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****As I said, heavy spoilers below, more specifically in regards to the end of Act II So I just finished Act II and I feel like an idiot. Did the research, did all the quests, came to the conclusion Thaos is trying to frame animancers for....some reason, Lady Webb says to get in with a group, I figure just to go with the Crucible Knights since they seem the least offensive (aka accepted organization, nothing outlandish about them), and then while speaking with the duc. I defend animancers. When he asks me what he would have me do, I say "Iunno menz they seem like nice enough dudes, give them a shot." In the back of my mind I was thinking "can't Thaos just like manipulate someone to make sure that doesn't happen?" I go for it anyways thinking "it's k, video game logic! I'm sure it'll be fine!" NOPE.avi Thaos kills the duc and I'm sitting there thinking "FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU." So I follow the quest and find that Lady Webb is dead aswell, and I'm just screaming "FUUUUUUUUUUUU" in my head because I'm naturally curious, I'm dying to know what Thaos' deal is, and I just lost every bit of support and every lead I had. Cept the one leading into Act III of course. So my question is, are these events set in stone? A part of me considered myself stupid, and thought if I were truly clever, I would've urged the duc to outlaw animancy for the time being, simply to appease to Thaos until I reach him, thus minimizing any bloodshed or quarrel in the meantime since he's EASILY capable of having his way. But I'm also a cynic and I know all roleplaying games (and games in general) have their limitations. My question is this: What did you choose to do and what was the result? Is it always the same? Or will any character who chooses to side against animancy find Thaos approaching you in a far more friendly way? Also, screw you Obsidian. I'm way too curious for this kind of thing. I wanna know this dude's motivations but it's starting to feel like I won't know until the very ending. And no, that's not an invitation to anyone reading to spoil that for me. :c I'll find it out myself.

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Would you like me to find better examples of actual "unethical journalism". The "SJWs" don't exactly have a monopoly on fighting trivial issues. Please do. As I've said before, I'm not behind GamerGate because I find corrupt games journalism the pinnacle of importance. I'm behind it because it shows a resilience that you don't often see from these kinds of movements; Wikileaks and Occupy Wall Street are far more important in scope and yet they're (mostly) memories now. Wikileaks released some interesting tidbits just recently, yet it's not something that comes up in the mainstream news or something that gets talked about, I guess because people feel like they won't actually get anything done? Something about GamerGate (maybe the fact it's opposition includes pathological liars, alcoholics and people that can't control their emotions or seem mentally unstable, so not exactly tough opposition. Not referring to random people opposed to GG btw, referring to journalists and other notable names) is resilient. I just hope that once Kotaku and Polygon are dying off, it continues on to ABC, BBC and MSNBC.

I initially hated New Vegas and wanted the simple-mindedness of FO3 when I started, endured it and learned more about the game and the story of New Vegas, then it became my favorite game ever. This was my second Obsidian game and sure enough I struggled with the combat and the beginning had me in those typical fantasy convos where the characters are like "I worship the God uasiuhsdguashg and I grew up in sajhyxhgghs" and I'm like "UUUUUUUUUUUGHHHH NOT GONNA REMEMBER THIS," but again I knew to tough it out and now I'm having plenty of fun with minimal complaints.

You disagree because it's wrong, or because you love banana's? I'd seriously like to hear some counter-crits here as the OP has pointed out some factual issues. It's kind of hard to counter points since he really didn't make any. SNIP I just wanted to hear some real counters, not another "you just suck at this game go play something else" response. I don't have the game myself so I like to see these points actually debated. I find that a lot of times someone's gripe about a game is something I would really like. Different strokes. Yeah I get where you're coming from and agree entirely, was merely pointing out OP unfortunately didn't make many points. All I'll say is combat is a bit wonky and unorthodox and takes some getting used to, but once you're used to it, you're fine. If you're hoping for a game to challenge your skills, this isn't it, though it can potentially challenge your strategical thinking.

My point is I find it difficult to buy the "GamerGate is about misogyny" mantra when I can find better examples of actual misogyny when clicking random vids in my recommended list. Reason I bothered showing it is cause as I said, apparently "Gold digger prank" is a thing, not just one video. I also don't see the women as children, I see the men who buy this **** as children. Not fond of the video or it's little corner of youtube because it feeds off dudes who just got denied by a girl with the result being the dude can kiss his romantic career goodbye while women get offended and everyone loses. Don't get me wrong, the dudes have every right to make that prank vid, I just find the comments on it concerning. Another absolutely blatant case of misogyny? Look up Tommy Sotomayor on Youtube. Black guy who thinks black women are the devil and every vid he ever made involves calling them garbage. I researched him once because I could tell something was off, turns out he knocked up a woman and has to pay child support, and apparently he's to childish to live with that, the result being the bitter man he is who rants about an entire gender of an entire race. And again such examples remain unchallenged while we discuss the ever meaningful topics such as if the heels on Samus' boots imply the entire gaming community is deeply sexist. Ya ok sure, I'll buy that...

Wow and here I thought the "bad translation" would be like how sometimes a friend will tell me I word my sentences slightly different from how a German would and that gives away my dual citizenship, so I assumed maybe the translators might do the same as me and just speak weird, but ultimately be comprehensible. This though? I lol'ed.

You disagree because it's wrong, or because you love banana's? I'd seriously like to hear some counter-crits here as the OP has pointed out some factual issues. It's kind of hard to counter points since he really didn't make any. He said "the system is ****." Ok, how? For examples he named that you can't put stat points where ever you please and did not give an example of when a build is absolutely not viable, or when a class would suffer from deviating from it's "meta." The only two concrete complaints made are against Monks (which sadly I've yet to try so I can't comment) and saying the constant pauses are dumb. The latter is a case where I would agree this game could function just fine if it were turn-based instead, it's merely a matter of preference. Turn-based would result in less awkward pacing (pausing at random intervals) but slower gameplay overall cause you'd be sitting through easy fights re-assigning basic auto-attack every turn, waiting for them to end. It's quid pro quo with both having their downsides. All I can offer is: OP, what have you tried and what have you not? Are you using formations to keep your tanks in front? Are you spamming your per-encounter abilities or abilities on classes like Cipher that can afford to spam? Do you focus targets down? I'm actually new to isometric RPGs and I'm playing on normal. First two characters I would die to wolves and the like because I wasn't really doing any of that. Experimented a bit, now I'm tempted to crank the game up to hard difficulty tbh. My only lingering complaint would be more that if you're looking to truly challenge yourself, I don't know that I would consider Pillars a game of challenge, seeing as how ultimately you can pause time and micromanage as much as neccesary. It's merely a matter of how patient you are to do so. Yknow, kind of like how many Dark Souls fights boil down to your patience to wait for absolutely safe windows, or do you give in to impatience and try some risky ones aswell. That philosophy applies here. The strategy aspects however are pretty good. I've been pleasantly surprised with them, cause honestly my combat expectations for this game were low.

Why don't SJWs go after some of the pranking community instead? It's so clearly staged and it's sad to see the amount of comments on the video of guys thinking all women are like this, let alone that the video is real. Now I've got a tone of "Gold Digger prank" videos, each more fake than the last, followed by a bunch of dumbasses convincing themselves all women are like this to cover up for their own social ineptitudes.

So as you all know, sometimes you come across a boss sort of fight where there's a "transition" and you're teleported into the room just in front of you to have a chat with the big bad. Screen just goes black a second and then all of your guys are standing where the game wants them to. The problem? The game seems to use the default formation and defaults the order to the order in which you recruited people for your party with the earliest recruits going up front. Without getting too spoilery I don't think, the first recruit you pick up isn't exactly a tank, and any tanks you may have further back might find it that much harder to get to the front. This also means that if you're a mage or something squishy yourself, then in any fight that results from a transition, you're in front and vulnerable. Essentially the result is that these boss fights with transition phases can be made infinitely harder simply because you have no influence over your formations when you enter the room. If you'd tweaked your formations, it doesn't matter. Is this intended? Am I missing something and there is a way to edit this? Or is this truly just "lol have fun with your mages in front" and it's expected to be part of the difficulty? It just seems kinda lame to me. I just had one of these fights and immediately lost a mage and a cleric due to formations alone. Survived and won, but that hardly seemed neccesary or "sporting" of the game.

Ya bro u just gotta collect enough dragon souls. Can respec your Thu'um too after level 8.

*Depending on where he lives. Though of course I don't believe he resides in a country like the Netherlands or Germany that legalizes and provides support for prostitutes. Also, hello everyone. What the HELL are we talking about?

ur so deep men

Bleak Walker demands you take confrontational dialog such as Aggressive and Cruel, this does not neccesarily equate with evil. For example Gilded Vale has a side quest involving a fight over the wheat production or whatever. Can tell you from experience the miller reacts positively to aggressive dialog. But of course there will also be cases where your aggressive nature will set someone off and block off a peaceful resolution. To be fair, I actually think I've encountered a quest where the honest and benevolent responses got me a "wrong" ending in that the guilty party got away.

Yes

Yeah update seems to be your edition bonuses. I had Champion I think and I didn't need to restart Steam and it's showing all of the stuff as DLC now.

OMG GUIS KEN U BELIEVE OBSIDIAN? WE BACKED UR PROJECT RLY EARLY AND PAID OUR MONIES, OUR HARD ERNED MONIES, AND THIS IS HOW U TREAT US??? FIRST U MAKE US WAIT AND DUN GIVE US PRESS COPIES A WEEK IN ADVANCE LIKE U DID WITH THE JOURNALISTS, NOW YOU ACTUALLY MAKE US WAIT AN EXTRA HOUR DUE TO MISHAPS. I MEAN WTF? I HAVE NEVER BEEN TREETED DIS POORLY BY ANY COMPANY EVER EXCEPT ALL OF THEM ESPECIALLY EA. I AM APPAULED BY THIS OBSIDIAN, DIS IS NOT OK. 0/10, WORST COMPANY EVER. I WISH U GUYS WENT BANKRUPT NOW N I WANT REFUND

I'm on an updating phase now. The Unpacking one seems to jump around and isn't that long. The update phase is 15 mins for me. Again, maybe simply restarting Steam skips this?

So if I restart steam does it skip this unpacking step that Steam says will take an hour? I actually has a ladyfriend entertaining me atm so I lucky and I THINK I CAN MANAGE TO WAIT, but I just curious and asking for the sake of any impatient people in the thread.

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Let's hope that it's.... Worth the Weight YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

WHY GABEN WHY???

I expect it to be playable when this song ends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ3CYLU3zTA

EDIT: Ok 6 minutes now but you get the point. :c

If only the USA would learn to focus their time and energy on good causes and help liberate neighboring countries, yknow like Russia does.