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  1. It's not objectively "good for aesthetics."

     

     

    You know you can literally stop time with the spacebar in these games, right? Apparently not. Being able to stop time is a pretty remarkable feat even if its effects are limited to allowing thought processes on the part of the time-stopper.

     

     

    Just mash the spacebar and you've got your precious slow-mo dynamic decapitation/blood fountain.

  2. Influencing reputation with "donations" makes sense to a point, but a good reputation system would focus more on a character's overall actions, i.e. a PC who resolves disputes/gets out of binds primarily through combat would be regarded as someone combat-oriented/violent (as a subset, their competence in combat might come into play; someone who quickly and efficiently dispatches enemies might be regarded highly as a killer, as opposed to someone who gets into a lot of fights and struggles to defeat even average thugs, who would be regarded as a foolish hothead.)

     

    That said, I tend to slide more toward the sentiment expressed by the comic posted by Kjaamor about Fallut 3's garbage karma system. It doesn't matter how much money you donate to charity if you're directly responsible for massacres and war crimes which will be regarded throughout history as prime examples of evil. If you're "that guy who went into a convent an massacred all the nuns and all the poor orphans in their charge" in a society that doesn't adhere vehemently to Ayn Rand's philosophy, you're never going to be considered anything but a villain trying to soften their image with ill-gotten money.

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    The rouge jokes will continue as long as people continue to mis-spell 'rogue'. ;)

     

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    Rouge is a perfectly valid form of concealment. Admittedly not as effective for the typical male as it is for a female with a high charisma attribute.

     

     

    Well, there are customers who prefer a good fop over ladies of the night or little boys.

  4. Five years ago, I didn't know what Steam was. Now it's almost an integral part of me. It's most effective at creeping into to your home systems and your mind and just make itself at home there. I'm not surprised one bit if I have steam projected onto my shower glass wall doors the year 2015, complete with a crash to desktop splash using the killer-behind-the-shower-curtain-with-a-knife-shadow graphics from the movie Psycho. :)

    I got hooked with Orange Box (re: TF2) back in October 2007 (just in time for la grande récession,) never looked back. Didn't even bother with the previous generation of consoles until The Last of Us.

    If that SteamOS pans out... Well, so long, Microsoft, it's been... an experience?

  5. I can't remember what game it was, but some Namco game back in the PSX days actually had Pac-Man as a playable minigame while waiting for the load to complete. I don't think anyone can really argue with that, except that load times should be so insignificant in this day and age that it shouldn't matter.

     

    A pretty picture is fine enough. Or a wavy "PILLARS OF ETERNITY" logo that you can warp by hitting the arrow/WADS keys while it flails around wildly.

  6. No oh god why no please

     

    "We are about to attend a costume party," said Ryan Love, senior environment artist on Dragon Age: Inquisition. "Get your mask on and your dancing shoes ready, but don't let your guard down. There's more to this party than meets the eye."

     

    I assume that means they're going to reveal a female character with excessively revealing attire (or excessively revealing attire for female PCs, which would negate the entire modding community,) and try to justify it with the trappings of unsound logic/a wizard did it.

  7. Battlefield 3 (and it's expansions apparently? This is an insanely good gift, BF3 is one of the best multiplayer games around) and Plants vs. Zombies are free giveaways on Origin until June 3rd. Both of them are excellent, you really should get in on this now.

    That stinks, nay, reeks, of desperation. JUST SAYIN'

     

    Because my old GTX 560 Ti came with BF3 and I went back to TF2 after about 20 minutes.

  8. any hints on what not to miss, eg some esential skill that provide me super item i cant use without? I was thinking about sentinel character. I already complete game once long time ago as guardian so I want something different.

    If you could complete the game without "super item i cant use without" then you probably could "use without." And frankly, if it's an Obsidian game, I don't think there's any "super item."

     

    Except (linguistically) super stims.

     

    OK, Paciencia might fit the bill, too. But I love it too much to admit it's OP. Which it is. But I love it so much.

    That isn't referring to KOTOR2, by the way (something tells me that's necessary to point out.)

     

    Cringey voice acting and some weird glitches, I know, but still.

    Cringey voice acting is a pretty lethal factor for me, unless voices can be turned off.

     

     

    I honestly can't even remember anything about the restored content mod other than certain porking scenarios. Make of that what you will.

  9. AGX-17: Indeed, and System Shock is a very tough act to follow (I loved that game way back when). I tried to get into Bioshock 1 & 2, but I had to uninstall them after a third of the game or so, and now poor Bio Infinite runs the risk of ending up on the same discarded-before-finished graveyard.

    Bioshock was great for its setting alone, if anything. Bioshock 2 was a sham. Infinite is/was outstanding in every area but bullet sponginess (also applicable to plasmids/vigors.) I found the gameplay more of an obstacle than the story in Bioshock/Infinite. Bioshock 2, well... HAHAHAHAHAHA. AHA AHAHA. HA. HAHAHA. Oh boy...

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  10. Finished a first-time HL2 play-through. It's weird, but I think I know where the inspiration for Bioshock Infinite came from.

    Pretty sure, as a Half-Life player, that the inspiration for Bioshock Infinite came from System Shock and System Shock 2, not from any Half-Life games.

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  11. Save scumming is a lifestyle choice. If people want to (or need to) do it, then let them. If you don't want to or need to, then don't do it. Learn some discipline and take personal responsibility for your life.

     

    "Save scumming" is a ridiculous term made by people who play their games on easy or exclusively use overpowered builds they copied from somebody else who figured it out through save scumming.  An encounter isn't much of a challenge if you already know how to beat it the first time through.

    Metagamers and powergamers don't really need to savescum if they're meta/powergamers. If you know how to beat it the first time through then you must have learned about it from another person, not by save scumming. Ignoring that, metagaming and powergaming are lifestyle choices, we don't need big brother forcing one group's values on the people who don't adhere to those values. If someone doesn't want much of a challenge, they shouldn't be forced to play Trial of Iron mode.

     

    Everyone has their own pace, preferences and capabilities. People who just aren't good at the gameplay shouldn't be locked out of the game as some discriminatory punishment for being bad at RTw/P cRPGs.

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  12. Adventurer's Hall "On/Off"

     

    - On = You can hire as many companions from the Adventurer's Hall that you can afford.

    - Off = "Closed for Business", you can't hire any extra companions at all.

     

    Having this "Off" on Path of the Damned, for instance, would make the game way more difficult because when you lose a character you wouldn't be able to replace them. You could call it a "Hero Resource". Having this "On", you have a potentially limitless "Hero Resource", whilst having it "Off" you have a limited "Hero Resource" (I.E. you only have the VIP Companions to recruit).

    How little self-control do you have? And what's stopping you from just turning it back on when your addiction to getting more party members finally overwhelms you? You might as well have a toggle to turn off merchants, rest areas and the mouse cursor while you're at it.

     

     

    I think I will go for the typical H-game toggles:

     

    Furries, bondage and Ponygirls.

     

     

    Joke aside, I'd like to be able to disable helmet models. It's a common toggle for MMOs nowadays and I like it alot, as it allows to destinguish characters easier, especially since PoE seems to go for the realistic style of armor, so I expect helmets to look pretty generic.

    They don't have furries or bronies in Japan (except for foreign tourists, mostly,) lucky them.

     

    There is absolutely no way that any sane person would have difficulty distinguishing characters in PoE. They have names, portraits and a pause button (conveniently mapped to the biggest key on your keyboard,) to allow you to do this if, for some reason, you've got a party that consists of characters of the same class all wearing identical armor. Facial recognition isn't relevant when the perspective is from 30m up in the sky.

     

    The turn off helmets thing is silly. If you don't want to see them, don't wear them. Accept the risk if displeasing fashion is more important than effective protection to you.

  13. Very dissapointed to see a gun on the charcter portrait, did not relize this would be gun powder fantasy.  Hoping that was just a sample and not going forward in game.   Ive also never heard this archtype called a 'leader'  generally the leader is whatever character your playing.  Usually consider 'cloth' preists healers/support, 'plate/chain' preists sub-damage/healer

    Why would they make a picture of a character with a gun as a "sample" of the product if they didn't intend to have guns?

     

    Note the date of the update as being September 20, 2012. That was nearly a month prior to the end of the kickstarter.

     

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity/posts/312639

     

     

    Black powder firearms are of the single-shot wheellock variety. Largely considered complex curiosities, these weapons are not employed extensively by military forces. Their long reload times are considered a liability in battles against foes that are too monstrous to drop with a single volley, foes that fly or move at high speed, and foes that have the power of invisibility. Despite this, some individuals do employ firearms for one specific purpose: close range penetration of the arcane veil, a standard magical defense employed by wizards. The arcane veil is powerful, but it does not react well to the high-velocity projectiles generated by arquebuses and handguns. As a result, more wizards who previously relied on the veil and similar abjurations have turned to traditional armor for additional defense.

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  14. Top 70 because there aren't 100. DOHOHOHO

     

    Also, really, this is preaching to the choir. Especially when you've got 44 posts under your belt since 2011. Am I really supposed to be shocked and delighted that some guys who like cRPGs and made a forum for talking about them think Torment is the best of all time? As if there was some suspense that after 13-ish years P:T would come out on top after a grueling battle versus the mountains of quality cRPGs that have been released since the year 2000?

  15. I've always thought that PewDiePie should be one of the few people who plays this game on his youtube channel. That basically guarantees a few more sales. Although, I dno't know if RPGs, especially those you have to read, really games that you can do LPs of. "Let's Read Along with PewDiePie!"

    Yeah, he's totally gonna play a text-heavy RTwP RPG and make videos of it for the interbutts' entertainment. Shrieking about goats' apparent sexual relations with ragdolled humans is a different ballgame from reading copious amounts of well-written dialogue.

  16. I don't know what's so special about Bravely Default:Flying Fairy aside from the stupid name and bizarre amalgamation of erotic (dem hips) and childish (everything else) bodily builds. AHEM. THAT SAID. The bulging-veined rage against JRPGs (or, rather, anything Japanese,) is more of a Bioware Social Network thing. I play the jerpuhgs without mandatory tutorials all the time.

     

    Tutorials, strictly speaking, ought to be optional, but in general it's a good idea to design early combat encounters in a way that teaches players the ins and outs of the gameplay, both generally and of the specific class they may have chosen, without inattentive players/observers perceiving it as a tutorial.

  17. Bulk 190 proof grain alcohol (danger: highly flammable. danger: very fun for pyromaniacs.) "WAR HAS CHANGED." "WAR NEVER CHANGES." "WAR HAS CHANGED." "WAR NEVER CHANGES." ...I need a drink.

     

    Actually, it might actually be cheaper to fuel a car with the stuff, at least it wouldn't encourage more misguided government subsidies for non-drinkable ethanol production (seriously, stop it, corn is meant to make people look like beavers while eating, not propel automobiles.)

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  18. Priests in this game sound really boring lorewise and gameplay wise.  I really don't like the idea of turning them into pure support.  I pray that their some alternate builds for them, at least something like a battle cleric build that I usually play in the D&D pen and paper.

    Eh? It sounds just about right to me. The exo-combat concepts sound good to me, enough that I'm actually really interested in trying a priest PC first.

     

    The fact that they're brandishing guns and bombs is not an influence at all.

     

    Nope.

     

    Not in any way.

     

    It's all about the philosophical debates. And not bombs.

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  19. Taste, actually

     

    It has a unique flavor that I like :shrugz:

    I know, I know, taste is subjective, but I can't help making fun of something so obviously begging to be made fun of.

     

     

    Anyway, some kind of apricot brandy (not normally my thing, alcohol trying to be sweet is like fire trying to be cold,) whose name I forget, surprisingly pretty good. I should probably look at the label sometime.

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