Monte Carlo

I'm amazed a shapely posterior hasn't attracted an attack squadron of hostile (male) feminists demanding it be changed into a larger, less appealing arse.

You make no sense. Dungeon Siege 3 had an enthralling atmosphere and story, supremely addictive and physical combat, relying on your skill as much as how you built your character. It had excellent voice acting, variety of enemies, branching plot lines, and best boss fights you could wish for. So, why not go that route instead of returning to this decrepitude of reminiscence? A solid B. You get better with every post. PM me your real identity, I won't tell.

Maybe you could shave off your beard and make a toupee from it. That would be awesome.

Kiddo you are getting better. I like altar bit, a lot. C+ Carry on. Seriously.

I predict this game will make AT LEAST WL2 levels of profit. Maybe more, as fantasy is a more mainstream genre.

I guess they are to be ragey as they victimize him like all Bioware folk ? Twitter post was funny, though. "My new job: I am very pleased to announce that I am CD PROJEKT RED's new Community Manager for North America! I get to work on The Witcher!" Yeah, "get to work on". So he goes from the SJW re-education centre to the manly man cave of CDProjekt Red? Will he implode when he sees a boobie card? Will Dave Gaider ever whatsapp him again? Will Evil Chris 'work on' anything other than trying to wrangle mad online fan-morlochs?

Real Men don't care about haircuts. Only women have 'hairstyles.'

Sorry about the meme spam but I couldn't resist this one...

My favourite internet memes at the moment are the StUg ones.

^ Fair point, but in their defence the avatars are so small on-screen I think they get away with it.

Yeah the avatars are great, they've taken the best vibe from ToEE and really built on it.

I'm looking forward to their operationally insecure selfies and social media posts. The Russian Ivan, stoic infantryman of yore, is now like a giggly schoolgirl, posting VK status updates and moaning about poor pay and their sore footsies. Superior 'Murican drone tech will lock onto IvanBook and drop instant sunshine on them while operators eat pizza and sing along to the theme tune of 'Team America: World Police."

I am a pan-sexual love God. All the hawt women of the world need lovin' and I am the entity destined to deliver it unto them. Behold! My lurve-wagen, a heavenly sky chariot in which all women of whatever heritage may find nirvana! Meanwhile... inside the Lurve-Wagen

Pretty insulting to people with Aspergers too I'd imagine.#FirstWorldDilemmas Nipsen, IMO.

I've been arguing for transparent stats all along. I don't like the current system whatsoever.

Ironically the solution is gamist and abstract. A discrete stat akin to 'cunning' solves the problem easily. All classes would benefit from it one way or another and it allows combat classes to make a dirty fighting type build. I'm not opposed to abstracts when it comes to stats. I like luck, cunning and karma. Dammit RuneQuest had a very ambiguous stat simply called Power which was a spiritual force of character metric that boosted everything except (quite cleverly) stealth... a very spiritually forceful person stood out in that gameworld.

Really? Then PhDs in physics must be terribly good swordfighters. As Azrael Ultima said. Put two people of same skill to face each other and the more intelligent one is going to win every day of the week.If you watched Game of Thrones, Bronn duel to save Tyrion is pure intelligence win. Jesus Christ on a bike. (a) I know this is a gamist game and not a simulationist game (why these binary distinctions are so important is beyond me) (b) This forum has lots of deeply smart people on it who would love to think their skill with maths somehow translates to a combat situation but, Seriously. Combat efficacy is down to a few simple factors - muscle memory (training, experience), commonsense (you define it, is it situational awareness? I dunno), body strength and fitness. 'Intelligence' and, in particular, 'intellect' doesn't really feature. Who here has ever really, really had to punch someone hard in the face? It's a pretty horrible thing to do. In fact, most of us are now conditioned to be reviled by it. The people I know who are really, really good at fighting and killing (soldiers) are not, by any stretch of the imagination, intellectuals. They are fit, focussed, highly trained and brave. They would be bemused by some of the reasoning in this thread made by (allegedly) smart people. Maybe 'gamist' games are in fact masturbatory wish-fulfilment by people who wish that their dominant geek-gene made them effective combatants? Now that is fantasy.

Hey it's Dragon Age! We don't have any fresh ideas for character or narrative but hell, you can choose inner and outer iris colour for your character!

Ars Technica was a bit meh about Shadows over Mordor. I usually agree with their reviews more often than not.

Add a large dollop of sarcasm to a bowl of passive-aggression, then lace with shill-juice. Yes, you've just made a Lephys smoothie.

Thought I'd add other sound issues - on my build (3.01) I'm getting no character barks, no combat sounds and no gun noises. I'm using Logitech speakers.

I'm getting no character sounds on my game.... hmmmm. and my feedback circles are green not blue.

I think I'm getting there. I made the high PER / DEX Orlan fighter someone mentioned and its making combat a lot easier. With the exceptional greatsword you get from the Skaen temple hes pretty buff but still taking more damage than I'd like. I don't know if it's just me, but are the sound FX bugged for guns? Or do they all come with suppressors.