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Oh! Ooooh! Are we showing MMO alts? I have a lot of them in SWTOR! Here's a selection:

First, Deadfire. Second, I always feel like I'm communicating with a sentient being from the parallel dimension whenever someone puts Kingmaker's writing over, well, anything of Obsidian's (or Troika's, Bioware's and even that janitor's who writes for Bethesda). Because...how? It is blandly adequate at its best and at its worst (looking at you, Ophelia and Ragnarok) it's like written by someone who never actually bothered to read anything in the first place. Also Tekehu has plenty of development, Serafen is , even somewhat bland Maia has more personality than all P:K's cardboard cutouts stashed together, the NPCs are, like, from entirely different league (like, Atsura or Tayn versus This Whatsisname Cleric and That Dude With a Sword), the gods are better, the paladins are incomparably better, fight me irl.

I see what you slipped in here Anyway, I agree with most stuff you wrote, especially about cities -- for me is not a proper RPG without a city. Dungeons, eh, you saw one, you saw'em all, but cities are where's fun at. But yeah, the game has certain charm and me going for a replay despite of bland setting, bad to meh writing and assorted annoyances is a testament to that. Also, playing as a spellcaster is not much fun -- the setting seems to be inhabited by oddly willful (even the mangiest flea ridden wolf can dodge spells like a professional demilich ) but somewhat clumsy creatures so eventually all my casting was mostly mass freedom of movement and plop Webs everywhere. But guess what those suckers cannot dodge? Bombs. And what's better than a bomber in a party? Two bombers in a party! So yeah, grenadier is fun and so is being Lawful Evil -- plus I got better town music and design, complete with the gibbet (empty so far, here's hoping to remedy that). I don't think I'll finish the run proper though, different ending slides isn't worthy to suffer through the House again. And I can always go with my headcannon, where Charname and Jubilost clean out kingdom's treasury before leaving that swampy arse of the world to have adventures in more exciting places.

Owlcat's forums is a dry desert with an occasional tumbleweed of some insubstantial post lazily tumbling past at infrequent intervals, and its wiki is a graveyard of abandoned stubs. It's telling when the most substantial information on the game can be found of Reddit of all places. That ability can be very well bugged because why not, a lot of other things are. My own most fun thing to use were Jubiliost's bombs, that guy was such a mean little murder machine. I loved bombs so much I'm thinking on building me a Grenadier. Will name him Guvnor and make him Lawful Evil because I really want to do mean things to everyone* and everything in the game. *(except Jubilost, he's alright)

Disclaimer: not to tell professionals of their field how to do marketing here, just an observation (with a dash of "O, tempora! O, mores!") Indie title from two-dev team "Dawn of Man" hit #1 on Steam and they attribute their success largely to influence of Youtubers. There is also Frictional Games of "Soma" and "Amnesia" fame. Soma, while being arguably a better game -- smarter, more polished -- did not sell as well as "Amnesia", which again was very popular among youtubers. ...I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I loathe the fact that something as obnoxious as Pewdiepie can influence what sells and what not. On the other hand, the horde of insipid lemmings that worship these harbingers of Idiocracy do not deserve to have money and making them part with it benefits whole civilization so they can -- and must be exploited without remorse.

Bought "Dawn on Man". Theoretically, I love zen city/civ builders. Practically, I fiddle with them for half a hour, get bored and go play some RPG again. And again. And again...

I sneaked past mean librarians in Forgotten Sanctum just fine with crackers. Took some trial and error and savescumming, as I never really used them before plus my Explosives was rubbish and Stealth mediocre, but it got the job done. Also, kinda half-wishing for Something Awful's paid userpic system now, Skull McHorns deserves more fitting avatar:

Sixties have all the best muzik indeed. Here's French lady singing about eternal rivalry between two football clubs (I think):

I'm playing "Masquerada: Songs and Shadows". It's kind of well written, colourful adventure game with turn-based combo-centered combat in very beautiful setting and with superb cast of VAs, including commander Shepard and our own* Matt Mercer. Reaffirms the importance of good voice acting in story and character heavy game. * Eder and Aloth is way more quintessential part of PoE for me than, say, soul recycling or **** constructs serving as gods.

You're not snobby enough, there are people out there who deem Cradle of Filth or Dimmu Borgir pop. Aaaanyway, I discovered Hammerfall when my snobbishness was already in decline, so I like quite a lot of their stuff. Like, this cover is truly great:

Uh, please don't tell me that's still going? I was a (bigger) fan of the DM of the Rings series that it apes, but I followed D&D for probably a year or so when it first started before I realized that I simply like reading and watching stuff in a big chunk rather than piecemeal weekly and decided I'd wait a few years before coming back...and I never did. It's been many years now. It's still going. Although they're bidding their time right now until the current trilogy is complete and post fluff once a week. As for fanfictional scientist, he might look into the curious phenomena of nothing f†cking changing throughout ages upon ages in that universe, ever. Seriously, everything -- guns, aircraft, fashion, British accents on Imperials -- is the same for Old and New Republic. And Empire.

Do you have any mods or unity mod manager installed? I read that modded game saves break after every patch, so you should uninstall them before patching and reinstall again. If not, the no ideas save for game reinstall.

Challenge accepted.

Yeah dude, do that edit. I clicked the thread expecting rowdy pirate shanty a la "15 men on the dead man's chest" or murdery rhyme like "10 little indians". It's mean to disappoint people like that.

And here I am, v. appreciative to POE for allowing me to give gods a piece of my mind and fuming at my inability to even side-eye those vapid twits of goddesses that foisted their will upon my Charname in P:K. Plus, not only you cannot play someone with a sense of humour (unless it's puns) in P:K at all, you cannot even play someone with a vocabulary larger than 50 words. So until some genius mashes two games together, the only thing we can do is enjoy the aspect of each game that we like rather than are annoyed at. (Or maybe I should try the game in Russian since you say the fault is in translation and I'm fluent anyway) As for that modern american thing (which isn't really exclusive to Americans), I'm afraid that the game with characters who go, like, "To the kitchen with you, females!" or "We elves are the master race, bow before us, you lowly inferior filth!" might draw wrong kind of attention and then it can be pain in the ass to explain you were just "exploring themes and topics". (And yet, Obz sneaked Durance in )

"Passionate" or "aggressive" -- unlike, say, "lawful" and "good", are not loaded, judgmental words and -- at least in me -- provoke different level of reaction. Like, if I do something I think is mellow and see that the game slapped the "passionate" label on that action, I just shrug and dismiss it as the writer and me having different ideas about passion, which is OK because emotions are highly personalized. But if I murder a bunch of civilians because their goddess is evulz, oh noez!!! -- then how the f†ck I am good? "Maya eagerly helps you clean Ruatai headquarters after refusing their quest and never notices it even happened" actually stands out because Deadfire's companions were usually vocal, opinionated and not shy to offer their input about current situation, while in P:K it was like travelling with a group of soulless mannequins who never reacted to anything save for an occasional inconsequential bark. Also, I don't remember "weird dwarf" sequence being that overloaded with needless adjectives; as for "rictus grin" -- "weird words" <> "purple prose".

It's not the pulpy-trashy feel that I find awful, it's this clumsy-bizarre way to form sentences I've only encountered in bad fanfiction, never in professional prose. You know -- "The half-elf giggled prettily as the half-orc crammed his tongue into blushing prettyboy cleric's ear while the snarky gnome tutted disapprovingly and the dark-haired barbarian guffawed rudely". Thanks, game, I memorized that she's a half-elf after your first five uses of her race for description, what's wrong with just 'she' or Olivia...pardon, Octavia. See, game? if you weren't so weirdly averse to proper nouns and pronouns it would be easier for me to remember her and her bf Reginald's names. Also, "verbed adjectively" must be used verily sparingly because if overused extensively it sucks terribly.

I had Tsanna as an advisor and Lamashtu worshipers too -- plus my very own cult, complete with the statue of Nok and me. I also had a pub, a dance hall and a brothel built in every town and goblin and kobold quarters wherever I could put them. All things considered I am very proud of my cosmopolitan, accepting and most of all fun kingdom.

I cannot do a viable comparison -- played PoE with WM as one game -- huge advantage over disjointed bits of Deadfire's DLC (played with non bluffy, not talky Charnames to boot), but then I liked everything about Deadfire better. Still, WM brings back v. fond memories -- leaving the doom and gloom world and finding out that new one is even doomier and gloomier; getting my as$ handed out to me by goons assaulting Concelhaut's home; eerie music; that utter horrible as$hole of Bleak Walker; those little stun-happy Lagufaeth as$holes; Zahua; Vithracks (hope they return for hyphotetical PoE3). Devil's dungeon and tunnels under Dwarf Fortress were a little too long, too tedious and the ending crawl could have had a little less hammerhead monstrosities, but it did not spoil the impression. I would even say I liked WM a bit more than the main game, on account of being a bit weirder, less traditional fantasy. And, of course, gloomier. Deadfire, I loved the main campaign much more than any of DLC, but from those Forgotten Sanctum was the best. Loved characters v. much: Tayn (and of course Aloth hated him), Bekarna was such a lovable dork, got to know Fassina better and found out she's cool, the main game's regulars had a nice quip or two as well; loved environments; loved how I couldn't zerg boss fights anymore and actually had to think what abilities of my highly unoptimized party to use; loved having to use stealth; loved messing with books of blind librarians, loved befriending mushrooms, did not love having to murder a family of bears. Again. SSS would be the second -- I love when I can solve stuff in RPGs without resorting to murder and so always go for this option, but then it has unfortunate consequence of me having a ton of most interesting murder tools in my possession but no murderables to try them on. SSS rectified that (although I'd prefer if it did it without trying to fry my PC during those big fights with many critters and special effects). Beast of Winter's would be the least liked then (but still liked). I don't care for the god stuff much and all the backtracking between different realms/different times was annoying, so was fighting those dudes on the bridge, so was trying to beat up that titanium undead dragon in the end; liked Vatnir and being lippy to Rymrgand. Did not care AT ALL for having to murder Papa and Mama bears and steal their orphaned cub. What the hell Obz, what ever bears did to you?

My guess would be Jubilost and...and...and I got nothing.

What is high tea, anyway? Something you get by pouring boiling water on dried cannabis leaves, goes well with hash brownies? Also I don't get why Brits are so snobby about their tea traditions when they always commit disgusting atrocity of ruining it with milk.

Oh! I had a cat related dream too last night - I dreamed that I had a lion summon who regularly switched through the cycle of life, so I'd have a tiny cuddly wee lion cub who'd grow into playful young lioness and then mighty mean old lioness and then cuddly cub again. I can do my own dream interpretation though, which would be -- I play too many videogames.

To be fair Jhod called him an idiot ... Alas, Jhod was dead in my game, because I decided "Screw the city, I'm going to disable the spawner first" and when I came back the city was indeed screwed. But Tristian got his comeuppance in the House Of Annoyance and Lazy Design so at least that's that.