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The Adam's Apple seems quite prominent for a lady, but personally I don't think her chosen gender is any of my business. Then again I don't particularly care about her at all.

Trigger? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVwyij-0sOw

How much does a good introductory sequence contribute to this sense of anticipation?

Personally there are very few games that have sparked such a giddy feeling of excitement in my cold, dead heart, unsurprisingly: Ultima V&VI, from their brilliant introductions and throughout evoked that feeling. Diablo, surprisingly enough possessed that instant enchantment and atmosphere. Torment and Icewind Dale also made me smile in anticipation as they began, fingers waggling over the keyboard in excitement at the experience to come. Fallout of course, brimming with originality, style and innovation pleased me inordinately. Severance: Blade of Darkness possessed a lonely, magnificent atmosphere that I believe the Souls games have preserved. King of Dragon Pass, one of the areas that this game excels at, possibility and adventure to come. For me no Obsidian game has yet captured this atmosphere of thrilling at the adventures to come, and the possibilities that await, except New Vegas. That opening introduction and intriguing narrative, it enthralled me, and followed by the Couriers supposed death left me even more intrigued. It presented a setting and situation that I wanted to explore and immerse myself in. However I think Obsidian games have usually some early point in the narrative that grabs my attention, whether that is Alan Parker conspiring to steal secrets from Alpha Protocol, the Exile facing down Atris, finding the last resting place of the Tenth legion in the Mournweald, the finding of the first Silver Shard awakening a vague suspicion or what have you. Edit: The fourth chapter of the Witcher also qualifies I think, the real heart and soul of the game.

A fair point.

I can't really take Ms Lianna K seriously after her stating the female characters of the Witcher 2 are never shown to be hurt, despite Triss screaming in torment as she is transformed, Philippa's eyes being torn out, Loredo's mother being decapitated, the Trollwife being slaughtered, Sile exploding into gobbets of flesh, Moril being raped and abused for years etcetera, etcetera. The young lady just seems to cherry pick content to fit her own agenda, and discard everything that does not in almost exactly the same manner as Ms Sarkeesian. It's a rather pervasive form of judgement that's becoming more and more fashionable it seems. Her racist rhetoric towards eastern Europeans I find quite irritating as well, it's very popular to indulge in such demonisation, but I personally find it cheap, nasty and lazy. Edit: I have to admit I also think she's guilty of piggybacking on GG just as much as those she is accusing.

Finished Lords of the Fallen, there were surprisingly quite a few choices throughout the game, and they are shown to you in a Fallout-esque sequence at the end. All told I would say that the game is worth the investment, though the story disappoints simply because of its failure to seize on its own potential, I was personally never surprised at all by the narrative. The combat is however satisfying, and the progression is quite well balanced, though there are some enemies whom are rather cheap and irritating I feel that may have been down to the tactics I used not being suitable. Good loot, samey dull environments, good character advancement, maybe slightly overpowered rune socketing system, art design very stylised and down to subjective opinion. Pick it up at a moderate discount and I think you should be happy with the purchase. Might be best to wait a while for the insect life to be dealt with first however, they're rather prolific at the moment.

Do bears harass in the woods?

Humblest apologies for the double post, freebies: http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/32289-The-Witcher-3-Wild-Hunt-16-free-DLCs-for-everyone!

Oh I can't be bothered to trawl through all that, i'm not that invested or pathetic. Besides anybody can see through all the blatant bias and agenda pushing in a quick glance over it. Edit: That and these issues have been debated/debunked before and i've got a Guy to burn and fireworks to set up. The SJF's have provided me with a good chuckle for the night however, at least they have one use.

I've got to admit these attempts at logical analysis are extremely amusing, though in a rather tragic manner. Do elaborate, please. Lies, logical fallacies, blanket condemnations, unsubstantiated accusations, poor grasp of basic ethics, extremely shaky grasp on logical framebuilding, and a quite obvious bias towards the professional victims and the fascists...a rich tapestry of subject matter to laugh at. Edit: And now a melted face Nazi trying to paint somebody else in his own colours, i'm sorry but this is hilarious.

I've got to admit these attempts at logical analysis are extremely amusing, though in a rather tragic manner. I wonder why the writers cannot percieve how they are portraying themselves, is it simple stupidity or their fanaticism?

Wow, just wow. Arrogance, self righteousness, idiocy and disdain all rolled into one poorly written sentence. These are the people we are told to not challenge, critique, or question in any way, but simply listen to and believe. I can't see how anyone, no matter how much of an indoctrinated follower can in good conscience want to become a slave for these sneering morons.

So is this Gawkers masterstoke at sowing division, seems a little...weak. Edit: I assume everybody will just use both.

What i'm continually perplexed by is this claim that Mr Grayson's unethical behaviour has been debunked, when in reality it was proven by himself and his editor. He slept with a developer and thus caused a conflict of interest, this would be fine if he had informed his editor and recused himself. He did not thus his impartiality was compromised and he was guilty of misconduct, even if he never wrote a single word about her. Ms Hernandez' unethical behaviour was arguably worse. However Mr Totilo's covering for his journalists and denying any wrongdoing is in my opinion the most unethical behaviour, but that is subjective, whereas the former cases are proven and admitted unethical. Yet the same claim that these unethical actions have been debunked keep on cropping up, do the SJF's believe that repeating the same lie will make it true somehow? Mind you it doesn't really matter, when proven wrong they will simply shift the goalposts again, so that it's not about ethics or they're not bothered about that. Edit: Mr Chu came off as a paranoid hysteric in the above interview, Mr Pakman entirely reasonable.

For me it's quite simple, a bunch of (mainly) spoiled corrupt white men slandered and accused millions of men, women and children from all races, creeds and sexualities of being misogynistic, racist, homophobic etcetera. Quite reasonably these consumers protested as is their right, also their frustration with a medium that has been unfit fo purpose for many years had been steadily accumulating, prompting a ferocious reaction against this latest round of abuse. The gaming media tried to hide behind their supposed self righteousness, which is revealed by the makeup of their group to be bogus, and further demonised the millions they had allready slandered. Sinking to the level of schoolground taunts and hatemongering. But interestingly they also revealed their true fascistic agenda, which is not improvement of gaming (which has problems that are being overcome,) but censorship and control according to their biased, blatant and childish agenda. They do not want innovation, improvement or representation, they want blatant preaching and clumsy moralising that fits in with their pampered, privileged worldview. And for all to be forced to abide by the decisions of these few spoiled white children. Furthermore they want games to regress to badly written, non interactive graphical picture books, which are for them the height of technology. Quite frankly I can't see why anyone would want these morons, raving and gibbering nonsensically in the McIntosh Zone, to be allowed anywhere near game development. They're against game developers whom they slander, they're against a broad spectrum of players covering every demographic whom they feel free to villify and they're against the medium improving at all. That's just my personal view however.

I'm sure Mr Sawyer will get around to it at some time, especially if a Poe 2 is viable (and they wish to partake in this hassle again.) Personally I think it can add quite a few benefits to a game, I always thought Tiamat and Bahamut dissappearing from the skies of Krynn was quite a good dramatic scene in Dragons of Autumn Twilight, though I never particularly cared for the book or series all told. Edit: The observatory on Moonglow in Ultima also stands out as quite a nice and sometimes useful feature.

Ah much appreciated.

As a point of interest, if I may ask you ladies and gentlemen whom have played the beta: How much do you think that your characters efficiency is marred by not having access to the resources you will have (theoretically) built up throughout the rest of the game, up to the point where the beta begins?

I'm definitely with you on an increased focus on shield use Mr Sensuki, armies and combat have been built upon good use of the left arm, and methods of using and bypassing shields could build an entire talent tree in my opinion. For single combat it would be nice to see the effectiveness of the buckler actually translated into a game for once, rather than it being the poor mans choice of defense. Indeed maybe even spiked bucklers, or the Highlanders famous use of the Dirk in his Targe holding hand.

I sound like i'm proving Mr Infinitron right, but having watched your recent video which at the beginning showed stealth animations, my immediate thought was that this is how a combatant should approach combat (without the transparency of course.) Wary, watchful and in a combat ready stance, rather than running forward willy nilly. However that's only my preference however.

Ah I see, thank you for the information. Personally however I haven't found turn based combat systems to be limited or boring, in fact just the opposite, the sense of anticipation on the enemies turn and waiting for ones tactics to succeed or fail has always thrilled me. Even in pen and paper when one is waiting on the dice throw to delight or damn, there was always a great excitement to the move and counter move of turn based combat. I still hold TOEE and JA2 to be some of the finest combat systems i've ever experienced. This is not to denigrate the IE games RTWP system however, I relished the challenges of both the IWD's and BG2's spell intensive battles, the optimum use of ones pawns and selection of casting choices, and look forward to similar challenges in Poe.

As somebody whom has not yet played the beta (rather busy,) I have to admit that just watching Sensuki and others videos, the game does seem more suited to a turn based system. Especially with the use of so many skills from all the characters on screen. However i've not played it so may be mistaken.

The anti-GG are not still tolerating IMC are they? I mean the gentleman endorsed the genocide of six million men, women and children, they can't seriously be wanting such an individual supporting them, can they? If so then they have sunk further than I can believe.

Lords of the Fallen is a good game, gameplay wise at least. The bosses and environments are however a touch unimaginative, and the plot is disappointingly mundane considering all the potential that it could have, what with the dead god and his rising from torpor. The pc port is a touch unstable and somewhat hammered by the drm punishing players performance, as well as some other issues. All told i'd say that i'm happy with the purchase, it's no Severance but what is? Oh by the looks of it you may not be able to gather all lore and secrets in one playthrough, and you will be given three playthroughs with the same character so as to master Warrior, Rogue and Cleric classes.