, mhm, indeed" and so forth is gonna drive me insane.

Would sure be great to have an update before the weekend!

I wouldn't mind another kickstarter, but I do hope it will be like for Shadowrun Hong Kong or Divinity Original Sin in that case. That PoE will earn enough that OEI will be able to fun the sequel themselves and then, if need be, they can turn to kickstarter to get funding for the "stretch goals" that fell out of their original budget. I would happily pledge for a PoE2, though perhaps not the amount I put into this one.

Just got into Crusader Kings II and yeah... I am hooked pretty badly I must say.

I can't stand the FEARs after the first one. I think they completely lost track of what made the first one good. They just feel like cheap imitations.

Wasn't very interested in this initially but may give it a go eventually if my piece of crap computer can handle it.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1114977637/detective-di-the-silk-rose-murders New retro-looking adventure game set in in ancient China. This one looks pretty promising, with some cool gameplay elements to it. Hope it makes it! I'm in for the early bird.

Would be great to have some news on this!

First off, the game is not currently finished, the second and final half is supposed to be in beta now and will be released soon-ish. So regardless, I'd probably wait until that one is released. The main pull of the first half of the game was definitely the story. I thought that was very well done and while it looks "cutesy" and is very humorous, there is a dark side to the story as well. I really enjoyed that. Also, I think the game looks beautiful. Apart from that, I agree with the reviews that you brought up there. The first half is very short, and it is very easy. Doublefine is saying that the second half will be longer and more difficult as well and I can only hope they make good on that promise. If I were in your seat, I'd wait until the second half is released and see what people has to say then.

Playing Crusader Kings 2 with a bunch of the DLC. Took a while to get going (claims, titles and such still kinda confuse me and screw me over because I apparently missed something) but now I'm into it. It's pretty fun, certainly extremely addictive. Think I was hoping for something more though, not sure what I feel is missing. It feels a bit silly. I guess that's part of the fun, to screw around in a sandbox. But I dunno, kinda wish there would've been more "weight" behind certain things. Can't quite explain it. The UI also confuses me to no end. I had betrothed two characters and once they could get married, there is a little alert allowing you to marry them. I had accidentally clicked this away and it turns out that there was no way to marry the two betrothed characters through any other part of the UI (that I could find anyways). After looking on the internet, turns out the only solution was to activate "hidden messages" through a rather obscurce and hard to find option buried in the UI somewhere. Just a small example of how bad the UI is in certain instances, there really should be more ways to access such a thing as marrying two betrothed characters than only having the alert.

I like the box art, and I like that particular painting. But yeah, it does seem weird to use it considering that Cadegund (and Forton?) aren't in the game at the moment. Then again, doesn't really matter much and most people won't really care about that.

Arcanum is one of my favorite games but there isn't much that PoE would stand to learn from it in my opinion unless you were to completely redesign the game into something more similar. Anyways, would certainly like to see more of the meeting videos. I also found it interesting.

Angry Joe, ugh...

It's a terrible interview. I would never give my money to Molyneaux but it's very easy to be all "tough journalist" against a down and out developer who's now more or less a laughing stock of the industry. It's click-bait by RPS. How about trying for some real journalism, go after the bigger companies, the publishers and such? Not so easy when they might pull their ad-money I guess. Urgh. Molyneaux is about the easiest target in the world. But yeah, now RPS can get some points for being "hard-hitting journalists". It's pathetic really. About kickstarter, I think one should always be aware of that you're giving money to something uncertain. You're not purchasing or pre-ordering. It's a risk. And while I certainly think devs should be accountable (of course they should be), there is also a great deal of self-awareness there. You should be careful with your money, you should be aware that it's a possibilty that things might not work out, that things may change, etc. You shoulder consider carefully before dropping money into a promise. You're not going to exactly the game that's in your thoughts when you're viewing the pitch.

Like it's been mentioned, it's not about having some sort of "you must have played THESE games to be a tr00 gamer!" list. It's about having a sense of history at all, to not have people automatically dismiss everything before a certain time as "outdated". A friend of mine was pretty much exactly like this, but I eventually forced him to play Darklands. And what do you know? He actually enjoyed himself a lot once he got over that initial "bump" of time investment (which is IMO not nearly as big as people make it out to be with a lot of older games). And he could recognize that there's a lot of things in Darklands which are simply not done in today's gaming and that could actually be really relevant or fun to bring back. Sure, he still prefers many modern games but that's not really the point. I had a similar experience with Realms of Arkania: Star Trail. Hadn't played it back in the day, played it about 2 years ago and was blown away by certain aspects of it. Again, the point isn't to create some sort of elitism (though that's unavoidable), it's just that there's rather a rich history of gaming which seems to be just be outright dismissed as soon as it passes a certain age. I think one should value and treasure it instead because there's a wealth of innovative ideas there, some of which are really cool. Kinda reminds me of the recent talk of the IE games and how the devs mention that the publisher suddenly said there was no market for them, despite the games being succcesful. And again, regarding journalism, I think it should damn well be expected that the journalists know where games came from, that they're aware of the history, that they have played a wealth of them. Knowledge is good. It's expected in film, in art, in music etc. It should be in gaming as well.

That's some journalism right there!