Wintersong

Yeah, no. TB is archaic and the reasons for it existing in the first place ceased to be some time ago. I get that there is a solid core of nostalgia sufferers out there, but the market has moved on. Time to embrace the change and relish a fresh new dawn of multi-core processors and multi-GB machines. Why do you support this game with its 2D backgrounds? We have the tech for 3D, right? At this point, 3D or bust!!! And with enviromental destruction (like in Firaxis' XCOM)! You could have 400 cores, 20 top-of-the-line graphic cards and all the tech you want in a computer. Yet some people would still like 2D, turn based or any other "archaic" stuff you seem to selectively despise. You may as well say that TBS games should die because we arleady got RTS ones.

The game shouldn't police the lack of will of some people to not cheat. If someone wants to cheat (or whatever), he will find the way. Even on ironman. To me, someone bragging on playing Ironman is the equivalent of "Look at me, I need this option because if not I'll cheat!!". These days, playing ironman on PC? Sorry, not as trusty (as evidence of "gaming purity") as it might have been back in the day. Plus, single player game!!! Checkpoint saving system a la Shadowrun Returns sucks. Game, good. Save system, bad.

Are we talking the equivalent of KoDT's "Chelsie the Magic Cow"?

Nothing more than "I backed it under Kickstarter" (also, IIRC, the KS bonuses are somewhat better than the "retail" bonuses for the various tiers -- nothing major, just an extra item or two, e.g. 2x or 3x digital game keys on top of the "boxed version" instead of 1 or 2.) "I pledged to PE before it was mainstream."

Life is life. People are ****. Except those who aren't. We should get realistic (within the Pillars of Eternity universe), fleshed out endings that match the possible consequences of their storiline. Not cliches added just to cater some folks.

The expansion should require less people to work with and the sequel.. let's not rush things, huh? Annual "Call of Eternity"? I daydream of Aliens but Star Wars would be nice too. But any sci-fi would be sweet. Getting a sci-fi equivalent of Baldur's Gate like game would be awesome. Some non western fantasy is a nice option too (why no one makes a Legend of the Five Rings cRPG? ).

"Aliens" RPG. Call them "Xenos" and change some traits to avoid copyrights and give us that which SEGA killed. Something in The Dark Tower universe. Futurama RPG!!!! I mean, you have South Park so... Just make sure that you wait enough time for me to save some money first, ok??? I cannot suppor any KS if Monies == 0.

I completed the Pledge thing (after many attempts). No K badge though.

Who doesn't want more if it's good? But to a point, having delays because of them... well, no. I don't need the game to be uber expansive. I don't mind them being added later. There is an expansion planned so I would find ok to have extra content added to the base game at the same time as the expansion or some time before it. Just no exclusive stuff, ok? Any addition should reach every player that buys the game (supported on Kickstarter, buy on release day, buy on Steam sales...). I hope that there is no chainmail bikini. If something as stupid should be in, make it a chainmail mankini. A horde of muscled, sweating barbarians on chainmail mankinis would be fitting.

I love and hate Obsidian. Y U tease me to spend more money??? And not just expansion pack but also Wasteland 2. Well played, Obsidian. Well played.

Single player game. If someone wants to "abuse" the save/load features, let him/her/it. You can play Iroman mode without it existing in game, just don't load on character death. You cannot control yourself? The problem lies in you, not the game. You cannot control yourself about loading the game whenever something you dislike happen? Your problem again. If someone pretends to ask me if I load on character death the answer is: yes, I do. I want to finish the story and prefer my possible replays to be based on trying different stuff (story/combat) rather than trying to finish the game because I died to some random roll by that fraking archer over there. in BG it was unfair that I could revive the NPCs but if my character died my party would ignore me and the game would end (WTF dudes?). NPCs deads in BG were to be avoided to avoid wasting time traveling here and there (lazy, guilty me), and the dead of the main character because it was unfair (if you have a revive system, it must be for all or bust!). I remember playing Xenogears and how after two hours of long battles and endless cinematics, I was still waiting to be able to SAVE and praying that light wouldn't go off or something, otherwise I'd have gone berserk with the thought of having to repeat everything again and spend another couple of hours to be able to save my experiences with the company of charge of the light makes me quite paranoid so I save really often if the game allows it (that doesn't mean that I'm constantly quitting FTL so I can save because FTL is designed to be replayed so losing a game doesn't really hurt, but in RPGs I save constantly). What I do saving/loading affects no one else but me. If I decided to exit FTL after each successful jump so the game autosaves, make a back up copy of the file and then start the game and continue playing, repeating the operation after each successful jump... none of your business. It doesn't mean that FTL is bad designed (it's quite awesomely well done). Is a game bad designed if someone hacks the values in the memory to alter stuff like HPs or gold? Should developers develop their games to prevent that stuff too? I'll only say... *reads up* er... If Obsidian wants to add a save point system, at least design it well and have the whole game take that into account. If you give me Xenogears flashbacks, I'm flying to Obsidian's office and be mean. Very mean.

As long as I can name my pet as Menchi...

Ah, true. They finally gave a Paypal account. My bad.

You are not billed till the Kickstarter ends. Then Kickstarter, through Amazon Payments, tries to collect the pledged money. Most go fine but it's quite common for some payments to fail.

Maybe yes. Or maybe not.

Obsidian can develop their own Achievement system. Yeah, they have to develop it and such, but don't be lazy!!! Once it's done, you can reuse it for other games (tweaking/improving as needed). You already do that for your engines. Cloud saving? Many Torchlight 2 users may have not been so happy about some of its issues. Not that cloud saving is bad per se but failures that can lead to outdated saves in the cloud overwriting your newest saved games in the harddrive are not funny. At all. I'll suppose that some techs could prevent that from happening?

Yeah, no kidding. Anyone that doesn't want to use Steam is a pirate. Me and all my original non Steam games* feel offended tough. Curious how The Witcher 2, despite being massively pirated, still made good money. * some dozens versus my four Steam games, including my currently FTL Steam version... which I use only because the beta used Steam (the devs gave us Steam and gog.com keys though )

Ecology. More precisely, animals. Being it a new IP, do we get new animals or are we stuck with the overused horses, cows, dogs, etc? I suppose that overusing pines and such it's ok. No one notices them. Altough my previous paragraph is not quite serious, I'd really like to know about animals and if we get new ones that don't fall into the "monster" camp. Maybe Cooshees (Elven Hounds)? Green dogs ftw! About increasing the pledge, there could be a small/remote chance of an expansion being added. If that was the case, that would be the only real thing able to make me consider increasing it (and bleed in the process, if I manage to increase it).

If they are not added as race, then as pet: Wendersnaven! Imagine all the resources saved in its implementation and all the funny dialog when talking with other people about it.

I'd prefer a feature to order pizza online. I'd certainly use it quite more. TL;DR: No.

In the video, it seems like the wizards are the poor people that was screwed by the system. But while it's true that once used their spells they had nothing to do besides trying their luck using some ranged weapon, fighters didn't have anything else going on for them besides keeping swinging their frakking weapon!!! Oh, and once in a while add some point in weapon proficiencies. D&D 3+ improved it for fighters but people prefer think more of BG1&2 so... Personally, I don't think that a fighter should be able to keep on fighting all day and I don't think that a wizard (or spellcaster of any kind) should be able to keep casting spells all day. Heroic or not, it's ridiculous. So Vancian or not, cooldowns or not, just lower combat efficency the more the characters combat without taking some short of break. That's why I prefer stamina bars to control/balance: cast/use whatever you want as much as you want as long as you have the stamina for it, but once you are out of stamina you are too tired to move a finger in combat. So space your combats or die (specially while swimming like in Wizardry). A spellcaster having some basic spammable spell? I do think that it makes sense. Either that or you give the spellcaster some combat skills worth the name. One spellcaster without combat skills should be more proficient with his arcane art (more spells, less cooldowns, basic spammable spells...), while one that has some skills in combat wouldn't have that extra skill in his magic abilities. "Combat skills" in AD&D terms would something like better THACO, weapon/rmor proficiencies, etc. Meanwhile, don't forget to make sure that fighters have more stuff to do in combat that rolling to attack (and for damage if they hit). Soul powah or not. Exclusive pet? No problem there. Why? Because it's eye candy that does nothing. I remember Shawdowrun Returns suggesting at some point to have an adventure/quest exclusive to Kickstarters. The idea was shot down because that it's actually unfair. One thing is a little piece of eye candy that does nothing and another quite different is to keep exclusive something big like an adventure. In any case the pet will end being modded in most surely, so it may seem better to just give it to everyone. *shrug*

The Little Soul That Could. The Simpsouls. Soulrama. Soul Trek.

I'd like to think that if they offer classes, companions and such as stretch goals, is because they have really looked into it basedon their experience in the field and seen it as possible. **** happens but as long as they don't burn the money in sending physical goodies to the backers (hi there, Star Command for iOS) and keep the developing process controlled, it shoud be ok. They may have to tweak stuff and if that case happens, I think that Obsidian would talk about it, look for alternatives and prepare the circle of protection against the incoming wave of berserkers. But remove? Wow, it'd have to be something really serious if we talk just design/implementation. Otherwise, it's about "We bought too many barbecue pizzas, Feargus! Again!".

Scrolls.... Scrolls... Scrolls... The new logo has lots of snakes in it. Kind of "cute". With an outer sun? I liked the other a lot (composition and colours) but this one is ok too.

Ancient Warfare?