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LordCrash

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  1. PoE won't have any DRM attached to it on Steam... But I guess people will never learn that.
  2. Maybe not CoD, but Borderlands for sure is RPG. There is levelling, skills, loot and equipment management. There are even classes to choose from! And, like, dialogue. Your grognardy ways of an echo-chambered mind may not fathom that, but just having loot-powered skinner box and a system of mechanical character progression are enough to call a game role-playing. Hell, even having a character with a story is enough to role-play, as it has a role. Logos is right - you need to frequent other sites, like NeoGaf or Gamespot. Not just rot your brain in places like RPGCodex. First, equipment management is not an RPG mechanic but more a general game mechanic that many genres use. Second, BL is much more an RPG than the Souls games. But it still lacks proper choice&consequence. Third, I don't have an "echo-chambered mind" just because I want genre descriptions to actually make sense instead of just falling for marketing schemes. Forth, RPGs as video games have their roots in PnP. There is NO PnP RPG without choice&consequence. It's literally the core of the whole thing besides taking your class and role at the beginning. In PnP RPGs everything is about choice. RPGs are more than just mathematical calculations in the background. If you don't see that you don't know what RPGs are actually all about, sorry. Fifth, I hate the RPGcodex. But I'm a regular visitor of several German and international games sites, Gamespot included. I hope the Neogaf one was a joke, though. Neogaf isn't much better than 4chan imo. Just a bunch of bored people from whom I not even know if they have any interest in video games at all... Anyway, Bloodborne and PoE don't have the same core audience so the same release window isn't a big problem for most gamers. That's my opinion.
  3. I haven't offered a definition, I have just given examples of games I think are RPGs. CoD is not among them, nor have I said anything that could reasonably lead one to believe that I would think so. Meanwhile, HuniePop (a dating sim) satisfies all criteria you have mentioned so far. It doesn't just have 'RPG elements', there is not one 'RPG element' that is present in Baldur's Gate but absent in HuniePop. It has level progression, it has branching dialog, it has meaningful choices, it has equipment, it has spells, it has tactical combat. Using your definition (uh, excuse me, "common sense") there is no group that includes BG but excludes HuniePop, which is patently absurd, as it is a bejeweled-like puzzle game/dating sim, and not an RPG. Funnily enough I have never mentioned any criteria other than that it's stupid to call any game an RPG if there is no actual role play (which means no choice&consequence)... HuniePop is a classical hybrid because it has elements of many different genres. That's the simple reason why it makes no sense to call it RPG. By calling it so you would deny (or at least conceal) that the game has other levels like the sim stuff. Genres are used to describe a game best. The best description for Dark Souls or Bloodborne is action game with RPG mechanics. Simple.
  4. I guess they're still writing the update. Write faster, guys!
  5. LOL, not only the backer key. My WL2 key vanished as well...
  6. You know so little about hardcore PC gamers in general and hardcore RPG gamers on PC in particular. And same is true for PS4/console gamers... And the rpgcodex IS pretty much the core audience of Pillars. The rpgcodes pretty much only exists for such games. At the same time, 90%+ of all console gamers don't give a fu*k about an oldschool PC exclusive RPG. They don't even give a sh*t about indie games in general. No, you know very little about RPG gamers in general because you spend all your time in echo chambers like this forum and RPG codex talking to people who think just like you do about a very specific demographically minuscule subset of RPGs, ignoring all the rest. How do you know how I spend my time? Because those are the only places where the "An RPG is only an RPG if it has branching dialog" argument is offered in earnest. Everywhere else it's rightly ridiculed. What really makes this funny to me is that under your definition games like HuniePop are RPGs while games like Dark Souls aren't. I literally can't even. That's not my definition. That's just common sense. I guess by "everywhere else" you mean specific places? Or is this just an "anonymous authority" argument? And like Dark Souls HuniePop (I had to google that first...) seems to have some RPG elements. That doesn't make neither of them an RPG. By your definition CoD in multiplayer is an RPG as well because it offers level progression? Yeah, why not... Maybe we should just call everything RPG in order to make nobody sad that his or her favorite game isn't among the genre. Who cares if there is actual ROLE PLAYING in the game or not...
  7. You don't even know if the review copies have a printed manual. I guess it's just a digital key. And looking stuff up in a PDF is really tedious imho so I understand it...
  8. Well, what was that maintenance for if there are still no keys?
  9. SITE IS BACK AND WORKING Edit: But still no key, meh...
  10. Now the site is completely gone.
  11. You know so little about hardcore PC gamers in general and hardcore RPG gamers on PC in particular. And same is true for PS4/console gamers... And the rpgcodex IS pretty much the core audience of Pillars. The rpgcodes pretty much only exists for such games. At the same time, 90%+ of all console gamers don't give a fu*k about an oldschool PC exclusive RPG. They don't even give a sh*t about indie games in general. No, you know very little about RPG gamers in general because you spend all your time in echo chambers like this forum and RPG codex talking to people who think just like you do about a very specific demographically minuscule subset of RPGs, ignoring all the rest. How do you know how I spend my time? And actually this game here only exists because "people like me". It's not your typical AAA mainstream game. This game is made for a very specific audience, namely oldschool PC RPG fans. And I know very well that few of them have even the slightest interest in playing a console action game like Bloodborne. And about RPGs: like I've said in the other thread. Just because you want Bloodborne to be an RPG (for whatever reason) it doesn't make it one. Without choice&consequence (aka dialogue branching) there is no RPG, not in the PnP world and not in video games. Everything else is marketing and PR because nowadays every game wants to be an "super complex RPG" to brag about. Level progression simply isn't the only mechanic that defines an RPG. And just for your information: I play all kinds of games, not only RPGs. Action games, sports games, platformers, adventures, special interest games, shooters, strategy games, tactical games and so on. Still Bloodborne is not something I even remotely connect or compare to Pillars. It's a completely different thing. Of course some people play both games (which is pretty much true for every two bigger games on the market...) but that doesn't mean they're made for the same core audience...
  12. You know so little about hardcore PC gamers in general and hardcore RPG gamers on PC in particular. And same is true for PS4/console gamers... And the rpgcodex IS pretty much the core audience of Pillars. The rpgcodex pretty much only exists for such games. At the same time, 90%+ of all console gamers don't give a fu*k about an oldschool PC exclusive RPG. They don't even give a sh*t about indie games in general.
  13. It's not at all 'minimally' an RPG. It has all the same RPG features as Baldur's Gate except for branching dialog. Is a lion only minimally a cat because it's not a pet? Too bad that branching dialogue is an integral part of what is called RPG...a cat is not a lion just because it has four feet and a tail. DS is "only" an arcade action game at its very core with some tagged on RPG mechanics. Just like literally 80% of all (action) games games in the past few years...
  14. ISnt that the best thing a developer could ask for. But man this march is just insane with so many great stuff coming out. It is probably even a pretty bad time to realse such a huge RPG. In the last 5 days: Final Fantasy Type Zero (FFXV demo) Life is Strange ep 2 Game of Thrones ep 3 Bloodborne Pillars of eternity. How can I play all this.... Erased the popamole console crap. The fact that you think Bloodborne is crap means you don't know and haven't played two of the greatest RPGs of all time, Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2. If you like RPGs at all you should fix that right now. I've played Dark Souls and I kind of hated it. Typical console style arcade stuff with depressing graphics imho. Might not help that I hate horror themes as well...
  15. ISnt that the best thing a developer could ask for. But man this march is just insane with so many great stuff coming out. It is probably even a pretty bad time to realse such a huge RPG. In the last 5 days: Final Fantasy Type Zero (FFXV demo) Life is Strange ep 2 Game of Thrones ep 3 Bloodborne Pillars of eternity. How can I play all this.... Erased the popamole console crap.
  16. I think the latest 10 minutes video looks pretty great. I especially like the environment and that the party seems to talk to each other a lot. Shaders and combat effects and the whole UI needs an overhaul though. I'm looking forward to it.
  17. What do you mean by delay for Europeans? Haven't realy been on these forums so I have no clue, just came here since I saw those twitch-streams popping up as well and was wondering what that was all about (and am also a little annoyed about it). The physical kickstarter versions will be delayed and won't arrive until a few weeks after release. You will be able to play the game with a digital key on release day though. No, that's not what we're mad about. We're mad about not getting the option to play the game early as well. We're mad about how Obsidian treats us backers and the whole development of this game in general. And this is a game funded by fans. IMHO other rules should apply here than for a traditional game funded by a publisher or by the devs' own money. Simple. And why should any of us get to play the game early? You might as well argue that the Backer Beta should also have let us play the whole game, because if we want to play a game before it's done then by God it is our right as Kickstarter backers. I don't see a great reason that we should play the game before its release. (Especially since, in cases like the physical shipping problem, they went out of their way to hold a poll and indeed give us the option on how it's done.) Of course you can always decide differently. I just feel disappointed by how Obsidian treated the backers so far and to which extend they were transparent and open-minded so far. I've simply expected more from them. They basically did the bare minimum of what they promised (apart from not delivering the physical stuff on time) and that's ok. Nevertheless they could have been much better imho.
  18. No, that's not what we're mad about. We're mad about not getting the option to play the game early as well. We're mad about how Obsidian treats us backers and the whole development of this game in general. And this is a game funded by fans. IMHO other rules should apply here than for a traditional game funded by a publisher or by the devs' own money. Simple.
  19. The day one patch is hardly a reasonable argument. Obsidian could have given backer a choice. Play the game now, without a patch, or wait until release day to play with a patch. And some of just don't get that it's not about three days for most of us who criticize Obsidian. It's about their general behaviour towards backers in the past weeks and months. It almost feels like we are just troublesome and they had to do stuff for us although we won't pay them (again) for it. I don't know, I've followed more community and backer related and centered development of kickstarter games than this one. Here I almost have the feeling of being a second rate buyer. New buyers and press always being first while backers maybe get their stuff as well. someday in the future, if we're nice... There is for example still no official word on the shipping process and when we will get our stuff. Not even talking about an official excuse for the huge delay for Europeans. It's all pretty shadowy and I see now sign of any serious attempt to make it better. Main thing the press and new buyers are happy I guess...
  20. My personal guess: catering to the "generic RPG" crowd who doesn't know much about the lore in the books and just expects Geralt to wear fancy armor because "that's how stuff is done in RPGs". One of the compromises they probably made in order to appeal to a bigger democracy, especially in the US where the books are less well known and loved.
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