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"Restaurant Empire". Have to say, it's real fun to run taverns as a RPG player. A chef skilled up some recipe to 100%? Remove it from the carte and add something he's terrible at so that he pumps that skill too. Need to win a soup competition but all my chefs suck at soups? One restaurant sells only the most minmaxed dishes to generate profit as another offers nothing but 2 soups for half a year until the chef gets enough XP to pass, customers complaints be damned -- you will eat your two soups, berks, and you will like them! Anyway. Mayhap I'll run my empire to the corner some day, but so far so good, RPG methods are working.

Anything fighter or barbarian. Dumb brute force dudebros are boring, if I wanted nothing but swing a heavy object back and forth I'd get an axe and go lumberjackin'. Or a broom and clean my apartment. At least I'd get some tangible results from chores and routine that way.

You are right, but there is difference between posts like this: "Hey guys, here be stuff I liked, here be stuff I did not [optional list of whys with opinions and arguments], debates invited" and this: "Oi, your game did not conform to my definition of a good game therefore it is objectively bad! To make it objectively good you must do as I say!" The former is good and there are plenty of good examples of its use on this very forum; the latter reminds me of those flabby couch potatoes sprawled in front of their TVs, beer in one hand, remote in another, postulating on how this coach and that national team like, totally suck and how they would like, totally win that World Cup if only they listened to his invaluable advice, and they should be ridiculed and otherwise weeded out at first opportunity to prevent them from taking valuable space from possible quality discussions.

Somebody needs to make a template for this kind of posts already. Here, lemme lend a hand to you people: Obsidian! These are bad things: † These are good things: ‡ Next time cater to MY tastes! Voila, time saved.

I found a single class priest pretty boring mechanically -- the Priest unfortunately isn't One Man Army like in PoE anymore. Universalist was much more fun but purely because of its Druid side (I ♥ druids). Not that many interactions with Wael either, just on the Wael island, peeking through telescope, maybe something insignificant else, but the bastard doesn't even acknowledge you in conversations you have with gods. Cannot tell anything about Wael's ending though, neither of those two characters broke any oaths.

TGIF!

Perfect. He should really be able to nail the complete lack of emotion that Geralt puts off in the games. He was offered a boatload of munny to play the beige piece of plywood, he played the beige piece of plywood the best and beigest as he could, you cannot fault the man for doing exactly what he was asked to do. As for actual acting chops, he haz them. Watch "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."

This game needs a sequel. I'm fine with mini-games as long as controls are PC friendly. Because those minis + console port controls =

That sh!tsite wants me to turn off adblock, and not in "please consider it" way but "you! shall! not! pass!" way, to which my answer is always "F†ck you", so I'll just link the tweet: https://twitter.com/Obsidian/status/1036747936544083968 Also, screw the modern consoles, I want it on my PC! Like, right now! (OMG I'm so giddy right now)

Wasn't exactly happy when I found out Ice-Pick Lodge got new composer for their Pathologic remake because I liked the old one, but it seems it will be alright.

Nor do they if you do not torrent a game, but do not buy it either. And no matter how hard triple-A greedy corporate types try to brainwash gullible consumers into believing that 1 download = one lost sale, it is not true.

Fix'd Ain't you afraid to piss of a large chunk of this forum's denizens who believe that Baldur's Gate (of Bioware's) is alpha and omega of gaming? Anyway. I wish that this bland derivative shoot'n'looter was out already, so it could flop, EA would do that thing it does and those few creative people that still remain within zombioware would go and join good studios or create their own and start making good games again. Because it's kind of painful to observe this slow agony of once great studio.

Thanks for linking those, liked them, "Landlocked" the most. Also old news, but Rymrgand is a d†ck.

Yeah, I used to read them quite a bit -- their reviews refreshingly stood out in neverending parade of corporation fellatios that pass for reviews in big glossy advertisement-plagued sites, but years ago they were mostly blunt, abrasive and grognardy, none of these qualities are bad per se; an occasional MRA whiner here and there could be ignored. But as of some time comments and forums seem to be dominated by morons who think they're so cleverly fooling everybody with their attempts to disguise public airing of their insecurities as ~*humour*~, and even if authors of reviews aren't from the same ilk it still mars the reading when you know you'll be wanting a shower if you stepped into comments.

Note to self: stock up on popcorn in case if they do upgrade her to full companion but leave out the romanceability.

Yeah, well, dude above -- what with your level of literacy and style, I don't think you are eligible to criticize any writing anywhere, except perhaps on walls in public toilets. See, you do not look acquainted enough with reading to recognize good one even if it donned a tinfoil cap and gave you a lap dance while rapping about gay agenda.

Hey, "pretty alright" is high praise coming from a Codexian, so he must have really loved the game then, flaming homos and all.

They totally are.

The funny thing is, the more you read about history and people, the more less cartoonish Malak appears. Stupid, yes, but not unrealistic anymore. There were enough men that thought burning and killing everything until the other side (ha!) gives up, is a legit tactic. Doesn't make Malaks portrait more interesting, just a more depressing. Oh, glass-the-planet thing isn't cartoonish, but his delivery of, well, everything is. Things like "Mwahahahaha! Lady, imma gonna zap you until you turn eeeeevil! Muahahahahaha!!!" He even literally goes "Mwahahahahaha!!!!" at least once.

KOTOR. Would have given Charname a vocabulary larger than 50 words and make her capable to form sentences longer than four words. Or at least after that spoiledery spoiler thing when she supposedly recovers from the brain damage? Also, out with all the exclamation marks KOTOR's Charname seems to be so fond of. Especially multiple ones. She's brain damaged, not clinically insane. Also, would make Malak a proper villain instead of Saturday morning cartoon one.

Oh it absolutely does. I just took the 7 day subscription thingy for SWTOR for the sole reason of buying the new stronghold and decorating the shoit out of it.

...you know, that's exactly why I dislike princess Leia, what with her always bossing people around like irritated, cranky, too demanding mum. And I am serious.

Well, Concelhaut as Watcher's pet skull seems to sustain himself on candied nuts, shark soup and booze, so mayhaps living soul essence is more a guideline rather than rule. Also, here's hoping we meet and turn him into pet skull again in PoE3.

Now when you can see reactions, it is indeed easy to game him into approval. Thing is...now I don't wanna to. So for any subsequent play-through I'll still stick with my easy going (and easy) dudes Serafen and Tekehu and let Rolleyes seethe in his own sour'n'dour marinate.

I don't normally play RPGs on launch preferring to wait for at least a wave or two of bugfixes so any comparison would be imprecise, but I'd say New Vegas is (still) buggier. But then, a) there are very few bugs that actually piss me off (e.g. CTDs) and I do not even notice cosmetic bugs like clipping and blurry textures unless someone draws my attention to them, b) if I find the game lacking in other departments I naturally notice more bugs about it (e.g. Skyrim) so all things considering Deadfire is fine by me.