Monte Carlo

well in this case it wasn't and there's no need for tip-toeing. Sheesh.

WTF is this Twitter thing of which you speak? Is it that limited word count app for morons?

The Lego Movie. Watched it with my son twice this week. The best film of 2014, bar none. We've been Lego crazy building stuff off the back of it. And doing Batman quotes. 9/10. Edit - how in the name of phuck did they line up all those IPs? I note some were missing (Harry Potter, Indiana Jones) and others had to be re-badged (Middle Zealand haw haw) but bejaysus all those other brands?

I raise you a Meg Turney.

6001. My only excuse is I've been here since *checks profile* Feb 2004.

Good question, but for me it's gameplay, gameplay, gameplay. I'm not saying graphics are unimportant, I'd be a hypocrite. But you can mitigate rough edges with awesome tactix. Look at ToEE, which has easily the most tactical and carefully implemented table-top combat.

The UI and graphics look exactly as I imagined. The cursor is an IE cursor and the icons are a classic amalgam of BG and IWD-style. Someone had put a shed-load of thought into this. I for one am grateful. Look at the little feed-back window and the day / night cycle window. It's very, very sweet.

Yeah Josh said he's been talking to us all for fifteen years. LOL it's why he's going grey. He thinks we're all mad.

Dat Amish chick...

Anyone else watching Banshee?

BG1 can be brutal. The ogre destroyed my first party quite easily. Of course, that's awesomely old-skool I hope PoE is like that. For the record, I avoided the ogre, got Jaheira, entangled it then shot it with a hasted archer. And about a dozen different ways with other methods and characters. This is also awesomely old-skool.

For Dragon Age 2? Try this button: You win teh internets

Ha ha ha. Bioware has the Vorpal Hype Cannon +5. Take everything they say with a big old pinch of salt.

Sorry if I'm too easily pleased but I love all of it. I think it looks absolutely bitchin' No complaints about visuals... let's see how the whole stamina thing looks. I loved the idea of the barbarian using a reach weapon from behind human cover. Tactix.

YouTuber just joins random forum to pimp his channel. Classy.

Are we in America?

Cool post OP. Games seem to reverse the dictum of story-telling, which is to grab people in five hundred words or get tossed on the slush pile. OK, there's apples and oranges but bejaysus the guy's correct when he mentions how dull the beginning of Fallout 2 was. And yeah, BG1 at least got you interested by folks trying to murder you then the high-power Sarevok ambush. BG2 - bit of a cliche, you're trapped with no memory, but the Irenicus torture chamber thing and simulacrum mystery was still better than turn-based bug hunting in a Very Brown Cave.

Woldan is from District One of Panem.

Woldan and I like the same chick. There's hope for the kid yet.

Ha ha ha I've done that. Awesome. Big PC game shoe boxes with that strange packaging cardboard adhesive smell. Made you feel like you'd bought a box of treasure. It was the scent of... victory. Nonek wins though because of esoteric Victorian narcotics and Poe.

So Pillars of Eternity will be released later this year, and if you are in the Western hemisphere it will be winter. What ohmigoditsanewgame rituals do you have? I stopped having them some time ago, as very few games genuinely excite me upon release any more. PoE is an exception. So: * I'll take a day off * Open a bottle of claret * Re-start about fifteen times * Enjoy Not very unusual, admittedly, but I'm sure some people have some more interesting ways of celebrating the release of a much-anticipated game. Of course, I'd prefer a bevy of hot cosplayers in chainmail bikinis to visit my house and make out to celebrate, but Obisidian nowadays is too PC for that. Discuss.

It's your rule, baby, not mine.

But you mentioned romance, thus breaking your own rule. I'm glad they've created a romance thread. It keeps them quarantined and less likely to infect the rest of the forum.

Don't care. Serious entitlement issues. Tough.

^ No problem. Maybe it's because I'm not a FPS shooter player, as a rule. And when I do I jack a console controller into my puter.