HoonDing

There's certainly not much incentive for exploration unlike the first game. Most caves & buildings that aren't locked, contain nothing of worth. Ideally, the third game will combine the bigger emphasis on story of TW2 with the freeform exploration of TW1.

Melee isn't going to work in the beginning at all. Stick to bows & magic missile. In fact, melee isn't going to work until after level 15 or so. I noticed that levelling is much faster in DKS than the original ED in the beginning as well. Too many kiddies complained about getting raped by skeletons pretty hard once the world opened up, hence Larian softened things up a bit.

Also keep in mind you get tons of free skill & stat points for mindreading certain NPCs. This alone makes up for any loss in XP. If there's any skill that's completely worthless, it has to be Wisdom.

Those dragon shouts are supposed to be words in Draconic language, so it's pretty certain they're intelligent.

Baldur's Gate 2?

You seriously put 14 levels into mindread? It's one of the most useless skills in game. Not only are majority of quests are solvable without it, the XP-for-equipment trades will usually screw you over as they produce items for different classes. And even when mindread is at level 1 your XP debt is usually worth no more than few trash mob kills. Getting the best armour in ED requires mindreading. In the expansion you also need to mindread to get the complete set of the best armour for each class. It's also nice to be able to mindread everyone in the expansion when otherwise it would cost 10,000 XP at the very least, which you otherwise have to make up for by grinding through respawning mobs of undead.

Don't forget to mindread or you might miss out on quests. Also, max out this skill... at level 15 it costs 0 XP which is quite significant in the expansion.

Dragons look pretty underwhelming so far. They look like the ones from Divinity 2.

Combat seems to be a lot like: Hopefully the group tactics will be expanded over DA:O, because micro-managing looks like a nightmare when something awesome happens as soon as one gives out a command. I had no idea what the hell was going on.

Those endless hordes of mooks wouldn't be so bad if one tactic wouldn't work on all of them. Storm of the Century = win. Cone of Cold = win. Yawn. At least equally tedious dungeon crawls in Icewind Dale & Baldur's Gate required some variation in tactics.

Those have to be screenshots from the console version (not that Oblivion looked much better on the PC). At least people look like people this time around.

Penny-Town Pel?

Already in 1981, the best selling game on Apple II was "Softporn Adventure", a text adventure that was later bought and re-released by Sierra and turned into Leisure Suit Larry by Al Lowe. IIRC it sold 250,000 copies on Apple.

I just want the enemies to actually attack our character, that's all . Especially the melee ones. Maybe they attack one by one, like any self-respecting mook.

Sig-worthy.

Did they manage to violate the first law of Newton?

Desslock ran over Volourn's dog.

If they explore the "Sixth Courier" plot hook that started in Primm, I'm interested.

Div 2 is better. I've heard good things about Planet Alcatraz, a Russian Fallout/JA clone, but I never got to play it.

Any reason why it is coming out in Europe first? Normally this only happens for European developed games?

It's a common TES meme @Bethsoft forums. The lusty Argonian maid

Someone will be very, very disappointed.

Which demo? I didn't notice that.

Interesting how according to this the hero of DS 1 is made canonically female. Obsidian must've wished to erase any memory of Boll's movie.

The movement, combat & camera reminds me of Rise of the Argonauts.