Jarmo

The Avengers is one of the best films ever made! Really, no joke. Completely awesome film where almost all characters were done almost exactly right. Brilliant. Like Star Wars: The New Hope, Lord of The rings: Fellowship of the Ring, or Lego Movie. Popularity doesn't necessarily mean something is good or bad, but popularity does signal a lot of people like the stuff, increasing the odds there's something there to like. I don't think there's ever been an absolutely brilliant movie or a game, one that got everything right, that wouldn't have been a hit, huge or otherwise. Or inverse, a huge hit loved by the great horde, that was a total stinker in every possible way. Usually the hidden gems are rubbish in many many ways, they just got something right that's of significant importance to some minority. Inversely, the huge popular hit dismal stinkers are most likely extremely well made, entertaining stuff. They just fail Bechdel test or rub you wrong in some other way.

I lament the loss of acrobatics skill. I bet it has nothing to do with nothing else, than the usual skyrim circular dungeon builds. With high acrobatics, you could usually jump from beginning of the dungeon to the end, also sidestep a lot of "puzzles" and trappy areas. Which would have been awesome. Also, I did hate/not appreciate how nobody cared a bit if you're a spellcaster or argonian or whatever. Especially when racism and magick hating are otherwise made a big deal of. But loved the game. A great RPG. Better than Oblivion, and oblivion was a lot better than Morrowind which I tried to like/play several times, but had to give up for being too ugly and stupid. Got about 10h into the game at best. Awful combat, ugly scenery and characters. To me, a lot of ES mechanism hate is from players who've learned how to break the system, then proceed to break the system and have overpowered characters, then complain the system is broken.

A bit high price when it comes out is good. - Means the backers got their games for cheap, which is right. (Except for some of us who got it for expensive.) - There'll be sales even at the "high" price, lots of non-kickstarters who've heard good things. - Hefty price means you can have steep discounts and still make money. I buy all kinds of crap when it's on -80% sale. Market it as Classic Dungeons & Dragons Baldurs Gate 2 type of kind of like something like that adventure thing.

Yep. Looks a bit bad when a shield+sword guy has easily 50 more deflection than someone with a 2-hander. No doubt enemies are designed so they'll still hit and damage a typical tank, meaning something like 50 more accuracy than a 2-hander has deflection. ..making my plan of going melee with a pollaxe something like "it's a valid tactic, only you get kilt real quick-like".

So then. Pretty much exactly 50-50 split between those under- or at thirty years or more. Incidentally, if PoE comes out with Adult Only rating, that excludes about 2% of the audience. (Assuming this forum is representative of potential customers, which is almost certainly not the case.)

.. was that "Jet Pack" where you had to assemble the broken ship and then.. umm.. never managed that far actually. But awesome laser weapon effects.

I'm hoping the writing of the game reflects whatever the power of wizards is going to be. Or the other way around. In fantasy games, it seems almost mandatory to have powerful wizards as the movers and shakers of kingdoms. If the gameplay suggests high level wizards are no more and possibly less powerful than high level any other class, there's a possibility for a lore vs gameplay evidence conflict I very much dislike. Like Arcanum, portraying firearms as the great change and a new order in the world. While in game, magic very much rules. Or Fallout 2, New Reno, where the one gang rules by the power of their (actually completely rubbish) laser pistols.

Kinda hopin' the game is released without major issues. Not meaning you can't run into a game breaking bug if you do something funky, but rather that it's not released knowing it'll need a huge day one remake.

Me, a friend, a Spectrum, two QuickShot joystics and a weekend with The Way of the Exploding Fist. Not my longest ever gaming binge, but the only time I actually got blisters in my fingers.

Old enough to remember my parents and their friends playing the original pong.. but not enough to have played it then myself. Begun my gaming career with Vic-20. The Count, Pirates Cove. Hat's off to Scott Adams, good enough stuff to play with english-finnish dictionary on one hand.

Figured I'll make it a poll. Since I'm sorta interested. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/69036-so-how-old-are-you-people-then/

Noticed this thread here: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/68940-really-old-player-here/ .. and like many others, felt 29 isn't really all that ancient to be quite yet. But I can't remember (that's age for you) if there's been a poll of average PoE forum dweller age. And if there has been, what is the age bracket now anyway. And then when making the poll, figured I'll as if you discovered gaming yesterday, or have been gaming since rocks were invented. -- And then I was going to go up to 40+ yrs of gaming in poll options, but mucked it up because of age-unrelated reasons. PS. if you happen to feel very old and prone to going on and on and on about ancient history, feel free to tell how you get on the gaming train. But do skip the interesting bit about prostate treatment...

The discussion at this point seems to be pretty much dead, as well as pointless. But I feel like sharing anyway, a real nice page of medieval weaponry. http://www.medievalwarfare.info/weapons.htm

I wouldn't expect to get patches from gog.com for non-gog physical disc version. What would gog get out of that? No sale but they'd still get to deliver the support and bandwith? I'd assume the patches will be made available in Obsidians site and some other sites. Don't all the physical copies also come with an added digital copy? My plan is to use either gog or steam and forget I even have the disc. Particularly as the physical copy will no doubt arrive days or weeks after the release.

That was a bit over stated, but it is fair to say that during the most warlike period, the katana was a fairly minor weapon (compared to say the bow and arrow). It was basically a sidearm. The whole cult of the katana really got going much later during the Tokugawa era when Japan was largely a police state and samurai largely did not very much except collect taxes from the less fortunate. Even more so than sword in western use maybe. A sidearm. Infantry would either be archers with some sidearms (swords, katanas, maces etc.), or carry spears or halberds/naginatas. Cavalry likewise, archers with sidearms or lances/spears with sidearms. And then you have some special formations with 2-handed swords or axes, or morningstars, or whatever. And then there's nobility using whatever they feel like using. And then there's exceptions to the rule.

Haven't tried the beta but I'll chime in anyway. ToEE bow ranges were long, but projectile speeds ridiculously slow and thereby the arcs were huge. How fast do PoE projectiles travel? Everything drops about 2,5 meters in the first half second (in earth gravity) and should arc accordingly, or the behavior looks wrong. (not to say it's a huge deal anyway, whatever way)

Maybe in expansion or through a mod, we can have halflings as animal companion. They could range attack with their slings and little bows, provided you keep them supplied with weed and cupcakes. But you'd have to take a racist trait to get them.

Matt Easton truly is a wonderful man. And as for the longsword with shield, there are pictures from fechtbuch of Paulus Hector Mair like this Triple wielding! Now I want to dual wield a sword and a spear and still get to have a shield! No! If it's possible to dual hold in one hand, then it should be possible for both hands! Two swords and two shields FTW!

Have to admit I get frustrated far more than reasonable when I can't find decently matching portraits. It's far worse in games like Icewind Dale or Temple of Elemental Evil, where you have to supply for the whole party. Little things, like I already took the one youngish armored dude for my fighter, now what to take for my paladin and ranger? There's an armored fellow that's bald, has scruffy beard and is about 60 yrs. Not ideal for a young paladin. And I made my ranger have yellow hair, the only suitable ranger pic has black!! The suffering when I have to pick an obvious elf image because that's the closest. Stupid stuff, but apparently important for me. So I hope it's easy enough to supply my own, and I hope people will jump in and make a big pack to choose from.

I'll probably grab a portrait pack if it's easy enough to grab. Other than that, dunno. I'm real picky and tend to hate most everything the modders do. It's usually only when something is done in an obviously bad way, that I go and seek a fix. Dragon Age, remove status visual cues. Like some power attack mode presented by the warrior oozing strawberry jam. Fallout 3, make traveling merchants "essential". Because they travel routes they can't survive if you venture near enough to see them. Skyrim, skip the beginning. Because it's fun once, even twice. But after that you don't really want to anymore. But stuff like Mr. Boombastics high res helmets, the kind that's totally out of place in the game world. Not for me.

Was there already an official answer for this? Almost certainly painted ones because the other doesn't make sense. That's probably the one mod I'm going to get, a portrait pack. Because there's never enough. Unless one wants a comical gnome uglyface, because there's usually enough of those. I never played an elf in NWN2, simply because the face generation systems elf didn't allow for anything but a bug eyed mongoloid. (and it's enough my characters are stupid and incompetent, don't want them ugly as well)

You wont. Because then you'd also see a siht storm of "black people portrayed as stupid monkeys", vendors would decide to do the right thing and not carry the game. It wouldn't matter at all if the game would also have black people portrayed as black people with superior intellect and angel like presence. Because that's how things work, take one thing out of context and go crazy. Neat pic though. ----- BTW. I'm perfectly OK and happy to see orcs and goblins and such in a fantasy game. You immediately know what's what and what to do. It's mostly when the game tries to be overly clever and start making up cultural differences and oppression and reasonings and stuff, when things go south and fail. They wont fit well into a super realistic scenario where everyone has mixed motivations and all. More fun games, where orcs are orcs, skeletons are skeletons and bandits have black hoods and live in a bandit camp.

Heart of Fury mode in IWD2 gave massively increased xp. Which is a counterproductive feature in many games. Easy = you get less XP and gold, making the game harder. Hard = you get more XP and gold, making the game easier. The what now? If players want special rewards for their achievements on expert difficulty settings, I'd say the players really just want achievement badges but can't bring themselves to admit it because achievements are so silly and steam evil bad immature.

They weren't very successful in truth. You can't simply copy the equipment (see legionnaires and hoplites) and expect the same results! My favourite troops in MB: With Fire and Sword. Liked the armor design better than that of Swedish Reiters, and the carbines gave them better long range capability than pistol armed riders. And they did have armor, unlike many other carbine armed riders. And sabers, almost a perfect set of equipment, too bad if their historic performance didn't match. (haven't a clue if they actually had carbines, but the pic does seem to have a suitably long saddle holster)

We'll just have to see how that works out. My view is, if ranged damage is reduced enough that doing an opening volley won't be worth the effort, then using ranged weapons won't be worth the effort at all. But by my reading that sounds like it's a good tactic in game. If it's too effective now, it will probably still be effective after the adjustment, just not overly so.