Darkpriest

Trying to slog through DA:I.... ugh... too much of MMO influence... can;t toss a rock and you get some kind of a hostile mob/animals and those "elfroots" grrr. I like to complete maps before going forward, so I guess I will be overlevelef for other maps once i finish Hinterlands. I saw some rifts with lvl 12 enemies and I am like 11hours in, and aside of a brief visit in val royal I'm in 2/3rds of Hinterlands at lvl 8.5

Don't think it's gonna get better - a lot of the superstars are from boom generations of the 50s-60s and they're getting older. It's risky to be 50+ especially with a career of late nights, drugs and drinking. Unless you're Keith Richards That guy has been dead for years. He is the walking proof that necromancy is real. He just became a father of a one more kid recently, right?

His Last Christmas indeed

So you try to fight the results instead of the cause? yeah, like that ever helped to health of any body in the long run....

Surprised they didn't put Bloomberg network anywhere there.

Watched the Rouge 1 today - I feel it's good for what it is - a show of special effects with standard bland Disney story. I kind of knew that everyone in the "hero" group will die, although I imagined the move will have a bit different ending. The only mind boggling moment was the final battle and "wtf moment" when one of the main heroes of the saga appeared. Like what did that person was even doing it there? It's also a very inconsistent with what we see when that person is introduced and faced with Vader first time in the ep. 4 New Hope - the dialog in that scene makes no sense with the ending in Rogue 1...

Odd that no one mentioned it yet indeed. Especially not yesterday in the Politics 2016 thread as news trickled in. So odd that this didn't happen. darn. why would you put terrorism in politics

Time to raise this topic back. Odd that none yet mentioned that a "refugee" murder a Polish truck driver and then assaulted a Christmas fair in Berlin killing at least 12 and wounding many more... https://gma.yahoo.com/least-9-dead-truck-plows-public-square-berlin-001924814.html

simultanious turns is fairly fun as well, like door kickers or frozen synapse

To be honest, the really fun tactical combat was in the new XCOM series, but that's pure TB game, with loads of abilities, limited resources, sometimes time and really cool animations. RTwP will never reach that, it'll be always a poor clone of RTS in terms of combat mechanics. So you either go for full tactical gameplay and TB combat as it gives the most tactical control, or you go full action, but then you'd better go into TPP or FPP mode.

you can;t have one without the other. Icefrog proved himself during DotA days, as he build the game and listened to the feedback.. Sure as hell he had less tools to do so back then, than he has now when working with Valve. To be honest, I;d call this game DotA 3 now, (i guess Valve cannot as they can only use DotA 2 term legally), with such huge changes. the game will be more focused on roaming and taking objectives. Sounds interesting with the new map. The strong interaction between the community and devs of DotA is still seen. Look how much money they get from community for their "International". Sure, some patches take longer than others, and sometimes some broken things occur, but devs are usually fast to response by either hotfixing in minor balance patches or if more work is required they put certain heroes in the freezer and not allow them in tournament play, and only leave them playable in casual modes. Valve even listened to the community when they eventually release custom map dev tools, etc. The success is a result of both, great dev and responsive, if not somewhat toxic at times, community. I've been with the game from the start, a still remember a chore of downloading updates via a website, sometimes being kicked for no reason other than actually downloading a change in the WC3 client etc. It's been a long ride, and the game had its ups and downs (quite a few of those too) but overall I'd not change my MP fix for anything else now. I've tried some other MP genres like MMOs or shooters, etc. but shooters got a bit boring - they were too one dimensional, while MMOs are pure stink as they promote grinding over skill. You don;t get much better by playing PvP in MMOs, you get vastly better by killing some random pixels that happen to drop a good loot once in a blue moon.

It's a fast paced team game, and the macro skill changed from economy to map control and ability to maximize your farming rate. The amount of various skills and strategies being available in a fairly well balanced game with over 100 heroes is something that none other esport game can mimic - that also makes every game basically unique. There are literally no two same games of DotA, at worst, you will have same drafts, same people and same approach to strategy, at best, each game is unique. I am a bit sad seeing DotA 2 basically moving to DotA 3 as I feel it was in a very good spot, some minor tweaks to balance always are welcomed, but it was a well balanced game in the last patch. team based shooters are also in there although to less extent. RTS games arefairly stagnant in regards of match ups and build orders. Player skill on micro is more visible though, same goes for his map awareness and general APM. RTS are top 1v1 games, shame Blizzard screwed up in this regard. Team games are always more popular than solo competitions.

Basically dota 3

One of the most entertaining games of DotA2 - also, hearing crowd going AAHWWOOO for the Greeks was some next level experience and at the same time patch 7.00 getting released in 8h. Don;t know what to expect. going for 7.00 might be moving the game into DotA3 realms http://www.dota2.com/700

Hah - I was expecting something like this from Poland, but it seems Slovakia takes the torch https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/e4b69b26-4de2-3c7d-a21f-516b44ef14a3/ss_christian-slovakia-passes-law.html

hopefully, once the WE mechanic of outposts gets play tested, they might change some of the RO rules - i doubt that they will do it during this title, but they've got a way larger budget for their next installments which pushed the production cycle of the whole set of 3 games by a year (at least)

It's a dead game and a badly designed D&D game, that's why it sold poorly. The best aspect of that game funnily enough was the light story and some companions. Not sure why they tried to make it a diablo clone instead of making it a platform for D&D like NWN was.... (god I miss some of the modules of NWN - i would pay kings ransom for a new release of such a game)

@Justin Lets play a what if game a little bit if you won't mind. If you would like to revisit any of your creations, which one would it be and why. Also, how from the current perspective you'd like to change it. What type of tune would it carry. to what you could compare your own alteration?

you only get that stuff when you get some projects cancelled. Tyranny was a low budget filler, as we can see from the tech, which was largely just a slight improvement over PoE. Obs been fairly silent on their other projects.

Thank you! Happy to talk music with you guys any time if folks are interesting in that. Are you referring to this blog post - https://eternity.obsidian.net/news/update-76-music-in-pillars-of-eternity- Or another forum thread? No, it was another forum thread, from during the development of PoE, where it was called Project Eternity You've share some links, talked on various inspirations and even showed off your personal content from your soundcloud and we in turn gave links to various youtube music pieces, etc. Can't find the thread now, it's so old

Justin, any chances for some general Obs thread for music in games and how you approach each title and where to you get your inspiration from. I recall the music thread for PoE was AMAZING!!!

yeah, it counts if you are in the game, not actually playing the game.

Looks like commandos Ninja edition

well i have 5400h in DotA2 - and I am not even playing that much ------anymore