Monte Carlo

I think it's great that the trolls have gone for Crye precision MultiCam. The old troll camouflage pattern sucked.

He he we could easily have another 'how would you make BG3?' thread. I always liked the post-apoc Faerun idea of surviving as some sort of legacy character after the war of the Bhaalspawn, but I'm not a canonical FR mentat so I don't know if that's possible.

^ What Zoraptor said. That's a bloody big pair of boots to fill, BG3. I would be relaxed with a relatively low-tech engine, but the other content would need to be top-notch and true to the spirit of the original. Where's the evidence that Overhaul can deliver a 70+ hour D&D CRPG? There's also the licensing issues regarding 2EAD&D, which is as dead as disco. Would Atari WotC demand a 4E BG3. If so, I doubt I'd play it.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's brilliant that Beamdog are making some money and bringing BG to a newer audience (although I wonder if most of the players are people who bought it back in the day and wanted a digital version). All I'm saying is that, for a lot of us, the extra features don't warrant the extra outlay, given the heavily-improved, modded versions we already have. But, when all is said and done, if more people are digging BG and the IP is still making money then good luck to them.

Ha ha ha... all of the wordiness of Torment and all of the thrills'n'spills of turn-based combat. Given that combat isn't really the point of the Torment experience, it's a bit like adding mustard to a d1ck flavoured popsicle.

LoF was, on an intellectual level, a disgusting fascist.

Many moons ago I was a mod on the BGDungeon forums. We had a very similar troll to oby there. Not the whole Russian schtick, but a carefully-constructed pseudo-identity nonetheless. After a year of top notch trolling he came clean and admitted the whole thing was part of his post-grad thesis (psychology) in internet behaviour (I suppose in 2000 / 2001 that might have been rather novel). I wonder what Oby's story is?

I know little about Shadowrun... but that's an Ork? It's a statuesque blonde with cosplay ears and comedy fangs. Meh.

It's your computer staging a protest at the indignity of having to run such a PoS game.

^ I've got TuTu or whatever its called and all the BG2 kits are in BG1.

It's a bizarre piece of necro-pricing that treats the game like an antique treasure. Which it is, but then again you can buy it for pennies elsewhere and mod the hell out of it.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/man-appreciates-womens-arses-on-a-feminist-level-2013111581193

Yes, SS collar patches with a Wehrmacht peaked cap. Epic accuracy fail.

I fail to see the connection? A music video can be interpreted in different ways, the whole Miley Cyrus twerking incident is not the first raunchy music video we will see and will continue to see them. Personally I found the video fine and her way of trying to define herself and move permanently away from the Hannah Montana image. She also was the one doing it and made a conscious decision to make the video that way. I have no issue with that But that's not the same thing as a group of developers that makes a game that portrays women in only one way or where the women, or other groups, are at the receiving end of crude or derogatory jokes. Sigh. It's like we're talking about two different subjects. Censorious people are censorious. It's what they do. Some of them subscribe to Marxist interpretations of mass media, the 'syringe effect' whereby the evil media-industrial complex injects evil thoughts that inhibit class consciousness into your brain (modern political correctness is the post Cold-War guerilla warfare variant of this). Others might be religious or social conservatives. Others might be into identity politics. It all boils down to the same thing: don't be rude / nasty / unpleasant because it makes other people rude / nasty / unpleasant. And I don't necessarily agree. I see an agenda. It's a political equation:I want to stop you making a stupid video or a GTA type game and this is my political collateral. It's about power. And in a diffused, post-post modern world it really is like pissing into the wind. You see altruism in these people. I see a political agenda. The high priests of PC, the white knights of RPS, are to me no different from the bat**** crazy dude who thinks D&D is the work of the devil or the Moms of America who think a nipple will corrupt the youth of the Midwest.

Substitute 'Game' for 'Pop Video' in this article you've more or less got my position on this one. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100245877/the-feminist-war-on-sexist-pop-videos-is-fuelled-by-ugly-misanthropic-prejudices-of-its-own/

Wow I remember Chaos Engine from back in the day. Loads of fun.

Ha ha ha the CoH2 AI has been given a serious buff. I usually play on hard or expert and hard is now... well... hard. Keep getting noobs in 3 v 3 and 4 v 4 and getting pwned. I must get back to some competitive play.

I'm not sure what you mean here, it was hardly the only reference to fandom peculiarities in the DLC. Considering the air time it has gotten here and elsewhere, it would have been a surprise had it not been referred there. This is an old discussion but still relevant, to be honest I'm not sure what the fuss is? So 12 fans or so took a real interest in a topic that most of wouldn't even think about. So what? Let people discuss what they want about a game, they aren't harming anyone are they The main reason I have an issue with this discussion is that its used in numerous debates to highlight how depraved and bizarre BSN has become. When in fact it represents one discussion compared to hundreds that occur on a daily basis at BSN. I just think people are making a big deal about a small minority of hard core fans as if everyone at BSN is like that Denial ain't a river in Egypt.

RPS and the like are the backwoodsmen of a dying kulturkampf. Like Japanese soldiers marooned on a lonely atoll in 1976, they refuse to accept that the war is over. The growth of communications and Globalisation, love it or hate it, has rendered the 1980's / 1990's politically-correct guerilla warfare of the libtardians increasingly obsolete. People will think what they want to think. Being lectured about isms on a bloody gaming site? Excuse me why I fly my lolocopter over loloburg. If RPS had one or two white knights onboard that would be fine. But to have this dull editorial three-line whip? It's like the website of a boring 1980s polytechnic student union (I suffered those days, sports fans). Games are like any other form of media.For example, This Robin Thicke person I keep hearing about makes me want to barf. He is a pointless dinosaur. I ignore him. Just like I increasingly ignore RPS. You may carry on.

Take that back, Parker.

^ I ain't ever bookin' into your motel, Norman.

This is great stuff, the sort of detail we don't usually get to see. Personally, I found it both surprising and enlightening, which is what I'd ideally ask for in an update. Something similar, but maybe focussed on a particular discipline (for example I'm interested in how writing fits in, others will have their own peccadillo) would be amazing. Thanks guys.

If it's any good I might give it a try on my new PS4 and become console scum.

Tomorrow I'll be playing the new CoH2 Stalingrad DLC.