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Planescape: Torment supposedly enhanced edition being hinted at by Beamdog? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Dennis Nilsen would agree.

The kerfuffle near parliament yesterday reminded one of the far more devastating and targeted attacks of the IRA in my youth, so last night after the few hours of delay caused by the suicidal coward I finally got home and began watching "Harry's Game." A fantastic little 80's thriller about a terrorist attack, the aftermath, and the retribution meted out. Really quite good.

Finished, unimpressed to say the least, the game fails as a Torment successor pretty spectacularly. I seem to have missed a lot of the content promised in the Kickstarter as well, the Aquatic City, extra companions, extra Tides etcetera.

Codex editorials and reviews are worth checking out and trump most professional sites, the Watch is better for news on a daily basis, but most sites are laughable such as the supposed "experienced developers" of Extra Credits blathering on about what's fashionably regressive or blatantly obvious. RPS (though worthless on the whole) still has Mr Cobbett's column on RPGs I believe, and at least the man has played a few of the better ones, rather than being a blinkered Bethtard.

It has no effect on the three pillars of "core" gameplay* so it can be safely discarded as so much has been over the last few decades. *Those being trash mobs, trash loot and trash talking of course.

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment!

I'm currently playing Planescape: Torment and enjoying walking through Sigil, with different animations and rigs for each companion, a pity that this is beyond modern games.

Reminds one of Shodan's mockery.

Perhaps this is a matter best left to the legal system? Even if we all secretly believe that lawyers are lifeforms slightly below navel fluff (and the comparisons to sharks are unduly demeaning to those noble animals) sometimes they really do get results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_8TVvFmFs

"Alternative facts." Is this the scientific term for Wikipedia?

Reminds me of an old joke: An Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman find a genie in a lamp, it grants each of them a wish: The Scotsman asks for a Hadrian's Wall to be rebuilt on the borders, but a thousand feet high with no entrances or exits. The Englishman offended asks for that wall to surround all of England so that Johnny Foreigner can't get in. The Irishman nodding along the whole time asks for the walled enclave to be filled with water.

Severance: Blade of Darkness. Fancied a little masterfully executed combat, set to a beautiful soundtrack, with a sprinkling of Zoroastrian weirdness. Have limited myself to makeshift weapons however, stools, enemies limbs, bones and what have you to ramp up the challenge until I gain the sword of Ianna. You know looking through the game files i'm pretty sure there might be a near salvageable stealth section in the tutorial, very interesting.

For me the Blade Runner is not the character I wish to know about, it's his prey and antagonist that i'm interested in, and somehow I doubt anyone can match Mr Hauer. Edit: I wish someone would re-release/remaster (not desecrate) the video game with Clovis and company.

Almost decided to back based on what was shown in the announcement video but i'm afraid i'll have to pass: Firstly because I thought Poe was mediocre and a step back for Obsidian, and secondly because I wouldn't touch Fig (or anything Tim Schafer has a hand in for obvious reasons) with a bargepole. However I will keep an eye on the title and wish Obsidian the best of luck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhImZbroIg

If I ever meet a manly man i'll ask him.

I think the biggest question on my mind when bearding this forum is why everybody is spelling mystery as mystary?

More and more i'm looking for enthusiasm and drive when interviewing candidates, as any job can be taught (even to the less bright,) but an idle, shiftless worker will remain such however he is treated. One funny fact, one of our security chaps, a Polish gentleman of no real academic substance, is the go to individual when it comes to English spelling and grammar at our firm. My father would be turning in his grave considering his works on grammar, but I was never really interested in that topic, successful communication I think hardly needs such formality.

If I may ask is that the English or Colonial Civil War? I've always wanted to play/face off against the Man of Blood, Prince Rupert, Cromwell, Fairfax, the NMA etcetera. Not to say that the American conflict was uninteresting, far from it, but I feel that our internal conflict is rather overlooked.

A good game but not what I would call a continuation of the first.

Diablo, thought i'd have a goosey at the latest mods for the old classic, quite impressive really. It's a pity Blizzard couldn't make a real sequel to the game, they just don't seem to have the ability or desire to emulate that claustophobic, tense and horrific atmosphere anymore. Ah well Tristram endures.

A word of caution, Arcanum is in some ways fundamentally broken, it is undeniably ugly even for the period, and some of the mechanics (such as trapfinding) are infuriating. That said however the game offers massive amounts of reactivity, a narrative that unfolds masterfully, characters who are extremely interesting (though sometimes mechanically useless,) a setting that is very well made and cohesive, and ambition by the bucketload. A divisive game that is not for everyone, and also empty of many modern idiot proof measures, so exploration and experimentation still play a part instead of following the big flashing lights.

Finished Farscape with the Peacekeeper Wars, quite a satisfying ending I must admit, the series itself was up, down and around in terms of quality and cohesion but I thought they went out on quite a high.

The Box of Delights, first a readthrough of the novel then a watch of the old television adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BxxdE9GvZc