BruceVC

Okay thats funny, you get the BruceVC humor award for the week If I hadn't played Torment recently I really wouldn't have got any of these lines

As I mentioned I think this has huge potential and offers something unique that I haven't seen before in any RPG. I'm not sure if the developers should implement direct related quests, in other words lets use your example about the sword. If you are only playing one game and the other at a much later time period, maybe a few months later, certain things might not make sense when they are related to something in the other game. But general associations would work. One example could be a certain powerful person in PE who gets kill by your party but then ascends to the world of Numenera. This entity could rant and rave how he was betrayed in his home world and have certain ambitions based on vengeance I would like to hear other suggestions between the worlds as there so many ways to implement the links between the worlds. Its exciting

Thats an ingenious idea, there could be some synergy. Not too much but some links. A good example could be a some kind of Demon cult in PE but the actual Demon lives in Numenera

I'll send you a PM, thanks Bendu

Yes, very interested

Guys Dark Souls in on special for $20 This is probably a good time to purchase it?

I'm enjoying your updates about Arcanum. I have never played the game but it sounds fun. How long with all the side quests do you think the game will take a person to complete?

No it will be fine, haven't you seen the latest PE update? Obsidian has perfected cloning and there will be two Chris Avellone's in the unlikely, but hopeful, event that Torment reaches $3.5 million. So we won't see the PE experience diluted in any respects.

Yeah, that machine (Dungeons & Dragons) ate a whole bunch of my quarters too, that and X-Men vs. Street Fighter. You guys are lucky that your lived in a country that had arcade games like that, due to sanctions certain things were restricted living in South Africa....poor me

I got excited when I saw "Dungeons and Dragons" but then I read its a release of an old arcade game so now my view is "meh"

Oh my hat !!! Did you forget you were on leave?

Good point Its good to see such synergy between developers

Hurlshot please do not fall for the "heart strings being pulled and I'm a cute kid KS" subterfuge. I agree it doesn't seem right, I was genuinely worried you were going to tell us you felt that your $100 was going to a good RPG in development Phewwww...stress over for me

Even though that makes sense if they just singled out the Russians if would be seen as discrimination and there credibility as a reliable investment country would be effected. Also the Russians own about 30 % of all the money in the banks in Cyprus so they wouldn't want to annoy them. What has been suggested is a tax on any deposit over 100k Euros. So that shouldn't impact the average person

This doesn't seem like an option anymore. The Russians aren't interested in the natural gas, not oil, that can be found in Cyprus. And to compound the woes of Cyprus I now see that Russia has said they won't be bailing out the Cyprians as its not a good investment. Geeeeee thats a surprise, Russia not helping out another country when they have nothing really to gain

I'll take DRM-free over cloud saving any day. I don't dislike Steam at all but I always try to support GOG when I can, so I'll purchase PE through GOG in this case

Now thats a different story, I would donate towards a cute cat project

"train that had mysteriously disappeared" I know its not funny but that must have really irritated Danish taxpayers

I have issue with a 9 year old making a KS, I am finding it annoying. I am surprised her parents are letting her contribute to projects that discuss adult themes. Are we now going to be bombarded with every sad or cute KS by people? For me this undermines what KS is. Seriously what does a 9 old know or understand about the design of KS projects. Let her play with her toys and at the appropriate age and skill level she can join a development studio and get some hands on experience. Then make a KS that people can take seriously

Hi All I have been following this story closely as it has quickly became a crisis for Cyprus In summary the Cyprians need a bailout, about 10 Billion Euros, to prevent banks and financial institutions from failing. The Cyprian parliament rejected the loans terms from the EU as this loan had the condition that there would be a tax on all people who had deposited money into any Cyprian banks. I can understand this, but the EU wants to tax the money of wealthy Russians who have hidden Billions of Euros in Cyprian banks. Anyway the EU has now given Cyprus till Monday to agree to the bailout terms or it will cancel any current funding that is keeping Cyprus alive. If this happens the Cyprus economy will collapse. See the link below for an informative summary of the crisis http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/aebf3e16-913b-11e2-b4c9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2OFzlNjCv What do you guys think, are you worried this could impact other EU countries or do you now think its time countries were kicked out the EU for not managing there economies? I'm sure we have some Cyprian members on this forum, I know Melk lives there sometimes. To be fair to Cyprus part of there financial issues are caused by the fact there banks had massive investments in Greece, and we all know the Greek story

Okay, thanks. That answers my question nicely

Okay but what is his involvement, is he a Dev or a Moderator or involved in Marketing? Its always good to get views, if possible, from people part of any KS or gaming project

Thats good to know, I would think they do share a common respect for each other. It reminds me of some of my favorite fantasy writers, like Steven Erikson and George R R Martin, you often see other writers endorsing there novels like Stephen R. Donaldson For the most part, yeah, especially if studios are close together. The Blizzard and Interplay guys used to get along great, and now inXile and Obsidian are pretty close. BioWare's a bit further away geographically and that tends to be a factor more than anything, heh, but in my experience it's a lot more likely for there to be bad blood between producers and creative people or producers and producers than between creative people and creative people. Good points especially around the geography, quick question Brother. Are you involved in Numenera at all? You always seems to have some interesting and relevant views around the game.

http://www.portalarium.com/images/docs/Words%20Taken%20Out%20of%20Context.pdf Here is some good insight from Richard Garriot into designing game worlds and him clarifying a ccontroversial comment he made.