Night Stalker

No, the GOG.com version is not compatible with the DVD version.

Eh, from what I have seen Bethesda gets a lot more leeway when it comes to bugs than others. Sure, their huge open world games are riddled with bugs, but people just seem to go "Oh Bethesda", and then go on to mod cars into Skyrim.

Source.

I doubt it, Obsidian's reputation for buggy games has yet to abate. Now if it was a game made by Bioware or Bethesda...

Well, it'seems official, Josh mentions in this that they placed the expansion in the middle because of the low number of people who complete the RPGs.

The official word on the 2.0 patches and the expansion.. As for the Abelone novella, it seems like he is chronically over extendeding himself, as he also hadn't delivered the Wasteland 2 novellast (which was turning into a full blown novel last time I heard about it).

Yes. The changes in stealth were part of the 2.0 patch, not a new feature of the expansion.

White March will be more like Tales of the Sword Coast than Throne of Bhaal.

Yes. I cannot possibly see any way Obsidian could profit from this, so why would they? If anything developers try to release their games on different days.

Yes, but you will have to use your save from before the point of no return.

No. Last thing I heard about Unity was that there were no plans to upgrade from the version of Unity they were using to develop it (4.6 I think), to a newer version.

It is still in Beta. Not out yet, will be released on the 25th, and you will have to pay for it (Backers could get it as an add-on, or as a part of a tier).

For what it is worth I agree with you.

The obvious answer is that the bigger and complex the game is, the more time it is going to take. Wasteland 2 started the conversion to Unity 5 some time before the trail end of February (most likely just after release), and it is still going. Of course Wasteland 2 is also being ported to Xbox One and Playstation 4, so that is also eating up some of the time, even with Unity 5 cross platform support. PoE has however far less to gain by switching to Unity 5, so I doubt it will happen - perhaps for the sequel My best bet is that people have gotten used to mods after the recent Fallouts and Elder Scrolls games. Recently there also seems to be a lot of unofficial overhauls UI mods that fixes many of the small niggles (which I guess would be the IE mod in this case).

I am on the side that doesn't mind that the attribute system is more gamey than simulationist, but that has nothing to do with programming, but rather the underlying design decisions. You are right if you mean that as the game is set up, the game, cannot guess that you only want to boost magical might when you put points into it, instead everything connected to it now. However, I so not feel that it is programming that is keeping might from being more than a single attribute. You could design a far more fine-grained attribute system that instead had magical might, physical might, force of personality etc. If necessary these could also have subdivisions (melee/ranged etc), and so on. It would be hard to balance, but it could certainly be implemented.

Your best bet for mods would be http://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity/ . PoE runs on Unity 4, which makes the game hard to mod, and in some cases requires you to shell out a lot of money to get the editor. Unity 5 is far easier to mod for, and the personal edition is free, but it is uncertain that PoE will ever be ported to it. There are no plans from the devs to make a standalone editor, and at best they tried to not make it difficult to mod the game, not to enable it (it was never a core design priority to enable the creation of mods).

Isn't the PoE card game for iPad (and other systems)? No, for now it is a physical tabletop affair. If it becomes popular, who knows? However, Obsidian is involved in making a Pathfinder licensed card game for tablets.

I've seen similar remarks a few times and I don't understand it. Why not just wait until the second part is out? As far as I can tell, the only difference is that now you can play something a bit earlier if you want to. I think it has to, do with a) Obsidian promised a meaty expansion, with none of the modern DLC shenanigans, and then decided to split it up (which feels a bit like modern DLC shenanigans). To hammer the point home, Obsidian hasn't even confirmed if non-backers will have to buy each part of the expansion separately, or they will have to pay once to get the entire expansions (which the old nickel-and-dime DLC strategy). b) Sure, you can make yourself wait, but releasing the expansion in parts sends a signal that it should be played now. It's like exploits in computer games, yes you don't have to use them, but if using them is the optimal strategy, then you are more likely to use them, even if it diminishes the fun of the game. c) Since the expansion has been cut in 2 means that the story and the content of the second part must be cleanly split from the first part, instead of organicly integrated. This could very well not be a problem, but the possibility exists, and that diminished the expansion as a whole. We'll see when the expansion is released.

PoE is not built to be a NWN like game with a robust user toolset, multiplayer (co-op or otherwise), and the ability to make new modules. Many of the design decisions directly goes against the grain of such features, and in my opinion it would be easier to start over if such a game had to be made. Also, the premise of the PoE Kickstarter was for a single player IE like game, which is exactly what PoE is, so I am satisfied with what it is. If you want something akin to the NWN I would suggest you looked into "Sword Coast Legends", which has co-op and an optional GM role.

You might consider doing an update for this news, otherwise people who don't check the forums won't know, and considering that the people who got the discs were some of the people who paid the most...

I concur, the game is perfectly playable at this point.

Got my DVD case today (I am in Denmark).

Got my DVD case today. It was in a boublewrap envelope, perfect condition.

Try tomas.harenstam@paradoxplaza.com (publishing director).

Have you has a look at the new Bard's Tale IV Kickstarter? I assume you found the two Legend of Grimrock games to be to easy. On a more speculative note, you might look into "Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar" (if it indeed ever released out). There is a demo.