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Of course it can be done well, if you develop entirely separate set of mechanics for both real-time and turn-based. Which is not something I'd like Obsidian investing into. Course you won't, and I don't think Obsidian would even consider it. Just saying, though. They already have a working RTwP system at hand to tweak and mold.

I don't quite buy the "it hasn't been done well before, ergo, it cannot be done well" line of thinking.

Fully voiced characters? Absolutely not, even if it was affordable.

If the previous game is anything to go by, I'd feel safe to ask for more skills and opportunities for out-of-combat interactivity and reactivity (NPC's, items, world objects.....) so that the character progression and gameplay consists of more than narrative choices and combat prowess.

If he is, he could spice up his tones a bit. PoE's score wasn't bad, but it was a bit on the generic side.

Would be neat if it was, or had the option. I have a recollection of Tim Cain impliying (in jest, and long ago) something to the effect of being able to convert PoE 1 to being turnbased. They won't be doing it, obviously, but it would be cool if they would, and the game certainly would be worth more to me (and some others).

Yeah, not overly excited no matter who's doing it. We all know where these games tend to be at these days.

Between 30-60 hours is about ideal for me depending on the game type. Some games benefit from shorter length while others from longer, but generally under 30 tends to feel short and over 60 starts to drag on. DX:HR was a bit on the short side with its 20-or so-hour campaign, while with New Vegas (and other similiar games) I start to feel compelled to wrap things up around the 60-hour mark (instinctively, I don't keep track on how long I've played).

Same here. I think lack of voiceacting (or at most very moderate use of it) opens the path to much better characterization through interpretation of the given lines and tone of the conversation.

Read/listen-to 'The Worm Ouroboros' ~if you've not done so before. https://www.amazon.com/Worm-Ouroboros-E-R-Eddison/dp/0345254759/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1478717519&sr=8-3&keywords=worm+ouroboros http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602051h.html https://librivox.org/the-worm-ouroboros-by-e-r-eddison/ *Pre-dates the Hobbit I might check the local library if it has a translated version, this looks to be written in a manner that might be choresome to translate on my own.

Quality of the video aside (I find that matty guy quite annoying to begin with...). MCA retweeting that makes it sound he's not just a bit sour, but actually pissed off big time.

I wouldn't. I've come to tire every time I see something about elves and dwarves and anything even remotely Tolkienic fantasy.

Worth noting that review copies of the game Skyrim Enhanced Edition have been sent out for a week or so, just not to traditional media. Struck me as a bit weird too. Though also inconsequential to my own stance on when and at what price to buy stuff.

Something, anything, that isn't sword'n board medieval/ancient times nor fantasy (high nor low). Please.

Wasn't going to buy Bethesda's games at release or on full price anyway. It's rare that I'd buy any game at full price on release these days.

Bethesda's new "anti-consumer review policy" seems to be stirring some pots in the interwebz.

Think I'd rather he left the Dark Ages and the times around it behind and did something with the industrial revolutions of some 100-200 years ago. I can't get myself interested in yet more sword'n board style of games.

They should. And it needen't even be a Fallout/Wasteland type of "desert & destruction" setting. Which is a damn shame as far as I'm concerned.

Trying to continue Witcher 3... again. Maybe I'll finally end up finishing it, but I gotta say that while the story is pretty well formed (not as interesting as Wticher 2 though), the gameplay is a real chore to slog through.

Outside of the somewhat interesting setting... looks to be a pretty boring combat rolling simulator just like the rest of them.

For some reason Donald reminds me of Greg Stillson from The Dead Zone.

I wouldn't mind an alternative history RPG. Say one that involved a team of time travelers heading back to a specific epoch for some reason. A little advanced technology intermixed with historical realism would make for a more interesting game, I think. A timetravel RPG I wouldn't mind since there's that overlaying theme; say a game similiar to Chrichton's Timeline, how a modern man can take and cope within the past. That'd propably be cool.

It's interesting what kind of a (although pretty small here) ruckus this kind of topic gets. I find the fabrication of belifs aspect rather fresh take in this context. No one would've flinched twice in passing if the set up was a "business as usual" fantasy where gods and deities exist and manifest themselves in various ways and are handled in the narrative as such, or if they were illusive and in the marginal of the narrative but simply assumed to exist by default since there's magic and worshipping of them, nobody would've called it out. But introduce a twist like this one and now it's somehow awful "atheist cliche" and "atheist propaganda". The contrary never happens. How fun. Seems to be a bit too touchy subject even in fiction.

Would it have been better if it was a cheap lump of theistic crap? Nah, I'd take the otherone any day.

I'd buy that for a dollar.