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As far as I can remember, raiders started attacking my locations *after* I increased the defense. Before that, nobody ever cared to bother me with "defend the town!" stuff. But the game doesn't even have skills.

This reminds me of the one short story... I forgot where it was, but wine and stuff was mentioned as well. Geralt and Dandelion were together in it as well. Damn, have to re-read all the stuff again. I forgot too much. /Edit: Not the short stories, but "Die Dame vom See" / Pani jeziora, no idea what the english title is. The screenshot names are giving it away: Toussaint and the castle Beauclair. Cool.

DoW1 and first add on don't have widescreen support. :/ They look really ugly nowadays. Dunno if someone ever made a patch for that.

There is no hidden time limit in Fo1 (nor 2). The mutant invasions got patched out right after release. If you mean the 13 years limit, that's an engine limitation which was workarounded with a kinda dirty hack years later. Even though, if you can't finish everything in the game in less than one or two ingame years, you are a seriously inefficient player.

Well, I would be happy already if they'd scap the ugly skirmish-fight campaign system they started to use after winter assault. Also I want imperials and not lame space Marines.

And yet people will buy it. Probably each part at fullprice. Good way to squeeze more monis out of it.

I just remembered... didn't Notch offered 2 million to Schafer for Psychonauts 2 and then Schafer said it requires at least 30 million? /edit: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/05/notch-no-longer-involved-in-psychonauts-2-funding/

That's actually very smart. :> Especially because in normal gameplay you never need this function and it probably would have cost a lot time and money to get a real driving tram into the game. The elevator part in Lonesome Road is also interesting: Not the elevator moves but the whole "world" around it, heh.

It's annoying to do this with the build-in dialogue editor of the geck, though. For FNV Obsidian added their own stuff to the geck, which is pretty much just a better dialogue editor. It made writing and editing dialogue in the game a lot easier, though. I'd say Bethesda simply doesn't really have the necessary tools for easier working in this area. Either they don't want to or they can't for whatever reason. I mean, really, as easy as the geck is to use, some of their story (content) related tools are a pain to work with. It already starts with a script editor that is worse than notepad.

But why did they increase the days when it looks like the project is going to make it? I'll guess either word of mouth isn't big enough to draw attention or people really *are* fedup with Schafer. Only thing I wonder is if the same will happen to the next Obsidian Kickstarter/fig.

So what, anti-gg crowd threatened to ruin people's lives as well. Besides, if I want to, I could make me some random alt and spew anti-gg bs. Next day I create a new alt and spew pro-gg bs. Then I watch people errupt in flames. Much joy.

Dunno... I don't want to be the one, but... yet you played it over 100 hours, so all in all it really can't be that bad. You could feel cheated by Bethesda if you bought it for 60€ and then stopped playing after 5 or so hours. But over 100? Even if the game is shait, feeling cheated at this point seems unreasonable unless someone had you play the game at gunpoint or something.

I like how Oby is now not doing this russia thing anymore.

Capra Demon was the reason, why I stopped to play DS ( I played as pyromancer and was unable to stay alive in the room more than 5 seconds... after few hours, I just quit the game for good... I had very close to Demon's Souls platinum, and not a single boss on NG+++ were so annoying and depressing for me than this one :-/ I actually never played DS1 that far (burned out on many hours of playing DS2), but I think I've heard you can beat him with throwing firebombs into the arena without actually being in the arena?

So this "primal" / roots stuff really is the next big thing. Man, I would gladly buy & play such a game with a real down to earth kind of setting, but all this mashup-sci-fi-fantasy-whatever stuff is totally turning me off.

It's interesting how views on him have changed since the Broken Age ks started. Though I am not 100% sure if it's solely because he can't really work with money or because he openly supported this anti-gg stuff.

I dunno. That guy from the screenshots posted more than once in the comments and this makes me somehow doubt it. Also this stuff seemd to have happened over half a year ago.

He posted in the comments that he is still in china. The dude from the screenshots also posted there, got a whole lot different tone now, though. This stuff is crazy bad.

I never really noticed them either, because most of the time they were in places I didn't wandered to anyway. There are some parts where I thought "man, this wall here now makes no damn sense", but they really don't justify to call the map linear, imo. Being guided by mob difficulty doesn't either (besides it is pretty possible to get to Vegas in early game without doing a circle to the east first).

Psychonauts 2 is on Fig now. https://www.fig.co/campaigns/psychonauts-2

Man, for a moment I really thought they turned Friday into a chimpanse for this movie. Now I feel like I've already watched half of the movie.

I don't really a think a PoE2 would work right now. People need a break of it first.

I find the writing bad, not necessarily because the words are bad, but because you either don't have any choices in dialogue or they are fake choices. Also the setup is often just awkward- as example you adress people with their names despite never having talked to them before + nobody ever told you the names. If you ask a question about a quest, the npc will answer and then you can accept. If you don't ask about the quest and just accept it, he will first tell you what you could have asked before, therefore making the choice of asking totally irrelevant. Stuff like this is what I'd already call bad writing.

I really wouldn't call it railroading. It leads you a certain part in the beginning, but it's not impossible to take the straight northern way- in worst case it needs a stealth boy, in best case you simply go via Black Mountain. Games like Gothic and Gothic 2 did this too and they are awesome. Especially the colony in G1 feels very alive despite being really tiny in comparison. Now thinking back to this game, I really think dev studios nowadays should try to concentrate on smaller, well developed wordmaps instead of huge ones stuffed with lots of boring filler content. /edit: Years ago one of the Gothic developers said in an interview that the games didn't sold well in America because Americans didn't liked how you can't go wherever you want from the beginning and that certain enemies can't be defeated as soon as you meet them the first time. I think it was pretty spot on and still applies today, especially to Obsidian, who's games usually get better reviews in Europe and russia than in America...

Time to digg out that thread again. Few days ago the alpha test for the new PTU 2.0 has started. That means, a few 1000 chosen people can already play in the first iteration of the persistent universe: Walk on stations and interact with people, get into space ships and fly around wherever you want (including multi-crew ships), visit other space stations, do dogfights in space, do FPS combat outside of the ship, etc. It's still super buggy and crashes all the time, but it's already pretty much what they have promised for the full release. Videos are surfacing all around youtube now, like . There is lots of more, with some really cool gameplay scenes. While still being very rough, I think it looks already awesome... and it should help convince people that this thing really can work and isn't necessarily going to fail in a way someone like Derek Smart won't stop preaching (unlike the game from Derek Smart, which looks hilariously bad in comparison with anything else).