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There's simply no way that Obsidian would make game topping out at 20 hours of play time, side quests and reading dialogue included. It's not even a concept worth considering. There isn't an inverse relationship between game length and game quality. It's not as though making a long game causes a set, predefined amount of quality to be spread thinner and thinner as the game gets longer.

To have your party be a "democracy" of sorts and every character had an equal say would be interesting narratively, but a severe barrier to player agency. If the PC is making all the tactical, logistical and equipment decisions it stands to reason that they're the alpha of the group and final word rests with them. One of the relatively few good decisions Bioware made with Dragon Age 2 was the option of allowing companions with contextually relevant experience or skills to handle a situation in Hawke's stead.

Play Arcanum in tandem with Chris Avellone.

Impressive, yes. Funny? No. This is funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwNVwiHAUUM And for those who are not humor-inclined, all of these videos are meant to lampoon the terrible writing/jokes of Garfield comics under the guise of "tribute."

So what? You're proud of the segment of the community that was going on about the girl kid that was at the party being a loli? You think it was perfectly fine all those guys telling the green shirt woman to take off her top? People should apologise for that crap. If not apologising for comments like that is what makes you so proud of being an American it makes me glad I'm Canadian. Unlike that article I take it as a point of pride that Canadians are known for being polite, well mannered and not total asshats. You're being just as petty and immature. It's an opinion piece from a newspaper by a controversial comedian and political commentator. It's also from 7 months ago. Do you understand what an opinion piece is? If you don't like Bill Maher's opinion, don't like it. Stop it with this nationalist garbage before you denigrate your country any further. And I couldn't help but notice that Obsidian is an American company staffed and led primarily by Americans. Most of the people responsible for PE are going to be Americans. Did you back PE? Why would you back an American product? You're lumping all of them in together with the people you're insulting as lesser men. IT IS A BALLOONICORN, NOT A UNICORN

One ring on each hand should have no penalty, and you get exponentially larger dexterity penalties for each additional ring, up to the point that you need your companions to add or remove them as your fingers are essentially frozen in place. Also incapable of carrying weapons or using items.

No furry-bait, please. Let WoW and TES keep it to themselves.

Is it really an Easter Egg if it was planted, in public, by the people who are supposed to be searching for it?

/v/ is responsible for most of the misogyny gaming news stories (tropes v. women, jennifer hepler, etc.)

I should be studying for architecture, but I'm playing Borderlands 2. Maybe reconsidering my major. Switch to loot-taker or something. Telltale's Walking Dead? Or do you want more of the classic "stupid puzzles that have no logical congruity whatsoever" type of adventure game?

Any one of those games has an ironclad 10/10 for soundtrack. Might be easier on you guys to hear it like this:

I second this. Many of the uncouth commentors were, shall we say, "smitten," by one of Obsidian's female staffers. An odd way to phrase it for a man with an avatar of the helm of a 7th century Saxon king, who would no doubt have been far more misogynistic. Most of it was people shrieking (caps lock) their locations, and others responding to the trend by claiming to be in unlikely/non-real locations. And also quoting Chris Avellone who spent most of the stream drinking heavily and screaming "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" at such a volume that it inflicted pain upon many an ear.

How do you deal with magical/spiritual classes in that scenario? It takes physical training to improve physical attributes. You don't become stronger and able to run farther, faster, by reading books.

CRPGs have been dead as a genre since the early 2000s if you don't count Dragon Age (and you shouldn't as of DA2.)

I think it's a given that all backers and sideline supporters want quality from PE. Why would anyone want PE to play like an MMO?

I'd personally like to see the term dungeon restricted to places of imprisonment and parts of brothels where you can pay for unusual services.

It's plausible but shouldn't be a priority. I don't want the Obsidian community to become a waifu wars board like Bioware's.

Not really. I couldn't afford above the $20 early adopter tier, so economics locked me out. I am distraught that I am unable to acquire more physical goods to affirm my otherwise meaningless existence.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the gist of the first few tl;dr posts is "I want to make my character look super unique and cool so all of the ZERO OTHER PLAYERS in the game can see I'm a special snowflake and not just an NPC." Which is odd considering it's an isometric game where your characters are likely to be low-detail compared to waifu simulators like Oblivion and Skyrim. Don't get me wrong, I like to make my characters look the way I want, but it's not the most important thing in the game. Besides, with Obsidian signing on with the *shudder* Nexus modding network, you'll no doubt get more opportunities than you ever thought imaginable to customize your (female) characters. Making your waifu look like a tramp should not be a priority for the Obsidian dev team.

You should be told the first quest is to vanquish mighty "giant" rats infesting the (insert tutorial locale here) but then you just walk across them and they splatter, quest complete! And on the subject of Dishonored's rats, that proved that rats are OP and gamebreaking.

Drunk Chris Avellone drinking alcohol in every pub screaming "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DRINKS ARE ON ME!" and then everyone tells him to take his shirt off and he doesn't.

Ancient Egypt is not the vibe I get from Vailians. It sounds like a mix of ancient Carthage (a contemporary of ancient Rome, and a mercantile state ruled by council of merchants,) and ancient Greece (a bunch of city-states that allied when mutually endangered, several of which were naval powers.) The government is obviously modeled on the Iroquois Confederacy. And evidence for slave labor in ancient Egypt is thin. There's strong physical and written evidence that the workers who built the great Pyramids and other monuments were working in lieu of paying taxes for a given period of time. The Egyptians were not a "great" seafaring people, and there's no evidence of piracy or shanghaiing that I'm aware of, because the Nile valley is immensely fertile (leading to large populations,) and all of their wars were with neighboring countries over land toward the East.

No scaling. That's just another form of casual hand-holding. There's no greater thrill in combat than winning an encounter that's above your level and reaping the rewards for it.

Yeah, well, unless you're offering me a better job, tough luck. Also the kickstarter is over TEE HEE.

I started thinking Chris Avellone might have a drinking problem.