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The first two games in Realms of Arkania are actually interesting from historical perspective. The design followed p&p mechanics and forced you too carry things like tinderboxes, water and even set watches during camping in the wild. I was always curious about what other models of crpg were conceived before the standards became set.

Because you still need a free hand after every shot to reload? More worrisome are other tendencies shown in the video. It's very sad that even blizzard decided to forgo common sense and promote spiked armor. And why was it necessary to drop helmets in favor of hoods? At this rate chainmail bikini can't be far off.

Yes, logically there is little reason as to why torture should not be applied. The same could be said of collective punishment. After all you can always find it necessary to sentence a terminally-ill masochist. But perhaps reason and logic have little to do with functioning of justice systems or human societies? The basic ideas of humanism and retribution are in themselves non-rational and based upon strong emotions. Pretending that one side is more right by calling upon logic will do nothing to advance the discussion.

No, we really shouldn't. That's the part that makes us human. Stubborn insistence that life is sacred and should not be taken as part of judicial process is also unreasonable and illogical. Stubborn insistence that the judicial process should not result in the government murdering innocents is unreasonable and illogical...? *snort* No. Stubborn insistence that capital punishment should be treated specially is. Ultimately no punishment can be guaranteed to be justly declared, you just insist that death penalty should be treated differently for no logical reason.

No, we really shouldn't. That's the part that makes us human. Stubborn insistence that life is sacred and should not be taken as part of judicial process is also unreasonable and illogical.

That’s quite a claim considering the leaks contained very little previously unknown information and so far have all been centered around US. Because the US (and the west) represents the good guys. While there have been leaks from countries like Russia and China, they're haven't even been as much interesting, since they are the bad guys. Or maybe because the scale and level of secrecy of said documents is incomparable to those form US? Right now it simply looks like that people behind wikileaks have an axe to grind against United States. As for realpolitik I'll be convinced when top-secret documents start leaking and not before. Publishing regular discussion notes is all well and good but the real dirt is undoubtedly on a higher level. And people on that level have much more interest in keeping things secret.

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The problem with arguing "humanity" of punishments is that you can always declare lighter punishment more humane. You can easily argue that life sentence is not as humane as 40 years imprisonment.

That makes little sense. Obsidians whole MO was to make sequels to various publishers IPs. How much rpgs sequels/spin-offs can Zenimax need? Outsourcing one game in fallout/elder scroll series is one thing, acquiring whole three-project studio is completely another.

While I played BoD to death I wouldn't call the combat any of those things. Not to mention that differences between characters were absurdly unbalanced. Besides there is no way today’s games can handle allowing monsters to damage one another.

Combat also requires you to manually block and dodge so it's not exactly the same as Witcher.

In graphics maybe. The fundamentals are exactly the same. Not according to people I've seen post on this very forum. They've mentioned rather significant changes that cause a drastic difficulty drop. One thing I heard was that in the old game, particular spells and arrows couldn't be dodged. They can in DKS. That actually was trivial in vanilla as well. All you needed was an obstacle and projectiles would rarely reach you. I'd say difficulty change was more a result of toning down skills like charge which no longer kill in 1-2 hits.

In graphics maybe. The fundamentals are exactly the same.

There are demos available for both games. As far as combat goes they show pretty accurate experience.

Ranged and foot combat is generally terrible in m&b. It's not worth pursuing. Whatever your wish. As any open-world simulation it allows you to assume various position in the world. The hardest to attain is likely that of a king/emperor but the sheer number battles that need to be fought to reach it is simply staggering.

You mean the pros? For example take a look at the sentences we write. No ancient roman would recognize such formed and well legible writing convention.

The point isn't to defend the church but too notice that we have an unfortunate tendency to look for scapegoats, especially in past events. This quickly leads to popularization of unbalanced views regarding history. There is a lot of bad that can be said about the actions/policies in Christianity and catholic church in particular but relatively few people seem aware of all the advances they brought to western civilization.

No witch-hunts took place at the same time that Jews were expelled. That begun as part of enlightenment movement brought on with renaissance, they were also not directed by church and happened rarely in Spain. That

If anything it saved far more knowledge than it buried in that time. If it wasn't for monks/priest studding/coping ancient texts literacy could well have been lost completely in Europe. No witch-hunts took place at the same time that Jews were expelled. That begun as part of enlightenment movement brought on with renaissance, they were also not directed by church and happened rarely in Spain. That

Japan was racially motivated. In essence any western influences were to be eradicated.

That may be difficult with rape charge still held against him.

You mean aside from judicial institutions that are meant to ensure that the rule of law is followed? Or the democratically elected opposition? Or the free press? Ultimately - consent of the people.

Why can't they just buy older/discounted games? If they have troubles upgrading their platforms it should make sense to buy software more suited to the hardware they can afford.

What would you see as a better solution then?

First you'd have to decide what are you discussing here. I simply fail to understand what "xian" is, and whether there is a specific church you attempt to condemn or simply declare any form of organized religion evil.