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I want to believe. There is nothing to believe, game is made by different company, different studio and different team (although producer of game is one of founders of Microïds). Although there is always hope that new team can produce worthy sequel.

With third party exclusives one knows always that deal is timed, because otherwise it is first party tittle. And therefore one can be quite sure that at least bigger tittles will come to at least some other platforms, because it would be quite poor business strategy for company not to sell their product on markets where there are demand for it. Buying several years or even several months worth of exclusivity for tittle in current console market (beginning of generation cycle) is quite effective way to get people buy one console over another. Later in this console generation cycle such deals become much less effective, as there will be much less people that plan to buy new console.

So I would not take anything that companies say in their public statements at their face value. Except that wasn't an official statement? That was a forum post. It's like Sawyer or Adam telling us something. It is post for public by person acting in her position as CEO of company, so I would say it is public statement from Paizo, even if it isn't full blown press release. Companies can be very genuine in their public statements, but lots things can change even in couple months that will change their plans or cause plans to fall through. When Sawyer or Adam tell us something it is usually considering details about projects that they are working on, not deals that Obsidian is planing with other companies, which makes what they much less volatile. Except that deal is a reality right now. Something she is working on. It isn't any different. And again Pazio isn't Nokia. They are a (comparativly) small company as well. It maybe something she is working towards now, or something that is already agreed, or something that is planed, or something that she hopes to become reality. But anyway there is always possibility that deal falls through because of change in circumstances, which is one major reasons why companies are quite reluctant to make announcements about their projects until they can be nearly absolute sure that project will be completed (like for example this card game that is soon in state that they can give gameplay demo for public, which means that they have already done lots of work with it, before today's announcement). And her statement don't differentiate that much of that of Paradox CEO who said that he hopes their partnership with Obsidian will produce lots more games addition to PoE, but currently there is nothing to announce (not direct quote, but my paraphrasing).

So I would not take anything that companies say in their public statements at their face value. Except that wasn't an official statement? That was a forum post. It's like Sawyer or Adam telling us something. It is post for public by person acting in her position as CEO of company, so I would say it is public statement from Paizo, even if it isn't full blown press release. Companies can be very genuine in their public statements, but lots things can change even in couple months that will change their plans or cause plans to fall through. When Sawyer or Adam tell us something it is usually considering details about projects that they are working on, not deals that Obsidian is planing with other companies, which makes what they much less volatile.

We don't actually know if the crpg isn't being worked on as well. As I posted No details to announce doesn't mean if said crpg isn't in a very early stage of production. Considering she says "will" it hints actually more at something concrete. (That's the CEO by the way) Companies have inner life that is much different of their public statements. Lets take Nokia (which I am very familiar with) as example. They said in public statements after they hired Elop as their CEO that they don't have plans to abandon Symbian OS in their smartphone OS in any time soon in future, but five months after Elop begin as Nokia's CEO, Nokia announced that it will abandon Symbian OS and replace it with Microsoft's Windows Phone OS. Then Nokia said that it don't have plans to close its factories in Finland, but again after few months those were closed. Then both Nokia and MS both said in their public statements that there is no plans to sell or buy Nokia's cell phone unit until day they released public statement that MS will buy Nokia's cell phone unit and that they had bargains for that deal at least last six months. So I would not take anything that companies say in their public statements at their face value.

Bonus points for showing PC controls, but it seems to be some sort online multiplayer hack&slash ARPG combination, so it is possibility that they will not release it on consoles. As game it don't seem such that interest me as I am not big fan of multiplayer only games.

To me it armor models look mostly fine, although I think that chain mail on female aumaua descent fire godlike is probably scaled one or two numbers too big where plate armor is scaled one or two numbers too small. As in my understanding Obsidian didn't make different equipment models for every race and sized characters, but instead they use algorithm that automatically scales equipment models to fit for different sized characters. So I would guess that they haven't yet fine tuned every piece of equipment for all the character models, which can make some pieces of equipment look bit out of proportion on some character models. But I would hold your judgement towards equipment proportions until you see them on human models (which I think are models that artists probably used to model those equipments), and if they look fine on them, but not on some other race then I would say that problem is with scaling and not with models themselves.

As there is no publisher in those posters, I would guess that it is either crowd funded game or something other than crpg. Because I don't think that either Obsidian or Paizo has enough funds to pay development of crpg, even one of size of PoE.

With 500k dollars you can hire 5-10 people to work your game for year, so I wouldn't say that it is meaningless difference.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2014/08/06/epanelepsis-the-deer-god-wasteland-2-creators-kickstarter/2/

That is true also for profits from regular sales, although early access could work as way to market the game. Actually, its budget was exactly the same as PoE's. Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-07-03-divinity-original-sin-larian-studios-fastest-selling-game-ever I don't think DOS is any prettier than PoE though. I'd say the character models are just as good in both games and PoE's gorgeous 2d backgrounds don't look any worse than DOS' 3d world. 4 million euros is about 5.3 million dollars.

In my understanding currently you can't any more get any rewards that were meant for KS campaign. Game will be in Paradox's high end catalog, which usually means that it will cost in release something from $40-$55 depending on where you buy it.

But both you boys have left out Risen 3 from your list? You are allowed to add it even if its not part of the original 3 options I didn't like two previous ones very much, so I probably buy it from some sale in next year or year after that.

Currently it looks that I will play them in following order Wasteland 2 (As it comes out in nearly of begin of September, and currently it looks that it is only new game in that month that I will play, as Civ BE was moved in October) Dragon Age Inquisitor (Currently coming out 21 of November) Pillars of Eternity (Currently don't have fixed release date, but Obsidian has said it will come out in this winter, so if it comes out before DA:I then I will play it before DA:I)

Later scenario is only one that I have succeed to find.

Your definitions for those words aren't what people generally define them to mean. Merriam-Webster uses following definitions Homophobia: irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals Racism: poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race Oxford dictionaries uses following definitions Homophobia: An extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people. Racism: The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior: Dictionary.com uses following definitions: Homophobia: unreasoning fear of or antipathy toward homosexuals and homosexuality. And intense hatred or fear of homosexuals or homosexuality Racism: a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. Wikipedia.com uses following definitions: Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). It can be expressed as antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, or hatred, may be based on irrational fear, and is sometimes related to religious beliefs. Racism consists of both prejudice and discrimination based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. It often takes the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently. Anti-Defamation League - ADL uses following definitions: Homophobia is the hatred or fear of homosexuals - that is, lesbians and gay men - sometimes leading to acts of violence and expressions of hostility. Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another. Wiktionary uses following definitions: Homophobia Fear, dislike or hatred of gays and lesbians. Racism: The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes. The belief that one race is superior to all others. Prejudice or discrimination based upon race. Origin of word homophobia Homophobia Society's rethinking of sexual orientation was crystallized in the term homophobia, which heterosexual psychologist George Weinberg coined in the late 1960s. Weinberg used homophobia to label heterosexuals' dread of being in close quarters with homosexuals as well as homosexuals' self loathing. The word first appeared in print in 1969 and was subsequently discussed at length in Weinberg's 1972 book, Society and the Healthy Homosexual. Point of origin for racism is more difficult to determine, but Oxford English Dictionary first defined it as "[t]he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race", and gives year 1936 as the first recorded use for it. Additionally, the OED records racism as a synonym of racialism: "belief in the superiority of a particular race".

Warhammer and Warhammer 40k both (WH40k more often than WH) have in places very interesting lore, even though it is very inconsistent and has often quite radical changes between editions, but at least there is always something fresh.

Games are form of media and I would say that it's just denying the truth if you say that media that we consume don't effect on how we view the world, which why it's quite important in my opinion that we look critically media that we consume and messages that it tell, because then there is actually chance that we have something to say in how media influences us and our world view.

Tolkien didn't have singular source for his version of orcs. In his letters he says that he get inspiration from poem Beowulf (which used Old English word orcneas that used for children of Cain, demons, evil spirit, bogey) for both name orc and what kind race they are. And his essay about Elvish languages he says that orc means evil spirit or bogey, and says that Old English word orcneas origins from Latin word Orcus - god of underworld. This of course don't mean that he didn't put some traits from German soldiers in them, even though he don't admit such thing in his explanations, because it's hard to not let your life experiences to influence you especially when they are something as dramatic as fighting in war. In one of his letter Tolkien describes orcs "...they are (or were) squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes; in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types." Tolkien's writings also reveal that he hadn't locked down origin of orcs, as he had multiple different theories that changed from text/book to text/book. There is lots of papers written in this subject and racism as whole about LotR, that I would people that are interested read at least some Here two that don't need any subscription any service that provides academic papers. http://www.readperiodicals.com//201009/2224380021.html https://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/BI/honors251c/tol.pdf

There is always possibility that lion decides to adopt your antelope and protect antelope against attackers including its own master/companion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSJYIEk5n6o

In my understanding Bioware Austin is separate entity from those EA's entities that were Bioware before EA bought it. Bioware is now term that EA puts all its entities that do RPG-like games. Like for example Mythic become Bioware Mythic, although they dropped Bioware just before they closed it down in 2014. Bioware now consist from Bioware Canada, which consist from Bioware Edmonton (which is closest thing that comes to original Bioware) and Bioware Montreal (which was formed in 2009 to assist Bioware Edmonton, but now it is responsible of next Mass Effect game), Bioware Austin (they did Star Wars Old Republic, with some assistance Bioware Edmonton, and they will do this game which teasers you can find from OP) and Waystone Studio was moved under Bioware, their first game and game that they are currently developing is Dawngate. And there has been three other studios that have been part of Bioware under EA, but are now closed. Previously mentioned Mythic (they did among other things Warhammer Online, Ultimate Forever and Dungeon Keeper mobile), Bioware San Fransisco (which developed tittles Dragon Legends and Mirror Edge 2D, before its closure in 2013), Bioware Victory that then dropped Bioware from its name and become Victory Games until it was closed in 2013 (they were developing next Command & Conquer game).

This whole conversation is racist as is concept of fantasy races, because that whole point in fantasy races is to create people that are differentiated from each other and treated differently from each other solely on basis of their race. Which is why one should be quite careful that they don't slip real world racism in fantasy racism as symbolism is quite effective tool to spread any sort of messages (which is why that many countries forbid usage/public display of certain symbols/slogans/all symbolism of certain ideologies).

DA:I's combat looks to me, that it will be improvement over DAII's combat. As they have seemed to throw their ridiculous idea of waves of enemies in trash bin. They have made it possible to interact with environment ways that change how combat will go. Positioning your characters seems to matter, where in DAII it didn't really matter because of nature of enemy waves. It also seems that controlling long distance attacks especially AoE attack is much easier and less frustrating.