Bryy

If this is true, please seek therapy.

IRL yes. Online no. So basically what you're saying is if you could get away with it in real life, you would. Okay. Because that's what the "it's just the internet" argument really means.

Yes and no. While Dragon Age was not (and was specifically not trying to mimic) the Infinity Engine style, it was them trying to merge the old with the new, to try to make a modern or even post-modern Baldur's Gate.

Last I checked, not telling people to defile their family members because you didn't like them didn't fall under the "social justice" category. It fell under the "decent person" category.

Rape insults because of a video game. And you're publicly gloating about it. You are pretty much a horrible person.

It's the MacGuffin of the game. While you're not a Chosen One in the traditional sense, you do belong to a group that does have certain powers. And that does allow you to be put in a special position to go further into the greater plot.

I'm not commenting on the politics of any particular discussion, but if you think a third party created an injustice, don't let them create another one by denying you the enjoyment of the game on top of it. Whatever politics abound, it's still a game, you own it, and it would be a shame if you let someone else deprive you of its use. I know tempers are running hot on this issue, but I just hope you reconsider and at least give the game a shot. Hell, even if you really love it, I'm not saying come back and praise the game. Keep complaining if you want, but at least get the use of the product you've purchased. :Cant's Dutch uncle icon: It wasn't a third party that created the "injustice" though. It was Obsidian, who decided, to pursue a policy of censorship and displayed themselves as anti-free speech. It feels wrong for me that my money has gone to a company, whose values, are entirely against my own. I am a strong proponent and believer in free speech and dislike censorship, which is a polar opposite to the values Obsidian displayed in this situation. It feels wrong for me to play a game, knowing that it was produced by a developer who does not believe in the right of free speech and easily caves in to special interests just to make a quick buck. Anti-Free Speech? It's THEIR game.

.... dude. Over-reaction much?

I'll let you in on a little secret: there is no such thing as a social justice warrior. There are only people that take their ideaology too far. See PETA, Men's Rights Groups, any kind of militant group, really.

So you want a world full of believable conflict and yet nothing to do with "SJW"? And you don't see the contradiction with this? You just said you want a world with conflict but no issues.

PoE ultimately, to me, felt like it spawned from way too many compromises among the dev team.

What exactly makes you so sure about that? Because Obsidian are not children. They know what they are doing. In fact, they've been doing it for some time now. To assume that they would do something just because a few people out of an audience of millions made a stink, especially if the change is as minor as some flavor text, is ridiculous.

I forget reading the part where Feargus wrote "we changed it because some people on Twitter made a fuss".

Let's be real for a second: Obsidian is not going to change their game just because of some tweets, nor some forum posts. It's amazing how, as soon as Obsidian does something you disagree with, they go from Gaming Gods to Spineless Wimps. Everyone loves to throw around the blanket term "artistic vision" until it collides with their beliefs.

Hey, it's your money. If an enormous sprawling RPG, the product of years of work, is soiled forever for you and every product of the company that made it tainted from here on out because one piece of dialogue was changed to something more PC, then go ahead and seek a refund and move on with your life Obsidian-free. I just reserve the right to think of this as utterly ridiculous. Yup. Junk like this and GG are doing more harm to gaming than what it believes it opposes. I hate how people love to think it is easier to believe that their favorite company has been literally infected with whatever they dislike rather than go "hey, these independent, smart people have values and ideas that don't line up with mine and did something they think is best. I don't agree with it but hey". Way to show respect for the thing you like. Way to be a "fan".

Yup. Everyone is acting like this someone "made" Obsidian a "pro-SJW" company instead of the obvious: that they already gave a **** about equality and not being offensive.

I haven't played a Paladin in this game yet, but Paladins saying weird and crazy stuff would't be out of character for this kind of game. I remember in the Icewind Dale series, paladins were religious fundamentalists that occasionally acted like complete psychopaths if you let them do all the talking. No, I'm talking about dialogue options. I've never met the requirements.

This sounds like utter hell to incorporate. No offense. Much more complicated than simply replacing a few stock phrases. It's one of those good ideas on paper.

Well, actually there is 3D.

Nah, they just ignore that if they don't respond to it.

Calm down there, bud. We're discussing bugs in the context of the other games, and that is one of the other games.

I agree that some are super random, such as some of the earlier Paladin and Priest ones.

Please, be more patronizing.

My team is nationwide, but it always helps when we can get together.

A different genre but within the topic: The Movies would literally turn your monitor off upon launching the game, and you would need to restart your rig in order to fix it. The reason? They had never tested their video compression that came bundled in the game on a machine with external video editing software. So their game about making movies quite literally had a seizure if your computer had software on it to make movies.