Vaeliorin

You might not, but I do. I barely tolerate RTwP, but I adore turn-based. I'm also curious how RTwP has gotten better. What, fundamentally, has changed about it over the years?

I still won't believe it until people are actually playing it.

As usual, E3 was pretty much a waste of time as far as I'm concerned. The only thing exciting to me (being someone who has no consoles) was the XCOM2 expansion.

I will admit, the alignment shifts bother me. I fear it will end up like Mask of the Betrayer where trying to play any sort of good character almost always ends up with you being forced into Lawful Good alignment (because the "good" options to keep the Spirit Meter full give Lawful and Good alignment) making playing any sort of non-Lawful requirement character difficult and not very fun. Granted, I can't recall if Pathfinder has alignment requirements for classes like 3.X did, since I haven't touched it since the Beta (I felt they were going the wrong direction, what with making casters more powerful and doing basically nothing for non-casters...no idea if that's still the case.)

We found out that 4k resolution will not be supported on all platforms, that's all I needed to know. To be fair, that could just mean that 4K isn't available on the stock PS4/XBONE. Still a completely worthless trailer though. Gives no idea what sort of game it even is.

He also directed the 2nd and 3rd Librarian movies, so it must be some pretty good blackmail.

Just finished Starcrawlers. Unfortunately, I ended up with a bug that forced me to work with a group of basically terrorists (though I'd told them I wanted nothing to do with them) so I got a not so happy ending. Also, went on the final mission right after a patch that nerfed my main character (a Hacker) quite a bit (though Hacker was overpowered before, so...) Next up is Massive Chalice. I played a bit of it while waiting for a bug fix in Starcrawlers, and it seems pretty good so far. Surprised how short the time limit apparently is, though.

Destiny 2 is apparently exclusive to Battle.net on PC. Which makes a certain amount of sense, but still...

I tried the demo, and couldn't stay on the track for more than 30 seconds...granted, I haven't played a racing game since Gran Turismo 3 on the PS2, and I'm guessing that's considered an arcadey racing game (I don't really know anything about racing games.) Suffice it to say, I did not purchase it, though that's no fault of the game. Been playing (and just finished) Darksiders. I've had it forever (well, at least since 2012) but I'd only played it for 3 hours before the last couple days. It wasn't what I was expecting when I bought it (I was expecting more brawler than puzzle platformer), but I really enjoyed it (though I'd probably have hated it if I didn't have a walkthrough nearby for whenever I got stuck...I'm not very observant, and don't like the 3-D Zelda games.) People have complained about the Warmastered edition (which is what I played) but I only had two problems. Once I glitched through a wall and fell out of the level, and the game froze during one boss fight (the one that starts when you put on a mask.) I will say that the final boss fight(s) were pretty disappointingly easy. I was all stocked up on healing items and didn't have to use any. Still, the story was surprisingly good, and I'll admit that it had a number of twists that I didn't see coming. Took me 23 hours to beat, which if I'd paid $50-$60 for it would annoy me, but I'm pretty sure I bought it during a Steam sale for about $5. Now I've started on Darksiders II, which in many ways is more my sort of game so far. I only had to look up one thing in the first dungeon (because why would I think an uncontained explosion would push in a lever?) I'll probably keep a walkthrough on hand to find hidden stuff (because I don't enjoy spending hours on end searching for that one ledge you can jump to, and I sure as heck won't remember everything I couldn't get to until I get the right tool five dungeons down the road.) Still, seems pretty fun. and I've already used my wrath powers more in 3 hours than I ever did in the first Darksiders. The camera seems a bit worse than the first one, or at least enemies seem a bit harder to keep track of, but it's not too bad. I initially thought the platforming was less annoying than the first one, too, but all the ways Death can move have resulted in me more than once moving in a direction I didn't intend. Every single death I've had has been from fatal falls. Huh...the more I talk about it, the worse it sounds, but I really am enjoying it.

I've been dithering over which tier to pledge at, but I finally did it. Only $1304 to go.

From the link #s posted: Explains why they closed down their forums...

That's basically how I felt about DA2. Lots of potentially interesting things, terrible implementation. My biggest concern at this point is that the poor reviews (not sure how sales are doing) might result in there not being a GOTY or Ultimate Edition with all the DLC available for me to purchase for $20 in a couple years. They never did one for ME3, after all.

I just...wow. I wonder if he'll actually release it this time. The new menu art is too clean, though.

I've always wanted an Exalted game, but I'm not sure that isometric would be the best fit for it.

I think the difference is that 90% or so of fights in the IE games can be won with nothing more than haste (if that's even necessary) while most fights in PoE require at least some level of micro. I found it got a bit tedious in PoE (and I think it would have worked 100X better and would have been incredibly fun were it turn-based, but that's obviously not going to happen. )

I got an A in the only philosophy class I ever took (it was required as a computer science major for some bizarre reason) without doing any of the reading, so... What I learned is that getting good grades in pretty much any of the humanities is easy as long as you can figure out what the teacher wants to hear, and are a competent bull****ter. That's pretty much every class in my expereince. It's not really possible in STEM classes (or at least wasn't when I was in college.) You can't exactly BS your way through a calculus or organic chemistry exam.

I got an A in the only philosophy class I ever took (it was required as a computer science major for some bizarre reason) without doing any of the reading, so... What I learned is that getting good grades in pretty much any of the humanities is easy as long as you can figure out what the teacher wants to hear, and are a competent bull****ter.

Personally, I'd rather have 4 or 6, but that's just because I have a thing about even numbers.

So wait, does that mean you can't tell your companions what power to use? If so, that's awful. The only thing that made them remotely useful in the previous ME games was that you could turn off automatic power use and actually make them use their abilities intelligently.

Origin has a decent sale...but it would still cost me $40 for the 3 story DLC for ME3 that I don't own (Leviathan, Omega and Citadel.) At this point I doubt I'll ever play them.

Nah, looking for something used with <30k. The problem is the old one is starting to have problems, and it's costing more to fix it than it's worth (and fixing it myself isn't an option...I'd be terrified I did something wrong.)

I went car shopping for the first time in my life today. I've had the same car for 20 years (it has less than 65k miles on it), which I bought from my sister after she'd had it a year, but it's finally time for it to retire. All I can say is car salesman are fricking awful. One guy I was ready to punch within 60 seconds of him coming up to us (and I would have just walked out if he hadn't had my driver's license.) At the Chevy dealer, my dad couldn't find the guy he'd talked to previously (he's helping me out because I'm not a car person, and he's retired and likes cars) so some other guy ended up helping us, then the guy my dad talked to previously showed up and acted like a whining, passive-aggressive baby because we were talking to somebody else (and I'm pretty sure the guy who was helping us lied when he said he talked to the whiny guy and straightened it out, because he couldn't even keep the guy's name straight.) The only guy who wasn't awful was the guy at the Ford dealer, and that place claims not to have salesmen, because all their employees are on salary, not on commission. I'm really not looking forward to keep looking, but I definitely need a new car. Blech.

I got all 3 EE's for 20 bucks, so I don't feel I really overpaid for them (and it's nice to not have to dig out my discs), but the main reason I bought them was that I could never get the Widescreen mod to work. Yes, I can install mods (I've installed a bunch in the original versions of BG/2) but despite following all the instructions and troubleshooting I could find on the interwebs, the Widescreen mod always left me with the game stuck in a tiny corner of the screen with the rest of the screen black. Also, I thought the original UI for all the IE games was pretty terrible, so the EE version isn't particularly any worse (though it's not necessarily any better.) I seem to recall it had some information that was missing in the original UI, or at least made that information more easily accessible...it's been a while since I've played them. But yeah, $20 each or whatever they're priced at normally is a ridiculous price for them.

Not yet, anyway. I quite liked Bound By Flame, so hopefully we get a sequel eventually. I'd be all for a sequel if they could fix the terribad combat. But I could say that about most of the games Spiders has made. They seem pretty decent in terms of writing (Of Orcs and Men in particularly has pretty good writing. And it gave us Styx ) but the combat is pretty uniformly awful and repetitive. That said, Greedfall looks kind of interesting.

Because Trump has been referring the the judges as "so-called judges" on Twitter, as I understand it.