The Sharmat

On PotD most of the figurine summons just melt instantly by the time you reach fights you might be tempted to cheese.

Why single out the women? Everyone is ugly in DA:I. The facial proportions are weird and everyone seems to be excreting a thick sheen of oil.

Since Gandalf was a Maiar technically you could consider any relationship he might have in middle earth bestiality.

While I don't get the obsession with companions'sexuality in the first place (well actually I think I do, I just don't like it) why would the actor's sexuality have anything to do with the characters? Straight actors play gay characters all the time, and vice versa.

If you shrug at her, she disobeys her superiors. When I did it, she did exactly what her superiors wanted. Glitch, or working as designed? If the latter, kudos to Obsidian.

Ironically Ciri wasn't gay in the books, just raped by someone that was. Also Beyond the Sea forgot about Philippa. And Geralt has nothing to do with Elric, please stop spreading this stupid meme Moor****. EDIT: I can't spell the author's name because part of it is also the word for a male chicken which is coincidentally used as a synonym for **** in colloquial English. But I can say "raped". Good going word filter. EDIT of the EDIT: I also can't use totally neutral medical terminology to describe a component of the male reproductive system. I guess that pretty much sums up the thread. Americans are ****ing weird about sex.

Yeah it does that but it's very inconsistent and a huge pain.

Obsidian has got to do something about the nested quotes issue on these boards.

Extremely basic question but playing with the idea of doing a multiclass melee wizard first. How does stat progression work for multiclassing? How do they decide the endurance and accuracy per level? The defenses?

Complaining because you might miss something because of sexual orientation feels like complaining the game reacts differently to choosing different races or classes to me. Replay the game, or don't and switch to a genre that doesn't even pretend to cater to roleplaying.

Has GoG ever done preloading? I don't have much experience with galaxy which I assume is how they'd do it. Good news for all of us in the Americas or Australia not associated with an urban center.

You overclocked a laptop?

To be fair that's true of any given moment for Michael Kirkbride.

Some people are very, very good at these kinds of games. PotD was just right for me personally until the last few areas where overleveling led to embarassing the Eyeless and Thaos. But others had problems long before then.

What if you've been in a coma for many years and this is all a dream about a game you never actually played?

Considering that Pillars 1 companions' stats were based more on personality and abilities than optimizing for their party role, this might give us some idea what the companions are like in dialogue. I hope this means Xoti actually has some interesting convos about Eothas with the high int and all. I'll be disappointed if it amounts to another NPC that exists to be proven wrong by the player and then romanced into submission.

What if Mass Effect was never all that good, just a fairly shallow series with very high production values (until the third game...)

Best Pallegina ending is the one where she gets expelled for disobeying orders but then recalled because the empowered Dyrwoodans immediately kick the Republics' collective asses in a war proving she was right all along. That said the "companion finally stands up for what he/she thinks is right" story arc has started to fall flat for me lately when I look back on how many of them only happen because the player character tells them to do it. That's neither standing up for yourself or doing what YOU think is right. It's just another form of doing what someone else wants.

There isn't a consensus. There's never a consensus about Pillars. Josh, in his infinite wisdom, has balanced every facet of the game so perfectly that opinions are always divided into a flawless 50/50 split.

No reason you couldn't have a skip whatever line is currently playing button, just no one ever develops that.

If you say so. I was just replying to what was directly above my post.

I mean, you're probably right, but there's definitely something about repeating sound bytes that makes you gellarde! Well done. A formidable fortress in the old style. We don't build them like this anymore, you know. Not by the sea. Too vulnerable to cannons. The difference between examples is you can't hit a button to make Pallegina shut up but you can click past the text almost as soon as it pops up.

I like longer expansions. Frequently they actually provide a better game than the base game because devs understand the tools better, and they are cause to improve the base game. However, business wise they seem to be an artifact of the past. Devs repeatedly say it would just be better to release a sequel than a long expansion. This isn't just Obsidian; HBS saw a lot more sales when they released Dragonfall standalone. I don't really think so. Both Witcher 3 Expansions did fantastically. Witcher 3 led up to them with a chain of bite seized free DLC to keep up market hype. And Hearts of Stone was fairly short. Which is ironic since I actually liked it much better than Blood and Wine and I normally prefer larger expansions.

Hm, I got a decent ending for Kana without outright lies. Just focused on the good the Engwithans managed to accomplish amidst the bad and talk up the whole experience of discovery even if the end result didn't agree with what he set out to find. As for the hobo philosopher thing, well, Rauatai is in a nationalist mood. Just because he says something true doesn't make it popular I guess.

Well we don't exactly have anything like the Pocket Guide to the Empire from Daggerfall. Which is just as well since everything post-Morrowind ignores it entirely, so it really accomplished nothing but to taunt us with a far more interesting fantasy world than we ever got. Lorebooks and Codexes usually end up that way.